Systems of control usurp relational being (Pharmed fear and sickness)

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care
By Peter Gøtzsche, MD

I have much appreciated Peter Gøtzsche's witness in regard to Open Dialogue therapy and psychotherapy violence and now a more open witness to the deceits and coercions of corporate sickness management.

So I commented to Peter's reply on the above page's comments but as it is an article in itself I put only the first part of this there - and the whole here.

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Thankyou for your willingness in honest witness and in rage - which I see in terms of sweeping out the Template and not in the frame of blame and sacrifice. Awakening responsibility cannot be putting the guilt of shame I feel - onto others who I might want or feel compelled to target and make them feel it. Loveless behaviour is psychologically defended against exposure and damnation or pain of penalty - often under guise of forms of benevolence. However relational honesty does not mean sympathy with false or hurtful choices and the law is all we have as a way to grow a culture of shared worth at the level of being.

The link to the free chapter no longer works. Can it be set to work again?

Anti-vitamin bias is part of the pharmed medical paradigm - and anti-nature and anti psyche too - though all framed in definitions that seem to rescue or protect.

I have seen credible reports that vitamin K2 (mk7?) sufficiency is a key with regard to the functional delivery of calcium TO bones, teeth and innate cell function - and removal FROM plaques, arteries, soft-tissue, brain etc. But the integrative and positive synergies of nutrition are much more complex than the pharmed medical model that sees separate parts acting on separate parts and its separate manual intervention as 'heroic'. There are no separations - so much as energetic relations within and of a wholeness that includes - and embodies the psyche of relational being - which is a constellation rather than a conceptual fragmentation seeking validation in its own terms.

Re: Industrial collectivised diet:
Yes Big Ag/Food cannot be separated from Pharma - even our 'healthy veg' may be mineral or nutritionally deficient - and contain man-made toxins. I see a negative synergy of a falsely segregative mind -in the idea of 'power over' rather than power shared. Imposed system rather than relational balance of a genuine dialogue.

So you wrote in your books introduction:
"If you don’t think the system is out of control, please email me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death in the part of the world that uses most drugs".


I felt the way you define it is illuminating the problem which I would say is understated - for I believe if one sees the root cause AS the 'system of control' (Embodying the definitional structure of our currency of thought) - then this also is the key factor beneath heart disease and cancers - because a relational balance is both the stress AND its naturally embracing or clearing accompaniment. But a systematic or rule based and conditioned assertion or imposition locks the stress in place by means of defending against it - and sets up a negative of fear-based rigidity in the fear of re-lived pain of loss as IF a positive idea of survival under threat - or maintaining function under duress. This switches our chemistry and consciousness to run on stress and lose relational awareness; the feeling of being. Felt presence. Health in wholeness.

Protected fear, structures our mind and society, in defence against such awareness.
I did not find your email address but expand this response to the idea 'system out of control' to consider that corruption of true is not a blame-shame perpetuity, so much as loss of true currency of thought and communication to adulterations, subverted meanings and derivative impressions and associations that usurp or 'capture' our mind. The sacrifice of joy in life under false pretences brings dissonance and false or misguided attempts to block, eradicate or overcome dissonance. But true correction uncovers the underlying error of mis-taken identity to a current re-connection and recognition of shared or extending presence.

Releasing 'old' and no longer serving systems of control upon which we have become psycho-emotionally dependent (with physically experienced reinforcements), is the same patterning as releasing drug addictions or even relational patterns of support that change. I hold that the true movement of our being is NOT dependent upon joining in fear, hate or rage against perceived evils, and so the evils of our 'day thereof' must become the basis of a deeper undefended honesty of being - within ourself as with each other. But that must is my own acceptance - and not a basis to 'correct' another in evasion of  my true acceptance.

I feel that the mechanistic anti-relational paradigm (mind-in act) is an evasion of attempted escape from psychic emotional conflict that is in a sense vowed NEVER to be relived or allowed back into a 'walled off' system of control based upon it. This makes for 'kill the Messenger'. It also makes for the sacrifice of truth and life to maintain a sense of private control as the structural belief out of which we seem compelled to operate. In your discipline, you have become aware of a part of how this 'works'. I do not see it is really about money in itself - but it is about power for its own sake and yet that idea of power is itself corrupted.

I see our identities have been 'phished' to run on false or wishful pretenses. "Coming off them" has to be a 'coming out' - not as an identity seeking validation - but as an extension of worth in true witness.

Open Dialogue will not be allowed to fruit healing under fear-framed or blame thinking - which is more structurally pervasive than at first we see. In living FROM its terms, we do not notice it for that is part of its invoked purpose; not to know. Nor then do we notice that it generates a biased and distorted experience of the life that we cannot successfully NOT be. But denial can and does lose awareness within masking personae, over undercurrents of dissonance in mutually defined and packaged  and 'outsourced' or re-packaged guilt.  This runs as normal social adaptation within a world in 'power struggle' under threat, to excludes to protect a segregative sense of self separateness - subjecting or in power over, and subjected or victim - both. But this is joyless self sacrifice to what doesn't and cannot work - except - as a denial or invalidation of existence in the guise of acting out fantasy gratifications of false association. Joy is of a true foundation or truly Felt currency of being. Perhaps we must 'choose' what we truly are and feel to be, to displace the habit of an old choice to be something 'else' that does not work or make sense to who we discover ourselves to be.

Active Placebos used as deceits

Companies clash over statin side effects. Which is lying?
By Jerome Burne

 

 

As I see it, the ‘active’ placebo effect – where some bodily response “tells you” that the drug is “working” such as a dry throat, is known to have a greater result than say a sugar pill alone.
Drug companies also utilize this in their “real medicines”.
I have the distinct impression that drug companies often set up their trial parameters in such a way as to distort the results – So the placebo is inactive and the trial drug – say fluoxetine (prozac) is adulterated with active extras that ‘tell the subject that the drug is working’.
There are a whole range of tricks that clever people routinely do to sell what otherwise would be less wanted or unwanted or indeed criminal to purvey.
The key things I see are that data – to have any scientific credibility – must be open – and that the trials really need to be independent of the drug company influence – which is a trillion dollar distortion field. How could it NOT be?
Our modern society is built on ‘getting’ while avoiding being ‘got from’. And is no basis for whole or healthy anything – nor one in which healing or reintegrating modalities and perspectives can grow and fruit. This calls on a profound ‘paradigm’ shift in our core self definitions as to who we are and what life is for.
If the foundation is corrupt – everything built upon it – no matter how well intentioned – follows suit).
One can petition inherently corrupt institutions to deliver fairness or just and honest service and communication – and fight the lack of this in law to some degree – and there are ways of doing this that share true witness rather than pursue a merely private agenda – but the desire and willingness to uncover a true foundation is discerning what truly resonates your integrity rather than handing all power over to experts – who may be worthy advisers to your informed decision.
Is sickness an absence of drugs? Is pre-emptive sacrifice for the sake of ‘reducing risk’ of fear-mongered conditions – the true cause of which are not investigated or published – a worthy or sane response?
If power and wealth is so disproportionately distributed, it belies that the vast majority want to give it away – or rather use ‘others’ as their protector and guide rather than awaken their own responsibilities. And those riding the wave encourage it and and are encouraged – even demanded – to persist. How insane can insane get before it can no longer mask as sanity – and therefore attract allegiance? They say everyone has their breaking point – but dissociation can fragment into less and less consciousness operating more and more regulated ‘existence’ – perhaps without ever breaking ranks to question its ‘reality’.


The 'Editorial" of the article responded with

A revolutionary approach to testing new drugs is not to use a placebo at all. Who wants to know if something is better than nothing? What you want to know is whether it is better than the best treatment currently available. This is what a wonderful patient oriented research clinic in Italy called Mario Negri does. For more details search for it on this site. It does something else even more radical and even more patient and community minded – it doesn’t take out any patents on the beneficial new molecules it finds.It makes them available to treat people. Utopian? Yes but also feasible. It has been going 60 years.

I further respond:

Firstly placebo is not 'nothing' and the belief it is, 'nothings' the power or agency of Mind. The effects that are known to arise as a result of placebo are far ranging and indicate a link between expectations and brain and body function at the cellular level. Indeed psycho-emotional effect on the body are far reaching - and yet this is what 'traditional science' is dead set on denying - not least by defining everything in material organic terms that the 'person' or subjective response mechanism - is merely subjected to, imprinted or programmed by.
The 'best treatment currently available' is a highly contentious and debatable term. Medical history is littered with the best treatment available that is invariably invalidated by the superseding methods with the idea of 'progress' implicit.

My sense is that there is a significant underlay of unaddressed (read avoided and masked) relational issues - (psycho-emotional) that have cultural and social reinforcements leading to breakdowns of communication and functionality resulting in many patterns of 'dis ease' reflecting and embodying the relational issue.

As a brief pre-amble, consider that unresolved separation trauma is pushed or denied to the 'subconscious and unconscious' or denial habit and denied but active, and much of this is dumped in the body - being unable to move and find acceptance as communication. This essentially sets up a jack in the box of feared or negative threats and outcomes that mask themselves in all kinds of avoidance and displacement patterns - including sickness and susceptibility to sickness. This perspective is likely to trigger defensive rage in those who equate awakening responsibility with blame and penalty. Who find protection from deeper fears by which a propensity for guilt calls their integrity and validity into question. But with this temporary reprieve comes subjection to the 'power' that provides the protection.

When symptoms arise we are trained to fear something has gone wrong and to project the negative expectation forward and seek help to avoid that projection. This is the power of the mind-training of a fundamental distrust of self and Life - in short a communication breakdown of 'separation trauma' re-enacting itself.

One easy to observe experiment is to purposefully align with choosing to act on joyous choices that will inevitably open a truly joyous or unified sense of life and wellbeing - into which the separation-belief pattern interjects itself as a loss of power, worth, relationship, inspiration and perspective. Upon this 'death' is raised a power born of sacrifice that demands a joyless obedience masked perhaps in forms of kindness or mitigated from exposure of its underlying pain - and the hate or rage or fear that is associated there.
None of this has any real cultural understanding in a jack whose persona is manipulated, conformed and coerced to fit an inhuman sense of life - arbited by an elitism to which one cannot possibly engage in communication with - let alone challenge. For everything has been repackaged into complex financial or medical 'instruments' that are traded in a system that is rigged from behind the scenes to make sure clarity or indeed sanity cannot occur - and any instances that cannot be subverted to serve the existing model, will be walled out, demonised and invalidated.

So there is a basis for doing 'nothing' not even taking a placebo, when symptoms arise - in outward terms - while bringing a genuine willingness to notice, acknowledge and open to the symptoms - not just as presenting to initial interpretation - but as a result of an intimate defenceless communication. For there are 'layers' or facets of relational 'dis ease' that come up to be undone and released - simply by truly listening and living from the result of a real communication - that may include taking advices of any kind arising within that communication. And here there is a 'both/and' quality rather than an 'either/or' mind of invalidation and denial.

I don't suggest this is many people's current responsibility to live up to - in fact I don't have a sense of living up to so much as responsibility to align truly or honestly rather than being deceived by conditioned reactions that prevented me checking in to find out.

The dangers in the redefining of drug trials into terms of existing and distorted or filtered narratives of 'best treatment' will mean that bad things can be promoted as excellence relative to worse, and be sanctified by a 'focus on patients'. I see a reversal approach in yet another step that outsources our Life in pacts that draw us into ever deeper dependencies and indebtedness. Mario Negri may have all the best intentions but the principle expounded astounds me.

While in the field of psychological dysfunction - the principles embodied in the Open Dialogue approach (youtube) are what I would call revolutionary - or indeed open a truly evolutionary culture for attending health needs. The power relationship in psychiatry is of course different from medicine generally - but both are state protected and state sponsored - where the line between the Corporate Medical Establishment and the State is no clearer than the Banking sector - or for that matter the military industrial complex.

Statins are part of a mindset of engineering a revenue stream of power and influence - and the protection of that narrative to evidences dismissed as anecdotal or non-clinical is fraudulent or at best the addiction to a model in which one's reputation and status in society depends.

Too big too fail is becoming part of an increasing insane system that cannot or will not accept radical revisions. Being sick, impoverished and warring has become essential for the Economy that is poised to bring in a new world order where sickness and war will of course be eradicated. Well they wont. They will be much more deeply suppressed and channelled into regulatory sacrifice.

Utopia and dystopia go hand in hand when the invalidation of what is here is fuelling the assertion of a power that promises a better future. We can only really evolve what is here and what we have or we operate from a mis take that appeals because it hides what we don't want to know or feel.

I am not opposed to any modality of health care so much as open to a unified and integrative approach. What is best treatment for one may be toxic for another. Mere aggregates do not serve the individual situation and classification and diagnosis may no less serve the professionals anxiety appeasement to be able to seem to have answer rather than including "I/we do not know" as a valid and honest feedback to a request for help. Then working for the State or indeed under its dictates as arises in cancer treatments allowed or else... (UK) means one is not paid for or serving the patient's needs excepting as defined and determined by the State - (which is not so separate from pharmaceuticals and allied lobbies such as food processing industries).

Food and cancer

Potatoes 'reduce risk of stomach cancer'

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/potatoes-reduce-risk-of-stomach-cancer-34242461.html

 Sites such as greenmedinfo and others reveal the deep benefit of living and natural foods - as a core element in cellular health - that is part of the regenerative and ongoing healthy function of the body-mind including the immune function.

The MSN (main stream 'news') generally shies away from revealing non patented and cheap ways of living well and healing because there is literally a trillion dollar industry involved in 'managing sickness' - (on all levels including food and drugs), that has long had undue influence on scientific and educational as well as research funding and career opportunities. If this wasn't so - why 30-40 years for the KNOWN science on sugar to 'come out' or for the scam of trans-fat corporate scam that demonised butter and saturated fats, to come to light?

There is deep corruption in our society and yet the first level of corruption is in being out of true with our own nature - our own true feelings - our own Consciousness. Real food and self-honesty is a good as any place to start - but health is not added you unless you uncover and extend it from within. So much 'science' is seeking to enable an out of true life to persist without unbearable negative consequences. An exemplary exception such as Dr Pearlmutter may not be always correct - but I applaud a willingness of scientists to engage a moral responsibility rather than pretend they are 'neutral' in supporting and reinforcing choices for sickness - or sick choices - as if they are above the marketplace of cultivating profit from them.

Note:
I personally don't eat a lot of potatoes but usually re-cook them to optimise resistant starch for pre biotic benefit - and also reduce the carb/sugar spike. But we are all different and what is right for me now may change and may not serve you. I look forward to inclusive embracing truths rather than the war of identities in competing 'truths'.

Corbyn - a movement of humanity?

Corbyn's policies are much more popular than the press hyenas would ever dare to admit


This article in Herald Scotland amidst a rabid press attracted my attention and led to the following comment:



There is a deeper choice I see in supporting Mr Corbyn - as a politician expected to work in due political process with others to serve the greater good.
This is his humanity - and his advocacy of humanity.

He stands out from the plastic mouthpieces of perceived or pursued power - because he stand in his own presence rather than sacrifice that to a presentation.

That he stands amidst the scapegoating and smearing being directed is testimony of a different kind of experience than the 'cut and thrust of politics'.
Is it possible or conceivable for honesty in political relationship?

Or do we persist in the deceits of feeding into the news speak narrative anything to medicate, manipulate or manage the schism between what we are really up to and what we allow to be known.

That Mr Corbyn has a very challenging task as labour leader - that would be much more challenging as Prime Minister - is not the issue - but while he is the elected representative leader of the Labour Party, the issues and conversations he raises cannot be entirely denied.

The behaviour and function of the mainstream media is being exposed as a more sophisticated version of propaganda for a cartel interest that predates upon humanity rather than serving its good - whilst drawing allegiance from many who are induced to believe they are serving the good of the nation and of humanity - when in fact they are seduced by clever manipulation of their own unowned guilt and fears.

The movement for humanity could be a cross platform alliance - for whatever our points of emphasis, they all need to find balance - or war is the result. Managed war has been the undercurrent to political action for a long time - with the overlay of a propaganda of justifictions and diversionary denials.

The movement for humanity emerges from the refusal to participate in in-humanity or dis-integrity - no matter how cunningly spun or laden with inducements of protection or fear.

Whether My Corbyn, 'survives' politically or otherwise, is not the issue. The issue is a movement of and for humanity.

Of course many mouth the mouth of persuasive appeal with warnings that stir old fears and invoke old allegiances. And many cannot tell the difference between a coercive intent and an extended communication. But life - while it is ours - is an education - and a privilege to share.

A Big Fat Lie

Saturated fat: 50 years of health advice is 'misguided'


I see this article as a 'damage limitation' piece.
The fact is that deliberate disinformation was inserted into the medical and mainstream media - AS CONTINUES TO BE THE CASE.
Very powerful (influentially connected and wealthy) international corporations operate an agenda of predation upon the population they are still trusted to be serving or servicing. This includes the media.
Of course most of involved have effectively invested their trust and their identity in the model that has either been corrupted or subverted - or has drifted along in a compartmentalised form of well intentioned assumptions that have become disconnected from what is actually going on in a very rapidly changing world.
The internet can be used to expand one's perspective - as can cultivating the inner life of mindfulness and insight. Both together one can uncover the information and paths in life that serve where you are at in your life right now - which is not the same for everyone any more than any one diet or exercise regime or intellectual pursuit, or entertainment.
What one can see as soon as the spell is broken, is that the agenda to make money out of us, is also an agenda to make us sick, is also an agenda to manage our sickness as a revenue stream. Now it may operate in part by looking the other way because one's career or reputation or privileges are on the line is one rocks the boat by speaking out or refusing to participate, and it may operate in part by a cynical philosophy in which if we don't get their first, the rivals will, but there is a deep and longstanding attack on Nature and on OUR nature, that is insane - even though there are confusions in our past by which many assumed a lower or evil nature had to be subjugated and controlled. Nothing so destructive as blind self righteousness. Wherever 'truth' is determined and accepted, there will rise the blindspot of distortion and denial and openings for manipulation and corruption by opportunists.
I see this as a 'damage limitation' piece.
The fact is that deliberate disinformation was inserted into the medical and mainstream media - AS CONTINUES TO BE THE CASE.
Very powerful (influentially connected and wealthy) international corporations operate an agenda of predation upon the population they are still trusted to be serving or servicing. This includes the media.
Of course most of involved have effectively invested their trust and their identity in the model that has either been corrupted or subverted - or has drifted along in a compartmentalised form of well intentioned assumptions that have become disconnected from what is actually going on in a very rapidly changing world.
The internet can be used to expand one's perspective - as can cultivating the inner life of mindfulness and insight. Both together one can uncover the information and paths in life that serve where you are at in your life right now - which is not the same for everyone any more than any one diet or exercise regime or intellectual pursuit, or entertainment.
What one can see as soon as the spell is broken, is that the agenda to make money out of us, is also an agenda to make us sick, is also an agenda to manage our sickness as a revenue stream. Now it may operate in part by looking the other way because one's career or reputation or privileges are on the line is one rocks the boat by speaking out or refusing to participate, and it may operate in part by a cynical philosophy in which if we don't get their first, the rivals will, but there is a deep and longstanding attack on Nature and on OUR nature, that is insane - even though there are confusions in our past by which many assumed a lower or evil nature had to be subjugated and controlled. Nothing so destructive as blind self righteousness. Wherever 'truth' is determined and accepted, there will rise the blindspot of distortion and denial and openings for manipulation and corruption by opportunists.

Oh and to be fair, we have collective accepted a mass managed society through our own demand for selective unconsciousness. I do not 'blame' corporates for responding to demand - but I do know that those seeking power work to get it by undermining or diminishing others.

Exposing the pharma of sickness and death

I came upon this news of a big pharma corp winning a lawsuit brought against it regarding the misinformation as to withdrawal symptoms associated with the use of one of its drugs.


Eli Lilly Defeats “Bellwether” Cymbalta Withdrawal Lawsuit

More information in this source article:

Lilly chalks up a win for Cymbalta in first U.S. trial over withdrawal symptom claims

Lilly used the argument that many taking placebos also suffered withdrawal symptoms and so the effect (withdrawal symptoms) is in the patient's mind  as an already pre-existing mental sickness - and not the drug.

I find it interesting how the placebo is brought out as an escape route.
Whilst there are much deeper layers to belief than the tip of the iceberg we tend to presume as a personal characteristic, it remains so that clear and honest communication embodies true  relationship and indeed sanity.
It is on some level true that we are already operating world of distorted deceits - that is we are almost all of us un-sane or dissociated from a clear and present wholeness of honest communication and relationship - yet the only reality a false or distorted assertion has is the belief it engenders - which is reinforced by the experience derived in reacting as if it is true.
When enough people react as if a fearful belief is true it is no longer a fearful belief - but mutually agreed reality.
We individually AND collectively generated the distortions from which a mad world HAD to ensue. One of them is the belief in personal guilt that then is denied only to project away  onto OTHER and world and WANT it to rest on them so as to expunge or excommunicate the hated within ourself... without releasing the power we believe we get FROM attack.
Labels like psychopath can become as meaningless as nazi - for they simply assign guilt and invalidate. That is not so say others may not be embodying psychopathic behaviours.

Waking up to that ones thinking - and identity built on such thinking is insane is to open to at least a relationship with sanity - from which perspective, distortions, falsehoods and errors can be corrected or undone.

Jesus' example and inspiration has been neutered by fearful interpretation that makes special to separate and thus 'save' the separate self sense from true relationship as one's foundational integrity. However, he did not claim power to heal but accepted healing for himself and extended it to the willingness and faith of others who were attracted at whatever level to releasing affliction. Now there IS a vibrational quality in the true presence of Life through whatever agency - and there is the free willingness to match or accept such a quality in oneself. Likewise there is a resonant attraction of fear thinking with magical or manipulative 'answer' that merely redistributes  or redefines the same problem in complex derivatives made to seem new.

The Pharmaceutical 'answer' has brought the original problem back with interest in more complex forms. The attempt to treat symptoms as if they are causes reflects a fundamental confusion. As does the attempt to kill the messenger rather than read and accept the message. Each of us has a capacity of discernment from which to use even negative experiences for positive outcomes - while actively choosing positive outcomes. Corporate entity operates a disproportionate power because that is how our choices shape our reality. There is always a call to check and limit insanity that harms and the growing recognition of the deceits and coercions of systemic and institutional corruption, will not cease as a result of not 'winning' a particular lawsuit. Wouldn't you look at it and see that winning such a battle is a publicity whereby they are losing credibility and legitimacy? Hence the increasing of deceit and coercion to maintain the mask - as if the mask is the reality and all else must conform to it. Insanity. Who is without mask - let them cast the first stone. Well who is without mask seeks healing, not vengeance. Bringing the fear and shame that drives such behaviour into the light that heals.

Greece Today, You Tomorrow?

Greece Today, America Tomorrow?
By Ron Paul

I share some of Ron Paul's perspective - but go further:



Captured regulators mean that corporate cartels effectively 'govern' in such a way as to suck out the life and assets in order to evaporate it as debt while locking established 'power' structures into unchallengable positions.

Working through the proxy of the corporate 'ego' - which has no obligation of care or support of the populations or societies upon which it feeds - is some degree of globalist agenda - which is fed, supported and maintained by populations who choose to hide fear in protection rackets rather than face it and challenge its premises.

The use of regulatory laws to control people is increasing as the willingness or pretence for process of debate or communication is abandoned.

The appeal to the 'science' of maths and money - or indeed to any kind of scientism, moralism or rationalism is but the sheep's clothing over the wolf's agenda.

The regulatory structures that create cartels or rapacious and unaccountable and untaxable corporate or financial entities are the primary template error from which no other world CAN come but this one.

Drift nets can be used such as to catch and kill even the small fish. Allopathic interventions can kill healthy cells or gut flora. Monoculture creates pests and plagues. To open the regulatory structure for a true biodiversity of interactions at micro level whilst imposing limits of responsibility and accountability at the macro level would be my political call.

If you want people to work for their benefit and to work together for a common benefit - let them live and work without obstructive regulations.

But society has almost solidified itself in such rule and regulation, as fears unfaced invoke such 'protections' that are then further fought over and coerced in destructive opportunism of negatively defined private interest that knows nothing and cares nothing for the Good we have in Common.

When growth is largely operating destruction with a temporary monetary yield, one must recognize the cancer is not a positive expression of the whole - but an alarm from which to wake up and realign with wholeness.

Shades of deceit?

Fifty Shades of Grey" spin-off book stolen?

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Why pay for advertising when you can insert it into corporate 'journalism'?
Why insert memes into the 'herd' mind?
Why act out power games over those who choose to be tied and blindfolded? Why seek 'more' than a true intimacy of being together?
Why give more worship of attention to the fantasy of 'more' when it delivers an isolation that costs awareness of being love's presence and seeing love's presence?
Why is love feared and fear of love dressed up in forms to make it seem attractive?
Why do I ask these questions?

Because whatever anyone else is apparently doing or suggesting or inviting, what we accept and choose as true of us will frame and dictate our choices.
The attempt to 'control and direct the narrative' is not special to 'shadow powers' seeking their own agenda by deceit, it is part and parcel of what we call our own thinking. But is it our own thinking...? Or is it framed and directed by manipulations of fear and seduction?
It's up to you. You choose!

Crying foul while falling for a penalty

England should boycott 2018 World Cup, says Andy Burnham

Labour leadership favourite says England should take a stand against Fifa corruption and Russia’s military aggression 

Perhaps the timing and framing of football corruption charges indicates more going on beneath the scenes? Geopolitical shenanigans are actively played out - as if corruption and aggression is nothing to to with petrodollar cartels and globalist destructo-capitalism? (What else can one call a scam that despoils our Planet?). Anyway I commented into the above article thus:

Is the vote on Israel's being allowed participation in world football as a result of treatment of Palestinian football, still on? - or has it been successfully quashed and diverted? Where to go to get news these days? Corruption? Yes, it is pervasive - and in financial terms just follow the money to see the consolidations of power and influence that principally work to increase and maintain power and influence via any and ever kind of mask of deceit and coercion.
Nothing can be taken at face value and timing is itself a cue to look at what a 'news' event is working to divert from or leverage.
Where one gives one's attention is free will. If enough people can be induced to invest it in a device of entrancement and entertainment, they can be 'milked or farmed' thereby.
Exactly who and how the farm is run may be contested. But also limited wars can be a public front for private agreements or indeed the work of a hidden third party of which most are blind by ignorance and triggered into arrogance so as to remain so.


Note: A quick search reveals the Palestinian Soccer chief dropped his bid to ban Israel from FIFA on 28 May. He 'changed his mind' at the last minute.

The call to keep politics out of sport has merit - but Big Money is already politics and operates as a corrupting distortion in football as in anything else. Big Money also dominates media and education and sets the narrative and agenda within which most people 'think'.

 The corruption of our mind is the accepting of and trading in false currency. I do not feel to point the finger and through a self-righteous stone in hatred. Nor do I feel to be complicit in deceit by withholding my voice.

The New Militarism: Who Profits?

The New Militarism: Who Profits? By Ron Paul 
A Daily Bell editorial
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My comment:
Money isn't the motive excepting it serves an agenda of gaining and consolidating power. Strategic 'profits' also come into the balance sheet.

Who profits from inflaming and fuelling conflict? Proxy puppeteers who are themselves hollow?

Our real choice is the embodying of who we truly are. Wars operate to block and distract such awareness, hollowing out true wealth and substance and replacing with debt-driven identity founded, conditioned and managed by reaction.

Ideas operate invisibly until revealed in a fresh perspective - as if money itself is wealth. Ideas become currency by sharing them. Manipulators attempt to coerce ideas which always and can only 'come back with interest' in its own timing. I appreciate what I know of Ron Paul's willingness to communicate what other players are scripted to hide.

If our self and world definition gives rise to a system of idea by which a few enslave the many while destroying the whole, then there is a natural call to re-evaluate everything we believe true and test it within a deeper honesty than we may at first be willing to open to.

Coercive power acting as if to overcome coercive power simply consolidates and densifies identity defined in powerlessness - for only the fear of powerlessness drives the lust to power and generates and adapts a personality that ONLY operates within war.

The few embody for all a role in the picture of a consciousness ruled by fear - and generally by shadow fear that is not at first apparent, and last to be recognized in one's own thought system - for the personality is designed to mask it.

A mask of presentation is not true substance; but a manipulation. Presence extends or embodies a genuine willingness of communication that the mask cannot see - but can catch up with when the effects show up on the radar and then absorb or subvert the forms that it can see. Everything can be mimicked but how to tell the real deal? "It takes one to know one".

To study the arts of the 'enemy' is to invite a trojan horse into one's heart and mind. The 'enemy' is a shifting changing idea of the hated and feared - or the scapegoat for such guilt. We export hate in 'self righteous' deceit and then import the pain that wounds and fuels the hate. Until of course, we recognize what we are subscribing to or participating in and choose to face and move through our fears rather than be ruled by them in shadow puppetry of thinly veiled hatred stripped of any residual appeal to legitimacy.

Perhaps the last shred of justifiction is in reaction to being attacked as evil, for the mind is a cherry picker and will see the error in another or goad and bait to bring it out and 'see' the evil in the other. That's its job until it is aligned to serve truth rather than determine it - and make a self out of warring over it.

The New Militarism: Who Profits?

By Ron Paul

Scientific prostitution to corporate coercion

Real Tragedy of 'Science': Public Faith Declines as Fakery Grows

A Daily Bell article on false peer reviews uncovered in scientific prostitution to corporate coercion.


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A Consciousness Perspective:

Identity theft is nothing new. Truth is not 'out there'. Insofar as anything true is 'out there' it is recognized through one's own truth.

As Consciousness is accepted as our Ground Reality there will be no need to manufacture or employ 'truths' as weapons of leverage and control because truth will be self-evident and beyond question or conflict.

In the mean 'minded' while, any form of anything is meaningless (or means anything and nothing) because the meanings given to things reflect a false or conflicting identification as the 'doer' or 'controller' of consciousness. This is self-illusion or vanity of ignorance and arrogance. Nothing worthy or sane can come of it save the recognition and release of what we are NOT.

Science predicated upon materialism already asserts metaphysical notions that filter and distort receptivity to truth. Of course many notions operate true within their specific range of focus and provide frameworks of intervention into existing patterns of relationship. When enough people agree, their mutually reinforcing definitions operate as currency regardless whether they share true value or pass off toxic debt in place of true worth.

"I" me and "self' are shorthand symbols for facets of the operation of will, but when will is usurped by conditioned belief, it operates the illusion of freedom under the tyranny of fear. What is given power to, becomes power over the giver, because it is asserted and believed true.

Hiding a lie or hiding in a lie may be 'justified' by the narrative of the liar - such as not publicizing information that reflects badly on one's institution and thus give ammunition to the perceived 'heretics' who must at all cost be prevented from gaining influence. But that has nothing to do with science as a discipline of uncovering the (already) true. It is simply the idea of war upon the hated self.

The egocentricity of the segregative or separating self is implicit in the use of the term self, in most usage. But corruption operates upon something true or it would have no meaning as corruption. Corruption begins with taking self-image over true relation and protecting it at cost of truth. It operates a mask or deceit by which NOT to know what in fact one knows. It splits the mind. It plays apart as if oppositional and separate, and seeks the validation that only real relationship offers by joining in forms that mimic aspects of unity without actually joining or relating with anything beyond its own strategy.

Recognizing 'out-of-true' is the opportunity to true up. NOW. Blame operates to divert from truing up, punishment to forbid it - save through long diversionary 'processes of change' that effectively kick real change into long grass while engaging hypocrisy (acting). Tyranny is first within the mind of refusal to embrace and embody change (life). Freedom is an inside job - an 'in-place' shift of perception and perspective that uncovers an already freedom which had been 'given away' to a dream of power and self-specialness. But freedom cannot truly 'leave you' at the level of your true nature - though one can actively deny it in assertion of imagined right to override true nature. We are free to war within ourself if we want, while it gives us something we believe we need or want enough to pay the price.

The baby in the bathwater is the uncorrupted service of science to true uncovering of Who we are and what Life Is. Because one begins from a false foundation there is a necessary revisionary shifting as a greater perspective illuminates the error of one's starting place. However, the inspirational movement to follow one's joy of discovery and gifting of talent in service of life is itself pure - even if imperfectly appreciated within the framework of egocentric identity and drives.

Hire hackers to maintain system integrity?

'We'll hire hackers' to solve cyber skills crisis say over half of UK firms


"Come into my parlour says the spider to the fly".

Who believes they don't understand what and where they have opened into, becomes fearful, will confuse allaying fear with true solutions - and lead themselves further into entanglement. When fear leads decision making, reputation and false investments can be protected against regaining integrity of functionality. Integrity is everything or rather, loss of integrity loses everything.

There are many reasons for presenting oneself as if one knew - it's what one wants the other to believe about one's self to 'get' or keep the job, charge the fee. I have heard that traders knew the Crash was inevitably coming if not the exact timing - but never reported that because a 'bullish' take on the market was required.

Integrity of systems cannot be divorced from integrity of self and relations - but ingenious thinking can disguise this as solutions that in effect compound the problem in more complex packages.

Hackers can mean anything - the ability to hack is not in itself malign intent though it may indicate a distrust and disregard for imposed authoritative systems, often in exploring the way thinks work  - because they can.

The extension of value - not just money - to an individual, for their willingness to join a team includes the tangible experience of participating in such a team. If the 'culture' is merely corporate 'incentive' then there is no value extended apart from incentives and therefore no loyalty either way - only mechanism of separate and competing self-interest albeit in temporary alliance or compliance.

As the integrity of the Internet breaks down or is revealed to be breached or subverted to private agenda, does it not reflect the dis-integrity of the human consciousness that marketed it? Does the evolution of an idea inevitably persist and consolidate its predicate?

To put it another way, is the corruption of the international financial and economic system built in and thus inevitably resulting in a globalism determined by a very few - or less - because that model does not 'share power'?

Or is it the insinuation and infiltration of an integrity by a divisive appeal to a private agenda?

General thinking is that private agenda = reality, and war is the real world. But that is hard for most people to live with themselves with, and so it is dressed and presented and served in cultured settings. But it is obvious that whatever rules are agreed - they are never wholly agreed and are broken or subverted - not least my those who influence the making of rules!

The concentrations of wealth and power persist a disintegrity of cultural norm, to guarantee that the 'system' will be redesigned to serve those who own and drive it and disregard or abuse those that struggle within it .

Systems cannot replace integrity - but they can reflect it.

Drug rackets and consciousness

For some time I have been seeing the signs of changes in drug laws that feel top-down rather than a response to bottom up pressure.
This was one today in a media promoted debate of sorts


Is there a larger directed change going on here?
"War on drugs", like "war on terror" is all about giving power to the mask in order to deny the realities that are then supposed to be exterminated, invalidated, denied, concealed.
fear calls on fear to protect itself from fear.

Coming out from the mask is the only way to own the choices that give rise to the outcomes we SAY we don't want or have conflicts or fears about what our choices bring forth. One cannot communicate within the mask or indeed to it.

Life is not fixed down as any prevailing power asserts it to be - including the power of our own core beliefs and self definitions as to who we are in relation to any situation in our world.

Giving power to the mask is to be tyrannized by that which was initially invoked to protect. Coercive interventions in our materially-energetic world, our social interaction and cultural development, our biology and our self-definitional template - all tend to operate a segregative disconnecting agenda that reinforces its originating premise of a fearful or negatively interpreted condition.

The fear which divides and conflicts and suppresses Life then sets up the market for controlling the demand that then automatically arises for distractions of escape, for mitigations of pain, for the power to validate and support the out of true.

There is a VAST amount of money in drugs legal and illegal. Vast flows of money-energy transfer are associated with corruption at every level. Even moral arguments are attractive when the alternatives cost more than the risks of NOT shifting control modalities.

Dark money - unlike dark energy or dark matter - is not just a Black hole in the model that doesn't exist in the terms the model sets - but is similar in that it's not supposed to be going on but actually runs so much of what also goes on behind the scenes.

There is a larger debate than is ever allowed to be framed by the media and that is to open up a real conversation about consciousness, existence itself. True foundations are not a 'spiritual nicety' for those on Maslow's pyramid - but is core foundational pragmatism of means and ends.
To corrupt one's integrity in order to get some temporary hit, in complete disregard for consequence - will still meet consequence. Freedom is not freedom from consequence or learning would be impossible and no meaningful direction available.

Re-integrating cooperatively and separating (in order to then control) pull in mutually exclusive directions and cancel each other out. A house divided cannot stand.
Choosing to believe that people are incapable of managing their own affairs and must be conditioned, managed and herded for their own protection is a self-fulfilling choice. As is the extension of faith and worth that chooses to operate from the belief that we can live out from a true sense of worth and share and grow it by being true to ourselves. Finding what we need as and when when we need it rather than imagining what worry feeds us to be true and losing what we have NOW to appreciate and grow.

Tin-foil hats

Comment to a Tidbits.com article 

Keeping Up with the Snoops 6: A Game of Chairs

The article purports to be serious and then brings in the tin foil hat (link doesn't work for me). The tin foil hat has a place for imaginary threats taken seriously - but has been misused as an invalidator to the uncovering of clear evidence of a lack of integrity and of corruption of service, duty or office. As coercion usurps communication and the lie usurps truth it becomes clear there are 'moneylenders' in the template. Those who would intervene between you and your true Life in order to have power over others for themselves alone.

This template definition is ubiquitous as a contagion of fear in personal and collective consciousness (culture) which operates a 'botnet' of directed perceived reality and hence our reaction.

I recommend clearing out corruption in our own thinking templates - our own self-definition and core self-beliefs, so as to regain consciousness of true choice and indeed to live such life as consciousness responsibility rather than as a conditioned persona.

PS: have since watched the linked video at the foot of the article. When is satire part of the infotainment industry? When one focusses on being distracted and entertained rather than engaging in bringing attention present to a true honesty? 

Tont Blair sticks to his guns - and his chums!

Public opposition to war doesn't 'invalidate' invasion, says Tony Blair as he claims he saved Iraq from Syria-style civil war

Mr Blair offers a glimpse of a tip of the iceberg.
The Mafia 'capitalism' that is practised beneath the financial, political and corporate façade is war. It has always been war by stealth and uses overt war when resisted, but in the past there were more checks and balances or natural limitations. Globalisation operates a consolidation of power - regardless of the appearance of 'nations'. Power corrupts.

Corruption's war is on all that lives. So of course anyone else's perspective - no matter how many or how honestly or passionately held - is invalid. The victors write the history, make the movies, and manage perceptions. Therefore victory is the only politics. Power dictates all outcomes and uses whatever means it determines. What is the power behind Mr Blair? It isn't the Labour Party!

Overt war such as on Iraq is waged on nations that block or attempt to break away from the global dominance of the so called 'west'. And when required, on institutions, corporations, science, media or anything else that does not align to its directives.
War is used to destabilise all sides of conflict and profit from destruction.

The adage and modus operandi of such power is divide and rule. To some degree we already have differences and fears that can be fanned into flames. And new terror threats can be designed to shock and hold a state of emergency... indefinitely? Or long enough to establish conditions that cannot be overturned or reversed.

None of which allows for the natural processes and functions of consciousness, community, society to align along healthy or wholistic lines of growing trust and communication. Technocracy is a cover for power agenda. Modern Economics is not a science, it is a weapon.

True economics is the Golden Rule - and is succinctly stated in what you put out, is what you get back. This does not SEEM true because we are already deceived into a scam that costs us our vision. But it is true. What You put out is what You get back.
If you put forth ideas of vengeance... there you go.

I feel that things are getting to such a situation as to refect our consciousness back to us as crazy, addicted, insane. Only in realising we are insane can a spark of sanity begin to light the way. Otherwise see everyone ELSE as insane and join Mr Blair.

Sugar sweet and deadly

John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar
A British professor's 1972 book about the dangers of sugar is now seen as prophetic. So why did it lead to the end of his career?

This example - as large in import as it is - but points to the distorting influence of making money with disregard for human life.
Ultimately - it is true - we are responsible for what we choose. But we choose out of the information from institutions we have given trust to.
Surely if something were that bad for us it would not be allowed. There would be outrage at its sale or application! ...Who then speaks for us?

I suggest that allegiance is no longer due to institutions that do not extend value us. That merely use us or manage or shape our minds to fit corporate or political agendas that care not for humanity.

Addiction arises when an external agency substitutes for an internal connection - or indeed temporarily stuffs a hollow disconnect with stimulation.

Sentimentality is not full and free feeling. Bitterness is part of the range of experience.
Modern life is deadly to us in so very many ways - and so it is time to make a fresh start from a true sense of life lived and shared.



Another article in the Guardian - also on sugar - prompted this comment from me:

Science seems to point in whatever ways the most powerful vested interests of the day dictate. I don't mean actual science - but funding the appearance of science that can serve as disinformation.
Scientists are not immune from peer and patron and media reviews - and if one publishes unwelcome truths, one will often be ridiculed, rejected and shunned,
Truth is the first casualty of war - which indicates war is something deceptive does it not.
War on our mind is carried out both as an inside job and as an externally experienced coercive intent to predate upon us or prevail in breaking or manipulating our will.
There's a good article on Telegraph on the author of "Pure, White and Deadly" and the cost to his person that accrued from practising honest and compassionate science.
Responsibility for our consciousness cannot be outsourced - don't give power to anyone else to usurp your own decision - for it is your own decision that you suffer or enjoy - regardless of "who or what made you do it".
Unnatural thinking results in an unnatural lifestyle eating unnaturally processed foodstuffs. There is a lot of what does not belong in our minds, our lifestyle and our diet (on all levels of receiving life). Blame is one of the toxins that keeps us in victimhood, powerlessness and anger or bitterness.
We have the power to wake up and make changes based on our own authority. We need take none over others, but can join together in our own science of observing and honesty - uncovering our bias, our fears and our negative core beliefs that express a disconnection from Life - from our own life!
Sweetness and light is adorable - but a superficial glossing over the issue is a kind of self-deception that can only store up trouble while pretending it isn't something to bring into our responsibility of choosing.
We tacitly and automatically communicate our beliefs. Disconnected people teach disconnection. Kids learn it from us in large degree.

The war of terror and the making of history

Osama bin Laden wore a cowboy hat to hide from spy satellites and taught his grandkids to grow veg

Occasionally he’d stroll across the field to chat to his eldest son and admire his cow, while munching on an apple and some chocolate

Be acutely aware that you cannot expect reliable news coverage of anything to to with the 'war of terror' being waged against our minds - if we suck into it. History is being made... indeed.

The Bin Laden family are VERY close to the Bush family. (One random example of many) When all planes were grounded on 9/11, an exception was made for the Bin Laden family to escape the actual physical company of the Bush family.

Oil is central to the world power struggles and the markets and power of influence of the supplier/pusher make any other kind of drug induced corruption insignificant - even if all added together.

Corruption is when one loses one's integrity for a false promise of power or self protection. Without integrity, power struggle replaces a unity and all that seems to be on the table is war - through 'fair' means or foul - but when the masks no longer deceive - only the foul can be seen.

In the sheer insanity of war, the mind screams out for integrity - for a basis of meaning that restores sanity. But in the masquerade that collapses to reveal the most heartless intent, all go righteously in unconscious reaction.

Anyone public tends to be remade in the image of the media - and the mind of the masses. Their symbolic use in the collective mind is created and their actual existence ignored. This is not just terrorists and celebs - it is you and I. We have no real existence in such a world but only what can be got from us. A heartless intent that sets up and destroys as its whim decrees.

As long as this heartless intent can be masked or seen for the most part on the OTHER - then it can be killed over and over - while luring the mind to believe its own relative innocence and allowing it to be suggestible to manipulations that purport to provide 'protection'.

But the attempt to control life, other people, the world, only leads to a more and more out of control situation - at ever deeper levels of madness. There is a better way, but the voice for self-specialness will not allow or accept it, so we have to be willing to release it or put it behind us by not being drawn into reaction, but standing in a shared sense of value.

Don't give in to the terrorists - the fear-mongers, the hate-sellers and grievance grocers.
Find a place in calm that can communicate or simply relate without war.

We seem powerless in the world no matter how unacceptable it is becoming - and yet we are not powerless in our thinking, in our choices and in our honesty.

Sex is in the spotlight, so let's talk about it properly

Actually it isn't sex that is in the spotlight but sexually inappropriate or or abusive behaviour. I appreciated this article in the Guardian - and my comment is below.
Further down is two other responses to other commenters of the same article.

Thankyou for your article. The mind is full of tricks and is no more interested in honesty and transparency than is any other mode of control, for it can only achieve its trick in the dark. In an unconsciousness.

Manipulative intent is trying to gain power from another - and is an aspect of our mind that can be seen as sinful or perhaps as genetically honest - at least if it succeeds! (That is to say human nature can be believed to be fundamentally predatory. Or that beneath our veneer of pseudo-morality is a BEAST! - that must be forever whipped back under the lid of a 'sanity' forever at war with itself.

I feel that any urge to get from - rather than give and receive in true value - manifests as a distorted conception and perception of what Life truly Is. Of what we truly are as its expression. These cannot really be two distinct things.

The distortion is of a self perpetuating identification with guilt - (which includes worthlessness and inadequacy), and fear, (which includes false presentations, and uses guilt as a means of getting leverage).

We all can easily observe that impulse which seeks to get and have its own experience and uses Life - (others and the natural world) to get it. So we make alliances of mutual agreements and embody tacit conspiracies of a personal self interest. Some of it is conscious and some of that is socially acceptable, but most of it is unconscious programming or conditioning that arises from an experience of a lack of identity.

Power over another, like market forces, tends to balance out in a sort of mutual stalemate. Yet wherever there is opportunity, the seeds of a latent urge to GET, usurp the thinking so as to make justification within itself for what in open and shared awareness, it would find to be without foundation - and self (and other) destructive.

Everybody engages it nearly all the time, but it is invisible. Some kinds of such are openly indulged and others vilified.

Horsemeat is the least of what gets put round in place of value truly shared - but as you note, it is an indicator of a mentality.

The conditioned reaction is a thinking machine - not a man or a woman truly. It gives the notion of freedom to do and to get at cost of a true freedom to Be and to share.

Despite the masquerade of many layered defence mechanisms all firing off each other, Life and love happen here. How DO we actually MEET and grow in our capacity to be undefended in loving and caring with others who are also
exactly as we are, regardless of surface differences?

The new wine doesn't fit into old bottles - yet the mind tries to control - and sometimes callously and heartlessly, undermining or spoiling the very thing it thinks to 'love' or have. If instead of learning that its attempt is of a fundamental mistake in its own thinking, which can now change - it persists in interpreting itself as sinful and guilty - then it is split into the BEAST! and the Lid.

The 'lid' has to be maintained by sacrificing the BEAST! (in 'the other'), And especially blocking that which would expose the 'lid' as a lid.

The blame 'culture' (sic) becomes like the inquisition. Where anyone can call anyone into the process of Inquisition on even the tiniest or most spurious pretext. The the 'inquisitor' is certain of finding it in you because he/she believes it in himself and must put it on you to hide it - else he/she could not hate it so.
The wisdom and discernment that works to correct rather than take revenge, has to extend from a greater honesty than getting an outcome of merely personal satisfaction. The appeal for fanning and feeding the fires of outrage is a diabolic scam.
There is a way to bring the lie into the light, that is not itself a convoluted contagion of the same lie in different form and it starts with ourselves.
We can only grow the level of responsibility we have by accepting and embodying it. Blame is an entirely different dynamic - for it pretends to be what it is not. Real communication can address the fact without attacking the person. Blame justifies disrupting and denying communication by judging the guilty.
Ye have not, because you ask not, comes to mind. Being honest with our desire means being straight with ourselves and therefore with others. What we desire, we attract into our experience by wanting it.
When shit comes our way, we can either nurture grievance and recycle it or move through it. To move through triggered (de-lidded) fear and guilt is a profound journey because it release the surface compulsions and uncovers the conscious appreciation of a true integrity in life.
And I feel it altogether appropriate for honour to be restored to our sexual relations as part of honouring true communication and relationship as the context of our wellbeing.




@Discerning1 - Yes, when something occurs that doesn't fit our mind's continuity, it gets blanked = has no voice = shouldn't exist.

Social reality is adapted to - and adapts as a sort of mask. We learn to play and think we are solid - and then something happens that jolts us out of our sense of solidity.

It doesn't have to be traumatic. That's another layer that interprets it (in terms of a deeper unconscious script) and yet re-buries as too horrible to face.

I know your sense of not wanting to damage someone's reputation.
It is easy to be outside a moment and come up with what one should have done or not done. But life unfolds us as we are and not as we might fantasize ourselves to be. It is also easy to pretend one is without fault and be the first and the loudest to throw stones at others. But isn't that just another way to stay unconscious?

Events that threaten to undermine our integrity are those by which to awaken by standing in it. Our "No" whether verbal or by leaving the room, is a "Yes" to our being. When a lie meets a true  "No" it has to meet itself without supporting fantasy roles. The feeling of that is also the movement of integrity in the one holding themselves out of true. It's supposed to feel bad! But if we don't wake up to the alarm - then the mind can deliberately work to block the incoming honesty because it feels so bad - and so become addicted to whatever keeps blocking it out.
Which is just running away from the one thing that can truly help.
Sounds a bit like the human race!


@hoff1000 - Do you think it is possible that people in positions of power and trust haven't always fallen prey to this kind of thing - because it can happen both ways cant it? The aspirant can use whatever they can bring to bear to get advancement - which may use sex without actually offering it.

It might seem relatively harmless if its a 'win win' as you put it - but I leave the word 'seem' in there. If what you get is at the cost of your integrity - then you get to be hollow, false. Now not everyone cares about that in the short term because they want something more than they can afford but they're not thinking of payback time.

Those who complained by the way - are giving testimony that I don't know the details of, the context ,or any other evidence from anyone else that bears on the true nature of what occurred.

The thing about NOT communicating accurately about sex - or anything else that stirs the imagination - is that it titillates the imagination and millions start to populate an unfound case with their own fantasies - and react as if they are true!