They Must Be Controlled!

They Must Be Controlled

What gives an electric jolt as strong as a typical Tase but is designed for prisoners already in police custody rather than suspects not yet arrested? Wireless "Stun-Cuffs" from Myers Enterprises. "Today's criminal is more hardened, desperate, and more dangerous than ever," its imperfectly punctuated brochure warns. "Whether taking a prisoner for a doctor visit, transporting them for trial, interrogations or dealing with a prisoner that is under the influence. They must be controlled." - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36377/They-Must-Be-Controlled/#sthash.2CGt5j6K.dpuf

What gives an electric jolt as strong as a typical Tase but is designed for prisoners already in police custody rather than suspects not yet arrested? Wireless "Stun-Cuffs" from Myers Enterprises. "Today's criminal is more hardened, desperate, and more dangerous than ever," its imperfectly punctuated brochure warns. "Whether taking a prisoner for a doctor visit, transporting them for trial, interrogations or dealing with a prisoner that is under the influence. They must be controlled." - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36377/They-Must-Be-Controlled/#sthash.2CGt5j6K.dpuf

What gives an electric jolt as strong as a typical Tase but is designed for prisoners already in police custody rather than suspects not yet arrested? Wireless "Stun-Cuffs" from Myers Enterprises. "Today's criminal is more hardened, desperate, and more dangerous than ever," its imperfectly punctuated brochure warns. "Whether taking a prisoner for a doctor visit, transporting them for trial, interrogations or dealing with a prisoner that is under the influence. They must be controlled." - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36377/They-Must-Be-Controlled/#sthash.2CGt5j6K.dpuf

What gives an electric jolt as strong as a typical Tase but is designed for prisoners already in police custody rather than suspects not yet arrested? Wireless "Stun-Cuffs" from Myers Enterprises. "Today's criminal is more hardened, desperate, and more dangerous than ever," its imperfectly punctuated brochure warns. "Whether taking a prisoner for a doctor visit, transporting them for trial, interrogations or dealing with a prisoner that is under the influence. They must be controlled."

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Something similar was used in Wu Ch'êng-ên's Chinese Classic 'Monkey'.
However, the pain was administered by the one who freed him from the mountain he had been encased in (By Lord Buddha) - and who it was Monkey's part to guide and protect - regardless that this pilgrim in search of Scripture was liable to see everything awry.

I see a part of human desire operating as the intent to force its will upon life. However to be as a 'god' over others is to isolate and invalidate oneself from all that is true. Ergo; only one's own will determines truth. However the acceptance of fear-directives as if they are our true will is simply the refusal to challenge them.

The ideology of humanity as mechanism can only result in a conditioning against our true nature that then 'demands' technocratic intervention.
The racket isn't just to control felons - but to cultivate them like a crop. One can see this in pharmaceutical cartel, the war-machine cartel, the financial supply cartel. It is the mind that is being cultivated and targeted. That it happens Big-Time on the world stage does not mean we cannot see ourselves using the same devices in our relationships and our own identity. If billions are patterned in such a way - no surprise the world reflects the same writ large.

There is a place for forceful restraint to prevent harming self or others. But within a quality and commitment to a correction or realignment to free and responsible communication. Not within a socially justified hate scapegoating - nor within the usurping of the mob mind that has thus opened itself to shadow power.

That bodies can be hurt or attacked is not in question - but any true movement of freedom will meet the fear of pain and loss of life. Do we over identify with the body and become its slave - whilst playing in the mind-games of freedom was or freedom will be?

"Holy War" for an Apple?

Apple’s ‘holy war’ was a feud that made the Valley fertile

Rivalry may stem from vanity but it is often extremely effective. Jobs was a master 

 A financial times article


This device (war) is fundamental to historical human psychology - divide and rule - and is presumed natural and inevitable to any mind that subscribes to it. It has all the ramifications of 'evolution through competition' - and of course there are aspects within the whole in which this holds some truth.

A friendly rivalry is of an entirely different nature to that which is fearful, hateful and vindictive. The latter is no longer connected in relationship, but rather in a distortion field that subsumes or uses relationships and communication itself as simply means to a personal agenda. "It's all about me".

Any movement that attempts to grasp or hold on to power, will involve assertion of its 'self-concept' - a sense of itself as an entity over and against anything that is perceived (interpreted) as threat, and to that end it utilizes the reactive nature of fear, grievance, threat and victory over or vengeance to bolster or replace the natural energy that rises harmoniously as the inspiration to participate in an inherently meaningful and exciting purpose or goal.

In one way of another I write about this all the time - but in this particular context there is a clear example in Apple's early history where the ground-breaking individual and teamwork flowered out of a sense of being at the very cutting edge of a new era and making a positive and significant contribution to humanity that was joyful at the same time as very demanding and challenging in itself.
The rivalry with IBM was a precocious self belief in a changing paradigm that they 'got' and IBM did not, and this led to an inflated sense of self while riding the crest of the wave. The idea of 'getting it' or reading the energy of the times became part of Apple's identity and consequent arrogance, such as to become computers for the elite rather than computing 'for the rest of us' (The 'Apple catchphrase that was really differentiating from the paradigm of Mainframe programming and command line interface of the earlier modality).
The Microsoft marketing mentality was less proud, and more than happy to fit humanity into a machine than the original Apple idea of developing machines that interface with a personal creativity.
This polarity is deep in our consciousness as the tension between creativity and coercion, and historically creative endeavour is harnessed or subverted to political and therefore personal agenda. That is to say it is inhibited, suppressed, controlled and feared by the mentality that doesn't 'get it' - that sees chaos and confusion as threat to a personal sense of control.

So one of the 'evolved' results of the warring rivalries and power games that have ever more deeply mesmerized humanity, is that of hard wiring - or at least flashing our consciousness with a deep conditioned imprint of a left-brained 'command and control' mentality. A mentality that is so filtered and conditioned to its own thinking that it can only 'see' its own thinking and cannot 'grok' that the more control is applied, the more uncontrollable the system becomes - because we - as Human Consciousness, are not a machine within the very limited sense of the idea of machine that we have.

The seduction of the machine age is of inviting such a personally vindictive and hatefully driven sense of self into unrestricted to the subtler 'machinery' of the biology of our planet, our bodies, brains and psychologically manipulatable functions.

There is very little awareness that the nature of growth has been cancerous in that it grows the self-idea - be that person, corporation, state or financial system - at the expense of the Host Environment - and of 'other-self'. Even when the 'self-idea' becomes increasing potent to a tiny elite over and against an increasing impotent population.

There IS a healthy growth of expanding polarities that are held within a unified consciousness. Humanity has this as a potential future if it can wake from a mentality of fearful 'control' to a presence of discernment and trust.

It remains true, even within the distortions of division and conflict, that discernment and trust operate as the way decisions or outcomes are arrived at and committed to. There may be a superstructure of approach that engages analysis and forecast - but the rational stuff is often sought to justify the gut feeling from the point of being aware of all that is present and pertains to the situation.

While we have hidden fears or betrayals relative to the passion that we identify as our righteousness, we host a 'saboteur' that will bias toward the 'goal' of private warring 'solutions' at the expense of participating and enjoying being part of What Works for All.
To merely 'think about' a Universal connected consciousness - is to maintain the private agenda that cannot  'get it'. And though one may 'enjoy' a state of disconnect in which to indulge and follow a sense of private power  - over and against Life - as if such IS Life, there is an almost complete forgetting of what Joy Is - as the unified movement of Consciousness in which all polarities can be recognized and allowed to harmonize.

The term 'Holy War' is an oxymoron. A contradiction in terms. It is the substitution of wholeness and shared innocence for the dynamic that worships 'self-power' and then works via divide and rule to maintain such a reversal as the basis of our conscious experience.

Perhaps the 'getting mentality' is what brings caterpillars or grubs to their pupate stage.
I hold the sense of our potential to rise from a 'prodigal wasteland' in a re-wakened sense of working in truly shared purpose. The 'powers that be' believe one has to have, invent or create a terror ENEMY to induce such shared purpose. I say they have only become the very thing they hate - and have become trapped in the idea of 'control'.

Yielding to a wholeness of self honesty, is mentally and emotionally humiliating - but it is also the 'adjustment' from which a humble but truly connected perspective operates. The 'boom and bust' is the result of trying to grasp, own and control the movement that inspires, enlivens, creates and guides successful conscious endeavour. It makes us 'stutter' instead of sing!

The responsibility for consciousness and AS consciousness cannot be imposed from 'outside it' - as a mode of coercion. True responsibility is awakened, uncovered, and gratefully appreciated as the 'capacity TO respond'. All else is conditioned automaton. Not in the sense of 'others beings' - but in the sense of self- definitions and their structures of thought and action.
One may become addicted to playing power games on the world stage or on a game console. Against a puzzle that challenges or an adversary that brings one to a sense of adrenaline and focus when natural love of life is no longer allowed to operate as being and feeling Alive all the time.
But at some point, every addict 'bottoms out'.
Those who are getting high on it have no eyes or ears to see beyond it - and yes they can still serve a role in an awakening consciousness, if we really want to be free of guilt, hate and fear as the motivating force of our existence.

NSA: One Ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them?

After Edward Snowden's revelations....

The mythos or story beneath the Lord of the Rings postulated a very similar abuse of power and technology - albeit in symbolic terms. One Ring to rule all the others.
On the discovery that the guidance, skill and support of Sauron had been all along but a feigned kindness over an intent to control, open war broke out. Most 'power ring' wielders were absorbed to become simply agencies of control and domination while a few hid them.

While not presuming to swallow a 'fairy story', such stories nevertheless serve as vehicles of transmitting insights or cultural wisdom. For there is nothing new under the sun in it's principle, if not its form of expression.

My own contribution is to call attention not to the worldly expressions (regarding secrecy, privacy and control) in themselves - but to see that they are embodiment of a mindset of deception IN WHICH WE ALL HAVE A SHARE. It is inevitable that a pervasive mentality of control seeks to extend itself via new technology - using the veil of helpfulness, free goodies and promises of a better world for all. But we CAN recognize the agenda beneath the mask because it is our own REFLECTION. And we CAN change our mind - or rather the active purpose of our desire and intent.

In the Tolkien story, it transpires that one of the little folk of no apparent consequence - with no great store of a 'will to power' becomes the active symbol of the relinquishment of that 'will to power'.

While there are 'battles' of competing and conflicting interests in the world, there is also the dimension of our own personal will; that is, our thinking, our masks of secrecy and deception and a hidden intent which both calls these into existence and maintains their justification for employment.

Put simply it is the intent or wish to prevail over another, and over life, at the other's expense. This mindset has received a sort of sanctification in modern thought as 'genetic' programming at the heart (sic) of Life. But a moment's pause reveals that we embody it as a parasite upon our own Life - in terms of person, relations, and planet.

The issues of control and trust are as ever at the very root of human consciousness. To uncover the root to reveal a different foundation is not unlike the 'journey to Mordor'. Not where one would otherwise choose to bring focus to. But one might say that the darkness is coming after us whether we yield, hide or flee - ANYWAY. So to reconsider everything in the light of the thinking (beliefs and definitions) that embody it - as a direct observation in one's own daily living is in some sense to wake up from the compulsive or mesmeric fascinations of the Big Screen of the World.

Whatever the World Is - can not be known about but through the filters of our mutual definitions and beliefs. I am saying that Consciousness - in its truly active nature sets up the experience we are having and yet is inseparable from the World that is in a sense, dreamed real.
The technology of our day is reflecting the releasing of the apparent separations of our personal or human consciousness from its true Nature and Source.

Not everything about this Global Convergence of technologies is evil or dangerous, but the crisis that it opens in our midst is that of having to accept responsibility (not blame) for our thoughts - for our consciousness and for those aspects of what we called or rendered unconscious, to be accepted and integrated.

It is a fairy story indeed to think that one could hide from truly Living Communications within Concepts kept secret from All That Is. Truth will out!
But a mentality of manipulation and control will subvert this in any-which-way it can - so as to persist as your own.

Secrets are ultimately that which we are trying to keep from ourselves. Control at home is served by setting up a 'foreign agenda'. That's why we don't look within and simply see the deception de-cloaked.

But the recent events reflect that in fact this de-cloaking IS occurring in our conscious awareness.
"Just say No" to being part of the 'botnet' of intent to wield fear and division in an attempt to control in our Name.
As the ad says "Because you're worth it!".

is it a crying shame?

A Guardian article on tears, emotion and control...

Andy Murray's tears are hard to watch

The Wimbledon champion turned to his dog for comfort in last week's documentary when recalling his terrible childhood experience in the Dunblane massacre. But I had to turn away...

 Comment:

Another term for Soul is 'Feeling'. We are primarily a feeling awareness.
But the displacement and denial of feeling is in emotional reactivity - which is a mental assertion that overrides Feeling. This may manifest as emotion or as a lack of emotion - but always as a dramatic mental strategy to hide or deny wholeness or honesty.

I notice and can feel the difference between tears that are the fully allowed Feeling, flowing - and those crocodile tears that are the 'poor me' - however dramatically expressed. We can also hear the difference in others, if we are not hooked into power struggle with them.

True control is not applied or asserted upon oneself but is a harmony of oneself.
To yield to a greater love is to trust beyond one's own strategic capacities - indeed it relinquishes them in order to know peace. That doesn't mean the we don't know how to be appropriate for life is not a disconnected inadequacy to relate.

Shame is associated with loss of control, yet an asserted or imposed control is illegitimate and self undermining or dis-integrating. Often an apparent breakdown allows a reconnection of more honesty.

Social mores and taboos express mutual agreements to protect the separate self interests of those who seem to separate from Soul, and thus suffer the mortal conditioning. But events in our life can rip all curtains aside and initiate a reintegration from an awakened honesty.

Manipulation is the expertise of the mind in its story. We all know how to play it and forget it is a game - as if becoming the mask.

The uncovering of our living truth to our awareness is a deeply moving experience, whether it comes in nice or nasty packaging.
Re-learning our nature is a yielding to a greater power and intelligence that is not ultimately outside our true being - but is outside our mind and world of personal control.

Yet while we assert and exercise the WISH for personal control, we cannot discern the basis for such a trust. Personal control locks the mind into a closed system from which it cannot escape. But one can release such a wish the instant one sees it is a false foundation that robs us of our true life.

Apple, closed systems, power, responsibility, integrity and trust

(Reflections on a server glitch affecting the Apple's app system.


The benefits of a centrally controlled system are many, but the risks are great, and the responsibility of the caretakers of that system is greater still. True power must embody responsibility to be legitimately used. It (apple's offering) isn't just a product - when it is inherently dependent to the system that comes with it. This glitch is a temporary thing quickly remedied - but it brings up wider issues - for me at least!

With the resources that Apple has, it can anticipate and correct many socio-political and technical issues that can and will undermine its integrity as a service.

Corporate power has to awaken from ego-land and actively serve the environment that sustains and feeds it - rather than exploit and manipulate everything to maximal self advantage (but toxic to the Whole).

I don't mean some idealistic presentation so much as grounded practical culture of starting out from the optimum perspective available.

The apple of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is symbolic of a separate self interest acted out in mutuality. (Private self interest hidden behind figmented presentations of self justification).

The apple of the tree of Life is not truly lost - excepting to a continued wish to have one's own thinking prevail over truth shared. Its a matter of where one lives out From.

Integrity and trust are fundamental to all else. When the illusion of self-power is revealed as such, the awakening is to true service.

If closed systems are revealed as just another attempt to prevail over life - then they have to be abandoned.

Life demands a process of trust and communication amidst what often feels chaotic and threatening. To extend trust and communicate with integrity - one has to have uncovered it in oneself. This is the fruit of the Tree of Life - and not a matter of PR presentation.

Do we believe our own hype when we are at the top of our game? We tend to. But the pace of change now is a steep upward slope on the graph - and while it is still possible to call for awakened responsibility, I feel to do so.