No to normal

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The decision to re-educate and re-integrate to truly aligned sense of self and world has to bring all things to serve that purpose and no other.
The evasive manoeuvres of masked or hidden agenda - which can be largely unconscious - or running subconsciously as a conditioned habit or 'normal' use meanings taken out of context to frame truth in lies and weave lies into truth.
So if 'they' coin terms by which to program of divert and deceive, we can look at what they mask over.

Almost anything can become 'normalised' - including giving and receiving torture.
The very term normal is an evasion of anything natural - in the frame of a definition of humanity as conditioned robots - in which the elect get to control the programming. What could possibly go right?
Well, we can persist in error as a means to set up a re-educational curriculum.
In other words we can learn from errors, but not while errors are masked over, locked down and denied access.
In this 'take' I desist from framing it in terms of piling up denials in hell - which is the inversion of storing up treasures in Heaven.
And I may add that the consciousness that grows with the gratitude for blessing in life is NOT locked down, masked over and socially distanced.
Freedom of association is the nature of mind at rest and is creative by nature unless conflicted in its own thought.
A mind at war with itself assigns freedom to survival and necessity as we will be free 'when' the enemy or obstacle is defeated.
Tomorrow never comes, and the means of masking deceit set us in a sick and hollow parody of life that has to limit consciousness so as to be able to tolerate it new normal of defences against truth too fearful - or rather of invested illusions deemed too big to fail.

It is so much easier to get into trouble than out of it, because the false premise or profit that we followed is replicating itself in our attempted answers, to weave ever more insidious and ingenious mind-traps that paralyse the capacity to move or be moved within a death masking in false virtue.

Re-education has to choose NOT to start from the problem (and thus replicate its core patterns in 'new robes').
This is the challenging part, because we are invested in it much more deeply than seems so.
the capacity to rest the mind, is the opening of the freedom in which to see the nature of the problem, rather than automatically 'escape or counter' it as our learned or acquired habit or 'normal'. While this could come under 'mindfulness', it is not a self-improvement method, so much as aligning in active willingness of true desire.
There is a sense in which what we mean by mindless is in fact too full of obstructive thinking to recognise its own situation, and what we are calling mindful is the fullness of our free and living potential - when we get out of our own way.

The flow of any unselfconscious joy is in a sense thoughtless, even though thought serves purpose where required. And this is 'taking no thought for ourselves' in the sense of a self-conflicted problem getting in the way of a true fulfilment.
In some sense the revealing of what lies beneath the masked mind and world, is synchronous with the more desperate attempt to consolidate a masking mind as 'real in its own right'. It 'goes with the territory'.
In the experience of being unmasked, we have a desire to know and be known for who and what we truly are - AND a fear of rejection, vilification and invalidating damnation that the mask 'saves us from'.
True living, as both joy in life and an educational expansion of perspective, is transformative.
But not destructive. The shift of purpose and perspective uses learned abilities to serve a recognisable and freely accepted goal.
the attempt to DO life gets in the way, and brings our undoing.
The idea of being outside and apart from Life - as if to define and control it, is a virtual or imaginary concept.
Yet we give such concept worth-ship and allegiance as our private 'judge' which, like a sword, cuts both ways.

A true word is one in thought and deed. The word is thus the recognition of one meaning - in place of conflicted chaos of a meaninglessness seeking to become real, and thus getting in the way of our appreciation of our true existence now. When we recognise truth, we are one with it. When we manufacture it we are dispossessed by what we thought to get hold of. Each of these has its 'world', but only in one can we find the peace of wholeness as a centre within the always changing.