Logic and Illogic in Education

Logic and Illogic in Education
by Jon Rappoport

Jon's article elucidates the need for tool of logic in analysing arguments that are in fact deceits or conceits of an oppositional or coercive agenda that manipulators and manipulated spin and become ensnared in.

My comment:

Well for one the dumbing down and subversion of the education system is a design strategy and for two the discernment of a hidden personal agenda is natural to anyone who can rest the mental of reaction and simply abide in a relational willingness of receptivity - which of course one will not when identified or triggered within a conditioned personal identification.
So I see your logic as the the test of consistency or congruency - an absence of self-contradiction. For if something is this it cant be that - unless it is both this and that and more.
I have no academic training in logic. I looked up polemic - which I see as an oppositional identity that thrives or arrives at a sense of self by seeking to undermine the perceived adversary or rival.
This sense of getting power from the denial or destruction of power in others is an illusion of power - with all the power of belief and identification invested in it.

A formal argument is closer to a desire to articulate or give form and focus to an issue that has confusion or contention and a sense of needing clarity in order to proceed or act further.
Willingness for communication is not merely a verbal statement or belief - for our hidden agenda includes our subconscious and unconscious denials and operates in act whether we or others recognize it or share the agreements to not see.

I am not arguing against using any tools that serve the clarifying and unifying of purpose in communication and action - but I feel your (Jon') broader arguments are always set within the framework of guilt and the inevitable power struggle to distribute it - and the punishment or dis-empowerment that is part of dealing with the hated and feared - once blame can be set and enforced.

I say there is no possibility of real communication while a power struggle is being enacted and that speaking truth to power is a matter of focusing entirely within the issues of communication as communication - and not using it as the promotion of a self-agenda as the righteous judge and determiner of 'reality'.

I also acknowledge there are those or those in certain triggered states who are not at all open or willing for communication - and while this may well be because their denied terror or rage 'locks' them into a denial mode of consciousness as weapon and defence - one cannot tell them this and be anything but used thereby. One can learn to be the conditions of willingness that do not trigger or inflame the other and extend a presence that is neither deferential or seeking to deny or undermine the capacity to choose that is inherent in consciousness - and thus use what is evident as a means to reflect choices being made that have negative associations - and this can lead to a willingness to open enough to consider other perspectives - and this is a moment of willingness that is easily squandered if seen as a chink in their armour.

If you want war-mindedness - you have it and no one can take it from you - excepting you die or withdraw completely from relational embodiment - perhaps as if to prove death over Life as your ultimate polemic - but... so what?

If you thought war-mindedness was the ONLY REAL option - or the Way things work - then I invite sharing a a curiosity to revisit the underlying conditioning and seek a fresh perspective - for the power-struggle can only result in a world such as we have made and it is a dead end of futile and tragic experience - excepting that this operates a recognition of who we are NOT - by which to awaken who we are from the beliefs that operate beneath our awareness of them.

The willingness to learn is what has to be cultivated, recognized and nurtured. The learning will draw forth its fulfilment with perhaps some guidance and encouragement - or it will meet denials in terms of non-acceptance for its true desire and demands to conform within set patterns that are essentially loveless regardless their presentation. We have to be this for ourselves and recognize that guidance for ourself can come through any agency or synchronicity of event - regardless the forms of our judgements as to what our answers should be or what form they should take.

Imagination opens a channel to Spirit when it is not reactively locked into a negative self-definition - in which case it serves self-limitation.

Humanity presents itself as evolving and progressing whilst engaging in ever more self-limitation. Even the 'rationality' that is focused in the desire to define and control is a form of the same old conditioning in which such an imposition of control was invoked by a conflicted identity or chaotic fragmentation of purpose. True Reason is Sanity - one and the same. You cannot make a unity of a self-contradiction - but you can entertain contradiction AS IF the underlying purpose has been replaced with warring minds and believe it true.

"Know Thyself" is operating in time and beyond time whether we recognize this or attend to the replacement for knowing that the energetic of conflict operates in thought that fleshes out the casting of personae within a negative rendering of  Presence - for every attack on the presence of 'another' is Self-attack unrecognized. Asserting and defending a bunch of thoughts is not the same as the sharing of a truly knowing and being known - and nor will its 'success' arrive at an appreciation your reality - as an integral part of Wholeness. Flowery language perhaps - but when an ancient hate shifts to such a recognition, words are the last things on our mind.

And perhaps the words we start to attract and employ thereafter become unreal, heretical or despicable to the war-minded - and so they are generally filtered out, ignored and passed by, as if the science is settled. But a willingness to uncover truth is never 'settled' but is the movement of Life Itself. To grasp at forms of truth and assert them or possess them is to choose a hollow life at odds with the Movement of your own being. It's a dance! But the joy-song cannot move the armoured

To Be or No Bees?

Industry Whistleblower Claims This (wi-fi) is What’s Really Killing Honeybees

If this waveband of emf is a critical or major factor then there are places on Earth where it is not prevalent - indeed even in US around radio telescopes. So studying the bee population in such areas may help to bring clarity. But the toxic load is another term for too far out of alignment. And the bee is a symbol of working together, as well as of going forth to pollinate flowering beings - without which we could not live here.

Note that new forms of light transmitting wireless digital communication are being developed that may replace current versions.

The mind always tries to crystalize blame elsewhere - while that role is given as its purpose. 'Making sense of our world' is condescendingly used to denote primitive man with his magical and religious stories, by an apparently 'rational' supremacy that has essentially 'discovered' its place at the top of the pyramid of life. Its grasp of 'reality' is no less a grasp on power than any other human politic. But the nature of a split mind is that when it 'succeeds' in victory, it discovers it has attacked, hollowed and undermined itself all along and must serve life from a willingness to release the identity in the illusion of power.

In the 'meanwhile' beneath and within the appearances of power and control are the very hates and fears we thought to eradicate or deny. Like shadow power operating through the trojan horse of our own pet theories and projects.
One of which is to replace life with a manual system of control - for life is a relational - that is psychic-emotional relationship with forms of consequence - and that relationship is the true context of our existence and not a form to exploit.

The thinking of relational avoidance is able to mask in the forms of life without revealing its intent as hateful. By subverting and replacing our thinking with signal jamming thoughts we lose the feeling awareness of our being and our true belonging and take on the rogue or negative ego of a separated and threatened existence. This is the open cheque predisposition to being usurped and exploited by external power - for we have turned our back on our own and become identified in false context.

Is this the tipping point? Is this where Earth Consciousness aligns receptive willingness to recognize and release the phase of self-differentiation to reintegrate Herself - or be recognized by our own choice as not embracing Life on Earth and thus be released from being tangled up in relationship we never recognized or embraced anyway - no matter what was offered?

The good v evil narrative is the primary splitting device by which to avoid or delay receptive acceptance and operate 'separatively'. While we each discern and navigate our relational focus in the world, the setting of judgements to coerce or conform reality prevents the unique meaning and sharing of Life free-willingly. What is called for is not new candidates to cast as evil in our world but a deeper willingness to challenge our reality presumptions and honestly deeply and free-willingly listen or be open to relationship of a living communication - rather than a fixed focus in forms that have acquired set meanings in which the avoidance of relationship and intimate communication or 'knowing' is maintained.

Is this writing a gift from Life to the willing? It is entirely your freedom to listen in the heart or listen to what passes as your own thinking so as not to hear. True thought joins us with Creation - which is 'joined' or an interrelated and expansive whole. False thinking 'joins' in the idea of being separate from everything you sense, feel and know - so as to judge it, and seek control over it.

Is a sting-less bee merely a fly? Would we live differently without a hidden back door access to the 'power' of intent to hurt? Jesus lived that way. The Idea he embodies did not take - though it didn't entirely fail either - for it has to work with what is brought against it to open a greater perspective upon what seems to be true. The Idea is always with us - regardless the blocking tactics or the mimicking mask of associating the form without the purpose and splitting a version that is effectively false currency or signal jamming. The discernment of the Holy Spirit is simply your true discernment held in trust while you play out the idea of divide and rule.

Communication has been turned on its head. Communion is the carrier wave of any real communication - but strategic necessity dictates the use of communication to preserve distance such that a trickle leaks through to be fed on by a denial that has to have something to deny to persist in seeming to exist. Even the avoidance of relationship operates entirely within Relational Being - and if there is life entangled in it - then there is a capacity to know itself received. Nothing else will 'make' anyone listen than the extension of a fundamental honesty of acceptance for being without strings attached.
Suppressed symptoms eventually rise in displaced and multiple complexities. If we don't give acceptance to the movement of life within us - we will not have it for each other and our World - and we will blame something that keeps us from a deeper sense of conflict that we do not have any confidence to heal - because we are cut off from the communioned sense of being by a self-protective reflex - operating mechanically.
When habits are recognized as habits they are no longer habits - but choices.

Communication breakdown calls for healing - not reinforcing

Though written into comments on a Jon Rappoport article about the Media and the emergence of Trump, this comment is nothing to do with the what of that but picked up on the way of communicating - which is very much to do with political and media attempts to contest, manipulate and leverage the public mind.



I don't presume to judge anyone nor write to promote a private sense of specialness - but I do appreciate truly sharing a free willingness. Words can indeed over over and seem to break a quality of an already intimacy of communication - it really depends on where they come from -- what purpose they embody.

Jon asks "What about efforts directed at trying to highlight the fact that man is afraid to look in his own mirror?".

I am recognizing I have (am) true choice by choosing to consciously appreciate using it and in my case, writing into the issues and event of our times with a perspective beneath the personality drama is one of the forms it takes. There is an invitation and a sharing - but not an attempt to get anyone to be who they do not want to be. Becoming aware of pain and linking to cause often allows a healing release to a more joyful quality of being. But it is possible to worship pain, sacrifice and struggle as part of a very serious sense of self. No real joy. As I see, we've been in that for Millennia. Now there is a backlog of denied hate, rage, pain and shame - a mess! But it is at root a mess arising from misidentification and false definition. When communication is restored - a breakdown in communication is a symptom without a cause - and will fall away by itself.

We meet or attract synchronicity with others who are in a sense 'sharing the same learnings'. This is true whatever our vibratory focus - but only in freedom do we freely see the Law in action.

Understanding in the heart, knows where to call the mind and when to rest it.
"Behold I make all things new" is a phrase from Revelation that applied to each and every instant of creation - when appreciated AS creation - rather than through the lens of judgement - which I might call a private sense of creation that reflects a private sense of self- and power. If our world reflects us condemned - then it is our judgement on it that we suffer. Human consciousness explored hiding the link between cause (thought and intent) - and effect (reflective experience). So much so that the physical experience seems to no longer be within us - but we seem to be within it - and defined by it and suffering it. A remarkable feat!

Setting that up was an expression of a purpose of limitation and segregation that actively forgets. At some point we shift to a different purpose and can no longer live that 'self' and wholly believe it - or maintain it. And so like a pupating transformation - we shift from our thinking to feel (wordlessly know) more and reintegrate rather than segregate. The ego still thinks it runs the show of transforming, working on or releasing itself - but that never was so. Purpose operates from a prior 'level'. Know your active purpose and you know your will - be it free or denied - but if you know you are denied - you are free to question "Is That So?" - and "In what way am I denied?".

There is nothing that gets in the way of learning what we are willing to know - because 'obstruction' and 'block' is really PART OF the relevant learning and not an imposition or violation - unless you choose to define it so. And if you do - then what do you get out of that? There's always a payoff or a believed payoff for behaviours. If it doesn't show true when examined - it undoes the 'block' or the habit to a choice that is free to evolve or change.

I wanted to illuminate a practicality of enquiry within the ordinary moment of our living - rather than a separate spirituality that is then presumed to be something to then 'apply' or hold onto when life dances with us and the concepts don't really hold water.

Awareness rises of itself when we stop pushing it down!

A student at heart

 Clive James: ‘Jeremy Corbyn is a student at heart’

Students seem to be convinced that if they talk long enough, they can save the world for justice. I was one of them once, and perhaps I was nicer then

Student = willingness to listen and learn.
Ex- student = presumption of already knowing = no real call for communication or relationship.
Teacher = demonstration of faith in students as active engagement in supporting and facilitating a positive learning outcome.
Learning failure = negative agenda reinforcing negative outcome = joyless, painful, dispiriting, sacrificial, life denying.
Cynicism = dedication to joyless, dispiriting, life denying call to adapt and align with attacking, subverting and undermining any direct inspiration, so as to mask in the form of life while actively pretending to power over it and 'proving' one's case by asserting denials to 'control the narrative'.
Scepticism = willingness to consider that what appears true or is asserted true may truly be a result of errors or deceits of thought and intention.
Gullibility = masked cynicism that gives power to external appearances or assertions as if to avoid responsibility for one's own choices and hold blame in reserve for others the instant they no longer 'lead' where your own asserted identity demands.
Faith = extension of inner congruity of being as a true willingness and intimacy of relational communication.
Discernment = recognizing deceit at its root and abiding free of its baiting conceits.
Humanity = the embodiment of an integrated congruency of purpose.
Insanity = conflicted self warring purpose = split mind = false sense of self = addiction to power-seeking.


candeesays (of the main article): Folks, this is art. Not news journalism.


Well its part of the dark arts of deceit - for it slurs and invalidates by insinuation. The whole MSMedia is so magnetized to such coercive agenda that journalism has to avoid any actual power related issue or whore itself to the power it in effect, worships by not challenging or bringing to account or bearing true witness to.
So one can bring true witness to deceitful agenda and be part of spreading good news - because true witness is never attack on the personal integrity so much as a call for such integrity in place of a false persona.

Talking to God?

Kronic Shade said on the Internet:

There's certainly tons of nuts out there that think they talk to God everyday, and yet in spite of how crazy they'd have to be, I bet the majority of them are at least socially aware enough to know that telling people about their conversations, which happen specifically inside their own heads, would never serve as convincing proof to any semi-reasonable person ever lol. Thinking that it would is taking one stupid belief and then raising it to a hole new level of crazy.

I said to Kronic Shade something about 'talking to God' that moved up to share in me :

Everyone is ALWAYS talking to God. But have trained themselves to believe they are more important and attending something much more important. I'll tell you a joke that might get it across: 

This guy John sees Bill Gates at an airport lounge and seizing the opportunity, introduces himself and asks if Bill will do him a favour and just greet him when he passes by with his friend in a few minutes time. Bill says "ok John". John and his friend pass by later and Bill looks up and says "Hi John!" and John loudly interrupts him "F++k off Gates - cant you see I'm busy!"

Everyone is unique. Some people are comfortable in a verbal simplicity out front - some keep their feelings very very guarded and only open them in special occasions. But it is what is in the heart that returns - though if the heart is actively blocked by a lot of negative feelings that are themselves denied - as in 'tough nut' - then there's nothing really being shared at all - except the negativity leaks out all around and that then becomes the false god - where what we are becomes defined by shit happening everywhere - and there's no one to trust and no real way out but to fight for whatever you can get. 

That's a kind of god too... the devil you (think) you know. If I want to talk to God I listen for what truly moves me and go with that in the way it moves me. That might be challenging but it feels good as a sense of worth in action - alive. Words are crap to communicate with - its always simpler and closer than words. That's why we invented words - to get away from the simple closeness of Life. When you shit on people or denigrate them - it doesn't make you higher - it just stores up your treasure in hell. When you honour people for that they are more than they seem and can learn and discover what they need just as you do in your own way - you store up your treasure in heaven. This can be taken as in the future - but I don't mean it like that. Your Now is your current responsibility. Inescapable - but HOW you choose to use that is up to you. 

I don't think it matters whether one believes in "God" as such. But if you are strongly believing against something - anything - it wont be allowed into your perception. Ironic to use the Gates of Hell for a God joke - but the idea of God as a very special and powerful persona is at best a stepping stone to move on from. But wherever we are at is our only starting place from which to move. Here's to the God in you - which makes me a crazy nut - if you want. Unless a nut falls to the ground and seems to die no shoot shall grow from it. I was a hard nut to crack - perhaps God laughs at the joke! Lightening up is better than trading lightening bolts - but - its your choice.

Kronic Shade back to me

What youre talking about is a personal, and very spiritual, perception/interaction with reality. What I'm talking about is people, who debate the existence of god by saying "if he doesn't exist then how do you explain the voices in my head!", and thinking they made a good point.

My reply:

Yes, as personalities we come in every variety of patterning of energetic attractions and repulsion. Why do we get riled by some when others don't? You are right that some present a barn door at point blank range to shoot down - but they are not listening and refuse to do anything but seek to use your own mind against you - so why get drawn in? We all have resonances that are triggered into reaction that we can learn from or just keep reacting with. Is the conditioning that seems to force us to react so different from 'voices in our head'? Yes in some ways but not in others. It feels to me that the desire - and sometimes the urgency to help or teach or fix others is the last ditch defence against truly accepting that help myself. Its the way the mind works to defend the 'personality' against what might be called the pre-verbal being - the original nature - that 'civilising' has to temporarily cover over to some degree - but not to demonize and deny. When our true nature is denied it leaks out in all kinds of ways. Suppressed joy can make us sick and disconnected 'people' seek connection in all kinds of ways. True joy is not a sense of disconnection. I don't give worthship to a god of sacrifice - but that is a deeper imprint than even religions. Where's our joy in life? It is sacrificed to the god of fear and guilt. Have a look where we deny ourselves and then have self-hate that needs to blame outside. I feel to develop discernment as to who I address and what moves me. You like a bit of a rant - ok. There's frustration. That's honesty. Did the guy with the voices in his head cause it - or trigger something already in you? I'm not pushing anything here - just enjoy opening up a perspective that I enjoy - and extend by invitation - no strings.

Communication and Humanity

This from the Media Lens Forum
Guardian "Comment is Free" censorship
on the issue of comment allowed or disallowed in Guardian and other sites.



I feel that the lack of opportunity to comment in any 'news' site that has commenting is a clear indication of disallowing either open public comment or to give room for issues to be raised and voices to be heard.
Denying voice is not usually considered censorship when there is a broad support for it - ie: denying a platform to the far Right. (Denying voice to any perceived threat to dominant reality paradigm)
Some subjects - such as Israel and anything associated with Jewish power agenda are considered out of bounds - and that is not helped by rabid hate messages - real or manufactured - that arise within any arena of denial. For it goes with the territory. Anti- Semitism is a necessary device to make 'terrorists (haters) of
Whenever coercive assertions of narrative deny other voices, blame and hatred arise.

I would love to see (and so I seed) a culture for humanity grow that honoured communication and practised expressing their perspective and arriving at outcomes without resorting to the dark arts as exemplified by Shopenhauer's "28 ways to win an argument" - which was originally titled otherwise and compiled to educate and pre arm towards recognizing when tricks are being employed and so not take their bait. However, I feel that a love of truth and a willingness for self-honesty opens a discernment that is native to us - but which has been covered over and distorted by the confusions of identifying in persona, and that is to be able to feel when someone is coming from an unloving disintegrity - and I use the word unloving to include all hateful forms of apparently rational or apparently communicating device.

Reclaiming language FOR communication - releases the use of it for war. It may seem that one surely has to fight for truth - but I feel that a poor choice of words; one stands or abides in truth or at least in willingness for truth.

I have found that anything arising from a truly shared communication will be an honourable outcome and that the only way that this can occur in is through a true presence extended. Not some perfect blameless faultless 'presence' but an honest sense of where we are at right now and a willingness to receive new information and perspective, whilst not withholding our own. Blame culture actively suppresses any healing potential.

Whenever I see true willingness embodied I am inspired - and so Corbyn inspires me by his unwillingness to sacrifice his presence to presentation - and is therefore embodying Humanity rather than a PR puppet. So I have more trust in him engaging in a genuine debate than those who learn to play the doublespeak of appealing to some narrative while operating hidden agenda - regardless whether they are covering their arse, lining their pocket or in cahoots with soul-less agenda that holds humanity in contempt.

Anyone who embraces communication in the way I suggest will find it transformative. At least that is my witness. I believe that when our minds are allowed to be blind to hate agenda disguised in self-supporting narrative - we become a part of and supportive of hate agenda at large. Much of this is very subtly disguised.

I can and do attempt to write in ways that link the consciousness within to the reflections of our world without. Power seekers have great insight into our guilt fear and shame triggers - but they cannot use this to free themselves and others because they are unwilling to look within and challenge the 'narrative' script of conditionings that considers that weakness or opening to threat of exposure by which power is lost.

Quality forum communications have willingness to share rather than predisposition to pre-emptive attack. Just as fake financial trickery is being exposed as less than worthless (costing the worth), so the currency of fake communication can be brought to light - without inciting hate and blame.

Our Humanity is at stake if we do not reclaim and extend its witness. While anonymous Guardian Staff posting may be a siege mentality amidst an increasing sense of hostility from those who don't conform to the tacit narratives that they are in effect complying with, we can all notice that self-protective urge to avoid exposure to an expected hateful rejection within ourselves. That is a point worthy of more awareness and discernment - for to go forth in a un-owned hate - will assuredly be picked up on and reflected - identified with and suffered.

No problems with having hateful feelings - apart from of course that they are intolerable - for it is the directing and acting out of such hate onto the Living that doesn't allow greater insight into our part within the trigger that the outer situation activates. I hate THAT hate operates so invisibly and unchallenged in the name of love (protection) or respectability - but most of all and firstly I hate it when I let such deceits rob me of my Life - of my tangibly felt presence in living the day at hand. I hate what seems evil in me - and so much so that it is censored from my surface awareness by being denied, pushed down or away in projection upon the world of others. I don't want to give that much power to evil in me - and so it has to be censored from operating as my own thoughts. Mindfulness can feel the difference and the more such responsibility is acted upon - the more presence is regained from conditioned reaction.

Whilst the narrative of rational power over Life has been of a 'rising' to the apex of evolution, consciousness in its true sense has been robbed from within. Not least by the corruption of the role of guardianship to prison guard.

Signal and noise - and a strange gait

Report of discovery of large object in far outer edges of solar system incites skeptical reactions

I read quite a few comments (to this article) and offer another criteria for discerning signal from noise. Whenever a poster resorts to attempts to invalidate or attack or denigrate others - there is an unwillingness or incapacity to actually communicate.

There is (always) more than 'factual data', there is the interpretation of that data - which is never without agenda. Self-honesty seeks to an openness without merely conforming to pre-existing known or hidden bias. But human beings are not given to self-honesty when they have investment of identity, status, and security at stake. And so the competing of asserted 'realities, models or paradigms' operates like any war, in a world predicated on war - because self-honesty is met with ridicule, demonisation and denial.

The undercurrent emotional conditionings that rule the mind of those who must be perceived to be in conformance to be credible, respectable or acceptable operates a kind of scientism that is presenting itself as a form of coercive agenda



Experts discover new gait pattern among top Russian officials
(researchers study video of top Russians and find 'gunslinger gait').

A kind of cloning is readily observable in terms of acquired traits, for the forms or behaviours of influence propagate by induction.
If there is felt to be an advantage - then certain forms are adopted as part of one's persona - which is a kind of meta-communication - through which identity can be masked and allegiances can be indicated.
If there are enough videos going back, the researcher might discover if Putin is a primary seeder as one might expect. When Hilary re-emerged after losing to Obama as part of his team - her diction had become a clone of his.
In fact once you tune in to this - it all shifts to reveal a masquerade

Thinking and language can thus become a tool of deceit

 Constant Gardener replied to something I said with:

What's "guilted fear"? When did "energetic" become a noun and stop being an adjective? Why do people think they sound wise if they write in passive voice?

"For to open to not-knowing is to put down or yield a self asserted 'self' - whose definitional 'past conditioning' fuels the assertion of a circular but negative or dis-integrative self-reinforcement, in the mythic role of control." For crying out loud! What is this gibberish?

My reply to Constant Gardener:

Fear given to a guilt interpretation becomes destructive, divisive, coercive and deceitful. Guilt tells you to hide your fears and to hide from fear. Thus guilt usurps your mind by your own acceptance of it as your own voice... your own purpose - your self!

Thinking and language can thus become a tool of deceit by which to mask and control one's experience of life and induce others to mutually reinforce such 'meanings' and their agenda.

The normal social repartee is part and parcel of all such mutual reinforcement of the persona or mask. So much so that our Soul-knowing in all of Life's innate qualities, is denied by a virtual overlay... given priority.

I have looked at this in myself or my own life and it is not who I am - and nor is it the true of anyone - and so I have in a sense stepped away from the basis that we call the mind so as to firstly reconnect energetically to presence and then to let my persona and its mind serve as a channel of expression, experience and reflection.

An energetic is a term I use for a tangibly felt reading of reality - of any situation or instance of communication. The form of an appearance is not its reality. As mask and scam bear witness. Those who are blocked from their native capacity to feel are easily induced to invest in Foxy Loxy.

I write out of the instant of an intuitional experience that is quite wordless or pre-verbal - but in order to convey meanings I have to clothe what I want to convey in word and phrase.

Re-reading what you you is gibberish - I find its meanings intact. Here's a different way to say:

Pausing reaction to rest the mind
let awareness rise as Itself
as the focus in chatter falls away by neglect
so obvious now to see
A circular futility.
but if grasping insight in form
does the mind of chatter
assert itself
as a trapped attention
as if not to lose
and so is lost...

I simply communicate from a different assumption of reality - that can only be accessed by sharing the foundational purpose.
If you think I write to seem wise - then you think out of the pallet of your self. Wisdom belongs to no man - and to all.
Ask and it shall be given. Knock and you shall be answered.
But barking up the wrong tree will seek so as NOT to find and indeed induce others to validate the search.

Artists express what is moving within them - because that movement is alive - not to exploit markets or remain bound by existing paradigms that no longer serve purpose or indeed life.

Reality by consensus is the denial of the individual excepting it conforms - yet only individuals can experience anything - even if within the belief in a common external reality. I have noticed that true sharing or intimacy is not conformity - but an extension of trust. To act from what one truly feels and believes is an extension of trust and what is met within that act is transformed thereby.

Unless of course one buys into guilt-baiting that says "Who are YOU to pretend to know anything?" and withholds the gift of genuine presence for a more 'correct' version of a form designed to mask the reality.

"Well a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest".
If you tune in enough to warrant giving a partly civil answer - then you at least LOOKED in but were then offended or frustrated. Neither is my intent - but thankyou for your willingness.

Words as swords of discernment - nor weapons of war

The use of forms of communication as means of war is something that can be called out - it can be called to witness. And it can be thus recognized as illegitimate currency - fake communication.

So for me, entanglement in a war of words is just another self righteous illusion.
IF there is willingness to listen - and TO such willingness to listen, - one can speak the truth that moves us as a result of our own listening within. All else is  masked and distorted by subconsciously conditioned reaction of manipulated intent.

The pattern of the lie and the father of the lie, may be reflected by various roles in the world script - but the only place to undo it is within one's own heart and mind - by restoring true balanced synchronicity OF heart and mind in love - which is nothing like the rule-bound definitions of the mind of a manipulative intent - being a spontaneity of full and open consciousness; a movement of communication unselfconsciously extended.

So I invite using the reflections in the world to uncover the deceits whereby truth is hidden in plain sight, and perception and assertion of 'something else' generated in its place.

But to join in resonance with the healing intent of this article - I say yes to enjoy using words creatively to serve the purpose of the heart. Allow the capacity and quality of communication to grow by letting MORE of it through. Notice the negatives and encoded manipulative devices and dare to rephrase the core meaning in positive and direct terms.

It may make you somewhat unintelligible - because without the coded signs of mutual agreement to entangle in withdrawal and denial of true presence, you will 'feel' different - perhaps refreshing - perhaps threatening to the sense of control over life.

Control over communication is a coercive or tyrannous self definition, assertively imposed. Love is a different order of 'control' that simple knows and feels its way within communication - as one with Life. Guilt - if you let it - will invalidate your sense of worth and connection and leave you open to doubts and fears that guilt beliefs attract.

So be vigilant for any guilt or blame device in your own or other's communications and don't let it run your mind by reaction. Be curious as to the truth here - but know that you cannot discern truth from within guilted fears. The mind has to be released to  - in a sense reboot from a true foundation - to rise up as the wholeness of an integrated movement of joy or true resonant being.


The article mentioned above is here:
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/10/26/the-war-of-words-evidence-of-the-awakening/

The Corbyn earthquake?

 The Corbyn earthquake – how Labour was shaken to its foundations


Whilst there is a human capacity to make mistakes, (and learn from them), the humanity exemplified simply by the demeanour of Jeremy Corbyn contrasts sharply with the spin doctored bids for power that are not in touch with nor advocacy for People - in most politicians and indeed many operating in positions of leadership and trust in our society.
The media do not report on the shadow power operating 'behind the throne' of the appearance of power. Partly because it is a negative self interest at work that is believed to offer protection and security - but always of a personal or personal group or cartel of interest and not as a whole.
And so there is pervasive corruption of many kinds of dis-integrity that holds us in rigidities and resistances to needed change, as well as the more obvious corruptions of a personal opportunism - including the largely corporate willingness to profit from the supply of sickness, destruction and misery. Few can begin to articulate what they feel or sense to be unreal or deceptive - but lack of engagement in politics is an indication of a sense of distrust and futility. I do not pretend or expect Jeremy Corbyn to 'solve' our problems - but I do see him as a public example of willingness to serve Humanity - and not an idealogical blindness of self-righteous hunger for power - not the bankrupt and visionless puppets of financial, international and corporate lobbies that merely seek their own survival and prevalence over what they see as obstruction to their growth - without any genuine connection with true human value.
Humanity is at stake in the old paradigm of corrupt financial systems, unchecked and runaway power in international corporations and cartels of interest, along with capture of regulatory institutions and indeed the mainstream media.
A movement FOR humanity is a cross party and indeed a trans-party movement founded in a willingness to truly communicate. THAT is a foundation which is lost to the willingness to deceive in order to coerce apparently desirable outcomes.
The nature of what can be addressed and to what degree is not the power of any man or woman - but of a collective willingness - which is also the willingness to identify our individuality with a Humanity that is greater than the sum of its parts.
A FALSE imposition upon the nature of who we truly are, cracks - and light gets in. Not the false Obama decoy of a presentation of hope as yet another persistence of the same governance under a different disguise - but someone who is not seduced and corrupted by the lure or baiting traps of power. I have little doubt but that he will be subjected to every kind of baiting and inducement by those who fear change that aligns Humanity but threatens their sense of power and privilege - but whoever we may believe ourself to be, our humanity is not something that can be bought or protected by what money can buy. True worth is pre-money and our society needs to align with reality - and not the asserted realities of fearfully exploitative coercive agenda - dressed up to seem acceptable to a medicated and managed population. Thankyou for your attention.

Don't Feed The Troll!

News headline; Internet trolls face two years in jail under new laws:

Abusive verbal or written behaviour can be checked FIRSTLY by establishing and maintaining a culture of honouring communication. This is the Law that aligns with Life rather than being imposed upon it. Our media and politicians do not tend to demonstrate this in general but employ or are employed by the so called 'dark arts' of persuasion which are coercive upon communication rather than entering and engaging IN it.

"Don't  fee the troll!" is the practice of responsibility FOR communication. To allow oneself to be baited into reaction is to play out a troll's agenda. The 'troll' is unwilling to actually enter into communication excepting where its agenda operates to undermine your communication.

Persistent and malicious nuisance is something that can be dealt with in exposing the identity and agenda of the perpetrator, applying disincentives of, service bans, fines and or community service. Jails are not corrective or useful excepting as a last resort. Psychiatric rehabilitation would serve a better result.

"Troll' is an internet term that once had a meaning that - whatever its appearance could have meant a meaninglessness or waste of time and energy that - once fed - consumes and interrupts a meaningful communication/relationship mutually and freely engaged.

It is simply being used as a derogatory term now - which actually FEEDS the troll - where trolling is attempted, or is USED BY the troll to interject a block to a free communication.

Off topic is not trolling in itself - but may simply be misplaced. Persistent attempt to avoid and disrupt communication through forms of apparent communication are false witness to oneself and others.

Legislating so as to COERCE and CONTROL communication is an 'attack on the very nature of our being'. The capacity TO communicate cannot be truly lost, but mechanically managed slave-mind is a TROLL upon the creative consciousness that we ARE and that we know and grow by SHARING.

Those who choose to refuse to communicate resort to force and guile in order to assert lies in place of true willing. They put themselves in 'Jail' by so doing and 'have their reward' in a fantasy that enslaves them rather than frees them.

Give as you would in truly honouring appreciation of yourself, receive. Don't feed the troll that thinks it is you or tells you who you are or how you should be. Abide in a true willingness for communication WITHIN yourself - and thus live forth from an honesty of being.

Addressing the issue is never attacking the person.

Persecution can be used to live from a more deeply self-honouring commitment rather than playing victim within a framework someone else has devised for their own blind agenda.

Responsibility FOR consciousness is LOW because the ego-persona is indulged as if it were YOU. But mistakenly identified as such it operates perpetual war - as our world is reflecting more clearly to us.

The Law is not a weapon, but a protection - when used to serve a re-alignment or correction of mistaken identity. 'Weapon-thinking' is a war-mind. Trolling is simply one facet of an intent to disrupt communication and divert attention.

Useful communicative devices are soon subverted, devalued and diluted by misuse. The deceiver is not ultimately more than an unwatched mind running out of true, under the delusion of necessity or compulsion that denies exposure TO awareness AND communication. Jesus said 'resist ye not evil' in the same way one might say do not feed the troll. But he did PUT IT BEHIND HIM!

Rediscovering a true willingness for Life

Though couched in a reply to a single point in another's posting, this writing points to the heart of much that is operating as 'stuck' or 'war' in our day.

The original context of my post is here. (down in the comments where the Daily Bell posted that "the weakness of socialism is that SOMEONE has to decide how to distribute revenues etc")
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In any relationship of shared or common purpose decisions are to be arrived at. How they are arrived at is a 'freedom' in that we can engage our presence in whatever way we are moved, but that they will be decided is inevitable - because even deciding not to decide is an outcome.
I hold and teach that communication is the honest means for arriving at an outcome and is thus a way of free willingness to participate rather than engage coercive intent that seeks to co-opt or usurp a process of communication with a fixed agenda - or indeed a private agenda.
The 'battle of political identities' works as a fixed template of mutually destructive assertions and invalidations that become a definition for 'stuck'.
The personal identity itself is the level that is being defined in a fixed and negative framework. Hence the 'stuck' is actually the opportunity to become curious of the underlying belief structure of one's personal identity. This of course is the last thing that occurs or attracts the desire to animate and embody such identity - and hence is why many human beings save such learning for their last moments or only when all else has demonstrably failed.
In any relationship, a process of willingness for a communication will result in a perspective from which a step may be taken as an expression of such willingness. It may come from the leader, or the follower, or from or through any agency - but the focus is in the listening for the way of it.
In war, the focus is on blocking and coercing communication because it is seen as a threat to a fixed point of view - which is NOT open to communication.
Despite the collective choice for a mind or war, communication IS occurring but unconsciously and beneath the capacity of a filtered mentality to recognize and accept - and so there is what is actual and there is a perceptual disconnect which is maintained and reinforced via the mechanism of conditioned reaction.
True Authority is that which the human consciousness has defaulted to usurp. But it remains true that if we listen in the heart, with integrity, we uncover information and perspective that serves a reintegrative purpose. But to persist in asserting a self-wilfullness of disconnecting fixed position serves a segregative and disconnecting 'divide and rule' mentality.
The forms that 'divide and rule' can express itself through are legion - but it is not the form that is the meaning - but the mentality of its embodiment.
Form-focussed mentality IS a conditioned program. Discernment feels through such presentations for what is actually communicating. If the form of a communication is masquerading as a relationship, it is not to be engaged with at that level but discernment is called forth as to how best to communicate as an expression of an actual willingness for relationship. If there were 'set rules' as to how to relate, there would be no dance of life, no shared journey of discovery, no revelation of the nature of love - but simply a blind mechanism.
When SOMEONE is given - or assumes power to make decisions as a personal capacity then a deception is engaged in by which Consciousness or true Relations is denied to the playing out of competitive appetite - of a self-specialness pitted against others. In itself this need not be seen as a SIN - but as a habit that once owned, becomes a choice that can be reevaluated in the true context of the moment at hand. But while our 'self-gratifications' are seen as SIN, they are hidden, masked, dressed up in forms of respectability until the society decides sin is simply the natural way of human mechanism and redefines it as honesty.
All the 'isms' are obsolete. Ideology is obsolete. The mentality of coercion is starkly revealed that was always active before but less obvious to those engaged in their identity.
Here at the end of such identity is a stark choice; a mentality of assertive coercive denial or a willingness to listen and in a sense be reintegrated to the Consciousness that is always present beneath the appearances and conditionings which are in a sense our co-creation in absence of a deeper integrity.
For the world we experience is not just 'happening to us' but is filtered and given meanings that we have personally and collectively accepted and DECIDED to make our own.
If a SOMEONE has to make decision as to how to live then let it be arrived at in an honourable way - allowing that we are deeply habituated to fear and cannot abandon our old belief system until we have grown a new one.
The willingness to listen is also the desire that any voice that is denied, rejected or un-heard is allowed to speak and is embraced in a willingness to listen. The miracle is uncovered where the grievance seemed to be - but is not under conscious 'control' of SOMEONE. To feel a way of walking and working together is a living relationship. The attempt to escape this by means of applying mechanical templates is the demand to remain UNCONSCIOUS - in dreams of a SOMEONE who refuses relationship to prefer instead the reflections of their own image-ing.
Everything that has been 'divided' and set against itself is a faceted WHOLE. This appreciation is not withheld us - excepting we each withhold our true presence from our creations - from our thought, belief and definitions - and engage a partiality at the expense of our own wholeness instead of creatively exploring a unique perspective within a wholeness.
The term free market is used and abused like any other symbol. A market of deception may be propagated as 'free to get more without giving true value'. This mentality collectively engaged is effecting planeticide. Disconnecting from Life in order to coerce and exploit it has only one outcome. The idea of a private mentality over and against all else is not a true foundation - even if it can be experienced as if it were reality.

When reality crashes or simply disappears!

Six important facts you're not being told about lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

A naturalnews.com article


An observation: When our reality model breaks due to uncovering facts we can no longer deny - in any arena of life in which we previously placed trust, then we no longer trust those institutions and authorities which before seemed credible and are exposed to fearful thoughts that would otherwise have not have been engaged.
We can then become uncertain of what thoughts to trust...
And can become and inadvertent agency of fearful alarmism rather than clearly sounding an alarm that alerts to a present attention and response-ability.
We all make mistakes as part of learning.

Processing fear - or moving through fear rather that reacting from it, is the practice of consciousness response-ability. For reactivity is not a consciously connecting act - so much as the re-enactment of a past conditioning.

I feel that fear - and its attendant coercions - is rising from the unconscious to exposure - to be brought back into the realm of consciously connected choice.

Fearful identity is the choice to disconnect and collapse upon thinking that does not extend, share, or truly relate to living presence, but is withheld and withholding.

When we are protected from truth it is because we are afraid and demand to be protected from what we fear to be true. We give our power away.

When we feel denied communication that we are willing to receive, we can project fearfully into the situation and compound a sense of deprivation and disconnection.

Presence is felt. Presence of mind is a unified heart and mind.
I feel we are re-learning the way of acting from an integrity of connected presence - as opposed to asserting a presentation that locks out a current receptivity.

Fear is beneath the attempt to gain power over Life, and its exposure reveals an illegitimacy. But hidden fears sow division.

Wholeness and indivisibility, are innate attributes at a level to which fear cannot intrude.
This was in a reading I shared this morning:

*"Truly I say to you, watch the thoughts within your mind. Choose what you will believe
carefully. For what you believe, you believe in Heaven, although it may hide Heaven from your sight.”



*(Quoted from 'The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New Testament'. NTI)

Silky Wiley replied:

Well, I'm going with you on some of this but why use an interpretation so far from the events of the new testament? The King James version maintains the beauty and poetry and the underlying layers of wisdom in the new testament. It is like the interpretations of the Quran that miss the mystical in it. The new bibles strip out the mystical meaning in the turn of the phrases.

My reply to Silky Wiley

I agree with you on the KJB - but the NTI is NOT the Bible, nor a version of it but is to my appreciation, a 'harvest' discerned and reflected in the reader. A 'harvest' that is neither found or depicted in this 'world' (framework of beliefs and definitions) and yet which awakens the one who thought they were lost to that they are not as their belief defined them.

Regardless of debate as to any merit or not of the source of the quote, it was simply from a tract that I had literally paused writing here to share reading aloud with my partner, after which I resumed writing here. Its serendipity resonated with the points here.

Our creative nature as Consciousness definition, acceptance, identification, reflection and communication, is not 'in the world' but prior to it - and reflected by it. It is alpha and omega - and yet seems hidden to (by) our 'ordinary consciousness'

If we use our creative freedom, (two words meaning the same thing there), to deny our awareness and innate function AS such consciousness extended, we can then experience a world and a will that seem to oppose our true Nature; a world of conflicting powers.

The fragmented, compartmentalized, insanity that then results, seeks each fragment to justify itself unto itself - for none knows their being innately. Such fearful assertion is usually held deeply unconscious because it is intolerable. However it is the perfect condition in which to freely and honestly relinquish self-will in receptivity to a Consciousness NOT of one's own split-mind making.

I realize this may make no sense (to you or others), but I feel to use new ways of expressing facets of our consciousness responsibility. Not because old ways are less valid, but because many have filtered or distorted them to effectively block their harvest.

When all attention is projected out upon the 'world', in a disconnection or diversion from the Soul quality of knowing within, everything seen reinforces the disconnecting 'narrative' of power, fear, death and survival - for that IS its script!

To take the time and activate the willingness to feel the heart or Soul connection - which is a direct knowing of one's living presence - allows a unified heart and mind to operate in the experience of the world. In this one not only has the wherewithal to function within a greater awareness and discernment of what is actually present - AND relevant, but one's inner guidance reveals teaching/learning integrations in place of division and war.

Now when we look at the world we can more readily use it as a faithful feedback to OUR whole consciousness - which is not only much greater than the version we pretend, but is most intimately shared in ways we can scarcely imagine.

But the meanings of what we see are for us to either coercively assert, or intimately accept. When I blogged my previous comment here I called it "when reality crashes or simply disappears!". Where is our 'power' then? It is in the capacity to realize what we took as reality was in error, and let go of what we never in fact 'were'.

Silky Wiley replied:

    Well, I don't know where you got your NTI or who wrote it, but much spiritual writing in the west is just a rehash of ancient scriptures, the Tao, the Mahabarata, the Bhagavad Gita, the Old and New Testament, the Quran. Perhaps the more original thought which is in the bible "As a man thinketh, so he is." The ancient Hindu scriptures clearly say that all of our dimension is delusion of duality and God's dream. So the ideas on reality are nothing new either.

To which I responded:

     Well that's ok. I'm not here to promote it or convince anyone of anything. I simply share a perspective for the attention of whoever resonates with it.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. The creative level is 'usurped' or covered over, by what we tend to call 'thinking'. Its a kind of jamming device.

Personally, I do not feel to fit the ideas into meanings of the world's thinking - the 'old wine bottles'. I feel this is the way to adulterate and dilute and lose the original radiance and vitality for the dead letter of the law; where words that could set your heart free imprison it instead.

So whatever the source, I recommend learning to receive - to truly listen - where? In the heart. That is where what you believe will be revealed to you - along with the release of what does not belong to you and costs you your joy.

If you feel truly attracted to something - let others have their opinion but don't throw your own joy-promptings away if you don't want to.

In our world experience, we get to live the ideas that are its construct, as if they were outside consciousness. In extending and experiencing true Creation, this is glorious, in extending the idea of fear and separation the experience is hellish.

Rather than be fearful about it (which is of course the persistence of the conflicted mind - why not learn to surf the wave?

Whatever is going on - that is part of your life - is able to be seen in conflicted or unified perspective, without exception.

Thus what you think in your heart - your state of being - determines all meaning and not the external conditions.

Of course this is yielding to Creator Source and therefore anathema to the wish to 'lord it' over others.

For those whose loved ones were on that plane - this is an event of great unsettling. We give our heart to the world and it is so deeply cut - when the world changes so. Love is not loss, but a connection to our very divinity. The world becomes the footprint of an absent divinity if we worship love in loss.

There is another adjunct for those who are deeply disturbed by the way the world is unfolding such fundamental change: love yourself! In this love is your capacity to share life and love with those who share your life today, now, in thought, word and deed - though presence communicates through all of these.
Our life exposes us to learn of conscious existence - sometimes when what we thought we knew is all undone. If we refuse, we choose unconsciousness as if it can save us - but only extending our true presence can reveal our wholeness in which there is no one to be saved.
If any 'book' serves your acceptance of love and its extension as your self - why not be grateful for the grace of your being!

Older and wiser? No sex please, we're making love!

An 'article' in the Telegraph (I wanted a comment on the EU coercions upon the Scottish Referendum - but they are also biased or told what to allow comment and what not to).
But this was a click bait on "Sex, older women love having it. Shock Horror (sic)" - oh I missed out 4 exclamation marks!!!!

If some want to use talking about sex as an attention grab, I can use the occasion to share something that you are of course entirely free to disregard and which makes no claim on your attention beyond you ongoing willingness.

To unlock the MORE of You - don't sell your Soul - uncover it!

An article : On modafinil

Up all night on the drug that never sleeps

Law of karma? Not at all. What you give out you get back.
If you get from 'outside' instead of bringing forth from within, then you 'give' your power away to the 'outside' and what makes you high will then also make you low.

I am going to reveal a great secret here. To actually open a desire to do something and accept and embrace it without letting your thinking interfere is to open a channel for Life to express and embody through.

Currently it appears you do not actually or wholly want to write your article and so your mentality creates the resistance and distortions or blocks to its unfolding. Just try embracing a true desire as the movement of Life and see that - in a sort of way - your brain and body is ALREADY a drug factory that aligns to support your intent and desire when simply trusted and clearly held.

Now you do have to actually WANT something - so if actually you have no interest or motivation, then that itself speaks of the action as itself a distraction or block to something you DO want.

The mental presumptions of beliefs and definitions that create the experience of the world that is lived and sort of shared without any real intimacy - express a sense of inadequacy and lack that demands  'external' manipulations of one kind or another to enable a sense of self-validity, and so the market works to provide them - and magnifies the sense of invalidity so as to be able to sell more of its product or service for your enhancement and protection.

What one chooses to think or belief or oneself and reality becomes a part of what one gives out - and cannot NOT be the measure of what one receives. This is really just the immutable nature of MIND. You may imagine and construct a sense of self with a mind that seems different, but this doesn't change what mind is - only what you are using it for.

Using a communication device to distort,  filter or block communication can create a sense of disconnection, division and conflicted self and world - but the mind remains a communication device and available for that function because that Is its functionality.

What I am saying is that the ego-sense of self in persona, tends to become a block to our own true communication. Yet in trusting what we are truly moved to do, we do not lack character or authority at all.

The difference is one of letting or yielding into the movement of our being rather than trying to exert force upon it. In order to get into the zone, be the willingness of curiosity and discovery.

A drug may open your realisation to that there is SO MUCH MORE available to live and share than the trickle that is accepted reality - and yet the truth is that You are this Wholeness already - but in a filtered down and limited conditioning.

To unlock the MORE of You - don't sell your Soul - uncover it!
The world is a glamour - or a stage set for fools if we see and use it as a way to prevail over Life and each other. That isn't the real world because it shares nothing and costs everything!

Relious dumbasses v smarter atheists?

Independent.co.uk article:

Religious people are less intelligent than atheists, according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades.

Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies.

Scientosity?
I am not religious in the sense of social organisation or
identification - but I am in the sense of Unified Intelligence and I don't need a study to tell you that scientosity has defined intelligence in such a way as to bring mankind to the brink of destruction.
To be sure science CAN become whole again - so it is a particular kind of mentality that splits off and manipulates in the name of science, just as it did with religion.
Clever thinking and a masked intent to exploit and manipulate is called upon to pretend to explain the unexplainable or seek to justify the unjustifiable, but a clear discernment can see through complex financial packages without having to open them.
The mesmeric unconsciousness of ignorance is maintained by belief. Only waking up to observe your experience is your beliefs allows the nature
of mind to be appreciated and more consciously cooperated with.
Honesty doesn't need to be clever to tune in to discern and address a need - but in a system designed to undermine trust and replace it with mechanical process, honest people are seen as stupid, ignorant and
heretical. (Keep it hidden or you get targeted!)
Mechanical mind doesn't SEE anything real - it only
'sees' its programming as if it were real. Wake up and smell the roses!
Intelligence is not unlike 'in the Cloud'. Draw what you need for what you need as you need it.
The mind that draws a thick black line around itself
also thinks that it possesses life and intelligence as a power in itself. There's no lack of intelligence - but look at the use to which you put your mind and see that it is being used to limit, in order to serve a wish to have this experience (whatever it seems to be). So focused on the virtual reality of your own mind that you are unaware in
the main of all the complexity that is providing this experience. Not unlike the apparently simple screen in front of you now.
'Reality' as believed is manufactured - what then IS Real?
Put aside or pause the manufacturing machine of mental definition, judgement and belief and simply Be receptive.
God
is not secret. It is your wish to be a power unto yourself that demands to be kept secret, where love cannot enter - and so redefines and 'discovers' reality in its own image - as a polarized, fragmented and conflicting experience that demands defence and control in reaction to its own unrecognized reflection!
The play out of 'science and religion' as if actually separate or at war is just a game of ideas. All
facets of our being are in unified concert. They only seems like they war because of a secret intent to play the game of divide and rule.

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Extra responses to other comments:

To one who said:

If someone promised you eternal life, the protection of a loving super being, a feeling of moral righteousness, a purpose for living, answers to all the big questions, and a rule book for achieving the pinnacle of human potential… and all in exchange for having faith in something that wasn’t in any way proven, would you be suspicious?

 I responded:

Absolutely!
Your list is mixed up though.
Whenever true inspiration, intuition, recognition etc open in the human realm, the mind that manipulates it for its own ends steps in to usurp it. This doesn't mean that truth is corrupted but that the forms associated with it become associated with a manipulative intent.
The key is opening truth in one' own heart. The forces arrayed to prevent you from uncovering this are layers and layers of conditioning such that everything is used to maintain the box in which you think you think.
Not merely religion. Everything.
Looking at what is wrong with others is one of the decoys. Seeming to be more aware than the ignorant is one of the decoys.
The world-mind does what it does. It isn't as it seems. The filters and defences make communication almost impossible. What can be said in such limited concepts that is not rendered meaningless or misinterpreted to reinforce the defences?
As long as one seeks for oneself alone one is under a spell, a deceit, a manipulative intent. It is that distortion which pervades your list.
Your list would pass as 'temptation' because it misses the foundation, which is nothing to do with 'getting' it for oneself excepting this:
If you accept love for yourself it will share out to others and your world. In its SHARING is the recognition of Eternity. Of an edgeless and timeless being that is Always (here) - but completely disregarded by a consciousness engaged in its reflected distortions.
People who try to sell or convince are trying to eradicate their doubt. Everyone is free to choose what they think and therefore experience. And to learn and grow from cosequences.

Now I might say that the promise of eternal life is always already in your heart and is the link to a God that can never be broken - that could not be separated from no matter what you did or didn't do in your thought and its experience.
But because the sense of a separate one has meaning for you, you imagine a god to be a Super Separate One - which is both absurd and terrifying depending whether it is given time of mind. So I stand with you in not signing up for it.

Love - can it be proven?
Try letting someone else be altogether worthy of your attention. Overlook the reasons to withdraw or criticise or cut across. Go for it!
This uncovers your own worth to you as well as affirming the worth of another.
Of course it is a self fulfilling loop - just as is the refusal to love.
Mind Itself doesn't interfere with what is shared. Because you are it! You may seem to interfere with mind and so seem to be a something else in your own right - that CAN be interfered with! But the interference is local to what now seems to be your own private mind. Your own polarised experience. Fun eh?
Well apart from the loss of unified perspective...
One can also see it as like the sleeping princess who is encircled with defences that keep out all but the true kiss that wakens. What set that up? An excluded or rejected part of the whole.
What I am pointing to is not in the world - but in an aspect of our life that is before or beneath the world. The consciousness that is the inward aspect of what seems an outward event.

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Zachariah said (to a women who shared that she felt a love in her life through her Catholic faith and quoted the saying of Jesus - to be as little children):
      
Your Catholic upbringing has indoctrinated you. Therein lies the issue because you will in all likelihood indoctrinate your children into Catholicism as well. Spreading ignorance and misinformation is wrong. Especially the mantra of the Catholic church which actively keeps hundreds of millions of women in poverty all around the world!       

I said:      
Wow!
So there's a total disregard for someone who is willing to communicate with you - and the seeds of a 'holy war' to stamp out evil indoctrinations and release hundreds of millions from an evil power that they have no choice in being subjugated by. Thank God for drones and microchip implants and the New World Order - then we can clean up this mess! (joke)

Everyone is subject to personal and family and cultural influence and in some way adopted it as what worked at the time out of what was available.
If you get to know anyone rather than identify in the mask, I feel you will discover they are far richer and more interesting than all this opinionating. Anyone who truly feels love in their life has a capacity for listening and discerning that grows by living it. We outgrow much of what once served and sometimes leave it behind and other times appreciate it in fresh and new ways.
Awakening life more abundant - right in the midst of a world that seems to be in darkness and conflict is like swapping a grievance for a blessing.
The outer forms shall fall away and willingness shine forth to know itself one in all.

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John Goatbirth said−
The problem with that is; How do you disprove something that doesn't exist? The religious brigade claim this "god" is there yet they have no evidence to support it. Atheists claim the god isn't there - the continued absence of this individual, I'd say, is a pretty good proof. Scientific studies, such as the ones which display prayer to do absolutely nothing, help back that up. Not that indoctrinated religious sorts would ever be able to see it this way. And scientific advancements have ridiculed religious claims. Of course you still get idiots saying, "Ah, evolution, so that proves how amazing god is!" as they cling desperately to the reigns of their moronic fallacy.

Anyway, I believe in Santa. He is real.

I responded:
You seem pretty good proof of God to me - why get complicated?

But, the presumption that God is a separate entity is a reflection of the
presumption you are a separate entity. I have no such presumption and
appreciate the toppling of an idol - but don't share faith in human
rationality which seems employed more to justify and serve this so
called separate entity in its private agendas and self presentations and
not an expression of true Reason at all.

Santa may actually be Satan; a love of form over true content. To take the forms of things from their true context and redefine with fantasy associations for the sake of a private gratification.

The word 'God' is just a pointer to an unspeakable and undefinable Presence in which separation and division is not.

The concepts of God are very very many. Even where many apparently believe
in God there is division - so mere belief is not meaningful unless it has realisation and living practice.

Kindness is appropriate to those of a kind - who don't seek difference and division and extend honour and compassion because they recognize themselves in the other in some sense.

If those who live the willingness of such a love do or don't associate or profess any particular brand of religion or spirituality - so what?

The heart has not a language of articulation or currency in a society that believes its own rationalisations of autonomy and control because honesty is the first casualty of such war - and it is war because it seeks power over life.

Merely following the forms of accepted respectability whether religious or
atheistic is simply aligning with the apparent power of the day.

There is no need to prove or disprove God - is there? There is no need to
engage in one-upmanship or personal or scientific superiority over
others - is there?

There is no need to have and defend an opinion or point of view - is there?

Underneath any kind of presentation about anything one will feel where it is
coming from. If it has integrity one can feel it - whether it expresses
in terms one agrees with or not.

What is integrity - it is not bluster and deceit but a congruency of thought and word and deed.

The attempt to seem to have it means that people adopt and dress up in all kinds of presentations - without real substance.

Few leave the apparent safety and comfort of a herd-like huddle to actually
explore or uncover for themselves - because it always means stepping
outside the definitions and conformities of one's peer group or upbringing.

The need for truth doesn't rise in those who get comfortable in a world of distraction. It arises in the loss of the capacity to engage or maintain such a 'life'. Opening to honesty isn't so that one can then make a stick and hit people with or set up a scam - but people do that with or without any relationship to honesty or pathsof discovery because of the urge to regain some sort of power or status from a sense of shame and a coating of arrogance.

You simply seek the witnesses to what you have already decided to believe. To accept a sense of unalloyed worth will surely shift your evidence gathering. Its all here to be uncovered if you want it.

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Panto:

capa75 said:
I am an atheist, though I did for a while believe in Santa and Rudolf, let's get that clear now, and I have been shot at, and it did not enter my head at the time to " suddenly" believe.

I responded:

Oh No You're Not! (Panto mode)
Because you believed, it did not enter your head to suddenly leave.
Adding things to our self seems to be how we enter and adapt to the world. People try things on and some fit or stick.
When this self is recognized to be the mask and not the real you - then a different purpose awakens. I don't think that what we think we believe or present as our identity counts for much - it is what we demonstrate in our relationships and our living that communicates what we actually believe - even if we never have a label for it.
Santa knocked Jesus out from Christmas - ironic anagram there. Life doesn't fit or measure into little boxes but presentations can masquerade as presence in a panto - and the audience can join in without leaving their seat.
The control mentality has to learn to manipulate attention in order to seem to be needed and effective.
Are we ever really in control?
It's another component of the make believe. Maybe the issue is more about a quality of joy, peace and a truly shared sense of life. If our imagination serves to allow it - IT wakes up to its own value and is not contained in the means by which it was made welcome.
If a make-believe of Christmas giving is incarnated with an actual willingness to give - not just stuff, but real appreciation and attention then something true is shared through the props. Why seek truth in the world! There is none in the props of themselves.

Communication breakdown - its always the same

I posted this on this US Gov invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining - but it speaks to illuminate the control mentality that is consolidating its power in the proxy US through digital communications surveillance without the consent or knowledge of its citizens. I say proxy US, because I am not sure if the Government there is in fact not a proxy for Corporate interests that use the United States of America as a host through which to maintain the conditions for their own private interests, as if these necessarily coincided with the US or indeed the 'New World Order'.

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The temptation is to personalize the issue and engage in righteousness.
The issue I see points to the most fundamental ideas as to what humanity is - what we are - and therefore all that comes from such as we accept true.

The failure of communication may of course be because it has never really been tried. Some kind of war makes propaganda and distrust the normal for everything and whilst the hope of life springs eternal, the signs of it in the minds of those who play out the age is lacking.

Control mentality is a kind of war, whether in advertising or politics. Whilst checks and balances are needed to hold order. This is to be an order in which processes of communication and education can take place. But the blind have nothing to teach except cling on to what you have as long as you can and put the best face on that you can get away with while denying life to others so as to save your own.

Meanwhile, One Life is living all that lives and our capacity to uncover integrity and harmony in our life is available if we are open to it. Fear and control cannot work for more than a short time in which it uses up its own basis and fragments in its own disintegrating babel. Communication requires listening, opening and caring enough to let go of our own prejudgement - of our own thinking. It is a matter of the heart's call and the mind's willingness.

Maybe governments cannot adapt or change. Maybe they simply reflect the patterns of consciousness of their times - of their citizens.

Navigating chaos and confusion calls for discernment not reactive fear and rage. Those are easy to manipulate for those who seek to master the art of manipulation. But one has to play the game to be susceptible to it. None are perhaps as free as they think - but the desire to honour life and know the truth is a significant protection against a lot of dishonest intent.

Evil has the power we give it and the scrap of power we gave it. I don't mean 'evil' as in people we love to hate' - but a sense of intent and design that is anti Life, contra to honest and open desire for well being; a blindness to life in which hate and fear ride roughshod over what trust had grown.

Resist ye not evil, and fear not! - are timely reminders. For what we resist, persists, and fear closes and confuses the mind. The mind - now there is an idea worthy of awakening. Awareness Lives us now - and yet a programmed mask of thinking, runs by our own subscription. What gives?

Who or what really runs Wikipedia?

 On 'The Economist Explains' was the question and answer offered as to who really runs Wikipedia'. In passing I commented:

Though there MAY be personal executive decisions made, transparently or otherwise, and consciously or otherwise, the fact that comes to (my) mind is that the cultural presumptions of the 'age' are what set the values and goals within which and to which all else conforms.

Of course these are not set in stone and there is always a multiplicity of values and therefore purposes.

The ability to create a personal lens through which reality itself is apprehended, with its own set of meanings overlaid on and contra to the Meaning that Reality Is, constitutes a foundation of the human consciousness - not unlike the inheritance (from a yet living father) of the Prodigal Son.

It seems to me that where a loveless and private self serving intent is DENIED the right to impose itself upon the mind at large, the 'picture is brought into a truer focus with less distortion or filtering.

Yet where a voice is denied hearing, it is reinforced in its own sense of being denied expression. Like the fairy not invited to the party, it will, sooner or later spoil the party.
Finding ways to include expressions without propagandising for or against them is the way of relinquishing the investment in the personal sense and opening to a shared sense of value.
This is not available to the mentality that wants to be right in contradistinction to the wrong of another; who NEEDS the 'enemy' in order to vindicate their own personal identity-assertions.

Controlling reality is of course a joke. Yet controlling the interpretation and access to reality is taken as a very very serious matter - within our own mind and within the larger cultural aggregations of personal interests of such mentality.

Whatever else we my seem to be doing, we are learning about our own mind - or indeed have so 'personalized' or rationalized the issues that we are simply blindly reactive within our own mind-set. (The set in which we have temporarily identified ourselves as validated).

The reactive mind is an aspect of our thinking which tends to usurp a true perspective, though it does promote an ever evolving multiplicity of a defence/offence mechanism. Being willing to not use this mentality allows all sides or voices in any issue to be included at their essence - if not in the forms of its current expression.

That information can be used as a weapon of coercion and control is true - but that truth can be itself illuminated.

The ownership and survival of that which inspires and embodies the communication, is usually what compromises its integrity, because any threat to its existence is felt to be justifiably blocked or opposed - and here will be the area where truth is made the first casualty to the 'managed' war of what then comes after.

Although Jesus (mythically or otherwise), provided a cultural basis for the age in terms of challenging the power of the mind-in-fear, he would not have been able to contribute to Wikipedia excepting on already agreed definitions. He spoke out of an authority that is not citable or referencing to external 'authorities'- but from a directness of observation that can be verified by any who hear in a willingness to observe likewise.
However, that doesn't mean he wouldn't be able to point to it for background reference.
The process of discernment is different from scepticism in that it pauses from reaction whilst listening within the heart - absent of its own (reactive) thinking. Whereas scepticism does not yield in trust to being itself but defends the point of view that IT has accepted as it own - as a result of thinking - which of course includes some measure of discernment - but only where it is felt less threatening to its own existence.

Misinformation or even unrelated or inappropriate information, is like noise that blocks the signal. Consciously aligned purpose is the nature of the sharing of the signal. It is life-affirming to withdraw support from that which undermines integrity of the unifying purpose itself.

Communication itself is more than information, for its flow or sharing expresses and embodies a willingness to share. This itself is a higher purpose and has its own communication - or rather communion or connection and sharing in a level of Meaning that cannot itself be rationalised into bits of information. (without simply being substituted for by 'bits of information').

Is science inherently loveless?

50 Sultry Facts About Sex at livescience

Popular science-speak, is so out of touch with what it is to live life! That is - it is so loveless.

Sex is simply communication, and like other forms of communication can be a communion of loving intimacy, a tacit agreement to separate gratifications, a private fantasy, a weapon of coercive and manipulative intent, or a shield of distractive intent.

Human beings do not merely procreate babies with sexual intimacy, they can 'make love', - not that they make what love is - but that they can become so undefended in themselves with each other as to allow love to be the full movement and awareness of life itself.

Religious personalities often have a liability for guilt that denies and distorts the impulse to share as they are conditioned by moral belief sets that are rarely transcended.

Materialistic, scientific and separative human personalities are predisposed to a control mentality based on a disconnected and seemingly independent (but actually programmed) search for gratification - may also have guilt but buried in further layers of dissociation.

The freedom from guilt is not in the surrender to the instinctual so much as the full embrace of all that it is to be human - for to be less that what we are never feels whole and to give short change or use another for our private satisfaction never feels honest. Hence feeling, or love itself,  is often suppressed in order to have a 'successful sex life'.

I am simply adding dimension into the subject that are somewhat missing from a popular science magazine. Truths may be socially or culturally accepted - but that doesn't make them true, and the most reductionist truths have the least meaning.

Sex is the interplay of apparently polarized qualities and energies whereby the whole of creation is expressed. The analysis of dismembered parts cannot account for that You Are and that you are Aware that existence Is.

Ideas worth 'spreading'

I just noticed the TED branding and felt to also note that Mind shares or extends what it accepts, and thus gives as it receives. What you accept into you mind is validated in you by sharing it.
There is a deep level of this that cant easily be talked of - but all our actions and words are expressing or extending the ideas that we have accepted as our self and indeed our reality - and so we teach what we are... to ourselves - and each other. But what we learn is not forced upon us for we are free to accept what is in our minds, as it is - or as it is presented.
That is to say a conditioning can be observed and disregarded such as to accept a fresh appreciation of reality - and live out from there.
The undiscerning acceptance into our minds of thoughts and intentions and stories that undermine our integrity and our peace - perhaps for some short moment of personal thrill or satisfaction, or to maintain an imaginary facade we wish was true - leads to the undermining of true communication and culture.

Ideas worth sharing are not only the articulation of thinking that inspires or awakens a sense of life's value in wonder and appreciation - but the ideas that we live out from as our current sense of value.

The seeking of control over communication is part of the mentality of the wish to be special. We all can readily observe this in our own consciousness. Yet the valuing of the conditions in which true communication can occur is the willingness to enter into communication open-minded, listening attentive and in an extension of trust and shared value.

The egoic mind is reactive and obfuscates such as to disconnect or introduce distraction or noise - yet a persistence in listening will uncover our own resonances to such and enable us to move free of them in ourself - and thus be more aware and discerning and less easily baited or provoked.

Ideas worthy of sharing are those that share value rather than seek to own or control it; giving as we would ourselves receive.