What Can ‘You’ Control?

 Our conditioning in the current culture tries to convince us that we can and should try to control everything. Our devices seem to allow us to completely do almost anything with a click or a swipe.

But then a great macro event, like the pandemic or a natural disaster, can suddenly take place, and we are in awe of an environment in which we exist that is obviously far beyond our control.

Yes, we can also control our reactions to an event but Epictetus’ advice is more specific – speaks of having the will to control certain things but not others.

We seem to exist as a body with certain abilities and a mind that purports to be an “I”....<<<Read More>>>...

You see more than you think you see

 Could it be that when we act on impulse or have a hunch about something, we are using information that has been fed into our brains without our knowledge? Dr. Vernon Coleman asks.

Subliminal messaging involves presenting words or images below the threshold of conscious awareness, often for less than one-tenth of a second. The messages will register with our subconscious minds only.

Subliminal manipulation is often considered harmless because its effects typically decay within a second. However, one study suggests that subliminal messages might have long-term effects on decision-making, particularly if the messages contain novel information that must be relationally bound in long-term memory.

According to Campaign, subliminal advertising has been illegal in the UK, America and Australia since 1958. This ban was put in place following public concerns raised by studies and claims about the manipulative power of subliminal messages. Despite this, some advertisers have attempted to use subliminal techniques within legal boundaries.

How about films, music, social media content or even news reports? Could subliminal messages be used in those? How would we even know?

Subliminal messaging is one example Dr. Coleman uses to point out that much of what we see is not consciously registered by our brains....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #555

 

Control of people’s perception and behaviour through media began a century ago

 Mechanisms of controlling people through media, films and music began with Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company in 1908.

Using Edison’s model, significant entities like the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations emerged, shaping knowledge about medicine through strategic grant-making, which contributed to a larger architecture of social control.

While the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird was shaping public perception through the media, Britain’s MI6 was developing methods to control consciousness itself. with the Tavistock Institute playing a significant role, some of which became the foundational algorithms of social media platforms such as Facebook....<<<Read More>>>...

The Polarities of Perception By Richard Willett

 As we follow this global cult through the ages, many of us who research these things known that they passed down information through what were known as the “mystery schools”.

From the Maya cults to the Egyptian mystery Schools such as the one at Cairo to the Assassins and on to the Knights Templar. This information appears to be what is known at the highest levels of Freemasonry which is essentially the Knights Templar today, with their templar church still standing in the City of London....<<<Read More>>>...

Meditation Provides True Pain Relief by Altering Brain Perception

 Scientists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have discovered that meditation reduces pain not just through the placebo effect but by actually altering how the brain perceives pain. 

The study was published in Biological Psychiatry.

Meditation, a practice where individuals observe their thoughts and emotions without judgment, has roots in Buddhist and Hindu traditions but is increasingly studied for its health benefits.

In this study, researchers aimed to understand how meditation influences pain perception. 

They recruited 115 healthy participants, dividing them into four groups: one group practiced meditation, another did sham meditation (deep breathing), a third used a placebo cream, and a fourth listened to an audiobook as a control.

Participants were exposed to painful heat on their legs, with brain activity scanned via MRI before and after the procedure....<<<Read More>>>...

How the Ego Forms the Matrix We Seek to Escape

In a world where the quest for freedom often leads us to explore new philosophies, spiritual practices, and even technologies, we find ourselves in a paradox: the very thing we seek to escape is within us. The matrix we’re so desperate to transcend is not some external, oppressive system but the limited ego self we’ve constructed. Through the lens of self-realization and self-inquiry, we can begin to understand that this egoic matrix is the illusionary world that binds us, and our true liberation lies in seeing through it.

The concept of the matrix often conjures images of a simulated reality controlled by external forces, yet the real matrix is much closer to home. It’s the ego—the collection of thoughts, beliefs, and identities that we mistake for our true self. This egoic self is the lens through which we perceive the world, filtering reality through our fears, desires, and conditioning. It creates a false sense of separation, making us believe that we are individual entities navigating an external world, disconnected from the wholeness of existence.

The ego is adept at crafting stories, projecting them outwardly as reality. It convinces us that our thoughts are real, our identities fixed, and our separation from others and the universe inevitable. But what if the world we see merely reflects this internal matrix? What if the true journey is not about escaping an external force but dissolving the internal structures that keep us bound?...<<<Read More>>>...

Seeing Through The Eyes of A Bee

 Liverpool Museum allows visitors to experience what it feels like to be a bee.

Bees have five eyes and experience us as patterns of tiny fragments, apparently similar to how they may see flowers.

An Darach, a website that encourages readers to connect with nature, has an article on “How (and What) a Bee Sees.” The piece states that:

“Bees are also thought to be trichromatic, but that they cannot see red because they don’t have a photoreceptor for it. However, they can see the Ultraviolet (UV) end of the light spectrum and so they make colour combinations from blue, green and ultraviolet.”

Our receptors can see red so we make color combinations from Red, Green and Blue – the “RGB” values in our computer screens.  Unlike bees, we need instruments to read the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum....<<<Read More>>>...

What Impact Do Our Intentions Have On Reality? Part 2

In part 1 of this essay, I explored some science behind the idea that consciousness and our intentions have an impact on reality. I suggested that science upends the existing materialist paradigm and that refining is needed to understand the true nature of our reality.

I explored some of the real world implications of consciousness affecting reality, and how the more complexity there is in what we are trying to impact, create or manifest, the ‘harder’ it becomes. For example, trying to manifest the removal of a challenging health outcome in yourself with just the mind vs. trying to manifest a material item like a lavish house is different in terms of moving parts of complexity. One involves you and yourself, the other involves land, other people, materials etc. The idea here is, that perhaps manifesting ‘out there’ is more complex as many more individual consciousnesses are involved.

Research into the science behind this subject can go on for a long time as there are many fascinating studies to explore the various nuances of how our consciousness impacts reality, time, our past, our future, etc. The challenge is, that science as we use it today is likely limited to understanding the mysteries of consciousness, especially as it relates to things spiritual/philosophical in nature. Hence the need to explore other avenues of knowing.

In this part, I’d like to expand on what I feel might be some influential factors that govern, for lack of a better word, potential effect sizes when it comes to consciousness impacting reality....<<<Read More>>>...

What Impact Do Our Intentions Have On Reality?

 Many people feel that our world is in chaos. It feels upside down and incoherent. Crisis after crisis ensues, wars, financial problems, political tensions, polarity, unethical tech, surveillance, division, loss of trust in institutions, and the list goes on.

I’ve long discussed this occurrence as part of a shift in consciousness. A rolling set of events that allow us the opportunity to wake up if we choose to slow down and look closely.

Humanity is going through an evolution or awakening of sorts, and within that process comes the death of an old paradigm so something new can emerge. These days, aspects of this idea are often referred to as the Meta-Crisis. Or if you are the World Economic Forum (WEF), you call it the Polycrisis.

Don’t run away. Just because elitists have once again hijacked a meaningful observation within our society to push their agendas, it doesn’t mean the observation itself is ‘evil’. In fact, the reality of the meta-crisis is inescapable, and it’s up to each of us to become part of shaping a new future. We either take the reigns, or we let it happen to us via the WEF.

In my 15 years of interdisciplinary work studying and conveying ideas around transformation, consciousness and their impact on society, one debate has arisen consistently. What impact do our thoughts have on reality?

To explore this I will present science, how this idea became oversimplified, and will offer some real world implications. In part 2 of this essay, releasing Tuesday, Jan 9, I’ll lay out my ideas on other governing factors involved when it comes to our consciousness and material world....<<<Read More>>>...

Changes in Mass Consciousness Holds the Key to Changing the World

It has been said that people are waking up in the droves. As mass consciousness changes, more and more are getting the profound realization that nothing in the world is as it seems. Every subject under the sun is rooted in deception. All Engineered by people in high places designing a global takeover that will enslave we-the-people on every level.

How long can these globalists deceptive moves, hidden ulterior motives, falsehoods with their same old patterns, same old scripts, same old mainstream media spin which they own and control… last before becoming detected by an overwhelming number of awakened people who will not back down from their uncontested challenges to the related lies?

Sure, when consciously awakened there then follows the inescapable question: “what can we do about this?” Those having insights have come up with some good practical solutions. Some of these solutions are crucial for protecting you, your family and friends. Protection from becoming broke, having serious health problems and/or other losses of freedom…<<<Read More>>>...

Leading biologist explains why you can so often sense when someone is looking at you even if your back is turned

Have you ever felt you were being watched? Almost everybody has. It's a scientific phenomenon that is universal.

More than 80 per cent of women, and nearly three-quarters of men, questioned in Britain, the U.S. and Scandinavia, say they have experienced it — turning around to find someone staring at them, or looking at someone from behind who turned and looked back.

Numerous studies have proved that the sensation can be reproduced under rigorous laboratory conditions. Those who watch people for a living, such as private detectives and celebrity photographers, have no doubt it's real. Professionals who use long-range lenses, including paparazzi and snipers, know the moment when the target senses their gaze and looks straight at them....<<<Read More>>>...

What is Fear?

Sadhguru: Fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind. Your fear is always about what’s going to happen next. That means your fear is always about that which does not exist.

If your fear is about the non-existent, your fear is hundred percent imaginary.

If you are suffering the non-existential, we call that insanity. So, people may be in just socially accepted levels of insanity, but if you’re afraid or if you’re suffering anything which does not exist, it amounts to insanity, isn’t it? 

People are always suffering either what happened yesterday or what may happen tomorrow. So your suffering is always about that which does not exist, simply because you’re not rooted in reality, you’re always rooted in your mind. Mind is – one part of it is memory, another part of it is imagination. Both of them are in one way imagination, because both of them don’t exist right now. You’re lost in your imagination, that’s the basis of your fear. If you were rooted in reality, there would be no fear.

What fear does is it puts boundaries around you. It is because of fear that you build boundaries all the time. If you put boundaries and restrict the area of your life, you may be safe but the problem is you are safe even from life. You are protected from life itself. That’s real protection! ...read more>>>...

 

Your Body is a Projection of Consciousness and Thought

 At the cutting edge of science and technology today is artificial intelligence and robotics, which are being driven by ever-increasing computational speeds made possible by quantum computing. When the capacity of technological computation rivals the speed of our capacity to think and process information as humans, then we will reach the singularity and a superintelligence will emerge in our society, triggering runaway technological growth.

While this is coming in the very near future, we are also now learning how this very type of quantum creative power is already at play in our world via the interplay of human consciousness and the material world. In the early 1900’s, the famous double-slit experiment demonstrated that material objects can actually change their composition based on what is being held in consciousness when said objects are observed.

In other words, the world around us is being created moment by moment, and our expectations of what the world should be is what gives it form. In order to alter its form or to change course, we can use the directed focus of the mind to envision and feel something different for ourselves, and in time and through repetition, this reality will eventually take form. The feeling is the key....<<<Read More>>>...

Can We Expand Our Perspective Beyond “Duality”?

 "Now actually it is absolutely absurd to say that we came into this world. We did not: we came out of it! What do you think you are? Supposing this world is a tree. Are you leaves on its branches or are you a bunch of birds that settled on a dead old tree from somewhere else? Surely everything that we know about living organisms – from the standpoint of the sciences – shows us that we grow out of this world, that we, each one of us, are what you might call a symptoms of the state of the universe as a whole. But you see, that is not part of our common sense." ~ Alan Watts

I’ve been thinking about Joe Martino’s recent piece, “If No One Wants This, Why Are We Doing It?” because it is such a great question.

But it makes an enormous assumption – which is that we have the power to change, or as the article suggests, attain a level of consciousness that will allow us to solve or transcend the limitations and problems we now perceive.

I liked how Joe acknowledged the reality of powerful entities controlling “the way things are” through financial and physical domination so that, as he writes, “the agendas and desires of a few are carried out, giving as little as possible away to the masses in order for them to be pacified enough so as not to revolt.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Perception of reality depends on our experience

 One of the most popular philosophical theories says that the reality around us is an illusion. Most often, they refer to Buddhism and other Eastern teachings, but similar views are present in other philosophical traditions. How likely is it that the world around us is not real?

Take Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. This ancient Greek thinker believed that all the objects around us are just shadows (ideas) of forms. This is how he describes our false perception of the world.

In the allegory “The Cave”, Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall.

The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners’ reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world.

The shadows represent the fragment of reality that we can normally perceive through our senses, while the objects under the sun represent the true forms of objects that we can only perceive through reason.

According to Plato, the objects of experience are imperfect imitations of forms. Let’s say that a mathematical triangle in abstraction looks perfect, but in fact there are no perfect triangles in nature.

Therefore, those triangles that we deal with in the so-called real world are only imperfect reflections of the ideal form. And the same with other things. Even what we perceive as beauty is just a reflection of true beauty....<<<Read More>>>...

Quote for the Day

 

Are Your Thoughts and Beliefs REALLY Yours?

To explain the concept of molding your thoughts and beliefs to someone else’s idea of what is or isn’t, we must take a look at how our minds work when it comes to believing or not believing that something exists. Whether it is true or not. This is especially important today when most of us get our news stories in single sentence alerts, and from single sources that already align with your belief system. Of course, this is exactly how we hope science doesn’t work.

Many perceive the human mind is of finite boundaries. In other words, we must be able to see things in a tangible manner; in a way that the mind can perceive the information. (Of course, our minds are not finite, but the Scientific Method has not evolved to take that into account; at least not yet). We make it finite by putting any gathered information in some sort of order. In mental boxes or file cabinet so that we are able to understand the information that enters our senses. If we see something that doesn’t make sense, we can’t just allow it to be simply something that doesn’t make sense…we must make sense out of the nonsense.

How is this done?

By using previously gathered information, which at all costs must be explainable, repeatable, and tangible in order to be considered “real”. Never mind that this method excludes a multitude of existing information. Kind of like how important evidence can be thrown out of a court of law due to improper procedures....<<<Read More>>>...

'You Are Powerful!'

 

You are powerful. More powerful than you can ever realise.Your thoughts create this world around you ...

Perception

[Daily OM]: There is no secret recipe for happiness and contentment. The individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances they've been handed and make them into something great. Our individual realities are colored by perception -- delight and despair come from within rather than without. Situations we regard as fortuitous please us while situations we judge inauspicious cause us no end of grief. Yet if we can look at all we have accomplished without dwelling on our perceived misfortune and make each new circumstance our own, the world as a whole becomes a brighter place. A simple shift in attitude can help us recognize and unearth the hidden potential for personal and outer world fulfillment in every event, every relationship, every duty, and every setback.

The universe is often an unpredictable and chaotic place, and the human tendency is to focus on the negative and assume the positive will care for itself. But life can be no more or no less than what you make of it. If you are working in a job you dislike, you can concentrate on the positive aspects of the position and approach your work with gusto. What can you do with this job that can turn it around so you do love it? When faced with the prospect of undertaking a task you fear, you can view it as an opportunity to discover what you are truly capable of doing. Similarly, unexpected events, when viewed as surprises, can add flavor to your existence. By choosing to love life no matter what crosses your path, you can create an atmosphere of jubilance that is wonderfully infectious. A change in perspective is all it takes to change your world, but you must be willing to adopt an optimistic, hopeful mind-set.

To make a conscious decision to be happy is not enough. You must learn to observe life's complexities through the eyes of a child seeing everything for the first time. You must furthermore divest yourself of preconceived notions of what is good and what is bad so that you can appreciate the rich insights concealed in each stage of your life's journey. And you must strive to discover the dual joys of wanting what you have. As you gradually shift your perspective, your existence will be imbued with happiness and contentment that will remain with you forever.