Invested belief and its logical extension

http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/07/25/covid-fear/#comment-171589

I don't know why but I found myself responding on the belief issue. So much of this goes around the same circuit and sings to respective choirs - metaphorically speaking as singing in choirs is probably still banned.

If we understood the truth of belief we would no longer be open to such manipulative deceit, but while we mask in beliefs, we want whatever we believe they give us.

Whole cultures have (and do) operate on beliefs that we now find incomprehensible, and yet in our bubble we arrogantly and ignorantly presume to be the pinnacle of Enlightenment but for just a bit more funding of progress. Many assigned HIV positive 'testing' either suicided or were killed by antiretrovirals. The belief in its contagion may - like Elvis - never die. Beliefs that run as effects without true cause are 'memes' that find a host in the minds that use them.

The nature of belief is the reaction and experience that results - whereas 'masking in beliefs' is simply demonstrating that we don't believe them excepting in serving some presentation such as feigning belief in religion or some other social expectation) for the sake of respectability and acceptance. (For religion put anything that serves the same function as a masking in something that wont attract penalty and yet help or be required in certain social circles.

As many accepted the media and political lockstep on the nature of this novel-virus framed epidemic, their belief automatically then extends to the measures set against it. Many others do not accept this and see a fairly average flu season given unprecedented weaponisation under the idea of a (non clinical) viral 'infection that as a 'new' thing is supposed to find us without defence or resilience, and yet can be modelled (sic) to provide an initial pretext for medical martial laws that are unprecedented as an attack on freedoms and rights of association, communication, and movement - including the shutdown of much of the global life support network (Economy), in order to bring in pervasive and systemic controls that reorganise the social structure from a top down mandate in which we have no voice except to cheer for a 'covid health service' that has been completely captured along with most else) under private-gov partnership. Some see no basis for an epidemic outside a media circus of modelling and testing to keep the fear going - regardless the facts - as the basis for driving through global political agenda.

I went off a bit there, but I see no call for undue concern for 99+% of people but have more concern an over-reactive and politically directed fearful treatment context that generally rules out the known and effective HCQ protocols as well as using vit C, ensuring vit D and zinc and other nutrient levels are adequate and following in the demonstrably effective example of Florence Nightingale rather than co-opting her name for a sham.

the idea of preventing the spread of the virus with masks is to my mind pissing in the wind - that is to say futile at best and a false sense of security against a threat that is no here - even insofar as  so very very few had any symptoms or in fact the whole thing is based on 'reconstituted RNA' computer modelling from unspecified material scraped from a handful or less of a strange pneumonic type of disease in one of the most polluted cities on Earth. Where they wear masks against particulate pollution as a matter of course. 

Without the ongoing fear - this whole thing would collapse like a house of cards to reveal a few very specific toxic synergies, antibody cross reactions, regular or normal respiratory clearouts, that indicate a build up of toxins rather than a functioning immune system and a hysteria of reaction to a fear of death and contagion that is itself a deadly contagion that is being utilised to measures that will surely result in unimaginable physical and emotional distress and disease. helicopter money and magic media are used to hold a bubble mentality in place while the controllers fortify their positions.

The tests mean nothing. Cases mean nothing. The facts are more in the clinical sickness - as hospital admissions and deaths. We don't have reliable data on this because everything possible is assigned 'covid'  and sometimes  sometimes double counted, but death by all cause is probably still a real count but often released in delayed batches.

What is being tested for - exactly? a partial match with RNA that could be anything and antibodies that could be from any cold and perhaps other similar conditions - allowing that antibodies do not show after a period of having some colds/coronaviruses but are stored in bone marrow to be brought forth if required.

Fear of the devil or some divine Retribution calls on magic or makes sacrifice to avert total loss. This is an ancient archetypal pattern that gives freedom away in exchange for a belief in power of protection. People gulped aspirin in 1918. People sprayed their kids with DDT against polio. And took proven death by chemicals (AZT) in fear of AIDS.

'Thar's gold in them thar pills'!

But not for them that take them.

Excepting that if they believe they are saved, nothing will tell them otherwise - even if it was only a temporary victory in a long defeat.

Dont underestimate nocebo effect as a driver of perceptions and behaviours

On meeting a commenter of an established norm with a another's dumping opinion on 'virus as unreal't hat offered no real support or basis for its opinion and thus misrepresents it and offers no real communication - while insinuating self-righteousness. 

​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaP5sjwFt3IqOWmmpOsMK7A

Dont underestimate the power of the nocebo effect as a driver of perceptions and behaviours. But don't let that be used to simply deny evidences either. Question from a place of heartfelt honesty or be deceived by a mind of habit. A belief can be acted upon as the reality, become reinforced by reaction and generate its own reinforcing supports. If you look at the past you see so many beliefs powered cultures that cannot now be fathomed - AS IF we are NOW 'awake' or in the real world and they are effectively used as a prop to the current era or discarded.

The challenge to the virus theory is not the existence of code fragments wrapped in protein, produced by living cells, but their functions. Cholesterol was falsely flagged as the cause of heart disease and a vital function was demonised and undermined that left us weaker systemically. There are parallels.

If the virus is not itself the cause, does not mean it is not a form of extra-cellular cellular communication. What we know about biology is always at the cusp of so much that we don't know - but stories are taken from the leading edge as if the light from the gods - with Promethean consequence for the underbelly of a false light!

A computer virus only exists and runs in a specific set of conditions. These we know can be malign - as products of a manipulative intent that we all recognise or share.

But because we have identified in a psycho-pathy of conflict that uses communication as a weapon against itself, does not mean the Cell or Self of which we are budded is evil and that its messengers must be killed or denied as contagion to our bubble. Yet that is the way a manipulative sense of self withholding, operates.

The arrogance of an era that thinks AS IF - it NOW understands and controls and improves nature, frames all that is natural as either weak, unreliable, threat, broken etc - or to be exploited, enslaved, used up and replaced. This says more about our conscious (sic) ness. By our reactions and their fruits our mind is revealed. Science is an attempt to rigorously control our actions so as to uncover what is rather than discover our own artefacts - and there are challenges to virus theory in terms of the artefacts introduced by our methods of 'seeing' or measuring en vitro. Rife's dark field microscopy found en vivo a world that did not support vested interests of its day and it was 'lost'. 'Kill the messenger' rather than lose possession and control under the existing masking beliefs of dominant self-interest. (There is a circular self-definition there and the negative binding loop is characteristic of a false or self-circular reasoning or referencing).

But in any case, the human experience is one of diversity of beliefs, definitions and perspectives that is a feature, not a bug, once a field of relational communication is respected.

When people take their normal as The Natural, they have remade the world in their own image. These bubbles operate as conditioned responses for the most part.

The current intent to manually reset and recondition the human 'normal' or conditioning patterns - not just to sell crap or induce dependency for private gain - but as a global and granular control system, reveals the mind from which we have been operating under masking 'virtues' - coming out 'from the Deep'.

Question: Can fictitious thinking hijack or take over and destroy the very mind in which those thoughts arise, are attended, and valued as a basis to 'think some more'?

What does fictitious thinking mask in, but a mind in a body in a world?

We have experience of the mind in its body in its world, but where exactly is the realm or domain of experience?

Do thoughts actually leave the mind that thinks them, or do we operate a temporal spatial model in which we live the experience as a psycho-physical expression?

Even before we collectively replicated the pattern of embodied mind into this computing medium of packets of code that interface digitalised data streams of results that seem to be a self evident and normal communication. (Hi there 'SON OF SHEM!').

As a witness FOR the field of relation and communication, I speak to the choice to integrate by expansion and inclusion - rather than masking out, locking down and limiting so as to subordinate all else to a control system. And in terms of psychic sensitivities, I see our current models are far too set in masking out and masking over a deeper level of relational conflicts that are generally associated viscerally with intense and strong emotional reactions that are no less active for being masked - but we learn not to look or speak there. Virus theory has become a defence or masking cover story for a pile upon pile of denials and like the banks and toxic debts - too big to fail. yet it it too false to stand - even if humanity is sacrificed upon its altar - as we do. Conflict is not the way to resolve a bug in thinking, even if it can temporarily block attention and awareness by displacement.

CBS and its (new?) Matrix trick

CBS and its (new?) Matrix trick

... If your comments on the CBS news site happen to displease the resident censor, a.k.a. moderator, they will be silently removed from the stream of readers’ comments while still appearing on your own computer screen.  In other words, your post shows up on your screen, but if someone else tries to view it either as a visitor to the site or as a reader who’s logged in under his or her name, it’s not there....

Deceit is pervasive and able to mimic or adopt the forms of what seems acceptable or desirable or true to you. The idea of the deceiver is not new but has been known of, and warned vigilance against, since our first split into mask and deceit.

Note that the deceiver can also masquerade as the protector or warning voice against deceit.

It should become immediately clear that you cannot trust your own thoughts - unless you have discerned and found them as representative and aligned with the true of you. Deceits provoke reaction that does not allow time to pause and listen or feel within and so they are triggers that operate through the weaknesses through which you are most vulnerable - hence deceit works to nurture and magnify your weaknesses by presenting them as strengths so that hate can seem self righteous and fear can seem wise. I cant use words to define the true - but only in the willingness for truth. Sharing such purpose allows communication across and despite apparent differences but the deceit provides an identity that needs to be set against different others by which to seem real.



For ourselves we can discern what we accept and extend through us - so that hate and fear does not use us as its instrument and become the framer of our thinking and behaviour. This actually requires waking up to and owning hate and fear feelings that have historically been denied asap and masked in fairer forms. Where to go with such hateful and conflicted feelings if not to try to banish or hide them - or - to use them to fuel the self-guilt and self-hate that is our fundamental deceit? Feeling is not a slave to conform to the dictate of thoughts but a quality of knowing in its own right - though it needs consciousness and form to embody that knowing. Accepting and feeling our feelings within a willingness to heal or find healing is very different from a sense of being violated and attacked and having to call up immediate defence, and within the acceptance of THAT we are feeling as we are feeling - is the freedom to evolve, change and open fresh and more embracing and less polarized perspective.

Without inner understanding and compassion for the nature of mis-taken identity - we are compelled to attack or judge it - in ourselves in secret and other in the world at large. Indeed our identity problem is one where fear of loss brought a sense of separate self assertion and the inevitable and inherent power struggles within ourself and with others.

The act of extending or living from the true of you - which embraces the other without having to choose the same choices - has a different quality than the assertion of identity.

Personal and social mores also include all kinds of mutual agreements and definitions that are in effect the collective refusal to receive or relate directly in the true feeling presence that we are whether we live and remember this or pass off a suitable masking presentation - not least because the realm of open feeling expression is associated with a can of worms - or every kind of conflicted entanglement. But I remind you that the desire or willingness to heal is an entirely different purpose and vibratory resonance of communication than identity assertions, validations and power struggle - no matter how adeptly or naturalistically nuanced.

'Local reality' is already running and it presents itself as My mind and as identity and freedom seeking power and therefore in terms of a movement toward power. The private mind is  a deceit - but in truth nothing can come into your experience that you are not the vibration of - and therefore it is your teacher, reflecting information back to you that serves balancing within the wholeness as the unique expression of individuality that is recognisably You.

While we are so distracted and engaged in outer reflection that triggers our separation drama - or should I say trauma - we are held in an exclusive focus that has suggested an either/or winner loser interpretation and thus a uni-polar reality. It is this that holds us in an almost exclusively physical or material framework of experience - where the power and freedom of imagination in service to an integrative sense of self is denied - perhaps often unknowingly - but the denial is the active force beneath the appearances of our 'local reality'.

Giving witness truly grows the awareness of true as our conscious experience - from which the live all our relationships and inspirations. Giving false witness is no less powerful - but in a negative or segregating and fragmenting and dis-empowering way. This drives the hunger for power - which is not merely some kind of sin of greed but also the survival instinct of a mis-taken identity running with all the belief given it.

While its reality reflections conform to its interpretations, such power struggle is fed or justified - by opposition as much as by alliance or conformity. It is up to you where you give your attention and allegiance - unless you define yourself in such a way as to give your power to others to frame and dictate your thought. While this is a nonsense in itself - it is tragic in its consequence of experience.

Can we give true witness without succumbing to the seduction of vengeance?

The fruits of true communication - which is infinitely more than words - are miraculous rather than the result of any coercion or ability to acquire and manipulate power. Those who have tasted of this have some basis to persist where the world sees only folly. Those who uncover the insanity of the mind set exclusively in terms of the 'local reality' meet that none-sense in their self-reality as an unworkable and meaningless identifiction - that can no longer be exclusively believed true. However, we can only work with the material at hand and regardless where our starting place - the willingness to learn anew is ever the starting place - and not the form we grasp... and become entangled with.

If winning is a perfection of loneliness and isolation;  If power is consolidated in that which operates against Life in attempt to enslave and replace it with ultimate self-validation, then victory results in a wasteland of hollow robot slaves; A living death.

While you are alive enough to know it, you are never too late to re-evaluate your goals and therefore your starting premises.  But if all your investments are in your mask then can you forsake them? "Better then to die in the mask than suffer the humiliation of exposure" ... to what? To a true Acceptance that you are as you are and not as you judged.

"There is nothing new under the Sun" - and "Behold I make all things new!". These can be seen to illustrate two aspects of choice - re-enactment (that conditions the mind to auto-pilot and believe itself autonomous) and exploration of willingness and curiosity for truth in its OWN terms - but as resonating within our heart as our true desire - rather than the conformity of the masked and masking from feared or hated power. You wont get this with your head (or be deceived you have) because it has to be felt and realized or recognized. Short-cutting true awareness with un-checked or out of true definitions, short changes us - and each other of shared presence.

Staged individuality is a mask

Conversation in the themes raised in
The Individual vs. the Staged Collective
by Jon Rappoport


Thanks for this. Your post triggered the following - which I greatly appreciate the journey of writing.

An individual is relational being - that is integral and active within relationships including groups, family's, organisations and cultures. But the "concept" of individuality can be falsely associated with an abstracted and disconnected power to judge and exploit relationships rather than live them. A withdrawal and withholding of true presence under pretext of focusing in what is 'wrong with' the other, the situation or the self. This may disguise itself in forms of apparently positive behavioural strokes and signs by which to pass off a presentation without having to actually connect or relate.

This self-concept is a masked persona with which an individual can identify at expense of real relations and communication, and indeed is invoked or imposed upon the relationship when it is too painful, humiliating, traumatic, or unpleasant to abide or endure and so the sense of independent power is got from the denial of the relationship in which something believed loveless and threatening is being hidden or escaped. This is the basis for the 'wolf in sheep's clothing', the monsters in the 'unconscious, the 'evil within', the 'sinner', and the psychological 'disease'.

Communication breakdown is a relational split that then signifies itself in patterns of behaviour and even physical symptoms that persist until the underlying issue is resolved or re-cognized and re-intgrated to a true relational presence. But meanwhile such 'lovelessness' will spread and replicate by reaction, including being met with suppression, exclusion and denial.

Societal rules operate a 'collective' agreement "not to go there" - as a surface evasion of depth that is generally felt entangling in obligation to be who you are not or to abide what you do not want. The mask allows a temporary form of relationship in which more is unsaid than shared and which soon wears thin, leading to pressure, stress, irritability or depression.

But real relationship denotes a free or spontaneous willingness to share in the presence of life - which is a kind of dance in which we attune more deeply with that which moves us. For presence is not a ritual re-enactment of a past seeking to fill a sense of lack or right a sense of wrong.

Political diatribe conceals a personal grievance in what appeals for collective acceptance and this personifies the breakdown of communication in society writ large. The yeast spreads through the whole batch.

So reclaiming our individuality is a healing of our communication channel that has been redefined in terms of grievance, in which self-hatred always plays a part. This is firstly within our selves in relation to our inner thought, feeling and sensing. Waking up to a network of false thinking and reactive emotionality that operates a conditioned set of responses, is waking to the correction of error - in which thought, feeling and sensing, realign in unified purpose.

It doesn't matter that this awakens a quality of responsibility that seems too difficult. All that matters is the willingness to align in who you truly are and live that as best you can without judging it. The judgement or blame culture, is what is truly difficult. Enacting a 'staged individual' is the root of insanity if at expense of your true feeling being.

Attend and abide in the Living - and let the 'dead bury the dead'. Only the Living can hear this - and those at the cusp of their willingness to accept Life as it truly is. One can only raise from the dead, those who have come to recognize they do not want it, and put it behind them.

Using our perceptions and judgement as a map to our own 'unconscious' or denied mind is bringing the symptom-messengers in that we used to deny and kill... and listening in the heart - in a willingness for wholeness in balance - that is recognisably and tangibly our Life and not a deceiving mind.

Written in response to:

Conrad says:

Yes, do indeed turn OFF the television. Stop being propagandized. But, those who venture into the woods alone get eaten. The Oligarchy doesn’t preach collectivism. The Republican party lauds the individual. They love those little guys who have bought the Trump image of the so-called entrepreneur, those who beat their little chests and proclaim they too can be a millionaire in this land of the free. Those who stand by passively as their beloved shoe factory closes up and goes off to Indonesia, How pathetic. Do we still have to explain why unions are demonized? My father worked for the newspaper industry when workers had some clout. They had worked out a modus vivendi with the industry. They were highly skilled , well paid and were respected even by management. Get this: if a worker wanted a vacation, any time, he/she put their name on a board and whoever was available could take their place for the alotted time off, and no job was lost. Business still made a huge profit, and workers lived a respectful life.
You can band with others and still be an individual. In fact, when the collapse happens, you had better get to know your neighbor. See Cluborlov dot com.

Upon re reading, I also replied:

Terms can flip. Collectivism as I take it, means the subjugation of the individual to the rights of the collective – that are defined and enshrined in law by the oiligarchy (I like that typo, so I leave it in).
Neo liberal – is anything but tolerant. Neo con is anything but conserving a Republic for and of individuals.
The tv operates an extension and reflection of ‘push thinking’ and passively received image without relational communication, so as well as pulling that plug, we can actively pull or attract what is relevant and resonant to who we are – rather than force feed some notion of who we are ‘supposed to be’.

Ron Paul: Begin With Uncompromising Purity

Ron Paul: Begin With Uncompromising Purity
By Daily Bell Staff

A commentary on the 'Teddy Awards' - in the DBell.
Contrasting the official narrative with genuine merit.


It is astonishingly true that the denier projects the act that is denied awareness in themself onto the 'other'. And quite heartlessly so - that is with no quality of relational awareness for who the other truly is or the effects of such projection... and following attacks (in the name of defence).
Perhaps I should take this away from any specific personage or institution and say it in abstract universally applicable terms - for it is true of any of us in any triggered denial.

Presentation masking true presence is a kind of magic - by which your true fear or your fear of true - is kept hidden ; denied.
Almost all of us are playing the game of denying deeper fear in the attempt to use rage to drive power - by which we become increasing powerless or enslaved to self-illusion of conditioning and without a will of our own. And when not, the game of hiding in fear from such 'power' plays the fear role (of denied rage) by seeking to limit and conform and invalidate anything except that which supports our self-image.
Whenever anyone demonstrates the simple clear integrity of presence - they resonate those who are alive enough to Feel it, but enrage those who have denied Feeling in seeking control through form change - as if changing the forms is answering the driven sense of eradicating symptoms or effects of inner unrecognized conflict. It never does more than prime the pump.

Reading a somewhat synchronous message below (EUbrainwashing MMXVI) I quite agree - though at some level all thinking is part of i-magi-nation. But the presentation of surface thinking is a mask that belies the subconscious and even more unconscious imprints it was made to hide. And so the Faustian pact operates beneath the promise of seeming power gains - and all comes to ruin.
The idea that we can be present and attentively engaged in the best option available to act upon in any moment of choice is natural to a true sense of worth in Life - but is a discipline of focus and intent for that sense of self which is conflicted in purpose and trying to present a unity or 'integrity' over being split or divided.

Although perhaps few here read and fewer understand my offerings here. I am feeling for the articulation of  perspectives that address a deeper patterning from which the world we struggle with, automatically or inevitably arises - and re-enacts over and over again.

Inevitably such light as Ron Paul shares is studied as if to be reverse engineered - either in order to weaken and destroy - or to subvert and usurp the forms in ways that diverts the unwary to follow instead. But a key facet of true individual worth is its extension as real relationship - and that is what we have to be vigilant FOR - and against deception that may look great but feel wrong.

Regardless the appearances of lack of worth in my fellow humanity - I need to nurture and grow the extension of worth as real relationships - or else I succumb to a facade of self-imaged judgemental righteousness - whilst giving power to loveless agenda to use me.

The world is in 'lousy shape' because the very few are empowered by the lousy sense of Life that the very many believe is the lesser evil than risking real transformation. And without a true sense of Life Calling - it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So calling on (seeking/opening/yielding to) Life and flowing with that felt movement in an honesty of being - is a decision or outcome in which Life gets to heal or reintegrate conflicts within us - because we are moving WITH IT.

The 'alternative' is to persist in calling on power OVER Life - in refusal to move our true feeling being - and get what we ask for. Divide and rule indicates that conflict is the ruse by which unity or indivisibility is lost to doubt, fear, guilt, limitation and loss, blame, rage and 'righteous' hatred or indeed 'jihad'.

The holy war of the mind-control warrior is to disallow terror within by pointing the finger out and away. This is not without some loving intent for rage and terror are associated with hell, with fragmentation of consciousness, and unbearable pain in loss of light... and unconsciousness of Life in place of Life's Embrace.

Purity cannot be self-perfected or self-induced by working on oneself in image. It has to be uncovered or re-discovered or indeed revealed against all belief and experience to the contrary. And then it has to be a Relational awareness and not a marketized or weaponized mask.

100% Faith

New Gods: Should we banish faith forever?

Presumed knowledge is blindness to what is actually present.
The terms faith and belief are misused and misidentified.
It is quite so that personal identity professes beliefs or to have faith in what seems reasonably evidenced to their particular perspective. But these are often aspects of a masking identity - for what we actually do, comes from what we actually define and accept ourselves to be in any given moment or situation.
Everyone has 100% faith - but what is it invested in (in any given moment)? One may have faith in 'rational thinking' and presume no faith is involved. But this is the realm of the mask or personae in which assertions of self are justified and defended against the ever changing un-knowability of manifest existence.
The higher mind is out of range to the personality construct - but is natural to one's awareness.
The persona self is a construct and not a thing existing in and of itself.
Identifying exclusively in mask is to be defined and to suffer a coercive and threatening sense of existence. Everyone comes up with their own ways of coping with this - including the supremacist arrogance of a presumed rationality. "Should we banish faith forever?" Is this the New World Order? A joke? or both?
A true science recognizes its foundation in definition - for without self-definition there is NO perspective-experience available. A false science operates as if its predicate is exclusively true.
The "One true God" mistake, is one of exclusive personal definition, and replicates as the one 'empirical truth'. This is a liability of the fight/flight mentality in which the personality has become pervasively identified.
No one has to 'justify' their beliefs in terms of another - but may communicate if approached in a willingness that values communication.
Rationalism divorced from Reason would invalidate anyone who does not conform and use the form of communication as a coercive device. This sort of thing feeds anti rationalism - because meeting a lovelessness in others, is the temptation to project one's own fears and guilts' - one's own feared and hated evil intent - ONTO those who blindly assert power or propagate lovelessness in ways that effectively undermine any other perspective than their own.
This reaction is then equally blind and easily manipulated. Power struggles USE such tactic as a matter of course - hiding within a masked agenda.
Freedom is the inherent capacity to accept into your mind only what is true of you. A conflicted mind is a split persona, and a conflicted world-experience. The evidence belies the foundation. Unless of course one WANTS to keep one's foundation hidden, so as to  interpret all things in its defence.
Belief in separateness - whether apparently religious or apparently atheistic is the same faith. Science can be distorted so as to reinforce this 'faith' as can any spiritual or religious path or culture.
Materialism posits reality without consciousness - or WOULD if it could achieve it. Does not this reveal the hidden agenda of 'rationality' as DENIAL of Consciousness? Is that not THE 'faith' by which the human ego - in any disguise, maintains a semblance of believability and thus its operability in its filtered and distorted version of 'the world'?

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.

is it a crying shame?

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

Andy Murray's tears are hard to watch

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

 Comment:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beauty and the Beast?

Beautiful people are attractive even when disgusted

Beautiful people are seen as good looking even if they distort their faces into grimaces of disgust, surprise, fear or anger, according to new research. (Telegraph article)

These scientists are rather daft whether they are attractive or not! (tongue in cheek).

Statistical norms - have you ever met one? (Lots of wannabe's though).

Social conditioning can set up all sorts of socially approved or socially compatible criteria of attractive and unattractive. And at the surface level (in which scientists often seem to live) - these things hold true - as does a lot of current theory. But at the Soul level, there is an entirely different criteria and one which doesn't yield to being objectified, quantified and wrapped up in theory.

Shared purpose is another name for one-mindedness. But separate purposes that share only at the surface level are split-mindedness.
This latter 'meets' in order to get - that is - it doesn't know real relationship at all - for something is always held back and something is always gotten from the other that serves to validate the self.

This is not as 'out of sight' or unconscious as social mores would have us believe and could roughly equate to the selfish gene idea.
A selfishness that seeks to establish its own genesis and seed itself.

Though there is a level at which this 'works' as a balancing interplay of competing forces, it is hardly more than a conditioned program of identifying with a sense of self in a hostile environment. The world seems to provide perfect proof of this excepting that this self is a virtual construct and so is the mapping or interpreted experience we call the world.

How could anyone possibly believe THIS! Well, let that sense be a proof of the power of belief to identify and react to information as true without a direct self enquiry - and I don't mean consulting one's database.

Anyway, I digress. The qualities of Soul - I could say Life, God, Spirit - (but none of them relate to anything within the framework that expresses self-definition), are Attractive to the Soul. The notion of Soul-mate is a rather personalized sense of such an attraction - but it isn't really a personal matter but a transpersonal or transcendence of what we usually trade with as 'self'.

True beauty is of the Soul and 'glamour' might be used for what is essentially fantasy that fulfils the dream subject to our moments of power to enact it. People are generally preoccupied with fantasy and a glance at Facebook shows that this identity can extend like chinese dolls into more and more dissociated levels. Why would one assume our self/world to be the Primary or Ultimate Reality?

The virtual self is a mask with which we access fantasy experience upon something real, and one can play out whatever personalities can be made up, copied, imbibed or carried in past baggage. These are an attempt to set rules and maintain a continuity - and a highly complex but largely tacit conspiracy of self interest makes the current experience of ourselves and the world.

Yes I've rambled off the point.
Guilt is a crippling sense of self and is both a means of manipulating our perception - and the behaviour of others. When anyone is disgusted with you - and extends loathing and utter derision - and you have ANY target where that hits home and activates guilt - then they are NOT attractive.
Now Jesus - whether historical or not - embodies the capacity to see what is ALWAYS ATTRACTIVE in everyone. That is not so far from us as we like to think - and we do like to think all the time, so as not to let anything disturb, undermine or violate a private sense of self.
This indiscriminate defence, is a blindness to and fragmentation of our Soul, which yet knows itself in all its parts whole because it is the direct Expression of the Individuality of God. Not a god out there or in here or in thinking - but the 'Boson' by which all particulate boson/fields express existence.

There is a mental split between the impulse and the control - and yet the impulse is a distorted expression of something true, arising from a deeper level of control.

We all know that the carrot and the stick keep the donkey under control and for carrot, read 'attractive'. But there is a qualitative difference in an allure and a truly lovely presence - whether that presence be Brian Cox or Steven Hawking.

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Second comment to the following:

• lesley1

  2 days ago

  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - all this generalisation about so-called "good looking" people is ridiculous.  But I suppose it is a means of selling celebrity magazines to the credulous in poverty stricken times.
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  temirzhan

  2 days ago

  I disagree. There are certain types looking at which the overwhelming majority of people would agree that they are beautiful. Beauty can acutally be quantified and there has been plenty of research on this. Distance between jaws, eyes, proportionality of face etc. Most people would agree that, for example, Monica Belucci, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck, Jared Leto or Tom Ford are beautiful.

  On the other hand, Sofia Loren or Kate Moss are not beautiful in a pure sense of the word but they are different and they stand out.

  
  

The experience of beauty is in the eye (mind) of beholding - but the definitions of beauty are indeed in the database of past conditioning.

If you look beneath the 'face' there are these creaturely aspects of mortal combat (death wins). Face is perhaps our first 'language' in the world. (We brought touch with us as innate sense).

Most people? Look at other cultures and look at the art and even the old photos to see it is a cultural expression.

Faces are learned. Faces are masked - unless open.

Face recognition is now standard in digi cameras. One can see that with more processing power and corresponding software  attractive faces could be identified and selected over unattractive faces. And with advances in biotech - we'll be able to have ours rendered attractive - according to the mutating social mores of the day.

Beauty transcends form but a poverty of Spirit grabs at the form and tries to recreate the experience - hence the database of past conditioning...

The presence of a capacity to abide in Life - or 'doing nothing'

Manic activity makes for bad government

What is missing in much of modern life is a genuine presence. Instead we have presentations of intent designed to tick the appropriate boxes - a masqerade behind which are arses protected and fences sat upon. A life without conviction or commitment to anything except staying in power. I'm also talking about us all.
The capacity and courage of discernment is to maintain a clear presence whether acting or desisting from mere reaction. This communicates at a different level than propaganda can reach.
However the manic nature of the attempt to manipulate perceptions of reality is at such a pitch that real information is effectively hidden in broad daylight and few can discern the true from the false because of their own self-investments.
Doing nothing is another way of saying doing nothing to interfere with the way Life Works. A constant interference is the way to inhibit or block Life from becoming self-aware as an awakened responsibility. It is also the ignorance of those who play at power or vanity of those who play at dressing up in self-importance!
Wisdom is vanished when man pretends to know. To truly discern, we must pause from reaction - including our best thinking - and listen as an expression of as much honesty as we can trust. Because, it would be absurd to pretend that we are as congruent as our social masks make out.
Trying to be seen to be in control is a pathetic caricature of a puppet-man who strikes at every shadow and makes rules as if to keep xyz from ever happening again - and makes 'war' on the ills so as to appease the self-righteous - so they don't have to look within at the deeper conditions out of which our ills arise as sure as night follows day!
Those who use guilt and blame as leverage - suffer to be split off from their wholeness, for it is true that even as we do unto (the least) others - so do we unto our very self.
Control mentality is a sham for both sides of the apparent transaction. True harmony arises from values truly embodied and shared as cultural expression. One has to extend trust to find trust is met. But that first requires that one HAS it. It starts with our own true relations within ourself and extends out automatically.
The age of man's conquering life is passing - though not without the last attempts to control via biotech and psychotechnical means.
There's nothing like deep sickness of a sense of a poisoned Soul to bring wretchedness to awareness. If it is brought to light a correction will be found but while we do so much to push it down! and keep it pushed down! - we hide from the sickness and the cure in endless complications of self defeating efforts.
I can not convince the mind that lives only on the surface to question its world as a mere surface - but a wretchedness of meaninglessness in a conflicted and conditioned perpetuity can - and will.
Those who can abide in life can be a channel through which life communicates in thought, word and deed. Abiding is 'doing nothing to break the connection'. This is a great art - indeed the word abide is of 'being' and art is the true nature of 'to be'.
Much ado about nothing! While we must do what calls for doing, we can look to the spirit in which it is done. We can always align ourselves with or against our true good, by the purpose within which we live.

What Scientology tells us about religion?

Beliefs and identities. Who is free of them?
Human thinking, deceptions, self illusions, who is free of it?
Arriving at truth results not in a definition so much as an honesty of communication.
The mind at war within itself is compulsive in its thinking and believes its experience is real.
The mind of a private self-interest seeks to gain a manipulative power over others (outsiders) via shaping their thinking, and application of positive and negative incentives. It can use whatever is in your mind to shape you and its finesse is when it can do so and leave you feeling free. It can use even the highest truths in such a way as to validate Itself - over and against the others or outsiders.

Now am I describing the devil?, Religious organisations? Corporations? Politicians? Local communities? Families? Your own mind?

Fear manipulates. It may be 'unconscious' by virtue of its self justification system - whether that calls on religious or any other set of beliefs, shared definitions and accepted values.
It can manipulate by living a mask and masks can interact and enter contracts of relationship to make a cult of two - and keep the outsider our and the presentation intact. But in the process, masks disintegrate.

The disintegration of identity is not something one can get a handle on and manipulate (for that is merely rebranding or shifting 'toxic elements' into a new wrapping. We might label it as a breakdown, it may have mental, emotional and physical symptoms. But it is an experiential learning - not of mere ideas or techniques - but of an integrative process of wholeness. If anyone who is no longer able to keep up with maintaining their mask  to the world - or even to themself, then they are in need of a new basis and direction of self - because the old one was a very ingenious mask by which to evade a true intimacy yet appear to connect and relate in limited - and limiting ways.
Until there is some awakening beneath and beyond the mask, defence is fully active almost all the time. Coping in a lovelessness is not our natural being, it has to be coped with by making a self - a mask. And in times when the mask is weak, we are eager to strengthen it - and so are open to suggestion as well as to inspiration.

Religion can offer a framework that reflects the pattern and the process of our mind, which is not what we think - though we use our thought to defend our will against all comers. A will to prevail. But there is also within us a desire to know and be known; a desire to feel and share love.

The belief in the mind as an independent authoritative power reflects in attitudes of control, manipulation and deception. One might smile to disarm and actually believe one was being kind rather than fearful.

So what is the basis of real relationship? Of an integrity of thought word and deed, and an honouring of the other as oneself?
What is the nature of awareness itself - that feels like a field in which all that is felt or thought, sensed or experienced arises and passes away. I am 56 and it has never changed one jot - though the dramas of the world have often covered it so as to 'live' in a virtual life that never touches the ground of simply here and now.

What is the term religion originally signified might be 'reconnect', what tends to happen is making identity of external association, in which true connection is replaced by forms (or ritual or belief or observance etc).
This is as much a reflection of human consciousness as anything to do with religion as such.

As with many things in the world, there are tares among the wheat - and to pull out the tares will damage the crop. But in a life lived consciously, there is a natural sorting out of what is undermining of our fulfilment and what is truly fulfilling.

A relationship in which trust can be grown and sharing life in ways that are love rather than attempts to 'do' love is a gift to our children. For it is not what we say that teaches, but what we demonstrate or embody.

If the world mask (mind) is disintegrating as I feel it is - then the Soil is changing and the old plants (ideas and beliefs) will wither. To discern the new means paying attention in trust and willingness - why? because fear distorts vision and wilfulness reacts instead of listening first.

Listening in its deeper sense, is passing by reaction and discerning truth in ourself in relation to whatever situation we are in. That doesn't mean we can define what we find - but it does mean we can move from a sense that resonates as truly helpful, and willing to stay listening while we relate or act.

Whatever transpires for the couple and their child, I trust they find a better - more honouring communication in their separation and that their child feels listened to and valued by them both.
In war, truth is the first casualty. A true innocence of being is not in the mask - but the spontaneity of an unselfconscious awareness.

You cant buy or sell this or attain it by will - but it can be made welcome - by any name or no name. It isn't for using in the world of the mask - but you can let it use that to grow and communicate itself in a shared welcome - such as is freely willing.

Everything is up for change and what draws me is the opportunity for a wholly integrated culture of heart and mind; something that comes from being honest with ourselves in a deeper way than we yet imagine - and the bonds of love and trust that are found in such a commitment (across seeming differences of culture and background).

A manipulative intent doesn't work - whatever the system that hosts it.