Rehabilitation and correction - or another millennia in the prison of self-hate?

Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours'

Future biotechnology could be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1,000 year sentence, a team of scientists claim...

Biotech is yet another level at which the attempt to coercively manipulate Life to our own (disconnected) image-ination, will wreak havoc and yet illuminate the true nature of consciousness.

One can persist in what doesn't work but only serves to satisfy fantasies at expense of sanity using any and every technological means available.

Note that if everlasting hell and damnation were technologically feasible there are those who would apply it.

What is the true nature of crime or indeed punishment. What is correction, really?

What is the correct purpose of prison or any other restraining, correcting response to harming oneself and others?

The system of splitting consciousness by fear and coercing it with guilt is the attempt to force a will upon Life. This is a fantasy, but played out in deadly earnest.

We do unto others as we would ourselves be done. The self-hate that is deeply embedded into our consciousness may be repressed and denied acting out by social constraints, but it splits the mind off from it's Life.

Correction restores Connection. False 'connections' block and deny a true Appreciation. One doesn't need more and more complex technological management of unmanageable systems. One needs simply pause for a Sanity in which fear is NOT the master.

There is nothing forcing any of us to accept Connection to a true Appreciation. Perhaps one is ALREADY serving a multiple life sentence within - but unmindful of - the twinkle of an Eternity.

Hate is a perversion of love. One who loves to hate must also hate to love. Is this not a definition of hell? (Regardless of the presentation and packaging).

Consciousness can seem within itself to split off and act upon itself as if it were an elite and special 'god'. But there is NO love in it, but only hollow and transient substitutes. Why don't we wake up and walk free? Are we addicted to the prison food?

Guilt is a human technology that subverts natural remorse, contrition and immediate repentance - which is love's nature awakened - with an evil, worthless and fallen nature, that must FOREVER be hated and feared (yet secretly lusted after as power).

Everyone 'goes to Heaven' - because no one really IS what they have redefined themselves to be. When the masks fall off, the original error is revealed not as damning, but as a case of mistaken identity. The 'evil perishes' because it is without Foundation in the Oneness of God. It simply cannot be maintained in the presence of Love.
Hence 'fallen' man's technology devotes itself to way of avoiding love - which is ALL the true qualities of Life, and without which, there Is no life.

'For they know NOT what they do' - even though they believe they are awake and active as a power unto themselves.

Sex in prisons?

Rehabilitation is not just for the one who is harming themself or others via inappropriate and unnacceptable behaviour. Nor is it just for the society that needs to be protected from such. Rehabilitation needs to express and hold true values of an integrity of being.

A disintegrated mentality wants revenge. It wants to indulge in the enactment of blame as a ritual that reinforces and nurtures victimhood.

Rehabilitation and revenge are mutually exclusive.

Our prisons are specialized examples of human limitation. We all need rehabilitating to release a false self-sense that usurps and undermines all our relationships, and awaken responsibility at a level that honours life.

In a sick society, who is to heal?
The principle is of accepting our own part. When we live this, we are no longer trying to displace our issues onto others - where they can never be resolved.

Insofar as we demonstrate capacity for communicating honorably, let us have opportunity to grow in its expression.

What I am trying to point to are the underlying cultural aspects that - if not addressed, will persist as behaviours of 'power over another' - whether via state or fellow inmate. To share the power of life with another is a process of communication and trust.

This is not just a methodological behaviour to assign to individuals and expect them to comply with, but an expression of a cultural movement that sees our self in the other and the other in our self.

Sex can be anything. Context is everything.
Good ideas can be foolishly applied at terrible cost - so ideas are not to be mistaken for wisdom but are to be tested in the heart.

To reevaluate what is currently in place needs to be able to report on the mindset that is currently in place or it is simply conforming to what is already in place and finding what it is 'allowed' or set out to find.

Love is not truly of the person, but of the process and integrity of relationship itself. It is active through us - and if trusted, will express appropriately in restoring conditions in which a blind and selfish wilfullness is restrained and a process of education and rehabilitation is enacted.

We all need this and our culture needs to be its embodiment.