Are we free?

 I pondered on themes in a video as I met them in the larger context than it presented.

But it was from this post:

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/08/25/covid-what-have-we-learned/#comment-179286

Are we free?

A fundamental tenet of Christian witness is Free Will as our very creation - which becomes confused with our birth. Freedom does not belong or apply to the body - but the mind can limit and equate itself to the body in attempt to possess and control the symptoms rather than align in true Cause.

So that freedom 'to be who we are', can be masked over and 'locked' into or lost sight of to vain deceits or false thinking - is our 'Adversary'  - though in truth I feel it an innate adversity proceeding from conflicted roots, and not a created living being - if I can shift out of materia medica to use such terms. We can give life to fear and suffer and die from the belief. This becomes our new normal, and witnesses to a greater love than masked virtue have to be denied - at cost of further sacrifice and limitation, such as to lose all hope of healing to victim management systems that seek to 'understand' how life works, but only in order to usurp and replace it with something 'safer' to a convicted identity in control - set in place of a true relational and therefore free responsibility to meet the need.

The idea of the deceiver is not new, and Jesus in the idiom of his time (and translation) said 'resist ye not evil', and 'love thine enemy' and other such sayings that suggest to the fearful that they are wrong to defend, and are left to supply the doormat to Big Brother's boot, but that is not at all the witness or teaching he embodies (whether you allow this any reality for you of not), and so needs to be understood in context and indeed in a like willingness to pause the mind of reacting self-will, to open a receptive willingness for the Universal Will - that is also recognised as 'synchronicity' of giving and receiving as one - through the situation as a whole rather than as a rationalised or mythologised (actually both) perception-reaction - that is not wrong to feel or experience, but is from a past that is not here now.

If in being triggered by a past made in fear, loss or anger, we are 'possessed' of it, then we reiterate our past AS IF it is happening now as a self certainty at odds with our current relational situation or relationships.

Then we are phished to reproduce in like reaction the very act we move to eradicate under self-certainty of 'right' to attack as protecting the 'victim' that fear paints, models or projects as an inevitable outcome UNLESS  surrendering to an interjecting, overriding control. 

While an emergency intervention may looks like this, the genuine response to the need is altogether relational and the attender willingly 'gets out of the way' for the need to be met - and is guided and supported BY that Field of Intention - without having to take on what is NOT required, helpful or timely to the need.

Jesus offers a tuning fork for realignment of desire and intention of unified purpose - but what has been masked in by the fearful, stuffed the new wine into old thinking that wasn't ready to be looked at and released. I regard organised and religion to be not a free church!

But even so I was surprised at how passively God was taken out by a virus. But then the 'yeast' has been working through the whole all along, subverting everything to serve an image taken in vain as a self-willing sense of grievance.

Is the hurt a call for healing, or a means for masking in virtue set over 'no-go' areas of our psyche?

When - as Malcolm and I both say "don't just do something, stand there!" - it is to make the space of awareness in which true questions can be asked - that is they address the true need rather than the questions that 'fit the narrative' and protect the problem by repackaging it - which is a form of mind-magic seeking and targeting the profile of the susceptible. So as to all learn to look away from what we learn not to see. And yet toxic consequence is no less active for being airbrushed, or covered over and put 'out of mind'. But now runs without responsibility, beneath the face of control, set an impossible task and burden, for which it is neither fitted nor capable nor able to recognise such for it 'knows not what it does'. We can all see this when we get in our own way in struggle and act against our own fulfilment.

In God we trust, but in viral fear we are trussed ;-)

The word 'god' doesn't matter if the heart hasn't opened a communication within life and thus with the life of others. But what we actually believe or hold true at heart is known by our fruits.

This and every moment is perfectly valid feedback, but we forgot the question. Learning to align in the impulse of a true question bring more coherent result.