Looking the Other Way

Posted on February 19, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Fake Culture, Society |

Sometimes it feels to me that our experience of life is set into two paths. The first path is the one we are taught, in general we are taught and learn about society and then attempt to integrate ourselves with it. The second path is one of self-learning and self-understanding - of the type we naturally begin to do right up until we begin school, where upon our attention is diverted elsewhere.

There is this distinction which we are never actually shown, between living a role in society and living life. It usually only becomes apparent to people when they are given cause to question the meaning of life. September 11 was a big trigger for causing many thousands of people to do exactly that.

The first path is about control and authoritarian ideals, which dictate the principles of how we should and shouldn’t act. Between the 50’s and 60’s Rock and Roll and the LSD movement caused people to question this path which they had been conditioned to follow. And for a while it was all good. But of course large groups led to lead to rebellious actions. Fearing that masses of the population would leave path one and start walking down path two, the media and governments begun portraying ‘hippies’ in a bad light. (Consider the manner in which many people react towards the idea of hippies - were does that attitude come from?). As a secondary measure the use of psychedelics which was allowing many people to understand reality - was outlawed.

Of course many people reacted badly on the stuff - but that doesn’t mean everyone did. As with most things if you give something potentially dangerous to an idiot or to someone unprepared then there will be problems.

Once again people’s attention was diverted back to the systems of society, which manifested in the punk movement as well as the yuppie ideals. Both of these had a very heavy ‘external’ focus on path one - rather than the ‘internal’ focus of path two - which the hippies had identified years earlier.

So all was well for the powers and the controllers, the wheels of society once again ran to the sweet fragrance of self-ignorance. Unfortunately for those elites, another consciousness altering revolution was just around the corner.

The Internet came together from a hodge-podge of parts and ideas, no one really thought it would amount to much - and it came silently into global consciousness. What we gained was the most complete library ever conceived…and instant access to all areas of it to boot. Now people went in search of answers to all those questions that have always sat at the backs of their minds.

When the planes hit - millions of people had millions of questions, and they all had the ability to instantly go searching for answers.

And for those that wanted other forms of knowledge, they discovered information which had largely been suppressed since the 60’s from the psychedelic movement, now it was finally available to anyone who wanted it. As was thousands of years of knowledge about cultures, mystics and the occult from all around the world. Now millions of people have diverted off on to path two - and within society we see an ever increasing polarity that is manifesting as ‘us vs. them’.

So once again the powers are trying to head this all off as they tighten regulations on Internet usage. Either through the charging of extortionate fees or through the implication of ‘threatening material’ many sites will slowly begin to disappear.

Perhaps it isn’t too much concern for worry though; I have a distinct feeling that the point of critical mass isn’t too far away, and that soon enough people will be ‘awake’ to make the difference. It will be a brave new world…