If you want to be happy, stop watching the news. There it is. Simple, ain’t it? It’s all low frequency fear mongering, narrative building and compassion rinsing crap so being obsessed with it is symptomatic of being trapped in the Game. Ask yourself, why would you, voluntarily, day after day bombard your awareness with hurt, fear, pain and tragedy so repeatedly? What does that say about your inner state? Misery lxving company ring familiar at any stage?
“But, but, but if I don’t watch how will I know when to be afraid?” says the Slave as he sleepwalks through his day to day drudgery. For him the pay off is this – “Well, at least somebody is getting an even shorter end of the stick” along with “Won’t somebody think of (insert whatever he’s been told must be protected)” and it gives them something to talk about at the office. Take all that away and the anxiety that would well up inside is immense. The way it stands he can project his bad feelings within onto the events he Witnessed and thus manufactures proof as he lies to himself as he further distances from his Kingdom which now runs with the influence of the Medes at the helm instead. Nature abhors a vacuum, yes?
If, for an experiment, he were to unplug entirely from all forms of news – both primary and secondary – for a specified time, lets say week in Slavespeak, then he’d notice a heady mix of anxiety, rage and misery that would surface frequently and he’d vent randomly. Gone would be the Nice Guy demeanor and safe predictability as the previously repressed and angry Billy Bad Ass is a totally different kind of beast. There are reasons plenty for this Tricknology and what you’ve just seen is only the tip of it all really as you’re up against something that knows you outside and in and then fabricates a narrative most will accept without questioning as it caters to their whims. Go back and read what I said again and then see how it applies to yourself, better yet disconnect for an extended time period, let none of your friends speak of it in your presence and take not even a sneaky glimpse.
Watch it all unfold as I said because then the emotions you suppressed will come roaring to the surface and have to be dealt with as they can no longer be projected onto external events and circumstances. Your ignorance is a weapon and its best used against Self by making you think you’re self instead, a simple yet elegant trick that is at the root of mans division within as I expounded in a previous missive. Slaves by definition are weak and powerless yet when they grip that remote and drink another tin from the fridge they can imitate, for a moment, the sensations of a King as they feel so powerful. “I decide what goes in this realm”. Click, click, click. Sip, sip, sip. Into another binge watch session then its back into dressing in collars and cuffs again and pledging obeisance to the System as they try to fit and its the anxiety from this, the life unexamined and thus not lived, that needs the vent the news presents as well as generating a topic of conversation because they can only express what was poured in. Very little in the way of creative intellect on that end of the spectrum. Don’t believe? Notice the difference between career salarymen and starving artists and it will become Self evident.
The first rule of the trick is realizing when you’re being pimped and then flipping it to ensure the power shifts from outwardly aligned to inwardly defined and that is the difference between a Warrior and Slave in this realm. Take your pick, choose your poison. One is sweet on the outside that hides the bitterness within which you’re forced to digest whereas the other makes your eyes spin the moment you taste it and yet once absorbed a golden nectar flows within.
Lets pretend that a sizable portion of the world took up this challenge. Do you know what would happen next? The System would legislate and mandate that one must watch a certain amount of news per day in order to keep up the charade. Much like the same way they enforce children (so full of life and animated) to sit still, look ahead and regurgitate what they said on the test for a decade and a half in order to alter their resonance. One part builds on the next hence you’re in an altered state of consciousness and the only way to break free of the strings that influence your meat puppet, that way and this, is to voluntarily disconnect from their pernicious influence. Granted, for many people the very concept seems like a fate worse than death as they need, so badly, to be tuned in and told what to think and when as they’ve, long ago, surrendered their creative aspect to the whims of a System that gives not one solitary F about them. Others are more familiar with the state as they intuitively realized the state of the Game and chose to walk a different way. Granted, it may not be as extreme as I’ve suggested but I have met people who, of their own volition, will not consume any form of content they feel is low rent as it presence affects their consciousness and further introspection.
Three of us were sitting, elsewhen, speaking on the topic. The one I mentioned was quite Zen, there was another who was totally plugged in, very successful but also becoming aware his life wasn’t sustainable at the pace he was racing and wanted to do something about it before it became a problem that he couldn’t handle. And then there was me who liked playing with the variables to see what happened next and has no certificates or accreditation from a lineage that told him how to think or conditioned him into living a certain way with various schemes and methods of leverage to which 81% of the globe are adjusted so well that to question it is madness. The conversation went a little something like this:
“Imagine the mind is like this pool we’re seeing. Its clean, calm and serene. Now lets pretend each spot of media influence is akin to one of these rocks I throw in”. We watch the disturbance as the rings spin out from their point of connection. The process doesn’t relent as the external stimulus is repeated. “After a while the pool has no clue or cue about equilibrium. It thinks the chaos is all there is and, in that respect, it will crave it because it can’t imagine life without it. What it doesn’t click is that its now carrying around loads of emotional baggage in respect to those boulders that are now clogging up the seabed. Everything does something and like attracts like so they want more to be slung in. Now this chap” I say pointing at the one running the meditation retreat, back when “Decided to dive in and start pulling out the rocks because he didn’t like who he’d became. After a while that state itself became addictive and thus he now sits at quite an extreme end of the scale as his food is served plain, without garnish, the only music his ears hear is devotional and he’s quite allergic to tech and modern conveniences. Its worth trying” I said to the one who was on the brink of awakening to the nature of the System that held his mind in its fist “But to me it reeks of imbalance so I prefer other options. Like this”.
I pulled some smooth pebbles from my pocket and skimmed them across the surface.
“Notice how much fun this is? How the body of water partakes in the stimulation that then ceases so it can return to equilibrium? The main benefit is modulation with no excess baggage thrown in but the best part is the media choices I make (or any other forms of resonance) offer me immense hints about my own makeup as well and that means I can then delve down, way down, into my subconscious which is another current entirely beyond the sea bed. In the process I bring up a couple of those old rocks as well and that is how I tread upon the Path of Power that you create by walking because, to my mind at least, this guys rigidity speaks of a lack of freedom within that screams “I must resist the temptation” by being so austere and extreme that most would think his ways, in this modern age, are entirely unsustainable. And they are. Thats why he needs to run these types of retreats and offer corporate consultations because no matter what he says bills are in effect so whilst he prefers to create an artificial environment my approach is more about the real world and its day to day using ways to navigate the treachery and become freer and freer the same way you were enslaved. Degree by degree.
That means I can still enjoy myself, have a drink, get buck and whatever else but its done with full awareness. In that respect its akin to taking a favorite motion of the string that moves the puppet and doing it of your own volition as you already know the steps but the new method is different. That causes a shift of power and this builds a feedback loop that craves freedom because, the way I see it, life will keep attempting to throw in these chunks of disturbance but if you voluntarily skim pebbles instead that cosmic balance is created and thus you’re working within the level without being against it and its far more pleasurable and nowhere near as rigid as this old style thinking that was inked with a pen back when the world was entirely different. Not to diss it” I said, motioning at the monk “But it doesn’t work for me which is why, I suspect, he invited me here to speak because I’ve guided countless people of the pavement to get familiar with their inner realms in ways that are far more doable and rewarding than sitting cross legged on a cushion trying to think about nothing. There is simply too much chaotic resonance in this realm at the current moment for that to happen. Especially for a man thats working, drinking and joking with the team to let off some steam and the rest we expect as standard equipment for the business of living”.
The businessman said “Well, what do you suggest because I agree with a lot of what the both of you said and want to bring this type of thing to my office so we can change the environment as its quite draining and I no longer like it so am seeking alternatives”.
“Simple, first thing is stop watching the news. Totally. That means no more papers or tuning in your set. Leave it alone entirely. Concentrate on the world you command, the one of your day to day. Start paying attention to the feelings and agitation that kicks in when you remove the stimulus and think of this pool and the rocks of media influence that make you crave another hit. After you get used to this I’d be willing to bet others will notice you are far more equanimous and they will ask what you did. Tell them. Some will listen and implement, most couldn’t care less as they don’t get it and, worse still, are scared of looking beneath the surface. After this, when you have gained a new state of equilibrium, you can start quietly walking away from people and situations that aren’t of your resonance. If you’re standing at the water cooler and talking about how well the day went and someone brings up the old “Have you heard what happened in that raging conflict where hundreds of people were killed?” you simply excuse yourself and move onto other things. After a while they’ll get the hint. Me, my Self, I used to have a sign on my desk that said “My ears hear good news only” and when people started attempting to pitch these mass media rocks into the pristine pool of my awareness I’d stop them with a grin as I pointed at it. If they persisted they were ejected. They soon got the message.
In between all of this I was still free to excavate and skim my own pebbles as well because I knew fine well that Incremental Betterment was in full effect and each day I was becoming a better version of my Self in a way that felt entirely natural and, best of all, was sustainable. Give that a spin for around three to ten months and then sign up for this retreat again and I’m sure you’ll find it much more actionable in your corporate an personal realms because this is akin to a bridge between the world in which his texts were written and the one you’re currently living in. Like the Path of Power you build it with each step, each decision, each influence from the outer you allow to come in. Net result is you generate far more internal freedom and with that a commensurate increase in wellness.
The trick is to become more discerning and realize everything is an option. A suggestion, if you will. The longer you listen, the sweeter the pitch but that approach hides the bitterness within which sinks like the rocks to your depths and from there they exert their own influence. This is what you spotted. What I said is your starter for ten on how to make a difference”.
The man, as expected, had various questions and potential problems he spotted in the approach which are not really relevant to this topic but it illustrates well the nature of Adulteration that wishes not to relent its grip on the minds of those its invaded because the alternative means draining its life and resources to generate a greater state of freedom to think different and change the script to a life you wish to live that is far more resonant with actualizing your truest potential in the world as it is. The monk, on the flip, was with it and implemented all of what I said and built upon it to totally change his pitch and way of dealing with the masses on the corporate tip. So much so that the ends that weren’t meeting were now looping around on themselves so much that he could offer free community outreach to the poor and neglected so the meeting truly was a win/win/win. The businessman, after a year or three, created the vibes he was seeking for himself and his employees and all of this was back when before corporate culture was a buzzword and the ubiquity of the net.
That last point proves exactly what I said about needing to be in the moment because if I were to hand the same script out again without taking into account all the shifts that have happened the results would not be as effective ergo the place you start to build the bridge may shift but the destination is always identical:
Within, to the true Self. The all of everything that is the prime state I call Inner Sense that dwells inside your chest. Anything less is simply bondage, reskinned, where you’ve been trained to paint the chains gold and call it freedom as you pay for each step along the web of debt in this fiefdom that passes for the unquestioned framework of incarnation with most folks trapped in this Game we’re playing by using our Souls as credits.
Its simply a suggestion. One you are free to reject or accept hence doing the Knowledge leads one to tending the garden and thus the pool of consciousness that truly is them is cleaned of the accumulated filth and bad habits but yet they are still free to skim some shiny pebbles across the surface, now and then, in order to let off some steam and enjoy the whole “Walking around in a body on a planet” deal whilst those who live on plain rice and steamed veg as they sit cross legged and spend their time thinking about nothing can also do this without the worry in the back of their head of how to keep the bills paid whilst living out their dharma as well. The Game of Souls has you, my friend.
Modern problems call for solutions which we create in the present day. Upgrade your paradigm by recoding your internal OS and watch the miracles happen because the funniest thing about the Game is it plays out inside your awareness ergo its a question of resonance so I’ll say, once again, watching the news is bad for your health.
Now here’s Tim with the weather!
Till we meet again
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