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Not Repentance

1/12/2022

I didn't knowingly and intentionally lie! I was misled by the experts!*

These sorts of statements may become quite fashionable soon . . .

*Partly inspired by a chapter in Stephen Vizinczey's best novel An Innocent Millionaire in which Vizinczey incisively describes a common defense tactic that trial lawyers fall back upon when they find themselves facing accusations of perjury - "I wasn't lying! I was misled by my client."

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Next Level Discernment Contra The System's "Learning to Live With" Tactic

1/11/2022

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Earlier this week I argued that people should not get overly excited about recent System communications concerning the easing of or possible end to the birdemic and birdemic restrictions.

In that post, I noted that the Establishment has no plans to willingly relinquish the closed world system it has enforced upon the world since its successful 2020 global totalitarian coup. A recent article from the Off Guardian site echoes my suspicions (code and bold added):

So, “living with the birdemic” is going to be added to the birdemic phrasebook alongside “flatten the curve” and “the new normal”. But what does it actually entail?

When they say “living with the birdemic”, what do they really mean?

Well, firstly, let’s not make the mistake of trusting any government, media, or “expert”, just because they start telling 20% of the truth.

They are liars, they have an agenda, this is always true, you should always be aware of it, even when – or especially when – they are suddenly telling you what you want to hear.

They have not seen the light, they are not correcting their mistakes, they not finally seeing sense, and they are not switching sides.

There have been no Damascene conversions. There is no wave of guilty consciences sweeping through the elite.

They have an agenda. They always have an agenda.

You should also dispel all notions of “getting back to normal” from your mind. That isn’t happening.

How do we know? Because they said so.

That's spot on, that is. So, if the Establishment plans to keep the closed world intact, then what's behind the recent spate of conciliatory System communications? The Off Guardian article offers the following (code and bold added):

It could be that there are splits and factions, fractures along the floors of the corridors of power. Perhaps some members of the great big club want to halt the birdemic where it is, afraid that any more progress along the “Great Reset” path may imperil their own position or their own wealth.

Maybe.

What I see as more likely is that they sense they have over-extended themselves already, and that stretching further could break their entire story to pieces.

To use an apt metaphor, imagine the “Great Reset” agenda as an invading army, marching through town after town, winning battle after battle and burning as they go.

There comes a point where you have to stop. Your supply lines are pulled taut, your men are tired and numbers dwindling, and the occupied citizens are putting up more and more resistance. Push on now, and your entire campaign could crumble.

What you do in that situation is withdraw to a defensible position and fortify it. You don’t give back the land you’ve taken, or not much of it at least, but you stop pushing forward.

The people whose land you have invaded will be so glad the war is over, so tired of fighting, they’ll be so relieved by the respite before realising how much of their land you’ve taken away. They may even say “let them keep it, as long as they stop attacking us”.

That’s how conquest works, from the days of ancient Rome and beyond. A cycle of aggression followed by fortification.

When we switch from “birdemic” to “mini-birdemic”, we won’t be getting our rights back, the peck passes and surveillance and the culture of paranoia and fear will remain, but people will be so relieved at the pause in the campaign of fear and propaganda they will stop resisting.

They won’t push back, and the “New Normal” will literally become just that, normal.

Hell, they’ll probably greenlight funding for anything Bill Gates wants to do make sure “the birdemic is the last birdemic”.

And then, one day when people are nice and docile again, a new variant will come back, or we’ll need a “climate lockdown”, and the push for control of every aspect of our lives will start up again in earnest.

The best thing we can do is not fall into the trap.

Once again, that's probably accurate. In fact, these notions parallel my own observations about how evil chooses to advance in the world:

Firstly, despite appearances to the contrary, evil is simply not powerful enough to ceaselessly crush everything in its path like a steamroller. It can certainly utilize blitzkrieg tactics once in a while to surprise its opponents and occupy large swathes of territory like an invading army, but the initial gains these kinds of attacks yield are quickly tempered by the logistical reality of having to occupy and subdue the conquered territory. As military history has demonstrated countless times, this is no easy task. Lighting war assaults can stretch supply lines and leave behind determined and tough pockets of resistance that are incredibly difficult to identify and flush out.

The Off Guardian article presents a timely warning concerning some seemingly conciliatory and appeasing communications the System has transmitted recently. It very correctly and astutely warns us to be wary of all communications in which the System appears to be reassessing its aims, re-examining its actions, re-evaluating its data, and reviewing its strategies - especially against the backdrop of an apparent rise in resistance and push back.

After all, the System's overall goal is to include you within its anti-God and anti-Creation machinations, and one of the best ways it can do so is by presenting itself as capable of self-correction and, ultimately, redemption.

Like a violent husband apologetically presenting a box of chocolates and a flower bouquet to his battered wife, the System would very much like to convince those it has abused that it has realized its errors, learned from its mistakes, and deserves another chance to make it all better. All it requires to do so is forgiveness and trust. And like the hapless wife, many appear all too happy to give the System an infinite amount of second chances.

So, after presenting such excellent and accurate insights about what "learning to live with the birdemic" really means, what does the writer of the Off Guardian article recommend people do to avoid falling into the trap?

Keep resisting and keep fighting.

That's all well and good, but the resisting and fighting must stem from spiritual motivations. Moreover, these spiritual motivations must extend beyond the negative action of resisting and fighting and must include a positive motivation that transcends the mostly negative action of resisting and the fighting.

Why?

If the "against movement" of fighting and resistance is not supported by a positive "for movement" of strong spiritual motivation, it will work to the System's advantage by becoming a lesser evil rather than a Good.

And this is where next level discernment comes in. Next level discernment involves the continued application of spiritual discernment from a cosmic perspective.

This does not involve "learning to live" with evil.

Nor does it involve non-spiritual resistance to evil.

It involves learning to live for Good. Now and for eternity.

This is not easy to achieve. And in this mortal world, it is also difficult to maintain, but it is absolutely vital going forward.

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System Manipulations of Time as the Only Time That Makes Sense

1/10/2022

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Dr. Charlton has written some excellent pieces recently about the meaning of Establishment language. In a September post he made the following observation:

When you hear a politician speak, read a press release or a media headline; you are not dealing with an attempt to communicate the truth about reality; you are dealing with language as calculated manipulation ('language' here including visual, symbolic, audio and other media).

Manipulation is language intended to shape attitudes, thought-processes and actions.

In a post from last week, Dr. Charlton added the insight that communication the Establishment peddles through the System intrinsically contains no information:

The correct inference concerning any specific communication from The System is therefore, quite simply, that: System statements contain zero information.

Yet we are almost all of us guilty of trying to sift truth; when the reality is that public discourse contains zero information.

How do we fall into this trap? By attempting to have discourse with liars!

The fact is that all discourse assumes a basic truthfulness - therefore, if we have discourse with liars, we must already have decided that they are basically truthful.

And when 'they' are Not basically truthful - but instead are merely manipulating us - then we have been sucked into their world-of-lies.

We have been trapped-into interacting with zero information!

Dr. Charlton's perceptive thoughts on the matter started me thinking about the role of time in the Establishment's endless ruse to manipulate with zero information. The manipulative power of nearly all the zero information the Establishment has "communicated" via the System concerning the birdemic has relied heavily on time. This is by no means an original or groundbreaking discernment in and of itself, but the Establishment's sustained and successful implementation of manipulation through a combination of no information + time does reveal a great deal about the state of the modern mind and spirit.

Time is an essential component of communication. Remove it from language and nearly all communication is rendered incomplete, opaque, and/or nonsensical. Time is also an essential component of manipulative communication. If you are able to convince people about what will happen tomorrow, you will likely succeed in influencing how they think and behave today. This works both in the positive sense and the negative sense. The future can be a bright place of promises and incentives, but it can also become a dreaded realm of danger and threats.

As I mentioned above, nearly everything the Establishment has communicated through the System has relied heavily on time as the key component of its "no information manipulation" -- starting from the infamous "two weeks to flatten" decree right up to the current threats of looming peck mandates. Most of the no information manipulation was rooted in actively instilling anxiety, fear, and terror. On the flip side, some offered soothing promises of guaranteed safety and security. Either way, all of the no information manipulation was geared exclusively toward manipulating people into believing something about the present in order to motivate them to act in a certain way in the future.

Once again, there is nothing new about what the Establishment has done and continues to do with its use of time in its no information manipulation. What makes what the Establishment has done and continues to do somewhat unique is the utter depth (or shallowness?) of its no information manipulation and the willingness of modern people to actively and continuously interact with the no information manipulation as if it were in fact authentic information communication.

In retrospect, the birdemic should never have happened. As I mentioned early on in 2020, it should have never made the news. A stable, grounded, well-motivated, long-termist, spiritualized society would never have allowed it to become news. But it did make the news. And once it made the news the "two weeks to flatten" manipulation took off.

After two weeks, the manipulation, should have ended. After two weeks, a less stable, but still fundamentally stable, grounded, well-motivated, long-termist, spiritualized society would have caught the manipulation and ended it.

But here we are, nearly a hundred weeks later, and our societies still haven't ended it.

I believe much of it comes down to how moderns perceive time. The modern mind's incomprehension of the reality of today mixed with the muddled dread of tomorrow. It seems as time has little meaning modern people beyond the System's no information manipulations of it.

Everything is not metered out in approaching short-term threats and incentives: "hard" deadlines, expiry dates, percentage promises, looming mandates, etc. -- all of which are based on nothing more than "no information manipulation".

System time is the only time moderns seem willing to tell or capable of telling, which might reveal something about why we remain mired in the birdemic long after the two weeks ended.

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Mass Formation Psychosis: What's The Great and Sudden Revelation?

1/5/2022

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Dr. Robert Malone's recent diagnosis of the birdemic hysteria as "mass formation psychosis" has triggered a steady stream of oohs and ahs in the media and on the internet.

Naturally, the mainstream media has callously dismissed the diagnosis as an example of individual psychosis emanating from the fetid mind of a recently Twitter-banned virologist and immunologist whose work, fittingly enough, focused extensively the same technology found in many of the birdemic pecks.

On the other hand, independent and dissident voices have reacted to Dr. Malone's mass formation psychosis diagnosis with a Eureka-level of thrill and excitement that would have made Archimedes blush in embarrassment. We have found it! Someone out there has finally managed to put his finger squarely on the pulse of the birdemic and enunciate the appropriate term to describe what the world is experiencing.

Don't misunderstand - I'm not slagging Dr. Malone's excellent diagnosis. What irks me is the giddy, gee-wow, mind-blown reaction the diagnosis has inspired. All too many have treated Dr. Malone's commentary as if it were some kind of great and sudden revelation and realization; a veritable epiphany of sorts. Which makes me wonder . . . what did these newly illuminated souls believe about the birdemic hysteria before Dr. Malone slapped the mass formation psychosis label onto it?

In the interest of clarity, I have included a definition of mass formation psychosis below (randomly lifted from a recent search result):

Psychosis is when people lose some contact with reality. Mass formation psychosis is when a large part of a society focuses its attention to a leader(s) or a series of events and their attention focuses on one small point or issue. Followers can be hypnotized and be led anywhere, regardless of data proving otherwise. A key aspect of the phenomena is that the people they identify as the leaders – the one’s that can solve the problem or issue alone – they will follow that leader(s) regardless of any new information or data. Furthermore, anybody who questions the leader’s narrative are attacked and disregarded.

There are four key components needed for an environment to experience a mass formation psychosis: lack of social bonds or decoupling of societal connections, lack of sense-making (things don’t make sense), free-floating anxiety, and free-floating psychological discontent. Free-floating anxiety is a general sense of uneasiness that is not tied to any particular object or specific situation.

This accurately describes the birdemic hysteria, so kudos to Dr. Malone. At the same time, how is any of it revelatory against the backdrop of everything we have experienced in the past two years?

Though I appreciate Dr. Malone's clinical labeling of the birdemic hysteria, I would hasten to add that while the diagnosis clearly identifies the symptoms, it utterly misses the underlying disease.

Mass despiritualization psychosis.

Note added: The mass formation psychosis of the birdemic hysteria are acute symptoms of mass despiritualization psychosis, which was prevalent and chronic long before the birdemic hysteria broke. If the underlying conditions of mass despiritualization pyschosis continue to be left untreated, they will turn fatal, at least at the level of the masses.

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The Closed World Strategy Will Not End When the Birdemic is "Exposed"

1/4/2022

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There's been a lot of talk lately about the imminent end of the birdemic, which has given rise to some hasty conclusions about the "return to normal" being just around the corner. I imagine the logic driving this train of thought goes something like this: "They turned the birdemic on with a flip of a switch; we'll turn it off the same way."

Yeah, good luck with that.

First and foremost, the past two years have not been about the birdemic. On the contrary, the birdemic has merely served as a pretext for what the past two years have been about.

And the past two years have been about the implementation of global totalitarian system equipped for the purpose of mass damnation. More to the point, the past two years have been about spiritual annihilation, particularly in the West.

The global totalitarian system is driven and sustained by an Ahrimanic closed world strategy that has enriched and empowered the Establishment at the expense of everyone else. The Establishment has put much time and effort into this closed world strategy - enough time and effort to negate any real considerations of retreat or surrender. To put in poker terms, the Establishment has gone all-in.

Now, before anyone accuses me of black-pilling, let me clearly state that I believe the Ahrimanic closed world strategy will ultimately fail. Though I personally doubt it, it could conceivably fail in the coming weeks or months.

Regardless of when it does come, the inevitable failure of the closed world strategy will have very little to do with the collapse of the birdemic narrative and very much to do with the collapse everything else.

The failure of the closed world strategy will re-open the world, but it will open the world to chaos rather than "normal."

Bleak as it sounds, I sense open chaos may be far preferable to open normal . . . at least from a spiritual perspective.

In the meantime, the Ahrimanic Establishment will do everything it can to maintain the closed world strategy for the simple reason that it is playing the long game. And don't kid yourself; the Establishment has a lot of things in its everything arsenal.

Without the birdemic, the Establishment could not have implemented its totalitarian System. This much is true. At the same time, it would be a mistake to assume the Establishment cannot maintain its totalitarian System without the birdemic.

All it needs for that is masses of despiritualized people. As far as I can tell, very little has changed there . . .

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System Distancing and Divine Providence

1/2/2022

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I first began writing about system distancing shortly after the birdemic broke in the West in the early 2020. There was nothing terribly original about sensing the need to put distance between oneself and the System. If anything, all I perceived was an intensification of this need, particularly from what had clearly become a thoroughly evil System. Using the Establishment dictum of social-distancing as a means to reduce the spread of the birdemic virus, I posited the need for system distancing as a spiritual imperative as a means through which to slow the spread of "systemic" evil, both in oneself and in the world.

When I first began to think about system distancing, it was mostly a negative, freedom-from movement based on rejection of the System's pervasive lies. It didn't take me long to realizes that this negatively-inspired, freedom-from movement - though good in and of itself - did not provide enough motivation, or, more accurately, the right kind of motivation to make system distancing tenable as a spiritual imperative.

For system distancing to really work or have any real meaning from a spiritual perspective, a positive motivation, one greater than the negative motivation of rejection was required. This led me to begin exploring freedom-for motivations that superseded any at all freedom-from considerations.

The crux of my freedom-for argument was simple - system distancing increases the distance between the individual and the evil System while simultaneously closing the gap between the individual and God. Though comprehensible, the argument provided little in terms of why it was imprudent to believe the System could not be used in the spiritual service of the Divine (especially since we are all inevitably a part of the System to greater or lesser degrees anyway).

It also provided nothing graspable in terms of what a system-distanced individual could hope to accomplish during those brief, intermittent times during in which he or she had managed to think or live outwith the System.

Ironically enough, the System itself began to use system distancing as a material means to ensure people remain spiritually plugged into the System. Accept the lies as truth or you get locked out of the System. Thinking or being outside of the System now had tangible consequences in the "real" world, while thinking and being outside the System seemed to offer very little "real" world benefits.

I got to thinking about the Holy Spirit and came to the conclusion that the Holy Spirit would not use the System as a primary means of manifesting good in the world, and that any guidance or comfort the Holy Spirit provides would be found exclusively outside the System.

This was all good and well, but it still didn't address the question of what an individual could hope to accomplish by system distancing. At best, it seemed to land the individual into a relatively passive state. Yes, a person could successfully learn to think and be outside the System to a greater or lesser degree for greater or shorter lengths of time, but what, if anything, was this thinking and being outside the System, this positive motivation of being free-for God actually achieving, especially against the backdrop of the spiritual war?

Well, I believe Dr. Charlton has provided a conclusive answer to this question through his work on the role of divine providence. In a comment to his excellent post concerning the lying nature of the System, Dr. Charlton sums up the matter in the following way:

I believe that every person who - for a while - succeeds in thinking/being outside of The System becomes (for that time) an instrument of divine providence.

In an earlier post on divine providence, Dr. Charlton recorded the following observations:

...In brief: to commit oneself to the side of God, Good and the divine creation and to follow Jesus Christ - and leave the rest to God.

We need to develop a real faith that this is what God wants us to do; and that insofar as we can achieve it in our-selves - then God will work through us.

Furthermore; that God can, will and does work through the 'group' of human individuals who are thus aligned: God will do this and we ought not to be interfering.

Any and all individuals who are (at any particular time) aligned with Good; are-being deployed for the Good of the world by God in invisible and unknown ways. This is happening all the time, and it is why Good remains undefeated, and continues to win victories - despite overwhelming global demonic-serving power versus the apparent worldly-powerlessness of real Christians.

But these are not 'political' victories, to be read-about in the mass media or official announcements; they are spiritual victories - and often directed at the post-mortal salvation of particular people who are open to them and desire them.

Divine providence provides the positive imperative of system distancing with a graspable and utilizable motivation that extends beyond merely freeing ourselves from the System. Divine providence bestows much-needed depth to the spiritual motivation of becoming free-for God via system distancing. A truly active, positive motivation!

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In Praise of Afternoon Naps

1/2/2022

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I have been off work since December 23 and during this time, I have taken obscene advantage of the plentiful opportunities to partake in afternoon naps. Inspired by my cat, I have taken a nap every afternoon over the past nine days. Needless to say, the experience has been wonderful.

I normally limit these sorts of indulgent slumbers for weekends and use them primarily as a means to catch up on the sleep I "miss" during the week (I tend to sleep about five or six hours a night and am out of bed somewhere between 3:30 and 5:00 a.m. every day), but over the past ten days I have shamelessly allowed my weekend "privilege" to become a part of my day-to-day life.

Though I have tinged my description of afternoon napping with guilt-tainted words, I must admit that I have never felt guilty about sleeping an hour or two in the middle of the day. In fact, if I had my way, I would make it a regular feature of my daily life for the simple reason that it makes the day far more enjoyable and far more productive.

A nap in the afternoon essentially divides the day into two halves, providing me with the possibility to really focus on the things I would like to do or need to do in each half of the day. Yes, catching a few winks in the middle of the day does contain undeniable hedonistic elements (ask my cat), but it also offers immense benefits - such as the potential for an increased level of concentration in the late afternoon and evening hours.

Either way, it all ends when I return to work tomorrow. Instead of waking up at two o'clock fresh and ready to tackle whatever the world has in store for me, I will instead spend the early afternoon struggling to keep my head from peacefully nestling down on the keyboard.

Maybe I should start thinking about changes that could make afternoon naps a steady reality in my life. Now there's a life goal if there ever was one!

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An Intense Awareness of the Need For Spiritual Learning

12/31/2021

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The past two years have provided plenty to be negative about, but they have also provided much to be positive about. For me, the most positive aspect has been an intense awareness of the need for spiritual learning.

This awareness has brought many difficulties and challenges to the fore, but it has also given rise to a joyous and exciting re-enchantment with the world. I find I am no longer in a fog when it comes to the primary purpose of mortal life.

At the same time, I feel an increased sense of personal responsibility. Everything I think and do in this time and place matters - not just for this time and place, but for eternity.

But some of the things I think and do will have to be learned and re-learned again and again despite my best efforts to "lock in" what I need to learn.

Part of my awareness of spiritual learning is the acceptance that learning is a process, not a flipping of the switch. Some lessons can be learned easily. Some lessons take a lifetime. Some will barely be approached. Some will never be completed.

What matters most is the awareness because it is the awareness that allows God to find the openings and opportunities required to facilitate the required learning.

The rest is up to the choices we make when these opportunities arise.

Note added: This post was inspired by an important and insightful comment Dr. Charlton left on my post from yesterday.

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From 'Humans as Things' to 'Humans as Beings': Shifting Our Thinking About Others and Ourselves

12/30/2021

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The much needed and long overdue shift in human consciousness is a major theme of this blog. Writing about human consciousness is a delicate issue, particularly within a Christian framework, because many Christians are prone to dismiss the subject as pseudo-spiritual psychology, new age quackery, or artless heresy.

Though I appreciate the discomfort and derision, I have steadfastly maintained that pushing through this discomfort and derision has become necessary and unavoidable – necessary and unavoidable because working on consciousness has become a necessary and unavoidable task for all Christians, regardless of denomination.

Establishing a firm grasp of what human consciousness is and what it does has been a major obstacle for Christians. For the sake of simplicity, I personally define what human consciousness is in the following way: The manner in which we perceive, understand, and think about God, the world, others, and ourselves. As for what human consciousness does (or is capable of doing): The ability to direct, aim or align perception, understanding, and thinking with God and Creation, which encompasses Reality as well as Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Virtue, and so forth.

Consciousness is crucial because it the means through which we establish our fundamental metaphysical assumptions, more specifically, our core beliefs about life, the universe, and everything. Throughout the bulk of history, human consciousness has been an inherently spiritualized consciousness, which means that the core beliefs most people have held about life, the universe, and everything have been based on the understanding and acceptance of the divine and the supernatural.

Of course, modern secular-material-atheists use this undeniable fact as a touchstone to tout the superiority of their own contemporary de-spiritualized consciousness. De-spiritualized modern secular-material-atheists view their ‘spiritualized’ ancestors in much the same way adults view children who believe in the existence of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. Modern secular-material-atheists may accept the quaintness and charm of such beliefs, but they ultimately reject them as mere fantasies that distort and interfere with their own cold, hard perception of ‘real’ reality.

Since the modern-material-atheist form of despiritualized consciousness repudiates the existence of the divine and the supernatural, it also denies the existence of such attributes within human beings as well as all notions of humans being created in the imago Dei. At best, contemporary despiritualized consciousness perceives and understands human beings as superior things existing within a realm of things.

Consequently, despiritualized consciousness limits its perception, understanding, and thought about human beings to matters of ethics, morality, and utility. Within this framework, the highest calling of a human being is cultivate his or her talents to be well mannered, well behaved, and useful. Since there is no afterlife, human beings must strive to be well behaved, well mannered, and useful in this world, which, essentially, boils down to human society and/or the planet.

Within this conceptualization, relationships between human beings are largely defined by material utility, which encompasses material and social gain as well pleasure seeking and pain avoidance. A good relationship is one that helps the people involved get ahead or feel good, with ‘love’ being ascribed to those people that are best able to supply the most help an individual needs to get ahead or feel good. Bad relationships are those that hinder ‘getting ahead’ or that diminish ‘feeling good’.

From the perspective of despiritualized consciousness, human beings are not really beings, but things. The purpose of interacting with other human things is foster the end goal of being the best, most useful, and happiest human thing an individual can hope to be in this world of otherwise random, purposeless, and meaningless things. Yet the importance of relationships between human things remains a central feature of despiritualized consciousness, which still intuitively understands that the material health and survival of all human things depends almost exclusively on the relationships human things are able to establish between each other for the purposes of utility and hedonism.

In light of this, the attack on human relationships over the past two years is particularly intriguing. In early 2020, human things were reclassified as potential biological hazards to other human things. This reclassification flipped the entire secular-material-atheist human thing value system on its head. Suddenly, the health and survival of all human things depended almost exclusively on limiting or destroying the relationships human things are able to establish with each other. The most useful thing a well-mannered and well-behaved human thing to do for other human things and the world was to regard other human things as potential hazards. Getting ahead and feeling good suddenly meant limited contact and self-isolation, even from those one professed to ‘love’ – nay, more so for those one professed to ‘love’.

The past two years have provided us a masterclass on the fatal perceptions that govern despiritualized consciousness, most notably, in how it views humans and human relationships. If humanity continues obstinately adhere to this limited consciousness, it surely lead to death – spiritual and physical.

The much need and long overdue shift in human consciousness is vital not only to the development of human beings on the spiritual plane, but also to the very survival of human beings on the material plane.

In a post from mid-December, Dr. Charlton argued for the establishment of a cosmic perspective as an antidote to the dead end perspective of ethics:

Our fundamental way of thinking ought to be a matter of imagining and picturing our-selves in a cosmic perspective - where we came from, where we are going; what are the real and eternal things and how do we personally relate to them.

Cosmic perspective is a good way to conceptualize the much needed and long overdue shift in human consciousness. For too long, Christians have limited their fundamental way of thinking, especially in matters concerning how we relate to others and see ourselves. The way Christians imagine and picture themselves, others, and human relationships is practically inseparable from the way in which despiritualized secular-material-atheists imagine and picture themselves, others, and human relationships.

For proof of this, we need look no further than the way in which many Christians and nearly all Christians churches responded to the birdemic crisis in 2020 – and continue to do so even today! What do these responses say about how Christians and Christian churches understand human beings? How about real or eternal things? What do these responses reveal about how Christians and Christian churches relate to human beings? To real and eternal things?

Christians simply must – and I do mean must – shift their perceptions, understanding, and thought, and they can begin by expanding the way in which they perceive, understand, and think about themselves and others.

This is something I have been actively pursuing for well over two years now. Instead of perceiving, understanding, and thinking about myself and others as merely human beings or, worse, human things, I have started to think about and understand others and myself as eternal beings first and temporary humans second. This does not entail any disparagement of the human form – because I believe we maintain our human forms when we are resurrected into everlasting life – but it does entail a forthright rejection of our temporary human forms in this mortal world as the be all and end all of our existence.

This ‘shift’ in thinking means I try to view people as beings who possess an inherent divine spark through which they are capable of achieving divinity in life everlasting. This ‘cosmic perspective’ often bleeds into how I relate to others and how I perceive others relating to me, which has led to a deepening appreciation of the relationships I have, have had, and hope to have. These relationships include living people, but also the dead, including my interactions with various remnants and works the dead have left behind in this mortal world.

Shifting the focus onto ‘being’ has also added depth to the concept of spiritual learning. No relationship, encounter, or experience is random or meaningless. I resist the modern urge to view people as means to social, material, or hedonistic ends, and focus instead on them as beings with whom I can interact to deepen spiritual learning. I spend a great deal of time meditating about human beings I would like to meet – not specific people, but rather kinds of people. I have become aware of many relationships of mine that seem to have reached a being-to-being level communication. This is rarely, if ever, stated explicitly, but the implicit understanding within the relationship is impossible to deny.

At the same time, shifting the focus onto ‘being’ has also added depth to the great tragedy of modern despiritualized consciousness. Every day I have experiences and encounters with human beings who deny the reality of others and themselves as beings – beings who simply refuse to budge from their obstinate stance. I also have experiences and relationships with beings who understand themselves as beings, but have actively chosen the side of evil rather than good. These experiences and relationships are few in number for me personally, but they are by far the most instructive as well as the most demanding.

Interestingly enough, my work on perceiving and understanding humans as ‘beings’ rather than mere humans or human things has gradually spilled over into other parts of Creation. Into a world filled with alive and thinking beings, and a world of unseen but equally present alive and thinking beings.

I know some Christians will continue to dismiss what I have noted above as pseudo-spiritual psychology, new age quackery, or artless heresy, but before they do, I humbly ask them to consider something Dr. Charlton noted in the same blog post I referred to earlier:

The cosmic perspective is also the level at which Jesus Christ's teaching is primarily directed. He was not primarily an ethical teacher, nor was his work an ethical work . . . Until we can - this time consciously and by choice - recover that 'cosmic' attitude; it seems that Christ's message and offer will continue to fall on deaf ears; or merely be translated into the feeble and cowardly 'pseudo-faith' we see dominant among the leadership of all the major 'Christian' churches.

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The Birdemic Peck Pushers Tap Into Their Inner Vicky Pollards

12/28/2021

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Those pushing the birdemic and the peck agenda are starting to sound a lot like Vicky Pollard, don't you think?

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