Brilliant Animation Exposes The ‘Shadow’ That Controls Our Society

 The brilliant short film urges us to reflect on the egoic masks we wear, how we stifle our minds and creativity through conventional education, the nature of media and governments, the way we produce food, how the masses can fall mindlessly into pop culture, and much more.

It’s hard to walk away from it not feeling like, when we are unconscious, we function in programs that are not of our choosing. Programming we can become lost in and think are ‘us’ and our own thoughts when in reality they are learned behaviors we confine ourselves to.

To question this programming is to expand our consciousness.

Many resonate with the idea that our society is in major upheaval. As I have pointed out for many years, this is for good reason driven by the evolutionary pressure of corruption being exposed.

We are in a powerful moment where we have the chance to reshape a society that is holding us down and keeping us from thriving. But in order to get there, we have to think and feel more deeply.

Simply changing out a politician or two isn’t going to get us there in my view. To truly thrive, we must look deeper. We must look to our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves as well.

This also leads us to something deeper: simply blaming those in positions of power as ‘the bad guys’ isn’t going to get us anywhere. It doesn’t seek to grasp the totality of what is at play, and it will only keep us at war with one another. After all, without a change in ourselves, what’s to say new people in the same positions of power won’t do the same thing?

I believe forgiveness of the ‘shadow’ must be embraced as we integrate that experience into our story as a whole.

To me, the nature of our consciousness, spirituality, and hearts are at the center of expanding our ability to re-imagine society and free ourselves. We don’t get true freedom through laws, rules, and new politicians. Sure those play a part, but true freedom is gained through inner mastery. When embraced, inner mastery is at the heart of exceptional creativity and possibility....<<<Read More>>>...

Unsouling from the Wilderness

Waking Times: Perhaps the reason some of us are feeling a sense of loss and longing is that we are, as Black Elk informs us, living in the shadow world. Our reality on this side may only be the fleeting ghosts of a place that is more real somewhere else.

For a long time now, we have been trying to create a new and different image of ourselves. It is an image where modern humanity is placed at the center of its own universe. We learn by observing, probing, experimenting, and finally dissecting and destroying the dynamic world we live within. From this, the modern mind started to develop a new reality for itself.

The collective reality in which we now reside does not take kindly to opposing perspectives. We have inherited an alienated consciousness that views the world as an outside entity – a world of objects that move in mechanical motion.

This alienated consciousness has substituted the enchantment and mystery of living within a dynamic and animated world with a dream of the artificial, and ultimately the unreal. The modern landscape is now more scattered with administration than adventure. The central image of our modern age has been that of consumerism: the ability of the average person to buy the material goods they require in order to have a decent standard of living. A standard of living albeit promoted to us through our mainstream media and glamorous propaganda....read more>>...