The Formation of Attitudes and Programming, and Its Erasure - Parts 11
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The Formation of Attitudes and Programming, and Its Erasure - Part 11
by Peter Farley www.4truthseekers.org
Propaganda can only play on individuals more or less intensely
involved in social currents. They are the ones most easily programmed.
The more an individual participates in the society in which he or she
lives, the more they will cling to stereotyped symbols expressing
collective notions about the past and the future of their group. The
educated person does not believe in propaganda; they shrug and are
convinced that propaganda has no effect on them--a high intelligence, a
broad culture, a constant exercise of the critical faculties, and full
and objective information, are still the best weapons against
propaganda. They are also the first targets of those whose purpose is
to control. This, as we have suggested, is not necessarily a good
`typical' education, but rather a desire within the individual to
educate themselves and keep themselves well-informed from sources
outside the mainstream sources of media.
To the programmer and propagandist, the truth that pays off is in the
realm of facts.
The necessary falsehoods, which also pay off, are in the realm of
intentions and interpretations for always remember that propaganda is
and always has been loosely based on facts . Most of the time the fact
is presented in such a fashion that the listener or reader cannot
really understand it or draw any conclusions from it. Those whose
agenda is to be 'spun' states the facts or statistics without
indicating how they are calculated or any future effects thereof. Thus
we have the relatively new innovation of Factoids--facts without any
meaning.
Innuendo can also work well when derived from accurate facts. A
surplus of data, far from permitting people to make judgments and form
opinions, prevents them from doing so and actually paralyzes them
because it overwhelms their ability to process the information.. As we
have seen with scientific studies quoted in the news sources, there is
a different scientific study to support any and every variation of
opinion. Thus one gets information overload used as a method of
shutting down the ability to easily form real opinions and create
realistic attitudes.
All this is the result of psychological influence which cannot attain
great results alone but which can attempt anything when combined with
successful organization, and that is what the various religions and
`secret' societies such as the Freemasons have acquired in abundance
over the past nine centuries or more.
Finally, the one thing propaganda must take over to be successful is
literature, both present and past. History must be rewritten according
to the needs of the programmer's agenda and propaganda. Both
historical and religious texts such as the Bible are the first to be
rewritten.
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The Philosophy of the Will
Propaganda's ultimate purpose is to rob the individual of his or her
personal will. It exchanges the personal will for that of the
organization, in this case the New World Order and its originators,
but ONLY in agreement with the masses. This means gradually
substituting one set of goals for another in order to have the
individual buy into the greater Will of those who would oppress him.
Much of what is dealt with in the world follows the Gnostic sense of
duality, and stems from the level of mind--the level of Heaven in which
Self-Will reigns supreme.
The beginning place to alter this very same programming and propaganda
within one's self is to gradually instead begin to substitute the
goals and desires of Higher Will for those of the little self, self-
will.
To assign any type of intentions to the Will rests on a self-
deception, what Nietzsche terms a "necessary lie"- that which supplies
a semblance of order and direction to life--in this case that is
thinking the mind is always absolute in its control of our lives. The
personal will, at the level of progress of this world, has no more
rational or moral objectives than the universal Will to Live--it is
simply the greater Will to survive expressing itself as an individual
life.
Self Will and Higher Will do not always need to be in opposition. The
Higher Will is or can be a reflection of the personal will depending
on its alignment with that Higher Will! One does not necessarily
exclude the other. Aleister Crowley's statement that--"Do as thy will
should be the whole of the law" is vulgar in that it is the basis of
the original flaw in this area of Creation, that self-will should
predominate.
As Schopenhauer agrees, values and ideals in our universe have no
reality other than as "representations" of the will--what Freud would
have called unconscious "wish-fulfillments." The sole recourse for a
person in this case would be either to take a rebellious posture and
abandon oneself to his own inclinations or to retreat from all worldly
hopes and aspirations. For Schopenhauer, it was the latter which
beckoned as the royal road to his salvation, never knowing or
considering the third option, that of using one's own self-will in
service to the Higher Will.
In general, the web in which human existence is entangled is time
itself. Time consists of the Will to Live within the endless
succession of phenomena. Time can be regarded as the structure of
awareness within which we experience change and in which duration
takes place, "Time has no beginning, but all beginning is in time,"
for time continues as long as the self-will is forever behind the
restless flow and churning of life. Time is what makes it possible to
recognize causal links between phenomena - this result stems from this
action. Unfortunately, because of the veil pulled down over each new
lifetime we cannot always see the cause and effect relationship of
what we do in the endless progression of lifetimes AS LONG AS we live
through self-will alone.
Transfigured into pure Will, by living in alignment with the Higher
Will, Man can instead become one with the deathless stream of nature.
According to many of the `great' thinkers, the identification with the
Will to Live or Personal Will can only come about through a subtle
`gnosis' or insight into the true meaning of life. This, to them,
comes through a "direct knowledge" of the inner essence of one's own
character and preferences. The man of knowledge realizes that
humanity's "ceaseless efforts to banish suffering achieves nothing
more than a change in the form of this suffering, the cure of one
ailment leads to another as the Will continues to rage in the struggle
for life."
Schopenhauer substituted in his philosophy the Hindu view of time as
an endless, cyclical process--the wheel of karma, suffering and rebirth
in place of the idea of progress. Anticipating Nietzsche's theory of
"eternal recurrence," Schopenhauer sketched a picture of the universe
in a constant state of flux--one that always returns inexorably to the
same point of departure--the returning to this place and knowing it for
the first time--until that is, we choose to play the game no more and
surrender the individual will to something Higher and Grander, a new
place outside our own small lives, a new place on which to focus our
existence.
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Rudolph Steiner draws attention to the fact that rarely are the will
impulses that direct our daily life originating in our own conscious
intentions. He recommends that in the morning one gives oneself the
command to carry out a freely chosen, small task at a particular time
during the afternoon. A simple task should be chosen to begin with,
one that can be precisely performed is most suitable. It can be a task
that has to be carried out repeatedly, for example, the observation of
the daily changes of a particular plant. Or one can set oneself new
tasks from time to time such as a brief weather observation or an
attentive listening to noises and sounds in which these essential
characteristics are noted down. To some, such an exercise might appear
to present no problems, in which case one would assign oneself less
simple tasks, as for example, in the midst of one's workday, at a time
one has exactly prescribed, to summon up for a few minutes an absolute
"inner quiet." What will be decisive will be whether the task one has
set for oneself has been carried out exactly and not just more or
less. This then will begin the exercise of free will in perfect
intent.
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Steiner's exercise of intent can begin the gradual shifting of
consciousness away from programming and the influences of propaganda
towards that state of being the effect of one's own causation. A far
simpler way is to work with the surrender process with which my
Guidance, the Spiritual Hierarchy, once trained me. Working with
written channelings in the beginning, the Dear One exercise described
in lesson #1 http://www.4truthseekers.org/articles/lesson_1_channeling_your_own_mission.php
, Guidance then moved me to moment-to-moment channeling or listening
by having me stand in the middle of my living room and every single
thing I wanted to do I had to ask. Can I go get a drink of water? Can
I go to the bathroom? Can I watch television? Which channel? - Yes?
No? - Listening to the same voice I was now used to in doing my
written channeling exercises I was able to get a 'yes' or 'no' answer
for everything I wanted to do throughout the day. This began a program
of gradually transferring Guidance of my actions away from self-will
and on to Higher Will.
Another 'game' we played to shift the intention away from my mind's
own desire to control my life and on to Higher Will's control was to
play a game I call 'Turn Left- Turn Right." Again using that same
voice I heard in the written channelings, I was directed to go out and
get into my car with no idea in the beginning of where I was going.
Pulling out of the driveway and turning down the street, at every
intersection or stop sign I was then directed to ask which way to turn
- turn left? turn right? Occasionally this of course got more complex
as I also got the choice of 'Go straight ahead'. It was a simple
process of surrendering my own self-will to Higher Will, even in the
simplest of acts. Eventually, following the turn left-turn right
guidance of Higher Will, the game led me across town to an ice-cream
store or some other place where a simple but pleasant reward was in
store.
One begins the process of shifting one's focus from self-will running
one's life to that of Higher Will running one's life through just such
simple exercises, much as Steiner also suggested. It does not have to
be, not normally could ever be, an overnight shift or transfiguration
as one might expect in some 'holy' figure. As the basis of 12-step
programs suggest, one day at a time, one small step at a time. Watch
Bill Murray's movie, What About Bob? for a comedic example of this
type of gradual shift in consciousness.
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"The true symbol of nature is the circle . . . for recurrence is the
most general form of nature, which is realized in all things from the
motions of the stars to death and birth of organic life."
Schopenhauer proclaimed that to affirm all life as being propelled by
the Personal Will is tantamount to a predisposed recognition of the
sorrow and anguish of all finite beings. To participate in the Will to
live is to suffer with all animate species that are inflamed by the
very same Will. On this score, Schopenhauer offered the ethics of
"compassion" similar to the Buddhist morality which he admired.
Compassionate involvement in the world of suffering and affliction
results in a feeling of unity with humanity but also offers itself as
a trap, for one can too easily be drawn down to their level, the
status quo or common denominator mentality that exists in much of
humanity rather than lifting up those suffering to the higher level at
which the feeling person should be residing.
It is in this connection to the exercising of free will that Frederick
Nietzsche downplays the significance of history. In his early essay
"On the Use and Abuse of History" Nietzsche criticized the focus on
the historical in modern culture and what he called the over-
refinement of the "historical sense." An infatuation with history
renders "Life" futile in Nietzsche words. A methodical attention to
history and to all that has been and continues to happen leaves the
mind weary of details and the will paralyzed when it comes to
asserting the significance of one's own life, making us feel small and
insignificant by comparison. It is a problem I have struggled with in
assisting other people--their constant will or desire to live in either
the past or in the future and rarely if ever in the NOW in which all
things take place. History is one of the great myths by which we are
controlled, whether it be personal history or our culture's history,
for both are rewritten or influenced by those who handed them down to
us.
One very broad hipped woman I knew said that as a child when her own
hips began to develop she was told repeatedly by other family members
that 'that's the way the women's hips are in this family', and so her
own hips grew very broad as well. After this woman became a healer and
began working with some spiritual understanding she was able to erase
this childhood programming and reduce the width of her hips
significantly by first removing the old thought form that that's the
way she was destined to be.
Belief Systems around the soul are all about "soul's insecurities"
and the negative beliefs installed in just such a way, over
countless lifetimes of being told this thing or that thing by those we
admire or who have or who we allow to take power over us and instill
totally false beliefs and programming through our own acceptance of
them.
What is present around soul is a white mist with many colors, diamond-
like shapes (energies) that are interconnected like snowflakes (or
look like molecular structures found in a biology book). They show
that soul hasn't completely accepted itself and its own true nature
and needs. Soul has lost its original identity and thus soul is
confused. These energies appear as ruminations that soul allows in -
that aren't of soul or a part of soul but which affect soul. Soul
accepts these ruminations as a part of itself and acts out what we
call false self, false ego, false personality in which the soul
identifies itself as one with these ruminations. Once can easily see
this today in the acceptance of the anorexic look in women as being
normal and acceptable or even most desirable.
This acceptance of programming happens over many lifetimes in which no
actual physical beings implant these ideas and norms - but, like
"brainwashing" on a spiritual basis or level, these ruminations get
locked in when two souls (individuals) are talking and somehow one
disempowers the other. The second soul or individual lets something
the first one says in, not just on one level, but on all levels. This
is the spiritual level on which propaganda works, instilling its view
of how to interpret certain messages rather than allowing an
individual soul its own way determination of what is right and what is
wrong and how things should be viewed from a spiritual perspective.
It is the opposite of "as above so below" and becomes "as below so
above".
So what happens - lifetime after lifetime these ruminations or belief
systems store up inside us or around us, many contradicting the other
and creating a certain tension or anxiety or even schizophrenia within
all of us, the result being "soul confusion or soul insecurity". So
what you have is soul surrounded by many, many, many belief systems,
so that soul then becomes these ruminations.
What needs to be done is to "stabilize" these configurations, remove
them, and free up the soul. A person must be ready for change,
because this does strip one of many lifetimes of stored belief systems
and allows soul to again be "that spark of God" as it was once created
to be. As these belief systems are broken down and taken away, it
isn't always in your highest good to dwell on exactly what each belief
system was, for again this is focusing to much on the past and not in
the NOW where all life is and must be experienced.
It is like going to the dump to go through discarded garbage. It a
person continually goes over the past, they can recreate old negative
beliefs, sometimes feeling guilt and shame over past lifetimes and
past decisions. It is best to be open to letting things go without
drama - you know, "the easy way".