Most people have no idea how powerful their beliefs are. None at all. And they have no idea they've been programmed. Yes, "programmed" is a strong word, but at the end of the day, I have to call a duck a duck. And our society is full of rigid beliefs that serve the purpose of keeping our ideas small and create broken horses of us so that we keep our sights low.
On Thanksgiving I was having dinner with my family, which includes my mother, sister, their partners, two of my three children, and my nieces and nephews. Sometimes I toss my two cents around freely, and other times I just watch. This time I watched. The subject of homeopathy came up, which is A's (my brother-in-law) soapbox subject currently. He gave his talk and related what he read "debunking" homeopathy and how a person might be harmed by using homeopathy instead of western medicine. Really? And who says that western medicine is the one true way, and who says that belief in a treatment is not the main ingredient in any treatment? Now I understand A's argument that some dilutions are so dilute that the solution cannot even have a molecule of whatever it's a solution of, but why not take the criticism of homeopathy and see if allopathic medicine can withstand the same scrutiny. We as a society give it credibility beyond what's it's earned because we are taught that it's the real thing, and that the action of the medicine is biochemical, therefore scientific and credible. Studies prove. (Never mind that my statistician friend was fired for refusing to alter statistics that the city of Los Angeles didn't approve of.)
The conversation expanded to include other "shams", like a psychic communicating with your relatives on the other side. I do believe this can be faked, and I also believe that it can be genuine. A summed up the critique with "some people don't want to believe that when they die, they're gone." So this made me think. Really. Well, some people don't want to believe that we don't know what happens when we die, and that it is quite plausible that we as spirits do continue to exist. And then I wondered why people find safety in the idea that we're gone when we die. Our beliefs serve purposes.
Later my mother, my son Pa and I were talking about racism. I explained to my 18 year old white male straight able-bodied child that he was at the top of the privilege ladder, and therefore racism, sexism, and able-ism were invisible to him. He'd have to trust those who experience these things to teach him their impact. My mother agreed. She then went on to insist that racism was a part of our nature. Hating others is human nature. It's a fact. She insists, my son nods. Whoooooa, pony!!!!!! What is this "human nature" crap? Who is telling us hate and violence are human nature, and what is their agenda with that? But it happens all over the world they say. The history books describe this throughout recorded history. Double whooooa!! Where did they get the idea that "history" is an accurate record of what has happened? And that science is unbiased? Egyptologists have been terrible about sweeping under the rug any information or ideas that threatened the already chosen story. (See Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods for multiple examples.)
I believe it is human nature to love one another. I believe kindness is our nature. When I look inside myself I cannot find hate. I don't struggle with my violent human nature. I haven't "overcome" my hate and violence, either, as it was never there. I can't prove this any more than my mother can prove that hate and violence are our nature. At this point, it becomes a matter of choosing a belief. I prefer believing that peace and love are our nature because it is in alignment with my vision of what life on earth can be. If we choose it. It is beyond me, really, why some choose to believe that human nature is to be violent and hateful. That belief excuses violence. It excuses hate. And it excuses the violence continuing. Why would any person want that? Who wants to maintain status quo? Now, the international elite benefit from this belief. They who ultimately decide what is science and what is fact, and want the masses to be afraid and fight and hate each other. Those who engage us in war for their profit. Oh, what a shame, but it's human nature. We are taught this is human nature. Text books will support this idea. (My sister has her degree in psychology, and the emphasis in her studies was evolutionary sociology. It's science, ma'am. Just the facts. No, it's programming.) The elite don't want us to dream of peaceful egalitarianism, for what we can dream, we can create. They want us to believe that the way it is now is as good as it gets. They provide science, facts, experiences, statistics, and history to support that belief. And most of us buy it.
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You know, it's really scary to me how much faith people put in science because I've been in those labs where the discoveries get made and the drugs get developed and ya' know what? The people who are doing that research are no smarter than you or me. I know because they let ME work in them.
It's as if scientists have become the modern day priests and shamans. But there is so much that science can't explain! We "see through a glass, darkly" just like those who lived thousands of years ago. In fact, most of what we think we know is based on what those ancient people discovered.
I was brought up in a conservative Christian household and we were taught that mankind is inherently evil. We were told that humans are naturally inclined towards badness (due to "original sin") and the only thing that can mitigate that is belief in the "one true faith" et cetera.
I think about how much that probably contributed to the depression that I always felt. That theory meant that I could never really trust anyone. It also meant that I couldn't even trust myself. I never believed that I had the ability to make decisions that I could be comfortable with. The process was completely out of my hands. Instead, I should just obey someone's (clergy) interpretations of what someone else (Bible writers) said was appropriate or verboten. Can it get any more dis-empowering than that?
Yes, I think "programmed" really is the right word to use. I was programmed to cede control over my life in the hopes that, though I was evil, the Creative spirit would have mercy on me after death. Searching for happiness in this life was pointless and sinful, even.
It's sinister, really. And scary too, when you think about it. There are all these forces working together to create a world that fails, a world that is bound to implode at some point, a world that results in misery for the majority of those who live on it: education, government, religions, the -isms. And we go along with it all even though, deep down inside, we know it's all b.s. because we'd rather have the b.s. we know about than to deal with the unknown.
I wonder if I can even live long enough to de-program myself and get rid of all the damaging messages that I've been fed over the years. I don't even know if I'm yet aware of just how much programming I've received!
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