Taking a passage from Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning as inspiration, this week on MindMatters we examine the thought processes, emotions and intentions that may assist us in navigating the chaos. When political, social and cultural institutions continue to disintegrate around us and threaten to drag down all those in their sphere of influence, we must be our own anchors and continue to exercise our higher faculties to maintain some semblance of equilibrium. But just how to do this is a question we must ask for ourselves every day, and a framework for doing this is what we can start building for ourselves (and for those who look to us) right now.
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What to do?
I would say count your lucky stars.
There should be a lot of them.
Out there.
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Gurdjieff had an unfavorable view of the consciousness of the mass of humanity. He said “Machines they are born, machines they die.” However, when asked, he said the Fourth Way was esoteric Christianity. Christ had a similar view of humanity, but without judgment, when he said “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” I think Christ had the more conscious attitude, but both are true spiritual teachers.
Your discussion was different for me than others of yours, because you include an emotional element in the discussion. Seeing family or friends swayed by beliefs is difficult. In Derrick Broze’s short video called Darkest Winter, he presents the idea that we should focus on making sure family and friends are safe and have supplies, because the chaos that the Transition Integrity Project war gamed out, will be coming.
What can we do? There was a study of 8th graders, where the experimental group was taught how advertising works to manipulate them to eat McDonalds food. The control group wasn’t. The results showed that those who saw the manipulation, responded and worked to not be manipulated. No one wants to be “played”. One approach then is to show how manipulation works. From personal experience this worked for me.
As you pointed out, we definitely have to work on our own consciousness, to keep balance and not identify. Rupert Sheldrake has the theory of the morphogenetic field, that there is a field of information that we all are connected to. When we raise our consciousness individually, we affect this M-field, and in so doing we affect the consciousness of other people. This means that working on waking yourself, helps to awaken others. It does appear to me that more people are waking up.
Walt Whitman, in his Song of Myself, “Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it …” David
When we raise our consciousness individually, we affect this M-field, and in so doing we affect the consciousness of other people. This means that working on waking yourself, helps to awaken others. It does appear to me that more people are waking up.In the same way that mass hysteria, mob rule, seems to be 'contagious', I like to hope that raising ones consiousness has a similar (although less rabid) effect.
I don't think she has gone astray, I think that she and Michael Parenti and possibly even John Pilger have always been Marxist. They have all played a vital role denouncing the evils of Colonialism, Imperialism and Disaster Capitalism. But have never exposed what is hidden behind these big words. Never rolled back the onion skin to reveal the top Banking Families and Aristocrats that now own most of the resources on the planet.
America is usually accused of the most crimes which is a bit disingenuous as this is the Anglo-American Empire we are up against and that encompasses the UK/France/Germany/The Netherlands/Italy and all NATO.
What to do ? If only I knew!
as current events and crazy people continue to spiral downhill with ever greater frequency and intensity, we find ourselves challenged not to react or respond in ways that are detrimental to ourselves and those around us. from both within and without each of us faces the choices of what to believe, how to feel - and what the appropriate responses to life could and should be. will we fall prey to the adversary's thinking and control, or will we follow the archetype of individuation, growth and the path of the hero?hmm. pretty much sounds like what has been the norm most of the time -most of the time.
did those old farts really find a way to break loose from those conditions or did they just whine in a new and better way?
The more faith I have in God the more my motivation comes from doing what is right and being prepared for the fallout of ridicule humiliation and rejection. The only comfort comes from knowing I have done the right thing while having the discomfort to work through.
In thinking about Jordan Peterson, I realized that examining the interviews with MSM, one can examine what Jordan was able to do to prevent MSM framing. MSM uses phrases with MSM definition and context, as well as emotional energy attacks to misdirect, unbalance, and confuse the interviewee. It didn’t work on Jordan. Why not?
If Jordan has an emotional response to the interviewer, he separates from it, so he is not put into a defensive posture, nor is he knocked off balance. This allows him to work predominately from his mind. Furthermore, he does not allow the MSM interviewer to define the terms and context, i.e. to Frame it; Jordan defines the meaning and context of words and phrases. As I mentioned, neuro linguistic programming works on defining the meaning and context to manipulate. Because Jordan does not allow that, he successfully refutes the MSM interviewer, and makes them look foolish. This points to the importance of words and phrases in formulating thought, and insuring that you are in control of the context and meaning of what you say. One example from MSM vaccine propaganda, “all vaccines are safe and effective”. David
If Jordan has an emotional response to the interviewer, he separates from it, so he is not put into a defensive posture, nor is he knocked off balance.That's most likely SSRI's.
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Sorry re Thanksgiving canceled "because Covid" - same here, same reaction that I bit my tongue on.
Excellent analogy of Cold War and Colvid War.
RC
(Of course, that's the reason we should always have widely open minds and love open fair debate.)
Also, these close minded masses that we are speaking about are those who are responsible for this:
“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” SchopenhauerThe enslavement of people in the Twentieth & Twenty First Centuries: The great unrecognized wrongful enslavement in the west? The War on Drugs.
RC
LM And thank you God. (No judgement.)
Needlessly recreating same conflict, triggering same feelings of lack (that is the suffering for suffering's sake). We done wit dat.
Remaining light takes discernment (3's workout si?) Choosing with consciousness.. oh!!!!! Reminds me of Portia Story decades ago... let me see... i research.... FOUND... in a video!! Wowa!!
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