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News – Part 3 – Taking the Road Less Traveled

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion,
flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge,
tension is called peace, gossip is called news,
and auto-tune is called singing.”

~ Criss Jami

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It’s 34 years since George Orwell’s 1984 dystopian novel accurately predicted how confused future society would become. But he didn’t tell the whole story and neither does mainstream media.

It’s remarkable to witness how clearly Orwell predicted the 21st Century. Newspeak was the official language of the ruling party in his novel and its intention was to employ “doublethink” to eliminate thought crimes. Doublethink is described this way online: “Doublethink is the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely. Doublethink requires using logic against logic or suspending disbelief in the contradiction.” The three slogans inside the novel, “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength,” are all examples of doublethink.” 1

Fake news is our name for it today, where facts have become “so called facts” and social media manipulation expertly steers viewers, listeners, and readers into carefully managed belief silos of obedience and advocacy for all that’s best for their puppet masters.



There’s just one problem with these Machiavellian strategies – consciousness has something else in mind. Incredibly, it’s only within the last hundred years that science has begrudgingly admitted that consciousness may actually play a role in our experience of reality. New advances in quantum physics are confirming that we live in a participatory universe. And that’s upsetting every applecart of traditional understanding.

Control is the issue. The human population includes those who control and those they control. The controllers of course are the vast minority, sometimes referred to as the 1%. But they have the necessary position, power, and money to ensure they stay in control, at least temporarily. Revolutions happen, although at least in America discontent is managed through the spectacle of regular democratic elections, assuring that “sheeple” (humans acting like sheep) remain convinced they have a say in which strings are pulled.

The powers that be don’t appreciate threats. Discoveries in the quantum world that link science and spirituality are disconcerting for all of us, because we’re realizing reality is not what we’ve assumed, but these insights are especially disturbing to those managers of the status quo. This calls to mind what Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz said at one point, when confronted by the strangeness of the world she found herself in): “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Undiscovered
This phrase has become a meme, repeated millions of times and meaning “To no longer be in a place that one knows or where one is comfortable; to be in a completely unfamiliar and/or discomfiting environment.”

Lao Tsu said, “The world is won by those who let it go.” Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” What do we say … what do we believe?

It’s likely that if you’re reading this blog you have a somewhat evolved understanding of the current human condition. You may have become so turned off by the daily assault of negative news that you’ve turned it off. That’s not good news to our overlords. They need to reach us to control us and if we disconnect from the mediums they use we’re no longer available to manipulate. Their greatest concern? We just might wake up from this dream and realize that we’re not really designed to be consumers, that we’re all inherently creators.




Former President George W. Bush did his best to perpetuate illusion when he advised: “I encourage you all to go shopping more.” Apparently, millions of us listened and obeyed. Through one crisis after another, starting with 911 and including the financial crash of 2008, we’ve avoided outright revolution so far. We keep shopping, we stay distracted, we behave.

Meanwhile, consciousness is doing its thing … expanding human awareness. Millions of people are waking up to the lies and a very different truth. They (we) are choosing the road less traveled. That term was penned by American poet Robert Frost. Here’s the context:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Awake

Some of us know there’s a choice and we’re choosing differently, moment by moment. We’re ignoring or resisting mainstream media programming that casts us as victims in a soap opera drama and consciously creating our lives by expressing the qualities that are most important to us, like love and compassion and forgiveness. We may glance at the news from time to time and notice the madness, but we’ve shed the programmed belief that what’s being presented is true. We’ve awakened to a fundamentally different reality and, while we don’t know what’s coming any better than others, we are increasingly filled with hope and gratitude, because we’ve plugged in to the one truthful broadcast: life itself.




References:
1. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-principles-of-Ingsoc-in-1984

4 replies
    • Michael Horwitz
      Michael Horwitz says:

      Why yes, Phyl. Thinking of you, Synchronicity, MC — I am filled with love, creativity & inspiration.

      Reply
    • Barry Hester
      Barry Hester says:

      Yes! I share these on Facebook and with friends. They are so accurate and helpful. Master Charles is enlightened as are Eckhart Tolle and Adyashant. Their messages and transmissions are are vital to waking up.

      Reply
  1. Pete Maclean
    Pete Maclean says:

    Hi Phyl, I am a bit behind but I am here and enjoying them too. Very much so. And, by this blog, I am reminded of, “When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.”

    Reply

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