The Tyranny of Religion - A Self Imposed Curse

I once met a man who had convinced millions he was a God.

My time in believing he was something extraordinary was around 9 months.

And then my eyes were opened; I realised how easy it is for simple, craving folk to be duped into believing and to be beholden to a creation of manipulation. Unlike many I did not have an upbringing in a conventional 'church', so this realisation was fascinating and totally empowering.

My religious instruction came from a heart felt and conveyed world view my parents engendered. Although faulty in parts, it certainly had its intentions in loving kindness. It was to be much later in life I became witness to devotion that merged solidly into blind faith and mind control.

These are strong words, however I have learned religion per se is one massive control system that through its power brokers and variations on a theme, subjects, most times, willing participant into a state of less, guilt ridden impoverishment and a receptacle of some outside influence that many times has no real relationship to things spiritual other than in name.

However this man uttered one phrase I hold to me to this day. As with most things that came from his mouth they were definitively not his own, though accredited to him. The phrase was:

"It is good to be born into a religion but for God's sake do not die in one."

Today the world is locked into a struggle greater than we have ever experienced. One that is heightened and indeed its odds increased, because of and through the extraordinary power to communicate we have all embraced and been fed.

This struggle is one of domination for our minds, both collective and individual.

Previously the sheeple went to church, mosque, temple or wherever and were told to believe in whatever deity they were fed. Ignorance and non critical thinking led them to fear, a fear increased by descriptions of vengeful gods and terrible consequences. That fear was fed by those dishing out the dose of religious dogma and we ended up having a creed usurped by the state as well as the church.

Values were cemented in this doctrine. The entrapment of beings almost complete.

That religion did have a positive focus for many, in as much as it acted and still acts as a positive focus, albeit highly tainted and misunderstood, has led to a great degree of compliance in all things seen as daily life.

It has also given rise to major disconnects in truly comprehending our position in the great game of life. For many this means we become and accept our disempowerment, subservience and enslavement to a system that has anything but our best interests at heart.

Today we are faced with the rise and final push, so far, of the psychopathic power platform. The accreditation of individuals, placed in positions of responsibility and dominion, yet with their tendencies allowed to run rampant through a sea of ignorance and blind faith, inculcated by religion, mass media mind control and the threat of ultimate annihilation by an unseen, unknown yet terrifyingly real threat to the general people of earth.

Whilst blinded by these lies, frozen in their deceitful headlamps, we find many running for the spiritual panacea - be it New Age, Catholic, Pagan, Moslem, Buddhist, Ascended Mastery or any other 'systemic' life raft.

What we are all running away from is our Self.

Fear is our main threat and the one so far removed from Love, we are finding ourselves spinning in circles of confusion, credited and discredited at one and the same time, yet all the time being fed mixed messages that inevitably lead us to complete paranoia, hopelessness, devoid of the will to know ourselves any more and at a point where any great Master, Godhead, Leader can appear and seem to be 'The Answer' to all our problems.

The extra-terrestial solution is propagated. The 2012 phenomenon will come and go as all these things do with those believing an enormous shift has occurred, those that believe those that believe this are crazy and then there are those that have no idea at all what they believe and just sit and become even more brainwashed by TV and Media and are happy for others to rule their lives.

Only when we start to seriously question ourselves, doubt the very facts and beliefs we are fed, use our critical faculties to determine what is truth, what is fact and what is what...will we be anywhere near growing in our evolutionary process.

Trial and error is a great place to start. If it feels right, then take full responsibility for running with it, if it then subsequently fails you, recognise why, let it go and/or transform the experience, learn from it and move forward.

Nothing is lost from experience and everything is to be gained. Take full responsibility for everything you do, think and say and wisdom will seep into what may have been previously a very befuddled thought process.

Remember there is a sell by date to everything. Our lives, our loves and our being. The freshest and most complete is the present. Live it, know it, experience it and celebrate it.

and remember.... you are the only one who truly is going to recognise your divinity. When that moment arrives, it was not down to religion, it was not down to the intercession of any other, it was totally because you have arrived at the point were you love yourself completely, unreservedly and without a trace of less or fear of failure....

Hallelujia! ......

The Lie Repeated Becomes the Truth

One of the most prevalent tactics of any regime is to promote a way of thinking, a belief. A belief that becomes the modus operandi of said regime. The tenet of all subsequent actions.

This is true for any structure be it religion, government, ideal and organisation.

The more this belief or factual story is discussed, thought about, engineered into the minds of the listeners, it becomes through repetition, a version of the Truth. When consistently referred to as a source of reference, by alluding to its truth content, albeit a lie..... it becomes the truth.

This is the fundamental nature of passed down misinformation and control.

The oral tradition, before the age of information, printed word and the like was absolutely strict about who passed the word forward. They knew not only the value of the original but also the tendency of 'Chinese whispers' that distorted the original content and teachings.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind" Dr Williams James
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When studying all regimes, oppressive, repressive and benign it is transparent the way we are led to believe anything is conditional on the amount of emphasis given to the facts determining where we focus on.

In a totalitarian state we are fed the truth of "terrorists" who are out to blast us to eternity. These said terrorists are so ephemeral, awkward creatures to capture that means and ways to control the set upon (us) becomes an imperative more important. "for our protection" than the exposure to the fact that said terrorists are merely a figment of convenient imagination for these governing bodies to excuse the abuse of their own.

I do not deny terrorists are real. Dissent creates them in a world where fee expression is stifled. They are also created as means for a power to manipulate public opinion, in the cause of furthering their ends.

The State of Israel was in greater part created by the terrorists of Menachem Begin and tempered by Ben Gurion, yet an executive arm manipulating all this saw a Zionist no Jewish cartel move into this arena and is even today responsible for many of the atrocities of state terrorism we see around us.

The venom and anger ensuing when it is pointed out that the Jewish people have been used as pawns in a power game that used and abused Semitism as a rallying cry against unilateral foul play, spotlights the overt way we have been manipulated into believing the lie of transgression.

Not even the Ashkenazim Jews escape vilification as some of their number are the greatest perpetrators of evil in this world. Jews they are not, yet to all intents and purposes they have painted themselves as part of that diaspora who have been historically disabused of their right to statehood and existence.

So complex is this deception, most ordinary folk are as confused as to believe the Israelis, Israel and the whole Jewish people are a persecuted and misappropriated race.

Nothing could be further from the truth, or should I say fact!

One person's truth is another person's lie. Facts are just that facts.

The fact that the Rothschild dynasty has in no way real blood line Jewish existence is a fact. Calling yourself 'Schindler' does not make you a Jew. Mere name calling semantics.

The money lenders origins are as far from the biblical tribe of David as the moon is from Alpha Centurii, though that metaphor is too close. Their humble birth place in

The lie of persecution is an emotional one and one that is fed daily with invective, spite, jealousy, envy, hatred and skewed historical inaccuracies. Yet because it seems true it is consistently promoted as The Truth.

The cautionary tale here is to use one's own discrimination as to what feels true for you. Be in no doubt there are forces in this world wishing for your compliance in all things contrary to their policy and thought. To raise the head above the parapet is to get blasted from a heavy cannon.

Fear is a control mechanism wielded with uncompromising diligence. Submit to it and you will find yourself bereft of discrimination, self control and the ability to see beyond the fog.

Rule One is to banish fear through development of your own personal integrity, discrimination and realisation as to your own powerful being. This may not be an overnight process, as for most we have allowed our conditioning to become ourselves. This identity problem needs some serious cleansing, as otherwise we will continue to identify ourselves with others' projections of us,them and the whole caboodle of insanities that make up who we are led to believe we are and told we are.

Those brave enough to challenge the truth, put it to the test align it with the facts will ultimately become free, in the knowledge of who they then discover they are.

Live that and you live your own truth.....and that is a fact.

Times of Change Are Rare Times Indeed

When the Hero is awoken, his/her slumber acts as a cloak thrown ground wards in a specific act of action.

Action is the imperative of every one of us as Hero. Without it we are mere rotting piles of dreams. Dreams already dead from inert and putrefying nothingness. The stench of inaction can never be eradicated by perfumes and unctions created to cover up. It becomes a pervasive odor we carry with us everywhere.

Have you ever noticed the smell of those that tramp the streets and byways? The odor they give off has nothing to do with whether they wash or not, though that has its own malodorous part. No, this is an odor akin to old wood, to rotting bark.

In my home town of Glastonbury, in the leafy shires of Somerset in the UK, it can be sniffed out quite openly. On buses, trains and other public places, there seems almost a celebration of this odor.

However it is nothing to celebrate. It is the stench of inaction, of an intransigence to move forward, change circumstances and life patterns to something akin to evolution on a personal and collective level.

Do I sound harsh?

I hope so. As it is this endemic slovenly and downright lazy attitude people have towards themselves and their worth that feeds a sense of nihilism, reliance on others to support them and a loss of human dignity that ought really to be a shining star, not only in their personal firmament but to enlighten all those they meet in the celestial grounds of Life.

It is neither my place, nor right, to shove them out of their stenchy comfort zones, however since their malodorous presence does impact me as I stand in line at the store or bus stop, train station etc, I raise the flag of awareness and encourage them each and every one to search their souls for purpose and take the challenge of that hero who like each of us, is capable of changing the world - one by one......

Then times of change will multiply and manifest as a sweet smelling rose of beauty, sharing her intoxicated perfume with all.....

The Hero will rub slumber from its eyes and march out on quest.......

At What Point Does The Hero Start His Journey

"Between the crack forming around the sphere the long, languid lines of temptation began an hypnotic dance inviting participation. Every sinew in his body screamed NO, every one except the curiosity curve.

It was this small, well rounded reminder of his one year old self that refused to lie back and rest. It scratched at the part of his brain that craved knowledge and that sought enlightenment.

So small was the curve that its quiet, yet furious feeding belied the rate of growth it spawned. Before he had time to even assess its expanding parameters, it had swollen enough to devour a small but major part of his resistance. Sinews began falling away as if melting in the heat of the intensity to know.

In spite of himself his journey had begun. Turning back was no longer an option."

For most of us we launch our journey in a state of blind or unwitting unconsciousness. No road map, no instruction, vague idea of destination and most times, little will to launch such an epic campaign.

The unwillingness to be the focal point is strong.

Yet the harvest has failed, the people are dying, the water contaminated, freedom has become a distant memory of its pristine form. Plastic is all around. Abuse, extortion, denial, poverty are everywhere. Out of all this noise comes the calling....

The Hero steps up to the plate and lays his life on the line for resolution. Foolhardy maybe, flawed genius probably, fallible human being most definitely, yet he speaks where silence reigns, he puts his head above the parapet.

His destiny is to lead by example. That example even through death may waken a few more and a few more and a few more.....

His role is thus the role handed down through the ages.

Are you this job description?

Are you awake?

Developing sinew against the grain

"I think being different, going against the grain of society,
is the greatest thing in the world."
Elijah Woods

Conformity is the killer of all dreams. It eats away at the very fabric of our being, till we one day look at ourselves in the mirror and see a grey, wizened, depressed image of our former self. That we may even recognise this self is miraculous. Yet, it is these very features, impressed on our image, we have allowed cultivate and define not only our image but our mindset.

The walking dead are more alive at this point than we are.

It demands a certain sense of self, of independence of thought and enquiry to develop enough sinew to strengthen the seeker in its own investigation of the known and yet to be known.

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"The hardest struggle of all is to be
something different from what the
average man is."
Charles M. Schwab
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One of the great doorways toward the true freedom in 'different', is an ability to ask with sincerity the question - Why?

To consistently question the need, the right for life to dictate on our actions, thoughts, ideas and goals, is a prerequisite. If we are able to posit the question and listen to the answers, filter out agendas and propaganda, sift through until we can determine rightful discourse and argument which equally acknowledges the right to question, we may just be on our way to an intelligent debate.

To meekly accept the status quo, the powers that be under the pretext that someone or something knows better, is to curl up and surrender. The morass of mediocrity that creates mountains of compliance, also create an ugly landscape that has little semblance to a true reality of being.

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"When we lose the right to be different,
we lose the privilege to be free."
Charles Evans Hughes
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Allowing others to take from us our choice to determine to be different, is the foundation of an enslaved society. In little ways at first - "We don't do that round here", or "I would not if I were you..." are pointers to adherence to a crowd mindset. Fear of standing out from the crowd, being an outsider is a major factor in keeping people inside the cage. Letting powers of control determine what is OK to think, say, do is by its very nature an abrogation of our right to be free.

Developing sinew is developing strength. When an army of power crazed idealism, authoritarian correctness is ranged against us it needs all the strength one can muster to say NO, to counter with walking the opposite direction and to ultimately stand and fight.

The road against the grain may seem rocky and ill trod, yet walk it for a distance and you will find it the smoothest path, the one that goes with the flow and the one that ultimately delivers the satisfaction that creativity has overruled normalcy and new frontiers come rapidly into sight.

Natural trepidation is a good quality to maintain. Outright fear, especially fear of consequences and what others may or may not think, is the enemy to going against the grain, to striding out on the road less travelled. We are surrounded by the repetition that life is fearsome, people are to be feared, doubted, watched and reported on for anything that smells of difference. The media, culture and cultivation of lifestyles encourage us to be fearful of outcomes not predetermined by those that hold the reins of power.

Their agenda for the most part is not selfless, but selfish. The individual may be paid lip service, however the truth is that they fear any flow against the popular tide to be a point of resistance. This resistance must be obliterated for their designated flow to be maintained. Yet what is essential for us to recognise is the flow built around the grain is in fact the upstream path. Our resistance to the grain and going against it, is the downstream. A downstream leading to an ocean of freedom, a celebration of life.

So, if you dare to be different, to go against the grain, then know that you are committing yourself to a glorious path. You are answering a fundamental and ancient 'crie de coeur' that is everything epitomising the freedom and the joy of living.

Open your mind, open your heart, step up and away from the sheeple littering the graveyards of despair and self defeat.

"Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble
ideas hide them under a bushel for fear of
being called different."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dreams and Realities - an excerpt

"Sleepwalkers into a dark night go, until the death of life as we know it grips them by the throat - then and only then will they cry out and say, 'Why me, Why me, I trusted you to take me from the cradle to the grave?'

Alas, they never saw the Beast in robes of Mother/Father, strip them of their true humanity and lay them down empty by the grave of Truth." ......from Dreams and Realities

Do You Want to Be Rich?

Sunday morning we went to the local car boot sale as merchants.

These encounters are fascinating insights into human behavior both from a merchant's point of view and the buyer.

As a buyer I have always found these events particularly depressing, since the majority of merchants who supposedly fill their car boot (trunk for our US readers) with overspill from the collection of possessions accumulated over the years, seem to have such junk and minutiae of their lives, you wonder whether they value anything much.

Today as a merchant was an altogether different perspective.

We were there, not as most were to sell as much as they can to meet the financial gap between their wages and the high cost of living, but in the capacity of clearing stock, passing forward investment purchases from E-Bay and other goods.

We spent a fascinating morning doing a 'vox pop' survey.

The question was - Do you want to be rich? - the answers were mouth dropping, predictable

Out of a straw poll the percentage of those asked, 56% slopped away in embarrassed chuckling avoidance . Another 20 percent said no they did not want to be rich, though they added they would like to become rich. Strange dichotomy within there, eh?

10% pretended not to hear the question and fidgeted their way out.

13% said definitely they wanted it but all were not prepared to do what it takes as there was, as several put it, always a catch. (Well yes there is and it is called commitment to action and smart work)

1% said they were already rich in areas of their life that may not be financial.

Not one of them said yes that is fascinating, please tell me more. It seems the hunger for self advancement is something too onerous to approach, let alone engage in.

Now in fairness the Car Boot is a bargain hunter's paradise, allegedly, and thus most people there were there because they were in dire straights or nowhere near where they dreamed to be. Discount the professional dealers, normally dodging the early hour opportunity, and you have people who are the most in need of improving their circumstances but are at a complete loss, apart from the aspirational Lottery path, as to how to do it. A cheap 2 dollar cuddly toy for the kids seems to be their level of aspiration.

We offered, as a 2 dollar handout, the hard back volume of The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. Most laughed at the fact that if they read this, internalized it and then led a life based on it they would develop a mindset and pathway to enriching their lives.

Seemed too easy. Sure an easy read but absorbingly challenging to put into action. That is so often the stumbling block. Dedication to educating oneself towards improvement on all fronts is a wearysome thing, so better reside in the good old comfort zone of 'same old, same old'

Instant gratification seems to be the only option people want to take.

Why is that?

I would surmise because they are NOT prepared to do the work, to take the necessary steps towards a goal. The desire for other people to solve their problems is one of the greatest barriers for individuals to overcome.

Self Responsibility is one of the bedrocks of a meaningful and rich life.

Becoming a man or woman of independence and substance demands we leave the nanny state and comforts found in having others look after us - be that the State, the family, partner or welfare in any form.

Support and dependency on others is fine as a stepping stone, but as a foundation, it is as sand to build on.

Progress in life, from any angle is as fast as the willingness of individuals in WANTING to change and desiring to bring a new dynamic to their lives and circumstances.

For most it become an imperative only when pain enters front of stage. Illness, tragedy, loss, misfortune are not really negative elements but are so often interpreted as such. They ought to be seen as the dramatic "wake up calls" we are forced to recognize, if change is where we want to go.

The preference would be to wake up before the necessity of pain becomes the only course of action left. However because of the deep slumber most are in, they have to feel the butt kick before realizing anything is out of kilter.

So, asking people the question, do they want to be rich can have surprising results. Hopefully it may spark them to question where they are and ask themselves if they really wish to remain there.

Whatever the result is, one thing is for certain. A chink of light filtering through a crack always illumines something richer and more fulfilling. The trick is to wish and then push that crack open more and more until the whole picture is revealed.

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles - a free download