How do we escape the hysteria that threatens to erode public debate?

Here is an opportunity to notice two divergent mentalities: That of serving a process of communication, and that of asserting an identity.
I ask you to pause and consider that this divergence is so fundamental to our human sense of self, that we have almost forgotten what communication is - because we use it for another purpose than what it, in its nature is.
To dress or present a self assertiveness or a manipulativeness, as if it were a legitimate communication is not so different from any other scam or complex derivative instrument in that it makes a story seem actually real.

We do it to ourselves and we project it so as to gain validation - which we get from agreements as well as from opposition.

The 'self' that is seeking to validate itself or 'become real' is in all of us and yet it is not the true nature of the communication that we, in our nature, simply are. So polarized and embedded in our consciousness is this habit of identification and reaction, that it is very rare and indeed difficult to find even a moment's pause from it's programmed 'reality' in which to simply notice it is running - and that one does not have to identify with it.

Real communication listens and discerns the nature of what is being communicated - even amidst the smoke screen of a distorting filter of distractions.

In the flood of digital communications - comes the necessity for filtering and navigating information for meaning.

Although the gross end of existence lends itself to mechanical programs of sorting, the totality of it is thereby lost and the subtler is blocked.

Discernment is innate to consciousness, but while we run on auto pilot, we give the program the power to define and determine our reality - and therefore our reactions and identifications within what it provides.

Waking up, is to a capacity to feel and know and sense from a place that we have forgot or don't even realize is always with us. Or, we can persist in asserting the personal sense within what is essentially an illusion of mutual definitions that substitute for an authentic joy in living.

It doesn't take much to see that we are programmed or 'asleep' in our own thinking. But it often takes a significant crisis to awaken a commitment to true communication as a basis of integrity, sanity and joy.

Sleepwalking into ever more complex scams that exact a Faustian price in return for a false promise, is easy. It might seem that there are victims and victimizers, but everyone plays both sides of the fence.

Just sense for an instant, what shifts as a result of the joining in purpose from a commitment to the discernment of truth. Not the determination and definition of truth, but to the nature and process of true communication.

The mental 'identity' is blind to all that I invite you to consider. But you are not. You know when someone honours you with their presence and their trust, and this knowing is not 'secret' to your private little mind. It witnesses to the nature of love, whose nature, simply is you - the presence of you without the overlay of stories and identities in grandiosity or loss.

Thank you for your attention.

The Great Olympic Lie?

Underneath whether or not the article itself is well written or not is the essence of what is being communicated - or attempted to be said. I wouldn't focus on the Olympics itself but on the nature of our mind, our thought, intent and identifications.

I see denial employed in increasingly blatant ways. Denial reveals a tyrannous mechanism rather than a freedom of expression. In ways that are starting to show to many who previously followed or subscribed to a model of thought and perception and identity which seemed real. It isn't really something done to us by others so much as by wishing and consenting to allow fear and confusion to be our basis or guide. It is acted out in scenarios of victim and victimizer, manipulated and manipulator. To remain focused at that level is to be distracted from observing our own mind's involvement and successfully fooled into identifying with righteous opinions. Truth seems to be divided or conflicted and a mind of defence (and attack), seems to rule.
While awareness is denied,illusions are invited and asserted. They are not fake £11 notes because there are no £11 notes. But they are limited and filtered distortions of something real, accepted and defended as reality Itself.

The mind of the individual is generally held to be an independent and autonomous entity - a unique expression of a point of view that is free to think and express itself. But though this has been almost unchallenged as the currency and basis of identity and thought, it is no less loaded with toxic debt than these clever financial instruments; that is to say with wishful and manipulative intent in which nothings are presented as of equal value with something.

When the scam comes to fruit in the collapse of mere idols worshipped as real, amidst the revelation of such devastating error that all thought is rendered suspect and a deeper fear rises, then the attempt to densify and persist in the dream as a delay mechanism by all means available acts as a sort of persistence of the mind that has run off the edge of a cliff - but is determined not to look down. Denial.

To find ways to discern what is actually going on must listen past or feel through the attack on the person, which reflects the investment in one's own person.

Such Prodigal desecration and degradation as our times embody, call for a true accounting. In this admittedly dreadful and un-manning opening of our mind in a willingness for truth, is an entirely different basis for life remembered - not manufactured. Loud thoughts will give way to a heartfelt discernment, because this will be revealed as truly desired.

The attempt to avoid or delay or deny this shift of Identity will bring an increasingly grotesque and unbelievable caricature of the forms that once seemed real. A sort of botox of the mind, freezing into masks that no longer communicate a living presence; a ghastly masquerade.

Yet whatever our presentations, we ARE of a living presence and this CAN communicate and share itself in ways that multiplies joy. The real or natural joy is an innate quality. It may be associated exclusively with the forms in which it was allowed - but that can grow in self-awareness. Hyped up 'joys' are a manipulative overlay of mentality serving a false but seemingly self protective partiality. In amongst the wheat, there are tares. To discern is to tend the harvest; to join with what is real and unsubscribe or disinvest in what is unworthy or meaningless.

"I am not the Olympic sort", I said recently when riding my bike along the coast path to some comments by passing walkers. "I am already Gold". This is a metaphor for a quality of our being that our prodigal mentality denies.
You ARE already Gold - that is wholly worthy of love's awareness now. Not upon your vanquished brother, but with him. We can all share someone's birthday. Giving and receiving worth doesn't have to be a prize in a competition.

Thank you for your attention

Fear, scarcity, hysteria and the breakdown of communication

From public reaction and from these comments it would appear to be a very inflammable subject.
BLAME - of any kind - is antithetical to true vision and hence truly helpful outcomes - because blame is presumed already currency to be GOT RID OF onto others or your humiliation invalidates you.

We are collectively ADDICTED to external 'powers' and the illusion of authority they confer in a Faustian pact that hollows out our life to live out a lie that will OUT as sure as eggs is eggs.

The 'outing of the lie' is not the blame game - but the result of a true humility - that is - from a true accounting of our thoughts and values - and the world and culture that they create.

The natural reserves of this planet have been Prodigally wasted, because we forget the WHY and the WHAT FOR of our very lives - of our Conscious Being. It appears we DON'T WANT to be in touch with our Being - but would prefer the sport of a seemingly rebellious independence of mind that USES everything for its own ends.

Tweedledee and 'Dum AGREE to have a battle - for that is how fear distracts and blinds us from seeing more intimately, that which we are afraid to see.

It is never too late for Truth!

Scarcity is caused by fear's distortion and resulting imbalance. WHENCE COMES the deeper TRUST by which fear is dissolved? From a greater HONESTY. This is the real connection that is being threatened - not in Truth - but in our minds and resulting communications.

Blame gaming is the antithesis of a truly embraced responsibility. THIS is where the real toxic debt lies; guilt and fear.

As usual I have fallen through the surface to speak of what is always hidden by the surfaces. Fair and just relations are not the result of social engineering apart from the basic rules of holding our House in order.

The precariousness of our human situation beggars belief, yet there is always one step that can be taken in good heart - even if it is simply to refuse the perspective of a lie and be open to something greater than our own thinking.

I sense the Universe is Abundant in ways we have not recognised - and will not recognize - whilst asserting a private independent self sense UPON Life, and acting out-from the script that always comes from such a foundation.


I was replied to with a '"pull your neck in"
I replied

Thanks for the touch.

It is the nature of every heart to love truth, but the mind that wants to play its own game has to 'kill' the heart to seem to exist.

I was watching a pheasant eat at my bird feeder just minutes ago. Incredibly beautiful to simply be with, quite apart from the associations of them being incredibly stupid - perhaps due to being bred to be killed for sport.

A year or so ago I saw two male pigeons fighting in the way pheasants do - jumping up and down and having at each other. Only they were on a road and their engagement made them oblivious to the oncoming transit van. They gifted the world a momentary explosion of feathers - and marked a lesson in my heart.

There is so little sense in human communications because everyone winds their neck in. This makes them fearful and suspicious and unloving in their own perceptions - which easily become the 'reality' of which we share out from.

Despite appearances to the contrary, I feel there Is a movement within our hearts that (beneath the radar of the mind) is attracting a collective attention, and those who are willing, begin to question what they thought they KNEW. And those who insist on dreaming will do anything and everything to maintain distraction. But will have to do it unmasked of its glamour - and so it will disintegrate of any claim to true authority or allegiance.

I find both willingness and resistance in myself - and am learning to choose one and let the other go.

Who casts the first or any other stone must then duck, hide and lie. Unless of course they relinquish the temptation to be used by fear.

If now isn't a good time to break siege - when will now be different?

At times of fear coming to the surface - all kinds of stuff is triggered. If there is a real willingness to learn - these are ideal conditions. Perhaps I should have said 'consciously unlearn'.

There must be a better way - AND, I want to share in a willingness to be found in it - not by thinking - but by not thinking.