19 Jun 2008 @ 07:40, by Glistening Deepwater
If my own experience is anything to go by, it can seem like quite a challenge to adjust ones perspective in order to comprehend the emerging new paradigm.
I look around me at the people living their lives without questioning what it is that goes into making their lives the way they are. Or why it is they think the way they do.
The very act of asking such questions seems to make these folk extremely uncomfortable and the response from them is often “what on earth is the matter with the way things are?” or “how do you think there is any more to be known than what we can perceive?”
In a modern first world country where everyone is unconsciously conditioned to believe that more is better, and that they 'need' a whole bunch of 'things' in order to be considered successful or even acceptable then I suppose this response seems completely reasonable.
Even in other cultures there is an established and accepted way of thinking about and understanding things that goes unquestioned.
One such as myself who openly questions the validity of the whole approach must seem somewhat insane or at least incomprehensible to those so indoctrinated.
However one only has to scratch the surface of the fascade of 'normalcy' or that which is accepted without question to see that all is not as simple or obvious as most folk are willing to assume. We see evidence of this everyday in the attrocious behaviour of folks toward themselves, eachother and the planet.
The 'head in the sand' approach has failed to provide the security it promises and continuing with pretending to be content whilst trapped within a society that exploits its members and fails to deliver anything meaningful to their lives has left all of us in a precarious situation.
There is something going on here, but is is far from that which we have been led to believe. The only way we can effectively address this issue is to embrace the willingness to take responsibility for our own reality.
Of course to be able to really do this we need an intimate working knowledge of the fundamental underlying nature of reality, and to obtain this we need to be willing to 'stick our necks out' and dare to ask “What is really going on here?”
Truth being stranger than fiction, one also need the ability to hold a clear and open mind to be able to process and formulate an understanding of the information that is available. One also needs to develop unshakeable faith in the fact that the truth can be known, that it looks nothing like we're expected to believe and that by knowing the truth we will be liberated from confusion and suffering.
The methods for attaining such a state of consciousness are becoming more accesible to the modern mind through the efforts of those who have dared to break free of their conditioning and look deeply into what we actually do know.
The contents of this little newslog is one such example, simple tools that anyone willing to open their mind can use to help them clarify their mind so as to be able to absorb and adjust to the 'new'.
For details of this 'new paradigm' one could then take their clear and open mind to the newslog of my comrade
John Ringland link and have their mind truly boggled by the information presented there, suggesting as it does a total restructuring of the way we understand the reality in which we find ourselves.
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