Architects of a New Dawn2024-03-28T21:09:32Zjbhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/jb656https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2980535248?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/group/legalizefreedom/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=2sli2ff9mz73&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWatch PeaceDay Broadcast Heretag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2010-09-14:2227378:Topic:2048832010-09-14T23:31:19.629Zjbhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/jb656
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I admit I tend to bang on about illusions a lot... but only because they play such a vital role in keeping us in our place.<br></br><br></br>Here's a little short story for you. It has a point so bear with me:<br></br><br></br>One day a very ordinary fellow was on his way to work at the car wash. He was no different to you or me. He drove a beat up Dodge that was unreliable and unpredictable, he hated his job and his home was just a place to hang his hat and crash. Nothing spectacular about him. But, when he…
I admit I tend to bang on about illusions a lot... but only because they play such a vital role in keeping us in our place.<br/><br/>Here's a little short story for you. It has a point so bear with me:<br/><br/>One day a very ordinary fellow was on his way to work at the car wash. He was no different to you or me. He drove a beat up Dodge that was unreliable and unpredictable, he hated his job and his home was just a place to hang his hat and crash. Nothing spectacular about him. But, when he saw a huge plastic garbage bag dumped in the middle of the road, he didn't just drive around it like most of us probably would at 06:00 am on the way to work. He decided to put it in the back of his old Dodge (it was a mess anyway) and take it to the dump on his way home.<br/><br/>Well, this bag was heavy. There was no way he could lift it but he was determined not to leave this bag of (as he assumed) garbage in the middle of a public highway so he dragged the bag to the rear door and, as he did so, the plastic tore. Out tumbled a tightly packed wad of <span style="font-style: italic;">$100 bills</span>! His heart beating wildly, he quickly got the bag into the back of his Dodge and split it open. It was full of $100 bills all tightly packed in stacks of 100. He counted the stacks... 200 in all. He had a total of £2000,000 in the back of his old Dodge! Well, he was civic minded enough to be willing to take and abandoned garbage bag to the dump... but that was as far as it went.<br/><br/>"Wow!" he muttered "Just <span style="font-style: italic;">think</span> what I could do with this money!"<br/><br/>Going to the dump was definitely off the cards... come to that, so was going to work!<br/><br/>The old car struggled as he drove home with all that weight in the back. "Your days are numbered too, old pal!" he muttered, tapping the dashboard affectionately.<br/><br/>As soon as he got home, he put the money into several suitcases and dumped the garbage bag in the trash. He then spent the next week opening several bank accounts, some with a high interest return. He gave notice on his rented apartment and bought a neat little house just outside town. The Dodge went to the breakers yard and a 1960s Corvette Stingray took its place. His life had really turned around. Despite the amount he had already spent, his high interest accounts were really paying off and, pretty soon, he had more than he had started with. "I got the car of my dreams, I got a house that suits me and I don't have to work." He thought. "What more could I want?"<br/><br/>It then occurred to him that he'd always wanted his own boat. Nothing too flashy but big enough to be sea-worthy. Well, he soon had his boat and he was eager to take her out and treat himself to a little trip. He knew nothing about navigation but he didn't care, he wasn't going any place in particular anyway.<br/><br/>His lack of experience soon got him into trouble. He hit a storm that took him way, WAY out to sea. He had no idea where on the planet he was and, to cap it all, his boat hit a rock and sunk. However, as the boat had hit a rock, he figured he can't be far from land. Clinging to a piece of wreckage, he made his way to an uninhabited island.... where he remained for the rest of his life.<br/><br/>The story doesn't end here though. The first couple of years were tough but he gradually learned to hunt and identify what plants to gather for food. The problem here was that he couldn't store food because bugs would get into it and spoil it. No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't fashion a bug-proof container. He'd learned to build a passable shelter which was fine until it rained. Then the roof would leak and, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't make the roof waterproof. He'd learned a lot about adapting to his environment and making use of the natural materials around him... but it seemed there was nothing in Nature that could provide the bug-proofing and waterproofing he needed.<br/><br/>He endured this for another year or so when, one day, a hug plastic garbage bag full of tightly packed $100 bills washed ashore.<br/><br/>"Wow!" he cried. "Just <span style="font-style: italic;">think</span> what I could do with this garbage bag!"<br/><br/>OK. I don't think I need to spell out the moral to this story. It's a story of value.<br/><br/>Money has only the value that those who allude to the illusion of power assign to it. It has no intrinsic value. It's value is an illusion but, because we all buy into the illusion, our friend was able to exchange it for things that had a far more tangible value to him. But this, too, was an illusion. Until then, he had lived in poverty and, yes. That was also an illusion. Without the concept of money, he would have access to everything he needed in life without worrying about whether he could afford it. The illusion of money brings with it the illusion of wealth and the illusion of poverty.<br/><br/>Sure the experience of wealth and poverty is very real but only because we submit to the assertion that money gives us access to what we want and the lack of money can bar us from the very basics of life. Do squirrels rent the trees they live in? Do they buy nuts and get extra when they're on Special Offer? No. Of course they don't. Wildlife have the freedom to live where they want and eat what they want. They don't have to work for it. Yet we deny this freedom to ourselves while claiming to be at the top of the 'Evolutionary Ladder' (another illusion).<br/><br/>The role of money is not to provide, for it is the very nature of life to do that. The role of money is to exclude. Money does not create wealth because wealth is here by default. Money creates poverty. Money provides the incentive to achieve more and the lack of it creates the penalty for not achieving. It is the promise and the threat that keeps everyone either hypnotised by the desire to gain more or cowed by the fear of losing what we have. It is the medium that keeps us all under the control of those who allude to power. And yet it is a sham. It does not exist.<br/><br/>Money is the Big Illlusion and it works only as long as we believe it.<br/><br/>But what was the thing of real value when the illusions had been stripped away? The garbage bag.<br/><br/>Think about it. The illusion of powertag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2010-07-21:2227378:Topic:1868932010-07-21T09:28:20.330Zjbhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/jb656
What gives one person <span style="font-style: italic;">power</span> over another? In the wider animal kingdom (of which, let us not forget, we are a part), there is a huge diversity of strengths and weaknesses. The lion, for example, is much stronger than the gazelle... but the gazelle is much faster. these strengths and weaknesses are evenly distributed so that no one species reigns supreme... well, except humans but maybe that's part of the human…
What gives one person <span style="font-style: italic;">power</span> over another? In the wider animal kingdom (of which, let us not forget, we are a part), there is a huge diversity of strengths and weaknesses. The lion, for example, is much stronger than the gazelle... but the gazelle is much faster. these strengths and weaknesses are evenly distributed so that no one species reigns supreme... well, except humans but maybe that's part of the human <span style="font-style: italic;">illusion</span>. All creature have at least some advantages to protect them from predators but they also have vulnerabilities to give the predators a chance.<br/><br/>So where do we fit into this? It seems that evolution has singled us out to develop the power to wipe out a whole species... should we choose to do so (and we have chosen to do so many times and continue to exploit other animals to extinction). The only predator we need fear is.... well....<span style="font-style: italic;">us</span>.<br/><br/>On the face of it, this seems like something of an anomaly. Nature has been so careful to ensure that there is an even distribution of advantage / disadvantage. Are we a <span style="font-style: italic;">mistake</span>? Did evolution <span style="font-style: italic;">fuck up</span>?<br/><br/>Personally, I don't think so. The fact that the lion is not as fast as the gazelle is not a conscious decision on the lion's part. You don't see gazelles working out, muttering "<span style="font-style: italic;">That mangy freakin' cat has picked on me for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">last</span> time</span>!"<br/><br/>Evolution is on a journey and we are a part of that journey. I very much doubt that we are the <span style="font-style: italic;">destination</span>, as many would like to believe but we are a significant turning point. We have been given all the aces... and a conscious sense of right and wrong. Instead of having a <span style="font-style: italic;">disadvantage</span> that gives potential prey a chance, we have a conscious <span style="font-style: italic;">desire</span> to give them a chance. But, just as it took time to evolve the <span style="font-style: italic;">anatomy</span> of who we are, it is taking time to evolve the <span style="font-style: italic;">spirit</span> of who we are.<br/><br/>So, coming back to the initial question: what gives one person power over another? It is the other person's <span style="font-style: italic;">acknowledgment</span> of that power. It is the other person's <span style="font-style: italic;">consent</span> to that power. Well, OK... perhaps the fact that the power-monger may also have an army with guns trained on the other person might reinforce that acknowledgment and consent but, essentially, it is still a matter of consent. Why does the army consent to support the one who alludes to power. After all, they have the guns... why are they submitting to the will of another?<br/><br/>Without the acknowledgment and consent of his Kingdom, a King is just a bloke in a silly hat.<br/><br/>It's part of our illusion. It's a Game and the Game is an important part of our spiritual evolution. But it is only a temporary part of the process of becoming who we are. A starter motor is not a <span style="font-style: italic;">real</span> engine. It cannot propel the car forward. It is, in effect, the <span style="font-style: italic;">illusion</span> of an engine. A temporary little <span style="font-style: italic;">game</span> in which the starter motor pretends to be the engine to motivate the pistons into action. Once the engine has kicked in, the starter motor is no longer required.<br/><br/>Power and finance are illusions. They are not evil and they are not the enemy. They are the temporary little Game to motivate us into becoming who we are. Just as an engine is just a heap of metal when it's at rest and becomes an engine only when in motion, we become who we are when we no longer need the illusions.<br/><br/>The Change of Consciousness that is so widely discussed on this network is just that: it is the change from the whine of the starter motor to the roar of the engine. We are coming into being. It's time to let go of the illusions.<br/><br/>You think money is real? Can you eat it? Is it even any good for wiping your ass? It has only the value that is assigned to it. But what we have created in the pursuit of financial wealth is of real value. Money is an illusion but the technology and advancements we have created are here and they are at our disposal.<br/><br/>Now we are going through a temporary period of chaos. Politics worldwide is being exposed as a corrupt sham. Economies are crumbling and the pursuit of financial wealth through technological advancement is threatening the planet and maybe the BP oil leak is the signal for Change. This, too, is part of the process of letting go. Why do teenagers become so intolerable to parents and parents such a pain in the ass to teenagers? <span style="font-style: italic;">Because it's getting close to the time to leave home.</span> It's <span style="font-style: italic;">supposed</span> to happen.<br/><br/>The political corruption, the collapse of the economy, the pollution and so on are all <span style="font-style: italic;">supposed</span> to happen. It's part of our process of letting go.<br/><br/>Let's waste no more energy bemoaning the chaos that is actually a vital stage in our evolution and focus on letting go of these illusions. It's time to say goodbye to Mom and Dad and step out into a wonderful world that is truly <span style="font-style: italic;">ours</span>.<br/> Whata "You" Think ?tag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2010-03-15:2227378:Topic:1616202010-03-15T19:04:11.944Zjbhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/jb656
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