At War with our own Nature

 https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/16/humankinds-last-battle-with-nature/

By their fruits you shall know them.

That which is set at war with it own nature can be assigned a 'second nature' or acquired conditioning - but this is a renaming or masking narrative over the 'war' or split.

The dissociated or split-off mind is in emulation - within Living Thought - a wholeness in all it parts that has no direct translation within polarised or split terms.

Yet at no time is that which lives us actually absent from our life or mind - but within perceptual constructs, we experience as if rejected, abandoned, disconnected, betrayed, or denied life - all of which is on terms and conditions imposed on life, that are not met.

Mind is by nature creative, but the use of the creative to lock-down and mask in a body, is a limiting of awareness by setting up conflict within the mind of identification with self-imaged. The identity in idol or ideal finds life unsatisfying, imperfect and unworthy. It seeks to coerce, manipulate of replace such a world with attempt to regain what was 'lost' or make a new order of the ideal over the felt chaos of belief and experience of its being, broken, lost or betrayed.

Identities operate as inertial fulcrums of displacement and a separation trauma is a loss of That which truly identifies everything to a split or dissociated 'mind' in search of identity.

A sense of lack seeking outside itself as an ego-alien 'adventure'.

A self-evasive masking in 'virtue' or truth as a means of self validation and reinforcement set against the hated and feared, flagged to 'other' and away from identity in 'control'.

Posts into the theme:

#1

The archetypal themes of a 'split mind' of broken communication play out as 'mad gods' or powers set in symbol of power at rest lost to 'separation trauma - and grievance' or in symbol of love's intimate guidance and support lost to treachery and betrayal.

The higher, true or original nature - becomes hidden by symbols, that themselves become derivative concepts set in given meanings - instead of transparency to That which gives Meaning - through us. The mask of opacity, denies depth of communion and communication, to its own currency of self-seeking within the mask, or power within the world taken as 'thing in itself'.

Yet within or beneath and beyond the mask is the 'Beholder of All'.

A war mind 'sees' pathological narratives in act, because symbiotic agreement has been denied and discarded from its own thought.

Life is one. Life is many. We don't have or need words for what Is, for All is already spoken. But we need a word of forgiveness for what we made in error and cannot otherwise release, and be released from.

#2

Spiritual connection can be considered as a resonance to direct qualities of being within a structured mind of thought. What we consider to be consciousness (with cultural or shared expression) is a patterning of thought in relation to Source-Nature that is then extended through relational expression and exchange.

The concept of evil, is a derivative that can then be given or accord primary agency - as a masking or filtering substitution for True Derivation or Authorship, as a false or alien and oppositional 'authority' within the 'masking' of a mind set in its own illusions by a disintegrity of thought that operates split or contradicting purposes.

Whenever the illusion is used to judge over illusion, the consciousness operates a reversal of the natural order, assigning effect as Cause - and aligning in narrative assertions as power over illusion, by which to give power to masking deceits and suffer what we give as the measure of our own receipt.

That mind is free to create illusion is part of the quality of a giving and receiving awareness of being - but the limiting or lockdown of mind to its illusion as power over life, masked in virtue of necessity, is to conflict with the freedom of our being, as a private agenda, masked over in hiding as a self-protective filtering, limiting and blocking of 'Communication'. Life Is - communication and exchange, but substitution of derivate currency operate as if true. This means they are accepted, aligned in and acted from as true of us in their moment of execution.

We can and do make invisible the structuring of thought and belief we act from as a second nature or automatic and learned 'normal'. But are readily able to see the incongruities and contradictions of others - as they of us. If we focus in seeking error, sin or unworthiness in others, we use them to bolster or boost a sense of lack of health and wholeness. We feed a sickness by wanting to see it in others. This is 'judgement' that uses illusion as a lens to determine the relative worth or hierarchy of illusions or 'My 'reality' at your expense - as a polarisation of identity in power struggle.

But we can as readily choose to give the focus to what is right or true or worthy of other beings - regardless their current masking. This is revealed to the willingness to look beyond the mask - or indeed to pause or release the identity of our mask.

Mask as protection from fear, is an embodiment of fear in defence - that withholds or withdraws from communication and exchange to ritualised forms of virtue in separateness that establish hierarchies of 'worth' or credit and invalidation.

If we would meet or interact with another culture - past or present - we can only do so through our own - and this is true individually no less - as meeting another being.

The idea of meeting or communication is firstly that of a resonant willingness or alignment of intention and desire. Cultural exchange is of the revealing of another as ourselves and or ourself in another that expands and extends our circle of recognition and participation in life. But the use of another as a means to get for a private agenda or self-illusion, is the masking in communication or the making of exchange as a means to 'get', or possess and control. While attempts to demonise and deny such manipulative deceit, make law that holds order, it can also become coded as laws that operate blindly, as so become themselves the vector of manipulative deceits of an imposing or coercive 'order', which is no order at all, but sacrifice to idol set over feared chaos.

It is indeed said that to all things there is a season, and the experiencing of the polarity of tyranny and subjection is the conditions for the generating of a seeding for new life from a recognition and release of the illusions that operate 'death' in life or loss of spiritual connection. This is part of identification with the body and can be experienced in the capacity to transparency or opacity to life's expressing according to our  inhibiting or trusting and allowing. We can get in our own way and blame it on the tools, and in that sense become tooled to a sense of denied responsibility, that also blames and accuses itself in others. 

#3

I feel a resonance with the gist of what you are saying, but feel rather to align in the Living and resist or withdraw allegiance and support from the temptation to resist evil - as if that confers virtue or identity.

When Jesus said resist ye not evil, he did not mean consent to be a passive doormat to bullies or learn to 'love' pain and suffering.

A struggle of 'wills' within our mind is really a delayed and evaded decision. Not unlike an addict who simply cannot see their own predicament from any other frame than that defined by their identity set in external dependence - until and unless 'bottoming out'.

And so ingenious ways are generated to protect and maintain a mask for the protection of the addiction - as if it is Life. 

While we are aware of this in regard to substances or even to more socially invisible dependencies, we are less aware it applies to our 'thinking'. Or what passes as thinking to a mind-capture in its own self-contradictions unrecognised.

But I join with aligning always now in appreciation and extension of freedom - which is innate or given us in our being. If we can kill ourselves over and over again, and come each time to a world of self-illusion to die as if THIS time it will be different, then we are exercising freedom to suffer illusions as real because on some level we WANT this.

I say level - because a mind at war with itself is both compartmentalised and split into many levels - not least from attempt to DO what Life Is as if we are or have become a thing-in-itself, alone, apart and set within a realm of death - as fear, pain and loss to be countered from a 'separated' sense of closed system thinking. Not unlike the theoretical idea of a pathogenic virus that must 'infect' the living, capture and control it to replicate and mutate itself so as to evade extinction. We can and do 'flag' our own mind to life and attack it there as our moral necessity or survival. And until there is a literal shift or flip of perspective can 'do' nothing else.

Positing Life to be Out There as a resource to break into and plunder for possession and control can be readily observed in the patterning of currencies of thought - invisibly running as 'normal'. Communication and exchange is always mutual - but our filtering of awareness and priority of attention sets up levels of 'reality' such as to worship 'Getting' as the law of life. That this depletes, toxifies and indentures to degradation and death is ingeniously packaged as financial instruments that are willingly bought or sucked up by the 'sin-eaters' of the day as if to gain power, profit, privilege and protection within a context of powerlessness, fear and lack. But masking over this is at best a temporary expedient. Persistent resort to temporary expedient as a manual replacement for Life, is our experience of time - 'stolen' from Eternity. Yet always now. Orwell's 'present' was a face crushed in the mud by terror. But Presence is not set or cast in struggle... unless you insist!

Presence of mind is of a wholeness of heart and mind as one - which is synchrony of being in expression. Understanding as attempt to define for control, is the old habit. But standing under as willingness to be truly moved - is to truth that what we need is within the movement of the whole, even if 'temporarily' we are getting in our own way by the residual momentum of old choices, that rise to be recognised and released - or perhaps recognised enough to begin to question as the process of a willingness of release over steps in time.

Without free awareness, the triggering of ancient fears are doubled down in as restatement of intent to remain unrecognised or hidden, held secret and apart under mask of protection from fear of Total Loss or indeed Total Pain - because Totality or wholeness of being is beyond control and therefore without form or direction to the mind set for 'getting'. By which the truly known is framed as 'The Unknown', onto which fear projects and is magnified to go forth and multiply an abundance of conflict, limitation and debt.

The mind is a projector. What we give out is what we set as the measure of our receiving.

The fear-mind seeks then to manually change the narrative by manipulative coercions and deceits, but as the saying says' wherever you go, there you are!'. Only acceptance and alignment in Spirit restores and renews the mind as an integral servant with a wholeness in stead of the impossible burden of control, defence and pain of isolation. Only truth aligns in unified purpose. No matter how close to 100% a unity set in fear against the projection of its own evils can seem to become, the effects cannot kill their Living Source and Cause. Thought do not leave the mind that thinks them - no matter how cunningly cast out to then come back in attack, hijack or violate who we truly are. But that which is denied light and right must seek wholeness of release. While that which claims partiality, exclusivity and self-specialness as the voice of authority for wholeness set over broken parts resists any undermining or exposure of its own broken connection.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can never put Humpty together again.

Recognising futility as futility is the release of a meaningless self-contradiction. Life is already in Movement - but we haven't been with life - while set in a mind of struggle. pausing of insanity, allows a fresh moment to abide in us and through us. This is demonstrably so - but fascination and investment in conflict can be addictive, as a self reinforcing pattern of condition and response. Short term seemings, can then be directly released of compulsive attributes or 'authority' instead of playing them out as a war of minds to resulting tragedy in pain and loss.

If we ignore our responsibility in the little things we can readily address, why should we expect to hold integrity in the 'big things'? Yet in the former is a pattern that is the same in all.