Political Ignorance and apathy

Why John Oliver Can’t Find Americans Who Know Edward Snowden’s Name (It’s Not About Snowden)

(I actually commented this into Media Lens Forum)


This mirrors the configuration of 'consciousness' in which as much as possible is given to subconscious routines and made unconscious.
This is because conscious responsibility is equated with or uncovering of negative outcomes.
The desire to 'split off from' or escape responsibility rises out of guilt, powerlessness, terror, rage and shame.
To put the conditioning into reverse; it is easy to see that where such latent conditionings can be triggered, there is a very strong and predictable desire to seek protection from such fears.
Identity politics is the assertive defence of a sense of identification against anything that would expose or uncover a feared and believed truth in which one loses whatever power one fears to have. Emotional investment follows accepted self-definition and core beliefs.
The stirring of willingness - indeed love - of truth, cannot set terms in advance as to what that is.
But it can recognize and release its own filtering distortions enough to open a greater receptivity to a clearer perspective of resonance and relevance to the active desire.

Perhaps most Americans don't give any care (for anything outside their immediate sphere of control) simply because they believe themselves to be powerless and grab at anything they can use to either distract or insulate themselves from stuck rage, deeper fears and a sense of powerlessness. Perhaps while such investments are identified with and protected, no other choices or perspectives can be discovered or opened. A god of judgement is a jealous god - and that imprint is much deeper than any surface personality traits - no matter how rationalized away of covered over with justifications.

Education is the natural result of conditions in which learning is supported, but the imposition and corruption of a fear and guilt agenda 'learns' to deny the true spirit of curiosity and discovery in favour of the mask of conformity within a tyranny that uses division and conflicted identity to rule from the shadows.

However, the recognition that fear and guilt demand sacrifice of truth, and thus of true joy in living, is the basis from which to challenge the narrative and allow a true willingness for learning that is transformational - for we are changed - and our perception and experience of ourselves, each other and our world is changed, thereby. This is that last thing that a control-mentality will allow. But the desperation of a clinging to the attempt to coerce and manipulate becomes a lesson from which all who are willing, will learn of their own liabilities - if they desist the temptation to project their own guilt and fear away onto others and world in search of validation and righteousness.

Mis-takes call for correction; for a fresh take. Guilt calls for blame and punishment. Here are two teachers with opposing curricula. One cannot serve two masters. This is the choice upon which all else proceeds.

True governance has been subverted, corrupted and usurped. This is a call for good housekeeping to re-establish a true sovereignty of Will, which has been falsely associated with opposition and blame-shamed into subjection by a false will. By a false currency of thinking and a loveless use of the mind that reflects as a denied will and body. Such  our world is picturing writ large.

Manipulative intent exploits a conditioned inattentive mind

Naive Faith in Natural Medicine. A Dangerous Example of The Risk Perception Gap
Have you heard about the Echinacea that was actually ground-up Parthenium hysterophorus, an invasive exotic weed in Asia and Africa which doesn’t do much for a cold but causes serious skin rashes, problems breathing, and makes you fart? Or the St. John’s Wort that was actually a plant called Alexandrian senna, which does nothing for mild depression but works great, as a laxative. (What a drag. You’re still depressed AND you have the runs.)

(DNA tests of many natural remedies uncovered deception as to true ingredients)

Note: My first reading of this article missed its central point and the headline inferred to me that it was in some sense about natural remedies - which it is not. Poor choice of heading except to use provocation as an attractor? Naive faith in my first impression?
;-)
I've amended my comment!

The article is only using the example of deceptions that the recent DNA testing of some such remedies brought to light- and noting a lack of alarm or outrage as compared with the distrust and opposition to such hegemaniacs as Monsanto. I think my word-play indicates why I have a different reaction; I buy hardly any natural remedies (or any remedies) but understand Monsanto seeks to 'patent' or control biology in ways that are catastrophic in effect upon our world.

Cheating is cheating and has nothing to do with what one is cheating about to be deception. However, if the deception comes from an institution that is very powerful and pervasive in social or economic activity, then it is much more alarming than if some marginal business cuts their product with cheaper alternatives.



If there is a predisposition to trust or choose certain things then a deceptive intent will market to such prejudice and even use it to sell ideas and therefore products or services that would normally be seen as contra to the view that gave rise to the prejudice, before it was blindly adopted as a conditioned response.

The manipulation of perception is a dominant theme in ways the religious mind couldn't imagine - because it sells the idea of freedom by setting up the hoops that the population will jump through for you - at whatever cost to their wellbeing, their culture and community and their environment or planet. But this cost will awaken and the awakening will lead to the transcendence of the mind - because no one will trust it as a source of their own thinking. It does however make a good servant.

So it is a wake up call to realize that trust is not something to simply give away without discernment. If we give our power away, it will be taken by something or someone else that may not be attuned to our best interests.



Integrity is an honesty of self that knows itself enough to become aware and responsible for its own perceptions and acts. Merely good intentions do not substitute for our true presence and so in such sense we are no less deceptive in our mind than those who meet us in a manipulative 'entente cordial'.





I am of the sense that we allow healing to be - in the way and the manner that represents our particular 'permission slip' - based on our core beliefs and self definitions. The belief that healing is not possible is endemic in modern materialistic Soul-lessness and so mechanical interventions that manage have replaced the belief and experience of healing.



My points all point to Consciousness; of the totality of the being - which is not only the mind of belief and definition and their emotional and physical resonances - but the aspects of consciousness that are lumped as 'unconscious'.

Our reality as generally believed is a highly specific and narrow focus within facets of Consciousness that are reflected from the experience of our physical senses - as if that is the source of all information and therefore definition , of what we actually are.

While naturally growing remedies may be ill-advised or mis-diagnosed, any course of action can be undertaken as an attempt to evade responsibility, block the life force in its movement to heal or correct and prop up a negative self definition that is itself the 'disease'.

It is only a derivative of this to lean into a manipulative farming of such lack of discernment for personal gain without honour.


We need to have faith in our Selves in a truly honest sense and in the life that - one can say - Lives us! This then extends to our freely imaginative engagement in whatever methodologies serve the feeling-sense of that Life in our moment of living - that is - to abide and choose the joyful and be open to new ways of such fulfilment in our uncovering and experiencing and sharing of our life.

Thankyou

Beyond the box

I've just 'bumped' into this blog and skimmed and read a little here and there.
The forgetting is a tool-portal. In choosing ignorance of All That Is - is a 'private creation' enacted, through mutual definition, maintained and predicated on divide and rule. The mind of definition, judgement and rejection. This 'control mentality' is essentially a distraction device in which judgement can gratify itself upon the Living that it rejects or refuses to recognize or accept - or else it would be rendered functionless, obsolete, nothing. Insofar as we use and are thus used by meaningless thoughts presented so to seem true, so as to adulterate and usurp reality with a personal bias or distortion, or perception. In this we have the experience of power struggle and choosing between, the drama and the challenge and the excitement and of course misery of 'I WANT IT THUS!'. But whence the 'I' but from an act of self definition taken to be real and thus experienced over and against the Field of Awareness Itself in which and of which nothing but Is? And whence the 'other' but that which is essentially out from the sense of control that is now walled off from all that would seem to take back what has been taken?
And is the 'you' of relationship a means to get from? A potential ally in mutual reinforcement and a suspect who has a mind like mine that would steal life to keep it?

My basic input is that to truly look at this 'self' and see it without wiggle room, rebranding, further judgement from redistributed juggled points of view within the box or remaining capacity to make drama out of it... Is its nothingness.
Without an act or a thought it is replaced out of time by a true foundation - such that I'd have to say it is already replaced but one has to look within to accept - even though EVERYTHING that is taken to be one's self is dedicated to preventing and defending against exposure of the nothing. It will seem to sacrifice itself in all sorts of exposure as evil, or victim to evil, but its nothingness is 'divinely' protected.

Though some stick their vision out from the box and gather glimpses, they will gather and interpret through the mind of the box until the foundation has awakened to sharing true purpose. To a unified appreciation that does not project itself out in dream of conquest nor in seemingly unconscious denial and displacement of hateful intent. The mind but extends to share. "Know Thyself' is love's revelation amidst the Movement of awareness/event we might call Creation; Existence, Being.
The apparent overlay of a virtual self - likewise knows itself in all. But the self that seemingly separates and receives its own attack as if from 'Other' is a self born in terror.

How does one calm down someone in an insane dream so as to get them to recognize they are but hurting themselves by their choices and beliefs and definitions? One step at a time.
Where is this lost one who seeks vengeance and retribution for its grievance or a show of power to cover its nothingness - it is an echo in our collective mind and so it is in my mind when I recognize it in another. The what of a response needs to be a present discernment or else the past re-enacts by reaction. It is myself that is offered freedom, and if I accept it, then of itself is peace extending where before was judgement, hate and demand. The ones involved may choose not to accept or to only partially accept as their willingness allows - but the gift is given and received in the mind as one and the fit of the mask will be tighter and less able to function as a mask for those who are yet identified in the mask as their self.

It is not for me to demand of another that they choose as I say - nor to manipulate or coerce them. As long as I define anything or anyone outside and apart from All That Is I will be part of their prison and share it with them. For what we give, we immediately receive. It is only trick of the mind that seems to 'get away with it' and have someone else lose.
 Of course one can only imprison or hurt one who chooses to imprison or hurt themselves.
But our definition agreements go deep in our consciousness/reality such that we all chose to hurt and imprison ourselves in choosing the forgetting - and taking it in earnest.
I have arrived at my beginning!
But with new eyes.
The world becomes a different purpose to that which is not locked down in its drama. A place of miracle and awakening and healing the mind from which all else proceeds.
Where we focus our attention is our freedom, what we magnify thereby is our valuing. What we call forth is fruit to our seed. What we gather we share in one mind or suffer as if alone and apart. This choice is only a choice while darkness and confusion obscure its true nature. In the light it cannot be a choice because it cannot be chosen. One cannot actually separate and be an independent power over anything.

Fear can cut off the channel of communication yet communication will guide and support through fear. Fear itself cannot make a foundation or motivation that persists or abides.
The foundation is not a thought construct or definition or device of consciousness.
It cannot truly be defiled, lost or edited but by lies that CAN be corrected - because they are not true.

Jesus is not special - or love is yet crucified unknowing

An article on whether evidence found indicates Jesus was married



Comment:

I feel that the mentality that tries to use whatever is considered authority (in its day) as its own base from which to prevail, is a usurper; a phony or psuedo self deceit. It is not hard to find in our own thinking or in the world because it is the play of the sense of ego-self in its own self-creating. Mistaking it for reality is losing a real participation in Life for a false promise.
The story of Jesus - regardless of anything beyond the story - serves as an awakening archetype in the mind. All of what is in the story is about You.
All of the characters in the story speak of You.

This Movement - of awakening, finds its way into the human experience or the 'human condition'. It is the penetration of ignorance from within - yet the very nature of ignorance insists that reality is without and sin is within. (Effectively a dissonance of being that has become confused with a sense of self and triggered  dissociation, denial and displacement that is automatically defended as real - as for our very survival.

Making Jesus special, 'saves' us from everything he teaches. To make special is to separate. There is a perspective that can appreciate his teaching which does not use the mind that makes special to sacrifice love so that a separateness can 'live' in its place.

The rigidities of mind in polarity about what and whether Jesus was are smoke screens. But the opening of the mind from rigidity to simply feel anew - allows thoughts that would previously been rejected.
The process of undoing the thoughts of guilt, of hate, of fear, is going on all the time in all of time. It is the purpose of the Holy Spirit; the Voice for Love's Recognition and Remembrance. It doesn't need to be called anything to be Called.
Jesus put his own thinking aside and listened for the 'Father's Will" - for the feeling and the guidance of our Unified Being.
This is as available to all as to him. Jesus may have had a head start in living out from a faith in the Innocence of Being and a love of truth, but that could be seen as preparing a way rather than proving us guilty, evil-minded and weak.
The ignorance of our perspective will always distort or limit what we can receive.
Therefore beware of taking literally, that which was the best that could be understood at the time. Jesus himself was seen as a breaker and defiler of the law - though he came to fulfil it; for the law was made for Man and not the other way round. What he shared as the Son of Man - as humanity - was not a house divided or an hypocrite.
Unless Jesus is taken down from the cross of a specialness of person, then his message is effectively blocked. That Jesus is one with the Holy Spirit is to say that within you is a Guide and Movement for Love's awakening amidst a mind and a world of wilful struggle.
In Peace

Brian

Bankers pay themselves millions - over and over again. What's going on?

What is the basis of this movement of transfer of great wealth? From what does it come?
Silly money is the inflation of money based on money based on money - where reselling financial 'instruments' makes a sort of ponzi scheme that is fed with and supported by .... the actual transfer of real wealth from poor to rich - and of the turning of assets - both cultural and material - into short term cash - for the purpose of private gain and control.
Rather than vilifying persons who are possessed by such a mentality, I invite taking some time to look at the mind of private gain and control in our own life.
What has writ itself large on the stage of the world is a nature that is unnatural to our truth whose cost is the eclipse or FORGETTING of our truth and seems to deliver us a world (of conflict) at cost of our Soul - which IS the Presence of tangible Life and therefore the root context of all true wealth.
The mind of clever thinking isn't limited to global corporate financial control.

Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough and the problemof consciousness

That anything at all exists - and that awareness of anything IS - is mind stoppingly awesome. See reality without the lens of concept or definition and you let reality see through you. What is the mechanism that tends to automatically deny, limit or interrupt this directness of be ing? I don't ask for words - I ask you to explore for yourselves and know.

The problem of human consciousness is that it is itself predicated on an impossible and insoluble assertion or presumption.

"I think therefore I am" - is true enough as the intuition of awareness - but totally false if it is taken to mean that you are as your own thought suggests, infers or defines. This deception is far more deep seated and all pervasive than would ever be imagined or believed - yet it comes about through the ignorant or careless use of imagination and belief. This mechanism of identification, differentiation and desire is the underlying program by which the mind seems to split itself into a multiplicity of apparently conflicting and yet unconsciously cooperating entities or survival drives associated with a symbolic substitution of form and imagined meaning for a direct and indivisible 'knowing'.

Everything discovered about the mechanism has a use in the reawakening of awareness to its true source and nature - when it is realised to be reflective of the mind or wish that calls it forth.

To use the mind as mechanism is to experience and see a mechanical 'world'.
Everything about such an investigation is mechanical and complexity of patterning or fitting together is not a true beauty or meaning just because it can be fascinating.

To release the mechanical bias - and let mind rest into and be purely expressive of its true nature is to "Be still and know that I am God". There is no belief or thought involved in what this points to. It is simply letting truth be as it is and guiding or revealing itself - Instead of indulging an imaginative self sense that determines and seeks to manipulate reality to suit its own self image.

In science and in spiritual enquiry - there is a not altogether unconscious self-seeking - that always works against the true desire of the heart because it is founded on a false sense of self. You are living the experience and feedback to the experiment of activity of thought, judgement, and belief - that is as far from the surface of human awareness as is the Earth's core from a game of cricket.

Yet to observe this, and allow realignment and integration with the truth of what you are, must you release your own thoughts of the meaning you have given them. Don't worry, the truth is never at risk - and illusions are not really here and so cannot be attacked by truth. Confusion is not the original or actual nature of mind - so do not use it as if it speaks fro you.

Corporate Disaster poisons the world we share

Look carefully at the way 'creative' obfuscation is employed in all our relationships. It isn't just the corporate accounts or government budgets or the PR and manipulative deception so as to maintain the illusions that we assert to others and OURSELVES. Sanity and honesty are inextricably facets of each other. There are 'games' being played that cost the Earth - and cost the appreciation, well being and wealth of what would we would be living - in an integrated willingness of purpose and worth. Corporate selfishness NEEDS to be constrained within the community interest or its simply exploits, undermines and destroys, in the wake of blind short term interests. There's no profit in such loss. Governments and official regulatory bodies NEED to hold their service as a duty of trust and beware of inducements to cosy up to the 'rich and powerful' when those lobbies attempt to use their leverage for mean and callous ends. It isn't that bad people need to become good - but that we need to stop and reevaluate what the Good truly means. Unless we stop and start from a fresh perspective, we are always trying to force life to fit our self illusion. Our whole way of life will change from a rediscovery of what life truly is. Or of course one can insist on persisting from a basis that has never worked, is not working, and will never work. Of course it seems to work - thus the protection of the status quo by those who are in power. But the real cost is becoming increasingly more difficult to deny - and many are less willing to be controlled by loveless thinking. The emotional 'body' of the American people is feeling hurt, confused and outraged. The feeling needs to be acknowledged - but it does not need to become a basis for satisfying the urge for vengeance under the disguise of justice. Educate. Feel for the truth that can be received. We are oil addicts because we have used it to empower a way of life that exploits rather than shares. We can change our way of life, set a fresh direction, and get off the addiction, one step at a time. The risk factors at Macro level need to come right down. It isn't ok to make these kind of tradeoffs at the cost of a commonwealth that hardly appears on balance sheets. At the microlevel they need to come up. We as individuals need to dare to explore, discover and grow the ways of a true peace amidst the lessons that we experience as symptoms of ignorances past. There is nothing compulsive about ignorance apart from a desire to stay in the dark, play out the games of division and blame and shame and love the sense of our own image, judgement and opinion as if these offer safety, fulfillment or sanity.

drug and law dangers

Brief comment posted on BBC site regarding drug dangers and laws

The sense of life that is currently 'shared' in our culture is of an appalling hypocrisy and shallow mediocrity. It is increasingly 'normal' to accept a meaningless and unhappy life with no real sense of a true intimacy of self or with others or the world.

A joyless life is an emptiness demanding to be filled. Chemical drugs offer a bio tech substitute - but dependance on external substitutes for life is an underlying mentality that has to be addressed experientially - and in one way or another we all have to discover for ourselves where our true life is.
But when the pervasive culture perpetually reinforces sick illusion and hypocrisy - it is hardly surprising that the liability for folly is magnified.

Shame killings and the idolisation of feminine purity

2010/02/10

Shame killings and the idolisation of feminine purity

http://tinyurl.com/yeazpto

In the above linked article I feel a mind feeling connections between cultures that idolize the feminine in idealistic forms that then confine, exclude or deny life to women who do not fit the form.

In the comments, I feel a mind that only sees the forms in the meanings it has given them and remains passionately compartmentalized. I felt to add my own comment - and what is written below was grown from my comment.


Blame for evil act or intention must always focus on persons: me, us, you or them - and always  reinforces a sense of separted minds. But a shared mentality that is sick is not a matter of blame and punishment but of a need for healing and correction of the error in the shared mind that upholds the culture.

We always want to see the sickness or fault in OTHERS and not in our own mind. I don't  say blame - I say ignorant wrong-thinking. Self righteousness is a defence for displacing BLAME - and concerns itself with only the truth of a selected part of a larger picture - for private benefit. We can of course turn this upon our own self - but always by a process of self judgement that confirms guilt and then applies exclusion and punishment upon oneself. 

Shame killings should NOT be reported as honour killings, or even as ‘honour’ killings. Shame is a destructive sense of sin - believed to be real and experienced as real by those who are unaware of the innate sense of sanctity and worth that is of our 'original nature' rather than of any humanly acquired self image.

Human thinking has always been liable to both create and serve loveless ends in the name of its own brand of 'love'. We cant have it both ways. Illusions of love bring the cost of ignorance of love. In such ignorance our minds are deceived whereby we feed the very fears that enslave us and make them self-fulfilling.

To undo the investment we have placed in the mind of sin is both simple and yet profoundly difficult. It is simple in that it calls not for further human ingenuity or effort - but only for a present faith in a greater Presence of Life than our current belief allows. This can only come as a willingness to reevaluate the basis of one’s own current experience.

For much of our activity of thought and intent has a hidden intent to be protected from the feeling and thought that is a sense of hate or shame. Discovering this allows an  honesty to enter - even if we cannot abide it at first. This honesty may be as a small still voice amidst a storm. But it is not deception, and as you learn to trust and abide in its light, the fruits of trust and discernment will undo and replace the fruits of estrangement and self judgement.

The only honour we can truly have is that which we give the truth that we are willing to recognize in each other and in our world. This can not be  taken from anymind that remains willing to give it. But is already lost sight of by anymind that seeks to have it for itself.
Likewise the only teaching worthy of allegiance are those which serve awakening of such truth as brings life more abundant - and truly shared.