Asking Questions..

Is 1:35 a.m. late in the night or early in the morning?

You decide.

I only note it here because that is the time that my conscious mind decides to 'download' these concepts and I am prompted to share them, mostly because my life's work is beginning to take shape and I see that consciousness is both the destination and the reward, and that I/we need to wake up.

Please excuse the disjointed less than cohesive nature of this, consider it notes for a bigger work that I am sharing during the process.

Do not resist a calm, steady heartbeat, melt into childlike wonder and just be.

Even if some of the words I use frighten or anger you, ignore the reflex response and chew on it for a while.

If you decide to reject it after, then fair enough. I am just a messenger here.

The enslavement of our species is well thought out and planned and begins with the education system, whose role is to strip us of our individuality and force us into a mould of timid herd-able beasts. Herded along by established media and fashion, the message is fine tuned by marketing and advertising and conditions our choices for the rest of our lives.

What is the message?

That we are never going to be good enough, that we will always be missing that one thing just out of our grasp regardless of our pay scale and to which we must aspire until we achieve it or die. This keeps us working and consuming like a donkey with a carrot on a stick hung just beyond our mouths to keep us walking, forever pursuing that which can never be attained.

Then organized Religion steps in as control and creates the enemy concept that 'they' will come and take our stuff and leave us empty, broken and alone if we stopped and questioned why things work this way.

In this it fosters war, not peace.

Organized religion by its very nature is at once both confrontational and exclusive and is designed to divide rather than unite. At some point we are going to have to mature beyond the magic show and swim out into the deeper water if we ever hope to live up to the dreams we had for our lives.

What did you want to be?

Is the life you live now good enough?

Is it the life you wanted for yourself?

Consciousness requires faith in one's self first, in one's abilities, in one's right to ask questions, and to ask them again if the given answers are unsatisfactory, and to go in search of the answers if all available answers appear fake.

Consciousness requires a belief in love and the power of the positive, in the individual's right to choose at any moment how he prefers to live, and how he prefers to die, secure in the knowledge that his life and his consciousness are his only true and lasting possessions, and the only things that belong to him in this world.

Society as it is constructed is a pen for beasts, despite the illusion of choice.

Ask yourself this one question: When was the last time you made a truly significant choice; not trivialities, but life altering choice.

If you cannot remember, then I offer you that you are living a life planned for you as worker/consumer regardless of what you exchange (work) for what reward (consumption).

Most people live semi conscious at best, and the nagging questions that will not leave them that needs anesthetizing is the reason we abuse all forms of chemical and other substances to 'manage' ourselves. Out of fear of the unknown, we try to numb ourselves to reality.

Most people skirt mental illness all of their lives in one form or another, and psychiatrists say that out of five children in a playground, only two have anything like a chance at 'well adjusted' 'normal' life. The rest move between neurotic, psychotic and addicted. How insane a statistic is that? 

We are failing at living and doing it in style.

This is a conversation I hope to begin at best, an awakening and a sharing and a telling and a helping.

If we ever dared to dream we should dream of a better world for our children, and for that to occur we need to at least speak the names out loud of those things that fail us, that break us, that pull us down.

Let us at least hand our children a world that they can be safe in, a world that they can be free in, and a world where asking hard questions is not only normal, it is actively encouraged.

If I could leave you with one truth it would be this; you already know most of what was said here in your heart, and the you of your childhood, the real you, is waiting to be unfettered and set free to run in the wind and play in the rain.

This is your life, use it well, it does not last forever.