Getting Streetwise
When people begin to soften their inflexible thoughts and responses, the influence the
daily programming has upon them is diffused also. They begin to see the subtleties of
mind manipulation in a way a rigid mind cannot. This mental switch is open to
everyone, no matter how unyielding their minds might be now. It can happen in an
instant, once you decide you want it to happen. Scanning the information and the
views available to us and picking out those aspects which we each feel good about
involves taking pieces from everywhere and fitting them together to form our own
evolving truth. When we are asked to put a label on what we think and believe in
these circumstances, we cannot answer. We are not ‘Left’, nor ‘Right’, nor ‘Centre’. We
are not a ‘religion’. We just are. There are no instant labels for that. There are no labels
at all. We refuse to be pigeon-holed because we are constantly seeking and evolving.
If people can name an “ism” of any kind to describe what they believe, they are in
some form of mental prison. The difference it makes when you let go of the labels and
the off-the-peg opinions and views promoted by the “isms” is beyond words. You see
the world so much more clearly. The smokescreens begin to disperse. An open mind
is not a naive one. Quite the opposite. Deprogramming demands that we are
constantly selective in what we accept minute by minute through the media and other
sources. For example, if people are opposing something it would seem obvious that
they are against it. But is this always the case?
If you want to do something controversial, it is much easier if you also control
the ‘opposition’ to what you are doing. You can ensure that while people have the
illusion of democratic opposition and the right to protest, those leading the main
opposition group or groups will lead their followers to ultimate, if ‘glorious’,
failure. Everyone goes away thinking they all did their best and could do no more,
when the whole thing was being controlled as an exercise in ‘democracy’ which was
designed to fail in its goal of stopping whatever policy is involved. The sheep
mentality is so ingrained in the human race that it takes very few to infiltrate, direct,
and control. Look at how one of the key officials of the Nation of Islam was working
for the FBI in the period of Malcolm X and the black civil rights movement in the
1960s. That story could be repeated a million times and more in ‘radical’
organisations all over the world. Some of the protest groups use violence. The
Animal Liberation Front and Class War in Britain are two of them. When Class War,
which claims to be ‘anti-state’, trigger violent clashes with the police during
peaceful protest marches, who benefits? Those in authority who want to dismiss the
peaceful opponents to their policies as “violent extremists” and those who wish to
introduce more authoritarian laws to meet the challenge from the growth in
(manufactured) “violent extremists”. Put it this way. If Class War was an arm of
British Intelligence, they could not do a better job of undermining the vast majority
of people who wish to protest peacefully. When thousands of people gather to
protest peacefully against the treatment of animals and a few idiots become violent
or plant bombs, who benefits? Those in authority who wish to continue to treat
animals with great cruelty while dismissing the protesters as “violent extremists”.
An open mind can see this, a rigid mind cannot. Feeling and Healing
Even more important than thinking for ourselves is to feel for ourselves. In the
centre of the chest we have a feeling centre called the heart chakra or heart vortex. It
is from here that we express love in the fullest sense. It is from here also, and the
solar plexus chakra, that we instinctively feel if something is right for us. It doesn’t
need words or explanations, it just feels right. This is our intuition speaking to us
and our intuition is our connection to our higher consciousness. When I am faced
with a choice between what my mind or my intuition is telling me, I go with the
intuition every time these days. I often can’t explain why I go to a certain place or
embark on an area of exploration and research. It simply feels right to do so. The
mind, even an open one, can be influenced by the daily programming to some
extent and it can go through lists of reasons why what our intuition is suggesting is
not a good idea. “What will my friends think? What about this or that consequence?
Don’t do it, you fool!” The feeling centre is not subject to those pressures because it
is connected to a level of consciousness and knowledge that is beyond the
manipulations of this physical world. As the spiritual renaissance proceeds, the
feeling centre is being powerfully reactivated among those who are awakening, and
intuition is going to be the guide of the future. It will not always lead us to where
our rational mind wants to be, but it will always lead us to where we need to be for
our own and the planet’s evolution. If I had followed my rational mind since 1990,1
would still be sitting in television studios presenting sports programmes. I find the
thought of still doing that quite awful!
It is the intuition more than anything that can help us to weave a path through
the maze of misleading messages and manipulation our eyes and minds face every
day. When this feeling centre becomes more sensitive to us, we will know that
something feels instinctively right or wrong. When the mind opens and becomes
less influenced by dogma and trivia, the more powerfully we feel our intuition. The
mind steps aside, gets out of the way. It has a part to play, of course, as part of a
balance, but it is not there to dominate. A rigid mind, full of programmed
perceptions, overpowers the intuition and delinks us from that flow of inspiration
and guidance from our higher levels of understanding – mission control. In these
circumstances, the feeling centres shut down like dormant volcanos. Therefore I do
not accept that everyone on the planet is doing precisely what they came to do, as
some New Age thinking believes. We are all born into the circumstances we choose,
but as we travel through life we can be diverted by other influences if we allow
ourselves to accept the programming and close down the potential of the feeling
centres, particularly the heart vortex, to guide us. If we do that we can become like
a ship without a rudder and complete very few of the tasks we came to achieve. I
am sure there must be many people who incarnated this time to play a big role in
the transformation who have become so shut down by their programmed minds
that they are laughing at, or condemning, those who are doing what they came to
do! This situation, however, can be put right very quickly. Once we allow that flow
of inspiration from higher levels to gather its power and guide us, the magnetic
interaction with other energy fields – people, places, situations – will draw to us all the support, experiences, and opportunities we need to evolve both individually
and collectively. This flow of inspiration and guidance is not to give our
responsibility away. The guidance is not coming from some outside force. It is
coming from a higher level of us. It is still the “I”, the multidimensional self. When
we reconnect powerfully with that, we are instantly deprogrammed.
I am asked by many people for advice on what they should do and I always
reply in the same way. I don’t know what is best for anyone else. I only know what I
feel is best for me. The only person who knows what you should do, where you
should go, or what you should think and say, is.. .you.
What does your heart tell you? Right. Go for it!
SOURCES
1 The “Ashtar Command” information sounds really doubtful to me. I get seriously negative
“vibes” whenever I hear the name. Still, as with Sai Baba, each to their own.