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C-Section Awakenings
C-Section Awakenings
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Cognitive Dissonance
Speaking from painful experience, the deeper the conditioning the more difficult the awakening. When appraised with an open mind and a fearless self examination, there is little doubt “We the People” have been deeply conditioned……even those of us who now claim our own personal awakening. The depth of our collective conditioning is why there will be many abrupt and traumatic C-section awakenings when the world comes crashing down around us. When seen dispassionately and objectively the question is not if, but when, how fast and by how much.
When referring to a live birth, the concept of a C-section ‘birth’ has always fascinated me. Considering the act of birth has been repeated billions of times over millions of years in one form or another (and one species or another) if anything can be considered ‘natural’ this can. So to cut open a living breathing being, often while awake and fully conscious of the ongoing procedure, and then pluck one living being from another is simply mind boggling.
While some might argue not navigating the birth canal saves the newborn from physical distress, to be plucked from the comforting womb and delivered into the stark reality of ‘life’ must be its own special kind of hell. Then again, children are remarkably resilient with short memories and little conditioning and this is especially true for newborns. They were born for the travails of birth.
To be thrust into the world naked and naïve when we have not been properly readied, devoid of all the tempering trials and preparations needed to ready us, is extremely disorientating and the furthest thing from ‘natural’ one can get. Just imagine your entire world violently sliced open and you torn kicking and screaming from it. While that might be a bit of an exaggeration when speaking of ‘birth’, it is a considerable understatement when discussing the deeply conditioned mind violently ripped from the safe confines of its comforting delusions.
Consider all the difficulties many encounter while attempting to adjust to first light, that moment when it finally hits us that all is not as it seems. Since so much of the illusion is cemented into position via our perceived place within the illusion, to question the illusion means to question not just ourselves, but our ‘self’. What usually unfolds is an identity crisis quite similar to a mid-life crisis, only orders of magnitude worse because a sense of imminent danger and impending doom arises from both external and internal sources. Rarely do we experience an internally created existential crisis (i.e. a mid-life crisis) when our little corner of the world is falling down around us because the mind tends to focus on one disaster at a time. So we are inclined to naval gaze only when the mind is not preoccupied with survival.
However, when the externally imposed illusion begins to unravel our carefully integrated internal belief system (to be differentiated from an everyday ‘normal’ disaster such as job loss, divorce, car crash, illness etc which does not necessarily cause us to thoroughly question the overall illusion) not only do we discover we are our own worst enemy, but everything we believed in has also turned on us. There is no safe cognitive refuge to retreat to while we gather our thoughts and reorient ourselves within the now very unfamiliar universe.
Unfortunately the term ‘awakening’, at least in this context, is a tragic misnomer for it implies a new understanding and re-ordering of old information, all while gathering new inputs. A rigid mind, the proper definition and destination for the conditioned mind, does not value flexible and fluid thought, let alone critical thinking. So when order is destroyed, the vast majority will seek a new (world) order that most seamlessly fits prior conditioned prejudices and preconceived notions.
Throw the frightened feline a new prepackaged ball of yarn and the stricken mind instantly pounces, the soothing endorphins spreading calm to every synapse. If Cypher cannot be re-inserted back into the old Matrix, any new one will do just fine thank you very much. Tell me a lie so I can believe it is the truth. Tell me the Big Lie so I can mindlessly reject any truth. After all, ignorance is bliss for those who desperately wish not to know.

The fact remains the unspoken truth in the self described ‘awake and aware’ alternative community is that aside from a small core who genuinely work towards sustainable change, most of us who claim to be awake are secretly desperate to snooze once again. I suspect many furtively plead “I just want it to work again like it did before”, a preposterous wish considering it never actually did work……though I readily admit the illusion was persistent and convincing. Or we wish the system to be destroyed and rebuilt so we can be reinserted into a new and improved matrix in order for the good times to roll……again. There are, of course, several million variations of this self deception, comfortably allowing all of us to hide within our own uniquely constructed denial.
The proof of this conundrum is self evident, readily apparent and will be quickly refuted by those guilty of precisely what they deny exists within. Rare is the ‘aware’ individual who engages in little more than window dressing in re-ordering our lives in preparation for the inevitable……that which is not self sustaining will not continue. Yet the vast majority of those who claim to be awake and aware, therefore supposedly cognizant of the eventual demise of non sustainable systems, are still fully immersed within the collapsing socioeconomic system.
I suspect the C-section awakening will be just as violent, and possibly more debilitating, for the self declared ‘awake’ than those who are rightfully confirmed asleep at the wheel. The only thing worse than awakening is re-awakening after believing you are awake. The ego can only take so much before it shuts down the internal circuit breakers and we are left drooling in our lap zonked out on Thorazine. Then again, three hots and a cot don’t sound so bad while the world falls down around our ears.
This is not to say the path forward is to bunker down with a year’s supply of freeze dried food, three thousands rounds and our favorite equalizer(s). One man’s solution is not everyone’s salvation. Seen clearly and honestly, to bunker is just another dead end non-self sustaining system that will end when the ammo and food runs out……or are taken by force.
Either we make our own reality or we live in someone else’s. The key is not to make like Rambo, but rather to make community, to specialize as a generalist and contribute to the whole in order to survive as an individual. If the surrounding community values our contributions more than our ‘things’ (and we of them and their things) we will all gather together to protect ourselves and our things.
Unfortunately one will be hard pressed to build a viable and self sustaining community when the population density is measured in tens of thousands per square mile. With no hope to be self sustaining as individuals when packed in like sardines, no community can become what the individual cannot. Thus the need to move (aka relocate) to an existing community already in place who is willing to welcome additional members who bring value to the whole. This in situ community does not imply single minded preppers need only apply. It does imply those with a history of individualism, existing community bonds, a strong work ethic and the ability to work with their hands are always welcome.
But to make this change the person(s) claiming awareness, therefore the knowledge of certain severe decay if not outright collapse of empire, must walk the talk even if doing so means changing everything they presently value……or simply wish not to change. To assume one will recognize the death throes of Empire before just about everyone else, then sell your assets and slip away into the night is just about as delusional as thinking you can ride out the storm in place with nary a hair mussed or a meal missed.
Everything is about to change, is presently changing, with some effects imperceptible and some blatantly obvious. To think sheltering in place is the answer might be the correct answer; then again it might not. Ultimately each individual must arrive at an answer best suited to their needs and wants. But from what I can see and hear both from personal experience as well as from my readings online, many are doing nothing and hoping nothing is enough. The probability is it will not be, thereby assuring many C-section awakenings will be psychologically and physically shattering.
12-27-15
Cognitive Dissonance

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If you were running a completely corrupted system? What % would you leave up to chance?
Thank you, Mr. Dissonance for the well written analogy. Thank you, Mr. Horseman for quietly and humbly defending your faith. Thank you, Mr. Logicalman for intelligently adding to the discourse. And, thanks to each of the others for the thought provoking comments from many different perspectives.
I don't pretend to be a smart man, and I don't pretend to know much about anything. I am a practical person, without much original thought. I am only able to apply what I learn from others to meet my own needs.
I do know that my life has been a process of self-discovery and change with regards to who I am, and who I hope to be. For me, it has been about both what I have accomplished, and what I hope yet to accomplish. My faith in God plays a large role in shaping the way ahead for me. Faith is believing without seeing, and I actively or consciously choose to exercise my faith. As uncivilized as organized religion can be at times, humans would be far more savage towards one another without its tenents to abide by.
I personally feel that a bit of adversity and hardship can be/are good for the soul and potentially contribute much to an individual's character. It is the striving to overcome hard times, striving for successful outcomes, and the subsequent sense of accomplishment that makes a man.
Perhaps in this Republic for a couple of generations now there hasn't been enough need for a man's character to be developed, or, his mettle tested.
Perhaps those circumstances in which the vast majority exist will change again soon, and people will be forced to rise up to the occasion.
Humans are still connected to the earth, despite any illusions to the contrary. Those who are actively reconnecting at the individual or personal level may well be bringing a smattering of reality (sanity) back into their lives. It has done wonders for my soul and peace of mind. Not to mention, my quality of life overall has been much improved.
I think here, anonymous as we are, there is a bit of all of us (insecurities, human frailties, self-doubt, desire to overcome, yearning for knowledge and meaning, etc.) in each of us.
Again, I thank each of you.
p.s. LM- at your age you might consider training wheels to prevent those falls... Twice a child and all of that.
Or, maybe all of us here are simply looking for our own sorts of training wheels.
Sorry for jumping to the head of the line with my comment. I'm still working out in my mind how this internet thing-ey works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
if you think you are 'awake', go spend a week with your family and see the shit that drags up...
well, i wish that were possible.
seriously, merry christmas and happy
to you, everyone too.
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/fire-fire-trance-mutator/
Fire Fire….Trance-Mutator…
DECEMBER 15, 2015
i was cut from my mother's gut too,
as a matter of fact.
if the medium is the message we are all
just fucked. i do not care to explain or
expound any further beyond this; machines
and algorithms that tyrannize law and exploit
lawlessness will certainly EITHER fuck OR
eat you, your life
and your family, right between the eyes
where you stand, sit or in vest.
enjoy and have a merry fucking Bernaysian and
securitized and com-modified purchasing power christmas season/new year.
.
ya know, there is a system of stupidity and
it is sacrosanct. crazy man ....
thanx for your posts
Good to see you CD. I like this statement.
"The key is not to make like Rambo, but rather to make community, to specialize as a generalist and contribute to the whole in order to survive as an individual."
You are correct. We all have to fall back to some rally points and I have chosen mine somewhere in Idaho or Montana. I have to find something else to do because I can't out in the open. People are strange around here in farmland and it is time for me to leave. So my choice is the Rocky Mountians and that means northern part. Anything south of mid-Idaho is desert. I need water. Some folks are inot the the Appalachians and that is just fine with me. Some folks like Texas. I know some nice folks down there.
Cog, I grew up in the woods by myself. I got angry one day and I loaded up the family in an hour and headed out west. Standing out there taking a piss on the highway was enlightening. No one fucking cares out here because there is no one to care. The wind blew and a few tumbleweeds plodded their way across the road. I zipped up and just stood there looking out over the high plains. I could not see the end of them. This is big tough country I thought to myself. You are on your own out there. There is no Rambo and there is only you against an enormous vastness. I felt pretty small even with my AK-47, Springfield 45 and SW 38. I NEVER feel small when I have those with me but this was different. I was not fighting men. I was not fighting anyone. My guns were useless against the vastness.
I still kept my guns but I learned my lesson. I found a moment of peace out there.
Really well said mate. You've been consistently a good friend to me on ZH over the years, I'll not forget it.
The system is designed to meet each show of force with an even greater and opposite force. Which means we are pissing in the wind if we directly oppose it. The key is to be a screen door and let it flow through, around and over us.
The system is unsustainable. It will die soon enough without my participation, but my direct and forceful opposition will actually sustain it, if only for another moment. The Empire is dying. There will be another Empire rising more or less at the same time, a clone if you will. People don't wish to lead, they want to be led, thus the fundamental support for Empire life.
I cannot do anything about this on a personal basis unless many others join in and decouple from the insanity. Since I see no desire by nearly everyone to even begin this process I have no inclination to be a martyr and go it alone. My final few decades are best spent sustaining my wife and my life. On a daily basis I seek my own moment of peace.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your mark.
It's not over CD. I know that you are heartfelt guy. I think we all are for the most part. I have no reason to lie. Where I am choosing to post up is for a reason. Take the high ground and that can be done in two parts of the US. I really don't care who anyone thinks they are: They are NOT coming up those mountain sides if I have the top. Some places have caves. I went there and looked with my own eyes.
https://billings.craigslist.org/reo/5358710128.html
I need some guys on Hwy 12 on the Snake River just out of Missuola. I need a few guys out in Hell's Canyon. I need a few guys west of Jackson Hole Wyoming. I need to go make friends with the Nez Perce. I am White Wolf named by the Ojibwa tribe yet I am white man. The Ojibwe gave me this name because an actual white wolf would come around me. I am not sure if my spirit animal is OK with the Nez Perce but I think it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_White_Bird_Canyon
Little I can add to the excellent article and comments that have not been expressed already. I dare say that even to those of us who are as prepped as they claim, some things will still come as a shock when they happen.
For me, the situation is rather different on the other side of the pond and my preparations for socioeconomic disintegration are not as elaborate in comparison to my American cousins. Nevertheless, I have to concur strongly that there are key similarities - skillsets instead of visible wealth; openness and compassion instead of aggression and selfishness; cooperation instead of violence - that I decided long ago as my foundations to personal survival. Oh, I can defend myself when it's necessary but I dare say I'm also smart enough to avoid trouble. Besides, I avoid violence like the plague not because I'm afraid of what might happen to me, but because I'm afraid of what I might do to others. To those with itchy trigger fingers awaiting the collapse with glee: Remember that you have to live with yourself afterwards.
It's rather simple: The only thing that could be said to be truly universal is that things change. Since humans are the most adaptable creatures on the planet, it stands to reason that I adapt to the changes in societies and economics that are inexorably coming our way.
One last thing - Introspection is a good thing to do. Most people will never have the opportunity to do the kind of soul searching to gain insights into themselves, but be warned that it could also bring with it a price: Like guilt, self-hatred and depression before restoring your balance with positive action.
Some of you will hate the quote I'm going to leave, but I'll leave it anyway."Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.". A.Einstein.
"Most people will never have the opportunity to do the kind of soul searching to gain insights into themselves, but be warned that it could also bring with it a price: Like guilt, self-hatred and depression before restoring your balance with positive action."
You always leave great comments. Thank you.
No pain, no gain.
I learned many years ago that I am a selfish lazy bastard. This is what I became after decades of feasting on my own self imposed ignorance, denial and addictions. I was (and remain) deeply conditioned by the Imperial culture, poisoned from birth by everything around me. There is simply no easy way to withdraw from such monumental sickness without great pain and suffering.
I am settled with that prognosis and take my medicine daily.
Exactly, no pain no gain. But I think the gain is immeasurable in its scope and well worth it - becoming human again, not just a consuming automaton, being able to call oneself, "A decent man" with few reservations - that's treasure beyond price. Having been conditioned to the childish notion of instant gratification, escapism and fear, I'm also forever wary of anything that may give me short term pleasure for long term pain too.
It's been awhile mate & thank you. Your honesty and insights make you a great writer who can touch people deeply with ease.
Good to see you YHC. Peace to you.
Hey mate! Peace be with you too. Good to see you in a thread again. Hope you had a lovely Christmas with your family and are looking forward to the New Year with hope in your heart. All the best.
Cog, I just read the skyception series.
I would like to contribute this for you and Morpheus.
Comyns Beaumont, wrote a number of books about this subject and was later copied by Velikovsky.
http://www.velikovsky.info/Comyns_Beaumont
http://www.truthcontrol.com/comyns-beaumont
http://www.irishoriginsofcivilization.com/comyns-beaumont.html
The Kolbrin Bible also alludes to these matters...
http://www.keywordanddescriptiongenerator.com/Kolbrin-Bible.pdf
I appreciate CD's efforts and I KNOW what he is trying to convey, but it has all been said many times before and perhaps best by Plato nearly 2500 years ago.
Here is a modern animation accompanying a reading of the Cave Allegory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWwY8Ok5I0
I suggest that it's better to get hold of a copy of Plato's "The Republic" and read it yourself, plus a LOT more.
A much more modern source for "the journey" is Carl Jung and it might be worth your while to begin by Googling "Jung: dark night of the soul". or "process of individuation" perhaps.
I'll do it myself to refresh my memory, because it is nearly forty years since I got thrust into trying to figure out what's really going on, both within myself and beyond.
Done: https://taicarmen.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/navigating-the-dark-night-of-...
http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/individuationprocess.htm
Star Trek in the episode called the Menagerie (The Cage) also explained it brillantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F5pAFhByU8
"I appreciate CD's efforts and I KNOW what he is trying to convey, but it has all been said many times before and perhaps best by Plato nearly 2500 years ago."
I claim zero originality in idea content and one hundred percent originality in article construction.
The thing is this. For those in denial, either completely or partially, a person can hear it a thousand times and then suddenly it all clicks after hearing it one more time from a different voice. I am just another voice out there, no more no less.
On reflection: I should have phrased my comment differently.
I should have written something like, "From personal experience I endorse CD and would like to offer additional sources, such as Plato and Jung."
I am sorry if I upset you at all.
I wasn't trying to detract CD, I am trying to augment ... in a sense giving references in support.
I was not offended. I used your comment as an opportunity to disabuse those who read me from thinking I am some kind of an expert. I have no original thought, only somewhat original construction.
I suspect what appeals to some who read me is I write on a financial blog, yet I rarely if ever speak about finance. However, I do speak often about things most readers have considered, but rarely speak about out loud and never in public.
At best I am a novelty act, at worst a pain in the ass. But Tyler hasn't cut me off yet, so I drone on. :-)
Dunno about "drone".
It used to be such an inoffensive word until "predator" got prefixed.
No need to be self-effacing anyway, though I do it myself often enough and excuse myself for rambling on ... not much chance of the MIC inventing a "predator rambler" methinks (smiley face).
CD, thanks for an article that addresses the psychology of collapse. We have a flood of articles talking about ways and means -- all necessary -- but the relatively few articles I've seen discussing the psychology tend to be too little for me. This one pretty much describes what I've been going thru the last decade since I first began waking up. The tough part is dealing with the depression that comes with realising how precarious the security myth is.
<<The proof of this conundrum is self evident, readily apparent and will be quickly refuted by those guilty of precisely what they deny exists within. Rare is the ‘aware’ individual who engages in little more than window dressing in re-ordering our lives in preparation for the inevitable……that which is not self sustaining will not continue. Yet the vast majority of those who claim to be awake and aware, therefore supposedly cognizant of the eventual demise of non sustainable systems, are still fully immersed within the collapsing socioeconomic system.>>
I know this is not popular or uplifting to say, but for me, as I've gone through one psychological 'collapse' after another, letting go one by one of every 'saviour', 'rescue', or 'worst-case' illusion I have, depression is the most difficult temptation to overcome. (In the old language, despair.) Your article discusses awakening in terms of new life, birth -- but for me, awakening has been more about facing the uncompromising inevitability of misfortune and death -- ironically, it is careful planning that gives me these fears. How many of our illusions grow from avoidance of our inability to control fortune, our attempts to avoid misfortune and death, by planning? Investing, buying this or that asset, may be wise but guarantees nothing. Voting guarantees nothing. Revolution guarantees nothing. Doing the 'right' thing can still get the 'wrong' result. I found that the more I planned for, the more responsibility I took on, until as you say it became a choice between either paralysis or settling for some level of window-dressing just so I could stop thinking about it for awhile. Illusion is a powerful comforter. But religion and philosophy (especially Taoist) have helped me the most on this journey. Faith must be informed or it will collapse under enough misfortune.
<<I suspect the C-section awakening will be just as violent, and possibly more debilitating, for the self declared ‘awake’ than those who are rightfully confirmed asleep at the wheel. The only thing worse than awakening is re-awakening after believing you are awake. The ego can only take so much before it shuts down the internal circuit breakers and we are left drooling in our lap zonked out on Thorazine. Then again, three hots and a cot don’t sound so bad while the world falls down around our ears.>>
This has described me, and continues to, on different days. Thanks for stating it this way.
<<Everything is about to change, is presently changing, with some effects imperceptible and some blatantly obvious. To think sheltering in place is the answer might be the correct answer; then again it might not. Ultimately each individual must arrive at an answer best suited to their needs and wants. But from what I can see and hear both from personal experience as well as from my readings online, many are doing nothing and hoping nothing is enough. The probability is it will not be, thereby assuring many C-section awakenings will be psychologically and physically shattering.>>
I think this is about the only way to end the article -- an open end, that doesn't deny that the chaos ahead is probably greater than anything we can plan for, so there is limited comfort in plans. I have to accept that I am an animal, with fixed needs and a terminal lifespan. So I must learn again and again to accept that misfortune and death ARE coming to me, in ways that by definition I cannot foresee, and to prepare my mind so that this foreknowledge does not freak me out. Despair in this case is simply a refusal to let go of my security illusion. This is a tremendous spiritual discipline, the same as a baby growing through its fear of falling (and it may fall), only to grow into a fear of mummy leaving forever (and she very well may), then into a fear of rejection, etc. Writers of philosophy and sacred scripture have this growth cycle (fear, growth, planning) in common with me. So I am trying to be more like those writers mentally, in order to accept the reality of a terminal and chaotic life.
I think your analogy of the baby is bang on. A baby requires a) its animal needs met; b) love; and c) a feeling of security. The first two, we get if we are lucky. (Luck or fortune, we have NO control over. 'Making our own luck' is another illusion.) But security is an illusion that maturity gradually strips away. The amount of rapid learning it takes to 'grow up' through that pain, is like being reborn, over and over again, year after year. So I find philosophy and scripture even more valuable even than my 'preps', which will last only so long and may postpone death but cannot cancel it. You have given me another image -- the growing baby, the growing child -- that I can think of in the mornings, so that when despair threatens I have a mental role model to aspire to. I mean, to try to be like the baby, where inevitable and uncontrollable pain begins its growth into the next stage of life.
Sorry to be so long-winded. All this to say, thank you for the image and the empathetic essay. It is helpful to me.
I believe that it is NOT possible to become fully awakened! As long as one is experiencing anything whatsoever, that is still an illusion. The supreme paradoxes are due that. All experiences are necessarily based upon some degree of subtraction of some parts from a Whole, which automatically and necessarily requires that experience to be some relative illusion. On the other hand, when there is no relative subtraction, then there is no experience.
SUBTRACTION CREATES EXPERIENCES.
ALL SUBTRACTION IS SOME ILLUSION.
Nothing actually exists as subtracted from the Whole, while everything that is experienced must be relatively perceived and defined to be somewhat subtracted from the Whole. Much of the progress in physical science has reconverged with ancient mysticism. Particularly, the progress in the mathematical physics like quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity indicates extremely mystical conclusions.
However, to the degree that SUBTRACTION creates all experience, or that "desire creates the universe," human beings and civilization become attached to their illusions. Indeed, given relative human conflicts, people tend to become proportionately attached to their illusions. The main thrust of the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, that thereby end up dominating civilization through their fanaticism, is to promote relative dualities to become false fundamental dichotomies, which are related to impossible ideals, that become the basis for bogus "solutions" to political problems, which actually make those problems get worse, faster, due to the basic ways of thinking becoming as deliberately ignorant, willfully blind, and/or absurdly backwards, as those can possibly become.
Some of the philosophical sources of that were the various ways that religions developed to become attempts at privatizing God. The originally ancient mystical spiritual experiences were transformed into organized religions, that promoted some sort of systems based upon assertions that God had been privatized, by some groups that allegedly had some special inside track that enabled them to speak for God, and to therefore have the right to use violence to back up their assertions that they spoke for God, because God said so.
From that source of the privatization of God, totally inverting and perverting the mystical intuitions that asymptotically approached appreciating God, more and more arrogant forms of privatizing the environment developed. All private property was based upon backing up claims with coercions. Money was the most abstract form of that, since money is measurement backed by murder. Private property does not exist outside of some system of public violence. The increasingly globalized privatization of the environment has become runaway systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which are killing the life of the Whole.
The degree to which civilization necessarily operates according to criminal principles is directly related to the degree to which human beings perceive and define themselves as separate from their environment and each other.
As soon as we perceive and define human beings as subtracted from their environment, then they necessarily become entropic pumps of environmental energy flows. They must take energy across their defined boundaries, in order to continue to live, and that taking is basically robbery. Since human beings require the same air, water and food in order to live, and since human beings have the potential to reproduce at an exponential rate, there develop conflicts, which amount to different groups of human beings living as gangs of robbers in conflict with each other.
By and large, most people think about that in ways which try to both eat their cake, and have it too, in the sense of being able to use language that perceives and defines things, such as human beings, and yet, then shift gears to somewhat speak about the infinite energy which flows through those things. Usually, people do not pay attention to when they are shifting gears between talking about finite things, to talking about infinity.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the degree to which the ruling classes have successfully waged war against the consciousness of those they ruled over. Furthermore, after that continued for generation after generation, it appears that the ruling classes also ended up believing in their own bullshit more and more, until that too become too much. Instead of our culture doing everything it can to assist people to become more enlightened, almost everything possible is done to make them become more ignorant and afraid. Instead of assisting people to overcome their illusions of relative separateness, to better appreciate they ways that they are actually connected, the relative separations tend to be reified and amplified to absolutes as much as possible.
While I usually agree with the observations made by Cognitive Dissonance, I also tend to believe that those always tend to be grossly understating the situation. Indeed, I REPEAT, I believe that it is NOT possible to become fully awakened! Paradoxically, every part is already the Whole, however, that Whole can never be experienced other than through the relative illusions of subtraction of some parts. I also REPEAT that some of the most profound paradigm shifts which have been made in physical science, such as through quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity, can not be better understood without that re-converging with ancient mysticism.
The INTENSE PARADOXES that are currently overwhelming our artificial selection systems, that were driven by natural selection pressures to become based upon the maximum possible frauds and deceits, are that those have recently and rapidly become manifested as globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs. The single most intense of those paradoxes arise from the special theory of relativity totally inverting the ways that common sense thought about the concepts of time and space. Since entropy is the way that energy is distributed in time and space, that should have also totally inverted our ways of thinking about entropy. HOWEVER, THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED, DUE TO THE DEGREE THAT KIND OF THINKING WOULD OVERTHROW THE BIGGEST BULLIES' BULLSHIT WORLD VIEWS.
One of the most profound of the many ways that the philosophy of science was forced to compromise with the biggest bullies' bullshit world view was when arbitrary minus signs were inserted into the entropy equations of thermodynamics and information, in order that the relative measurements of power and information would end up having apparently relative positive values, instead of relative negative values.
What the biggest bullies' bullshit world views have primarily done is present themselves as subtractions of subtractions, or as negations of negations. I.e., the systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, such as the ways that the political economy became based upon public governments enforcing frauds by private banks, are publicly presented as being relatively positive, while those are all actually relatively negative. I.e., "money" made out of nothing as debts is publicly presented as if that were positive "capital," while that is actually negative "capital," which annihilates "capitalism" and destroys "free markets.
Given that, the relative awakenings, within the context of almost infinite tunnels of frauds and deceits controlling civilization, become like series of subtractions of the subtraction of subtractions, or negations of the negation of negations. That is, all private property, ranging from the various ways that there was asserted to be some sort of privatization of God, onward throughout all other assertions of privatization, i.e., to own some gold etc., culminating in the ways that money is measurement backed by murder, which systems have become globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, are pushing those sets of consistent contradictions, that have inverted and reversed the ways that we think about everything, towards their breaking points ...
On the one hand, we have had prodigious progress in mathematical physics, such as through quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity, etc., which has enabled the old systems of paper frauds, backed by gunpowder weapons, to become electronic frauds, backed by atomic weapons, and yet, within the realms of the psychological and political, there has been nothing similar achieved so far ... Rather, the established systems based upon being able to back up lies with violence have been doubling down, and doubling down, again and again!
Overall, in my opinion, it is NOT possible to exaggerate the degree to which controlling civilization through applications of the methods of organized crime has driven civilization to manifest runaway criminal insanities. As soon as we perceive human beings as separate from their environment and each other, then they become entropic pumps of environmental energy flows. That subtraction drives them to necessarily become gangs of robbers. The biggest and best organized gangs of robbers have become the current sociopolitical systems of bankster controlled governments.
Everything our political economy does is based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS, which in turn requires deliberately ignoring the principle of the conservation of energy as much as possible, while also simultaneously misunderstanding the concept of entropy in the most absurdly backward ways possible. More and more, we are living inside of an increasingly moronic scientific dictatorship, while is applying the progress made in physical science through psychological and political systems which are based upon backing up lies with violence.
Both the ruling classes, and those they rule over, are becoming more and more psychotic, because of the the ways that the history of successful warfare based on backing up deceits with destruction morphed to become successful finance based upon enforcing frauds. The relative ways that people live as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows have become deliberately ignored, and/or misunderstood, in the maximum possible ways ... Moreover, regarding that, I REPEAT that I believe that it is NOT possible to become fully awakened!
On the one hand, it should be obvious that we are never totally separated from our environment or each other, while, on the other hand, the history of human conflicts has driven the most fanatical people to promote relative separations as if those were absolute separations, as much as that was possible to do. Since the most fanatical were selected to become the survivors through those conflicts, the craziest possible concepts became the most socially dominate ideas, manifesting as the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, which so totally brainwash people to believe in that bullshit, throughout every sociopolitical institution, such as the schools and mass media, etc. ...
The ways that natural selection pressures drove the development of artificial selection systems based upon the maximum possible frauds and deceits were too profound to fully comprehend, especially since those have become globalized electronic frauds, backed by the threat of force from atomic bombs. Those sets of consistent contradictions, where progress in mathematical physics more and more re-converges with ancient mysticism, which is anathema to the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, have, within the life time of those still alive today, become amplified to astronomical sizes, which are many orders of magnitude greater than ever before in human history.
That is the context in which I agree with Cognitive Dissonance that "the deeper the conditioning the more difficult the awakening," BUT, I regard his views as grossly understating the degree to which that is so! One of the previous statements published on Zero Hedge made my Cognitive Dissonance, which is one of my favourites to quote was: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
Ironically, that also applies to Cognitive Dissonance, and me too, of course, as well as almost everyone else. We were all born into sociopolitical systems that are almost totally based upon being able to back up lies with violence, which almost totally present themselves as being the opposite to what they actually are. From relative subtractions necessarily follows robberies. Hence, the only thing which actually exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. Furthermore, the most socially successful of those systems were driven to become the most fanatically promoted, such as that there now exists almost nothing but core groups of organized crime (bankster dominated governments) surrounded by layers of controlled opposition groups, almost all of which ARE forms of controlled opposition "that doesn't know they are controlled," due to the degrees that they take for granted thinking using the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies, and therefore, end up promoting bogus "solutions" based upon impossible ideals, which misunderstand their mechanisms in the most absurdly backward ways. Therefore, those kinds of controlled opposition groups actually make the opposite happen in the real world, since, after all, all of the currently dominate, old-fashioned, religions and ideologies ARE forms of controlled opposition, that therefore actually cause the opposite to really happen to what their promotion of impossible ideals are supposed to cause to happen.
While I also agreed with the final conclusion to the article above, in my view it is NOT possible to either prevent nor prepare for systems of electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs going through psychotic breakdowns which are too many orders of magnitude greater than anyone could possibly prevent, nor effectively prepare for. Rather, my view continues to be that the only theoretically possible genuine solutions would have to be based upon a technological civilization going through series of intellectual scientific revolutions, such that the profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceived our psychological and political problems integrated and surpassed those profound paradigm shifts already achieved in physical science.
Of course, at the present time, that clearly appears to be politically impossible. It would require spiritual awakenings and renewals which are many orders of magnitude greater than those which are currently apparent within the public spaces, which continue to be almost totally dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, which have become Wonderland Matrix Bizarro Worlds, where everything has become as absurdly backward as it could have possibly become, as well as continues to automatically become ever more so every day ... The exponential progress in physical science has driven exponential development of social systems based upon being able to back up lies with violence to become globalized systems of electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, while the vast majority of people continue to be so clueless about those developments that they have no clue how clueless they are ... While the few that do begin to have some clues tend to still continue to think in ways which presume that the world now is the same as when there were only paper frauds backed by gunpowder weapons.
Progress in physical science has proven that our ideas about time and space were totally wrong and utterly backward. That progress has enabled the development of the existing systems of electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, while at the same time, none of those ideas regarding how we were misunderstanding everything in the most absurdly backward ways has done anything significant to change the ways that our currently dominate psychological and political systems are being operated by professional hypocrites.
The biggest drivers of the coming C-Section Awakenings which are going to be imposed upon our civilization are those caused by the development of globalized electronic frauds, backed by the threat of force from atomic bombs. IF, IF, IF civilization based upon such technologies survives, it may only do so by its philosophy of science changing sufficiently to adapt to survive those technologies having been developed. However, such series of intellectual scientific revolutions, in order to be applied to psychology and political science, have to cope with the ways that the real progress in mathematical physics has re-converged with ancient mysticism.
In particular, that means we are still thinking about time and space, and therefore entropy too, in the most absurdly backward ways possible, due to our civilization having been driven by natural selection pressures to develop artificial selection systems based upon the maximum possible frauds and deceits, operating through the currently existing combined money/murder systems. THE DEGREES TO WHICH WE ARE THINKING IN WAYS WHICH ARE WRONG AND UTTERLY BACKWARDS APPEAR TO BE TOO INFINITE TO FULLY AWAKEN TO!
In my view, the best that we can reasonably hope for is that we may be able to muddle through the collectively madness that is manifesting through the currently established dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies operating robberies becoming more and more unbalanced. After all, human systems that are based upon being able to back up lies with violence still do not violate any laws of nature, but rather, those kinds of artificial selection systems were driven to develop by natural selection pressures. It continues to be theoretically possible that we could radically change the ways that we think, although, at the present time, that appears to be politically impossible, due to the degree that every sociopolitical system tends to be dominated by the best available professional hypocrites.
As far as I can tell, about the only things that we can actually do come nowhere remotely close to either effectively preventing or preparing for systems of electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs from spinning out of control, collapsing into crazy chaos, while going through series of psychotic breakdowns, as severe social storms blow through. Personally speaking, I can only watch and wait ... while I do not relish the thought of whatever possible sorts of C-Section Awakenings may be in store for me!
Rm . agree that it is not possible to prevent or prepare adequately for what is quickly coming.
The spiritual awakening that would be necessary to turn the tide is not apparent.
The increase of knowledge will not help as the powers that be lack good will. The social engineering works on the masses and the carrot and stick work for most of The partially awakened.
Cog has outlined a plan which is consistent with our sphere of influence and which is accessible.
Will it be sufficient? Not in the sense of preventing catastrophe. Not in the sense of guaranteeing survival. (long enough timeline..)
But is it sufficient to live life positively together in goodconscience? Duty, not outcome may be the proper lense.
+1 for the free book
Law of One. Whatever your belief in that is, much of what you say carries the same message.
RM, appreciate what you say about eating our cake and having it; and your implied thought that fraud profits from our illusion of our selves being separate from our environment. Lots of food for thought here.
It is difficult giving up our sense of SELF, which we may or may not be born with but which we certainly grow into with the full encouragement of our culture. Our cultural growth is all about loving our selves, knowing our selves, being true to our selves, learning to 'be yourself'. But all this can feed our illusion of separateness -- exceptionalism -- which makes the quirks and foibles of our exceptional selves prime breeding ground for fraud, via an illusion that flatters our sense of possessing a wonderful, unique self.
Still thinking about that... I expect normalcy bias would factor into that sense of being an exceptional self, to a large degree. And we all know how much fraud owes to normalcy bias...
From a baby, we grow more and more into a sense of self. It is cultural, maybe natural, and difficult to transform into a sense of 'belonging' as a part of everything else. Maybe that's what death is: either a quick caesarian or a slow, painful birth process, out of a separate self and into integration.
I agree with your observations, Renfield. Various traditional books about attempting to embark on spiritual journeys are overflowing with warnings about the different ways that people who like to believe that they are attempting to become Awakened are still deceiving themselves!
It seems to me that the harder one works at that, the more one can be driven away, by the paradoxes that one's sense of self is reinforced by arrogant attitudes towards how hard one is working to try to become more enlightened. I also tend to expect that C-Section Awakenings are not good ones. Although perhaps surviving those is better than not?
The way I express
ENERGY IS SPIRIT,
implies the paradox that ENERGY will already be conserved, regardless of whether "we" work at that or not. The only things that "we" may do are to develop higher consciousness, in the sense of greater use of information, so that more of "our" outputs return as inputs, since the cybernetic definition of "purpose" depends upon that outputs of some systems have structures which return as inputs. Hence, the more that the flows of ENERGY may be recycled, the more life and consciousness there may be experienced. After all, one may think that lives are primarily the ways that the light ENERGY from the Sun cycles around and around, before finally radiating back out into Space. The more times and more ways that the ENERGY goes through non-linear feedback loops, the more life and consciousness may be experienced. Therefore, the more "we" care about the consequences of "our" actions, then the more "we" may be able to comprehend, and so, act in purposeful ways. Vice versa, the less so, the less life and consciousness there will be experienced. However, ultimately, the ENERGY will still be conserved, although not as much through any particular lives and consciousness, as some of the possible toroidal vortices within that ocean of ENERGY.
Of course, I have no ways to conclusively answer those important questions regarding whether or not "we" are actually able to change things. Paradoxically, I regard "freedom" as manifesting from the degree to which "we" are NOT defined. The more that "we" perceive and define ourselves as limited, then the more limiting that becomes. It is not clear to me whether or not anything emerges out of "our" inescapable degrees of ignorance, especially the inherent limits to measurement. The only sure thing seems to be the existential dilemma that "we" must act anyway, despite not fully knowing what the consequences of "our" actions may eventually become ...
Great to hear you in this hood again, Cog. Cheers to you, Mrs. Cog and family for living the change and inspiring a healthier world. I appreciate the sharing, and acknowledging the power of our mind and two hands. It only takes some blood, sweat and tears to git'er done in this life.. wonder what all the fuss is about.. :)
Wishing You and Your Crew a Constructive 2016!!
The Meek shall inherit the Earth... As soon as they figure out what to do with the Assholes & Idiots
A Tear to the eye?
I have never seen so much drool outside of a nursery in my life! I don't know which are worse - the article or the comments.
Do all you Clover Munchers have lace on your little panties? Where the hell are the men? Get off the couch and learn a skill or something to share with us than these pathetic sophomoric musings. Gag.
It's not easy being the most masculine member on the site
Have you tried wearing women's clothes?
Wow! Someone named "Sweet Cheeks" is talking about lace panties? Personal experience maybe? :-)
Visit our website and you will find we posses many skills in addition to Clover Munching (which is high in calcium and magnesium) and lace panty wearing (Mrs. Cog never lets me out of the house without mine).
Mr. Cog,
I always wear lace on my panties. It is just that lace on guy's is a little disturbing because the lace always catches on my AR-15.
Sorry, didn't mean to make fun of your article; it just reminded me of the facuty lounge of academia where I resided way too long. But the other intellectuals here found it highly interesting so I guess you "done good" as we used to tell the the football coaches.
Sincerely,
Sweet Cheeks
As a homeless, 26 year old college dropout, reading this brought a tear to my eye because I found it so inspiring. It helped me to see the silver lining in this situation and gave me great hope for the future. I have managed to make acquaintances with many of the people around downtown and even though it's pretty rough, nobody tries anything. Thanks a lot for posting this, I'm gonna keep it as a pdf on my phone.
While not exactly 'homeless', for one summer I rode my 10 speed bicycle throughout New England and New York. I had the experience of a lifetime and nearly 40 years later still have vivid memories of all the good and honest people I met along the way.
Granted, someone riding a bicycle piled high with tent and stuff is not perceived to be as threatening as other situations might present. But my faith in my fellow human beings was restored after that trip and this basic 'faith' remains with me to this day.
Under stress, people can and will do horrible things. But when approached in a non threatening manner, wonderful things can and will happen. I learned I am the catalyst for how people emotionally react to me. If I am open and honest, most (but not all) will respond in kind.
Take care and thank you for commenting about your situation and experience.
Everyone thinks they are awake. Its just human nature. Its like when I was 18ish I like all my friends thought we were sharp and had it all figured out. Then I had a kid. Turns out my dad was much farther along.
Working on myself in the mirror may be helping who knows? The big thing for me seems to be the lies I tell myself. Over the years its gotten pretty easy for me to spot many of the lies flying around. Its the lies I find comforting that catch me often.
In my search for knowing some things stand out. The most glaring is the love and truth vs faith and force thing.
The dogma thing keeps winning. Faith can move mountains even a mountain of truth.
There is much good work to be done.
For now Ill just put this out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhA0tScgqhQ
On this he is spot on IMHO.
When I was 18, I thought nothing was sillier than teenagers screaming and swooning over Elvis. Not much has changed either. Doesn't anyone here look at the big picture anymore? I DON'T want to go all Doom Porn, but the times are really serious.
So when are you planning on stepping up to the plate? Im hoping you have something worth saying.
VWAndy,
I still think that too many are over thinking this article, but I will say no more. Well, maybe one more thing-you guys just need to get laid. I always find that cheers up hubster a whole lot.
Sweet Cheeks
Are you sure you dont have just a bit more ya wanted to say?
"Its the lies I find comforting that catch me often."
The peace that demands to be distubed is often the false inner peace we hide within.
Great article. Very timely for me personally.
I have been wandering around the net looking for answers.
I hope you find some of this material helpful.
http://omnithought.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Seminar6-Decoding...
http://omnithought.org/how-new-world-order-changed-human-history-enslave...
http://omnithought.org/bradley-loves-great-con-man-new-world-order-part-...
http://omnithought.org/start-here (A Collection)
http://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/SILENT.pdf
Thank you Cog.
Leibnez/Pangloss: "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"
Voltaire/Candide: “..we must cultivate our garden"
Candide tilted me much closer to the garden in my youth and I have always found comfort there. There is no sage advice that can apply equally to our complex world (as Candide shows). One is most fortunate if they can find their place and peace (and keep it) in this crazy diverse world. One is even more fortunate if those around him/her agree with the place/peace. And....on a long enough timeline...we face the big un-awakening. Enjoyed the read.