Virtue signalling is of course, acting as if one had it

in response to the themes in:

https://off-guardian.org/2019/11/01/wearing-your-heart-on-your-lapel/

On poppy lapels and the glorification of war.

Everything serves double duty. That is - it will serve the meaning for you that you hold in your heart.

Others make their own choices according to their current sense of themselves and their reality.

I watched a documentary on Putin this year in which I was alert for the messages he gave out - ie for propaganda or deceit. Insofar I did see it - it was towards upholding a national identity that was willing to focus on strengths rather than focus in old hatreds and divisions. 

The practical reality is of maintaining a workable sense of self and society as an ongoing balance of interests. There are backgrounds to world wars that are still ongoing and are morally toxic to even consider.

Virtue signalling is of course acting as if one had it, but virtues are qualities of being that shine and share in resonant recognition that holds social or cultural consciousness - whereas the masking in forms of virtue feeds a cynicism that - on recognising the hypocrite - hates and attacks the truth the mask was passing off as.

I look outside the narrative mind - indeed to look from a new place upon it.

Great destruction is catastrophic to our sense of self-continuity - whether man-made or assigned by guilt as 'humanly deserved' or simply the shock of no longer sharing life together or even having the same life - because everything has changed.

While grieving is grievous, the original sense of mourning is a releasing into Life - a greater Life than my terms, conditions or expectations and demands. There is an honouring of the dead in Life that aligns us in love and love is our primary connection and communion within ourselves and among ourselves.

Grievance that refuses Life is a kind of blind hatred that 'knows not what it does'. This seeks vengeance or vindication in its own terms and worships the pain of lost love and power as the driving force for defence set against reliving or re-opening to Life perceived as treacherous - and therefore deserving its own 'coin' in return.

Sustainability for self-illusion must hide or pass off in the forms of social acceptance and reinforcement. And so wherever a light shines, the forms of its expression become attractive to those who seek to gain by association or indeed mitigate a fearful sense of isolation and self-conflict for which they may have no reflection or articulation - and so suffer 'mental illness' in secret within a society that is set IN the mask and AWAY from its own conflicted purpose and desire.

So yes - there is a denial of Light that compels sacrifice to maintain the conditions of darkness - or the lies that must be asserted and enforced to hide the already lies on which we stand as if solid ground. And yes it operates a hateful agenda of using our minds against ourselves - and each other. But do we GIVE it the power to deny our right to a natural Communion within our self as with our lives and everyone who lives in us?

Seeking moral high ground is the first sign of a lack of awareness of a deeper integrity - that we do not make or manufacture - yet shines forth under the conditions of aligning in transparency to it - to a love that moves us though we know not how.

Our narrative continuity is an invested self-identity played out in the flux of always shifting appearances - but if we choose to take it FROM our past, we shall repeat its themes - via every kind of attempt NOT to.

The nature of a naturally felt Communion within Life is of Presence - always arising anew.

Apocalyptic revelations of 'what lies beneath' echo back to great catastrophes that shaped or structured our thought and development of consciousness. 'Gods' or Power set over Life being associated with Terror and Destruction. Terraforming of the earth was WITHIN humanly recorded memory - but set in a frame that is incomprehensible to the Human developments of such consciousness AFTER the stage was set to a stable Cosmos in which a Foreground Power became background to our psycho-physical expression of its emulations and appeasements in human thought and behaviour.

We now live AS IF our current sense of World is the same as what has been for millions of years. But we MAKE our prequel as the frame of support of a present sense of definition and control - and if you intuit Orwell’s illumination here you are not altogether wrong.

The mindset of control is rooted in denial of its own chaos, and is stamped upon the presence as a mask that reiterates its theme under the attempt to control, defend, atone, or amend.

Yet I marvel that "Behold I make all things new!" - as applied to terraforming events that literally made raised up and moved or levelled mountains is also true at the deepest quality of awareness of Existence.

While we may think with Heraclitus that we are never in the same river of the same man - to feel and know the newness or nowness of each moment as it own is a quality of resonant recognition - which even a moment or a touch of - can completely shift our experience of our day.

Yes - I am aware of much 'Hidden History' of deceits that pains the heart to contemplate - and yet I also see that we each and all live our choices within the frame of our living, and I cannot make yours or another's. But unless we step outside the dictate of the frame, we shall not have perspective or freedom to  transform it.

Manipulation seeks to engineer our thought and reaction to serve hidden agenda - that must sacrifice transparency and accountability to an overriding dictate - however presented or structured. 

Listening in the Heart is a willingness to pause of the mind of its own spin and open a true connection.

The 'territory' around the awareness of Life whole may be every kind of fear.

Running off as if a separate 'whole' is a false inheritance.

But despite the Wasteland of war in pain of loss, in debt and death, the poppies bloom.

Consider the lilies of the Field...

Salem Witch Trials

https://off-guardian.org/2019/10/31/watch-days-of-judgement-salem-witch-trials/

Fear of chaos is fear of loss of control that projects itself onto flagged targets to be sacrificed instead of awakening responsibility for fear, in love of truth. Fear is for the most part a self-conflicted state - assigned to its symptoms as externally caused. Without such an 'enemy' would we have a 'self' in the kind and nature that we pesume?

Fear does usurp reason in the heart - which is a heart and mind as one - when fear is hidden, unowned and projected away.

Self-illusion defended against truth is fearful by definition. If the voice for fear is given worthship as power of protection, then truth is demonised and attacked wherever it 'threatens' to expose the lack of substance of deceits that become sin by their persistence. Control being willingly sought by the ignoring and overriding of relationship and communication. That IS the nature of a mental or psychic dissociation from self, other and life under mutually reinforcing illusion. Fear is hateful and hate directed away from self mitigates the 'hateful self' This can also operate on the body - such as to interpret disease as an evil to be burned out, destroyed. Germ theory is only a change in terms to substitute pathogens for curses or evils. Addressing the Terrain or living context is addressing the situation that manifests the symptoms of what may be the body's intent to heal or detoxify. Stephanie Senneff has interesting interpretations of the body as finding workarounds that meet a core need by sacrificing lesser needs in scenarios we define as 'Life Gone Wrong' and the call to war of forceful interventions. But what is wrong may be a systemic deficiency, toxicity or imbalance.

The Greek pharmakoi, singular pharmakos, refers to victims who were ritually beaten, driven out of cities, and killed, for example, by being forced over the edge of a precipice. The word pharmakos, designating a person who is selected as a ritual victim, is related to pharmakon, which means both "remedy" and "poison," depending on the context. In the story of the horrible miracle of Apollonius, the beggar is a pharmakos, a kind of ritual victim. Apollonius points to him as the demon causing the plague (he is the source of pollution or poison), but his lynching restores the well being of Ephesus (he becomes the remedy for the crisis). — Trans.”
 ~ René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

Deceit is false currency by which self-illusion seeks sustainability

in response to the themes in:

https://off-guardian.org/2019/10/31/an-evening-with-piers-robinson/

(On propaganda in the modern world).

Deceit is the false currency by which a self-illusion rises and seeks sustainability as a substitution for your life.

Truth is the condition in which deceit cannot enter and has no existence.

And so the mind of deceit must by definition distort and block truth by framing itself in fear's protection. 

If self-illusion is seen as a mis-identification, given power under fear of threat, and then suffering a growing entanglement of dependencies as survival necessities to the frame of such a strongly invested identity of fear-defined sacrifice to 'any means of sustainability' - then fear of extinction fuels the rebellion against a true self-honesty brought TO communication. Such fear MUST deny all other views and seek to undermine and invalidate them - at whatever cost - because such fear is a false sense of possession running blind as the determination to NOT see and NOT know by the intensity of the felt and driven need to 'know' or rather assert and defend something 'ELSE'. The lie is the progeny of  purpose that it serves, and replicates its core pattern in any shifting of shape.

There is no love in it - but only appeals to manipulate sympathies of token 'association' with caring  that is set in contrast and opposition to a hated and feared outcome, threat or flagged enemy so as to guilt and shame non-support or criticism and offer compensation of release from guilt by 'morally righteous' and socially incentivised 'identity' of active compliance and support - as the Stockholm syndrome of a accepting protection of a racket or tyrannous subjection - as the only life left to have.

The use of words is the framing and defining of reality as we accept it - either at heart as our conscious witness - or in compliance of subconsciously internalised structures that effectively operate a mind-capture to the human-conditioning - that has developed or evolved from ancient separation trauma - re-enacted down through the ages.

Whole we have agencies in our world that likewise operate on false currencies given allegiance as our 'too big to fail system' - my key interest is in recognising our individual responsibility as awakening freedom to be and to see and know in being - instead of personal identity acquired in a world of guilted blame that  operates a negative economy of the attempt to get RID of its penalty by flagging AWAY from a hidden self ONTO others, and onto external or imagined conditions.

This splitting off and attacking or hating and excluding the hateful in the OTHER is the outsourcing of fear and pain of loss to the undermined, dominated or deceived. In the short term is a release of psychic-emotional charge that is seen as a 'hit' of pleasure - and self-inflation. And so addiction to such self-pleasuring operates the mis-identified 'joy' of judging and rejecting and setting self over others as if some kind of vindication for an inherently self-isolating act, or as victory of vengeance set over projected hate and unworthiness of a denied sense of life and world. This is of course self-destructive under the illusion of a personal or private 'victory' or to rephrase - the inherent result of holding private agenda at cost of the wholeness that gives - and shares life.

Insofar as survival is fitness - it is in fitting our living terrain - which is NOT  an exclusively physical causality or dependency - but a psycho-physical wholeness for which we have no sense apart from intuitive resonance that aligns or is synchronous with the primary shared qualities of being.

The interplay of qualities to quantities that serve qualitative shifts of perspective is "Life, Jim - but not as we think to define and control it".

Regardless of ideals or revolutions in reaction to 'changing our world' it is always changing - because our perspectives are never really fixed, hardwired or written in stone - excepting that there are primary or foundational agreements upon which all else must follow. This fruiting of the roots is a tree of life when the root is truly shared - and yet the same power of Mind-in-Extension can as freely express conflicted, contradictory and self-limiting ideas and beliefs to effect not only negative fruiting in scarcity, war and debt, but at cost of a true and shared appreciation in gratitude for the gift of being - whose measure is open to the balanced sharing of its qualities.

Sharing is not imposed but uncovered. Consciousness is an extension of communication of being through whatever translations enable recognition.

Enforced 'sharing' is dependent on maintaining the differential of enforcement.

This polarises the belief that 'order' is called on by chaos (threat) as war, rather than called for BY chaos as a messenger or symptom of an otherwise invisibly denied psychic split.

The accusation of our sins in the other is so evident, that one has only to look at or think of another to notice it. Excepting we do not notice it while looking instead at what our thought frames as justified judgements of accepted currency that effectively short-circuit any genuine connection.

Attempts to unravel the lie will be deceived into thinking to know better than another and serve the same purpose in new clothes. But holding or abiding in simple truth  aligns the conditions in which the lies of the day thereof are revealed untrue, and worthless or meaningless as any source of foundation from which to build or framework to grow in. Thanks - but no thanks.

I notice two 'laws' that pertain to Mind that have practical application:

What we resist, persists.

What we choose not to use, fades from non use.

This tells me I need to uncover and learn the ways of witnessing truth that don't feed the troll.

And that the new habit of consciousness of such a choice will strengthen as the old choice is no longer 'struggled with', vacillated in, or interjected back into the new (as if to 'this time make a better person in whatever frame that may appeal as an overcoming, evasion or denial of a past that made us worthless).

If we want choice in any true sense, we have to align in its active acceptance.

This is to embrace life as it is - in relational willingness rather than from a preemptive strike of judgements that define to control.

There's a Big Screen signpost of a world showing what you are NOT or where you do NOT want to go - but uncovering what we DO want is the willingness to stand in a sense of worth and uncover the life that then meets us. This can be in any moment of noticing the pattern of a self-limiting thought or act and choosing not to take the ride of the seemingly 'known'. Pausing to connect.

The disinformation and division of fear propaganda is to deny the intelligence of the 'target'.

Intelligence is not a fixed quota of 'assets' but a quality of connectedness that finds pathways of communication. That which depends on a psychic-emotional disconnect to seem to be real, thrives in a bunker mentality in which the fear of what the other might do is projected onto others and defended against by attacking them before they do it. There is no end to such madness but exhaustion and death - except of course the grace of noticing.

Yes - it is all about 'control' (GM biotech)

in response to the themes in:
https://off-guardian.org/2019/10/29/golden-rice-gm-silver-bullet-that-misses-the-target/

Yes  - it is all about 'control'. Anything else is subordinate to serving that purpose.

The mindset of control, or the setting of thought under the intent to control, is a way of  'seeing' only in terms of structures of control that represent closed systems operated by an outside controlling intelligence. For that is the fundamental belief in active identification with 'fear, division, attack and denial'.

The seeking of power as unquestioned reactive defence, orders to change the distribution of power in the system to regain or attain the idea of 'controlling intelligence'. As the final and uncontested judgement over self - as life on Earth.

This use of mind frames its experience, and environment so as to force outcomes that represent power and protection to private agenda set over and against others - and making alliance in common enemy, threat or fear so as to use others or set them to serve hidden agenda while following self interest in the frame of their own perceived self-interests.

This is negatively defined self-interest,  set in defence as fear of pain of loss to a scale of overriding fear set against inescapable pain of total loss. In other terms set as survival necessity and overriding all else when activated.

Negatively polarised identity operates the psycho-pathy of loveless thinking - or thinking from a self-justified withholding and withdrawal of alignment in hate - as if a power of protection, In control as if a substitution for the heart's acceptance and decision.

It is a negative creation made by fear and denial running in our name.

The nature of self-illusion or deceit is to pass off as true and substitute for or usurp the true.

The nature of such a mindset is to dress up in or mask and hide behind the forms of the true. And so the waking from an unwitting bot-net of support for deceits that are destructive by definition is the un willingness to run on a mind framed in forms and appeals of  adulterated 'truths' running any kind of guilt and fear based agenda.

Notice that to the mind under such agenda, release of fear and guilt as leverage would leave it powerless and unprotected. Notice that we use fear and guilt in our thinking and our common language as a sense of separate self protection. Notice I am suggesting to notice and not to judge and deny or force anything to be what it is not.

That a loveless and dark creation can be fed and protected to become the destroyer of life on Earth is the measure of our willingness to love to hate. If what I say in stark terms were obviously so, we could not bear our lives. Great ingenuity is called on to mask denial in forms of power or protection.

What could possible go right?

Noticing.

Noticing can right to the heart of a true recognition - instead of feeding the death spiral of blind judgements.

'My Holiness' is a translation of 'monsanto' - is it not?

As if Our innate and integral wholeness of being is protected by a manipulative proprietary patent.

Such is the nature of the corruption of power.

The nature of wholeness is to recognise our self in another and to give in the measure that we  - in truth - would receive.

I add - 'in truth' - to the Golden Rule because under self-judging hate we believe we deserve punishment, denial and separating from a love that we can no longer share in - and so a reversal of consciousness sets love as hateful, unreal, and treacherous. And makes symbols and idols of love as weak and victim - by which to raise war in its very name.

Self-hating humans become a zombie-apocalypse.  It doesn't matter if we can target or be framed to target 'special others' to mitigate our hate. That is simply how to keep it as an active denial beneath our minds, while believing we escape it onto others.

It's all based on lies. Deceit is not undone by attempts to eradicate or excommunicate - but by being brought to the light of truth. Meanwhile truth is brought to judgement as a willing sacrifice or as the giving up of  a true willing - how else can illusions find 'sustainability' but at cost of true?

How insanely painful must life get before we notice that we feed problems by warring on them, as if to make them go away? And have thereby made ourselves victim to a 'problem- management system' that generates 'sustainability' from as a mandate of compliance?

GM and biotech is nothing to do with with caring for anything but its patents, profits and power to protect and enforce them.

Yes I know that Nobel thought dynamite was so terrible that it would deter going to war.

There are many scientific geniuses who were and are completely naive in regard to the drivers of war.

Throwing stones at Jordan Peterson

https://www.sott.net/article/422532-Why-its-wrong-to-cast-stones-at-Jordan-Peterson-for-seeking-treatment#commentnotice 

 a quote that resonates in me:

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

~ Malcolm X

If I recognise and resonate in truth - I own what is revealed to knowing. I extend gratitude and appreciation for the truth.

The making special of others is similar to putting truth IN the object, book or person. This a a kind of magic of associating with something while separating from it.

Jordan Peterson has held a relational and coherent demeanour throughout a very public persecution - and as such has shone the Spirit of a true witnessing amidst tricks and deceits. 

If people feed you a role and you buy into it - you become food.

Sacrificing ourself to a 'higher calling' is very common in anyone who finds they are receiving love and gratitude for being true to himself. But he also has an identity set against evils - which is different to receiving identity from truth.

And so the risk of becoming brittle by attachment to narrative identity is the other choice to deepening his faith in Life as fundamentally an expression of truth - regardless the overlay of conflicted identity.

Love is sustaining - and he has been sustained by the love of many to bear through hate - but that also means letting it in.

His wife hasn't been in the limelight - but she has been with him in what he has been living.

If he takes on guilt for her condition, it will block the love he needs. That is what guilt does if not faced, addressed, reconciled or undone.

People may put others on a pedestal so as to use them, and then cast them down when they no longer serve. But that's crap.

Walk alongside your brother or sister in Life. Sometimes you may falter and be glad of the helping hand. Sometime you are called to extend the hand. This is very obvious - UNLESS you are seeking to sustain a narrative identity at cost of true with-ness.

Be wary of judging another as if you set the rules that they must obey to serve a world made in your image.

And if anything has been truly lived and shared it is your true harvest. Trying to cling onto the form is the doubting of its truth in your heart.

My take on science is much more sceptical with regard to its underlying historical human baggage and presumption that then logically gives rise to building hugely invested structure on fundamental mistakes - but that is the narrative identity protecting the model that provides sustainability of reputation and funding. Fear of extinction rebels against the truth that would refresh and renew.

Jordan Peterson does not appear to be aware of the crisis in a subtly and also not so subtly captured Science - not least because he is very active within his own research in drawing the case for reasoned human endeavour.

He may also be overconfident in terms of the arena of debate - when for the most part there is none - only the feeling out for a vector of attack. Or he may be driven to meet targets despite severe health challenges - ie the mind and body refuse to support the 'mission'.

So he is actively teaching himself by example and also somewhat willing to learn from his own experience as a reflection of his inner alignment.

You have a choice when you meet anyone - in thought or in person - to extend a blessing or curse them. It isn't that it is 'wrong' to blame or call down penalty or invalidation so much as you do this unto your Self. There is a false harvest of denials piled up that remain yours regardless whether others take them on or not. If you have no peace - look to where you hold un-forgiveness and protect it as a chosen identity running in dissonance to the love that you simply are. Nothing external can resolve what is awry within yourself - but it can set up an addiction that then carries all the charge of those fears.

Hallowe'en and fascination with horror

in response to the themes in:

https://www.sott.net/article/422689-MindMatters-Halloween-Special-Oh-the-Horror-Why-Do-People-Like-Getting-Scared

Fascination with horror and evil is in the sick attraction of guilt - sick in that we want (give ongoing focus to) what we hate and fear while presenting a sense of self-lack, division and powerlessness.

The use of limitation, lack and division to generate a bubbled self-separateness is both the fantasy of wish-creation made real - and subjection to what we made real by wanting it so. The victimiser is blind to its act and consequence within the narrative of a self-fulfilling fantasy possession - (as called psychopathy or narcissism on SOTT) - and the victim gives support by reaction in a like but opposite reaction as the charge of grievance seeking vengeance as a negatively polarised fantasy fulfilment. And to the 'engine' of a recycling guilt runs down the generations and hearkens back to Ancient beginnings - that SOTT sometimes points to in terms of a catastrophic past.

I have read that Hallowe'en stretches back to the fall of Atlantis - when so many died in a day that the next day was given/taken up by a mass communion with the dead - for the dead then were not dead in the way that many now wish to be - under the current tv set mythology of being turned off.

This reminds me of the pervasive popularity of Spiritualism during and after the great wars of the last century.

All Hallows (all made holy in love's remembrance and release) is not celebrated by a mainstream media manipulation - perhaps because the Church neutered love of its direct communion, to become itself a ghost.

As for apocalyptic fear - see that very little real progress has occurred with regard to an underlying human conditioning that is manipulated or leveraged but rarely allowed to be brought to the surface. Fear is protected from exposure by guilts and terrors - because fear brought to light reveals itself as a true need - or rather a need for truth.

When you recognise your need for truth above all else you release all investments in lies and the father of them to the heart's recognition. Honesty is in the Heart and not in a substitution of weakness presented as a means to manipulate others or forfend a greater penalty by keeping the wounds while projecting them onto others to direct the penalty away from self.

As for inducing the children who come to us in trust to play in macabre masquerades of horror made as play - does it prepare them for life in anything but Hollywood?

Testing boundaries is part of finding who you are and also of seeking the love that holds you in being where you are.

Limitation can also be assigned to an eggshell or a nest. What happens if you come out before you are truly called but an aborted potential? Not that some cannot find the way to learn from any experience rather than be neutered and rendered to the living dead.

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?The usurping and adulteration of Meaning is the spiralling out of a destructive and depleting attempt to 'play outside the Law of your own being'. That this is impossible means that you will find yourself in an impossible situation - with no way out.

?BUT... that this is impossible remains your true salvation - regardless the phantoms of a mind split by fear.

?There is no God but God - does not mean the words but the truth they point to. The mind can make its own 'reality-experience' within the heart or within the willingness of the heart to play 'dead' to a casting out in defence against a world turned to horror.

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?The purpose you align in is your heart's acceptance - excepting when an old fear is triggered to run the old defence.

?The purpose of self protection SEEMS to be loving - but may be the masking over fears we are either unready to face or unwilling to own - and so we call to external powers to 'save us' as if there is no love within. Anything given power comes by invitation, but may not leave without wholly relinquishing it. While we want its protection, hate and blame and fear operate in the shadows - excepting when of course they rise to break the world you tried to love.