Austerity: self-attack within the deceit of power

Parliament told austerity policies 'undermining' UK

The Westminster elite is undermining the case for a United Kingdom by failing to tackle gaping inequalities, Parliament has been told as MPs called for an inquiry into the Government's austerity measures.

The above link to an article on www.heraldscotland.com

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"To see illusion as it is, rather than to see illusion through an illusion, is to wake from the dream".

The set-up for the scam is financially orchestrated. The 'rationale' for opening up the remaining commonwealth to disaster capitalism seems then unarguable, but it is because the terms within which choice is made have been predetermined.

I feel that we don't see this because our own minds operate the same kind of deceptions. That is to say, the world we see is an unrecognised reflection of our consciousness, individually and collectively - for Consciousness is BOTH.

The polarized struggle of the 'individual against the collective' - is an illusion of power within which we experience ourselves segregated and disconnected from our true nature, and in a state of perpetual war for survival (on our own terms).

The engagement and hope of 'winning' of such a war operates as the depletion and further disintegration of order, such as to increase the fearful demand for command and control that set the scam in motion.

The split-mindedness of such polarisation is that we do not recognize we do this unto our Self - but instead identify with a secret 'elitist' agenda that is unconscious of its fearful programming by dint of its self-righteous justifictions.

The result is a distorted perception (and resultant identity thereof), whose filters of definition and belief effectively block recognition of the situation as it is.

While we choose to operate FROM such a basis, we are not free to question or challenge its authority. Of course to challenge anything set in motion to bolster a fearful LACK of authority will trigger defences that will frame such enquiry as heretical or subversive. Know that one's conflicted struggling sense of existence is ALREADY evidence of a subversion 'passing itself off' as The Version.

In order to be in receipt of a current version - and discern what is relevant and resonant with what and who you truly want to be - is the transformational honesty that lays down or puts aside self-specialness.

Our true power - and glory - of individuality is known only within relation to another and to our relations with the 'All' of the World.

The transformation from 'prodigal wasteland' to true and rich abundance is a turnabout away. To turn from an elitist exceptionalism of a segregating mentality to an Embracing Humanity, is a grace whose timing rests on willingness and not wilfulness. But the cost of wilfulness is being laid bare with every unfolding of the drama of 'power' let loose upon the world.

Will is what you want, even if pretending to be who you are not. We can not 'escape' our choice, and do not need to. We only need recognize our will to connect again with a living choosing - as which we are free to choose anew. The play of victim is the first deception whereby to become as one is not. This is not 'easy' territory to reclaim - but neither is to be victim to the ravages of fear and guilt in a world gone mad.

Rising to the challenge is Life Force Awakening. Reacting to the bait is choosing to persist in unconsciousness. Austerity is coercive - but learning how to do more with less is opening the door to a true abundance. It is all a matter of focus and purpose. What Do you want? Free Will effectively Creates you AS this Expression - but what we choose can pre set the terms of all successive choices if we set such choice as a lens through which to serve private agendas of an un-shared nature.

Cutting the support for the arts to only those that make money!

A forest fire allows new shoots to grow.

Art is part of being but has been separated off as if an 'add-on'. A meaningless existence then makes its meaning as acquisition of things including wealth and power or materialism, which curiously doesn't -value the material, but only what can be got out of it for private or personal gain.

To reconnect with our wholeness - with our Soul - might be served in part by the arts, but if they are themselves subverted by the economy stupid, then they become tools of medication for the suppression and control of symptoms, like a kind of lubricant to allows what shouldnt be tolerated, to be tolerable.

Economy needs radical change in its foundations - which are the ideas we have set in stone and yet are ideas none the less.

Art needs also to get in touch with its roots - so as to communicate something of a wholeness of being rather than merely reflect the disease of our times.

I hold that art is of the verb 'to be'. Thou art Creativity in Heaven - but in artifice you are indebted to the deceiver!

I don't see a shift coming that will restore the pockets of a Prodigal Wastrel - but in the turning towards truth and wholeness of being, we will find we are fulfilled and share in that fulfilment. This is the art of living; a shared sense of what it is to be truly alive - and it expresses in infinite ways that are organically alive and not as an engineered society.

Does it need money to tell a story, to share a poem, to sing a song, to paint a picture or create a sculpture? Yes, sometimes. But mostly it needs inspiration, and the willingness to hang in there with it to its fulfilment.

We live in a rather monocultured society where we are increasingly managed and conformed to the mentality of control. Even rebellion has been commoditized. Is it any wonder it is bankrupt?

Our Father,

Who ART in Heaven,

Holy and Whole is your Nature.

Let it come into our own for we would remember

what we always forget,

when we make a different mind our own.

As if to use a Living Inheritance

to line our personal pockets,

until the bubble bursts.

Let forgiveness replace grievance

Your creative freedom rises

in works that speak of Life

to Life.

Let us not worship a forged copy of a life

that promises much yet only robs our Soul,

but let rip - so to speak

the cat of curiosity from the bag

of 'Thou Shalt Not!'

For what love would have us be

needs not authority of dead gods,

but the wellspring of Life ever anew.

The investment needs to be in the truly Life-affirming, whether in the arts or in economic activity.

Because you love, are impassioned, are moved, and transformed in the giving - not for pieces of silver.

But because shared value is uncovering of what we are in a world that tends to cover it over or squelch it.


(Written into Culture secretary Maria Miller to make 'economic case' to stave off further arts cuts)