What is Sovereignty?

What is Sovereignty?



(Written into an article on Sott.net)


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

What is Sovereignty?



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Collective Experiment is Earth

The Collective Experiment on Earth

#1 Overlooking Individual Experience within a limited concept of individuality:

"The individual has been overlooked".

This is only believable and experience-able within a collectivist redefinition of individuality.

Individuality is not a body OR a mind OR feelings - but the balanced embrace AND transcendence of an Indivisibility.

Running a COPY in concept-mind opens to the warring of conflicting concepts in division - and all the experience of such a focus with limiting definition. But a definition is never the Thing Itself - which remains indivisible - regardless the or perspective that any definition opens as experience.

All thinking is in the terms and the nature of its foundation. We seem to have two foundations competing: one is self-concept and the other is a prior quality or integrity of being that operates the reintegration of self identification within concept to an expansion of Re-Cognition and Re-membering. Looking for this in the 'world' is reinforcing the belief it is not already true of You.

Getting your head around this is the wrong direction excepting to realize the call to deeply and truly release the attempt to get ahead of yourself - which is the belief or fear in a sense of lack or loss or a missed appointment.

What is the 'problem' is a unique opportunity for me to recognize something in myself that is out of true in my beliefs about my self, my mind, my world?

When painted into a corner, the only direction left is Consciousness itself. Not in concept - but energetically - for we are already being 'lived and breathed' not by 'Other' but by an Individuality that has been overlooked, redefined, ad actively denied - and even 'crucified' - that is - reviled and hated and 'killed'.

Symbol is a living focusing Idea, but once idolized in place of the Living, degenerates to concept. "Concept Floors Carpets and Blinds" as a shop sign in my locality announces. But that is not a call for anti concept - but for a shift upstream to a Living Perspective. Capital letters - like any other conceptual language can only 'point' to what is currently being overlooked - until the distractive fascination fades to allow awareness to rise to consciousness - though really it is the other way around.

Is the whole 'matrix-illusion' idea just another clever way to stay focused in struggle so as to keep the 'warrior' in righteous self-employ? Yes and No. Because it is always our choice as to what purpose we use anything for - and while we focus on what everyone ELSE is thinking or doing - we overlook our Individuality. But we have not 'left or lost' it - we are choosing to focus in and act out from an idea in which lack and loss are inherent.

When something communicates this sense of lack and division, there is always something needy, coercive and artfully contrived to persuade or appeal. One does not need a process in logic once one is aligned in wholeness - but the mimicry of the self-in-concept can seem to be unquestionably right when it is mistaken. Better to know the full feeling of relaxed and open communication that tells you you are truly present than ideas of right and wrong. What is true for us in any given moment is the discernment of an outcome of a balanced appreciation. Inner undefendedness in honesty of being automatically aligns what is needed in imagination, synchronicity and feedback as an unfolding communication of Individualty within Wholeness. For the One is in All as All are in One. Self-specialness is no less so in negative terms - and always segregates the self-sense from the Relational Richness of the Whole.

I only meant to add the first paras - but my interest and aliveness in such consideration is where I find a 're-cognition and re-membering' that transfers to washing dishes and perhaps more deeply - embracing the 'negative' states within a truly felt willingness - without coercion that insists or demands they change - in order to find validation or validate my world-view. I feel this to be an active release of self-judged invalidity - regardless of its social or collective reinforcements.

Truth rises of itself unless something else is actively pushing it down - including the clever attempt to 'fight its cause'.

#2 Reclaiming Sovereignty of free willingness:

Perhaps... you are painted into a corner because you don't yet see you are in the version of Earth that corresponds exactly to the vibrational frequency of your thought - and that Infinity includes all versions or parallel realities of everything imaginable - but that your unique 'experiment/exploratory themes' will always align you in those that serve the purpose you are currently being served in.
What is the purpose that aligns your thought and desire? Is it truly aligned with who you feel and know yourself to be? Or is it conflicted and self-limiting and dense in its openness to communication and therefore heavy and dark? Look to your world and to your feeling for your brother and know by your fruits what you are holding within your current definitions or it could not manifest in and as your experience. No blame here - simply idea out of true with who you prefer to be. So instead of wresting, struggling and getting frustrated with the reflection. Use it to correct your own creative alignment with being - that you cannot help or stop being - however you use that creative capacity to seem to experience yourself and your world to be. It's up to you.

That what you desire - by focussing in and bringing forth - is the simple truth, can also be hidden in the usurping or distortion of desire with fears and judgements given energy and attention as if you desired them - whereby your active desire is mow masked by a surface persona that may be completely unaware of what you are actually calling forth, by virtue of identifying in thoughts that seem to hide or protect you from a feared consequence.

Reclaiming sovereignty of will - Free Willingness - will never come from coercion or deceit - no matter HOW justified you may feel. In fact coercion and deceit comes back at you without your recognition that it is your shouting into the cave that brings back this echo.

If you keep shouting - it is because it serves your current definition of yourself or you simply would not do it. Everything is serving us each -  and as the collective shared agreement - that each always has within the Idea of themselves. there is no separation - but within the exploration of the experience of separation hell operates the agreements of lovelessness in forms that prevent waking to the communication and meaning that is always shared through forms - not AS them.

The meaning you receive from anything is all the meaning you give to it. If you try to fake yourself - that meaning will adulterate and usurp your simple honesty of self-communication and in one way or another - the waking from the faking is the world I am living right now  - and sharing with the version of you that is in this 'reality' with me. For we all communicate through inner versions of everyone and everything. There is no outside - but there is the power and the intimacy of sharing - where the meeting of two or more opens a transcendent third.

The way out of the false matrix is to recognize you are not in it - and act from that knowing - and so grow that awareness rather than lose it to the 're-assertion' of habit. The 'real world' is thus harvested from the release of the false - and reflects what is true of you - no matter what anyone else thinks or does - unless they trigger your word or judgement on yourself. That's where the issue is. Not what 'they' say - not getting their say changed in any way.

I write this here because I feel you open the space in which it can be said and considered. Resonance with who you truly are is different from reinforcement of who you are struggling to be.

The Journey is the point of Life - that is living it wholly - which is not cramming or haste but having the time you need to be who you are. Of course there is challenge in meeting the negative aspects of our consciousness. Crisis is generally how humans access the willingness to change.
Someone said: "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done" - however - it is both and individual and a collective or relational issue as to a sense of no where else to go or the ground disappearing from beneath one's feet or a total melt-down. Everyone has a pain threshhold at which they either change or refuse to play - but that pain is not inflicted by Life on the poor individual - although that is the human narrative that masks deeper correspondences than we generally allow.

EU or the real You?

Iain Duncan Smith accuses pro-EU Tories of 'smears and threats'
Work and pensions secretary says ‘desperate and unsubstantiated’ claims damage integrity of those campaigning to stay in

Part of the problem is the loss of genuine communication of ideas and feelings, for attempts to simply coerce, trick and 'win' a narrative 'victory' by deceit.

One of the things I appreciate about Corbyn - is that - regardless of whether I agree with his conclusions - he is honourable in his methods - and does not resort to the dark arts of deceit.

The loss of honour is justified by those who define what they don't want in terms of a narrative evil. In such context communication is BLOCKED and ANY means becomes justified in the 'war against .

This seems to 'work' as a way of undermining and silencing what the 'war' defines as 'oppositional' threat but which deprives everyone of their true voice by asserting a directed narrative to which one must conform. (conformist collectivism). All apparent 'sides' of such 'war' operate the same principle of competing power rather than of a desire to understand and integrate. It is a loveless and robotic 'survival' mechanism that is denying a true basis for Life on Earth to flourish and thrive.

The choice for collectivism - under ANY masking of good intentions - is a forfeit of choice - of sovereignty of human willingness - to a loveless dictate of conformity - overlaid with distractive deceits. The legally defined Corporate - and indeed corporate financial 'trading' entity has a fundamentally lawless disregard for Humanity and for Life on Earth and uses symbols and imagery of serving the same in pursuit of profit - and survival as an entity that claims rights where they block transparency and accountability - while redefining the law (revolving door/captured regulators - > TTIP etc) so as to effectively transfer any residual power of sovereign will to a collectivist State that has at best only a facade of electoral accountability and a rigged justice system.

Relationships are not JUST about what we can GET from each other or what we fear we will LOSE to others. Relationships are Communication or else they are some conditioned reaction of mutual transactional avoidance of communication. Manipulators know this well and take advantage of latent conditioned imprints to trigger reactivity that effectively denies the possibility of discerning what i fact is really going on.

The EU is not about money and 'trade' it is about Control. If you believe human beings are essentially unworthy and uneducatable then vote for the collectivist mode of imposing Control. We do hold this belief much more than we may like to think because we are so heavily invested in this attempt to Control rather than communicate - and we are loath to abandon our investment. But pouring good currency of allegiance into a bad idea has to come to a brink where the experiential recognition of wrongness breaks the pattern of conformity and support - and genuinely seek the true of what is going on and not merely seek other way to protect a bad investment. That way lies and slavery.

Creativity is inversely related to what I am using the word Control for. Of course there is a natural quality of control WITHIN the movement of desire and fulfilment in relationship - but the suppression and denial of creative freedom in Living our Humanity is not gaining 'power' it is negating our true consciousness of Life to conforming to an idea of power that is dead - and no matter how artfully or intensely the presentation of life is asserted - there is no real willingness for relationship, communication or caring - no kindness or compassion.

Of course I appeal to your core Humanity in this moment - but you have to make your choice for your reasons - and I will communicate towards making this choice a consciousness issue rather than a manipulation of conditioned reaction whereby you 'know not what your do'.


In reply to:
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/69887051

You yearn for the comfort of ideological identity but life is not really so simple a narrative. Embracing Life is embracing humanity - and there's the rub is it not?

Good intentions pave the way to hell because they offer a way to seem righteous or kind while retaining a private loveless - indeed hateful - intent. I don't address you personally in this but all of us. Fear of emotional reality makes us fodder for manipulative purveyors of directed narrative.

Whoever you are and whatever your views, if you have a willingness to speak from the heart and also listen there, then there is the basis of something much more powerful than an 'alliance around private gain' - but not a power that protects us from our true feelings - by patronizing rationalisations or suppressive denial.

I don't care whether you are a union man, on the dole or a CEO - I care that you recognize and lean into your humanity in willingness to move out of - or correct for a dis-integrity - without piling on more blame and shame.

In reply to:
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/69886942

Make your case - don't focus about what others seem to be doing.
Yes there is insanity beneath the 'normal' of social and political thought (and resultant behaviour), but if integrity means anything - it is a core sanity of being that can be uncovered, recognized, witnessed and embodied as a felt presence rather than a presentational artifice. I don't expect anyone else to be perfect but if I look FROM a willingness in myself I can discern and recognize that quality in another. If I focus on the mask in others it strengthens the same in myself - so I don't mean to be patronising here - but your clear willingness for a better world deserves joining with - and this is what came up in me to share with you.