I had a conversation with a couple of friends last night about how unaware most of us are of the source of the thoughts we think. We think things, and we assume they are our own thoughts, but often they are the representations of opinions and beliefs stored in our conditioned mind. You can witness this by the way people seem to talk without thinking, and by how they react to ideas that don't resonate with their own. They will feel threatened by this and argue their own opinion, or they will dismiss it and withdraw from any discussion. Rarely will they pause to examine their own thinking or seek out the root beliefs behind their opinions.
This morning on Facebook there was a link to a video called "How The Elite Control The Masses", posted by a group called "The Free Thought Project". It was a compact video that illustrated the strategies used against us in order for a small group to control the world. I shared the video because I see it as part of the process of conscious awakening. I then moved onto the group's page - thought it might be interesting and useful - "free thinking" is an important aspect of our sovereignty as individuals. But I didn't "Like" or subscribe to the page. Why not? Their story and mission is sound and commendable - but the content on the page is for the most part a case of "propaganda against the propaganda". If you aspire to "free thinking", you have to be REALLY careful not to substitute one set of dogmas for another. We are attracted naturally to ideas that support and reinforce our own, just like we are attracted to people with the same interests and views. We have the freewill to do this of course, but we have to be aware of this "freewill" aspect. Are we "freely choosing" to think the same way as the "group" - or are we blindly following the consensus? The difference between information and propaganda is in the presentation. "The Free Thought Project" could be a good platform for "free thinkers"... but all I see there on the page is a "Let's jump on the bandwagon of anti-system activism" posting bonanza, with most of the comments nothing more than opinionated bickering... lots of people telling other people that they've got the facts wrong and they're not thinking right. And the main posts are nothing different than what is already being shared on the FB home pages. A project such as this should be a platform of dialogue, with a practical goal of mutual understanding. But Facebook may not be the best platform for this. Maybe we have to talk to one another face-to-face, in small groups and communities - and then share our findings online. But most importantly - each individual has to scrutinize his/her own thoughts and the sources of those thoughts. Think about your thinking... otherwise you'll never really know. Here's a link to the video and page - see what YOU think! The Free Thought Project
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I'm going to write freely here on this post - let my intuition do the talking - it might waffle a bit but stay with it. Sometimes I see things clearly and distinct; other times though my mind and thoughts and understandings are all interconnected and I can't distinguish the core points I want to communicate - and in a way this just reflects how the world is, how reality is... everything is interconnected, everything has to do with everything else and you can't talk of one thing without it touching on another and another and so on. I look at the world today and I see how every aspect of it seems to be caught in a vortex, spinning out of control and heading, faster and faster towards some point of collapse - it's like we're in a black hole, past the event horizon, sucked towards the singularity with no idea what is on the other side. World events are one example - no-one can pretend there isn't something enormous happening right now. There seems to be panic everywhere - government controls and morals and actions are being questioned from all sides; leaders are getting more and more crazy and fundamentalist in their views; the corruption of world governments and organizations and global corporations is being spilled out over the table for all to see; the financial world is being shown to be incapable of any solutions to the economic problems of our time - problems caused by that same financial system; nationalism is back in play and border-controls are going back up; public places are patrolled by armed forces and a new and frightening "heavy police" presence; our food is manipulated, our movement is restricted, our communication is monitored, our health is being violated; and our information is no longer to be trusted - mainstream media is propaganda and nothing else. A couple of hours delving into the realm of "conspiracy theories" will split your world-view right open. When people talk of WWIII, it's not too difficult to believe in it. Something... is going on... something major. In spiritual circles there is the understanding that the planet and we as humans are experiencing an ascension process to a higher dimension of "being". What that means to each person is different - and many people at this time, spiritual or not, are posing serious questions about their own existence and where it's all heading. Plagued with doubt on one side, and being so obviously manipulated by the system on the other - it's not surprising that there's so much unrest and fear and insecurity in the world. There may be people out there who are blissfully unaware of any such unrest, and are happy with their existence - good for them. But I know, among the people I've met personally over the years, most are dealing with the same existential issues, and most are not really so happy with their existence, with their jobs, with their finances, with the way their lives are headed, with their personal inner-experience. As an example I only have to think of the hundreds of teachers and parents I've known personally in the 15 years I worked within the education system... there's few of them who seem to have it all together - and they're trying to help children to "get it all together". I don't blame the teachers or parents at all - the education system is a complete mess. Every aspect of civilization is under scrutiny, and while technology is racing undeniably forward, quality of life in its deepest sense is spiralling in the opposite direction. Does anyone really know anymore why they're doing what they do, why they're living the lives they live, why they desire the things they desire, why they buy the things they buy, why they say the things they say and think the things they think? I don't think many people do. If they did we could do away with leaders, armed forces, law enforcers, shrinks, educators, gurus and especially celebrities. You don't have to believe in god to be able to sense that you are part of some greater order, some greater intelligence, and that being so, you have an intuitive knowledge to match that greater intelligence. We don't need someone else to tell us what is right or wrong, what is moral or immoral, how we should live our lives, what we should aspire to, what is important - we shouldn't need laws and rules to keep us on track, or organizations to monitor our actions. We shouldn't have to fear ostracization for being, or striving to be, our authentic individual selves, following our own path, at our own pace, for our own conscious development and experience. But we are the products of our invention of society - we are what the machine, built and run by old paradigms of belief, has spewed out over the assembly-line - copies and clones instead of snowflakes. But the world is changing - an evolution of conscious awareness. Walls are crumbling and a mist is clearing... and we will find ourselves stranded and directionless with no sign-posts back to whence we came. Unless... unless we do the work now - take a step back, take a breath, look inside, ask the right questions and listen for the answers. Intuition and a silent knowing will lead you out of this abyss, each taking full responsibility for one's own advancement, growth, progress and enlightenment. No-one can take us there but ourselves - but we are limitless and connected and intricately part of that greater order and intelligence. We have to remember this and extend our awareness and perspective beyond the limitations we've been conditioned to believe in. We need to embrace the sense of our infinite inner-knowledge and use that to transform ourselves, our lives and, collectively, our world. Old paradigmes of religion, politics and science brought us this far - for good and for worse - but it's time for something new. New paradigmes of understanding of our connective nature, our multidimensional nature, our limitless nature, our divine nature. I woke up this morning (sounds like a blues song) an hour before the light. Whole day free to do some writing. Cup of coffee, on the bed with my pad, making notes on the structure of my Meetup event that I'm holding in 2 weeks. The idea then was to get onto my blog and write a post. Finally opened the blinds and saw what a beautiful, perfect autumn day it was outside. New impulse to go for a walk in the park - I've got all day to get online.
So, shoes and jacket on and out the door. I decided I was going to do an "awareness exercise" - this involves clearing the mind from all personal thoughts and just observing my surroundings, letting the impressions come and go. I developed this a while back to see if I could develop my attention, with the purpose of influencing my dreaming to become lucid (it worked!). I took a notebook with me so I could note down anything that particularly caught my attention - and the purpose I set was to feel, or be aware of, my connection to my surroundings (including people), from the perspective of being multidimensional... seeing everything as a part of myself and vice-versa. Following are some of the observations I noted: 1) Passed a guy by the canal (not even 1 minute from my house yet) walking his dog. I tried to make eye contact but he ignored me and walked past with his eyes averted. I do this too often myself and I wondered what makes us so inaccessible to strangers. One could feel a negative response to being "snubbed", and go on thinking about how unfriendly people can be (myself included). Instead of letting myself be affected by this, or just ignoring it, I decided to send him a little greeting from the heart and wished him a good day. Silently, but with the same good intention as if it had been aloud. After all, I thought, we are still connected at some level. 2) Noticed many more dog-walkers and thought about how precious and beautiful the role of dogs is in this human world. Not only do they provide companionship and unconditional love to their owners, they also facilitate meetings between strangers... dog-walkers nearly always make contact and conversation with other dog-walkers. You could almost imagine dogs were created for this role. 3) Almost by the park, I was preceded by an old lady who was shuffling slowly along the sidewalk, as if she was searching for cigarette-ends in the gutters. There are a lot of these type of characters in Amsterdam and I admit they make me feel uncomfortable. But why? I don't even know what she was doing, I was just making an assumption about her that could easily be totally false. Even so, why would it make me uncomfortable? She was obviously harmless. It reminded me of an old guy on the train a few months ago - talking to himself in a full carriage - everyone felt uncomfortable, everyone pretended he wasn't there, no-one asked him who he was talking to or about. I decided this morning to make a point of asking the next time I come across such a person. 4) So early in the park and already so many people jogging. And I thought: "So many ME'S being very active this morning... therefore no need for "this" me to join them. 5) One "me" passed by walking strangely and fast, instead of jogging, and snorting loudly with every exhale as he walked. I wondered, is this part of his training technique, and if so, how absurd does it have to get in order to get fit? 6) I'd just stopped to write in my notebook and a woman pulled up to ask directions to cafe De Roos (situated in the park). Of course I could tell her exactly because it's one of my favorite cafe's. But I wondered what impulse caused her to stop and ask me, among all the other people around. Is it a question of resonance? 7) A fleeting moment... I could "taste" the autumn. Though not exactly taste. But there is a sense at a certain point in the season that you recognize clearly and you say - autumn has arrived (or spring, summer, winter...). What is this "sense" - a combination of sights and sounds and temperature and scent and colours and light, all mixed up with impressions drawn from memories of other perfect autumn days? Time stops in these moments and you get that full experience of there being no time or space except an eternal now. 8) I stopped by the Theehuis cafe and drank a coffee on the terras - watched the people pass by, watched the dogs scrounging the tables for left-over biscuits or gifts from generous guests. Everyone seemed to be absorbed in conversation or activity. I wondered how many were actually just quietly taking it all in - the trees, the birds, this beauty, this sunlight, this "Autumnal perfectness"... A dog came and sat by me - I'm sure he just wanted my biscuit. When I ate it, he left. Another dog came by and just took the sugar-cube from my saucer without even a glance at me. I sent him a silent greeting from the heart and wished him a good day. I know you have problems, issues, maybe even traumas. Believe me, everyone does in some form or another. We're all in this together and everyone has problems to deal with. For some it's to do with money and wealth, for others it's health related, and others it's relationships, jobs, security, attention, senses of guilt and regret, insecurity and self-doubt, disconnection with self, children, family, work, the environment, politics, terrorism, authorities and any number of existential matters. If you assume that others have it any better than you it's a false assumption - everyone is dealing with something behind the mask of their persona. Even those in great power and running the show have problems - because they can't afford to lose the control that defines for them who they are. Know this and accept it. You can't be them, and you probably wouldn't want to be them if you knew them, and you can't know them without being them. Let it go.
The biggest problem of all though, and the one we have in common, is that we have forgotten who we really are and what we came here to do. Those of us experiencing a human existence here on planet earth in this physical-matter 4-dimensional universe, came here of our own free will. We are all higher beings and we chose to come here into these dense physical bodies onto this dense physical earth with all it's dense limiting physical laws in order to have particular experiences that are not possible in other dimensional realms of lesser density. Without experience of the darkeness we can't know the light we came from. Without the restrictions, the limitations, the pains and suffering, and the rich spectrum of emotions we experience throughout our existence here, we can't know the purity and freedom of just "being". This earth, this physical realm, this universe and all other universes and realms, are all virtual constructs running diverse programs for us to explore and experience. Everything in place upon this earth is a program, including your body. Your consciousness (soul) is the real and limitless "you" having this experience through the program of your body. You came here to have an experience... the "Human experience". You've certainly heard that before, but just how seriously do you accept it? Do you accept it at all? And if you do accept it, well, how's it going so far? The trouble is - the original "Human-experience-program" has been hacked (a long time ago), and all the problems you experience in your life are not part of the original program. You're still having an experience, and from the perspective of source consciousness every experience has value in extending it's awareness of self, but we've become lost in the hacked version of the program, distracted from our true purpose here and our true potential, and that's just created a whole tsunami of problems that we shouldn't have to be dealing with. The original "hackers" are other-dimensional entities with their own agendas of power and control, and they're having their own "experience" by manipulating the "Earth" programs. And they have their problems too - they have to keep us continually distracted from our true selves otherwise we may become aware of our power and their game would be up. There are also devious hackers within the upper echelons of human society (much higher than our elected leaders), and they, possibly under guidance and support of the original hackers, and with their own personal ego-agendas, maintain and add to these false programs to further distract and control us. These false programs ensure that we are kept in a state of stress, trauma, fear and scarcity - with the result that we are SO busy just getting by and keeping up and keeping out of trouble that we don't get the chance to stop and say: "wait a minute... there's something wrong here!" And these human hackers have their problems too - they're scared to death of their superiors and they all have superiors, and they're scared to death of each other, and they're scared to death of death. You could almost feel sorry for them. So it's all one big mess and we're all trying to deal with it as best we can. So how DO you deal with it? It's simple really (not easy - just simple) - you have to remember that none of it is really real, it's all virtual, all a big game, all a big adventure, all one big galactic multidimensional journey... and we're all in it together. When you remember that, the next thing is to understand that you are limitless and powerful beyond your imagination because you are multidimensional spirit. When you can open your mind broad enough to see and accept this, you begin to see the bigger picture from a higher perspective, and everything becomes less serious... even fun! But then too begins the real work of letting go of the false programs - I choose the phrase "letting go" carefully. I could say "breaking free" from the programs, but that already makes it sound difficult, and when you are limitless and powerful as you truly are, as human, as spirit, then nothing really has to be so difficult. These false programs have power over you because you believe in them, because you identify with them, because you allow them to distract you. As I see it - we have been struggling so long with these programs that we are tired, worn out. We can understand life as a journey but we're too tired to take pleasure in that journey and long for the destination. We are tired and impatient because we've had enough of the struggle and the problems. But we can't know the destination unless we take the journey so what we need to do is rekindle our excitement for the journey, rekindle our passion to know and experience who we are. If we allow ourselves to be distracted into believing that life, our human experience, has to be one of struggle and conflict, then it will BE one of struggle and conflict. If we let the false programs that control our lives be our reality, they will BE our reality. If we give our power to a bunch of insecure, fearful, ego-driven hackers, regardless of whether they're human or other-dimensional, they will continue to rule our lives. If we continue to be so attatched to our fears and negative emotions, we will only experience more of the same. It's up to you. Just remember, none of this is real. I was in Spain for 5 months with my brother , first half of 2015. We marveled at the wide wide roads and ample sparking space - such a contrast to what I'm used to in toy-town Amsterdam. But I'd been intensely busy at that time researching conspiracy theories, and that triggered a strong, and I think healthy, sceptisism in me that remains even now - though I'm way beyond the "shock- horror" phase.
Anyway, along with our pleasure in all of that spacial expansiveness, we talked about the U.S. Fema camps and Martial Law conspiracy theories that are hot topics within the broader threat of the "New World Order" discussion being unveiled across the globe, and joked that the roads were made so wide to accomodate the employment of tanks when martial-law was eventually declared. I say "joked", but we we're really only half joking - because you can't trust any government these days. Back in Amsterdam and around the corner from my street the council have dug up the roads and widened them... and you can see where I'm going with this. It all looks so pretty now with trees and car-parking running up the centre of the street... so much space you could fit a whole parade of tanks down it. And I'm still only half joking! My son went to Germany last weekend and spent 4 hours at the border while their coach and all other coaches and everyone on them were controlled - people were lined up to be systematically sniffed by dogs for whatever it might be they were searching for. When that was over they continued their journey and on arrival at Dortmund bus station they went through another control procedure. Unbelievable... we're back where we where before they opened up all the borders in Europe - there is no free, unhindered passage anymore. What happened? There is a "conspiracy theory" (!!!) that says the current "refugee crisis" is by design. Start a conflict in one part of the world that forces millions to flee into Europe, filling Europeans with fear, and inciting racism and hate and panic and insecurity. Get the mainstream media to focus on the negative effects of the "crisis" and boost the propaganda so the people don't see refugees running for their lives and begging for help, instead they see hoards of Muslim terrorists invading their countries. "Close the borders" they call to the the authorities - and the authorities close the borders and send military with machine guns to patrol public places, and start controlling anyone and everyone who wants to move around freely. Hey, but it makes us feel protected right?... you know... from the "terrorists!" And it works because "they" have already prevented "3" terrorist attacks here in the Netherlands, so we should be happy. And you can believe this because it was reported on the TV and in the papers, and they always tell the truth. So... bring in the troops, close the borders, lets have more control and less freedom, lets suspect and mistrust everyone.... call for Martial-law.... and roll in the tanks! Ever get the feeling you're being played? I'm not a scare-mongerer, but I do think people should wake up because a lot of conspiracy theories have a LOT of truth about them. And I'm not paranoid... but I'm keeping my eyes on those wide - - - roads. |
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