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( Wake up )
( Wake up )
With people presenting solutions everywhere, be it through the political circus, spiritual leaders,
to more progressive movements offering self-sustainable solutions, many people seem
to have a plan of how to "fix" the world. Others say all is just as it is supposed to
be and all we need to do is to go with the "flow", focus on "love and light"
and everything will be good. Visionary ideas are good and great to have,
however hopes based on ideals can shatter into nothingness if there is no foundation
to build it on. The popular notion is that we must “do”, “act” or “vote”
and it seems most folks want just someone to tell them what to do, so they don’t have
to think too much on their own. The question is what are we really able to “do” if
we don’t even know ourselves? What is humanity? Yes we’re all one, but are we all truly
the same inside, seeing, thinking, feeling the same way? Who is to say what is good for
the world and what is not? The issues the world faces, the destruction,
greed, genocide, economic meltdown cannot and will not be resolved until man faces himself
and does the work to gain Self-Knowledge, beyond worship of the ego. Humanity is deeply
conditioned through Culture, Society, Religion, Media, Nationalism, Education, Government,
and all kinds of illusionary beliefs. Before we can offer any solutions we need to become
aware of this conditioning and do the work necessary to truly understand ourselves with
our mechanical reactive behaviors, emotional addictions and our biases to automatically
reject information that conflicts with our world view.
Honest self-work takes effort and courage as one will have to confront the social conditioning
and programming as well as the lies one is telling oneself in order to fit in. If one
is sincere with oneself, this process will lead inevitably to confront the lies in the
world, and one starts to SEE the world more as it IS, not as one likes it or assumes it to be
This results in a rise of consciousness and awareness, moving from subjectivity to
a more objective view, letting go of the false conditioned self and embracing one’s higher
self based on Truth, Knowledge and essentially Love, which is a higher state of being and
not merely an emotional state. The more we see ourselves and the world objectively, the
wiser our choices become and our resulting actions will have lasting positive impact.
This work is to be done within and without, for both are interconnected. Much like when
Neo woke up in the film “The Matrix”, the view is not necessarily pleasant once
the illusions, buffers and programs have been dislodged. Only Truth will set us free.
Once we can SEE, especially the “unpleasant” aspects of our reality so many people
like to ignore, we’ll have a better understanding of what to DO.
The necessity to “Know Thyself” has been transmitted through many wise men and ancient
teachings throughout the world for thousands of years. However, the depth of these teachings
and the required work to attain a higher state of consciousness has been distorted and watered
down in the New Age arena and “Conscious Movements” these days. Some of it even deliberate
in order to steer people away from truth. Disinformation is used by the powers that be
to infiltrate not only political parties and progressive organizations,
but also the New Age Movement.
Religion has been used to control society for ages. The New Age Movement with its many
distorted teachings seems to become the new “global religion”, vectoring people into
complacency and conformity with an oversimplified understanding of “we’re all one” or
“all you need is love”. Many people already believe that they are awake and aware, yet
they are merely dreaming to be awake. As a matter of fact what we see nowadays in the
New Age is similar to followers of dogmatic religions: blind belief, wishful thinking,
emotional projections and lack of critical thinking.
Effective disinformation always contains a good amount of truth to lure the seeker in,
but enough lies to steer the person away and keep them in a subjective tunnel vision. The
same can be said about the many self-help gurus out there and many others who claim
to know the way to happiness and abundance; they are here to “help you help yourself”,
giving techniques of how to “attract” and “manifest” money, a fulfilling relationship,
the perfect job, lover, and so on… while they make millions off the desperation of
the people who seek happiness and a way out.
When looking deeper into some of the self-help teachings, one can see that they mostly appeal
to the ego, with its conditioned desires and buffers. They promote and push to follow desire
without truly trying to understand where they come from to begin with. In a sense, what
is sold today as spirituality and self-work is quite the opposite of what the classical
esoteric traditions have passed down. It is more an escape, another buffer to stop seeing
the world and oneself as it is. True self-work is not a walk in the park or about manifesting
ones desires.
That is not to say that all prominent authors and teachers are misleading in purpose. They
themselves can be duped and spread disinformation unknowingly, even if their intent is well
meant. Most of them have more knowledge about marketing and selling themselves than understanding
of spiritual work. It’s not black and white, but lies are mixed with truth, so discernment
is key. The truth about our world and humanity has been suppressed for thousands of years
and it certainly won’t be revealed on Oprah anytime soon.
The necessity to seek truth in oneself and the world and act upon it has to come from
oneself. No one can do it for another and no one can push another to do it, until man
himself realizes the precious times we live in. Free will is not really “free” as
long as man acts from his conditioned personality. People who don't know themselves will continue
to live in a self-inflicted prison, a prison without bars and walls, cherishing their leaders
as “saviors” like in a global Stockholm Syndrome, worshiping and defending the ones
who keep them imprisoned. They become tools for the matrix, thinking that they are “free”,
but they are merely reacting mechanically to external influences and accumulated conditioning.
No change is going to happen by simply forwarding the newest conspiracy videos, questionable
New Age teachings and dubious channeled material, meditating on love and light, striving for
sustainable solutions or just protesting with some banners and slogans.
Yes, some of it can trigger and plant seeds of awareness, but ultimately change happens
only if WE change and separate lies from truth, within AND without. Only then will we be
able to see the world as it is, without filters of denial, wishful thinking, false hopes and
misperceptions because of our corrupted state of being. In order to see truth in the world,
we need to see truth in ourselves and stop lying to ourselves. Only then will we be able
to know what to “do” and act upon it.
During this time of transition there IS an awakening happening, no doubt. However,
we’re also in the Age of Deception and if people don’t know themselves, they will mistake
reality for illusion and illusion for reality. The term “awakening” needs to be carefully
looked at, because people can “awaken” to merely another form of illusion and dream
of waking up while still being asleep. On the other hand, Self-work can also easily
turn into a narcissistic activity, if one is too absorbed with oneself or has no network
that can give objective feedback and mirroring. The solutions presented by various “Conscious
Movements” these days and other people who have good intentions are not bad in themselves,
however, by leaving out the necessary deeper self-work that is needed to truly “be the
change", nothing will change fundamentally and so many of those solutions become just
castles in the air. It is also the prerequisite to seek truth in the world, for one’s perception
needs to be clear in order to discern lies from truth. Honest self-work goes hand in
hand with looking at global issues that seem to be ignored by many self-proclaimed “conscious”
people who want a better world. Be it 9/11, Zionism, Psychopathy and Ponerology, the UFO
Phenomena, and many other secrets present and past. There is still much we have to come
to terms with before any form of “Golden Age” is going to manifest.
Suppression of knowledge is the name of the game. There are traps and dead-ends on the
path towards awakening and there are forces that do their best to keep humanity asleep.
It is no coincidence that much of this crucial esoteric knowledge has been filtered out and
is hard to come by in today’s Spiritual, Conscious and New Age Movements.
Knowledge protects; Ignorance endangers.