The Witness of Attention: Disillusion is the Key to Truthfulness {EDITED FOR REPOST}

                                                                             

              This chapter is on the utility of language as social currency. Social currency, emotional currency, cultural currency, all of these things have shared meanings. We are all defined by nature, reality, and the limitations of the languages we share. These unifying principles behind objective values are; time, resources, and energy. Wealth is merely a mundane spiritual currency, good or bad, it's purely material in form, even when it's virtual or fiat. The real power is in our Witness of Attention.

              Caution: Waking memories can be distorted by persuasion, narrative drift, and the constant retellings of our minds voices. If we want to remember a forgotten experience faithfully, we must be disillusioned. Currencies of language must become subordinate to the flow of actual conscious attention. This mindful reexamination of perceptions are not a word for word translation. But, we still report non verbal awareness through verbally framed filters.

                I often have to ask myself hard questions like, "Am I deluding myself with distorted implanted memories, repeated so often as to become my false memory?" My internal life can be cluttered. My spiritual life may be unimportant. The issue of implanted or false memories is exploited and abused by confused social issues. Who do we believe? Belief systems often reflect very low levels of fidelity. But, by having faith in soul healing, I recommend learning to find proof for our convictions. How the mind reels?

I tend to be the Houdini of the New Age, Boutique ParaPsychology, and Alternative Medicine Industries. I'm busting the charlatans and rebuking snake oil vendors at my expense. Being studied has made me an authority on hard answers everywhere. Businesses have already staked their religious market shares on preaching both the pro and con artistry. Many fringe sciences are fantasy, but some of the therapies are proving themselves to be surprisingly effective, even though the language of faithful social currencies are still wanting.

My work on the viability of ethical honesty has come through proving the "Styles of Evasion."

1.) Lies and Bullshit,

2.) Spacing out and Unconscious Forgetting,

3.) Condescension and Put-Downs.

4.) Compartmentalization and Burnout.

5.) And of course, the Evasions of Apathy.

{Based on the Realms of attachment from "The Tibetan Book of the Dead"}

All of these can be pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention from the outside, watching for our denials coming from evasive people, ourselves included. My mom once said to me, "There are times when you will have to lie, but never lie to yourself." When we see ourselves in each other's evasions, consider the source and when possible always be tactful. When a liar is just being evil, that's the subject of another discussion in the next chapter on Spiritual abuse. Self deception is always a narrative drift. Disillusion is the Key to Truthfulness.

On the subject of whether truth has a durable life of its own, I've had to clarify why we need to train for developing accurate memory. "Adversarial (Incendiary) Religion is Spiritual Abuse." The misdirection is very deep now.

Baruch "Benedict" Spinoza was excommunicated from his Synagogue for teaching Non-Dualism. That a Personal God doesn't exist. But does truth vote with its genes? Truth is not an intentional or intelligent self awareness, of and by itself. (Data in, data out; Very predictable but not intelligent.) Omniscience is that notion of a personal god. But were there an actual personal god, "What need would we have for faith?" (Joseph Campbell)

Neuroscience is entirely backing up Spinoza's assertion that the mind and the body are the same and not separate. (Spirit consciousness lives within the body.) Now for those of us who are comfortable with the idea of no afterlife, death doesn't give us much problem. But, what survives after we've been forgotten, that is the beauty of the human soul. The Mother of all things is good and bad, young and old, great and small. And I believe, awareness like truth, has a cohesiveness which transcends all pretenses of objectivity, coalescing to produce our perfect universe. And yes, it is sacred. I should probably stop here because the human soul has many dangerous hidden shallows. And these things need to be handled delicately. Peace.

Truth does create. And it's predictable. Witness the Attention.

XENOCULTURE and the Unifying Principles of Healthy Spiritual Fictions

                                                                                     

                       "Heal" "Love" "Win" This was from the end of the 5 hour movie, "The Justice League." Another morality play, these DC movie Comic Book Heroes are humorless and take themselves seriously. Whereas the Marvel Universe of Graphics Novels are cinematic action comedy. But, universally all Spiritual Fictions are morality plays. ( See: Sci Fi) And Like the Aristotelian constant of a "Dramaturgy", there is always a Beginning, a Middle, and an End, often with epilog, a moral a.k.a, the "Author's Message." But history is not supposed to be fiction and therefore is continuously narrative and unending. The literary artifacts of fiction always transcend the closed cultural identities of popular separatist history. Our Antagonists and Protagonists roles are sometimes ambiguous and morphing. But almost always there is either comedy or tragedy, unity or defeat. This is what makes Spiritual fictions universal in appeal and potentially propaganda. A Spiritual Fiction can be based on someones History, Legend or Speculation. But, the expectation is in an over riding good.

The SuperHeroes in these movies remind me of the "SEFER ZOHAR or Book of Splendor". Jewish mysticism was a rational response to the Pogroms. When God's Love and God's Justice are in conflict, we get morality play. (Complementarity, is the inevitability of contrasting elements creating productive outcomes.) From the Pale (Ukraine) has come many of these obscure traditions for challenging oppression with pure fantasy. Even the expression "Beyond the Pale" refers to the physical and spiritual abuses inflicted on innocent people that rival the imagination. I've always studied History intentionally avoiding fantasy. I feel Fantasy can cause alienation and schizoid dissociation. But, "The medium is not the message? I've found in my maturity, however, I'm coming to grips with the need for healthy diversions. So I'll juice up my SoulCraft And cruise the Galaxy for stories of love, liberty and release from suffering. Brought to you by your experimental entertainment medium, Jesus, Buddha, and the Cheshire Cat. Meow.

The Stages of Deprograming: How to know we're doing it right

                                                                                     

    "The Temptation of St. Anthony" was copied by Michelangelo from Martin Schongauer's engraving. 

                          My next book; "The Mutual Human Game" comes with instructions. 

                          I joyfully embrace my disillusionment. I'm fortunate to be gullible, and to know that I can be totally wrong. I too often need occasional correction. Update: Reassimilation is forgiveness of ourselves and others as we learn to trust again.

                         So, I "Engage the critique." {Authors Message} Admitting gullibility is only way I can get through to intelligent misinformed friends. If I didn't speak for myself,  by "engaging the critique," why would my friends listen to me. I too have been misinformed and even a little brainwashed. Admitting to a common human frailty is much faster than finger pointing, when it comes to talking straight.

                         We people, as humans, have many healthy moral principles, of both selfish and selfless mutual solidarity. But we rarely ever talk about that delicate balance between conflicting moral virtues and our  feeling sensibilities. We're forced by politically corrupted values into believing ridiculous absolutes. Fortunately, our Moral Ethics are not without practical sensibilities. But yet, our fragile minds have had our shared moralities corrupted. Spiritual abuse is that unfair fantasy of the powerfully elite, exploiting everything and everyone else, exclusively. This is the very mechanism of delusion. But fortunately, there may be a solution, and it is in our capacity for understanding. And there is nothing exclusive about it.

                         These skills of readaptation involve admitting what we require of ourselves, and that's why I try to avoid judging anyone else. (Some people are so judgemental, I can always tell by just looking at them. Lol.) Most of us have had problems with self correction, and thus we all need a little guidance from time to time. Ironically however, that's when we get led astray. We get punished for thinking for ourselves, right or wrong. And then, we frequently harden our resolve to never be wrong again. This is a terrible mistake. When we need to be most forgiving of ourselves, is when we're most easily brainwashed. When we are the most suggestable, we are vulnerable to mental attack. Most of the time misinformation isn't intentional. But when we're attacked for having an opinion, that healthy vulnerability can become injured and we shut down. When we need to consider "Deprogramming" (Psychic Recovery) it helps to know what your talking about.

                          Let me start with outlining the possible Stages of Disillusionment: {Deprogramming} I'm Using Elisabeth Kubler Ross's "5 stages of Grieving" to describe the process of detachment.  (I'll continue updating onto this page as I finish collating my notes. It could be all wrong. But I'll keep testing out the results to see where we are.  Emile Durkheim was the French Sociologist who had done some of the first work on the mechanisms of the Cults to exact what he called the "Rapid Conversion" of new cult members. We now are looking at whole societies of cult members.)

Defensive Posturing.   

Hostility/Paranoia

Reevaluation/or the Impasse {false & real}

Regret {the moral inventory}

Reassimilation Acceptance