This was a difficult post to write because I had my usual wish to soft-pedal the danger I think we’re in. Are we in an existential crisis, one that we may not survive? Even if that’s just possible, and I think it is, what does it have to do with consciousness and how should we conduct ourselves?
Really what we need is consciousness practice with others. I want to go there with you but I’ll send this off today.
In Hindu’s the Bhagavad Gita, a foundational Hindu text, a great battle is to be fought between two armies. The charioteer Arjuna asks the divine Lord Krishna whether he should fight or whether he should abstain from the battle and only emphasize spiritual values. Krishna tells him to fulfill his warrior duties but to be neutral and unconcerned about the outcome, to let it be what it is. The real fight is the internal one. It’s to do what’s right, not to be moved by personal gain. Krishna said it much better but you can catch the drift.
Collectively and personally we’ve got a battle to fight too.
I see it as a vital fight for the personal and human future against an enemy we can hardly see or recognize. It’s not your old fight in which you could see the enemy on the hill. Just like for Arjuna, the real battle is inner as much as outer.
It’s hardly possible to overstate the seriousness of where we are. Numerous critical global fail points intersect with each other in unpredictable ways we don’t understand and don’t seem to really care about. (I won’t outline the fail points but Daniel Schmactenburger outlines them in stark terms here, starting from the four minute mark.) We don’t understand them and the Overton window of allowable discourse, if it notices them at all, understates the risks constantly.
The calamity in the wings is more serious than the World Wars of the last century yet the battle isn’t even visible to most people. It’s less important than today’s entertainment menu and not really part of the mass conversation .
For those who can see the danger, the appropriate response is a commitment to our own awakening. It’s All hands on deck time! It’s to not sleep walk into the future. Efforts may or may not be enough for victory but the battle must be engaged nonetheless. Aside benefit of doing our best is that the movement to face the metacrisis is also the movement to clear the confusion about ourselves that most of us have been carrying our whole lives. I’m speaking about the family and social difficulties we haven’t yet fully integrated. Few of us have done that work. It remains a work-in-progress for me.
The global problem we have is ubiquitous social control and conditioning. It’s the mind control of the population that’s increased invisibly over generations. Spiritual and traditional values has been eroded for a very long time, deliberately it would seem, to subjugate the populace and make us compliant to control by wealthy power brokers.
That sounds nutty to most people and I’m often tempted to not say it or to water it down. But I do think it’s happening and that a permanet social control coup is the end game of the so-called Great Reset. Think Chinese social credit system controlling every move . . . including your autonomy over your body, forever. Even if most of the actors don’t know it, that’s the effect. If we’re naive about what’s happening in the world, if we naively trust the forces that consciously or unconsciously seek to control us, we’ll consciously or unconsciously be controlled. And that naivete is what’s happening today.
Most consciousness groups don’t mention it, keep it safely away from discussion.
Our gullibility is the social control system at work. The social control nudgings over time, and our compliance to it are the inside and outside of the same thing, two sides of the coin.
By definition this is hard to see.
Part of that social control is effected through our bodies and numerous interventions in bodily autonomy are well underway. Compliance will likely be enforced, for the good of all: Vaccines in our bodies, including newborns, chips under the skin, electromagnetic mind and body jaming from 5G towers, artificial intelligence touted as better than human, nudges toward robots as friends, lovers and soldiers. All of these serve to diminsh the sense of self and the agency of the human and it goes all the way down to the day to day inner life of you and me.
The social control mechanisms in the globalist system depend upon our gullibility, our willingness to accept lies for truth. Our gullibility is the social control system at work. The social control nudgings over time, and our compliance to it are the inside and outside of the same thing, two sides of the coin.
By definition this is hard to see.
The momentum of past personal conditioning and multi-generational trauma keeps us repeating the same out-of-balance behaviours, anxiously hoping to make our life better!
Hyper invention and connectivity, represented in a single symbol by our new phones, changes everything about everything, spawning a torrent of unintended consequences, most of which have yet to be visible. Because the experience is so intense, we literally can’t imagine stepping outside, slowing down or stopping. Way back in 1961 there was a musical called Stop the World - I Want to Get Off. The title played on the crazy intensity of the time. And that was tame old 1961!
Conventional thought would have us believe that the challenges of the day aren’t crucially and immediately present here and now, that they’re not in our face. It’s common, usual, to spend 100% of our time locked into the unconscious assumptions of our culture, measuring ourselves solely by its standards and screening out alternate data. And why wouldn’t we because that’s where the Overton window of acceptable thought is. People who are ruled by modern convention can see nothing else.
I remember R.D. Laing’s words in The Politics of Experience in which he wrote - after an LSD trip I believe - if I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you, I would let you know.
The wretched mind is our mind enslaved to social conditioning. Beyond it there’s an unwretched mind, a pure mind that’s connected to the divine mind. That possibility has always been there but only realized by a few. It’s exactly this that the modern project, the Great Reset, seeks to replace - with itself!
What’s needed is to develop the individual consciousness, the higher capacity of being human. If you’re reading this you’re probably part of this.
Our wretched mind is acculturated and nudged toward boutique interests, personal comfort and ease, to not having to confront any of this, to shopping therapy and must-watch Netflix. Without the most strenuous effort we will see and think only what is prepared for us to see and think. It’ll be false and decadent but most of us won’t notice in a way that takes it to heart. If we do catch a glimpse we’re prone to being distracted and drawn in by the next tweet.
Even the US election bearing down on us, while we deem it “serious,” is largely theatre. It has the form of professional wrestling and is experienced as an exercise in tribal belonging. We’re encouraged by its structure to watch it with an inner attitude of our-side-good, their-side-bad. This attitude is reminiscent of Roman circuses, or more locally, of the titillation of small town gossip.
The real problems we have transcend the mindset of tribal belonging and are invisible from within it.
Empires and societies inevitably go through periods of rising and falling. Ours is in the time of falling but the person transcends and is beyond all that. Higher consciousness of the ordinary human being is our birthright and the frequency that will endure.
I’m aware writing this that what’s needed is something beyond description. It’s Truth Speech and practice with others. I’ll share about this next time.
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I'm not sure of what the ultimate troublesome issue is. I suspect the main issue resolves around me and how i interact within my world. Since i have no control over an other human being, it bodes as unhealthy if i try to arrange others into my liking. Much better to observe, question and listen to what others say, so i can contrast my perspectives against what I know and believe. There is no other manner of evolving but by doing that to achieve my advancement throughout my life.
It is always a Welcome sense of rightness when a book I embraced years (decades) ago is referenced: R D Lang's "Politics of Experience." I felt the same when Gabor Mate said one of the most important books was "When Society Becomes an Addict." These connections are when I know I am on the right path with fellow like-minded travelers. Thank You for your courage to write the blatant truth you see.