Competitiveness

How competitiveness became one of the great unquestioned virtues of contemporary culture
by William Davis

What is Sovereignty?

What is Sovereignty?



(Written into an article on Sott.net)


https://www.sott.net/article/322133-What-is-Sovereignty#comment161045

What is Sovereignty?



The idea of sovereignty or free will, like any other idea, can be corrupted. Something else is being passed off as if it is freedom - and by that is true freedom lost - or rather covered over from a conscious recognition, appreciation and sharing in.

Identity defined 'in a body' or even equating self with body, and mind with brain, is a defined sense of self arising from conditioning - like a mask or spacesuit or interface by which engage in the human experience of the world as we tend to give 'Reality' to - in forgetfulness of the underlying focus in desire, meaning, image and idea, by which we 'make sense' of existence - of Fact of our Existence - AS a world - from which we then make or infer a self.

The freedom to desire and imagine - focusing within and through the ideas that resonate with recognition of the meaning we both have and are - and being moved as that consciousness of appreciation - rises from a depth of which the consciousness is an extension and vehicle of - and yet one with.

Nothing can limit imagination and desire excepting the meanings accepted and invested in as true of You - that are no longer your true desire or held true service for you in the past but are not serving who you feel and know yourself to be - now.

Self-concept - or a the association of concepts that comprise self-image - is a model. An inner creation drawn and woven out from a Whole Cloth through which to uniquely experience facets of a Totality that can only be experienced through some degree of differentiation within it - but never really apart from it.

Confusion of self, identity and expression, with the framework of self image, then operates as if from an exclusive sense of segregated self and experiences the reflected denials inherent in defending and maintaining its 'self' as experience of being denied, threatened and attacked - and ascribes the sense of disconnection and loss that is inherent to an exclusive identification - with this sense of denying, limiting, threatening or opposing 'otherness'.

In place of freedom to accept and live the truly felt movement of being - is now an imperative for survival in set terms that struggle and further reinforce the terms - so as to solidify a rigidity with all the emotional force of survival need believed - and lived out within a local or exclusive assertion of self and reality - as if this is free will - upon a deeper movement of being of which it is not only unaware of - but redefines as threat or asset to exploit.

The idea of sovereignty is rightly belonging not to power that 'lords it over' - but to the power that holds all things aligned in true balance. And as may be implicitly recognized in this reading by now - the sense and fear of losing balance leads to a coercive attempt to impose it - with sets action and reaction upon a false foundation of control against and over perceived threat - fragmenting under the worship of power unto itself as Meaning.

Nothing in this world can convince you, the truth of which you are unwilling to learn, though pain of meaninglessness may call to re-evaluate what is held true. This is your free will - for only from you comes your own acceptance of the true of you. In articulating this I have to acknowledge two parts - because the belief in the split operates the mind that thinks in discrete linear concept. The parental aspect of you needs to listen to and feelingly accept that which has been denied - for only in revisiting the feeling will a fresh take heal a mis-take. And the child fragment needs to embody, or give movement and expression to the denied feeling and thought - within a willingness FOR acceptance and healing - instead of reacting as the trigger finger to the baiting of heartbreak, rage or terror, of an ongoing oppression that disallows or demonizes and fears, the movement of being that is being pushed down or subverted and neutered within conformed dictate.

Because of the nature of pain, fear, hate and reaction, these can and do simply feed the same that operates the role of coercion - unless there is a deeper recognition and acceptance of the call that is within the behaviour and willingness to genuinely respond. Or - the negative or unacceptable expression has found acceptance and transformation in conditions away from triggering harm - so as to grow the capacity to bring communication of the denied self in a form more open to recognition and less liable to trigger being attacked or denied. Of course both these aspects work together - for you are not split by belief apart from believing it so. But the sketch I invite considering here is necessarily a tiny  facet of a much richer communication of being than our physically conformed mind allows - for the nature of Existence may project or embody through the prism of time and space but is not defined or limited thereby - excepting again through the proviso of the freedom to define and accept core ground-rules by which to explore freedom to experience within structures that enable and bring forth.

Just as with natural environments, there are cycles of change within the underlying matrix of meanings - that meanings can no longer 'survive' in without being renewed from Source so as to embody a current expression of being - freely accepted.

While in principle one is free to persist in the meaningless if one gives it the power of acceptance and belief - such freedom operates against the core purpose of extending and sharing meaning, worth or value recognized - as a freedom to refuse the current and use it as a means to support a static and unyielding concept of self.

Perhaps there is a mixed harvest of those who come to freely yield a false sense of control to an inner recognition of true balance within wholeness - and those whose self sense asserts freedom in defiance, opposition and revenge - righteously but blindly asserting as rage and terror both - for attack without a body cannot be but a relational breakdown of communication - translating and embodying into fixity of form. As conditioning generates conditions that then reinforce and complexify and mask 'mapped out denials'.

The forms of denial are so fragmented and multi-layered and imprinted as part of our identity - that there is no way to mind-map it all out and re-find our way - for the urge to map, define and control is already largely operating from and for self-concept  - particularly when invested in as an identity over and against false.

The quantum idea of collapsing the Infinite to a specific comes to mind. Do we feel out the pathways that truly align a truly felt desire - or allow a layer of subconscious and seemingly 'autonomous' thinking to condition and effectively control our unfolding of perspective?

Allow that any form and any thing can be used for self-deceit - or for the honest and open appreciation of who you are - which of course includes an honesty relative to all kinds of psychological defences that were inherited or needed as part of your personality and character development. Only feeling our way - in the currency of the moment and movement of being - will reveal and discern what we need to know or do in its right timing. The idea of manually living is absurd - no matter how complex the robot or system that rises to substitute for communication and relationship. The true nature of feeling, is richer in living and creative information than any conceptual overlay. Nothing within us need be invalidated or demonised when finding its right place. Priority is not coercive upon us - but when what is first is accepted first - all else finds its place relative to true.

Until an acceptance of unconditional love releases us of self-hatred and self-denial - we cannot but go forth and multiply the hate in the name of love - as self-righteous attempt to survive in our own terms - at cost of out-sourcing un-recognized and un-owned pain and hate onto others - and our world.

The idea of self has to become open to a greater communication - and the idea of group or nation or corporation has to embody such alignment. The history of nations and the modern history of corporations is an extension of the structure of coercive power that operates war beneath a masking narrative for unity, diplomacy and representation.

The true nature of globalisation is global awakening - and not a corporately enacted dominion by an elitism that owns and pulls all the strings whereby to control the narrative and enforce or en-trance conformity to its agenda and image.

At least - such is the willingness of acceptance from which I meet the world and through which I am met. But unlike the measure of power in the world - all power is in shared witness to the true - no matter how seemingly insignificant the form it takes. And of course we cant get our heads around that but that is why it is called Under standing.

What if we are the 'bad guys'?

What If We Are The ‘Bad Guys?’
Irwin Ozborne, Contributor
Waking Times

The above article is specific to the USA and by extension to its allies - but my comment is applicable to the core patterning of identity that is implicitly conveyed in the header.

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Look at the identities you accept - or project to others as part of your own.
Framing identity in terms of good and bad is a 'war on Self' for what and who you are is not decided or determined by your narrative of identification - but of course this is who you have come to believe yourself to be as a result of denying what you hate or fear within yourself and of defending and asserting what you present as if it is the whole or true of you.

A unipolar identity is not really open to relationship because it is only open to what agrees with it or extends what it already believes.

The globalism of a unipolar consciousness operates not only denial of the freewilling life of others - but its own - because it is locked into 'my way or no way' in the power struggle to come out on top. There is never a time when acquired or asserted power is enough - because any imaginable scenario of threat magnifies out of any possible disagreement or difference. Any communication is 'interpreted as power play'. Communication becomes impossible.

The insanity of this identification has to be recognized in order to be released in our own mind. It takes one to know one and power-envy along with vengeance is pervasive in the hatred of feeling powerless under others - but power itself is rarely self-revealing in its own terms, seeking to hide within presentations and narratives of acceptability and justification - indeed in self righteousness. This is not a mind-set of whoever happens to be embodying it. It is a pervasive mentality that operates as the core self belief and identity of the human condition-ing thus far un-healed.

A multi polar identity fundamentally accepts reality as a living communication in which identity arises as a gift of a shared purpose - for the dance within and between the polarities has a balance point in which one is true to oneself and through which can be truly in relation rather than seeking to resolve or work out internal contradictions in external terms.

The 'good cop/bad cop' device is the terrorizing influence of rage, hate and lovelessness, switching to a presentation of kindness and sympathy by which to 'escape' or hold at bay the now hidden terror - which is embedded in such a pact to be called on if overstepping fear's dictate.

The experience of lovelessness in rage and hate is indeed hateful and greatly disturbing - so much that we do our utmost to eradicate, escape and excommunicate it from ourself in the fear and hatred and distrust of the Other... and we become ourselves a loveless, hateful agency of what we deny on surface - excepting when 'justifiably provoked'.

The true Nature of Consciousness is reap and sow - or indeed give and receive. What you put in is what you get out. In giving hate or lovelessness of indifference to the experience of unrecognized parts of our Self, we set up a comeback in which we do not recognize our part in. I am not saying we are now to blame for the evils of the world including our own sense of being violated - but that it is within the range of our innate capacity to recognize denied self within experiences that seem to deny us - and in the moment of recognition is a shift of perspective that has been called grace.

I cannot change you or even persuade you of anything you are not already in the willingness to recognize as your own. I never have been able to exert power over you. But the complex play of fragmented and denied or split identity, sets up a disempowering belief in which others then seem more powerful as a result of a loss of power. Humanity has played this game to its conclusion - which is complete loss of power to the illusion of power. To the identifiction of power over Life or Existence.

Now is a choice. Identifictions within meaningless struggle for a power that can never truly fulfil, or the embracing of Life - regardless the messy involvement of denial coming up into awareness as every kind of hated or feared or despised (judged against) aspects.

Instead of branding 'evil' and living from self-justified hate - pause the judgement and listen or feel within for the Movement of your being - and you recognize the embrace of that which you can wholly embrace as having a core peace to it - which the desperate attempt to validate or enforce a partial sense over the whole or as the whole can never have - regardless the form it takes.

Through your willingness, discern the willingness of others and grow in the trust of your own feeling being - so as to be feeling and thinking, receptive and embodying, as a balancing of a wholeness that you already are but have not allowed to embody through you - while you think you alone (in whatever aspect is currently active) are in charge.

The need for enemy is the need for evil - over and against which to make an identity at odds with a wholeness. I am not saying there is not an evil arising from the denial and refusal of Life - but that its capacity to insinuate itself in your own thinking is deep set - and so you cannot trust your own thinking without pausing a moment or however long it takes - to feel the nature of where you are coming from and know that it is truly your heart's acceptance and your mind's purpose - as one.

Making mistakes is not failure, guilt, sin and shame, but is feedback without which you would be unable to grow. Growing in the embrace of Life is natural to the release of hate - and self-hate is the deepest and most divisive. That is why evil intent nurtures and leverages or triggers this in you at every opportunity so as to get you to think you are one of the good guys, while running its agenda through your split mind.

You are not one of the bad guys within any true recognition of Self no matter what roles have been enacted, but only the recognition brings that knowing. The forms of words can and are used to deceive - and so regardless of the words I have accepted for this communication - feel for your own discernment of what opens resonance and relevance to who you feel yourself to be at this timing of relationship and live from owning and knowing yourself integrally rather than as a 'power struggle' of authorities and contradictions.

It was not wrong to seek to make a unity of chaos - but now it is not wrong to listen to and abide in the chaos for insight and communication that was lost in the act of trying to conform it to limited ideas of what we - or anything - should be. There is a ripening for a fresh perspective. Revelation from what we have long judged against - because we are willing to listen with fresh curiosity. Indeed such is our need.

Law and disorder

The Great Common Law
A Daily Bell serializing of 'Production and Plunder' by Paul Rosenberg. This section looks at Magna Carta and the Common Law and more...

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I see opposing perspectives in human relations. Each sees the evil in the other but doesn't recognize its own reflection.
The imposition of coercive 'law' or definition, arising from mis-identified self concept in fixed idea, oppresses, subjugates and denies the will - the movement of response. The feelings are by nature receptive and reflective and hence reflect this oppositional force as grievance within survival instinct beneath which is its core movement of the need to be accepted and not denied. A Splitting into mind based and feeling based identities.
These split minds, relate or rather - fail to relate - through forms of communication breakdown that sets as conditioning of precedent by which a template is formed from which forms crystalize to fixed meanings, that persist the patterning of the original error in all that comes forth.

Identity in self-Concept denies freedom to evolve, grow and change - being a SET idea of how anything and everything "must" be. the shadow of the seeming light of such assertive consciousness - goes forth as a communication of inadequacy, fear, guilt, anger and powerlessness UNCONSCIOUSLY and is reflected in forms reflecting what is actually done and not merely what is said or asserted as true.

The causal in this is the spiritual acceptance of image or concept as substitution filter over the Living Self - which inherently or implicitly reflects a denial or opposition and undermining of self-image - and justifies and reinforces the cycle of righteous assertiveness over reflections it cannot tolerate or recognize itself in.
Yet with the honesty of breakdown comes the willingness to re-evaluate EVERYTHING from the very beginning - and this willingness for integration, healing and indeed joy uncovers false sense of self in concept - whose release allows the acceptance of the feedback that is needs from what it previously sought to control.

Consciousness is always the template reality from which manifestation follows, but attention exclusively focusing within its own thought becomes conditioned to identify within its terms as if trapped in its own dream/nightmare. Until and unless it opens true balance within itself rather than persisting in imposing an inbalances order that propagates disorder.
The split off feeling has an imprint of terror and yet must find its way to move through this to find the acceptance without which is all feeling consciousness lost, presence denied and death embraced or indeed compelled.

That was an attempt to sketch something that might stir a resonance. For the governance we operate within or upon our own consciousness is our reflected experience For a start we can recognize assertive righteousness as a mask overhate and choose not to join in and strengthen mutually agreed definitional structures that thrive on hate - whilst honestly feeling hatred and finding what is really in it.
Who wants to start embracing their negative and denied feelings when there are so many perfect scapegoats upon which to 'get rid of it'? (Whichever side or whatever polarised position one identifies within).
Only those in whom an honesty of being stirs from being deeply troubled.
A true and trustworthy quality and process of communication is the only basis for establishing just or indeed sane relationships. The conceptually oriented deny all emotional communication excepting where it affords leverage to outcomes of control. The emotional distrust and aversion to stepping forth into an arena of communication by which they are persistently invalidated and denied is very deep seated.

As for determining just outcomes; every situation is a unique circumstance. Nothing really ever happens twice - excepting one narrows reality down to an extremely tiny focus within fixed forms. the form in and of itself is not the reality - and manipulators know that and use it to make anything seem to be anything. Discerning the Spirits is a receptive quality that is innate - but which tends to be covered over and invalidated. yet discerning the Spirits is the means by which one navigates and rises out from an insane complexity that resulted from an originally simple error. You are not who you think you are, and are free to discover what you are in willingness to open to an honesty of  feeling and safely allow a visceral and energetic communication to occur.

Human Nemesis?

The Sixth Mass Extinction: We Aren’t The Dinosaurs, We’re The Asteroid

Human thinking is essentially a reactive conditioning and as such is managed and directed by a shadow power that masks behind self-specialness and deceit. (Vanity and the urge for power rising from a sense of shame, inadequacy or powerlessness).

The idea of power OVER life is one that has been  and is being experientially explored as a mass consciousness on Earth. And the pattern of the device by which to access such experience is writ large upon the screen of our world yet projected from every mind.

Life is actually a Spontaneity - within which all perspectives of current focus are integral to the whole.

Everything is a matter of focus and perspective within the movement of being - which is not a movement within time, but the movement by which time can seem to have occurred.

Human guilt and fear is a device for maintaining the segregative or splitting movement within consciousness. As if to limit one's focus exclusively within the reptillian 'fight or flight' reflex so as to only 'see' in terms of threat of food-source. As I began, this is a human conditioning, and not a fixed or necessary condition. True thinking is not merely self-referencing a fearful or wishful identity. It is a Universal Communication.

That we are the victimizer AND the victim is a call to enquire more honestly as to exactly who we are believing and defining our self to be. All else follows as sure as night follows day.

Fear-ism - and the father of the lie

An editorial on the Daily Bell:

What Exactly is Racism?
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.


Fear-ism operates a coercive and self-differentiating identity. It does so through any and every segregative identity.
Identities of fear-ism are ever shifting alliances and oppositions in which war is the basis for the protection and persistence of the "shadow power" of fear-ism.
The complexity of such disguise is such that it is impossible to establish and maintain communication long enough for the fear-ism to be exposed - as an act of will. For an act of will always embodies some aspect of shadow power - or unconscious hidden agenda - that then works against communication.

There is no ism for love, hence it is not within the radar of fear-mindedness and is thus deemed unreal, weak, inneffective and illusory. However, it operates beneath the radar in disguise that may seem to be enslaved and controlled, and harvested - not least because the denial of love is the only power source that fear-ism has - being an inversion of true creation within a collective mind-agreement.

The fearful identity is lacking true Identity - which only love can give and which love only gives. Guilting and invalidation is the conditioning by which one's natural being is demonized and a 'protector' mask-identity raised upon the 'death' of the true hearted communion within Life.
It is all very well to put everything of such nature in terms of what others, or society, or the human condition or God or any other notion of power - DID unto us, but such victim-assertion looks only OUT at the manifestations of the template of core beliefs of self definition that were chosen prior to 'entrancing' the human lifetime.

It is not true that we choose our lives - at the level of the masking or personality level of asserted identity. But even at that level, are choices being made that can be shown and seen to be working against our good while seeming to at first be for our good.
Thus a willingness for pause from reaction, in which a deeper or more honest and direct communication can occur, opens the way for a reintegrative movement of consciousness. For what seems fragmented and at war within itself - and thus reflected as our world-experience, is a very specific focus of choices operating within ONE mind to facilitate experiential learning FOR the desire to know oneself - which is moving in and as all that Is.

Because, we are suffering the results of choices - albeit many of which are invisibly below our current noticing - because our beliefs and self-definitions are unquestioned and perhaps heavily defended against question, there is the freedom to own or uncover such choices within our consciousness - where automatically and spontaneously is the innate capacity to choose anew - from a truly consciousness perspective - that 'fear-simulated' substitute no longer hides.

The father of the lie is the assertion of being attacked, wounded and offended, with NO correlation to one's own conscious thought, intent or act. The splitting into levels and facets of consciousness is the cost of being ignorant of one's own self-attack. But should anyone complain of a dissonance and discover it is but the result of their own posture - they would merely realign and be finished with it in a moment. Hence the projection of hate and evil away from the self onto the other, so as to persist out of true while seeming not to suffer the cost - at least for a time - until it all comes home.

Individual and collective uniqueness can serve the recognition of the Infinite Creator in All - rather than the scapegoat of projected fear upon which to make a 'special self'. The opportunity to obey and reactively persist in fear-ism, is the opportunity to notice and relinquish it in willingness to re-member love's presence and be re-minded within consciousness. Suppression of the symptoms under guilt and fear is the device by which error is protected from correction.

Correction or realignment to one's core joy, is the absense of coercion and cannot be effected BY coercion. The means and the end are one, so whatever one notices as one's means - will only fruit a like goal. There is no loveless path to love excepting to thoroughly exhaust oneself of any capacity to tolerate lovelessness of self.

Shadow power or manipulating deceit false-flags its own attack to maintain a self-special identity from which to draw willing sacrificial obeisance. This device is pervasive to human consciousness up to Friday, June 26, 2015 - as we each and together define, accept, think, perceive, act and experience ourself to be. But that is all predicated on choices - no matter how well hidden are such choices by falsely framed narratives.

Do we identify in our story or our presence? Are we aware of our true presence? Are we aware of how everyone and everything are perceived through an acceptance of our true presence?

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

From Plunder to Wonder

Production Versus Plunder
By Paul Rosenberg



Paul Rosenberg has been publishing his book Production and Plunder in instalments on the Daily Bell. Historical perspectives can be revised in the light of seeing them in terms of unfolding idea rather than 'kings and wars. I haven't written below in direct relation to the article - but to some of the presumptions inherent in his current perspective - that are part of the framework of seeing production and plunder as different rather than polarised aspects of a framework of  thought.

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A common cause creates a focal point. Any focal point becomes an identification. Identification can become egocentric - such as to define its own existence in terms of surviving or prevailing for its own sake - rather than as an expression of living cause. This is identity in power for its own sake - which is not actually power - or it would not have to struggle by force and deceit to attain or maintain itself as 'power' to all that it then interprets as threat to itself and likewise driven by force and deceit.
See power outside in external terms, usurps the power innate in serving and aligning true cause - which includes the power to relax, release and move on - rather than mutate the idea of 'Klingons'.
Fear of death is part and parcel of fear of Life and one cannot be and align and share from an identification within fear, and so perception and communication is distorted and devalued to serve and reinforce fixed identities amidst the flux of Life - as if that is defacto true, rather than a self-conditioned point along a learning curve.
Organic life reveals itself to us as always more complex yet integrated as a system of a unified stability through or as  its diversity - for everything plays a part in everything else on some level and in some degree. That is, there are infinite focal points of consciousness embracing what seem to be discrete and different forms. The mentality of science has a very strong but disguised component of mapping in order to command and control - which is the worship of power for its own sake - but via the deceit of serving humanity - for the very nature of a manipulative intent, is to operate within and as part of the vibrational nature of such intent and thus become a target for subversion and usurpation by whatever elements of negative agenda are attracted to neutralize it if threat and gain influence over it as extension of leverage.
Human life, shares an intersection with organic life - as well as with the vibrational communication of an energetic nature that informs and manifests all forms of correspondence - of attractions and alignments and synchronicities. But it also operates within or through a virtual reality or model of its own conditioned experience which is in a sense the world as is mutually defined and agreed to exist, and this model is on the one hand arrogantly presuming to prevail over and manually control organic life - whilst being completely ignorant of vibrational life - for want of a better term.
There is a phrase in Buddhism called "entering the stream" that relates to awakening - and I use this term to indicate the shift from fixed mental constructs of a polarized and defended sense of self, to a flowing and always changing movement of being in which a discernment of what is actually present in any current moment - which of course is always this one - or one's presence - as the consciousness that embraces and includes all that arises within it - in all its apparent diversity and perhaps seeming chaos - so as to recognize and align in what is truly resonant and relevant to who you - as an integral facet of that expression - know and accept and in that sense believe or decide yourself to be. It is called "entering the stream" because it is not stabilized or consciously integrated within the Flow or Movement of being, which cannot occur while trying to push the river and finding oneself drowning or bouncing off rocks, and so one recognizes the call to release the fixed and rigid sense of control - which is to yield up the self-will that would otherwise persist after the focus of attention has fulfilled itself. For true will is not coercive upon, but creatively revealed or uncovered within the flow or communication of event.
Each of us and all of all together are in the classroom of Humanity in which a curriculum have been generated that unfolds both an individual and collective experience of far greater richness than what the virtual self in its 'matrix reality' can conceive or imagine as the embodiment of a fixed and exclusive identity within power struggle that exclusion and rigidity generate as if in opposition to being subsumed by a Life that is now seen as 'other' or threat - for it is the idea of a private unshared or withheld 'mind'.
Production is in truth the activity of Life - whether in growing food, or the growing and crafting of needs met. But it is not conceived as 'production', because one is part of and not apart from Life. The Giver of Life is evident in all that sustains and serves our individual and collective need - and I mean our need in the sense of serving our true Humanity and not an intellectual analysis of material needs.
'Plunder' is the mentality that wishes and presumes to lord it over Life as a power unto itself - and this focusses through the divisive analytical substitution of a model of Life or an image of Life for the Intimacy and richness of the Felt Connection. The Mother/Child wholeness is overridden by a 'changed and divorced nature' that inherently fears and despises Nature and 'sees' it and therefore others - as plunder. As assets to be attained or stripped and used and evaporated.
A focal point of negatively operating identity operates as an abundance of lack - because the nature of Consciousness is to magnify and embody whatever is given focus. re-awakening Consciousness responsibility is the release of a negative or self defeating identification to what seems a void of 'not knowing' - but that is exactly the condition in which a spontaneous appreciation of a direct awareness rises within us as the living focus of our attention and desire. A transitional shift from plunder to wonder is not a persistence of wilfulness so much as a willingness to give up what doesn't work in willingness to be uncovered in what is working. One cannot change what one has not first owned. The 'plunder' mentality needs to be observed to be released but the blame and shame of secrecy and deceit in fear and manipulative guilt forbids such clear awareness. It is never to late to be on time.

By Paul Rosenberg

State, Status and Statute

The Daily Bell gives libertarian perspectives on current news and developments along with more considered commentary than mainstream news sites.

An editorial By Paul Craig Roberts
Washington Protects Its Lies With More Lies

I have commented a few points into this page: scroll the Comments on the page if one needs context but they stand alone

(on the theme of according the notions of evil to the State)

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Is not the 'self' likewise? The default state of the 'self' is LIE. One of the devices to maintain a lie is to hide it as the basis from which to look out from and this  'see' what is 'wrong' with everyone and everything else.
I don't say this to contradict you but to expand the conversation to such willingness as questions the 'self'.
What will a 'self' not do or say in order to 'survive' within the definition of its own existence?
The idea of power is corruptible, but chasing an illusion of power seeks to redistribute powerlessness - as if the pain and loss of others can actually praise and glorify a 'self' set apart and 'lording it' over.
I feel there are wheat and tares in all things of the world - so the state has some idea of limiting fearful chaos or loss so as to generate a stability in which to live. But whatever agreements are made law, by whatever system, the private agenda works to undermine, subvert to its own purpose. That is its 'job description', private = secret = loveless = deceit = personal power at expense of the whole and of others = 'psycho-pathic = sick-minded.

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I feel what you are saying and would focus on the negatively or fearfully defined sense of self as the determining criteria. For it gives rise to a sort of negative cooperation in which sacrifice of true participation in life is exchanged for a personal sense of power or protection relative to feared or believed negative outcomes.
A positively oriented sense of self may well create structures through the act of living, but the focus is living and not the structure in and of itself.
The cost of identifying within the forms and rituals of second-hand or derivative meanings is of not actually living the live one has and is - but becoming a slave to the construct of one's identity or image.

Cooperation is easy when it is recognized to be both desirable and necessary in shared purpose of a common good. Competition or conflict can be held within shared agreements or laws - and these become an embryonic aspect of the state. If the cooperative culture is weak, the competitive becomes dominant and a coercive dynamic comes into play. The dominant powers can then become oppressive, destructive and hateful in their results and so a collective strategy against the consolidation of power in any person or group or institution, has been attempted and yet subverted by the undermining of a cooperative culture for a worship of a false individualism - of an egocentricity of self-specialness in which subversion, corruption and undue influence of the organs of the state - shift society to a fragmented and divided identity of a managed perception that is easy to manipulate and exploit.

I tend to see what is as the expression of our personal and collective consciousness - allowing that most of what is structuring and driving our world are un-conscious beliefs and accepted currency of self definition from which our world inevitably arises to our experience.

The coercive will is not anchored or grounded in what is - but in what was and is imagined will be. And so is seeking to change what is, without actually being connected within it. This grows the 'monster' of polarising over-control and chaos in which all the kings horses and and all the king's men work at odds with each other; a state of war, whatever arena it is played out in.

An integrative willingness, is receptive to what is, and alive within the current situation in a more open consciousness, and along the lines of a flow of creative thought, word and deed that communicates life through whatever medium or relationships - working through and with the willingness at hand in clear purpose rather than being framed or set in conflict or problem.

Perhaps put simplest is not to give anything the power to deny one's life - as if it has to be dealt with in order to get one's life back. The fears that lock-step into patterns of rigidity and coercion are undone in true living - not in application of further layers of coercive attempt to fix outcomes that inevitably backfire and mire down in conflict.

The state is an idea that acquired and is given currency. Idea and definition can be clarified. Currency can be reconnected to living value and new currency of value embodied that expands and purifies the idea of state.

Networking of needs, provisions and communication does not HAVE to involve a coercive middleman, institutional cartel or consolidation of power, but uncovering this has to be in step with that same quality of an uncoercive consciousness; a transparency to communication. One doesn't apply idea to make change happen. One embodies the change to align with a resonance that can now meet you because you are more truly presencing in who you are.

One can only meet the vibrational state one is acting from. Even within the given forms of any moment there are many creative perspectives in which one can experience and grow - or else one gets 'stuck' in definitions that do not serve and suffer them as if they are 'reality'. Clinging onto pain and grievance or fear and its promise of power, are what operate as a corrupting 'assault' on our state of being. But no one else really tells us what to think. We are the decider of what we accept as true for ourself and for whatever reason or variety of reasons that is what we are each doing - whilst playing out the stories that our choices cast us in.

The intent to remain within such un-conscious framing abnegates responsibility that is then taken up by un-owned and unrecognized correspondences of circumstance that operate the choices we do not know that we make.

Materialism accords Cause to a believed external world, and such a victim consciousness can only be at war to temporarily prevail or persist until crushed or annihilated by circumstance of inevitable defeat. The rally within such a terror to generate order of a bearable existence calls forth a state of rules that become the unspoken or tacitly accepted reality of self, sanity and power. But all within un-owned and hidden terror that the state of identity was designed to protect against.

Now that the terror is pervasively surfacing despite the efforts of control and as the method of control, the currency of human definition and identity is being raised to question as the allegiances to the false god of secrecy and deceit fade.

The restoring of the spontaneity of living is not going to be 'done' because one doesn't 'do' spontaneity, (though mimicry can present a show). One creates the conditions in which it rises naturally. The fact of communication is not in the words, signatures or handshakes, but in a process of embodying communication through which a transcendent quality of acceptance is uncovered that embraces all parties in a unified purpose.

It takes one to know one. But if withholding from communication in secret agenda of private war upon others, not only will conflicted purpose be 'found', but that thieves will presume all others to likewise be thieves.

Fear operates a self-fulfilling prophecy, until it is fully owned, and then it is a choosing to conflict oneself even though such event is a self-deceit because oneself is and remains one self - regardless its conflicted definition and fragmented expression.

I write this as thought for food. Not as assertions of a personal nature. It resonates and makes sense because it frees me from mental substitutions for living and restores me to me senses - to my pre-sense. The presence that is pristine and indeed innocent of the mind that comes after. As one is opened in such moment one at once knows it is true of everyone - beneath the identity confusion and defences raised thereby.

The void or unknowing of being is 'productive'. For life of a wholeness of being rises spontaneously of Itself thereby.
That the power of Creation is utilized to embody a re-enactment of powerlessness is a direct result of the idea of lording it over Life. Pride comes before a Fall. It is easy to point at others and hate them for their seeming power - so as to get self-righteous from what seems justifiable grievance - but beneath all that is there envy and resentment that you should not be getting YOUR demands met? Who is without ego - let them cast the first stone.

The magical identity hides hate

The article: The Magical Illusion of a Christian America
raises ideas of religious identity or indeed anti religious identity. I felt to comment thus:

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Definitions SEEM to bring a sense of identity in stability and thus an illusion of control along with an inherent bias of self-specialness that makes them rigidly defended against change rather than fluidly part of an unfolding conscious appreciation of that which identifies Life, Self and Meaning as an ever fresh recognition and extension of value.

Definitions are part of the current experience of the human consciousness but are generally not recognized as human conditioning except by those who would mask a private agenda behind the appearance that has become accepted in place of the tangible presence of value.

'Christian' thus comes to mean whatever anyone decides it means to them in absence of any demonstration of Christ love extended in recognition.
In other words, the mind redefines all things unto its own image and then seeks to prevail, that is, to make its version 'true' by invalidation or denying threat to its 'identity', that is held sacrosanct and not open to question or revision excepting it will 'evolve' in terms of adapting and surviving - including dropping significant aspects of the identity to change the form of the mask.

Personal identity is defence within a presumption of threat and hostility. It may join with others in mutual agreements that make a relative peace but always as a group that defends itself likewise.

Everything remains open for Humanity to accept and embrace its true and abundant inheritance BUT for the assertion of personal will upon a true or honest communication - for Life Is Communication - not merely information but the relational dance of meanings discovered, embraced and shared.

The Jesus story and its teaching are exactly illuminating this facet of the human conditioning, but instead of accepting the message, the messenger was made special, separate, and no longer an example in which to recognize our own Life. If anything it generally became subverted to the old religion of guilt and sacrifice of joy for this has been the way of the world.

A lie seeks whatever works to justify itself and thus adulterates the currency of exchange with division and coercive reaction. It may not believe itself a liar, but if asserting certainty as a way of denying self-doubt, the truth is not being communicated because it is feared.
More than that, what is being communicated is actively working to protect against such fear being brought to awareness and to prevent exposure of whatever tricks are being employed to obfuscate, or sow dissension or diversion from critical points.

The personal identity is in a sense a fig-leaf lie that finds mutually agreed currency and reinforcement by conflict and reaction as much as by agreement.
Who are we beneath our mask? We are that which can truly know and be known. We are the freedom to persist in mask or be open to communication. But within the mask we believe that what is behind the mask is fearful and unacceptable. Until we look within and uncover our true humanity - which we do not manufacture or distort except by taking image and worshipping it.
Kindness is of a kind. Self-specialness is inherent un-kindred. There is a core psychology that can be noticed regardless of the cultural packaging, and identifying this psychology within our own conscious responsibility is waking from the spell of reactive defence to a truly grounded presence - that will then express itself in every kind of cultural or innovative way - but as a willingness of extending an honest presence in which to recognize the other as ourself instead of wanting otherness to be the dumping ground of our unowned and unhealed hatred.
I've gone into a particular direction in this comment, but the illusion of a mask is already magic. Seeing the illusion is breaking the spell. Not to attack the mask or the choice to use it - but to open up a channel of communication where before there was none.
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The following comment to the main article:

I wish I could agree with the conclusion. We've got quite a way to go to become a nation of tolerance. Sadly.

My reply:

The idea of tolerance is brought into being by intolerance. Likewise patience is called on amidst impatience.
But a genuine willingness to relate, to listen and communicate does not start of from predjudice or fear of loss, and then seek to keep face, and so it does not think or define itself 'tolerant' but simply engaged in living relational being.
The attempt to build a world of love within hatred can never ever succeed.
One has to acknowledge the hatred and the fears and wounds beneath to release it.
So I might regard myself as intolerant of tolerance and intolerance - but actually I just don't see through that framework.
It is the fear of hatred and the fear of fear that gives power to them - and those who seek worldly power know this well and use it to get your vote of fear and hatred instead of a discerning presence within they cannot hide the hate and fear that drives their agenda. Now who does not seek worldly power, being free of all hate and fear, throw the first stone...

Increasing dysfunction - breakdown of 'reality' paradigm

Democracy Is Increasingly Dysfunctional?

Perhaps dysfunctionality is simply becoming apparent in ways that can no longer be disguised.

Ego-centricity in its core sense of usurped or corrupted identity, is inherently dysfunctional, being out of accord with the whole - with its true nature. Indeed such concept of self operates as false currency - within which the kinds of mentality out-picturing our world are necessary and inevitable.

Blame is the negative identity that is redistributed by power. Not the true power of presence - but the authority 'given' to externally believed and perceived realities.

The undermining of the idea 'governance' has led to idea of free markets not requiring governance. All ideas can serve an integrative or segregative purpose. One chief idea that corrupts and usurps human understanding is that of ideas being presumed to have fixed meanings - when in fact the meaning is always contextual.

Someone with an innate connectedness of true self interest can see the value of trusting and communicating the value or meaning that they consciously discern and appreciate. But in presuming those values innate and self-evident, the drift into unconsciousness occurs where derivative meanings become gambling chips in the attempt to exploit and manipulate the 'system' or presumed reality for private agenda out of sight of those who 'follow the rules'.

Anyone without awareness of innate connectedness in Life can ONLY engage the attempt to exploit and manipulate the 'system' or presumed reality of 'others', for they have no sense of the meaning of the phrase "even as ye do unto the least, so ye do unto Me". For the "Me" of that statement is not a personality born of victimizing or victimized mentality, but the living Context and indeed Consciousness in which existence is known and experienced - whether clearly or through a distorting filter of fragmentation.

Such ideas are meaningless to anyone still engaged in the game of powers as if it could be won - or as if it is truly meaningful. But the revealing of the breakdown of function - of the prodigal wasteland - operates either to reinforce commitment to the 'control mentality' in fear of losing control, or to the questioning and challenging of its basis. That is to challenge presumed 'reality' as defined and mutually reinforced within one's OWN usage.

The use to which we put our minds is open to our imagination. Locking into bot-net mode as an exploration of seeking power over - and protection from - un-owned fear and guilt, operates the 'managed' reality to which fear and guilt are essential leverage - but on the surface or screen reality, this is scripted so as to induce it within a false wrapping of seeming freedom, for a sense of 'becoming' a someone or something in one's own right; a self-specialness, whether apparently gifted or afflicted. An ego-centric displacement or dissociation.

Democracy under a media and market manipulated influence becomes a sham of perception-manipulation or deceit. And with the discovery that human beings are un-reasoned by fear and division and thus predicated on inner separation fears, rational discourse has been abandoned for double-speak backed with threat of terror or sidelined into futility and irrelevance.

The Idea 'Man' is not corrupt. Our current use of it tends to be. There cannot be a corruption but that it is OF SOMETHING TRUE. Nor a forgery, nor a denial dressed as rationalised obfuscation. Communication itself is what has broken down in a world were anything means anything in endless shifting contexts of a self-serving evasion of true relationship - which start within oneself and extends out.

Faith in Life!

Monsanto Laments Dwindling Faith in Science

Following on from the last entry, because someone addressed my comment thus:

Praetor commented:

You, speak of Soul and the Physical Biological World, that be the reason we are all here, how to live in solid physical world, while having a soul (spirit) and making it work, can it be done, that is the question? The answer to that question, TIME will tell. The two are separate and are now one, can the two be one or should they remain separate. I surmise, that is the great experiment, can they be one? The soul requires only peace and love, the physical requires everything nature can provide (food, water, air, sleep, rest and everything else to stay alive), so the higher mind has set in motion, where we are, and the out come is up to us, to make it work, will we make it work???

I speak of Consciousness. Consciousness OF physicality is part and parcel of BELIEVING and experiencing ourselves as a separated "mind" within a body within a physical universe of bodies. That one CAN experience and identify as this separated persona is evident. But no one is IN such a world any more than a wish can replace truth.

The notion of 'separateness' operates the lens darkly by which to experience a reversal of consciousness. However, there are limits to the ability or capacity of believing and identifying in the untrue. Pain and meaninglessness being chief among them.

Thinking without true relationship is a disconnected thought-mind - but mind is not, can not, will never, exist as an actually independent entity. While such thinking asserts its 'self', there are no ears to hear.

Whatever Life Is, already is, and is working perfectly. Each of us and all of us together are our own 'experiment' or theme of experience and exploration.

The nature of consciousness itself is integral to my experiential relationship and discovery. It is of course my joy or natural calling - along with the embodiment of an integrated consciousness. It is all a matter of perspective.

When ideas run - or are accepted into your mind, they are experienced as perception. Regarded as reality and then reacted to and acted upon as if true. By the power of your acceptance do ideas run in your mind. Fear usurps the mind but only while you give it the power to do so.

Will you - regardless of what anyone else chooses - choose to align with what you resonate most honestly as true of you in relevance to your current experience? I suggest that although this could be seen as a matter of time, it is truly a matter of willingness.

Holding onto a mistaken investment is like supporting a lie, for it costs the joy of a true movement of being, in which Soul reveals itself evident as Living Context rather than being demanded in sacrifice to a 'blind god'. Identity is investment. But to release all things to Source is to BE identified perfectly. One cannot bring love into fear but as sacrifice to fear's 'reality', but fears can be brought to love in willingness FOR Perspective.

It is all a matter of perspective - and that the choice to assert and coerce is the limiting and losing of perspective. Of course there is another way. But until there is a willingness, it does not appear. To find willingness, one may have to first honestly acknowledge and own one's wilfulness or unwillingness. There is fear, pain and anger in guilt that invalidates Life. There is a messenger here to be received. One never meets 'the world' but through one's own psycho-emotional-physical construct.

The opposite of blind (private agenda) coercive manipulation of Life is yielding (private agenda) into Life.

One cannot serve two masters of opposite and exclusive directions.

Faith in Life is implicit, the instant one recognizes the false as false, for the true stands evident and in that knowing is it simply obvious one IS Life and not somehow 'outside and apart and acting upon it'.

You cannot experiment UPON yourself who Are One Self. But you can engage in conception and perceive idea in which fear seems to split or fragment such a consciousness. Isolate and alone. But how could such a game of powers be played without rival, adversary, ally and enemy?

"It's Life, but not as we know it Captain".

Perhaps the 'third eye' is our true front ear. And 'space' is not 'out there after all, but reflecting an embracing awareness of All That Is. Time serves the unfolding script. But time is running out for the script to remain hidden. Does mon santo mean 'my holy'? Is that not the error in identification in a nuts-hell? For what you give (idea) is what then gives you. 'Thy holy' is a willingness to honour and acknowledge the presence of Life in Creation - that appears perhaps to be a world outside you. Do this 'just because' and not in order to 'get', and you will simply align with the true of you - and have the reflection.

Integrity is true relation.

Terror blowback?

In response to an Article: Europe's terror attacks: The blowback from Western intervention | OpEdNews

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We live in an era where false flag and staged events are a significant possibility among actual events.

Where journalism is told what to write or trained to know what not to write.

Notwithstanding this, un-managed or unexpected events also serve or are seized upon for serving political agendas with distorted interpretation.

If the 'terror' is the instigator AND the intended effect - then terrorism is the new politics - not that it was absent in the old. Terror-victimhood and fear offers the 'justifiction' for the assertion of power upon populations by established powers.

Fear triggers reaction. Fear conditions patterns of identity and reaction. Fear thus operates a self reinforcing delusion unless its alarm is used to awaken our consciousness to align more truly and deeply within Consciousness.

For personal agenda overrides honesty and we all know that truth is the first and implicit casualty of war.

Not that truth stops being true - but that fearful coercions and deceits are brought into effect to heavily discourage witnessing or communicating truly. 'Protection rackets' are scams that impose and magnify the conditions by which they are validated and necessary and powerful - and defend against anything that actually facilitates peace.



Yes, if provoked enough, one can often generate 'blowback' reaction. If one cant, then one can carry out such actions in ways that are perceived as intended. This will not always be so. But it is sometimes so.

Noticing the mask and releasing the persona

The Ghosts of Fall

Identifying in the mask or extending Identity through a transparency of mask:

One can live as if one is the persona and defend and develop the persona as a strategy of persona self interest. This is also called ego-centric.How we choose to define ourselves and the definitions we inherit or imbibe without much sense of choice or basis for choice at the time all make up our personality construct of definitions, feelings, beliefs and thoughts, perceptions and actions and learnings or conditioning therefrom.
Jesus gave no time to Hypocrites (actors in Greek), because there was nothing actually being extended or communicated to communicate with BUT an assertive mask, but in a larger attention would use the event to illustrate and awaken true hearing or recognition in those who were free enough of the mask to let anything in.
The shift to an embracing consciousness perspective tends to come from the collapse or disintegration of the mask - which is also associated in many with more desperate attempt to assert it - as if it is one's true identity.
The mask is ALREADY a kind of virtual reality overlay to actual energetic which is sort of relegated to 'unconsciousness of disregard' whilst playing oneself in story. Mindfulness offers a way to notice more of what is actually here - not merely outside but our perceptual and emotional and definitional ideas.
The mask is essentially a strategy of coping with fear of self conflicted or painful experience. Fear operates to obscure the felt qualities of Life, it asserts itself in forms of dissociative identity.
What is it we fear but to be unmasked. In order to protect against this every strategy will be employed. Fear of evil operates itself as an inner mask to protect that which it forbids you look upon. Yet to look at this fear without seeing through its own beliefs is to recognize that it was love all along that was so fearful or rather" what we have made of love and believed true.
Fear can be used to mask and to hide in and to keep apart from. It can also be used to unmask and realign to true self.

This next bit did not fit the character limit… but here it is:

So if the world at times reflects the fear of coercive and deceptive assertions, propaganda and failure to relate or communicate or even see or address what is going on, then use that to uncover one's own participation.
Who knows not the assertion of mask over true relation can throw the first drone.
To see another AS ourself is to relinquish the voice of the lampshade and see through to the light. beware of the urge that 'loves' to hate - for that is the hiding of what we do not want to own. But no one can change what first they do not own   and persisting in war is the worship of the mask that denies knowing and being known truly.

A Capital idea - What!

Capitalism is under scrutiny - whatever it actually is - due not least to the financial system becoming clearly associated with a scam and a shadow power beneath mere appearances of governance.
This page brought the subject up. I simply wrote from where I feel to stand in what the idea brings up for me.

Capitalism: defending one's investment in getting more for less?
Capitalism: extending a tangible worth by growing it.

I feel everything in the world of a polarised and alloyed mentality can serve dual purpose. Nothing has but the meaning and purpose you give it. A split mind attempts to mix mutually contradictory purpose and loses all sense of foundation amidst its own convoluted spin. In believing its own spin dresses up in cleverness or pomp but has no real presence - as coercive and deceptive strategies reveal obvious.

In a 'seller's market' which is where a sense of lack, scarcity or insecurity is bought into or believed true in the terms framed, one can sell ideas that seem to answer the lack in the short term, yet capture and disconnect the sucker from their true nature, sustenance and wits.

The drive to sell to get operates the cultivation and herding of marketshare, mindshare.
Pyramid schemes pattern energy in consolidating tyrannous hierarchies.
After a while it is accepted as the human condition.
Of consciousness and society.

But Maslow's pyramid is upside down and inside out.
EVERYTHING extends its foundation and NOTHING can be unlike its foundation.
Once a split minded and devious thinking could be sold in exchange for promise of power and protection, a false foundation HAD to subvert every natural impulse to the mentality of a polarised struggle for survival. Because a lie HAS to struggle in asserting itself to survive AGAINST all that would expose it.

Everyone protects their investments. But to invest in a lie is to identify falsely.
Identity theft is the market of scammers. All trying to sucker each other or shifting alliances that sucker another, or protect against being suckered by others. Maybe wake up to find we are all suckers to identity theft.

So drawn into the drama of the game that few pause long enough to discern what they are truly doing and why. It runs like a template. There are moneylenders in the template who would interpose between a natural need being fulfilled so as to usurp the relational unfolding of growing trust and uncovering true synchronicity through extending communication.

The 'coercive will' operates primarily through insinuating and propagating definitions that frame everything in its own image. It owns the mind in which one thinks - until the identity theft is uncovered.

In a system where all aspects of it reinforce all other aspects of itself there is no real alternative but from a different foundation - only redistributions of assemblages in complex ... but increasing hollow... presentations.
What is the foundation? Is it not the lie that sets everything else up as a means to prevent and deny its own exposure?
The last or indeed the never thing one would meet or allow to be?
Yet is that not exactly what is being revealed on our Big Screen of a world; our foundation exposed? - and its inevitable results or consequences.
There is a true foundation to our existence. I don't ask you to believe it and certainly not to think or define it. But its re-cognition to awareness occurs exactly where a lie is seen as a lie, a wish as a wish, a story as a story. Because in that instant one is no longer identified within its frame. Now you can 'believe' and live out from that which Is you - beneath all that seemed real before.

Regardless of whatism, extending a tangible worth by growing it, operates in conscious alignment with Life-Purpose.

Recognizing what one is NOT is part of more truly knowing who you ARE. When the foundation shifts - all else shifts with it. Integrating and accepting may lag - but everything has changed without anything 'external' having to change.

Needs met, has been so materially defined as to deny the need of our own consciousness for a manually managed mechanical imposition upon us by powers set above communicability.
So one aspect of need that I put forward is for consciousness responsibility - for what passes as conscious is a conditioned reaction. Foundations are not ideas to impose - but qualities to make manifest - to give witness to.
Without the old foundational belief - the template crumbles. We have to 're-learn' how to live, relate, communicate. How to recognize and release a falsely identified investment and focus wholly on that which really embodies the Life as each is inspired or enthused and amused to pursue. Is that more frightening than Armageddon? If so, at least one understands why humanity self-destructs.

Shift happens, put the shit where it belongs

The Hunt for Beneficial Bugs – A Growing Meme?
is the title of an investment news article about the co-opting of 'organic' meme for the biotech approaches that operate the cutting edge of a coercively based culture, as it's science uncovers more information about the complex interrelatedness of all life.

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Using a mask to operate a hidden agenda is nothing new - although its ever-mutating forms may find new ways of expression.
Basically whenever anything of true reality leaks into a closed and coercive system, it will be subverted, co-opted, infiltrated and adulterated - and essentially absorbed into the forms of coercively defended identity.

So when natural is over-ridden by coercive - as in nitrate and pesticide based agro-culture - a name has to be made for what once was simply the way of life - organic.

There is then the attempt to inform and educate - that there are a range of significant negative effects from such a loveless husbandry - which flies in the face of the investment in the coercive mode of getting. So there will be conflicts of assertion or simply massive media assertions of its fee paying clients, until such time as the new shoots are themselves a market to exploit. So the adoption of the forms of something or perhaps the pretence or deceits of adopting the forms of something passes itself off as a virtue when in fact it is a vice.

So is it not always so that the influx of the new is being effectively 'killed' by the establishment? And that by the time the 'new' goes mainstream it simply is the same establishment but in different clothing?

Jesus used the parable of the tenant farmers to illustrate a principle. The tenant farmers kill the messengers of the Master who is absented for they take the vineyard as their own and fear to lose - or indeed be punished. Yet as the Master 'comes home' he simply re-establishes a true perspective. The personality operates AS IF - and under the burden of-  being in control - but is actually supported and guided by a greater consciousness that it is designed to serve, not usurp.

The 'messengers' of a life more abundant - of a greater freedom than coercion can imagine, are not the manufacture of a coercive intent - howsoever nobly intended.  Most of what is talked of here goes on as the patterning of our particular consciousness such as to be largely or completely invisible because we look out from it and have no perspective on it.

A loveless husbandry is a 'getting' mentality. No matter how ingenious the system, a getting-mentality operates a hollowing out and depletion of true wealth. Giving and receiving operate as a sense of true value shared. But without a true perspective giving is associated with loss. Yet giving of self (energy and attention) into any real relationship, project, or 'work or play', is  having a fulfilled life and unfolds such alignments of opportunity and synchronicity as are natural to the generosity and openness of such a harmonic expression.

The key here is giving oneself in true relation - for if the victim of a phishing attack, one's identity is 'stolen' and one then gives ALL THAT IS DUE UNTO SELF - to an imposter.

Isn't this how we play out a world of an ultimate self-deception - for if we are deceived by others we must first ourselves want to be deceived. When we look to see the triggers within our mind that 'phish' our true identity, to substitute it with the struggle to regain, assert or defend a construct... at cost of a real communication. Then we regain a freedom we never really lost.
How that applies to each and every moment of our existence is not something to predefine but unfold as our lives.

Until the struggle of an attempt to validate one's identity is released as the very method of losing it - it will tend to make a drama out of everything, and bait one's attention in reaction. It isn't that there is an 'enemy within' so much as a way of using the mind that no longer serves the consciously embraced purpose. The only reason to give it attention is to become free by transmuting it to original nature. After all, there is nothing wrong with power, love, peace, safety, joy and fulfilment - it is simply the way the mind has been set up to look for them everywhere EXCEPT where they are found.

Aldous Huxley's 'Island' had parrots squawking "PAY ATTENTION!". But the mind would very quickly become immune to that. So there is the reflection of dissonance, division, disease and discomfort mounting to our awareness - which we simply cannot 'absorb' into our 'system' and so it breaks down, one regains true roots and chooses to use the signs to stay aligned instead of indulging in what has been imprinted now in your being as painful futility.

Re- dis- covering of true nature is not going to fit into the coercive model. But the abilities and the persona we have in a sense constructed takes on a new role in a more 'organic' interrelatedness. Of course it takes a process of persistence to integrate such a shift - but shit plays a vital part in organic husbandry and  - in as natural vitality... Shift happens!

Jewish (and human) identity

Don't let facts get in the way of a good story…

The identity of human traits may be scientifically determined by DNA but personal, tribal and cultural identity is determined by story.

There is no law that says anyone else's assertion has to play any role in the story of a tribal or cultural identity other that whatever role or meaning such a group decide to give it.

However, if communication is seen to be usurped by any such group-ID mentality, such that only the FORM of communication is used as a defensive persistence of wishful or wilful assertion, then the word of such personae is invalidated - whatever form it takes - because where it comes from is an unwillingness TO communicate.

What IS communication but a condition of mutual receptivity to a current or fresh movement of expression?

Listening in the heart is different from strategic thinking that identifies the heart in story - however sacred one's suffering has become as a substitute heart, and however justified the hatred of all who do not 'support' one's point of view. Listening in the heart is not going to occur while it interferes with a story one wants to be true - because of what one believes it gives or promises.

In the mind of those who we see as enemy can we also see that which we hate in our selves. Only an honest owning of what is ours can restore us to a true communication and thus know Home without having to deny it to those who we feared would deny us.

All controversy serves as distraction from the essential. It isn't about being right or wrong, but a matter of whether one wants to be homed in a current movement of living communication or assert identity upon the movement of Life and have to defend it against being exposed.

The fig-leaf is the symbol of the priest-mind that would come between a true Communication and which fears exposure as worse than death. But "who told you you were naked?". I read this (OT Bible quote) as the movement of our own heart's enquiry Only guilt and fear of shame or punishment stops us Listening Within. The voice of such story is backed by terror in the world - howsoever it is disguised. But is it the Voice of our true knowing?

Re-cognition is a gift of re-membering what we had forgotten or believed lost as a result of becoming caught up in prodigal stories.

Commented into: An article entitled:

Jews are not descended from Khazars, Hebrew University historian says

I add here that the book 

'The Wandering Who' by Gilad Atzmon

offers a rounded consideration of Jewish Identity that I recommend

Mistaken identity and cold hard struggle

Said Dave to one of my posts:

one can look at it through rose colored glasses but it doesn't change the cold hard truth, which is found by stripping the self down to the naked core facts grounded in reality and supported even mathematically. Only then can the conscious decide how one 'feels' about it and decide how one will operate as a best course. By doing this work, one then discovers the how and why of integration with others for mutual benefit as viable. The "me" can not be crushed or separated from "self", or fly only on "feelings" and exist for very long.

My Reply:

One can look through a glass darkly and see only cold hard truth. I invite you to consider that when you have looked upon the feared or the terror or the guilt and refused it, it no longer has power to direct your mind and so you can now follow the movement of your true desire. Nothing else is truly conscious.

Nothing else but is an imposter taken as one's 'self'.

Mindcontrol practitioners know well that applying trauma splits the self and enables access to substitute coercive commands into the mind - and so do the 'war on terror' brigade.

I don't demean whatever awareness you have gained or your perspective therefrom. Everyone entering the human conditioning unfolds their experience through their own choices. While the world is seen as cause - one's own self-definition in relation to that world is hidden. Now I am not saying that negative experience cannot or does not occur - but I am saying that can have a positive outcome if you decide it will.

The 'self' is fundamental to all else. A phishing scam at this level renders all above it captive to a false basis. The 'i thought', or 'me', is not Self.

I am completely at one with that mathematical structure is innate to the structure of our manifest experience of reality.

The higher mind is not emotions. Discernment and insight and inspiration are not 'feelings'.

Feelings are that which arise as a result of a self definition. Discernment most clearly shines through the neglecting to define oneself.

That you are is Fact. What you define yourself to be is fiction - or rather the imaginative exploration of experience in reflection.

There is no separate 'self' anywhere to be found. It is a kind of currency of shorthand that has drifted and divorced from what it originally signified.

Operating in the 'zone' is an expression sometimes used for the spontaneity that simply knows how to be in any given situation. There is no way to bring the "me" into this quality of Life - and yet in such transparency, one is not absent - so much as a pure awareness that is one with and not apart from.

The "me" wants to regain this true power, but is the only thing getting in the way. But it sees everyone and everything else as getting in the way.

That which Is Awake is not the personality. One does not have to be awake to be willing to open to the prompts and guidances of that which is. But one does have to wake enough to recognize one is in a sense dreaming. This is often when one's personality construct has been in some sense broken or deconstructed by whatever life-experience brought the gift. It may not have seemed a gift. It may seem cold and hard indeed. But have you unwrapped it yet?

The larger thread of comments can be viewed here:

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35456/Is-the-Level-of-Economic-Illiteracy-Among-the-Wests-Top-Thinkers-Deliberate/#comment-1474317796

Is sexual orientation a choice?

Is sexual orientation a choice?

Is life a choice or 'something predestined'?
At some level this is utterly irrelevant - because life IS - and anything one attempts to define or interpret WHAT it is - is a choice that brings its experience of point of view. Within that point of view any following 'choices' will extend and support that point of view - until one shifts perspective by releasing the self-definition for another.
Popular conversation is so weighted to the idea of an independent personal ego - as if THAT is the creative agent or 'doer' - but within a world of matter and flesh that  effectively control it - that one cannot communicate about the Creative Template that embodies a deeper level of choice within which the personality extension operates.
BUt CHOICE in the sense of Creative Expression is the Movement of Being - whether this is operating unconsciously, in collective agreements or deliberately on purpose as an alignment with one's core vibrational signature.

So what does one GET out of believing this… or that? Every situation is unique and yet no one believes anything that doesn't give them a pay off at some level.

I decide that my life is Choice - not by asserting a coercive will, but by accepting and aligning with the current choice - so as to then be restored to the awareness of having choice. All else is conditioned reaction masquerading as choice - just as one can choose to forget or hide awareness of certain choices by rendering them unconscious and operating as if one is externally defined.
So why not embrace both - whilst recognising that however you define your relation to anything or anyone, your Existence is FACT that embraces all your choices. All identification confusion arises from covering over the felt quality of Existence Itself with mutual definitions . When this is uncovered, you know. You are not then compelled to seek outside yourself for validations or differentiations. Truly, choice is creative expression - but within a victim mentality becomes a defensive ingenuity of masking its lack of foundation.

Victim and victimising mentality operate as one choice within what could be called a power game. Who wants to play the game has no attention for what runs beneath the drama. Those within the game that try to impose rule upon others or indeed to undermine the rule of others are not changing the nature of consciousness, but only their perceptions and identification within the experience they are choosing.
One cannot HAVE an experience but that one chooses to define oneself in relation to what Consciousness or Existence Is. Most of such choice is unconscious to most human beings because they/we live what we call our conscious waking life within such a narrow surface focus.
When the definitions and meanings that had been accepted as 'Reality' become so shifting and complex as to break the rules of orthodoxy, there is a sort of 'anything goes' that allows an opportunistic and destructive appetite for power to play out. It also invites the re-evaluation of the nature of consciousness from beneath or beyond the 'power-game' of a conflicted and segregative consciousness.
In other words we are brought to a time of Choice as to whether to persist in the struggle of warring factions or reintegrate to a perspective that embraces all that we are.
Clearly choice as a concept can be used within a conflicted identity as a way of differentiating and asserting identity. But to truly embody a choice is to rest as one with it and not be offended or undermined by the persecutions of those who can not even see you.
A particular strand of political will seeks to introduce confusion as both a weakening and a distraction of its target. When one falls for a scam is it a choice - or is one truly a victim?
So many of the rules we make to keep us safe become a false sense of safety in which we are blindly herded in the direction of someone else's private agenda.
Perhaps it is truer and wiser to notice that one does not know who or what one is (in any conventional sense) - and so be free to uncover this in this very moment of existence - instead of running a template that has become corrupted by money lenders!

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The theme or template for a human lifetime might be a 'predestined choice' at a higher level - but the way one participates and expresses this remains a personal experience of free will within that lifetime.

There are as many ways to live your life as can be imagined and acted upon with conviction. But if imagination is subordinated to an external set of past conditionings called material reality - then choices will be somewhat limited.

Poisoning the food supply - guard your own Well Being!

The comment that inspired this article is at the bottom of this post


If the concept of 'food supply' expands to include everything that you are receptive to and take in by using it to act out from, then this puts your responsibility to your consciousness at the centre.
Our core beliefs and self-definitions work beneath our normal surface mentality as distortion filters. To a negatively polarised consciousness, all things can be defined awry, such as to make war and conflict and struggle, pain and loss desirable, meaningful and defended against healing - or against change in which such identity made out of conflict, feels threatened.
So there are collective insanities that are embodying as various symptomologies in society, as they can also be seen in the body.
No one is doing anything to you without your permission - Ultimately... but to make sense of that fully requires waking up to Who You Are - and not limiting yourself to the surface waking mentality of the personality structure. But in general terms one can awaken to consciousness responsibility - that is awaken from victimhood, and reconnect with the Living Now in place of a control mentality of conceptual substitution.

The appearance of doing unto others and being done to by others is based on complex interactions of mutual definitions and agreements, BUT the truth is that the situation has all the meaning YOU give it. So you CAN unsubscribe from loveless definitions and play a different game - a self-honouring game that naturally extends that same value to others - whether they play loveless games of not!. For there is only One in All, and we are All in One. That is what we forget when we play disconnect from CAPITAL C Consciousness.

We all grew a self and world view in which we felt some adaptation and security within the flux of life experience and at some time we go through fandamental shifts that are deeply disturbing and yet part of a process of deeper (consciousness) integration. So one can only use the language that one has, and others can only read through their current filters - YET the capacity to discern is of a self-honesty that feels something true or resonant with one's being - even if one does not understand it.

I've been playing God's Advocate with you - I thankyou for your perspective because it opens the mind rather than feeds reaction.
If we relate with what is genuine in ourselves it HAS to reveal that same in others - if if there is also confusion in the forms and vocabularies through which it expresses. This is the Holy Spirit - if you will. We can force or effort or manipulate genuiity - because we are already genuous to our Source. We just have to stop getting in the way of our own natural communication.

Common sense is wise to persist in until something better comes along. The disturbance of the article here is not in its claims but in the revealing of man's hatred upon himself. We all have a share in this - mostly suppressed to unconsciousness. It is if your will a core component of the 'Great deceiver'.

If you are One self - can you BE at war with yourself? Only if first you divide the indivisible and agree to turn away from your Knowing in order to experience yourself differently than you ARE.

Of course though I share this with you it extends to whoever alights upon it and finds there own resonance of heart and mind... as one.

Below is the comment that invited my response above:

PDX_listener posted:

Wow, a lot in that article. Thanks for the research. As usual, though, there is a lot of mixing of facts with theory and conjecture. So let me play a little devil's advocate

1) You can't link all of our social problems to our food supply.
2) The causal link between chemicals in our food and adverse effects to our bodies is very difficult to prove, especially if it happens over long periods of time
3) Just exactly who is it that is doing this to us? (and what do they eat?)
4) is it intentional or is it out of greed and short-sightedness?

Not to say that you are wrong but when you exaggerate or get on your soapbox ("mass insanity", "escalations of criminality", "near total loss of rational thinking among the voting masses") you lose some of your credibility.

Papal Bull?

The Pope says you do not have to believe to go to Heaven.

What is conscience? The voice of guilt? Apparently so for many. Choosing within the mind in guilt does not open the eyes to Heaven - to a unitive and shared reality.
The inner guidance that discerns the true resonance of your being is the voice for truth. Of course only honesty can discern it. Sooner or later, we all come to a point of being worn out of all the other options... and then the voice for truth reveals what we truly want.
A Pope does not give anything you do not give him first. And anything he or anyone says will not have effect unless it is something you are opening to or believing in your own heart already.
Believing in the heart is different from conceptual camouflage. Anyone can make a mask and invest it with belief - but our experience is the fruit of what we each believes in our heart - which words cannot really contain but only point toward.
Denying the heart is the mind's attempt to protect itself. Wake up to that it does not speak the truth of You.
A true Spirit of helpfulness cannot work as 'divide and rule' and so is truly unifying. The harmony of true relations is 'Heaven'. But to uncover this in one's own awareness must first be true to oneself.
Sacrificing for 'others' is another way of using them for disguised attempts to feel better within a false framework of identity. It is pointless to 'try' to be what you are not as if what you are is unworthy. If you exist you are worthy of existing or else you wouldn't exist! Love's awareness is the 'birthright' of all.