And there are billions, some very close to home [but excluding 1/2 of the world’s population {> 3 billion} who live on less than $2.50 a day] who regard life being defined by how much you can spend. And, many years ago, I was amongst them.
That our external world is a hologram created by our collective mind is a step too far for many. But the popularity of the Law of Attraction suggests that a sizeable group are beginning to realise the power of thought.
Do you value the incessant mental ‘chatter’ or try to switch it off by drink, drugs, workaholism, talking bollocks and the endless varieties of media? I’m old enough to recall the 1969 song by Peter Starstedt, ‘Where do you go to my lovely’, about a socialite who rose from humble beginnings:
But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head…
I’ve heard a couple of ‘celebrities’ who have admitted they can’t stand to be on their own. One of my best mates, Dave, a lorry driver who died prematurely years ago confessed to having the same problem. The subject has been done to death by observers of all things spiritual.
So, the majority of those who are externally fixated who live here in the UK will suffer from a BBC mind. A Brainwashed, Bigoted and Conditioned one.
Who creates your world view? If you follow the mainstream media, it will be the mainstream. Those who do this point out that the alternative media has a raison d’etre, but struggle beyond accusations of money to find the truth seeker’s motivation.
And, if 24/7/365 you tell the public that [certain] people in authority know best, the same people will go unchallenged telling the most appalling lies…
It gets interesting when we get out of our heads and into our hearts. Advertising, food additives, ‘gadgets’, the TV, prescription drugs and most ‘music’ keep us in our heads. There is no heart equivalent to the ‘BBC mind’ except cellular memory. For those who have never explored this web site, if we suffer any kind of trauma [however defined], especially when young, it can be held in our cells. Most of it is outside our awareness. The triggering of cellular memory can take us back instantly to the trauma, rendering us powerless, and can badly affect the immune system, leading to illness and accidents.
Fortunately, meditation, stilling the mind, rarely triggers these memories. And if it does, it will not become an ‘episode.’ Meditation calms, can reverse ageing, puts us in touch with the ‘unseen’ [spirit] world and ‘In the Stillness, Everything Happens.’
As you get older, tolerance of noise gets less. No doubt some will put this down to the myth of falling to bits as you age. For those over 30, you will know that background noise levels have grown and grown. On thing for certain is that fear levels, [deliberate] contradictory news reporting and the ‘technologicalisation’ of everything create confusion in the population, thus making us susceptible to the BBC mind.
‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’ ~Blaise Pascal.
Many years ago, I worked with a fabulous, but very disruptive group of teenagers in Walsall, the West Midlands here in the UK. My first goal-it took serious effort-to get them to be silent for 1 minute. Just about did it. I don’t need to comment on how kids today seem to be encouraged to be as loud as they can. And for loud read mindless too.
So, few could argue that as a general rule, the ‘pull’ towards the external world has grown massively in my lifetime. And for those of us who are awake, the inexorable drive inside is the perfect antidote.
And, if enough of us use the time inside to create paradise, help from the world of spirit will combine and the deafening noise of trivia, distraction and fear will fade away…
Jack Stewart.