Bentinho - Be In Awe & Trust

(commentary on a video message by Bentinho Massarro on awakening)

I note the symbol of brain for thinking.
I seem to do things with my arm, but have no direct experience of my brain; the brain integral to the body associated with this particular incarnational instant of consciousness. (I certainly do not have any direct sense of the brain being 'a something' I control as a separate entity).

the use of brain as substitution for mind is an indicator of the elevation of matter to an ascendency over the mind. As if a program is the programmer.
It is ironic to find this in Bentinho's vocabulary - and yet it may serve better to reach those who are at home in such a vocabulary.

A message is an awakening message when it awakens - not when it conforms to rules!
The mind of rules is like a series of programs running. It may seem to be a self protective guide, but it is the way the past seems to recreate itself such that the Presence - the indivisible presence - of being, is forgot or eclipsed.
Why?
So that the play of a judging, controlling, manipulating sense of power can be engaged. But what happens when we act upon?
We experience reaction.
What happens when we identify as the doer of the act?
We suffer to be trapped in victimhood to a world that merely reflects our own unowned thinking.
Take back your power - and choose not to use it. True Power Shares itself, and doesn't act out as a separate will in a mentality of divide and rule.
As Bentinho says, is true, we are given what we need as we need it. But if our first 'need' is to be righteous or validated in our thinking - we will only see that which gives us our demand - whether it is there or not!
The opening of Intuition via the pausing or resting or nonuse of separative thinking, welcomes or accepts a basis from which a true Consciousness can grow - as your real life - of a love of truth that is not manufactured and a freedom to be the love that you are. This process dissolves or transcends the fences of the mind - but is gentle to the current sense of integrity.
When that which isn't really you falls away, Aha! So it has always been - but I didn't SEE it!

What we do see, is witness to our thinking. Rather than try to disentangle thinking, (thinking loves that one!), simply notice and abide in the awareness of being. It is easy to notice how STICKY thinking can be when we identify with our thoughts - no matter how 'enlightened' or righteous they might seem to be.

Growing willingness for awakening is potentially the loneliest process at times - because it steps out of the lid that was made to hide the loneliness of the heart. An un-Communioned consciousness is in pain and dissonance of separation-loneliness and tries to compensate out of its own thinking; grasping at the symbols of love and the wish for love and the ritual doings of love - but never Being the love that you are.

We see what kind of society grows from hiding illusion with illusion. (Hiding fear in darkness). But what kind of world arises from a willingness to let being be the Mover of All Things?
This is a pause to laugh because, surely, this is already Fact. But the conscious acceptance and embrace of Life is a Prodigal re-membering of a Source that is our innate nature to align with. Such is our joy.

Thankyou for your attention

In Peace

Limitations and seductions of thinking

(Written as a general reflection into the comment of an article from Robert Lanza, who is a proponent of Biocentrism).
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Thinking that is disconnected from the felt sense and presence of life as wholeness, flow, be-ing, is like an overlay of experience and identification, running as a virtual reality but lived as real.

To challenge the experience of a world and a self within it that runs as a reversal of the felt or intuited qualities of Life, is to be willing to be innocently curious.

For the seduction of a sense of self as a personal power to determine its own meanings and become something in its own right, is an addictive sort of game in Mind that runs like a trapped mind in ever densifying conflicts, evasions and denials.

While we are actively engaging such purpose in identity, we are virtually blind to the Unified Nature of (Our and All) Being, and experience the Self-Same-Thing as a polarized and self-conflicting perspective, due to the lens of the thought that is held by a wish to see Everything differently; in the framework of an 'as if'.

Feel the utterly convincing power of the reality of this moment as it communicates all that is now - right where you are - (as the awareness of your being), and realize that Mind is not the little thinker in its little experience. Mind (for want of a better word) is the Always Source, Nature and Condition of all experience.

Even as programs have sub routines which have subroutines or as folders on your computer can be deeply nested within folders within their own parent folders, our human consciousness is inherently an expression of a Source that it has been programmed initially to look out and away from. And looking 'upstream' or intuiting our Source, is inherently taboo to the structures of the mind that maintain the continuity of focus that we take as our consciousness.

Hence thinking will always tend to express and support a sense of self that is experience over and against - or differentiated from its experience. This perpetuates the dream of a separated existence and while this is the active desire, all is running as has been set in motion even if the content of the experience itself is distressing, felt to be out of control and suffering victim-hood.

But in opening experientially to receive the wholeness of our current experience - that is, as a 'beholding awareness' in a trust that is free from defining or manipulating its consciousness-experience, we release the conditions which block a true or innate Purpose from acting through us.

In simple terms, the Purpose of Mind or Being is 'Know Thy Self'.
The Self of Universal Being is not the programmed 'self' of the limited mind in a body bag and It does and is Knowing Itself in All That It Is.

Because we associate 'self' with control, we seem to become a mask in a carnival ride, but even so does a mind know itself through its thought-experience.

Thoughts that reflect a fragmented and conflicted dissonance - even if seeming to express a prevailing righteous will, make their experience of self and world.
But thoughts that embody and reflect truth - that are not defined or manufactured by a manipulative imagination, serve to release distorting influence and restore a natural communication of the whole in all its parts.

The attempt to add to oneself as defined is the predicate of loss and suffering. But the realisation of the wholeness through the relations of its parts is the awakening to the Condition in which all things are given because they are not withheld.

Any attempt to articulate the Unspeakable - to define what cannot be separated from in any way and so cannot be imaged or made object or conceived - is bound to participate in the imagination of a separate one. But in the Intent to awaken, it can also serve as a breadcrumb trail or an Ariadne's thread.

To feel one's intuitive sense stirring, is an awakening. To honour and value it is to align to it rather than exploit it. To notice that one exploits rather than loves, is an awakening. To release the exploitive will is to receive and be restored to Universal Will.

I once thought I was an explorer, but I was on the run, and that was my cover. What we are afraid of, programs us, and hides the traces of the program. To be afraid of love is to be afraid of the loss of control, of personal freedom, and the capacity to think and do separate. All this is true - but such thinking doesn't know
the joy of being an agency of Shared Thought - of a communioned sense of shared purpose, of a rested awareness in which an indivisible peace allows all that is needed, to be known.

But we do have glimpses of these things, in inspiration, in working together, in moments of wonder and appreciation.

If this isn't our natural experience, we blame externals - the human condition. But the opening of Mind to its true nature is a call for awakening responsibility for our thought.

Thank you for your attention

The Great Olympic Lie?

Underneath whether or not the article itself is well written or not is the essence of what is being communicated - or attempted to be said. I wouldn't focus on the Olympics itself but on the nature of our mind, our thought, intent and identifications.

I see denial employed in increasingly blatant ways. Denial reveals a tyrannous mechanism rather than a freedom of expression. In ways that are starting to show to many who previously followed or subscribed to a model of thought and perception and identity which seemed real. It isn't really something done to us by others so much as by wishing and consenting to allow fear and confusion to be our basis or guide. It is acted out in scenarios of victim and victimizer, manipulated and manipulator. To remain focused at that level is to be distracted from observing our own mind's involvement and successfully fooled into identifying with righteous opinions. Truth seems to be divided or conflicted and a mind of defence (and attack), seems to rule.
While awareness is denied,illusions are invited and asserted. They are not fake £11 notes because there are no £11 notes. But they are limited and filtered distortions of something real, accepted and defended as reality Itself.

The mind of the individual is generally held to be an independent and autonomous entity - a unique expression of a point of view that is free to think and express itself. But though this has been almost unchallenged as the currency and basis of identity and thought, it is no less loaded with toxic debt than these clever financial instruments; that is to say with wishful and manipulative intent in which nothings are presented as of equal value with something.

When the scam comes to fruit in the collapse of mere idols worshipped as real, amidst the revelation of such devastating error that all thought is rendered suspect and a deeper fear rises, then the attempt to densify and persist in the dream as a delay mechanism by all means available acts as a sort of persistence of the mind that has run off the edge of a cliff - but is determined not to look down. Denial.

To find ways to discern what is actually going on must listen past or feel through the attack on the person, which reflects the investment in one's own person.

Such Prodigal desecration and degradation as our times embody, call for a true accounting. In this admittedly dreadful and un-manning opening of our mind in a willingness for truth, is an entirely different basis for life remembered - not manufactured. Loud thoughts will give way to a heartfelt discernment, because this will be revealed as truly desired.

The attempt to avoid or delay or deny this shift of Identity will bring an increasingly grotesque and unbelievable caricature of the forms that once seemed real. A sort of botox of the mind, freezing into masks that no longer communicate a living presence; a ghastly masquerade.

Yet whatever our presentations, we ARE of a living presence and this CAN communicate and share itself in ways that multiplies joy. The real or natural joy is an innate quality. It may be associated exclusively with the forms in which it was allowed - but that can grow in self-awareness. Hyped up 'joys' are a manipulative overlay of mentality serving a false but seemingly self protective partiality. In amongst the wheat, there are tares. To discern is to tend the harvest; to join with what is real and unsubscribe or disinvest in what is unworthy or meaningless.

"I am not the Olympic sort", I said recently when riding my bike along the coast path to some comments by passing walkers. "I am already Gold". This is a metaphor for a quality of our being that our prodigal mentality denies.
You ARE already Gold - that is wholly worthy of love's awareness now. Not upon your vanquished brother, but with him. We can all share someone's birthday. Giving and receiving worth doesn't have to be a prize in a competition.

Thank you for your attention

Pussy Riot and Russia's surreal 'justice'

When people become certain of their identity as 'fighting against' something believed wrong - or evil, they give themselves justification to break or except themselves from rules. If these rules are merely rules set by an illegitimate act - then those rules and the authority that made them is being challenged, and this can be an assertion of authority that witnesses to an illegitimacy. To take over a church as a stage and to be so dishonouring to the purposes and community that uses it doesn't feel like a witness to Putin's illegitimacy, or an act of legitimate opposition - but a shock tactic to get attention. It can be argued that such things 'work' - but I suggest that any momentary advance is met with a shift in mind that becomes more polarized and less available to any process of communication.

In respect of setting precedent, is it to be applauded or rewarded if anyone with a grievance or a cause, acts in this way?
However, to jail such offenders is entirely disproportionate - and is like the disproportionate sentences given anyone involved in last year's UK riots. It attempts deterrent rather than serve justice.

There may be a groundswell of a movement to rise up against or openly challenge Putin, and those within it may feel emboldened. If anyone gives the opportunity to use force by seeming to be a terrorist or an agent of foreign influence, I doubt Mr Putin will hesitate to use extreme force.

To withdraw allegiance and support for what one feels in one's heart to be illegitimate may not require taking a stance of being a lawbreaker or a rebel, but simply to provide only the letter of the law insofar as 'giving to Caesar' requires. To give others power is to lose one's own. It isn't worth hating or opposing if doing so makes of one's life a justified hatred or vengeance. Better to consciously focus on what is real in our lives and if called for, give witness from that shared reality when a communication needs to be made.

It is so easy to hate - and to love doing so when the 'other' is mutually agreed to be hateful. And there is a sort of hysterical attraction to it, in which we feel we are finding freedom, but are simply being used. Whoever gets in ... will tend to take the power role that fits or expresses the consciousness of the people. They may rebrand under new banners and change all the props and seem like a new beginning, but look around.

Instead of changing the world; change our mind about the world - by observing and becoming responsible at a level of awareness that manipulators (victims and victimizers both) do not want to be opened.

The issue of power over others, is so fundamental to our human consciousness - but in personalizing it, we play the game of divide and rule. The mind of deception and manipulation does not care who hosts it, and can easily insinuate itself into and as our personal thinking.

I write this in case anyone has some sense of this and recognizes themselves in it. The world is a sort of playground for getting experience and making identity - but at some point that becomes shallow and meaningless - and not a true or legitimate calling to the heart. And so we wake up to a different purpose or motivation - that expresses a wholeness into relationship rather than manipulate relationship for personal getting.

Growing the former, is starving the latter. As we grow this 'culture' within our own life we see and serve it in others. While the attraction to conflict and guilt traps attention, no one is listening, but these things do not truly fulfil us or hold allegiance forever and there are times when there is a genuine desire to find a better way.

Thank you for your attention

Me, myself, us (comment of the Human Biome-Economist)

Science reveals the mechanism beneath the illusion of a 'self' - and therefore of the 'world' which is an internal-mapping of the self image or concept, externalised as experience. The world being that aspect of the Unified Field which is defined as not self - being seen as outside direct control.
This is not so different from a virtual 'reality' running on top of an awareness that is in some sense substituted for or usurped from Self-Awareness. The virtual mappings or mutually agreed definitions of self and not self, are a filter imposed on a Unified Field - not unlike a Higgs field. It is observable by its effects - and its effects ARE our experience.
Self-Realisation reveals and is open as the Perspective of Unified awareness. This is not a control mechanism or coercive intent upon Itself - or of any virtual aspect running within its Capacity to extend Itself through Idea. From such perspective the causative foundation of a polarised or dualistic experience is not hidden and nor is the mechanism of delivery of the experience of the thought.
But it is felt within a Wholeness of Being that is prior to the consciousness of self in time and space - and yet pervades it.
The initiating 'program' of the virtual self is to have experience of its own thought and to wish it be real. This conflicts with the Unified Field and the interference pattern itself is used as a foundation for a sense of reality or self "over and against". Such a 'self' is predicated on conflict and the overcoming of conflict in an impossible attempt to become autonomous and righteous of validated. Its 'survival' is a maximal emotional effort that is accorded the status of truth and isn't called into question. Its seemingly unified organisation is yet always undermined and eventually succumbs to a multitude of forces to which it seems victim, while its essential underpinning of giving priority to its own thoughts and meanings is kept hidden - except for the more superficial aspects of the mind. In general the power and nature of the mind as foundation is diminished and denied by means of distraction and disassociation.
The body becomes the focus as the home of the private thoughts which seem to be the core identity and the exploitation of the body and the world of bodies becomes the essential arena upon which attention is fixated. Insofar as a 'self' can add to itself the experiences and identifications of success as it defines and believes - so will it persist unquestioned, but in its persistence, are the conditions generated in which it conflicts, depletes, disintegrates and dies.
However, Self-Awareness is not Itself inherently nor ultimately defined by its objects and the attention given to a virtual existence is a partiality not unlike holding an imaginary scenario in mind whilst also aware of concrete and current experience.
Thus far, I have attempted to talk of me, myself, us in concept - but experientially, the Unified Self individuating through the Movement of the focus of attention and intention, is a communioned sense of being, a connected and guided intelligence that operates out of a sense of wholeness and presence rather than the 'divide and rule' of conceptual identity.
Writing this here is a desire to sketch something of a different perspective than that which presumes to observe reality as if separate from it - and in order to manipulate it or control it for its own self -justifying ends.
Testing ideas in my world is being quiet of my own thought enough to discern of feel the nature of the thought. Coercive and loveless thought has a definite feeling tone - as do the thoughts of wholeness, generosity, sharing.
The scientific explorations tend to deny and undermine what makes us human when we use a tool as a foundation. But to merely indulge the personal sense in its own mythologies - scientific or religious - is to remain trapped in surface identifications - which is disconnected and isolated from all but one's own thoughts. While the conditions seem to be supportive, this seems to actually BE connection and relationship - but we are not self creating and are not autonomous - but are wholly dependent on processes beyond the mechanism of control but not of trust and cooperative alignment.
Human vanity and arrogance is seemingly inexhaustible, but it is our own that we wake up to, sooner, or later, as a fundamental error!
Thank you for your attention.

My reply to the following comment follows:

Are you having a hard time accepting yourself as an animal among animals? Is it human nature to put on airs, assuming that our thoughts and thought processes are of such great importance in the scheme of things? Or do you feel unworthy of recognizing yourself as the god you have created in your mind?

I embrace the animal aspect of my being as a communion - whereas the reductionist mentality really means 'mechanism' when it says animal - because perhaps excepting the astonishing capacity of man to 'understand the Universe' (Sic) - it is all revealed as mechanism.

Man's arrogance and vanity is in presuming his thought (as the extension of his sense of self apart from all that lives) are the judge and determiner of anything - and indeed all things.

It isn't so much that humans do this but that this mentality is pervasive to almost all humans. As far as I see it, Darwin teaches One Life. Now within our own minds we may construct or accept all kinds of interpretations - and these not only colour our experience - they create it. One does not directly experience anything outside one's own mind.

So what is the basis for what we think, accept or identify with, or give value to? You might say 'survival'.
This seems an unarguable fact - except for those who have lost their mind - and that sort of unassailable righteousness is very attractive to a persona that is intent on prevailing over its own thoughts.

There is something weird about the human - but before one even begins to think about defined differences - note that Being is your human experience. If you can let your own thought be disregarded or become still of the push and pull of identification and attachment, you can directly experience something that is not defined or definable by your thought. Because there is nothing of you separated from it in any way to stand aside and make definition or interpret.
This has been pointed to with the word God - but that word has also been rendered meaningless to many because that which made man in its own image, also made a 'god' in its own image.
But man's imagining is no more than that whereas the capacity to imagine anything at all, rests on a quality or capacity or nature of awareness.
The limitation of a mind to a body is a way of keeping God out.
This might seem unbelievable but belief makes the experience of a separated consciousness which doesn't know it is one with all this it experiences - and yet is the space or beingness in which all that is - is as it is.
The limited personal sense is an expression of the Living Universe that thinks it thinks alone, is protected and defined by a body and lives in a mostly hostile body universe full of other bodies, all of which seem to have separate and conflicting interests.

I feel that to accept oneself as a servant 'in our Father's House' is to relinquish the mind that thinks it thinks apart from life, and reawaken a communioned sense of Being that had been covered over, by a persistent distractive Idea - not unlike the Higgs field - so all pervading that the existence of mass and density is its proof.

The Non Local or Universal Field of Being cannot be defined, nor can it be made into any kind of personal image, concept or possession or status. My person, your person is the mask, the presentation of image. But what you are - or perhaps better; what is Being All That is, right where you are, is the Source and Nature of Being - for without it, nothing is.
We have more than DNA in common.

I don't recognize your comments as relevant to anything but your defined reactions to what you think you are reading.

Are you the animal you claim to be? Or is that a definition you assert and determine true? What is this 'you' that thinks and believes and identifies. I hold you far greater than that mentality could ever know, because it cannot know anything other than its own thought. But you can observe your own thought from beyond the wish that makes it seem real - and so are not the mask - but are the maker of the mask.
Consciousness experiencing itself via form.
The mind that would control, is the mind that blinds itself to wholeness, and stumbles in the dark. Its right in our face - but we look unseeing, because we are enamoured of our own thought reflections.
The human may think it is a central character in a script, but its function is blocked when in a loop of self referencing thought. The Universal is looking through you, but it is your self concept that is the stranger to its Self, not the Universe.

Very little of modern science has invoked direct experience of its precepts. The consciousness is lagging in Newtonian physics in experiencing concept-things as if they were really independent things.

There is a shop nearby called 'Concept, curtains and blinds', it is a funny title because it shouts a great truth - but of course the blind cannot see it.

If anything I write gave rise to any sense of wonder or fresh curiosity, then that is a very blessed (harmonious) meeting place, in any degree, with anyone.

Thank you for your attention

10 ways to fill the Olympics void

As I haven't hyped anything up, or joined in the hype, I haven't got the corresponding 'void' that inevitably replaces an artificial high.
When I have great pleasure or joy in anything, I abide in the gratitude and the blessing, rather than cultivate a compulsive-addictive sense of self.

Life is at essence Gloriously beautiful already, but we forget how to allow this into our hearts and minds - and even push it away with attempts to hype or manipulate life to fit our own, largely unconscious, ideas.

Abide through the temptations of withdrawal and listen in trust for the prompts and opportunities of life as they naturally call you in your day - and cultivate a conscious relationship with your life - that wakes and walks out from the prison of the thoughts of limitation - or of its overcoming. You may find this has you running for joy and one day breaking time records - but all as a result of something awakening within you, rather than any kind of 'should' or 'ought to'.
When anyone or anything suggests there is a lack or wrongness in you that you need or have to do something about - make sure to get calm and honest with yourself - so as not to let your own thinking or anyone else's thinking, deprive you of the wisdom of your own heart's knowing.

Drama, is the stuff of a surface life. If you like the rollercoaster then that's for you, but it is always restless and only momentarily content. Peace is a dynamic inclusive capacity to bring wholeness into focus where the heart directs.

As I said to someone recently, "the Olympics aren't my thing - I'm already Gold", and I see that despite my outer quirks, I'm just like everyone else.

World over-using underground water reserves, scientists say

This issue or water depletion due to over mining may seem to be about resources and politics, but there is a pervasive issue of which it is but a symptom.

"The Prodigal Son", in its self-bound orientation, is a mentality that does not honour its Source - but acts out as if it is its own creation. Such self serving thinking implicitly brings a wasteland of hollowness, falsity and depletion in return for a brief dream of being 'master of its own local universe'. All that we share as our basis of life can be seen as up for grabs in a war of force and guile, or as the means of honouring and serving Life.

Until the lesson sinks home, the error is repeated over and over and yet dressed as some kind of progress or protection. Perhaps there is no choice but to undermine our own existence on Earth, while choice itself is associated with expressing a separative self-wilfulness.

Get now - let others pay, now and tomorrow", is a devil's pact - for we are seduced and then compelled by a thinking that looks only at a partial aspects of the whole and 'fits' them together as if to validate its own partiality.

Wholeness is not an assemblage of parts - but arises naturally as the heart's discernment, in willingness and trust, to serve rather than wield, to listen and receive rather than to dictate or assert, and to be guided or shifted beyond the thinking with which it had become habituated.

This is not going to be a plan that can be evaluated as a strategy, but an ongoing step by step willingness that lays the foundation for the restoration of our mind to its True Condition.

For we do not create our own awareness and are not as disconnected and separated from the Living Universe and its Source as we may like to think.

To release ourselves from a false tyranny is also to let go of deeply cherished personal sense in which we gain a sort of comfort and protection - but always with the cost of isolation and fear.

One in four deaths not properly recorded (Lack of relational awareness or care)

Our thinking and therefore our culture has succumbed to a market based model. Not a market where shared value is exchanged in a just and trustworthy relationship - but where a corporate template mentality is applied. Soul-less.

One can find this almost everywhere and it has the same hollowness, the same lack of real communication, or relational service in which care and attention is given rather than a conveyor belt of logistical check boxes.

The mindset of divide and rule is part and parcel of the scientific mind - for it does not live as a true participant in relationship excepting as can be measured and quantified as data. Though there clearly is a place for it as a tool - it is not the basis upon which we should live because it lacks the essential human qualities that are tangible and innate to being a human being or a human family.

The Heart in its spiritual sense of wholeness, needs articulating in a way that calls the babel-like parts into a unified purpose, rather than seeking to impose a unifying corporate monoculture.

Cultural renewal is called for when it becomes apparent that our culture is bankrupt, not just in financial terms, but in vision for living, sharing and working together in shared purpose.

To light a candle rather than curse the darkness is to bring witness and true communication into play with all the force and compassion and patience of genuinely caring and not as grievance or blame based reaction. Education is something we can all share in, IF we are willing and actively committed to finding a better way.

We relied on rational systems based on our own thinking - but far from being rational, they have strayed from Reason as anyone can readily observe. The qualities of the heart are discernment, trust, willingness, patience, compassion, integrity and so forth. None of these are 'added' by head learning and the conditions in which they are learned or uncovered in our being, are those that honour (there's another one) and nurture the Heart in the way in which everything is done. For it isn't a datum thing so much as a qualitative context. Call it a pervading field such as the Higgs field - in which what matters is naturally discerned and given appropriate priority. Anyone can demonstrate the power of love - but in an airless place it is very hard to shine a candle - for the whole culture is stacked against spontaneity, intuition, and true involvement.

The brainwashed cannot feel directly and cannot operate outside the machine without a process of education in building trust. Our way of thinking blinds us to the most obvious of truths - and yet the distancing from each other has been a choice that reflects a distancing from ourselves. There will be no renewal without opening an intimacy of being both within and with each other.
Intimacy is not sex, but is known and shared in all these qualities above. The Heart needs witness, and the thinking has to give priority to and express the purpose of the Heart - to a Unified purpose that rises as our innate guidance, intuitive sense, wisdom, and desire - when the manipulative consciousness is stilled.

Any attempt to force against our will will work against us, we have to uncover a greater perspective than personal reactive 'protection' and make commitment to giving as we would ourselves receive.
And learn to discern what in we receive so as to not keep passing the sh*t around as blame, hatred, grievance and vengeance. Its a wake up call.

Thanks for your attention.

Save Yourself: Can The Governments Save The Market?

How refreshing to read Sense!
Discernment is of a willingness - and indeed a commitment - to feel the truth of a situation, and is one with inspiration. It may seem to be a kind of thinking - and often can occur after a process of thinking has reached its limits, but it is an intuitive quality that simply feels which way to go - or whether in fact to go at all. It can sense the nature of the roots or root intentions, without having to explore all of the branches. Trying to run without it would be like running as a template instead of as a participant in a greater relationship that is of a wholeness or presence that a template cannot 'be' or 'know'.
Unlike thinking, discernment does not yield to will or suffer to be controlled, but the personal sense is deeply and habitually invested in exactly that, and yields to compromises and makes alliances in order to gain its own advantage.
Discernment is like Manna - in that it cannot be stored and repackaged as ideas without becoming another template. It is a responsibility of remaining honestly present.
Everyone has it, but if we use a manipulative consciousness instead, then we become full of our own thought and listen only as our thought dictates, if at all.

A reevaluation of values and purpose is called for. Alarm should not inspire fear, but summon an alertness of full presence. For fear is not the guide of a present discernment but of reaction and reenactment of past ignorance.

When the 'system' that is itself an expression of our culture, that we all use, share and depend on, disintegrates or fails, is there not a call to awaken from the habits that ARE the problem - and attend to the Living?

Our political and financial situation is mirroring the fundamental structure and 'dynamic' of a consciousness that is in many ways a global 'culture' that does not express or honour a genuine presence of life in its expressions.

'Save yourself', by stepping out of the mentality of a template based thinking and be inspired to a fresh curiosity as to what we are and what our world is. Perspective awakens, shifts our focus and grows willingness and capacity to invest in a reality that at its root, is of shared being.

What we appreciate, appreciates. Fear and greed are the same. We do not need austerity so much as a refocus in an honesty of heart. I sense our vanities will be stripped away whether we are willing now or later. But to even be able to see that we are vain  - and conditioned - in our own thinking and image, is a measure of noticing. Of awareness.

Discernment is a natural expression of awareness that feels.

Thankyou for your attention.

Reflections on the emergence of a conflicting neural network

The complexity of the neural networks that are developing as an externalised infrastructure of mind is like to our own 'internal' consciousness.
Not the higher qualities of awareness, discernment and inspiration - but the 'mechanism' of rule-based manipulation and processing of data.

Absolute separation of one computing device or network from another is not  possible in any practical working sense. 'Walls' can be made and work to a degree, for a time. But the evolving complexity of capabilities of feature means a constant 'war' must be maintained against 'that which threatens to obstruct or undermine one's own intention'. (Amidst ever conflicting intentions).

Consciousness can lose its reference to any grounded or whole capacity to relate or respond directly, or sanely, amidst an overwhelming complexity in which false and polarized centers of identity 'fight' against integrity itself. This is called insanity because it is completely dissociative. Attempt to over control leads to 'out of control' - in a negative sense of being possessed by one's own imaginations. This crashes or conflicts in ways that paralyze.

Consciousness may then be limited to a minimal set of capacities, which can then be easily controlled - but the sense of deprivation is great and the methods of control are brutal. The'new' mind can then grow but wall out those aspects of consciousness - now associated with pain - with taboo of guilt and fear. That is - as an imposed 'control over' rather than a harmony of parts working as a whole.

The higher qualities of mind are non local - though they have local expression. When the mechanism of mind substitutes for a true intellignece, a template runs. We seem to like 'autonomy' even though it always inherently results in a prodigal wasteland.

The willingness to open or listen for the inspiration, that is a genuine response to a discerned need - rather than the persistence of the template consciousness, will result in experience that unifies and harmonizes from a wholeness of perspective. That is to say; it works.

The short term consciousness that seems to work - and that seems unarguably fact - is simply an inherited cultural investment in a previous adaption to an ignorance.

The ignorance is a result of attempting autonomy. As if the mind could run its own operating system separate and apart from Mind Itself. Of course we can play this and make it real to ourselves and each other by our thinking (as if) apart and alone. But false promise cannot deliver anything but the loss of sharing in the true.

Integrity and trust have to be engineered into our system. IF, we  want to share in the life abundant.
The playing out of personified hollowgrams in virtual reality must be separated out from the direct functionality of meeting our collective needs.

Our greatest present need is to give and receive love, because only in that are we ever truly realizing and sharing what it is that we Are. But in a fragmented consciousness we do not remember what love is - or who we are. Far from being a call to make ourselve 'spiritual' or affecting behaviours that 'handshake' love, this is a capacity to Be out from a wholeness and presence of Mind that cannot be 'done' but can be done through us. We are being breathed and we are awake to awareness without 'doing' life. When energy and attention is released from 'doing' what only complexifies and obstructs life, it is free to channel as life more abundant.

Until it is released, war and the cost of war, persist as a deceptive loop of experience that is so much less than what we are as to be both tragic and comic. Ultimately or actually, we meet our mind in its reflection.

Thank you for your attention

Apple's latest ads, advertising in general and the fruit of a different Tree

(Comment after being invited to comment regarding the latest ads from Apple - see link in title above)

The 'message' is that you can do things with a Mac very simply (once you know how), and using software that is included with the Mac - which is not just up-market hardware but the only (practical) hardware you can run Mac OSX on. For a Mac is unified software/hardware and not just the box.

In order to 'get attention and hold it, the adverts are trying to use humour, and putting out the 'genius' idea that indicates a support network for the new user. Many new users demographically believe that they are an idiot as far as computers go - or rather that they are clueless regarding the use of such technology.

In order to appeal to one market, Apple inevitably invite derision from those who are relatively literate regarding the use of computers.

Advertising in general is not merely conveying information, but seeks to implant associations, in the minds of many and expresses manipulative intent. Because it is so 'normal' in our times we accept it as almost invisible - and yet it is a kind of warfare being waged.

The inviting via suggestion and insinuation of personal associations that promise a getting or enhancing one's identity from either adopting or hating a brand or product or range of services, is what all advertising tends to join in pushing. This is part of the insanity of our time. It is also reenacting the essential mythos of the apple in the Garden in the Bible story. By listening to a false voice, one seems to become made in one's own image - and exercising a 'freedom' of individual or personal judgement in which one is actually blinded to a true discernment of reality and infatuated with self image; the Prodigal error of an imaginative mind playing all by itself as if it was the thing it imagines.

It is the way of all scams, that they sucker those who seek something 'too good to be true' or that promise more than can actually ever be delivered. The mind that wants to believe its own stories, is manipulatable.

The mentality, and its resultant culture that it embodies, is what is really going on. To see past the deceptions, one has to eat of a different Tree!

It is usually the way that the mentality of the 'top dog' becomes inflated, paranoid and out of touch. 'What is good for me is good for the whole". Such self serving mentality can only call for a fall! But in amongst the tares is a harvest of true service.

There is a process of externalising some aspects of our  'brain' or mind in Information Technology, and Apple are playing a significant role in this rapidly developing extension to our otherwise organic existence, not least in making a 'front end' or user experience, that can actually be used by a very larger portion of people (who otherwise demonstrate a range of resistance or fear regarding the adoption of new technology).

But in 'succeeding' at widespread adoption, There is a losing out to the 'market forces' that are essentially driven by surface desires and short term 'hits'. This cultivates dumb consumers as a sort of cattle for the 'clever' to prey on. That they are 'stupid' is a presumption that is therefore reinforced in EVERY advertisement or PR spin campaign.

It doesn't matter what tools we use so much as the conscious purpose that aligns them to serve the purpose in the heart. 'Identity' conflict is a sort of game that gets out of hand. But there is a great appetite in the human conditioning, for competition and the attempt to personally overcome adversity - hence the Olympic Games - in which all sorts of nonsense is concurrent with shining a spirit of excellence.

Care fees paid AFTER you die

Trying to control life seems natural to a selfishnessness that sees everything in terms of its own interests. But it always paints itself into a corner, struggles, wears itself out and dies.

The breakdown of economic capacity to support the extraordinarily complex and conflicted entanglement is the revealing of lost or false foundation.

Be willing to question the foundations of the beliefs and ideas that are expressing a failed culture as a living alternative to persisting in an old conflicted and conflicting mentality.

Old ideas had their time, but become idolized out of context. To live within a context of unquestioned beliefs which run like a template may appeal to manipulators - but there's no fresh and lovely Life in it.

To be baited or seduced into grievance and reaction is to be sold a sense of self righteousness in exchange for your Real presence.

Your Real presence can feel the same in others. Care for all that is truly Home.