Epidemic depression as a wake up call to humanity

Neil Maves
Sott.net
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:29 UTC

Depression has been described as a modern epidemic. An army of highly trained theoreticians have postulated all sorts of approaches and created a vast enterprise pushing pills to cure this disease of our modern, so-called 'civilized', society. This is not going to be a discussion of psychology and trite self-help materials from ignorant people whimsically pontificating from their ivory towers.

Today, we're going to go down into the trenches to cut through all of the BS and investigate the incidence and role of depression from an existential, non-materialist perspective. In doing so, we might just discover the 'meaning of life'.

Some depression has a clear cause and effect relationship, an abusive family, job loss etc. This type of depression forces us to look at issues in our own lives that should be relatively straight forward if we can step out of ourselves for a moment and consider rational solutions to the stressors. It should, therefore, not be long lived, and should pass as soon as the immediate problem is solved. This is not the type of depression that we're concerned with here, however.

The depression that I'm interested in is the kind that drags on and on, the kind that costs the victim much couch time at the therapist's office and puts them on a medical treadmill, often for life. The kind of depression I'm talking about is the type that drives people to suicide, often multiple times over long periods of their lives. It sucks the soul out of you because it convinces you that the world is a completely nihilistic place. There is no purpose, no hope, no future, and no one understands. There is only a cold unfeeling world whose culture is at best superficial, and at worst outright psychopathic. There is a nothingness inside of you that grows and grows and grows.

How and why do relatively well-adjusted people with normal lives come to carry this monster inside of them, this feeling of a shattered soul that refuses to be cured with drugs or the latest counseling theories? I think the answer to that question is that the being of such people has, at some level of awareness, been forced to realize that the world "out there" is not right in some fundamental way; that it has in fact become a playground for nihilistic personalities who have no plan whatsoever other than to gorge on their own thirst for darkness and destruction.

There is, in fact, no hope for a world run in this way, because the logical result of a world run by an 'elite' who possess nothing but a hunger for darkness is complete entropy. This runs counter to any and all reason why people should be alive and what the meaning of human life might actually be. You would have to be truly twisted to believe that the goal of the universe and all of its creative diversity around you is nothingness; that the reason for everything is nothing. Normal people do not have brains that are wired this way, and when faced with the reality that the self-proclaimed 'reality creators' are creating, normal people react with sheer terror. However, the people who can actually stare down the beast and attempt to do something about this state of affairs are relatively rare, and most of those attempt to sweep the painful truth under the rug and just get on with their lives.

Most of humanity is rather fickle and will go along with the program as long as they can continue to get a piece of the pie and find someone else to deal with their problems and someone else to blame. Those with more feeling natures get the distinct impression that it is wrong to feel, since nobody else cares, and the media keeps parading the desirability of happiness obtained from the most superficial and vapid of things; conflating 'happiness' with true fulfillment. Since feeling is 'wrong', they become disillusioned and fold into themselves because they can't see any purpose in a world that is so antithetical to their inner nature. I think disillusionment is a more appropriate term for this deep depression.

So what is to be done? Why are so many people subjected to this horrible emotional state? Before we answer that question, let us take a detour for a moment and explore some scientific principles which will provide us with some context.

The Human-Cosmic Connection

Materialists claim that everything obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics. That energy devolves and complex structures decay until the system reaches a state of complete disorder and stillness. They claim that the entire universe will someday go dark, because the energy from the 'big bang' is finite and it is expanding into nothingness and will one day be completely dissipated. In the natural world, we see that things seem to proceed from a state of order to a state of disorder. The chemical bonds in the fuel for your car are broken, releasing energy and converting the fuel to a relatively inert gas. A wall crumbles into dust. Iron rusts and decays.

But there is a major exception to this law: Life. Life takes the disordered material existing in the environment and incorporates it into organized forms. In addition, life has a tendency to evolve into more complex forms and create complex ecosystems which tend to counteract the effects of the Second Law. Farther on down the line, life gains sentience and the capability to choose how it applies this ordering principle. All of this is in violation of the Second Law, which states that things should always proceed to a greater degree of entropy. Materialists claim that life is a fluke, something that arose out of some ridiculously small random chance, and that entropy will win out in the end. They have never been able to produce any real evidence to back up this claim other than guesses about how it might work. In fact, I think the evidence actually supports the opposite conclusion.

It has long been known in quantum physics that the act of observing a system can change the state of a system. The Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was used as an example of collapsing the wave function of a system that existed in a superposition of possible states into a singular defined state. Reality could go on as if the cat was still alive or dead, but wouldn't ever settle into an objective state until someone chooses to open the box. All of this implied that thoughts, or consciousness, could affect the manifestation of reality. Psychic experiments have been performed to develop this idea further. Dean Radin in his book Entangled Minds, details a number of these experiments. The most commonly cited are the effects of intent on random number generators, but there are also dice tosses and attempts to communicate pictures through telepathy as well as many other things.

After millions of trials, these experiments have demonstrated that intention consistently affects the outcome of the experiments, but the effect is very small. Using the dice toss experiments as an example, one would expect that a die would roll a low number (1-3) and a high number (4-6). 50% of the time. When participants attempted to influence how the dice turned, the dice rolled in the desired direction about 51.2% of the time. While this may seem negligible at first glance, considering that this was the meta effect observed from 2.6 million dice throws from 148 different experiments by 52 different investigators, it's significant. Additional experiments have shown that the effect increases when multiple people attempt to create the effect, especially if they know each other.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaurdon applied this research to the macro scale when they proposed the Human Cosmic Connection. By analyzing the historical record, they realized that periods of natural disasters were coincident with the existence of destructive, psychopathic empires where there was staggering inequality and repression of human creativity (read mass depression). While it may seem self-evident that natural disasters cause societies to collapse, the research suggests that the oppressive regimes were in place before the disasters began to ravage the country. In their book, Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection, this is a pattern which pops up again and again. An oppressive regime rises to power with the intention of enslaving humanity, there is mass suffering and depression of the populace, the natural environment starts to become unstable, causing the regime to get more oppressive. This process continues in a positive feedback loop until the whole thing collapses. This suggests not only that the instability in the environment causes social oppression/depression, but that it is a dynamic process where each individual in a suffering, depressed society sends out their 1.2% influence on the dice roll, as it were, and en masse and unconsciously bring about changes in the reality which will cause that society's demise.

This dynamic was most culturally accessible during the ancient Chinese civilization which believed in the 'Mandate of Heaven'. They believed that an Emperor could only rule as long as he treated his people like a dutiful parent, always looking out for their well-being. If he did not, the cosmos would introduce all sorts of bad luck/acts of god type events that would weaken his grip and eventually lead to social chaos and his overthrow.

As for the mechanism which makes this possible, it appears that the fundamental unit of reality is information - which is organized by consciousness - and this unit informs matter to create structures. Rupert Sheldrake in his book The Science Delusion speaks of 'morphogenic fields' which shape the material world and transmit ideas. This effect is best summarized by the much publicized '100th monkey' syndrome, where once a critical mass of creatures learns a certain skill, it becomes much easier for others to learn that skill and it can be transmitted, apparently 'psychically', to an unrelated tribe of similar creatures in a distant place. Sheldrake also introduces examples such as the synthesis of crystals, where once crystals have been synthesized in one place, they spontaneously become easier and easier to synthesize under the same conditions elsewhere in the world. He calls this phenomenon 'morphic resonance', whereby a certain structure is introduced to the 'information field', and the more energy and frequency that is put into trying to access that particular form, the more powerful the information field becomes and the easier it manifests into material reality everywhere. My contention is that disillusionment exists as a 'morphogenic field', appears in relationship to other such fields, and serves a specific purpose.

I now want to go off in a more spiritual direction that gets us back to the question of why people are depressed and what is to be done about it.

Being Vs Non-Being

Ancient esoteric traditions publicized in the last century by Georges Gurdjieff and Boris Mouravieff speak of humanity being put on Earth for a certain period of time to accomplish a certain degree of evolution and move into a higher degree of consciousness that is closer to the 'Absolute' (Creator or Godhead). This idea is summarized into something called the 'Ray of Creation', and various levels of beings exist at different points on the various 'Rays' as part of the infinite forms of expression of the universe. The Tradition says that these beings are either moving on an ascending staircase and evolving into spirit towards the 'Absolute' or on a descending staircase, devolving into matter. Sometimes, these archetypal ideas are referred to as Being and Non-Being. A detailed look into the UFO phenomenon and various paranormal encounters will reveal that there are entities farther along this staircase than we are, and some seem to be moving toward Being and others toward Non-being. This duality can also be expressed in various, more or less specific, forms, such as good vs. evil, God vs. Satan, light vs. dark.

According to the Tradition, the default nature of the universe is for beings to rise and strive for the light, to rise, and align themselves with the thought center of Being. However, it also speaks of beings who oppose this process of evolution, sometimes even succeeding temporarily. In our everyday reality, this duality can be expressed as the alignment with the Second Law of Thermodynamics as propagated by the Materialists, or Laws of Life, as described by people like Rupert Sheldrake. It is obvious that our society has taken the Second Law of Thermodynamics - a principle that applies to a specific tendency of matter to dissipate heat until it reaches an equilibrium state - and elevated it to a level of spiritual gospel. By doing so, it has chosen the thought center of Non-being, and is devolving into matter. Since everything ultimately decays into chaos, and nothing has meaning, everything just randomly arose as part of some sick joke, and you better enjoy it while it lasts because when you die, that's it. The symptoms of this are apparent everywhere from the sexual commoditization of humanity, to predatory banking systems, to religions that specialize in genital mutilation, to heinous pollution of air, water, land, and even DNA. Generally no one cares about anyone or anything but themselves. This is not a natural state of affairs for a being that wishes to evolve towards the light and is extremely depressing.

So what is to be done about disillusionment/depression? Why are so many people subjected to this horrible emotional state? I believe that this type of depression is the voice of the soul crying out against the entropic principles that dominate on our planet, and yearning to live in a manner that is more in accordance with life's principles. The morphogenic field of Non-being has enveloped the planet and by trying to ignore it or suppress it, we are in fact aligning ourselves with that field, which may be against our very nature to strive for the light to rise, to grow. The continuous deep, gnawing disillusionment with all that is going on 'out there' is an alarm clock telling us something is very, very wrong and we need to wake up and reaffirm our choice to the universe or get dragged along with it. We don't have to passively accept this disintegration, we can choose otherwise. We can choose to invest our energy in a way which strengthens the morphogenic field representing Being.

It's all about choice

Let's look at some practical ways which this might be done. Suppose you are involved in a traffic accident where you missed a red light and will T-bone a car at 60MPH, careening through the driver's door killing him instantly. By the time you see the car, it is literally right in front of your face and there is no time to react. For that infinitesimal moment of time you experience a sort of a choice. You can swerve and reach for the brake praying that the car will somehow stop, even though you know it is too late to make any difference, or for the last split second you can close your eyes and pretend that none of it is happening. In this latter scenario, you effectively shut-off your consciousness and everything proceeds the way materialistic science says it should. You crash through the door, killing the driver instantly. You can then extend this timeline out to include some future events as a result of this, the wife goes into a suicidal depression and turns to alcohol, neglecting the young children who end up in some form of state custody. They wind up on the street and eventually die in a bad drug deal. The entropy of the system increases, and it was all pre-destined, right?

What if, however, instead of trying to disappear into a subjective illusion, you actively send out an intent to stop the car, even though the situation appears essentially hopeless? You invoke that mysterious effect which was demonstrated in the PK experiments and the collision happens .03 seconds later than it should have, allowing the car to travel another couple of feet. This amount of time is essentially imperceptible to anyone, and it appears on the surface to be the same accident. In this case, the majority of the force of the collision is concentrated behind the driver and he survives. He is airlifted to the hospital in serious condition where he has to undergo some surgery, but eventually he recovers and an alternate timeline is created where he is still able to be a father to his children. One of the children becomes a local artist who inspires people through his work and provides a creative outlet for some people in the community. As a result, the drug deal that kills him in timeline A, never even occurs in timeline B. Of course this is a very simplified example, one could see that the possible timelines created from a singular event rapidly trends towards infinity over a period of time, but the point is, we have average people dealing with ordinary problems which can make huge differences in personal realities thanks to the compounding ripple effects emanating from a seemingly inconsequential choice.

A Network and an Aim

Getting back to the big picture, what can be done about the nightmarish reality that hangs around like a dark, leaden cloak that results in depression? In practice, your minuscule influence is too insignificant to have any noticeable effect on a system the size of a planet. This is where the concept of aim and networks come in. If you want to change your reality, you need to identify what it is you want to accomplish, and what influences and features of your reality will take you closer to that aim, and which will take you further from that aim. The influences that take your further from your aim need to be eliminated. The next step is finding a group of people who share your aim. More people in a collinear relationship with you add constructive interference to your efforts and increase the magnitude of those efforts. They also give you perspectives when making decisions (which should always be made according to how they advance your aim) which, taken in aggregate, represent a fairly objective assessment of whether the idea is realistic, beneficial, etc.

A network that strives toward an objective understanding of reality can make informed decisions based on knowledge which are likely to lead to the greatest possible manifestation of the aim. Through this process, you gain the ability to make conscious choices informed by knowledge and gain the ability to choose how you interface with reality in large part. A network solves the 4 big problems of depression, it gives you hope, purpose, people to talk to and possibly a future too if you can get past the initial challenge of finding the right people and getting yourself involved.

Gurdjieff was apt to say in his teachings that 200 conscious beings sharing an aim could change the world. It makes one wonder if the ripple effects from such a network are what the psychopathic elite of the planet really fear and why they are trying so feverishly to create a reality that is so dark that it coerces us to forfeit our will, our power to choose. With the alarm clock of disillusionment ringing so loudly, the only way they can maintain power is to numb us with their nihilistic cacophony. The ability to choose is the greatest superpower of all and should not be forgotten. Even though it appears that Earth is 'forsaken', a study of esoteric science strongly suggests that a way back is provided for those who choose to align themselves with Being and have faith in the process. If there ever was a mission, a cause, a great battle to be enjoined, or a defining purpose for humanity in a time of transition, this has to be it. It's really the only chance you've got. Take it.

Reader Comments

Amazed by the Lunacy · 2015-04-15T23:18:23Z

Very nice piece of work Neil, thank you. Your line about what the psycho elite really fear is spot on. The last thing they want is any sense of community, or connection, among the masses. Just look at all of the ways they divide us- nationality, race, gender, sexual orientation, political parties, social classes, are just a few that come to mind. And look at how people communicate today- text messaging, emails, video chat, Twitter, Facebook, where is the true personal interaction, or connection, in any of that? The system is setup to divide, distract, and destroy. There is no hope being trapped in it's future.

As you mentioned, the way back is to get in touch with Being. It requires discipline, as the distractions are many. What does it really mean to be alive? Find some perseverance if you want the answer to that question. For me, spending time in silence and meditation every day is essential. When I can reach a level of non thought, especially for extended periods, the world around me begins to look very different. My heart opens, and for a few beautiful moments, the grace of clarity appears. The kingdom of heaven truly does reside within, and I believe a quiet mind is the key that opens the door. It's why The Thugs in Charge are hell bent in creating anything but.

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Diogenes replied "learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".

TempestAM · 2015-04-16T02:11:48Z

Brilliant commentary, Amazed. This is an important article. Thanks for your contribution, too!

fiotheo · 2015-04-16T04:12:23Z

Excellent Essay!

I so appreciate your article, Neil. I feel like you have done a beautiful job of explaining the epidemic of depression. I have grappled with feeling truly depressed, and after years of therapy, I have come to feel that, to not be depressed in this time of humanity is to not be paying attention. Depression is closely linked to powerlessness, and so many people feel powerless to affect the current state of humanity. The sooner we stop discussing depression as simply a personal issue (though I agree with you, there certainly are situational depressions), the sooner we can start to allow our brokenheartedness to be our compass, helping to lead us out of this devolution.

I have grappled with trying to find meaning in this world of woe, and what I have concluded is that the world needs courageous souls more than ever. And true courage, as the very root of the word suggests, is rooted in our hearts. I am happy to say that I think there are more and more people starting to wake up to their courage. I am a mother, and I have found that my mother friends are all finding a really interesting phenomenon happening, and that is a heart consciousness that is simply rising within us. It doesn't even seem to be based on anything we are doing, other than paying attention. I used to read about the heart consciousness, and it sort of felt like another nice concept. But in the past few months, I have been finding that it has become something much more than a concept. It feels like a morphogenic field that is growing more powerful by the day. I realize that if one looks at the news, it would be very hard to find this or believe this. But I can say that I am not at all alone in feeling this rippling force, and mostly I am hearing this coming from women, and especially mothers. I heard the author Charles Eisenstein say something truly helpful recently. He said (and I paraphrase):

Despair comes from thinking we know how things are going to turn out. Despair is its own medicine. Once you find out your tools are useless, you are delivered into the unknown.

I love this idea, because, to me, it is ultimately the mystery of life that makes it worth living. These days when I feel despair and depression lapping at my heals, I remind myself that there is nothing wrong with me for feeling these feelings given the state of the world. I also then remember, I don't know the full picture and that despair is a form of hubris. This allows me to soften and open to the much more generative, space of the heart in which all things are possible.

Thanks again for this truly insightful piece. I wish more journalists would take up issues from this place of deeper thought.

monsterpeace · 2015-04-16T09:33:54Z

vs

I agree with the premise but not your solution. I think that to break out of the morphogenic field, requires an analysis of why and how we got here, which includes the basic mind programming to which we have been exposed, language. I think that the concept of striving for the "light" and rejecting "darkness" , in addition to being a trite, religious oversimplification, is the sort of schizophrenic thinking that we have been taught to employ, to set the mind against itself so that it will never truly reach its potential. Reality vs. nonreality, order vs. chaos, these are nonsense terms that serve to divide humanity with false ideologies. I think Jung is correct in asserting that repressing the "darkness" is the major cause of insanity (and depression.) I do think that "the darkness" as used in the context of this article and others is a synonym for the collective unconscious, intuition, femininity, and yes, people of darker skin tones.

How did the "psychopathic elite" get into power? Do the 200 conscious beings, and all the rest of us of lesser consciousness, bear any culpability for these psychos, now being labeled in the zeitgeist of our times as genetic misfits? Will the intelligensia solve these problems through the sheer force of their university seminars and veggie co ops? Is there even a problem at all, or all we all right where we want to be?

Neil · 2015-04-17T02:32:38Z

I think there is a subtle difference between rejecting the darkness and refusing to align with it. To me, rejecting the darkness is pretending that it isn't there and slipping into a subjective illusion where everything is kittens and rainbows. Refusing to align with it is acknowledging that it exists and your part in it. Until we "clean the machine" as Gurdjieff puts it, we are in essence contributing to the darkness. The psychopathic elite is in power because the majority of people allow them to be. While many people accept this, others wish to do the introspection necessary to look themselves in the mirror and try to align with a different principle. As far as this having racist/sexist connotations, I don't know where you get that and it sounds like you're just running a "roll" as Gurdjieff would put it.

Ruth · 2015-04-16T09:51:49Z

Not So 'Yesterday'.

"Ancient esoteric traditions publicized in the last century by Georges Gurdjieff and Boris Mouravieff speak of humanity being put on Earth for a certain period of time to accomplish a certain degree of evolution and move into a higher degree of consciousness that is closer to the 'Absolute' (Creator or Godhead). This idea is summarized into something called the 'Ray of Creation', and various levels of beings exist at different points on the various 'Rays' as part of the infinite forms of expression of the universe. The Tradition says that these beings are either moving on an ascending staircase and evolving into spirit towards the 'Absolute' or on a descending staircase, devolving into matter"

Actually, I think this idea is pretty current as well as subject to an something known as 'free will'. The problem is people don't know these things are a part of our reality as well as our destiny and so cannot 'engage' in anything related to these. Nor do they have any conception as to what is free will.

The fact that we know nothing about these concepts, as well as nothing about the different types of humans as well as this idea of 'free will' is troubling.

It is my belief that we are all better off knowing about these things. Do we know how all these impact on us? Well, do we?

olympianduke · 2015-04-16T10:01:08Z

The depression state

you are mentioning is my everyday, for some years now. Anger, never ending fueling anger and hatred that burns me from inside.
Lots of personal losses. A routine that makes me to not want to get out of bed. A hope for an eternal state of hibernation.
People around me, some I call friends, some are relatives, co workers etc. for whom I feel so far apart, I just try to drive by, as a distant spectator, mechanically interacting in order to endure them until I can run and hide in my safe house, a cold appartment, hammer my brain with "herbs" until it numbs and send me to a dreamless state of hibernation, and then, again. and again.

I have felt comfort, joy, alive only with certain types of people, many of them broken now. My network collapsed. I stalled.
My brain and my heart revolt averyday, the robot (as RAW penned it) in me does not get what it needs. So my eyes accept what my brain does not, a cognitive dissonance every single moment.

This is not well being, not even being.

Ruth · 2015-04-16T10:45:06Z

I feel for you. On more than one occasion I have been 'barked at' by that so called 'black dog' of depression. So much so, that I thoroughly wanted to kick it. Until it yelped, a lot!! I think it is necessary to understand depression. Where it comes from; why it happens; and what drives it? I mean, how else can a person 'take steps' to avoid it?

One thing I have found, you can't rely on others to help you. They will, but you have to help yourself and others first and be willing to do so. Otherwise, nothing happens.

I like Sting....
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I think it means coming to know yourself. Otherwise, a person is just not that powerful, and so, they remain in a position of weakness. One must chose to build strength, and seek to figure out how.

Amazed by the Lunacy · 2015-04-16T12:44:50Z

Thanks for sharing that olympian- living in an insane asylum is difficult for anyone with a conscience. My heart revolts too, and when it does, I've come to realize that I am looking for answers in the wrong places. There are no answers, or peace of mind, to be found "out there". Zero, zilch, notta. Someone told me years ago that suffering begins when one cannot accept what is. It's quite disturbing when one begins to realize the madness that surrounds us, and accepting it is another whole lesson of it's own. However, the real battle begins after the realization and acceptance. What do we, as individuals, plan to do about it? Isolate ourselves by hunkering down in our safe houses? Numbing ourselves with drugs, food, alcohol, and mindless television? I've been there, until I realized that's exactly the reaction The Thugs are counting on. They want nothing less then you helping them to bury the light. Try this as an experiment- the next time isolation comes calling, try going for a walk in nature. Or go see a friend that is perhaps down on their luck. Or, really stretch your comfort zone, and call a homeless shelter to see what you can do to help. The runaway ego knows only me, me, me. Take a good look around if you doubt that to be true. All the best to you in your journey, humanity desperately needs you to not give in without a fight.

Neil · 2015-04-17T02:50:04Z

It's really hopeless when there's no one to talk to. Counseling just feels so "plastic," I couldn't help but to get angry just thinking about it. For me, it was all about finding people who aren't "plastic" even if you find that your friends turn out to basically just be words on a computer screen, it breaks the numbness to get some counseling from people who have been there done that. It's not a magic bullet, you will still be depressed from time to time, but it won't have the same crushing feeling of pointlessness when you find people who understand. There is a reciprocal exchange of energy there that can help get you out of that place.

olympianduke · 2015-04-21T09:30:39Z

thanks for your concern. Reflecting later on what I wrote(and the overall mood of that week), it is what it is. The situation planetary, is very difficult for many billions of human beings. This wasn't a cry for help. And certainly, I do not think it derives from the lack of spirituality or the belief to a higher power and such. I've got ridden of those concepts a long time ago and I am thankful.
Certainly, I cannot tolerate cold. It's one of my kryptonites. It brings me down.
Anyway, I feel a little embarassed.

pavlink · 2015-04-16T13:06:35Z

"There is such a Self. It is of the Truine Self, in this book so called because it is one indivisible unit of an individual trinity: of knower part, a thinker part, and a doer part. Only a portion of the doer part can enter the animal body and make that body human. that embodied part is what is here termed the doer-in-the-body. In each human being the embodied doer is an inseparable part of its own Truine Self, which is a distinct unit among other Truine Selves. The thinker and knower parts of each Truine Self are in the Eternal, the Realm of Permanence, which pervades this our human world of birth and death and time. The doer-in-the-body is controlled by the senses and by the body; therefore it is not able to be conscious of the reality of the ever-present thinker and knower parts of its Truine Self. It misses them; the objects of the senses blind it, the coils of flesh hold it. It does not see beyond the objective forms; it fears to free itself from the fleshly coils, and stand alone. When the embodied doer proves itself willing and ready to dispel the glamour of the sense illusions, its thinker and knower are always ready to give it Light on the way to Self-knowledge. But the embodied doer in search for the thinker and knower looks abroad. Identity, or the real Self, has always been a mystery to thinking human beings in every civilization."

Thinking and Destiny by Harold W. Percival
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nedlud · 2015-04-16T14:02:48Z

your bed of white foam

I do not believe humanity is capable of waking up. I believe nihilism (war and death) is the proper understanding to have when dealing with humanity as a whole. This is because humans operate with so much comforting artifice, 'buffers' as Gurdjieff termed them. We like pillows and soft sheets and do everything we can to keep them, even as others, less fortunate than we, are deprived. As an example (of bufferin'), I cannot personally believe how many here at Sott, seem to worship and extol praise on Vladimir Putin. To me, the guy is just another one of 'those'. One of them. Those. THEM.

However, I do think certain individuals and certain groups possibly do attain a higher consciousness.

But getting rid of the comforting buffers is hard.

So hard that I think it is not we who decide to do this. Why would we? It is so nice to be stupid and dumb and to let someone else die in pain, today or tonight and tomorrow too, while we vacillate and cogitate and write books and next week is nice and far away, yet.

So I think God does it to us.

At least that how it seems to me.

Son of a bitch.

SON OF A BITCH!

ned, out

Neil · 2015-04-17T03:22:00Z

In practice, I believe that you are correct that humanity as a whole is doomed. I think the best we can hope for is the reality split phenomenon spoken of in the Wave Series. That said, a way was provided to get out of all of this, and not trying is basically telling the universe you enjoy being a slave.

As for Putin, I think he is doing a lot of good things for Russia and is rebuilding a ruined society back into a respectable nation. I admire his skill and tact in dealing with the complete buffoons running the Empire of Chaos. That said, I'm not convinced that he is or isn't just another empire builder. Mouravieff speaks of the need to form an esoteric elite in order for humanity to pass through the time of transition. Such an esoteric person would be someone with a deep understanding of the source materials mentioned in my article as well as the ability to lead and make just and astute decisions. I don't know how much Putin knows, but ultimately he will need this "esoteric compass" if he hopes to make any lasting mark on humanity. I won't claim to know what's inside him, but he's certainly smart enough.

Still, if I was going on a hike through the wilderness and had to choose, I'd much rather take Putin than Obama. I can just picture Obama preoccupying himself the entire time with fashioning a golf club out of his walking stick...

Ruth · 2015-04-18T13:09:34Z

"However, I do think certain individuals and certain groups possibly do attain a higher consciousness.

But getting rid of the comforting buffers is hard"

It sure is, and hardest when trying to do so on oneself. Or so I think.

"I do not believe humanity is capable of waking up. I believe nihilism (war and death) is the proper understanding to have when dealing with humanity as a whole."

Well, yes, but you know what's going to happen to "them", don't you? They're going to die and 'become memories of the past' as the C's said. (Well, nothing apart from a phantom, and a 'story' from the past, really).

It seems to me, that choices are important. Free will, if you like. From an STO point of view, it's kind of important.

Don't become fixated with other people's point of view and ignore what drives your own (emotions etc.).

Joe · 2015-04-19T15:40:55Z

Hey Ned, Putin's useful. He tells the truth. We extol praise on the truth. When there's a (final?) opportunity for the masses to wake up and see a little of the truth, every lover of truth should help out in the endeavor, no? Don't get too fixated on the details, all things pass, but you gotta make hay while the sun shines. It's pretty hard to do it in the dark, especially if the grass won't grow because the Sun has been obscured by a dust cloud. Catch my drift?

Dukejet · 2015-04-16T15:58:01Z

Well done Neil!

For me, this is a great compilation of idea's that try to explain how things are and how they can be, with the correct "information". Just one thing that's missing. This is a farm.....This is Hell......We are sheep...... But we have a superpower, Free Will! .....each and everyone of us sheeple.......
We chose to be in this flesh we are in now, to learn in an accelerated way. The big bummer is, we forget what we've been, when "stepping in". Which makes it difficult to "do what we came here to do", with so many distractions/disinformation, and a small number of teachers teaching what we came here to learn.
So... we can just sit on our ass and Do nothing and just wait till it's all over. As long as you are happy about revaluating all this "trip" had to offer and just "pissed it up the wall".
Not me baby..... Not me

happyliza · 2015-04-16T16:37:40Z

Truth for the 'times' ahead

Thank you so much Neil and everyone else for the excellent article and thoughtful input. Such in-depth introspection and information is very rare for most people. However, it is imperative that people are aware of what constitutes 'Being' and what difference every individual can make to the outcome, and lessons, of humanity.

Only by truly seeking for that something that seems to be missing from their lives, or trying to connect the dots to find any 'truth' or meaning to the idiosyncracies of 'life', does anyone get the chance to find co-linear people, or become a part of a necessary 'network'.

Fortunately, thanks to the dedicated hard work, research and super-human self-study efforts of a core team of 'self'-less people, daily working assiduously on their aims for humanity here, are we even able to find the antidote to 'non-being'. I don't believe that this possibility of working on 'Being' exists for everyone, nor that many people have the backbone of inclination to even try. However, the opportunity DOES exist, and the FREE-WILL to make the 'choice', embrace the most altruistic aim available to humanity exists also - exactly as this article describes.

Caring individuals will and do feel this 'crucible' - they have hearts and feelings that just cannot align with what they are witnessing all around them. They truly DO suffer due to 'the horror of the situation'. That is what motivates them to grok the whole picture, the sheer disbelief that this CANNOT just be all that there is. There has to have been LOVE, there has to have been a means of BALANCE in the Universe - how, through free-will can that come about? What difference can a mere 'mortal' make? Are we truly 'mortal? What 'meaning' can there be to an intelligent universe if we only have one life? etc etc. How many people sincerely pursue such existential dichotomies and ambiguities.

I thank everyone for this timely 'inner' review and reminder as to why we are really here, and doing our best to be the best we can be. For those with eyes to see there really is a lot to be depressed about. But, as Neil so aptly and knowledgeably shows us - via a true lighthouse/network - there CAN be light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

redrock12 · 2015-04-16T17:35:55Z

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Excellent article Neil. Pointedly accurate insight and analysis of the creative principle of Being (STO) versus the entropy of Non-being (STS).

Meat Robot · 2015-04-16T21:27:35Z

Excellent

I hit the wall a few years back and appear to ride the peaks and valleys of a manic state on occasion.
When in the throes of despair personally I appreciate somebody breaking through the constant barrage of noise with clear, objective context for the apparent global malaise.

While I have my own amorphous failings as a human being to contend with the shotgun blasts of absurdity and horror the world of humanity keeps firing into its own collective head seem designed to keep one from knowing one's self and growing as we ought to be.

The programs, the gut wrenching suffering and the bare faced absurdity of modern society must be endured by getting your own machine fine tuned and reading such a cogent analysis of the situation greatly helps in the struggle.

I look forward to more articles by Neil Maves.
Good work Neil you have joined Harrison as my favourite writers on this site.

BrianW · 2015-04-16T23:18:17Z

Power

Very few of us recognise how powerful we really are as individuals. In fact, the limits to our abilities have never been defined, except falsely so by those dark individuals who desperately believe that they can live only by keeping everyone else down: the psychotics, and especially those who gravitate to the centres of power.

Perhaps this is where the legend of the vampires originates, because these are the true "bloodsuckers" draining the life out of the world. There are those well-known vampire personalities, such as presidents, Secretaries of State, arms manufacturers and the like; and lesser ones such as common criminals, bullies, wife-beaters, etc. All of them seek to minimise others, especially those weaker than themselves, but their best trick is to subvert the power of the strong into their own destructive aims.

Thus we have young people egged on to fight each other, traffickers of drugs that destroy the fabric of society for a momentary thrill, degraded forms of entertainment, and at the top level, the treasure of nations channeled into fantastically expensive systems designed to wipe out the whole planet in the name of "defence."

But has anyone noticed that in fact those dark figures actually have very little power of their own? Their best skills are in denigration, manipulation, covert activities, subversion. It is hardly remarked, but self-evident, that these types rarely display personal courage, but pick out the weak for their sadistic pleasures, such as do psychiatrists, and by sly methods wheedle other, more powerful, people into doing their dirty work. How many of those screaming for war actually have the guts to fight themselves or send their own children out to do it? How many of the so-called hawks turn out to be draft-dodgers?

We all at some time in our lives have suffered from these spiritually sick beings. Some of us live with them daily. They work for the press and TV. They criticise, usually in vague generalisations, put others down with cleverly altered gossip, rush in with all the bad news, scream blue murder if even vaguely wronged, cannot ever get the reports right. These people are the real cause of "depression." It is not a physical sickness but a derangement of spirit purposely created. Get them out of your life. Stop reading their "news." Stop believing their outrageous reports about the alleged activities of organisations and churches that in fact are working for the common good. Find out for yourself.

And realise that, however bad it all gets, something can be done about it. To that degree, we must all work, either in our own corners or preferably in groups and movements, to raise our own level of operation. The guys in the black hats are not as smart as we permit them to be seen to be.

aequinox · 2015-04-17T12:30:48Z

"Serfs UP !"

-- Spartacus

Good Optics · 2015-04-19T06:14:27Z

OK, that's funny . . . .

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lilvoce · 2015-04-17T20:33:59Z

Tunnelrat

I'm in my mid 60's now and it seriously perturbs me that I'm just coming into knowledge of the entities written of by the Gnostics (and found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945) that have infiltrated the minds of mankind for so far back in time that we have no clear knowledge of when.

The Yaqui Indian 'Brujo' Don Juan Mateus, in the writings of Carlos Castenada, recognized these entities as of such an insidious nature that they actually enter our minds and give us their thoughts in order to control our actions.

The purpose for that control, he relates, is to stop us thinking of our true nature selves and keep us acting upon destructive endeavors beyond any point of correction.

The Gnostics knew/know them as Archons, created by Sophia at the creation of Earth. They were an accidental creation of her illicit involvement with an experiment aimed at our solar system.

In his writings from Old Testament times, Enoch referred to these intities as Watchers - fallen angels and demons who inhabit the earth in spirit form in order to perpetuate the thoughts of humans toward chaos, by which they feed off the essences of fear, greed, hatred, loathing and desparation.

The sooner we see the situation for what it may be, or IS, the sooner we can take back our minds and redirect our thoughts rationally toward love, light, joy, happiness, freedom and rid ourselves of this unseen tyranny.

And, yes, I believe this infiltration has much contributed toward depression and much, much more within the minds of men and women for eons.

Once I began to research the subject of these entities, I began to see many overlapping studies from many surprising sources exposing this invasion of humanity.

Most of those who totally discount this information are sure to be religious people who, if depressed or otherwise debilitated, simply rely on God to save them from the symptoms. I'm not saying that is impossible - just not very likely.

The Nag Hammadi texts are, of course, a good place to begin awakening to this ever-present threat to our humanity; although an easier read, and explanation of the invasion comes from John Lash and his benchmark study - "Not In His Image".

Go look it up, folks. It's well worth the effort and will help to spread the word.

My big question to all who call themselves Christian is: How can anyone who believes him or herself to be children of God possibly be depressed in the first place.
It just doesn't make any sense to me.

peace

Amazed by the Lunacy · 2015-04-17T21:46:11Z

Interesting stuff lilvoce. Also interesting are the countless stories of one encountering a serpent during ayahuasca visions.

lilvoce · 2015-04-18T05:13:15Z

Tunnelrat

Thx Lunacy.

Just more puzzle pieces, Mate!

Actually, puzzle pieces are good; but, I want to find the jigsaw boxtop.
That seems to have gone missin' as well.

Let us know if you find it.

Good Optics · 2015-04-19T06:22:27Z

You won't find it . . .

. . . rather, you'll come to know it as a work in progress

It is the nature of your Path, your Choice of Destiny. . .

Like, right now . . .

Highland Fleet Lute · 2015-04-18T11:08:46Z

Ned Lud said:

"I cannot personally believe how many here at Sott, seem to worship and extol praise on Vladimir Putin."

But that's not his fault, is it?

"To me, the guy is just another one of 'those'. One of them. Those. THEM."

Maybe. On the other hand, people could say of you…

He's a land owner - he's one of THEM.

He's an American - he's one of THEM.

He's a car driver - he's one of THEM.

etc.

Of course, the idea that 'nothing can be done' is entirely appropriate for those who exist in a state in which 'nothing can be done'.

nedlud · 2015-04-18T11:40:11Z

catch-22 of them

@Highlander:

I caught 22 monkeys once. Every single one of them had their hand stuck in a cookie jar (and a smile, or smirk, on their face).

I don't who went to all the trouble of baking so many cookies and storing them in so many jars.

Some though, say it was the Cookie Monster. I've heard he also goes by other names.

I think so. I think that just might be.

ned, out

nedlud · 2015-04-18T11:42:00Z

don't know

know

brow of calm · 2015-04-18T19:04:15Z

warning!awakening causes depression

we carry on eliminating the BS, one second at a time, try to raise our consciousness to silently radiate peace to the world, meditate on courage. Polarity integration is like breathing or eating for us or the heart beating for us.

As far as we create our own reality abraham stuff, how can the future not be bright, shining, fulfilling for us?

Knowledge protects; we accumulate knowledge and it changes us, the knowing changes our vibe, therefore we create based on what we know, it protects us....spiritually but we must put the knowledge into action somehow, being a passive bipolar in a sick world doesn't help or does it?

As you were saying life is a bit of a dichotomy at all times, full of paradox, like for example the: do we need to fully get rid of the psychopaths or do we need them? a bit of both right?

or we create our own reality but did children really want to be sacrificed, or raped or starved? uno the first six years are the forming years, we are talking about the years in which a child learns its creation programme or mind is formed.

or we must take action, steps, movement, flow, work but really we don't need to know HOW we are going to get what we want, we don't need to be preoccupied with HOW we are going to do anything, our positive, pleasant vibe is enough.

Work is joy, actions are gifts.

HOW to deprogramme the mind without suffering? Again, the HOW? Apparently we can learn all of our lessons in bliss and happiness, it doesn't have to be negative.
?

The understanding I think is in the 'knowledge protects' theory/lifestyle/survival and the 'ignorance endangers' themes too.

Ultimately some of us humans do seek balance on all levels and therefore wholeness, completeness, healing and know that it could be so, some of us feel that the convictions/programming/studies that claim that man is naturally violent and self-seeking and its a nature problem, not a nurture problem are BS, and that man has inherent goodness inside, locked away due to trauma from outside forces. I would almost believe however that there are many different dna/breeds/types/mutations/genetic manipulation and that there are some f***ed up strands all mixed in there, one big juicy mess of polar opposite forces all tangled up.

Anyways being a soul-rebel uno, I speak rather the shamanic language, I look at the soul of a man, I speak to the spirit of man and I pass judgement but with a comforting nod or wink, for truly all is not lost.

Do the masses, fellow human beings all get destroyed? Whose soul lives on? The organic portals or those lacking soul potential or STS polarized do they get stuck or split? Do the 'generally 'good' people with STO potential do they transition to greener pastures?

So every one answer in this life is like a thousand new questions and so in order that we stay tuned into this frequency to be able to experience this physical life we jolly well need our ego or we would just burn, just go insane. Seems some negativity is grounding us or something, like the ego can control us, the me, me, me mode comes forth from survival fight or flight due to impending trauma from living life with the elements, roving beasts, diseases, pain, hunger, war, NWO, PTB etc. Who wants us stuck here on earth and why?

Yes, life on earth can be paradise, it truly is at times, often pretty ok actually but still, we are like cattle to them, we are their prey, they feed on our negative emotions. We (all) are stuck here on earth like a fly that landed on the planet for a quick taste/sense, then the spider came to suck us dry, and we could have buzzed off quickly to a new system but we got trapped, stuck in a web of lies, hypnotized by the beast, it wants us alive for sadistic bloodsucking, but really, really, we can escape, we have wings, we can fly the solarsystem.

So I realized that I have been stressed, so stressed about my situation, fight or flight that I was not able to see the redemptive light.
The body says STOP! ultimately, the body is the 'enough is enough' shut down system, the body is amazing, such a brilliant, beautiful and compassionate one. The body speaks a language too. It says: I love you, I will endure for you, I love you enough to die for you and I will kill you if you f*** around for too long and don't listen to what I'm telling you.

Don't mind my musings, hope they amuse you.

www.browofcalm.blogspot.com

Neil · 2015-04-20T03:10:13Z

The metaphysical aspect of the control system and what happens to the souls is very interesting but rather far removed from most people. It certainly adds a whole new layer to the depression when you realize you're basically a resource to be mined by aliens. It adds a deeper level of intrigue to the situation, but doesn't change it that much.

As for the masses, looks like they will fall into "primal matter" and have to start completely over again. Organic portals, are just here to sort of passively participate and draw energy so that they have the possibility to evolve on the next cycle of 3D according to my understanding. Those that "make the grade" will pass into the "thousand year period" to evolve and commit to the path of either 4D STS or 4D STO.

The Wave Series expands on the subject greatly and I really can't do it justice here.

brow of calm · 2015-04-18T19:06:42Z

if you get overwhelmed...

watch some playlists on my channel:
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brow of calm · 2015-04-18T19:53:27Z

Violence and evil was a program that was inserted into humanity many thousands of years ago by trans-dimensional entities that have taken control of our planet, enslaved humanity, inserted programs into them to control them, and feed off of humanity, all living beings upon our planet, and even the energies of the water and mineral kingdom. The Gnostics knew them as the archons. Don Juan called them the predators.

[Link]

In pondering the world moment, feelings of anguish or fear must certainly come up. But to focus upon these feelings – to indulge them, to make the exercise about them — is to miss the point.

The point is to make a declaration that we choose to respond, rather than react, to life — as it is, here and now. It is a solemn promise not to sleepwalk through the rest of our tenure on Earth.

If we believe that everything is connected, it follows that the responsibility for the world situation is shared. So in our prayer we are not blaming others, nor dumping global horrors in the laps of the gods. Neither are we hoisting them, martyr-like, upon our own shoulders.

To look death in the eye, in this spirit, is a small symbolic gesture of huge spiritual significance. We are taking responsibility for having incarnated when and where we did. We are telling our soul that we haven’t forgotten it. We are recommitting to its purpose.

[Link]
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mrneutron · 2015-04-18T22:24:13Z

Populations don't scale up well

People roaming around thinking too many thoughts, having too many choices, thinking about what other people must be thinking, thinking about what people are thinking about them, thinking about what they should purchase, how they should dress, how they should behave in order to "fit in" in a socially alienating society. Hardly ever having any meaningful, peaceful or non stressed interaction with others in an environment of competitiveness and constant distraction through phones, computers, news, entertainment media. That is a recipe for Mental Illness and adding more thinking to try to solve the problem, through some method or scientific analysts, does not help.

lilvoce · 2015-04-19T05:41:00Z

Tunnelrat

Brow of Calm - Fear not.

We must ALWAYS remember - the archontic forces cannot feed on love.
Love is what humanity has, in the main, misplaced.
We continue to work at love, that it may reap in kind through time and times and all those half times... anon.

peace

just thinking · 2015-04-19T17:24:06Z

[Link]

this is worth a look and a thought

Neil · 2015-04-20T03:17:57Z

What is that supposed to be, really bad satire? That's like kissing the Scylla to avoid getting eaten by the Charybdis.

sms · 2015-04-20T00:22:43Z

Thanks for the article!

Yes, being exposed to psychopathological influences coming from an individual psychopath or a pathocracy in general, may lead to a depression (as mentioned by Lobaczewsky in his book Political Ponerology, as well). We have been subjected to such influences from the time we were born on this planet and conditioned to rationalise them with a more or less success.

It seems that some parts of our being, such as the soul, reject all these lies, pathological material and inhumane acts, and this may lead to a cognitive dissonance and a depression, without our (conditioned) personality being able to rationalise the discord on the level of the whole being and therefore, not being able to adjust its views and actions appropriately, in order to prevent or overcome so called negative mental states.

And, that would be only what is happening on the first level of the manipulation od humanity, so to say.

It seems that in order to gain more understanding about the situation on the field and on the level of our own being , we have to go deeper, into metaphysics, and it would not take us a long before realising that the area is pretty much controlled as it is our, so called, consensus reality, which makes one pretty hard to navigate through the maze of cleverly mixed info and disinfo. So, we have to be very careful with drawing any conclusions on the basis of information we gained there or accepting any of various theories which circulate there. The responsibility for this is our own. It seems to me that everything comes to an individual level, so one must work on oneself, not on the others.

And who are we? If we take the Parable of the coach from Eastern Gnosis [[Link] as a descriptor of a normal human being, where the coachman is the personality (the mind), the carriage represents the physical body, horses - the spirit (my own interpretation) and the passenger - the soul, we may say that most of us identify ourselves with the coachman and the carriage, not having a slight idea about other parts of the being, especially the soul.

So, in most cases, our personality is the one in charge for explaining what is going on and what should be done. This leads us into a condition described by R. Steiner long ago: “When the man of today thinks merely with his intellect and faculty of reason, his thoughts are not rooted in reality at all. More and more they move about in a shadowy existence which reached its climax during the nineteenth century. And today man is altogether devoid of the sense for reality. He lives within a spiritual element, but is at the same time a materialist. His thoughts — which are spiritual but yet merely shadow-thoughts — are directed entirely to material existence.

Thus the second great process or event was that man became more spiritual. But the spiritual substance once derived from matter no longer ensouls him. His nature has become more spiritual, but with his spiritual faculties he thinks only about material existence”. [Dornach; May 13, 1921 - [Link]

So, we may become “spiritual”, but not ensouled!? No wonder, because, the spirit component seem to have everybody, including the so called custodians/archons/aliens or whatever we call them, but everybody may not have - the soul component!?

So, it seems that in the reality, there are coaches without a passenger!? According to some sources, such as the Eastern Gnosis, ~50% of coaches run around without the passenger (they are called “anthropoids”, “pre-adamics”, “organic portals”, “matrix agents” etc.), while some other sources state that the percentage of the souled human beings is even smaller, merely 20%!? [[Link]

In this reality, we have so called spirit-ual teachings, which are more or less the same as religious teachings and other ideologies. They are designed to appeal to our Mind component (“whose thoughts are not rooted in reality”) and to Spirit component, to rationalise them and to follow them, in order to do something about our esoteric development or to improve our condition. But, in a controlled reality, we can have only a controlled spirit-uality, which leads nowhere. A “spirit-uality-without-a-soul”, one may say.
It seems that the soul component is absent (or wrongly defined and understood) in our spirituality, not by chance?!

According to some sources:

the Soul has been defined in space, in energy and in consciousness, so regarding that she consists from the the space and energy components, she projects itself along the time axis, in order to experience or learn about the spiritual reality. Therefore, a Soul may be incarnated into more human bodies, however, in different times.

The Spirit has been defined in time, energy and consciousness, so regarding that it consists from the time and energy components, it projects itself along the space axis, in order to experience or learn about the spiritual reality. Therefore, a Spirit may be incarnated into more human bodies, however, in the same time.

The Mind has been defined in the space, time and consciousness, so regarding that it consists from the components of the space and time, it projects itself along the energy axis, in order to experience or learn about the spiritual reality.

So, these three components can be regarded as the „Holy Trinity“ of a human being. One may say that in our current state, they are more or less disconnected from each other. This problem was known in Eastern Gnosis, so the teaching was designed in a way to help one to connect them, or to integrate them, on the level of one’s being. The people who manage to do that, were regarded as “inner people” and they belonged to the esoteric circle of the humanity.

(Gurdjieff: “This circle consists of people who have attained the highest development possible for man, each one of whom possesses individuality in the fullest degree, that is to say, an indivisible ‘I,’ all forms of consciousness possible for man, full control over these states of consciousness, the whole of knowledge possible for man, and a free and independent will. They cannot perform actions opposed to their understanding or have an understanding which is not expressed by actions. At the same time there can be no discords among them, no differences of understanding. Therefore their activity is entirely coordinated and leads to one common aim without any kind of compulsion because it is based upon a common and identical understanding.”)

Those people would be the people able to change the world, if and when they think it was necessary to do so. Their understanding and their actions would be based on their integrated consciousness (“all forms of consciousness”: the consciousness of the soul, the consciousness of the mind and the consciousness of the spirit).

So, our doing must be based on our understanding, which is based on our level of awareness or gained consciousness. Therefore, an optimal interaction with this reality can be exercised only by those human beings who would understand and act out of “all forms of consciousness”.
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From the above definitions, we may see that the Soul as a component of a human being, has some interesting properties. It has the energy and at the same time, she is eternal, as she exists across the time. It seems that this was a reason for her absence in “our” spirit-uality?! As the archontic/alien entities do not have this component (as well as, many humans do not have it), this is what they are after. They are after its energy, and they are after its eternity.

There are some other properties souls have, and it is a feeling of humanness and conscience (as a feeling, and not an intellectual term; it often does not have much to do with so called “humanitarian aids”, which are usually employed to mask psychopathic activities, as a damage control or means for gaining or retaining a control).

So, one may say that the feeling of humanness would be a platform from which souled or complete human beings would mostly act, and as more awareness they manage to gain, their interaction with the reality will be more optimal.
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While our attention has been diverted to all other sides, the entities which manipulate and control this reality and humanity in general, have been manipulating our souls, in order to use their energy. They need the soul energy. And, by genetically manipulating our physical bodies, they hope to make such bodies for themselves, which would be able to bind a Soul, to make themselves eternal. Throughout the time, they have been using many of us (mostly, so called abductees, as “living tombs” where they store their “deads,” i.e. Spirit-Mind complexes, till new alien bodies become available to them. They will be fed or nurtured by abductee’s own soul energy during that time. In some cases, abductees may regard those foreign consciousness’s installed in them as their own spiritual guides, angels guardians etc.)

In this reality, beside anthropoids/organic portals, they seem to put into the circulation human copies (not “clones”), as well, which they would use for various purposes, while “normal” human beings are not able to detect them easily. So, just another type of body/mind/spirit complexes, with a soul of the original human being used from time to time as a battery for charging the copy, as well!? It would be hard to know how many of those ones would be around, but it does not matter, except when we think about the changes for better and the better for whom?! (https://flashmentalsimulation.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/the-cloning/)

I think, there is plenty reason to believe that aliens/archons are dependent on us, and they are not superior to us. Their advanced technology is just a compensation for lacking the soul component.
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We have to keep on mind that in this reality, we are controlled through dualities, as well. So, most of the spirit-ual teachings and other info are designed so to address our binary Minds, and to lead them to perform mental gymnastics in a never ending paradigm of reconciliation between good and bad, light and darkness, love and hate, black and white, hot and cold…etc. etc. which are just two different polarities of the same.

On the other hand, a human being with integrated components (consciousness) seems not to see the reality this way. Beside the “positive” and “negative”, there is a - third force (which is in Eastern Gnosis called the neutralising force). This force overcomes dualities and restores a balance, honouring life and the creation.

So, each component of a human being is of an equal importance for his wholeness and it seems that they can be connected to each other, again, as they were at the beginning of time, before they were divided. (“This was found out by regressing people under hypnosis as far back as possible. “Divide and conquer” means that if you divide the consciousness of a human being to its components, you can conquer him easily, as he is not whole, any more). People who manage to integrate their consciousness will become spiritual in a true sense, while those who are following some spiritual teachings and exercising prescribed spiritual practices may become spirit-ual, but divorced from their souls and the reality, as Steiner implied long ago!? The real spirituality will come from within and it will be based on all parts of one’s being. It will lead to an individualisation of a human being and to his ultimate liberation.
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At the end, we may take some time to have a look at the movie the Never Ending Story, where we could interpret symbolically the kid Atreyu as our Spirit component, the luckdragon Falkor as our Mind component and the Childlike Empress, as our Soul component: [Link]

Everything is expressed there. It is all about the integration of our consciousness through the integration of all our components in the virtual reality universe. (http://brianwhitworth.com/BW-VRT1.pdf)

Another movie which may depict our reality accurately, is The Game of Death, by Bruce Lee: [Link]

The holographic universe is made on energy axis, where the Mind component dominates, and it has 7 floors. On the top level is the Consciousness, and we are at the bottom. Between us and the top level of the Consciousness, there are 5 levels inhabited by various entities who are controlling and manipulating us “down here” in various ways. This is represented in the movie by the pagoda which has 5 floors. After his family (a symbol of a true origin) was abducted by the “powers from above”, Bruce Lee engages in fight with them, advancing from the first floor, towards the upper floors and facing more and more powerful enemies. On his way up, he must fight himself and the enemy, which correlates with one’s spiritual development. He won the fight against the last fighter who was huge by his constitution (but “He can never be as big as a normal human being!”, as Bruce Lee said), however, sensitive to the light. So, Bruce Lee defeated him by the help of the light.

After he defeated all entities from upper floors who manipulated the humanity, he was not interested in the “ascension” i.e. staying “up there”, and neither was he interested in any riches which could be obtained there. Instead, he went back down here, to continue experiencing this reality without interference of manipulators from upper floors. So, he has set up conditions for a happy life in this reality. (No wonder, this movie was never shown in cinemas.)

Maybe, we could do the same!? Or, I just have not connected the dots very well?!

Neil · 2015-04-20T04:29:14Z

Overall, I think this is a very insightful piece. A few points:
I generally don't get into the soul vs. spirit thing because I view it as semantic hairsplitting. I guess you could say you have an oversoul aka higher self, which exists outside of time and space and can act as a guide, influence it's own timeline over all of its incarnations in various densities and parallel universes from an eternal perspective. Then there is your "regular soul" which is attached to a specific incarnational cycle in a specific realm, and this is the soul that comes out in hypnosis sessions. Then we can get in to how we define a soul, does it require individuation or just some metaphysical life force energy to animate a body? Depending on which definition you use, OPs can have souls or not have souls. Or is this what you would call a spirit? Personally, I go with the individuation requirement, but these distinctions all get rather arcane, and I'm not sure if it's helpful to spend too much time on it...

The aliens "need us" because they're "light eaters." Since STS can't create on net, it can only consume, it must constantly seek out creative realms to sustain itself and feed it's hunger. There is an article about this [Link]
In the same vein we "need" 2D for a similar reason until we free ourselves from the STS mode of being. Easier said than done, but possible.

I will say that I contend that in 3D and 4D duality is a very real thing, it is just not absolute. What is good and what is evil switches places depending on how the neutralizing force manifests itself.

As far as not being interested in ascension goes, that is a very speculative and personal choice. I think if this were a 3D STO, reality the push to evolve would not be such an urgent matter, and progression might be much slower, but smoother overall. Perhaps you'd choose to hang out and sniff the roses awhile longer. Still, I think that eventually you get tired of the limitations, STO reality or not, and seek to grow in knowledge in an environment that provides more opportunity. If channeled sources are to be believed, the whole reason behind the Fall was to seek additional catalyst to speed up our evolution because we thought the long wave cycle was too slow. Then there were a few traps thrown in to make sure we couldn't easily go back if we changed our mind.

brow of calm · 2015-04-21T20:59:45Z

Really great stuff sms! very interesting points! Thanku
thanku Neil for the article!
Fun contemplation, learning and maybe even action.

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So, we may become “spiritual”, but not ensouled!? No wonder, because, the spirit component seem to have everybody, including the so called custodians/archons/aliens or whatever we call them, but everybody may not have - the soul component!?

So, it seems that in the reality, there are coaches without a passenger!? According to some sources, such as the Eastern Gnosis, ~50% of coaches run around without the passenger (they are called “anthropoids”, “pre-adamics”, “organic portals”, “matrix agents” etc.), while some other sources state that the percentage of the souled human beings is even smaller, merely 20%!?

sms · 2015-04-21T23:19:40Z

Just a few more thoughts…

about what we can possibly do!?

I remember a "silly" joke from the time when I was a kid. I heard and forgot many jokes in my life but somehow, I memorised this one for some reason, maybe because just of that, being silly, or because some part of my being recognised a deeper meaning in it?!

It was in former Yugoslavia, where, at least at that time, Tito’s partisans were widely regarded as “forces of good” and the Nazis as “forces of evil”.

It was a story about fighting between partisans and Nazis for a strategic position, which was a forest. Nazis attacked the partisans which were situated in the forest and after a fierce battle they managed to push partisans out of the forest. The partisans regrouped and made a counterattack, pushing the Nazis out of the forest… shortly after, the Nazis made another attack and partisans had to leave the forest, and so on… partisan into the forest, Nazis out of the forest, Nazis in the forest, partisans out, Nazis in… and this is where the narrator stops and makes himself like sadly contemplating the whole situation. And, it would not pass a long when somebody from the audience would ask: “Tell us what the hell happened at the end!? The narrator would sadly answer: “Eh, nothing, a ranger came and dispelled everybody”.

So, the drama ended in an unexpected way and I remember then thinking, who the hell was the ranger?! He could be a good person because he attacked Nazis and pushed them out of the area, but if he was good, why he pushed out the partisans, as well, as everybody knows that the partisans were good guys!?

A long time later, when I was contemplating what was in Eastern Gnosis termed as the “third force”, this joke came to my mind and I realised that it was - the ranger. He intervened to stop the killing of humans, suffering and the destruction of nature with other living creatures as a result of psychopathological activities, which were exhibited by both sides in the conflict. He restored peace and balance in that environment.

So, one can ask a question of a possibility to become a “ranger” and maybe, engage his being in this direction!?

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Of course, the first question would be, how one could possibly overcome all those armed forces, psychopaths, transpersonalised (psychopathised) individuals, soulless entities, or generally, the entropic forces, as Gurdjieff called them, when they can use, and they do use, all the means they have at their disposal?! If the entropic forces are “allowed” to use all the means (mostly technological), while the other side is limited in regards to that, then the entropic forces should logically be winning all the times!?

However, it seems that it does not have to be so!?

The ranger does not have and he does not need the arms, he would not need and use the mind control technologies and other weapons which entropic forces commonly employ. Simply because he has a component which entropic forces do not have, and this is - the soul component. This component can make a human being complete, if integrated! And a complete and sufficiently aware human being may choose with which events and entities he will interact in this reality, when and how, or for which events and entities he will stay invisible, i.e. not to interact with them. I mean, really invisible, switching from a particle (physical manifestation) into a wave (non-physical), in particular situations in which one may find himself, in this virtual reality.

I will try to provide a short background of this concept, which could be worth of a contemplation. There are many people who have been complaining throughout the years of being abducted by some non-human and human looking beings and were subjected by them to various sorts of manipulation and trauma. During the years of the research of this “phenomenon” it came out that most of the abductees could provide a meaningful resistance under certain conditions and it was on the basis of a cooperation of their triad (the Soul, the Mind and the Spirit), which they (their personalities) were not aware of previously, and which had to be brought from a usually disconnected, into a connected state, or at least, all the components of the being had to be made aware of the problem and they had to cooperate between themselves in order to fix it. It came out that the Soul component possessed skills and the energy required to locate and destroy not only various implants placed in the physical body by the intruders (which was verified numerous times by taking the X-rays before and after the intervention), but to locate and destroy the intruders, as well. So, the soul component proved to be a key part for the prevention of the attacks and the intrusions. It can provide an effective defence in unison with the other parts of the triad. So, having on mind that those archontic forces could be regarded as very intelligent and “turbo-psychopathic” and the fact that they could be dealt with, then, if properly understood, similar procedures may be applied on our classical 3D (garden variety) psychopaths, which the former ones commonly use as their vehicles or proxy-servers in this reality, for the manipulation of the souled part of the humanity.

So, no surprise, for soulless part of the humanity, the only direction to proceed with improvements of their performance and survivability, would be what they call the transhumanism. Their mentors and masters may have already achieved it?! But, the same does not have to apply to the rest of us. We do not have to be their hostages or victims. We can choose our own way. In this case, they will have to be looking for another source of food/energy, for an another place to keep their “dead ones” and for some other beings whose genome to manipulate. They need us, but we do not need them!

At the end, there seem to be some potentials in the concept of the integration of the being (the body, the mind, the spirit and the soul) not only for the purpose of getting rid of abductions but for the purpose of an individual esoteric development, including the dealing with all sources of human manipulation and its realisation would depend on the level of awareness and creativity of our individual beings, as it seems that, what we would be able to do, change or affect in the now, as the now is what only exists, would instantly change the past and the future - [Link]

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asino · 2015-04-26T18:31:00Z

Great thoughts sms, they bring up multiple questions and insights.
May I suggest you post them on the cassiopaea.org forum, IMO an appropriate venue.
-A