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Remembering to Remember
Remembering to Remember
By
Cognitive Dissonance
Do you remember how it is supposed to be? Would you even know to remember that we can remember how it once was and can still be? For so many of us, all that is left behind is a vague unformed memory that once we knew something of great importance. Like an unfamiliar object in a darkened room, we know it is there only because its’ black is a shade off of the overall gloom, a mere shadow of a shadow. All of us carry a memory that springs from deep within and that whispers of something unfulfilled and incomplete. Dare we to believe that we are capable of Remembering what that memory is? Let me be perfectly clear in stating that I am Remembering and so can you if you wish.
Hogwash you say. This is the only way it can be because this is the only way it has ever been. And sure enough, all around us, everything we see confirms this blind belief. The ultimate in confirmation bias is when everything you are told matches everything you see, and everything you see confirms everything you believe. Yes, it all looks pretty normal to me. So why would I pursue the vision of a different world, of a sovereign we? And because of this many do not, blissfully ignorant of being slaves, happy to be bound and delivered to the dock. Except that way back in our mind and deep down in our soul, not only is something telling us things are not right, but that nearly everything is terribly wrong.
Blinded by our confirmation bias and unable to see how it can be, how then do we change direction when the memory is incomplete? What do we do when we have no clear course charted through the rough sea? I have found that if we wish to see something that is missing, rather than focus on what we cannot perceive, clearly an impossible task considering our present state of spiritual and emotional disrepair, we should instead recognize what is there, but should not.
Take a long look at our world and tell me what you see, what you perceive? Does it feel right or does it not? I suspect we already know the answer to that because you’re trying to see and thus to remember, otherwise you would not be searching for it here within my words.
So what is it that I’m Remembering, and that you will too if you listen carefully while looking deeply within? The specific answer is unique to each of us simply because our view within, which is often how we initially discover our inner knowing and the Remembering, is deeply influenced by our perception of reality. And while this perspective is molded by our individual life experience and conditioning and therefore has no real meaning except to us as individuals, there are common themes I can try to express.
But in order to do so I must see what is already here, but should not, for this is what triggers the Remembering. We must want to want to remember, to be completely open to the concept of Remembering, even if we don’t know what or how to remember. We must want to urgently grasp for the understanding that our inner sovereign has all the answers we will ever need, answers no external authority could ever hope to match, despite the conditioned belief that this is impossible. We must allow ourselves to be vulnerable to the knowing so that we may remember, for it is the rejection of our inner sovereign and its’ knowing that has us all hopelessly lost in the insanity.
What I see is a human population completely out of balance with itself and its environment, the only species on Earth to live in this condition for an extended period of time without ending in self extermination…….at least so far. I see the vast majority of us deathly ill, not just physically sick from a toxic environment and the processed food we eat, but emotionally and spiritually savaged as well. For this condition to exist for this length of time, it must be forced. And anyone who tries to tell me that what I am seeing is natural and normal exhibits neither of these conditions.
We cast about for meaning in our lives, for direction to guide our souls, to connect so deeply and completely that it changes everything. We know this is possible even though we are told it is not because this knowing springs from within and cannot be stopped, only repressed. The proof is the emptiness we all sense within and the knowing that it can be filled.
We are not instinctive or innate slaves, inclined to blindly follow mind control orders, but instead we are natural sovereign spirits who have lost our way simply because we fail to remember. We want to remember how to live fully and intimately with all that surrounds us rather than to exist as beasts of burden or (economic) cannon fodder for the latest act of Empire. And we are all terrified that no matter what we try to do, it just might be too little, too late. Thankfully it is not, because we are so very close to Remembering to remember.
But most of all I see a world where we are tragically lost; lost to ourselves and to each other. Devoid of compassion and empathy, moving from work cubes to boob tubes and back again, we are now unable to recognize the pain and dysfunction within our Self, let alone each other. It is now perceived as nothing worse than normal, simply how the world works as it grinds us down and spits us out, a self indictment worse than death of our failure to remember.
Because we are not Remembering who we are, and most importantly what we once were, we cannot imagine what we can be. By not first releasing, then expressing our inner sovereign, by not declaring ourselves free from our own self imposed bindings, we just exist within someone else’s world, a world populated by repressed and stunted slaves. Simply put we are unable to create a healthy future because we do not remember our ‘knowing’, we do not remember ourselves and what we were and are, we are not Remembering to remember.
Rather than creating, then living within, a vibrant community of interdependence that nature intends as the only way to live a sustainable and healthy life in communication with everything around us, we have become a zombie species, a parasitic entity that mindlessly consumes and ruthlessly exploits the physical world, all while feeding upon the life force of first the natural world, then each other and finally our Self.
And you and I dear reader are very much a part of all this, a realization denial can no longer help us avoid because we are now Remembering to remember. We are awakening; a process that once started cannot be stopped, only derailed or dead ended. You and I are resisting our Remembering because it feels so foreign and contrary to what we are told is ‘real’ via the idiot box memes. In turn this feeds the inner conflict and thus the outer decay. The world is falling apart because we have been rendered incapable of creating a new world to replace the recently departed. This does not have to be. By embracing our Remembering we will naturally know how to grow and build.
The evidence of all this is the ongoing insanity whose decay rate has now gone exponential. I used to think war was the ultimate state of self destruction and I suppose that based upon certain definitions it still is. But war expresses as an outward projection of our inner insanity. This……this utter squandering of our inner sovereignty, of the very essence of being human; this is mass suicide on an unprecedented scale. Only we don’t ever really die, but instead just aimlessly drift, empty meat Popsicles emotionally dead and spiritually bereft. Modern science now keeps our bodies alive longer, allowing the inner decay even more time to fester and devour.
At one time or another we have all used the word ‘sovereignty’ as a positive, as something that should be achieved or regained. But have you ever really thought about the meaning of ‘sovereignty’ at its most basic level, where it all begins? We understand that the winners make the rules and write the textbooks, so it isn’t surprising that standard definitions all refer to an external authority and territory as imbued with sovereignty. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy quickly refers to the following phrase, “supreme authority within a territory”, something I have always seen as the territory within, before going on to link it to an external political authority.
External.Political.Authority.My.Ass.
This is the language of the false profit Conquers, the fakers of the very sovereignty they claim to possess. Our power has always, and will always, spring from within. Our power is ours to give away if we choose, as well as to repossess any time we wish. We are the source of the power that creates the universe and what we only now are beginning to remember is that without us, without our innate source of power freely and willingly handed over, the false gods are powerless and impotent.
When we hide from ourselves we freely invite them in, like air rushing in to fill a vacuum. Where we falter, where we are beaten, broken, and then sold at the dock, is when we are not Remembering to remember. Please allow me to repeat myself here. Where we falter, where we are beaten, broken, and then sold at the dock, is when we are not Remembering to remember. I did not say we could not remember or that it was useless to remember, only that we are not Remembering and that this is the source of our willingness to subjugate ourselves to external masters and false Gods, all of whom claim sovereignty over us.
Stop listening to their lies and false promises, their propaganda machine and their divide and conquer memes, including the one about how if only we would just “do” something everything would get better, as if we could actually do battle with our own ghosts. This is the enslaving self deception we all practice, for when we believe this we firmly plant ourselves within their world where they make the rules of their controlling game.
The game is rigged folks, not just the markets or the economy, but everything artificial we interact with on a daily basis. As long as we ignore this fundamental fact, this supreme truth, nothing substantial will ever change because we enable and support the rigging. Our individual sovereignty can only be applied to free ourselves when it is released from within, not applied externally by the keepers of the false realty myth. And we do this by searching within so that we can begin the Remembering to remember.
11/16/2011
Cognitive Dissonance
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I have read that one =)
There are very few places that aren't insulting to our innate humanity. Most of them are outdoors.
En pleine nature est la préservation de la planète.
Thoreau
Wilderness is the preservation of the planet.
I tend to agree. I was talking to some trees the other day and they agreed as well.
Helpless...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7izOOIuto8&feature=fvwrel
Remember... 40 years ago, a place in north BC.
In my mind I still need a place to go.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/160230.jpg
All my changes were there.
Déjà Vu
Rappelez-vous CD...
Le secret de la liberté est courage.
Merci !
"The secret of freedom is courage."
I was discussing this very subject with a friend the other day. We have been willingly seduced into complacency and apathy.
And those whom take bold action, are labeled "crazy". Locked away or killed never able to upset the herd again.
....and from Vogt, "The right to own weapons is the right to be free", because without the means to act on that courage and the means to protect one's own sovereignty we all become serfs anyway.
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation."
- James Madison
Molon Labe, III
Nice CD - Soverign Reins! Related bit o' history from Eustice Mullins - I don't agree with all of his conclusions, but his are a good place to start.
243 The purpose of the pan-European Union, founded by Count Coudenhove- Kalergi, and funded by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, was to restore the oligarchic control over Europe. To accomplish this goal it was necessary to emasculate and defeat the powerful republican currents which had their origins in the 14th century Renaissance, which, with its emphasis on the freedom of the human spirit, produced the greatest cultural outpouring in the history of mankind. This individualism was immediately expressed in nationalism; its republican spirit was dedicated to ending hereditary and arbitrary control and dictatorship over the lives of the people, reaching its greatest expression in the Constitution of the United States, which was the result of rebellion.
243 Because the ruling families of Europe are the direct descendants of William of Orange, who chartered the Bank of England in 1694, the movement to destroy nationalism and individualism has been directed from England, but expressed in the Communist movement. The World Order has planned and executed two World Wars to restore world rule by the oligarchy, a world rule variously called Bolshevism, the League of Nations, or the United Nations, but never the World Order
Thanks for re-mind-ing me.
Thank you for Remembering to remember.
The past is dead, gone, an illusion - not worth "remembering".
This moment is all that is.
Be this moment.
every morning when we awaken, we re-mind ourselves of our named identity, and the list of things that make this identity "real" - our to do, or to be lists - and then, once again, the day's patterns hold us in our place(s). . .
until / unless we simply don't.
good to see you around CogDiss, the writing is deepening.
Yes but unrealised beings have to keep remembering to return to the present moment
Liberty is something you do. It's fear that stays remembered. The bliss of ignorance must be interrupted continuously.
Cog,
Too many words.
Living life is too 'boring' for all and be-ing alive too simple
Life is easy, but even your mother won't 'say it'
Whether alive or dead on this planet
There is no escape from this universe
too many words in this comment, also
The best piece I have read by you CD.
May remembrance wash over the masses quickly.
I am tired of this soul-destroying world. I am tired of insulating my being from it's destructive reach.
MF:
You may feel tired, but the great magnitude of polarity of some of our experiences is very valuable in it's own right. It is possible in our current world to experience magnitudes of "darkness" that contrast great magnitude of "light" that may only come along every 1000 or maybe 10,000 "years" on this particular planet. Once humanity goes back into a more "light" cycle of experiences, darkness of such magnitudes will be more difficult to experience. Perspectives have value. That is why they exist. If you can integrate the experience with what "is", then you will "be" what "souls" are eagerly seeking to become. The ideas of scarcity, separateness, ignorance, (not "remembering"), being a victim ... and other "illusions" of this universe involve certain chosen perspectives that once triangulated and integrated will allow your soul to shine very brightly indeed!
Speaking personally there are things I have learned in this life that "I" might be willing to slave away a thousand lives to finally grasp. Waking up is a glorious thing. You shall know the "truth" and the truth will set you "free". "Bondage", understanding, freedom ...
Things are the way they are for a reason. In the end we all go home with our "treasure".
I understand the value of polarity in forming perspective. What is missing however is balance in polarity. I do not think going forward that all will be "light", but if we can just achieve a 50-50 balance then I would be satisfied.
The current mass societal delusion makes it nary impossible to retain sanity.
I am young, and there is much for me to learn, but I feel I have learnt enough about insanity. :P
I agree. Best ever. The power and reach within our own consciousness itself is so sickening as to make not us but the rest of the world realize "this is a nation at war with itself and not us."
When you're at war with everyone who is the common denominator?
Thank you for your high praise.
Sometimes I look around at what we have become and become deeply despondent. Then I reconnect with my Remembering and hope floods back in.
That's doesn't mean that all will turn to milk and honey with the turning of a calendar. Instead, to me it means that there is genuine hope that some of us, possibly many, will survive and flourish. But not before we go through great pain dead ahead.
Humans seem to be programmed to expect life to be better than it actually is, and to fear it being worse than it actually is. I found happiness when I learned to be happy being unhappy. It's okay to be sad. You don't even need a reason. By allowing that feeling to come and go periodically, then sometimes it's that, and sometimes it's joy. Balance, like in everything. In other words, we can never be "happy". Being happy is the same as being sad, and vice versa. We need to have both, to be able to be happy when miserable. From that realization that happiness and sadness (and anger and frustration and bliss and orgasm) are equally perfect and proper states of mind, it is easy to avoid the traps that the "stealers of sovereignty" lay for us. All they ever sell is happiness. In truth, sounds like a very dull world if they get their way! I'd rather let fate be my guide and follow where it leads, through the many seasons of my life yet to live, "good" and "bad", and be happy with them all.
One man's ramble... ;)
Unequivocal acceptance. Rock on.
Too many rats in the box.
"Our individual sovereignty can only be applied to free ourselves when it is released from within, not applied externally by the keepers of the false realty myth."
That one line says it all. The central problem I see is that for even the most "successful" by today's standards are defined by their life's work, the car they drive, their bank account, their home... etc.
For most, if they strip away the facade, they can not see beauty within, and are therefore quite happy to let the matrix do the work of finding fullfillment for them.
In other words, we had better reinvent our value system....
More is not better, but Better is more.
or - more is less, more or less
"You must learn to master your anger, or anger will be your master."
- Mystery Men
"Don't curb your desire, but desire your curb."
-- NotApplicable
(This is the advice I give anyone who cannot quit some habitual behavior, due to the negative focus on it. Desire something positive instead to replace it, and the battle ceases to exist.)
"Don't curb your desire, but desire your curb."
Seems that this message is catching on more and more of late. I see lots more people standing on curbs, holding signs and stuff...
More seriously... It's all about being grounded.
I've got a book by the title "Want What You Have."
Suffering comes from attachment to desire, or so say the Buddhists.
Understandable. To me, desire is the most fundamental force of life, as it is the answer to the infinite question, "Why?"
Corporatism has successfully programmed most people to desire that which generates the most profit, not which generates the most knowledge, power, or liberty. It will not be easy for us to reverse the programming either. Our best hope is that the system fails in fact.
Pray for negative population growth and the faster we get to 1 billion people on the planet the better for all the survivors. But getting there, well there is the rub, I doubt it will be pretty.
"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become
comfortably numb."
-- Pink Floyd, +/- 1976
Most important band ever.
"Mother.....should I trust the government?"
2nd record I ever bought (talked my parents into, 1st was soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever). Listened to every word a thousand times. That song is/was a roller coaster. Do you think they'll drop the bomb?
there's a fantastic british documentary out there on the making of the album. It used to be on netflix. Not sure if it is now.
quiet desperation is the english way
"We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death"
Roger Waters
Thank you DoChen. I used Pink Floyd to set the theme a few months back in a two part series called "Comfortably Numb".
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/comfortably-numb-%E2%80%93-coping-captured-or-total-capitulation-part-1-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwkFS3WjXSw
I think that was around '79 DoChen , yeah Floyd had some prescient lyric's ,heavy stuff
1979, eh? I am younger than I remembered!
thankyou - a simple thankyou is all i can express, for such beauty, is of your mind,...
Didn't you also write something on forgetting to forget?
nice peace
Well done, thank you.
I see plastic.
In the past I see steel and glass; people, things, and places that were meant to last.
I now see plastic.
Plastic plates, plastic hangars, plastic policy, plastic people.
Melt-able, malleable, transient, toxic.
Juvenile narcissism and the lusts of immediate gratification, expediency, equivocation.
Emotional delusion, intellectual myopia, societal impotence.
A house of cards; a tragic house of cards.
Genius