The Spiritual War on Consciousness
‘’There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Faculty for Critical Thinking is officially redundant and about to be closed down.
For in this age of deception, censorship and coercion, the main casualty is truth and with it the domino chain of all consequent casualties, including the savage loss of life now taking place.
Truth has been starved of public attention longer than most can imagine, the drip drip of lies taking its stead to the point where few can see the join.
When did the balance shift exactly? When did we tip into a global culture now happily self-deceived? When did our collective palate salivate over pig’s slops like the Prodigal son, not noticing the advancing armies of death and man-made disease?
Have you not witnessed the proliferation of zombie movies, the normalizing of death? Any of us who have been on this planet 50 years plus may well remember better days — not perfect but less serious, even fun.
A time when a semblance of honour still existed, a time when politicians would fall on their swords over indiscretions. We might have detested the old patrician Tories in the UK, but there was still a sense of due process, which acted as a needed container.
That has now been utterly stripped away, all the vile sediment and scum now on full display. Politicians are unabashed in their corruption, greed and willingness to destroy the image of their enemies to get what they want. They are the robber barons — along with their bankster chums — of the 21st century.
Demons are running amok and it is all but impossible to see who the good guys are, if there are any remaining in our beleaguered bureaucracies.
Of course, the world situation isn’t a game of what we used to call in less enlightened times, ‘Cowboys and Indians’. As Solzhenitsyn pointed out, the line between good and evil runs through every human heart.
You wouldn’t think so listening to the blunt tool of the media which is happy to gaslight you with extraordinary tales of scapegoats, ‘baddies and goodies’ constellated in stark relief against a backdrop of concretized thinking.
It’s why I left my career in newspapers some years ago, traded up to work in psychotherapy where subtlety was both understood and seen as vital in understanding human behavior.
I noticed in a podcast last night, once again Russell Brand quoting another who summed things up well: ‘Tyranny is the removal of nuance.’
There it is. Tyranny can only happen in a dumbed down culture that has been trained to subtract nuance and conditioned to live in a Neanderthal black and white.
Many of us now understand behavioural modification techniques were deliberately employed to frighten people into compliance in an experiment that has a sadly unique place in history, causing unprecedented death and injury, information heavily suppressed by the same corrupt media.
What is even more interesting was witnessing highly intelligent people presented with clear evidence of a crime, obfuscate or ignore, sticking like sea urchins to the prevailing narrative.
Mass myopia and mass formation — a form of centralized hypnosis — took over once normal people as if the Invasion of the Body Snatchers had become a reality. Which, of course, it has.
But as awakening finally began to dawn on more and more people and the corrupt elite powers started to panic as the truckers dented their plans, the tired plandemic evaporated and our gaze was turned to war.
Never mind the bombings and wars fomented by Western imperialism all over the Middle East, the ongoing tragedy of Palestine etc etc. there is only one war that should trouble us and its Russian demon czar.
As the pictures hit the news, emotions were again triggered in a carbon copy of the Covid crisis and every man and his dog were led by the nose to forget everything that had gone before and focus there.
Dare say anything, dare suggest there is context and history and, yes, the dreaded nuance to be considered, and once again — as I have discovered in the past few days — the mad dogs of the woke world step from their kennels determined to misread everything you say, all of it entirely reasonable.
What I have noticed over 60 years is that very few people are humble enough to apologize when you point out they have not really heard what you said, just the voice in their own head.
That voice, long conditioned by family, society and media has absolutely no interest in looking more closely at reality; it is content to uphold the status quo no matter how wrong or misguided.
When people throw brick-bats I like to think of this simple story. Bear with me if you have heard it:
There was a busy father who wanted to get on with an important project but had to look after his six-year-old daughter. After puzzling for a while, he gave her a jigsaw to complete thinking it would take her several hours.
But in 15 minutes the task was finished. Amazed, the father asked how she had been able to complete a vast map of the world so quickly.
She said: ‘Daddy, on one side there was a map of the world but on the other the face of a man. When I put the man together the whole world fell into place.’
The simplest way to understand how the world works is to put yourself together. In gathering the long-fragmented parts and experiencing wholeness, the big picture comes into clear view.
Once you know the plan for the world, everything that happens makes sense and has a place. Until then, you are scrabbling in the dark confused by conflicting reports and fighting a battle with those who only want to help.
Likewise, the quotation I started with can be baffling until you realize the true definition of the word ‘you’. The old sage is not talking about you as a body-mind but as consciousness itself.
From that point of view, mind and feelings are indeed external and fall within the limits of time and space which is ultimately our own projection. However, that takes time and practice to see.
And for the record, to those who still can’t hear, I am no lover of Putin, just as I am no lover of any of the key players in a desperately fallen world.
What I am is a lover of truth, fairness and the final missing piece of the other world jigsaw, justice.
Copyright Simon Heathcote
