The power of decision is my own

 https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/26/10-covid-skeptic-memes-to-get-you-through-the-day/#comment-361042

Moneycircus said (in a thread of conversation):

Theodore Roszak is more relevant than ever.

“At the time the computer was gaining visibility on the social scene in the late 1940s there was a breakthrough in biology: the discovery of DNA… Researchers took the cybernetics information-transfer technology as a model for DNA. We now know that may not be adequate… Out of that came the image of DNA as a bio-computer and all of this lent credibility to DNA as an information processing mechanism. As we know DNA is the secret of life, it was like saying information is the secret of life.

“This is exactly what happened in the seventeenth century when scientists were looking for a model of the universe and they came up with the clock: we live in a clockwork universe and God is the great watchmaker in the sky.

“As of the 1950s it was as if the Great Watchmaker became the Great Cosmic Programmer and it became conventional for people to talk of their thinking as being programmed… This is nothing but an image or a paradigm or a model and it might not be adequate.”

And as of Apr 20201, The Guardian is still pushing this broken analogy: The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?

In a way, one can see 'don't let truth get in the way of a good story'.

The mind can seek in the line of its own image, definition and thought, as an exclusive focus or if you like protected narrative or covert ID. It then has the experience of it Garbage in; garbage out, or sowing and reaping, by reaction to 'AS IF' in priority set over 'AS IS'. This is a mind of dissociation, alienation, conflict, isolation all framed as a problem of painful or deadly consequence, that hijacks and replicates by the very means of its 'solutions'. 

What is not apparent from such a sketch is the nature of the 'minds of many' operating social reinforcement or 'contagion' for memes or beliefs given 'salvatory' value, or inherited as implicit structure from a past that assigned such value.

The Mind asked 'what am I?' from a capacity to doubt the Self-Knowing that Existence Is, from a sense of lack, limit and conflicting differentiations. This 'mind' is split not only to levels and compartmentalised partitions, but as fragmented and shifting entanglements of charge separation and reaction. Be aware, I am still talking within Story here - but of a reintegrative movement.

Invested narrative identity is a result of value given and can as well be given as fixations set in horror, and subsequent attempts to mask over, deny, distance and lockdown as a salvation from a negatively defined motivating force, taken as a 'god' or substrate and Source of self and reality. Hence a hidden Death Cult.

My offering is an invitation to know the act you are living as your now, so as to choose to stay tuned in such thought, word, perception and response, or live the freedom to tune OUT from fixation in conflict, to the knowledge of Existence, which always precedes any 'mind-processing', and cannot BE processed or possessed and controlled, weaponised or marketised, organised or edited. Even an instant of such an alignment is the realignment of the mind in the heart as a more coherent and connected perception and appreciation of relational being.

It is also free willing. The idea of coercion is the idea of conflict. Translating from pathogen theory to terrain theory, is the redeeming of what is true in our experience to true qualities of being. Reintegrative healing of the root and source of a mind that thinks it thinks alone, and thinks that it is what its thinking 'creates' - set against what Is. Such are invested self illusions seeking 'cover story' to buy time against Life and Truth Feared.

Transforming identity set in fear, pain, guilt and hate is one step of willingness at a time, and inherently operates within relationships of a greater embracing truth that our actively running narrative masks over and masks out. It is never more than noticing freedom and aligning truly, rather than persist in the bait of a mindset of reaction. For by what we give energy and attention to, do we set value as currency of thought, perception and response. In this way, we are the decision maker; not the baited habit of old choices running as if autonomous hijackers of love and life. 

PS: My inspirational reading on this day - immediately after posting the above is the same theme, expressed in a particular language to the same recognition:

The power of decision is my own.
No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision.
No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him.
No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants.
And no one dies without his own consent.
Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose.
Here is your world, complete in all details.
Here is its whole reality for you.
And it is only here salvation is.
You may believe that this position is extreme, and too inclusive to be true.
Yet can truth have exceptions?
If you have the gift of everything, can loss be real?
Can pain be part of peace, or grief of joy?
Can fear and sickness enter in a mind where love and perfect holiness abide?
Truth must be all-inclusive, if it be the truth at all.
Accept no opposites and no exceptions, for to do so is to contradict the truth entirely. Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true.
This you have heard before, but may not yet accept both parts of it.
Without the first, the second has no meaning.
But without the second, is the first no longer true.
Truth cannot have an opposite.
This can not be too often said and thought about.
For if what is not true is true as well as what is true, then part of truth is false.
And truth has lost its meaning.
Nothing but the truth is true, and what is false is false.
This is the simplest of distinctions, yet the most obscure.
But not because it is a difficult distinction to perceive.
It is concealed behind a vast array of choices that do not appear to be entirely your own.

And thus the truth appears to have some aspects that belie consistency, but do not seem to be but contradictions introduced by you.
As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false.
And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response.
This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth, as what it is.
Is it not strange that you believe to think you made the world you see is arrogance?
God made it not.
Of this you can be sure.
What can He know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must die?
You but accuse Him of insanity, to think He made a world where such things seem to have reality.
He is not mad.
Yet only madness makes a world like this.
To think that God made chaos, contradicts His Will, invented opposites to truth, and suf- fers death to triumph over life; all this is arrogance.
Humility would see at once these things are not of Him.
And can you see what God created not?
To think you can is merely to believe you can perceive what God willed not to be.
And what could be more arrogant than this?
Let us today be truly humble, and accept what we have made as what it is.
The power of decision is our own.
Decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all you think you made will disappear.
What rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was, eternally as it is now.
And it will take the place of self-deceptions made but to usurp the altar to the Father and the Son.
Today we practice true humility, abandoning the false pretense by which the ego seeks to prove it arrogant.
Only the ego can be arrogant.
But truth is humble in acknowledging its mightiness, its changelessness and its eternal wholeness, all-encompassing, God's perfect gift to His beloved Son.
We lay aside the arrogance which says that we are sinners, guilty and afraid, ashamed of what we are; and lift our hearts in true humility instead to Him Who has created us immaculate, like to Himself in power and in love.
The power of decision is our own.
And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God.
To recognize God's Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false.
Their arrogance has been perceived.
And in humility the radiance of God's Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father's Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own.

Now do we join in glad acknowledgment that lies are false, and only truth is true.
We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing its ways, encour- aging our frightened minds with this:

•  The power of decision is my own.

•  This day I will accept myself as what my Father's Will created me to be.

•  Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us.
  And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be.

  In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same invitation to your Self.
  God's Voice will answer, for He speaks for you and for your Father.
  He will substitute the peace of God for all your frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self- deceptions, and God's Son for your illusions of yourself.

( A Course in Miracles - Lesson 152)