Reaction - does not get to the heart of the matter

Pregnant women don't 'deserve' a drink - not even Prosecco
As doctors rule out alcohol during any stage of pregnancy, Emma Barnett thinks British women should listen up

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I might suggest folly 'should' pause for wisdom before pronouncing a sense of moral righteousness and superiority behind the mask of perceive authority, but then I would join in the same error.

Perhaps Emma's Mum drank while the as yet un-named Emma was in the womb, for the patterns of action and reaction that pass through the generations tend to persist.

Reaction - does not get to the heart of the matter - nor the matter of the heart.

Pause before reacting ...to check in at the heart - and if that does not feel practically helpful, I suggest pausing any actions of significance until having a true sense of the heart - of the actual Feeling of Being Alive.

Or one can persist in a fear-based guilt ridden robot existence, tick all the boxes, meet the targets... or simply keep resetting new ones... and consent to lose all consciousness of what it actually is to be human.

Fear of negative feelings and fear of guilt around owning expressing accepting and healing such feelings propagates a hateful world in place of a genuine capacity to communicate and share true understandings. Our children imbibe our psychic-emotional world - along with all kinds of environmental toxins. But Life is not without the capacity of self-healing and shared Life finds synchronicities of sharing in healing.

Moral righteousness always cherry picks one of a kind and ignores the rest - for it operates a loveless agenda. No blame here - just a reflection. When lovelessness usurps our lives it also operates as if we have no real choice - and so we turn to ways to temporarily not feel shit or to feel a stirring of Life, that if excessive and habitual, work to pull us deeper in shit and less able to feel and know the love that is our heart's desire - regardless the layers of shit that cover it, invalidate it, or indeed fear it. Because opening to love is a bit like opening to a new Life - you don't control what it will be in advance and yet you can prepare the way by recognizing and releasing negative imaginations - through a simple self-honesty.

Because trying to be who you are not doesn't really fool anyone - especially babies - but it does teach them double meanings of do as I say, not as I do - and so the conflicted breakdown of heart and mind wars through the ages... as much within us as without.

Be conscious in the heart as to what we choose to accept and share on - not rule driven in a powerlessness. And of course use common sense rules until something better comes along to replace them. I don't suggest reaction - but a presence from which to live that the mind serves - rather than usurps (replaces). But that is only my suggestion. It's your choice - or it's accepted as being forced on you - which is also a choice!

The Morality Instinct

Article at http://iainews.iai.tv

The Morality Instinct

We like to think that the choice between good and evil is based on philosophy and reason. The latest neuroscience research is telling us to think again. 

The prime motivation of choice is always toward pleasure and away from pain as one defines oneself to be in any given situation. Self definition operates largely unconsciously within the illusion of the freedom to operate as an independent agent - which also is an effect of self-definition.

The imposition of moral coercion upon consciousness may be part of acclimatizing to the culture one is born into, but it is a corruption of true moral integrity which is a congruence of thought, word and act.

The body-brain (they cannot really be understood in separation) operates as a communicating device for the physical mind of the total personality construct - which cannot really be understood apart from the higher or non physical mind or bridge to the Consciousness of which and in which everything is being experienced.

The mythological template realities of any given culture or individual embodying such culture, operate as perspectives of experience, and communication and relationship with of course a built in survival mechanism. But survival is not the goal, but the provision of continuity in time as the unfolding story. Non-local Consciousness is not subject to time or space but extends Idea expressions within which time and space are an integral aspect of an overall congruency.

There is no time in Now. One has to utilize mind to compare now with then - which is also a construct within an entirely present totality. identification within this separated construct mind of personal consciousness, operates a virtual reality within experiential template and the body-brain is somewhat like a deep sea diving suit that facilitates accessing such experience. All experience is valid but incongruent template definitions reflects conflicted experience of discord and regardless of applied ingenuity results in joyless sense of disconnection and disintegration.

Hence the call to wake up from the outer dream to the inner template and accept ONLY the congruency of the bridging with higher or non-local Consciousness.

Neuroscience can facilitate looking at template consciousness without the filters and distortions of some of the traditional mythological corruptions. However science itself operates its own mythological themes by inheritance and reaction AGAINST Consciousness. The idea of putting aside the personal so as to discern a wholeness without bias is correct, but the personal must first be noticed and owned, in order to be released. Otherwise it runs as 'hidden agenda' and may then serve, personal (or extension of the personal to its group) reputation and success, respectability and status, power over and predictive control over externals, others, world and Life.

Wholeness embraces and includes the personal and so both/and comes to replace the either/or, but if the part seeks ascendancy over the whole, ignorance and arrogance manifest appropriate reflections to waken and realign - which we call pride coming before a fall.

Free willing Integrity

Beyond Good and Evil II: Is morality instinctual?

Integrity is innate because Life is a Unified Expression. The assertion of identity upon Life is a device within consciousness of coercive intent. This coercive identity is the use of free willingness for the purpose of a personal agenda that then presumes itself to be free to act of do as a power unto itself - excepting it is now experiencing a struggle in a world of powers in place of membership within a present remembrance of true power - which is not coercive upon itself nor rejecting itself in a fragmented mind of conscious and unconscious and collective and personal.

Moral action is congruency of thought word and deed. This is integrity. This is true presence extended. The attempt to make moral codes and apply them and enforce them is the mask or presentation of a personal agenda or capacity that one does not actually have. It is simply the use of guile in guilting with fear to affect behaviors and appearances.

Morality is NOT codifiable. The attempt to exclude God is to exclude the Living quality of our presence in true communication, in exchange for a world as we define and accept it to be. This IS conflict within our being and must result in fear, guilt, and division by which the mind seems to have split off as a 'rationality' of 'control' and emotionality seems to have split of as shifting feelings. In fact the Mind is Whole regardless the definitions of identity in struggle, the feelings and thinking, the perceptions and action/reaction of personal and relational struggle and pain. The helpful part of iai.tv is a willingness to think outside the orthodoxies - but THINKING itself is such an orthodoxy - and the arrogance of ignorance presumes that ITS thinking is the apex or crown of human achievement - nay - of Life Itself! - but it is all noise to the Signal until its Purpose is changed.

Purpose is foundation. All things express and persist their foundation. The mentality of 'divide and rule' is all sleight of mind, in which what one thinks to be true is experienced as if it were so, and what is actually true is rendered 'unconscious' or obscure.

Existence forbids nothing, embraces everything. Their is no limit to what you can imagine but what you accept as true for you will define you and while it does you limit your focus through it.

Consciousness is One Universal within and yet embracing all local or particular expressions of uniqueness as Its Own Knowing. Whatever you give out (as a result of what you choose to accept) is what you get back (experience). Everything changes excepting the above three unalterable facts.

The perspective of the embodiment in a physical reality is already a complex result of a template of definitions. Existence Experiences Itself through all of it - but to remember your own freedom and joy in existence is to align truly within it. Not to coerce others or the world to align to YOUR model reality. Coercion is the device by which integrity is lost sight of. Following imaginations of what you do NOT want keeps you in fear and struggle and sacrifices joy.

I offer this as reflection not to persuade anyone of anything they do not want to know or don't already know. Clever thinking made our world of absurd and tragic complexity. It will NOT lead anywhere else.

To be still and know is to yield thinking and let the movement of Live register as the true of You. If you think "Oh, you can fake that", I say, why would you? Why would you? Unless to persist in clever thinking that usurps your true knowing and willing. Free willing is whole - not reactive.

Be true to your self - not to what fear defines you as. If you want.

Coercive morality perpetuates a disconnected life.

Shock headline:
If you're horrified by a flame-roasted dog, you should be shocked at a hog roast
It is prejudice that allows us to protect certain species, while treating others as mere commodities.

Preaching morality is selective and therefore reeks of self-righteousness.
A coercive intent will and a-tempt to frame you in its options and be led to the conclusions it wants you to adopt as if your own.
Human beings have cultivated a consciousness over many millennia that cuts them off from a felt relationship with All That Is - with Life and the Spirit of Life. They literally know not what they do because they know not who they are while in disconnection from the Living Universe.
And so they/we treat Life as our dominion, to 'lord it over' rather than participate in the Ongoing Creation that is Life. Materialism cannot approach Life - cannot see it and can only use it to feed its fear.

What matters to you is your choice. Real choice expresses and extends its source. A false choice maintains a disconnection from source by perpetuating a source of disconnection. Joy in food induces gratitude. I have no science for this but propose that a diet of gratitude is very healthy and may offset many 'risk factors'.
The real opportunity of identifying risk is to consciously navigate an optimal path amidst a multitude of risks. But a dalek's eye view thinks it can eradicate risk and this mentality is very very dangerous.
Fear never lets you go for what you really want in life or be who you really are. So don't use risk information to feed a fear mentality but feel into where you are with it and go for what you want as who you are - without fear. Self destructive habits are also choices hidden under layers of defence. Hang in with a sense of self-value - through - the difficult.
You're worth it - and your presence is a gift to the world - and not a statistic.

The choice to hurt our self and the choice to hide it in victimhood and powerlessness

Telegraph Article:
Raunch culture isn’t harmless – it hurts us all
So one in every three strip club dancers in Britain is an undergraduate. Well, girls, you may be having a bit of a laugh, but you are promoting a tawdry, amoral climate

Commentary:
We hurt our self or not by our decision. If we unknowingly decide to hurt ourself then we learn to be more honest and vigilant on behalf of our own Good.

The INTENT to hurt self and others is a blind projection of hurt, hate and vengeance and takes innumerable forms - both passively and more overtly.

This operates deviously and deceptively as a way to keep the power of divide and rule whilst mitigating its apparent effects externally.

Everything that we experience is feedback that can be used to become more consciousness responsible, or it can simply run along its pattern and reinforce decisions and beliefs that define one's self negatively.

Your moral well being is your true peace. Codes of conduct serve as place holders and limits upon lawlessness, but nothing can substitute for You but will cost your peace.

The deceptions of a negative self definition work to undermine anything that would expose them, because they are accepted as your 'self' - and you love your self image because you made it, but it does not love or know you - for it is a kind of idol or 'avatar' for your identification.

When we identify with the forms, and with the meanings we give the forms, to the exclusion of the Meaning that our true presence always illuminates, we abandon the Living to dally among the 'dead'. Within the darkness of fear, and confusions as to what and who we are, we choose what holds the most pleasure or the least pain - according to the situation as we each define it.

Reclaiming your power is not adding to yourself yet more conflict, but opening your mind to your consciousness in the midst of whatever is going on. When we choose to manipulate and coerce our own consciousness we become active and available to a world of coercive ill-intent.

Guilt and fear are the signs of an invalidating will. Joy and inclusion are signs of an extension of what life is being - right where you are.

I write to open beneath the 'same old' war-polarities that effectively block communication. It is not just what you do - but the way that you do it. If you cannot do it as an expression of truly valuing yourself, Life and others - do not hurt yourself. If you seem stuck in a bad habit, become curious instead of guilty and powerless, in the desire to uncover the core beliefs and self definitions that simply are NOT true of you or belonging to you.

Trying to get out of a trap only tightens the net.
The deceptions that offer 'freedom' or to extend or add to your 'power' are tricky seductions to keep deeper fears covered up.

This is where the true wealth is hidden - beneath such fears. For you are priceless, and would remember this if you let them fall away and stood naked within your true being.


 tomjones2012b commented to the article:

The only people who make raunch culture sleazy, are people like Judith Woods, who slut-shames a culture she doesn't like. Raunch culture beats working for a supermarket that sells alcohol and tobacco, vices that kill hundreds of thousands (I hope Woods does neither), or sells junk food that harms more people that raunch culture ever will


my reply to tomjones2012b:

Lovelessness is pervasive to the mind that values it as a special kind of self-love. Most of us have some investment and identification in lovelessness that finds us throwing the stone of hurt and hate at another - as if we stood cleaner thereby.
Lovelessness seeks and finds the evidence for its justification in the errors of others - and gives it priority over the capacity to open and embrace communication.
There are innumerable examples of sins or loveless, coercive acts that seek for self while denying Life and others. As long as we focus outside on all the symptoms, we succeed in NOT looking within at the cause.

The context makes all the difference at an individual level. And what we see is the measure of our own self-acceptance. Any rejection of our self brings the play of its reintegration in the circumstances of our life, yet while we persist in rejection, we do not recognize our Life - and seek control from a disconnected sense of distrust and chaos.

It is part of life that we can play out persona and use that to access experience, but we can get lost in such play when dreams turn to nightmare. The world (human conditioning) is expertly designed for forgetting who you are in the play of persona. Until we stop playing such games.

Charity begins at home - naked truth

Warwick women rowers strip off for charity. But is that okay?

What does 'exploited' mean?

Are the women exploiting the known trigger points of cultural ideas of attractiveness in order to sell more calendars and attract more money to an un-unrelated (to naked women) charity?
Is not the idea of 'raising money for charity' a device that is exploited for its own reasons?
Perhaps the term exploited is more associated with coercive force, or of being manipulated such as to be unaware of the choices one is taking or of other choices available.
Exploiting is an aspect of 'getting'. One might say we all exploit ourselves, each other and our world, in that we will all seek to get something for ourselves - unless we are already happy, whole and connected, in which case we share rather than 'get'.

A key issue is whether we receive and give in a sense of honour and trust, rather than 'get' at another's expense without any real relation.
But the key issue to the women's project might be 'how do we raise money for xyz?' - and feel for their comfort zones and sense of adventure both. Because 'charity' is the remaining avenue of 'justification' for behaviours outside social conformity.

The 'getting' mode, is seemingly innocuous and harmless - but it cannot be employed without a psycho-emotional disconnect, and the 'justification' mentality rises as one with it - as is symbolized by fig leaves in the myth of the Fall.

"Ye have not because ye ask not" - is a reference to a direct self revealing extension of trust and communication. A true intimacy shared. We sacrifice the power of love in a darkness of forgetting, in order to 'enjoy' the private sense of power in 'getting' - except we then suffer experience of being 'gotten from' and loss and fear of loss replaces trust, and a mask replaces our true presence, in which praise and blame war - so as to deny a clear and heartfelt acceptance of our naked living being.

Moral coercion feeds a libertarian reaction. Guilt is the driving force of morality - for the innocence of our being does not seek to justify or validate itself. But nor is it defined in reaction against such cultural impositions.

To do something because it is the true desire and movement of our being, does not bring with it the associated overhead of conflicted self - or its reflection as a conflicted experience of our world.

This is true charity - because this is the gift of our true presence into our relations. When our presence is witheld we deprive ourselves and others - and yet look out as if it is denied us by others and our world.

Charity begins at home. If we do not truly let love into our lives - we will not have it and be it in our relations. A deep self acceptance is not a justification slip for doing what you do not really want! This issue is the most important in all else that ever occurs because it is foundation for what comes next. Self-rejection - no matter how disguised - will not bring a better world for 'others' or ourselves. Love knows what thinking alone can only hide.

Controversy is a sport. But one doesn't have to play it.