August 3, 2001.
There is a planet whereon all
the inhabitants are in slavery,
but since this is how the situation
has always been,
even before their memory began,
none have any objective knowledge
thereof.
The primary means by which their
slave master has maintained
the arrangement & sustained
their ignorance
is by creating amongst them
the illusion that groups with
conflicting interests exist
which seek control of their
visible, governing institutions;
for a while, the X’s will be
in power,
eventually replaced by the Y’s,
who are ultimately turned out
again by the X’s,
or some newly formed collection
of unwitting slaves.
Their unseen master, in a move
of breathtaking, brazen genius
has further tightened his hold
by causing to periodically be heard, a minority view which in fact publicly
professes that the people
ARE in unrecognized slavery,
and that only through an
intricate & elaborate conspiracy
is this truth kept from them,
and as the final knot in the
net, their captor causes a few to claim that it is the conspiracy itself
that is secretly behind the public accusation of there being a conspiracy,
and that by having it come from
unorthodox sources
assures it will be dismissed
by the mainstream majority.
So, under this contrived arrangement,
there exists on this world, the appearance of self-government --
even dissent,
and virtually all of the enslaved
inhabitants believe that
by & large, they are in
control of their own lives;
whereas the truth is that they
are completely enslaved,
and held fast therein
--
principally by being made to
believe that -- they are free.
And
so it goes, on that far ---------
far away world.
***
This little tale periodically
manifests itself visibly
in the physical world of
man,
but unseen is its uninterrupted
existence in the intangible world IN man;
for operating quite openly,
but under a subterfuge similar to
the one employed in the fable,
there is, in man’s consciousness,
an unrecognized --
master-slave arrangement,
which tracks precisely, all
of the details in the supra story.
Just as the unseen master on
the other planet
has set up conditions whereby
the enslaved inhabitants live in
an illusion of self-governing,
individually-motivated freedom,
so too are the circumstances
under which operates,
men’s routine thinking;
and same as how the captor on
that far away world
secretly and irresistibly prompts
certain of its inhabitants
to claim that they are being
held captive, and kept from realizing it
by being fooled into thinking that they are free --
through a, “free-will-hoax”
secretly promoted by their captor,
likewise in the head-world of
a few people on this planet
is the belief stated of mankind’s
intangible enslavement:
a minority of voices, popping
up throughout human history
have insisted that man is not
free to think whatever he chooses,
and is barred from ever realizing
it by a simple ploy:
that allowing him to think of
the possibility that
his thinking is not free
-- is instant proof that it is.
While a few people are born with
an ability to tinker somewhat
with their own thinking operations,
they too initially fall partial
victim to this normal mental hoax,
but conceive of it by way of
their own specialized language:
they hear a view expressed by
some inhabitant of their mental planet which insists that man’s thinking
is not operating as
freely and profitably as it
could --
and they have oft labeled this
condition as:
“Being asleep with your eyes open,”
(which, everything considered,
is not without merit),
for the more actively do such
people look,
the more do they, all around
them see,
endless examples of man’s unrecognized
enslavement.
They see -- or with certainty
-- suspect it in:
politics, finances, the world’s
social hierarchy --
in all exercises of external
power can they find the subtle finger of
an unseen force prodding & directing human affairs,
and if a man does not get permanently
intrigued & entangled in
this episode, he begins to see
a similar state of affairs taking place in the private confines of what
goes on in the vocal part of his own brain -- -- in his thinking.
In that function of the brain
that men call consciousness,
there exists an inherent, standard
situation of a master & a slave,
open to easy observation,
(if anything is actually ever, “easy” for a slave!),
which could also be termed a
relationship between
a talker & a listener: a
teacher & a pupil; the potential & the extant --
-- the awakened &
the sleeping,
and it is by virtue of this
arrangement that man’s thinking --
-- the thing, unique in
all of the universe that he knows --
stays malleable and capable
of real-time evolution & expansion;
no creature including man can
change their physical being,
but man can, his mental one,
which, when it occurs in an
ordinary man, is always concerned with
matters of a material nature, and pertinent to his survival,
but with those exceptionally-wired-few,
there is forever in the offing
the possibility of
changing the fundamental manner
inwhich thinking takes place --
not a mere change in the particular
way that you think about
some particular “something,”
but a change that occurs at
the root of thinking itself.
To awaken from the mental dream
–
to be as free as a human can
be –
is not in changing what you
think, but in what you think about;
it is ultimately not in changing
what you think,
but in how you think.
The un freeable captives can
never hear the reality behind this,
their inability to do so --
proof of the hoax’s success with them,
but it is still a lengthy challenge
to even the select few
to ever see far enough through
this conspiracy-of-mental-slavery
to have any exercisible freedom
there from.
From the position of one wanting
to escape,
and see-to-the-bottom-of-things,
you indeed have a slave master
operating in all of your
thinking, but it is nothing
untoward,
but rather a necessary ingredient
for the operation of
normal consciousness,
the task is to recognize for
yourself what is going on in there,
and not a slave, nor non-slave
be,
for when it comes to what the
few are really after –
neither one of them, slave nor
master, know anything of any value;
the master is life talking to
you;
the slave is your brain receiving
the messages –
generalized messages intended
for all mankind,
with nothing normally included
that is of any help to those
seriously chafing under the
yoke of simply being part of --
all mankind.
Only fools believe they are free –
and only BIGGER ones believe they are not.
And there is -- The
Great Secret --
once again, drug right out in the open --
-- insofar as it can ever verbally be.
J
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