On the psychology of conspiracy denial

https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/12/on-the-psychology-of-the-conspiracy-denier/

The lie is that the world or our self is as we think - and rationalise or identify and protect.

While commending the article as a stepping stone in addressing our mind as the substratum of our perceptions and responses, I join in looking within and beneath appearances as an ongoing willingness.

Why is it that otherwise perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded people baulk at the suggestion that sociopaths are conspiring to manipulate and deceive them? And why will they defend this ill-founded position with such vehemence?

This states that people are not perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded, because they protect their mind from threat, under the belief IT protects or speaks and represents them, or their true interests.

I have considered our 'thinking as being like our firstborn son - as our creation, and special to us. (This perspective has interesting inference for the Old Testament call to yield or sacrifice our 'thinking' or conflicted will, for a living truth that restores wholeness of being).

Who are you? If you keep asking as a means to release associations or things about you - will you arrive at your thought - like Descartes?"

'I think therefore I am!'.

Consider the 'Name of God';

"I Am That I Am!"

I suggest that we are running an 'i' that is a derivative of derivatives such as to have delivered us to a Prodigal Wasteland (Nightmare).

The device by which thought SEEMS to hijack the mind and replicate itself is conflict and division that rules out wholeness to a dissociating split off sense of self. I had the image as I wrote of a phish taking the bait and running with it until it is 'realed in' (puns intended). All psyops or deceiving illusions share the function of illusion - which is to replace reality, This is a temporary capacity by which we take the time to live the experience it gives us.

In The Compleat Angler, the sport of nearly but NOT catching a fish after a long and protracted struggle led one of the two anglers to lament his loss, to which the other responded 'how can you lose what you have never had?'.

Yet on the same basis how can we truly lose what we have and are to the wish to have something that we are NOT - except in concept of the struggle to regain what we thought was denied us, or we believe we have been deprived of?

"And WHO told you you were naked?" said the Lord to the self-conscious reflex of masking over a sense of lack and grievance given welcome and protection.

A mask is a defence and as a defence it attacks first. As open attack is soon found to bring limit and loss by retaliation, and so we learn to present the mask of compliance in bargains struck by which to seem to join in the mask of concern or virtue while keeping a backdoor of suspicion, judgement and distance by which to escape exposure to intimacy of a true meeting, and through which a hidden agenda operates opportunistically whether we own it or not.

A superficial exposure of the personality level of the human ego or self-construct may seem to confirm a sense of justification in lidding over and justifying denial and exclusion.

I could call it 'otherism' as the root of all the current 'isms' being wielded by the 'woke' to weaponise a masking virtue as 'righteous hate!'. But it is fear attracting guilt, hate and projection as a tempt to get rid of it - or mitigate it so as to resume some sense of 'normality'.

As long as we engage from the mask we identify in the mask and when time and mind is devoted to conflict or wills (conflicted will externalised), for so long are we trapped in a hell of our own making under the belief it can be reformed, remade, reset, as some attempt to correct the error with the same problem that makes it, while believing THIS TIME will be different. Depletion and exhaustion will in time dis-illusion, but the capacity to merely shift illusions and think to have reset to a capacity to resume business as normal, is in the capacity to forget or discard who we are and what we truly are, have and know, for self-illusions we protect as life itself - and therefore persist an ill-founded conviction by which Others and an othered world all conspire to deny and deprive us of the life we want.

And so perhaps the key is not to seek to change another's thought from without, by a frontal critique by which to 'correct' their errors by leveraging conformity or compliance to something that would undermine and shame in loss of face or exposure to a sense of inadequacy - and hence meet a will to block or deny communication seen as threat.

The key must be to allow our own thought to be changed from within, such as to no longer project our sense of lack or grievance onto them, and instead extend the peace of a self acceptance as the conditions of a shared motivation for positive or integrative change.

Relationship never work, thrive or fulfil when we push or pull without extending a recognition and acceptance of another in their own right. And the fixation in 'wrongness' projected and perceived generates the system of control, as if conflict must be managed, milked and identified in, rather than healed.

The renewing of our mind is the Gift of our being; not the overlay of masking controls, enacted, normalised and given acceptance as power and protection - conferred or denied.

Birds of a feather, flock together. Resonance is the true power by which all coherence embodies and is held. All thought carries resonant qualities. There is a 'feeling' component to thoughts, including the dissociative thinking by which to deny any direct feeling to awareness, by running emotional conflicts to limit, or denying emotional expression.

Our freedom and capacity to evaluate our own thought, both inwardly as spiritual discernment and outwardly as empirical reality testing, is within our being. Not waiting on Permission from Others or circumstance. And so the attempt to leverage others and circumstance as if the THEN have the conditions for freedom is a device of diversion and delay in futility.

We are already the movement of being - as the qualities of awareness and attention in a rich and diverse experience that we lose all savour of, when locked into the image, model or systemic structure of control. The idea of resting the 'mind' to ground and centre our selves in presence lived is much more than 'recharging the battery of a separate self sense' so as to take its habits as an authoritative sense of self-will. But is an opportunity of renewal from a true Authority of being. How would you know this? Because truth is never coercive. Clearly I am not talking of a 'defined truth' but the quality of recognition and resonance by which you know that you are without any shadow of a doubt or division.

Can Prometheus steal such a light and give it to the world but in chains and torment?

What if we 'run off' with a corrupted copy, and be-live it?

The mind in error cannot correct itself by using others as a proxy. But can reverse the reversal and read the world as the revealing of mistakes that we are willing to own, address and bring to a true curiosity in desire for a better experience of self and world through which to meet and freely align and share. Living responsibility as freedom, is growing and strengthening it as our conscious experience. Defining freedom in terms and conditions, is a contract or recoil from Infinity. We haven't actually defined Reality, so much as entered into a limited company of rules and regulations. What does it profit...?