https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/19/the-scarlet-letter-of-covid19/
#1
Fear of Other is denied or masked over fear by casting out or projection away from a self now associated with a bubble of control within a world made Other by the very act of withholding presence to assert a masking presentation.
We mask over to hide from ourselves, we mask in to hide in by passing off to others who we seek as allies to reinforce our defences - or as Others onto whom to dump our judgements - that really reveal more about ourselves that the other.
The virus is a special Other - assigned all kinds of motives and agency that are in fact our own.
The mind has the capacity to blind and limit itself so as to mask in limitation and subjection as the means to leverage controls that can be plausibly denied as an act of will. That is to say, the mind can set up to deny the living will, by operating a masking and filtered distortion of reality that is given willing acceptance under a conditions of fear of pain of loss - where the fear is reacted from as FACT believed rather than the act of a mind-framed or coercively controlled imagination.
Recognition of another as ourself and of our self in the other is a horizontal extension of the vertical or always dimension of recognising Self as All That Is. The words and symbols used here are arbitrary - but pointing to a quality of resonance that IS Communication and Relationship. Where there is an Other - fear arises. Where conflict is held onto rather than released, dissonance generates a loss of Self-Awareness to a sense of limited and limiting focus - that selects to identify and 'others' what is discarded or denied. That which is Othered is thus the More of You seeking to come back into its true Inherence.
The tenant farmers who identify in possession and control as the substitution for true stewardship, kill the messengers of the Master as expression of a fear of dispossession by feared truth. But truth puts all things back in right context of both place and timing.
When we other or alienate our self, we lose awareness of wholeness and are left with a body-limit masking as frail and temporary - but the body is not the generator of the meanings we give its, and receive and strengthen by sharing.
The mind is a pretence of power that is neither weak nor strong - but passing off as yours while you seek power in things cast or set outside yourself - from a presumption of lack or disconnection and separation within.
#2
in response to the themes in:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/19/the-scarlet-letter-of-covid19/#comment-206863
You state the obvious, and yet to those who are invested in 'protection' rackets it is not obvious. While I can see the Mafia offers an appropriate model for a captured and controlled society and once you see it - you cannot really UN-see it - the other side of that equation is of the many who actively WANT to seek protection in such forms as relieve them or escape them from core responsibilities - associated in fear with guilt, lack, shame and blame - in pain and penalty of loss.
The mind of fear is split - and yet it seeks to protect the split by projecting its away from self as the positing of externalised fears, threats, enemies and evils. This is the redefining of split into terms of framing thought and perception that divert energy and attention of response to not only 'save' the split from exposure to loss of face, loss of self and loss of control, but to feed the split as the hidden basis or energy source for assuming and acting out the role of special knowing or elitism set in proprietary 'solutions' that protect the sickness from healing by defining it in terms of lack, inadequacy, invalidity, guilt and unworthiness in the 'other'.
The pattern of a 'god' of judgement set over life and world, others AND self, is that of usurping a true command or authorship by presentation of an authoritative mask (or set of robes) that must NOT be questioned, challenged or brought into open awareness - but is rendered to a an idol of power that operates in the dark, beneath the surface of a masking social reality.
Health is movement or expression of life as wholeness. At our root is a truly felt and recognisable resonance. The idea of persisting in self-illusion that generate toxic outcomes - by means of mutual agreements to all turn a blind eye to what underlying fear says MUST be hidden, denied, that sacrifice of life be paid under narratives of coercion, presenting as narratives of virtue.
The hateful nature of what runs beneath is too disturbing to open to from a bubble of a seeming world of control, and yet this is not least because the mind is fixated in control rather than service to life or wholeness of purpose and being.
Control and fear mutually reinforce each other as the 'matrix-mind' or modelling of substitution reality, that runs upon a life set in dreams of displacement, so as to collectivise energy in narratives by which to protect the dream from awareness of its function of adjusting reality - even as it fades of any hope into the same underlying nightmare as can never truly be addressed by casting out as if to escape.
But in such moments of unselfconscious flow, coherence, joy and synchronicity of life where love, appreciation and gratitude for being are wordless, effortless and already shared - there is no call on the mind to interject within a quality of all things working together as one - even though everything is uniquely recognisable as part of rather than apart from wholeness or what is'. Until a sense of lack arises as perhaps the thought of not losing such a sense of life - and in the thought is the mind brought in as attempt to grasp on, possess and define to control. Perhaps a moment of seeming to actually have it - before a hollow masking form seeks for what it 'lost', was 'denied' or deprived of - and betrayed by. Separation trauma is part OF the mind of the attempt to possess and control - and its drive to regain, or restore such a 'self' is our will to survive in the human world - that we make or model by our assigned meanings and adaptive strategies of identification.
Fear is the 'Othered'. But the miracle of the extension of love - and I will qualify my use of 'love' to signify the extension of recognition and appreciation for being - is the mystery of a true relationship. In which nothing is hidden or denied or demanded of - so as to allow what is to shine through the whole situation.
The idea of being still so as to truly know - is also to be truly moved. The attempt to hold an out of true presentation against the flow of being is a great burden of 'death and taxes' - as the demand for sacrifice by which to save the little that is left against a fear of nothingness, but also of humiliation, invalidation indeed of sin - or 'self-wrongness' and despair that breeds cynical and blind adaptation to a world where fear is given power and love is but a pretty lie.
No one can reach the unwilling, but willingness can extend as invitation through which communication of a higher order spontaneously arises - as distinct from the social mores of narrative compliance under identities of polarised reaction. For much of our mind is a conditioned response that operates as a sense of continuity for who we THINK we are - and for all the seeming simplicity of a self-evident 'world' - we are nonetheless operating as a surface 'reality' - AND the thoughts, beliefs, definitions and underlying Movement for being that is filtered and distorted or blocked by incoherent, contradictory or split thinking.
Regardless the struggle for 'control' of narrative by which to Order a New World - as if fear and control can behold ANYTHING made new! - is our willingness to re-evaluate our experience.
#3
in response to the themes in:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/19/the-scarlet-letter-of-covid19/#comment-206833
No one should be made to wear a mask in lieu of a mandatory Certificate Of Vaccinated ID. But what does ‘should‘ actually mean? Does it mean ‘I think that you should’ or it is the Voice for God?
I don’t pretend to dictate what anyone else should do or not do.
I take responsibility for my life, my thought and the responses or choices and outcomes from which growing and learning develop character and cultural values. Actions have consequences and it is right that those who choose to act or indeed react from unwatched and inherited or acquired conditioning MEET their consequences as valid feedback from which to refine or make better choices.
Polluters and fraudsters therefore should MEET their own toxic debt – rather than repackage and sell it to the ‘others’ as if an asset, protection of virtue.
However, while you actively align as a ‘sin eater’ in exchange for false profits on unfounded premises, you should MEET the toxic debt of complicity and support – but in the instant of recognising the error, you are free to repent and release what can no longer pass off and be masked in as true.
Response to #1
https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/19/the-scarlet-letter-of-covid19/
#1
Fear of Other is denied or masked over fear by casting out or projection away from a self now associated with a bubble of control within a world made Other by the very act of withholding presence to assert a masking presentation.
We mask over to hide from ourselves, we mask in to hide in by passing off to others who we seek as allies to reinforce our defences - or as Others onto whom to dump our judgements - that really reveal more about ourselves that the other.
The virus is a special Other - assigned all kinds of motives and agency that are in fact our own.
The mind has the capacity to blind and limit itself so as to mask in limitation and subjection as the means to leverage controls that can be plausibly denied as an act of will. That is to say, the mind can set up to deny the living will, by operating a masking and filtered distortion of reality that is given willing acceptance under a conditions of fear of pain of loss - where the fear is reacted from as FACT believed rather than the act of a mind-framed or coercively controlled imagination.
Recognition of another as ourself and of our self in the other is a horizontal extension of the vertical or always dimension of recognising Self as All That Is. The words and symbols used here are arbitrary - but pointing to a quality of resonance that IS Communication and Relationship. Where there is an Other - fear arises. Where conflict is held onto rather than released, dissonance generates a loss of Self-Awareness to a sense of limited and limiting focus - that selects to identify and 'others' what is discarded or denied. That which is Othered is thus the More of You seeking to come back into its true Inherence.
The tenant farmers who identify in possession and control as the substitution for true stewardship, kill the messengers of the Master as expression of a fear of dispossession by feared truth. But truth puts all things back in right context of both place and timing.
When we other or alienate our self, we lose awareness of wholeness and are left with a body-limit masking as frail and temporary - but the body is not the generator of the meanings we give its, and receive and strengthen by sharing.
The mind is a pretence of power that is neither weak nor strong - but passing off as yours while you seek power in things cast or set outside yourself - from a presumption of lack or disconnection and separation within.
#2
in response to the themes in:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/19/the-scarlet-letter-of-covid19/#comment-206863
You state the obvious, and yet to those who are invested in 'protection' rackets it is not obvious. While I can see the Mafia offers an appropriate model for a captured and controlled society and once you see it - you cannot really UN-see it - the other side of that equation is of the many who actively WANT to seek protection in such forms as relieve them or escape them from core responsibilities - associated in fear with guilt, lack, shame and blame - in pain and penalty of loss.
The mind of fear is split - and yet it seeks to protect the split by projecting its away from self as the positing of externalised fears, threats, enemies and evils. This is the redefining of split into terms of framing thought and perception that divert energy and attention of response to not only 'save' the split from exposure to loss of face, loss of self and loss of control, but to feed the split as the hidden basis or energy source for assuming and acting out the role of special knowing or elitism set in proprietary 'solutions' that protect the sickness from healing by defining it in terms of lack, inadequacy, invalidity, guilt and unworthiness in the 'other'.
The pattern of a 'god' of judgement set over life and world, others AND self, is that of usurping a true command or authorship by presentation of an authoritative mask (or set of robes) that must NOT be questioned, challenged or brought into open awareness - but is rendered to a an idol of power that operates in the dark, beneath the surface of a masking social reality.
Health is movement or expression of life as wholeness. At our root is a truly felt and recognisable resonance. The idea of persisting in self-illusion that generate toxic outcomes - by means of mutual agreements to all turn a blind eye to what underlying fear says MUST be hidden, denied, that sacrifice of life be paid under narratives of coercion, presenting as narratives of virtue.
The hateful nature of what runs beneath is too disturbing to open to from a bubble of a seeming world of control, and yet this is not least because the mind is fixated in control rather than service to life or wholeness of purpose and being.
Control and fear mutually reinforce each other as the 'matrix-mind' or modelling of substitution reality, that runs upon a life set in dreams of displacement, so as to collectivise energy in narratives by which to protect the dream from awareness of its function of adjusting reality - even as it fades of any hope into the same underlying nightmare as can never truly be addressed by casting out as if to escape.
But in such moments of unselfconscious flow, coherence, joy and synchronicity of life where love, appreciation and gratitude for being are wordless, effortless and already shared - there is no call on the mind to interject within a quality of all things working together as one - even though everything is uniquely recognisable as part of rather than apart from wholeness or what is'. Until a sense of lack arises as perhaps the thought of not losing such a sense of life - and in the thought is the mind brought in as attempt to grasp on, possess and define to control. Perhaps a moment of seeming to actually have it - before a hollow masking form seeks for what it 'lost', was 'denied' or deprived of - and betrayed by. Separation trauma is part OF the mind of the attempt to possess and control - and its drive to regain, or restore such a 'self' is our will to survive in the human world - that we make or model by our assigned meanings and adaptive strategies of identification.
Fear is the 'Othered'. But the miracle of the extension of love - and I will qualify my use of 'love' to signify the extension of recognition and appreciation for being - is the mystery of a true relationship. In which nothing is hidden or denied or demanded of - so as to allow what is to shine through the whole situation.
The idea of being still so as to truly know - is also to be truly moved. The attempt to hold an out of true presentation against the flow of being is a great burden of 'death and taxes' - as the demand for sacrifice by which to save the little that is left against a fear of nothingness, but also of humiliation, invalidation indeed of sin - or 'self-wrongness' and despair that breeds cynical and blind adaptation to a world where fear is given power and love is but a pretty lie.
No one can reach the unwilling, but willingness can extend as invitation through which communication of a higher order spontaneously arises - as distinct from the social mores of narrative compliance under identities of polarised reaction. For much of our mind is a conditioned response that operates as a sense of continuity for who we THINK we are - and for all the seeming simplicity of a self-evident 'world' - we are nonetheless operating as a surface 'reality' - AND the thoughts, beliefs, definitions and underlying Movement for being that is filtered and distorted or blocked by incoherent, contradictory or split thinking.
Regardless the struggle for 'control' of narrative by which to Order a New World - as if fear and control can behold ANYTHING made new! - is our willingness to re-evaluate our experience.
#3
in response to the themes in:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/19/the-scarlet-letter-of-covid19/#comment-206833
No one should be made to wear a mask in lieu of a mandatory Certificate Of Vaccinated ID. But what does ‘should‘ actually mean? Does it mean ‘I think that you should’ or it is the Voice for God?
I don’t pretend to dictate what anyone else should do or not do.
I take responsibility for my life, my thought and the responses or choices and outcomes from which growing and learning develop character and cultural values. Actions have consequences and it is right that those who choose to act or indeed react from unwatched and inherited or acquired conditioning MEET their consequences as valid feedback from which to refine or make better choices.
Polluters and fraudsters therefore should MEET their own toxic debt – rather than repackage and sell it to the ‘others’ as if an asset, protection of virtue.
However, while you actively align as a ‘sin eater’ in exchange for false profits on unfounded premises, you should MEET the toxic debt of complicity and support – but in the instant of recognising the error, you are free to repent and release what can no longer pass off and be masked in as true.
Nick - in Reply to #1 above
But what should we do when persecuted or made redundant for such thought crimes as ‘all lives matter’, or training pugs to do offensive salutes? The plod and judges aren’t a ‘pretence of power’, you know.
If you know - then you are set in your convictions.
When you are open to that what you think you know may not only be wrong, but setting you up for negative, fearful, conflicted and divisive experience, you have a basis to be curious and to question what your narrative identity dictates you must not question - buy it only has the power you give it.
Power in the world is clearly all powerful if the world is all there is - and a self existing external reality of which you are thus some 'effect' and therefore TOTALLY subject or determined by external conditions over which you have no influence or participation - any more than a puppet its strings.
In fact the wish to manipulate or control the world and others is exactly the mindset that reduces a living universe to mere mechanism - to be judged, defined, diagnosed or discovered for the purpose of private agenda of possession and control. If you live by the sword of judgement, then you are bound by your own measure in the rules you set. That your thoughts filter and distort or frame and limit your perception-response of experience is not obvious when they are invisibly structured as your socialised masking persona or adaptation to the human world OF masked or denied feeling, communication, experience and freedom to be the love you are - not least by the leveraging of fears and guilts by which such a simple and direct quality of being is associated with rejection, exclusion and ridicule or vilification and attack.
So let those who believe in thought crimes give their measure out of their own mouths and don't be a relay for self censoring in their terms.
What 'matters' to who?
There are ways of thinking behind the accusation of sin in the other that 'know not what they do' - because they are set in the conviction that they MUST defend their sense of self-conflicted fear of pain and loss from exposure by whatever means and at all cost. Fear has the capacity to override all else when given power.
What shall you do - but live from the truth that you are accepting now as true of you? or it will be YOU who deny yourself while assigning blame to others, to plod, to power set over you.
If the truth shall set you free, means - as I hold - that truth reveals you ARE free - then a mistaken sense of self and world shall subject you and frame you in lack, self-doubt, conflict, limitation, weakness, susceptibility and vulnerability the threat and pain of loss. The human condition can be seen as terror hidden under a mask that learns to NOT see it - except in dilution - and then under narratives of justification that reinforce the conditioning such that no light of truth gets in to reveal us to ourselves, nor can such a locked down mind get out!.
Ego defences DO the thing they promise to protect against - and this is becoming more and more evident in an 'ego' or image and form-driven mind and world.
But only to the willingness to invoke them and give them priority over truth as the necessary lie by which to evade feared truth - or which you may be completely unaware EXCEPTING a great fear is upon you and would seem to compel the mind to lockstep with its dictate so as to mitigate or limit the fear.
Fear and conflict or risk management is not the truth that shows you you are free.
While I have never found a 'Christian' institution or identity in the world that was not fearfully alloyed in seeking to possess, define and control the disease so as to patent the cure, the Christ teaching remains a clear example to follow. But not if you have no inner resonance or recognition of the underlying truth that love is freedom from fear and division, but is NOT of our own making and all and any attempts to mask in or mimic love take forms of truth into vain fulities - that nonetheless set the baited lure and catch by reaction of a self-protective reflex.
If you are defined by your adversary, you are already lost. But if you recognise you are lost you are open to the desire to ask and find answer to who and what you are.
"But no Doc, I just want something to make the bad stuff go away, so I can get back to normal".
Well we can give you a new identity and passport, but there's no going back from your infected status - and so you must become normalised to medical management so as to earn some limited restoration of some of your own freedoms - as long as you are compliant in denying yourself to 'save lies'.
It is easy to hate the lie in the other, and requires great willingness to uncover the lie in ourself so as to undo it as a source of fear-drive, guilt-convicted self hate - or self-attack that seeks any means to limit, hide or mitigate its pain.
In what have you invested faith - and how is that working out?
I can feel the humiliating and hateful sense of powerlessness - but where is Consciousness when we are polarised in reaction?
So choose what you shall do in the moment of response - but know that your every thought is part of ongoing choices as to where you give attention and value to and what you thereby value and become identified in.
Power struggle is not the only way to see, and indeed is a way of seeing through a glass darkly - for a sense of lack will always drive the need for more - no matter how much. To go forth and multiply a sense of lack is to generate a world of toxic debt - under power struggle to set the narrative so as to land it on someone ELSE when the music stops. And no matter how ingeniously the continuity manager works the script - it remains a masking narrative that kneels upon others in order to demonstrate compliance, in hope to avert being choked off from the life it can kill or 'save'.
While 'non violent' is still framed in terms of violence, the idea that we can turn on honesty at the last minute so as to be free of lies, distortions and blocks to seeing - so as to know how to be or what to do in any given situation, is at best a crash course in transformational willingness to recognise and release the false from oneself - which a blame culture will actively deny.
Release and be released. Look at your thought, emotion and reaction and see if it is truly your accepted witness for yourself and your world. Curiosity is native to being - and to unfolding of who we are to ourselves and each other - but loveless curiosity is a fascination with what seems like power, but delivers powerlessness.
Do you think for a moment that 'plod and the judges' rest in power?
Fear seems to run a world that chooses fear as guide and protector from its own denied conflicts. We lie to ourself to hide what we are unwilling or unready to face or to own, and we do so in ways that are self-justifiable or plausibly deniable, as a reflex that tools the mind to serve the purpose of masking, limiting and filtering and Infinity of which we are a living expression - but unaware of our true inherence - having taken for ourselves alone a life set in struggle, pain and loss.
Thinking makes its so - when given allegiance and support - not least through the experience of intense dramatic tension. We would not be human without forming deep attachments, and yet we cannot hold on to the forms of life even in the living - much less when the life has moved on and we are left clinging to hollow parodies and increasingly grotesque masks of the attempt to give life to the lifeless!
Consider if you will, that fear is not the power its seems and cannot NOT serve a whole of which it is completely blind to. In what way does your situation or experience serve you - truly? Are you active in being on purpose or scattered in conflicting purpose? What is the priority of purpose that unifies your heart and mind? Can any manufactured strategy substitute for being truly moved as a wholeness of being - which is recognisable by absence of coercion.
Many leave receiving the recognition of the power of love to their dying moments - and yet we gave our love to all that we lived - albeit through a glass darkly.
#4
To a commenter on the article who said
Humanity has the mental ability to substitute short-cuts and symbolic images for truth - as derivative and false currencies of fragmented dissociation.
The Reckoning calls in to a true account and everyone becomes aware that what they took for assets is full of toxic debts they had thought to eradicate, cast out, flag onto others, or conceal forever.
The face itself can be used as a mask.
The persona is a mask.
The old normal was a social mask.
Adam and Eve used fig leaves for a mask.
The Emperor of the 'new robes' sought to mask in grandiose self specialness and locked him in a naked sham covering fear of illegitimacy (and dis-inheritance of power).
Lets give fear or the adversary its due and say it has its own sowing and reaping, and yet why not also allow the Holy Spirit of a true discernment to also cultivate a harvest of truth recognised despite and regardless the baiting of a mind set in conflict with itself?
I am not suggesting that you should like the experience of subjection to the mind of a loveless intent, but that the masking locks in the fear as control, by the ruse of falsely flagging to others, and yet in one way or another our gifts come back to us with interest.
That human minds seek to enslave nature - both their own, others and the natural world - is then hardly surprising to find a factory farmed humanity being denied even a human consciousness. But if garbage in; garbage out holds true - then you, me, we - hold the mind programming that can give of a different measure - and in the case of garbage culture - give it no attention or support.
I don't suggest that you be persuaded that you will impact or change 'the world' but you will be the presence in the world that you would be glad to meet - and in that you will not be alone - even if the forms of communication are masked over by every attempt to deny the light of honest and yet blame it on Them.
The smile that meets in the eyes as a synchronicity is truly free. How often do we smile as a mask of disarming intent? We did not suddenly become mad, but have been practising and developing the abilities for millennia.
I have worn a mask when working in very dusty conditions!
;-)
Context is everything.
