Disclaimer: I am not a christian. I am seeker and learner in the school of life. Proverbs and sayings, figure of speeches and tidbits of truth are found in all cultures, belief systems and religions. It is these truths that outstand the test of time that hold these constitutions together.
As I maintain my focus on pieces of data that play with divine concepts and symbols in consciousness - truths and pathways open up and different understandings. Like a Zen koan, these pieces are like mirrors I look through and observe reality, the world and society with in order to better understand the building blocks of creation.
Required data: The beast is the mob. The 'beast' is the group mind. The unthinking creature that is the better part of collective humanity. This is the beast. Source: 11 years of traveling nomadically and living on the streets, observing society and searching for an adequate definition of this symbol within modern reality. Yes it is a reference to Revelation in the Bible but this like other belief systems are maps of consciousness constituting a myriad of symbols.
"A kingdom divided against itself will fall" (abridged words of Jesus, or the saviour symbol in consciousness as recorded in the book of Matthew in the Bible).
Through constant observation of society in all of my travels and maintaining an awareness throughout with this truth in the back of my head I have come to the following conclusion regarding its application to present society.
A kingdom divided against itself will fall -
We live in a society dependent on conflict to maintain status quo.
Sport, drinking on the weekends; war, torture and bloody murder on TV - we thrive on conflict. At least there is a part of us that needs it.
When this aspect of the human collective mind is ignored it builds up and if left undirected has potential to cause great trouble for leaders that wish to maintain unequal power and control over the people.
The true solution is to get everyone to take self-responsibility of their own demons and the collective demon will simply sort itself out, but seeing as we are a consumer society dependent on spending money we don't have on the bottomless pit of our shared insecurities - it suits our society to maintain an emotionally irresponsible public.
It's good for the economy.
Insecurity is a grand foundation of our monetary system. Without something to be afraid of, it falls.
The issue with this is that this deliberately incited conflict ( #911 , #terrorism , #shootings , #sensationalistnews , #overdramatisation ) accumulates a greater and greater need for more and more.
Once the beast has been given the feast, its appetite increases.
There is no limit to its gluttony and its greed grows.
Greater and greater measures are required to keep the beast in check. This means greater and greater and more meaningful deliberate stress is introduced into society - in order to maintain equilibrium.
To maintain and preserve power, the beast's eyes must be kept on the ball. A saviour is useless without something to be saved from and if having a saviour is the foundation of your country and you wish to remain in power then it is within your interest to introduce more things to be saved from.
Sins and wrong, and concepts of evil and terrorism must be capitalized on in order to maintain the beast's 'ball importance'.
A smart leader knows all this.
And so a smart leader plans for the end of its reign. To try to stop the inevitable is to stop intelligence.
One final conflict is required.
A conflict to trump all conflicts.
A well planned and well executed worldwide international drama.
...a great scare against all alternatives to the present dynamic of control.
Fear is food for the beast, it knows no end to its greed. It eats endlessly, never satisfied.
...a great conflict to shutdown and cut down considerably our perceived rights and freedoms.
Because to be 'free' after this; to allow the accumulative need of conflict to go unfed; is to allow it to happen organically, to relinquish control of the beast. The beast will take its meal regardless of whether it is given it. It will bite the hand that feeds it and possibly destroy all life in the process.
This is the state of emotional emergency the 'group' is currently in.
The mob mind rules regardless.
Read a text book on group psychology. Get the low down. There is some pretty key information available in plain sight.
Google search widely available information on the following topics: Group dynamics, social psychology, group psychology.
Have a peruse, a read and a listen.
Let it sink in that there are rules to the group mind and they are followed to the 't'; they are used to control the large majority of the population of earth who are ignorant of their own nature. This is not a conspiracy, it's a reality and advertising has been a key player in 'removing the policeman in our heads' but effectively 'unleashing the beast'.
The end is this - a police state that we accept with open arms. Methods of self-surveillance willingly accepted into our homes. AI to monitor this.
As a street performer that lives nomadically I have travelled many parts of the world and mixed with many different people of all castes, classes and social levels.
I often thought to myself whenever I went through a rigorous security check - I bet that Queen of England doesn't have to go through this. Our right to our own privacy and personal security has been removed because of a possible threat to the hijacking of a plane.
The group mind has been made to give up their rights and submit to authority for a fear of something with a very low probability. This article states a 1 in 4.5 million chance of a plane crash, let alone a hijacking source. The same major news outlet article states that you have a general 1 in 31 chance of being killed unintentionally.
The odds of a hijacking are so small that you could die of a myriad of things before you might have even the remotest of possibilities of it becoming a reality, yet this small chance, used with fear and marketed as 'terror' has been used to create a panopticon effect on the public.
I had a chat with a friend recently on their boat about them being an escort for royalty once. They refused to give details. But they boasted. So I listened.
This person had a plane to catch and was going to be late for this plane because of taking a friend of this authority figure on a tour of a city to show them the sights. The authority figure told them not to worry about the plane and that they would get their on time. This person was 40 minutes late for the plane. The plane was kept on the tarmac for them specifically. A plane full of people waited while this person and their associate were rushed onto the plane through the security checks without any demeaning searches and placed in first class. The person said a customs officer jumped in their way for a moment when they were being put through quickly but the officer was quickly dismissed by his superior.
You are fooling yourself if you believe we are equal to these people. This society is a game and the class system still exists just as if we were still knee deep in feudality.
Realise this.
We just happen to experience a level of 'freedom' in the construct of an 'individualist' society.
Uneventful conclusion:
I have come to the conclusion after all of this and a lot of tender thought, and many attempts to try and control things through activism and the like, that no one is in control. Not even the ruling figures, we are all living predefined pathways as players in a set - fighting to retain our seats in front row to oblivion. That we are living out these symbols in reality as part of the waves in an undulating consciousness system.
This is just another cycle. And here we are doing it again.
If every anarchist was given power would their actions be any different? Are we making up for power lost somewhere down the rabbit hole of time?
What to do? If we really do have no control and if I cannot control it, what is the point in understanding it?
Well, it's fun to play around isn't it?
Time has a beginning and an end and its end is its beginning.
No use getting angry, just accept, this really does resemble some kind of perpetual containment.
For what? Why would I be contained? Is it a training ground? Are these lessons? Am I being punished? Am I god in my own universe creating all this?
So many questions.
If you haven't started investing time in these questions and why you exist. I suggest you start today - the level of mental freedom some of us have at present is ideal, and no, it will not last forever.
The current model of 'free' society is very young, yet in our technologized state we have deluded ourselves to believe it will last forever.
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