Showing posts with label Inner Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inner Wisdom. Show all posts
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Friday, June 29, 2018
Caitlin Johnstone: Activism Without Inner Work Is Impotent | Steemit
Have you ever known someone who's intensely interested in helping people, but is so neurotic and unskillful that they mostly just make things worse?
"Stop!" you'll find yourself wanting to yell at such people. "Stop helping! Go help yourself!"
That's how I see most political activism today. So many well-intentioned people who want to help, and are so crazed by mass media psyops and cultural mind viruses that their energy seemingly goes everywhere but where it needs to. I'd like to say a bit about that here, if you'll indulge me.
It's really weird how many people in the political circles I move in are still running pretty much the exact same programs they were running in 2016. There are still former Berners acting like Hillary Clinton is the single greatest threat to America despite her being more or less irrelevant in 2018. There are still leftists and anarchists acting as though small neo-Nazi groups present a greater existential threat than the mainstream neoliberal neoconservative Orwellian power establishment.
There are still liberals running the same "OMG TRUMP NAZI LITERALLY HITLER WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" script despite overwhelming evidence showing that the most evil things this administration has done are all extensions of Bush and Obama administration policies. There are still anti-interventionist Trump voters doing everything they can to compartmentalize away from the undeniable fact that this president is continuing and expanding the interventionist policies of his predecessors.
Even if you had a crystal clear understanding of what was happening in US politics in 2016, continuing to perceive through the lens of that same understanding today is blindness. And the more the world continues to change (and change it always will), the more blind you will be if you continue to apply your 2016 worldview to it.
Unless you've got a very clear sense for what's true and what matters and when you're being manipulated, your conceptual framework for understanding the world is almost a matter of luck of the draw. You were born into a particular family with a particular worldview, you have a set of life experiences which shapes your ideology, and that ideology forms a perceptual filter through which you consume information. That filter dictates what your media consumption habits will look like, what you'll take in as true, what you'll reject as false, and what you'll overlook or omit. You might get very lucky and coincidentally stumble into a worldview which happens to accurately reflect what's going on in the actual world, but before long that world will change, and your habitual relationship with information will necessarily lead you and reality along diverging paths.
The only variable in this process, as near as I can tell, is consciousness. Individuals who have done a lot of work bringing consciousness to their mental habits and inner workings are not randomly floating about at the whims of chance in a tornado of information, but are grounded in a clear sense of which way is up. This doesn't mean that everyone who has done a lot of inner work will necessarily share the same ideology (I often feel like I have more in common with someone on the other end of the political spectrum who has engaged extensively in self-discovery than I have with a fellow socialist who has not). What it does mean is that they have a much better chance of correctly figuring out when they are being told the truth, when they are being manipulated, and whether something is ultimately good or detrimental for the path they'd like to see society walk along. In a culture that is saturated with media propaganda, this is an indispensable asset for understanding the world.
People often ask me where my perspective comes from. What media outlets do I use? What books have I read? Who do I look to to get my finger on the pulse of the world? I usually just list off a few alternative publications I honestly don't use all that much and a few journalists I mainly enjoy because they sometimes say cool things on Twitter, but I only do this because I don't expect my real answer would be particularly interesting to the people asking the question.
In all honesty, I actually get my ideas about what's going on in the world by meandering around between conversations with my husband, conversations and debates I get into with people on social media, random articles and video clips that readers draw my attention to, bits of information I happen to stumble across, and all the while checking in with my guts about the whole mess as I go along. It's an ongoing and ever-changing process of taking in useful information and discarding unhelpful or harmful information, and it's guided primarily by the intuition and insight I've cultivated through many years of dedicated inner work.
I've got a picture of a guy meditating as the feature image for this article (credit to Toshimasa Ishibashi) because that image is a commonly recognized symbol of the pursuit of inner work, but that isn't to suggest that meditation is the only form that that work can take, or even that it's necessary.
Any method which brings consciousness to one's inner processes and mental habits is beneficial, including self-inquiry, mindfulness practices, yoga, energy work, and psychotherapy. If you remember that the goal is to no longer be at the whim of preconditioned mental habits in perceiving the world, it's easy to figure out what practices are useful toward that end by how acutely aware they make you of how little conscious control you have over your own inner processes. Anyone who's ever tried to still their mind in sitting meditation for the first time knows what I'm talking about.
This matters politically because activism without inner work is impotent. If you're beholden to the whims of your unexamined mental habits, any political activism you engage in will be determined by the groupthink of the people you're surrounded by (who are generally equally unconscious) and leaders who may or may not be guided by truth and compassion.
The difference between the activism of someone who has done a lot of inner work and someone who hasn't is the difference between a highly trained sniper and someone randomly firing shots in the dark. If you don't have a finely tuned inner truth compass you won't know where to push, where to pull, when to stop pulling and start pushing and vice versa, or where pushing or pulling would be a waste of energy. You won't have a clear sense of what's a worthy goal or what's just a politically convenient agenda for someone in power. You won't be able to see the gaps between the bars in the cage and know when and how to make a break for it.
No matter how well-intentioned you are, your good intentions are useless in this fight unless they are guided by cultivated wisdom. Plenty of well-intentioned people have thrown all their activism and energy into feeding into America's pernicious two-party system, into fanning the flames of Russia hysteria, into cheering for western interventionism in Syria or Iran.
No matter how intelligent you are, your intelligence is useless in this fight unless it's guided by cultivated wisdom. Plenty of highly intelligent people have poured all their cleverness into justifying neoconservative agendas, into staging coups to install brutal dictators, into creating engines of genocide.
The only thing that will enable you to use your gifts for the benefit of mankind is the guidance of clear inner wisdom, and the only way to obtain that is by buckling down, going against the grain of your unconscious habitual conditioning, and getting to work. The most compassionate thing you can do for the world is to clear your perceptual lenses of falsehood and delusion so that you can make yourself useful to it.
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Saturday, September 16, 2017
Lisa Renee: Cognitive Dissonance - Time Shift Blog | Energetic Synthesis
Currently the earth and all inhabitants are subjected to hidden and obvious mind control technologies used to increase Cognitive Dissonance that socially engineer the collective consciousness Consent to accept the Death Culture. Most people on earth would not give their consent to be slaves or to be used for energy, so they are mind controlled to stay in denial, survival or escapism to avoid seeing this painful truth. Consumer marketing campaigns capitalize on cognitive dissonance by framing their advertising in such way that the easiest magical solution to reduce pain or discomfort from problems is to buy or support their product or Propaganda. Through media bombardment they consistently form positive associations to the negative behaviors of the death culture in order to increase cognitive dissonance in the way people think, which increases suggestibility and gullibility into programming. People that are highly suggestible are programmed in such ways that directly impact the unconscious formation of Doublethink into socially acceptable belief systems.
This is purposed to covertly, yet
directly stimulate the unresolved conflicts in the instinctual and
unconscious mind's reactions, eliminating critical thinking, common
sense, consistency and coherent thoughts.
This way people are led to associate the negative belief systems being
propagated, with the positive associations being programmed for them.
When the actions or results of those associations are actually entirely
negative and spiritually destructive to them. As an example, why would
humanity endorse the death culture when its purpose is to enslave and
kill members of the human race? This is cognitive dissonance in action,
the deliberate ignoring and denial of the War Over Consciousness on the earth in order to avoid conflicting thoughts.
This further influences and shapes what
the collective unconscious creates as the main value system in society,
which reflect what type of external structures people have given away
their consent to. Because money and Materialism are highly valued by the masses, this is the area in which most people give away their power of Consent. Doublethink produces lack of coherence and inconsistency in one’s thoughts, which is similar to the state of cognitive dissonance.
People that are mind controlled with
cognitive dissonance or doublethink, refuse to acknowledge what is in
plain sight or right in front of their eyes in full evidence, because
they are still clinging to denial and self-deception generated from fear and pain avoidance.
Cognitive Dissonance is
the uncomfortable tension that exists when holding two conflicting
thoughts in the mind at the same time, or it is the tension that exists
between the actions of the mind, and the actions of the heart. It is the
state of incoherence or inconsistency within our thinking, when
conflicting thoughts surface into the mind and cannot be reconciled,
clarified or neutralized.
Therefore, the state of cognitive dissonance usually brought on by Negative Ego
fears, manifests as a range of psycho-emotional-spiritual conflicts
that impact the functioning of body, mind, heart and spirit. Many people
misplace their consent through the mental state of cognitive
dissonance, because they do not know the core spiritual self, and thus their Consent is given away through the confusion they have with conflicting belief systems.
When a person makes decisions
that are based in self-deception or group deception, they are basing
their consent on the beliefs that the deception is true or going along
with the popular opinion because it’s easier.
This is the way to manufacture consent in the masses through the setup of the Imposter. Because a person is consenting to something that represents itself or markets itself with Propaganda,
as something other than what it really is. When we believe manipulated
lies as truth, we give up critical thinking, common sense and intuition
that help us make informed decisions about where we place consent.
Dissonance between the Ego and Heart
Cognitive dissonance happens commonly between the beliefs of the ego mind,
and the core beliefs or truth that exists within evidential facts as
considered through the open heart and spiritual intelligence. If we
ignore our spirit, and go against our heart intelligence to give consent
to the ego intelligence, we create cognitive dissonance in our thinking
which manifests as unresolved conflicts that generate energetic blocks
in our pain body. These blocks are created when consciously aware of
dissonance, or unconsciously reacting to dissonance through uncontrolled
impulses.
Dissonance or uncomfortable
tension that we feel is very strong when we believe something about
ourselves and then perform an action that is against that belief.
Dissonant based tension and anxiety is
much more powerful when there are conflicts about our self-image, who we
believe we are, and what we identify with as our personality. The more
dissonance, tension or mental anxiety we feel, the more attachment and
dependency we have to defining our self-image based upon those sets of
beliefs.
Mental Anxiety
produced from cognitive dissonance magnifies considerably in relation
to how important the subject is to us and how much we identify with it.
It also relates to how polarizing the
opposing thoughts are that are in conflict within us, and our inability
to rationalize, explain away or resolve the conflict. This makes it
clear that Confirmation Bias and Self-Justification through Ego Defense Mechanisms are commonly used to explain away the conflicts, in order to make people feel instantly better.
People will ignore evidence that
is contrary to their own beliefs, in order to preserve their mental
beliefs that have become important to their personality, and to avoid
feeling the tension of conflicts.
It takes personal dedication to honestly
face internal conflicts in order to evolve past cognitive dissonance
and into the higher clarity of discerning resonances.
This means asking equally if we are being lied to through mass
manipulation, or if we are lying to ourselves to avoid a painful truth.
In either case our Consent is not in alignment to Universal Law, and we can feel this through our heart intelligence.
In order to resolve mental tension and inner conflicts that results from Cognitive Dissonance, one must first recognize that they have the power to make different choices. In taking responsibility for the choices they make, they can learn to change the way they think and change their behavior in ways that restore Coherence and consistency.
In this way by resolving or removing
issues of cognitive dissonance (mental anxiety from inner conflicts)
they become more coherent and consistent in their thoughts, which allow
for better choices to be made with the power of their own consent. When
people remain in cognitive dissonance and they refuse to take
responsibility for their choices to resolve conflicts, the negative
consequences of dissonance are that it attracts more dissonant or negative energies.
Our thoughts shape our beliefs, which
inform decisions about where to place consent. So the process of
cognitive dissonance becomes the basis for how we evaluate situations
and make decisions. It is the central mechanism by which we perceive or
experience differences that we encounter in the world.
Once we become more self-aware,
we evolve beyond egoic levels of cognitive dissonance and into choices
based on deep inner feelings of nonjudgmental personal resonances, which
is the higher sensory language of the heart and spiritual intelligence guidance system.
See AlsoManipulation of Consent
Mind Control
Media Manipulation
(Source: Ascension Glossary - Cognitive Dissonance)
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Selacia: Choosing Hope in Dark Times - Using What You Know Intuitively
Choosing Hope in Dark Times - Using What You Know Intuitively
Planetary energies in these moments are pushing us to redefine ourselves and what it means to be powerful agents of change. The old world we were used to is dying and being restructured. The new world we want to live in remains under construction. Progress towards a more enlightened society has been made, and many more positive changes are in the works.
To be sure, we continue to live in dark times. The light is there, however. Our challenge and indeed our skillful means of moving forward is to be able to witness both extremes. Seeing them side by side, fearlessly and without agenda, helps us to prevail. Indeed, for the changes we want, we cannot afford to develop amnesia and isolate ourselves in our homes and like-minded communities.
What is Needed Now
Conscious involvement in an elevated way is needed. What do I mean by elevated? I'm referring to active participation that factors in the big picture rather than the mundane. Big picture includes humanity's cycles of evolution over time as well as our own lifetimes of preparation for being here in these moments.
Mundane approaches include obsessing about the news and who is doing what. Also included in this category are reactionary fear-based responses. Outrage is one of them. It's okay to feel outrage and acknowledge to ourselves we are outraged about things. It's counterproductive, though, to get stuck in outrage mode.
Moving Beyond Outrage
What's needed is a constructive response. As a divine changemaker, you know the difference between simply voicing outrage and taking positive actions to support things you are passionate about. It feels different inside in your heart when you take this higher road. You feel good about it. To focus on and support things you believe in will energize you. To act from outrage will deplete you.
To fulfill your soul's purpose this life, you must be fully engaged with life and hone your inner wisdom so that you have an unbreakable bond with spirit. As you do this, your inner guidance will show you the appropriate next steps. Many of these will show up as windows of opportunity to act on with divine timing. Small steps can lead to big leaps.
Gifts of Your Inner Wisdom
Your inner wisdom will help steer you towards the light, the truth, and the right view of situations. It will help you avoid fantasy thinking - like the trap of believing everything will be okay in the end regardless of what you do. It will help you stay focused on hope, an energy that allows for wondrous developments arising from the quantum levels of the unknown. To feel hope is to acknowledge the potentials that indeed exist, and to feed their creation with your consciousness, focus, and actions.
As you do this, you become the hope of the world. You become a miracle worker who leaves behind seeds of positive change for the next generations.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
The Arcturian Group Message for MARCH 12, 2017 by Marilyn Raffaele | ONENESS OF ALL
Dear
readers, once again we greet you in love and respect as we witness
personal and global struggles. We honor your courage as you continue to
unfold into an ever deepening consciousness of oneness much like a bud
opens to the fullness of the flower.
You have become the wayshowers, awake and ready to fulfill your chosen reasons for being here at this time.
We
see many of you working to resolve day to day issues as well as to
spiritually evolve while still using tools that no longer work simply
because you have evolved beyond them. They are familiar to you and still
work for those who resonate with them, but most of you have evolved
beyond them--you are no longer that state of consciousness.
Every
truth that unfolds in awareness must be held secretly and sacredly in
the heart and then lived in order for it to fully flower as your state
of consciousness. To continue seeking outwardly after you know what you
are seeking lies within, will hold you in the past, in beliefs of
separation.
You
may still be guided to some book, class, or activity important to your
understanding, that the book, class, or activity must be seen for what
it is, a tool needed at the time but not a lifeline to hold on to
forever. Truth is infinite and unfolds forever in new and deepening
ways, but truth cannot enter into a mind that is already full. There
must be the letting go of what is already known in order for the new to
come in.
As
wayshowers it is your responsibility to act, speak, and live your state
of consciousness. For example, a wayshower (without conscious
thought) often demonstrates problem resolution through the love and
respect reflected in his life, words, and actions. This in turn will be
observed by some who have always believed that resolution is only
possible through force, law, or violence. A seed of truth has been
planted in their consciousness.
Many spiritually prepared individuals are now observing, seeking answers, and new methods of problem solving. They will see and seek you out because of their readiness. They feel your energy and are drawn to it. Spiritual invisibility is about to change or already has for many of you because you have become Light workers.
Do not panic, for being a Lightworker does not mean you will never again have a personal life or be able to do the things you love. It simply means that you endow every action, interaction, and activity with Light simply because it is your state of consciousness. You still do the every day ordinary things, but now with deeper awareness.
We
wish to speak of alignment. The energy yourself align with, you
manifest. Alignment means becoming one with the energy of some person,
idea, belief system etc., allowing it to be yours--temporarily or
permanently. Many of you may be finding that you are having more
accidents, little mishaps, and irritating experiences. This is because
planetary and personal energy has become very intense, resulting in
the instantaneous manifestation of whatever you are in alignment with.
It
is important from now on to align only with your highest truth. When
you remain aligned with three dimensional concepts and beliefs, no
matter how irrelevant they may seem, it is what you will quickly
manifest because there is no unexpressed consciousness. Likewise, where
there is alignment with truth (harmony, completeness, love etc.), forms
that reflect this manifest.
Begin
to use ordinary experiences as reminders--"What belief am I in
alignment with that has manifested as...? Am I aligned with current
and popular concepts of duality and separation or am I in alignment with
truth?" The days of thinking about, studying, and discussing truth
while continuing to live out from the old belief system, are finished
for any serious student of truth.
What
people, places, ideas, beliefs, etc. am I choosing to align with?
Everything is energy. You have all experienced being with certain
people who leave you feeling drained. This happens when you interact
with someone from a place of sympathy instead of compassion, which
brings you into alignment with their lower resonating energy and allows
them to draw energy from you.
Never
doubt that there is an element that feeds on the negative energies of
war, violence, and cruelty. When you understand this, you will not so
easily be pulled into the dense and long hidden energies that are now
rising to the surface of world awareness in order to be seen for the
nothingness that they really are, and once and for all be cleared .
You
are powerful because you are made of the very substance of the Divine.
When you are in alignment with this fact, you will begin to see it
manifest in every aspect of your lives. This does not mean that
everything suddenly becomes rosy and there are no more problems. In
fact, your conscious realization of completeness may very well manifest
as something you have long feared to look at but which desperately
needs to be cleared.
Let
go of constantly seeking for truth because when you do that, you align
with the belief that you are separate from it and will always be
seeking. You have spiritually evolved beyond believing that some guru,
or spiritual teacher has more or is more than you. They are often
simply a step ahead of you in their journey. Trust your intuition, for
not all teachers are enlightened.
Everyone
embodies the fullness of the Divine consciousness, because nothing else
exists. It is only the false beliefs of duality and separation
accepted into consciousness that form experiences of being less than
what each really is. Enlightenment is nothing more than a journey of
experiences through many lifetimes that end in finally realizing "That
which I have been seeking, I AM".
"I
am that I am." Let this sacred and powerful truth be your mantra in
every situation. It will help you to remember that everything you have
sought lifetime after lifetime has always been fully present within.
That which I have been seeking, I already am-- ONE Omnipresent,
Omniscient, and Omnipotent Reality.
Sacred
knowledge carries with it obligation and responsibility and must never
be used for selfish purposes as it has been in the past and even yet
today. Great karmic burden follows those who misuse truth. However,
understand that the creations of the "dark arts" are illusory and need
never be feared because they are not in alignment with
reality--unconditional love and oneness.
Every
spiritual idea of Divine Consciousness is embodied within every
soul--abundance, joy, peace, wholeness, harmony, completeness etc. etc.
The realization (not simply intellectual knowledge) of this is then
translated by mind into forms that are understandable and personal to
the individual. Example; A conscious realization of abundance as being
an omnipresent quality of Source will manifest in the forms needed by an
individual, forms he can relate to. In the world, the Divine quality
of Omnipresence is manifesting as ever evolving forms of
transportation.
Live,
move, and have your being in truth dear ones, for you are ready and are
no longer students. There comes a time when the tools of seeking that
once served you well, must be let go. In the human scene, if a school
student refused to graduate, choosing instead to remain a perpetual
student even though there was nothing new to learn, everyone would
question his sanity. The same goes for the spiritual school. At a
certain point every person must graduate from outer/intellectual paths
to the inner where everything new awaits.
Alignment
with truth manifests as qualities of reality. Alignment with any thing
other than truth can only manifest as and perpetuate illusion.
We are the Arcturian Group 3/12/17
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