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There is an epidemic lack of common sense and critical thinking in the world today. Well being has been replaced by a tendency towards depression and burn resulting from chronic anxiety, overwhelm, and the mindless habit of rushing all day long. Information consumption is replacing intimacy, the pursuit of excellence, and passion for Self-discovery. Too much to do with too little time characterizes modern civilization. These are some of the side effects of information overload.
Can you discern what is relevant and truthful information? Do you know what actually empowers you? Can you detect carefully crafted propaganda specifically designed to control and manipulate your opinion? False information plus information overload undermine your capacity to make conscious decisions about your life style, finances, and relationships. Propaganda shapes your worldview and the future you perceive is possible.
Every leap in human progress has unintended negative consequences. The information age is no exemption. Also known as the computer, digital, or media age the information age replaced the industrial economy. Now there is a global economy based on information computerization. This new world economy is based on the fact that access and control of information is the defining characteristic of our current era in human civilization.
The shadow aspect of the Information age is that information overload causes decreased self awareness, which interferes with your ability to access your Soul`s inner guidance -
Without the support of your Soul there is a loss of purpose, direction and desire for meaningful experiences. The information age has come to generate an addiction to information consumption that triggers erratic thinking fallowed by unconscious behaviors many of which are harmful. Young people are being raised with an acceptance of consumerism that undermines their personal development. Teenagers are not taught core values to live by and they`re are not taught relevant meaningful rights of passage into adulthood. Sexuality is exploited and mixed with pornography. People are manipulated to have an attitude of entitlement with little sense of personal values and responsibility towards their local community.
A life without the influence of your Soul has no conscience and no depth -
A soulless life leaves you at the mercy of those who use information to program your mind for their own interest. For this reason the information age is potentially more catastrophic to humanity than anything that came before. Terrorism, police brutality, and military interventions in the name of peace are examples of a collective lack of conscience acted out by societies whose collective mindset has been brainwashed to accept violence as a “normal†way of life. Simultaneously the military industrial complex makes a steady profit out of people`s fears, the pharmaceutical conglomerate profits from sickness, governments align with corporations that destroy the environment, and people are happy shopping and being entertained.
The information age produces individuals addicted to the stimulus of information, entertainment, and shopping. This is done through advertisement, social media, and the news industry. Information outlets successfully manipulate public opinion by selectively deciding the kind of information they make available. In the meantime, consumers of information are unaware that they are being mentally programmed to accept a fearful and hostile worldview. War secures people into an unconscious state of survival that causes them to give up their sovereignty for a false sense of security.
Unconscious fears trigger denial mechanisms, for instance the need to be distracted with superficial activities like social media to avoid dealing with existential challenges. When was the last time you shared a meal with a friend and neither one of you looked at your phones? Are you drawn to nature to listen and feel its presence, or do you scape yourself by using nature as an activity?
Addiction to information is harmful to the collective Well Being of humanity. Mental conditioning has reached the point where people have lost their own sovereignty, and don`t know it.
What does it mean to loose your sovereignty?
Loosing your sovereignty means that an external force controls you. A person that is sovereign is someone who has matured beyond social conformity, and is capable to govern themselves by becoming their own authority. They command enough personal power to prevent external forces from influencing, or controlling their mind. Sovereignty also means transcending identification with your mind and embracing your Soul, the source of your conscience and the aspect of you that desires intimate and meaningful experiences.
You are not a mind, you have a mind!
Neuro Psychiatrist Dr Dan Siegel defines mind as an embodied and relational processing of energy and information. Your mind exists in relationship with other minds. The collective mind of humanity regulates the flow of energy and information in the whole human ecosystem. This definition acknowledges that you need a body to have a mind, and that your mind is an activity inside a sea of activity driven by information and energy. I will add that the activity of mind is possible because we are consciousness. You are aware of you not by thinking but by paying attention and realizing that you exists independent of your mind. You are not a mind, you have a mind.
Those who control information control the energy flow inside your body when you function only as a mind. For instance, watching the news makes you fearful and hostile, while advertisement is designed to trigger a state of lack, which makes you crave consuming. When you are Self-Aware you can interrupt this manipulation by choosing to control your impulses, urges, cravings, needs and wants. How Self-Aware are you?
The notion of acting, or thinking independently from any outside influence is impossible at the level of your mind. No mind exists, or can function in a vacuum. All minds are linked together into an invisible field of information. For instance your parents thoughts and beliefs get downloaded to your mind before you become aware of being your own person, and by them you mistake their beliefs inside your mind as yours.
Levels of mental conditioning
Being civilized: this is the original mental programming consisting of daily repetition of information under a constant emotional stimulus such as the way parents talked and behaved towards you and with each other. All of that is recorded in your subconscious mind. Civilizing a child requires the enactment of cultural traditions that instill the core values of the society. Religious beliefs are also downloaded via the collective mind of your culture whether you like or not. All of these are combined and eventually get accepted by the innocent, naive and ignorant mind of a child. This conditioning becomes the belief system that runs your personality.
Becoming sovereign and autonomous requires that you include and transcend your social upbringing that conflict with your Sou. This can happen at any age. I rejected the notion that I was a sinner at seven years old when my Soul replied to the catholic priest “I`m not a sinner†even thou in the indoctrination to attend my first communion I had been told what to answer, but couldn’t understand. Sovereignty is a threat to those who desire to control you!
Mental programming or brainwashing is the subliminal belief systems installed via the influence of government propaganda, the entertainment and news industry, the education, medical and scientific systems, and religious dogma.
Mind control is the activation and operation of mental programming.
Mental programming and mind control are embedded patterns added to your original mind. They`re are an overlay that appears to be your own but in reality is an artificial way of thinking that has been introduced without your consent!
The aim of mental programming and mind control is the creation of a society that is robotical in following orders without a conscience and without questioning authority. There is no independent thinking. This blind submission ensures that those in power use you to produce their agenda. Mental programming is successfully creating a civilization that is obedient to the rules and regulations of society against their personal interest. This conditioning is evident by seeing how people give their attention and consent to the news media, politicians, religious beliefs, and the medical establishments. Monkey sees, monkey hears, monkey obeys.
Modern culture is being programmed with dumb down memes; these are elements of a culture that are passed from one individual to another by non-genetic means, especially imitation.
Reclaiming your sovereignty
Be original. Use your imagination to create the life you desire instead of worrying about what you don`t want. Mind your mind and confront a your fears. Feel deeply into every experience and master being present. Observe and pay attention instead of thinking your way thru life.
Reflect on the information you receive, and more importantly be selective of what you expose your mind to. Minds are easily conditioned. For example, men are raised to deny their feelings, women are told they`re less valuable than men, this ridiculous beliefs must be discarded. Question the authority of doctors, religion, politicians and governments that claim to know what is best for you.
Common sense and intuition are natural and inherent to your humanity, but you can`t hear them and trust them when your mind is driven by survival instincts because you live in fear. Disconnect from technology on a regular basis. Care to be intimate with you and discover your Soul. Value having intimacy with others and be intimate with nature to discover your nature. Cultivate regular periods of silence and stillness to reclaim your sanity.
Written by Osiris Montenegro