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Trying To Learn All The Details Of The Global Totalitarian Agenda Provides No Great Advantage

7/3/2020

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Most people are still utterly oblivious of the successful totalitarian takeover that took place at the height of the birdemic hysteria in March and April of this year. Nevertheless, a small but growing number of people have sensed or are beginning to sense the stench of authoritarian permanence emanating from what were initially advertised as strictly temporary circumstances and measures. Becoming aware of the tyrannical coup is an unpleasant experience. I imagine many who have become cognizant of the global autocracy now ruling the world wish they had remained mired in ignorant bliss. 

In all fairness, I can't say I blame them, but we are designed to spend our mortal lives experiencing and learning, not pining for states of inexperience and unintelligence. In this sense, becoming aware of something like the recently installed global dictatorship should be considered a blessing rather than a curse because this awareness presents a massive opportunity for learning. Although learning is often difficult and occasionally unpleasant, it is vitally important, especially from a spiritual perspective. Once we have understood the central role of spiritual learning in mortal life, it is only natural to want to acquire all the information we can digest in an effort to facilitate the learning.

​This holds particularly true for events like the recent ascendancy of global authoritarianism. An impulse to know everything we can about it flares up within us. We spend hours scouring the internet for the latest news and views. We entertain elaborate and complex conspiracy matrices professing to connect all the dots in the global web of evil. We commit to chasing the latest opinions and observations splattered across the soggy soil of social media. We compare notes with kindred spirits as we attempt to unravel the meaning behind it all. We endlessly search for those elusive but vital details that will provide us with a comprehensive understanding of exactly what is happening and how things will eventually unfold. All of this can certainly be considered a part of the learning process, and some of it can actually provide lucid insights into our current predicament, but most of this kind of learning is not really learning at all. Much of it is unessential and, whether we care to admit it or not,  superfluous and counterproductive.

To begin with, it is impossible to become well-versed in the minutiae of what is transpiring at the moment. The amount of information is overwhelming. Much of it is questionable and dubious. A great deal is purposefully misleading. A great deal more comprises outright lies. On top of that, many of the specifics are nothing more than trivialities. Nonetheless, some of the information is true and can provide real insights. On the other hand, not all information that is true is necessarily insightful. A few days of intensive research in the quest to become informed about the machinations of our totalitarian overlords are enough to reveal that the Establishment and the System it controls are encoded in convoluted complexity that has been purposively crafted to confound. After a while, we begin to understand that most of the active players that are hardwired into the System barely know the details either. That much is kept from them; that most are in the dark and act by following the leader without any real concept of who the leader truly is.

All the same, for the sake of argument let's pretend you managed to get your hands on the one and only copy of evil's detailed manifesto to rule the world. The volume contains all the names, organizations, blueprints, schedules, schematics, flow charts, diagrams, and specifics concerning the Establishment's plans for the world for the next fifty years. What would you do with this information? Would you make this information known to the world? If so, how? Who would believe you? How would the information help you personally? Would you use it to find a way to beat the Establishment? Or would you use it merely to get you and your loved ones out of harm's way? How could you even be sure the manifesto was authentic?

Yes, I'm belaboring the point, but I am belaboring it in an effort to build up to a larger point, which is this - we cannot know all the details of our current circumstances and, more importantly, we shouldn't strive to learn them all. This comes off sounding counterintuitive in light of what has been said about the importance of learning in mortal life, but it begins to make sense if we stop and ask ourselves what kind of learning matters after we become aware of the manifestation of something like a totalitarian coup.

The examples I have listed above are primarily external, information-based means learning. Although valid and necessary at times, this form of learning can also be intrusive and inconsequential to spiritual learning. It's worth remembering that most of these external, information-based resources are disseminated by the Establishment itself. As such, the majority of what we encounter serves a purpose that is diametrically opposed to our own individual purpose in life, especially if we take what we encounter at face value. Yet reading between the lines and decoding the Establishment's endless avalanche of information in an effort to find the truth also has its limits. Independent sources often supply good and useful information, but some of it is just as pointless and unreliable as the material the Establishment makes public. 

When we become aware of events like the recent totalitarian coup, we are often compelled to find out all we can about it, mostly from external sources, because we are under the impression that this effort to understand is an essential part of our learning in our mortal lives. Though this kind of learning has some benefits, it is not essential.

In other words, knowing all the details provides us with no great advantage because very few of the details we discover are likely to provide anything meaningful to the particulars of our own individual circumstances and our own individual spiritual learning and development. Being aware of the evil inherent in the recent global totalitarian takeover and being able to identify the motivations behind the evil are enough.

Once we have achieved this, we should turn our attention inward and focus on the minutiae of our own individual lives. More importantly, we should allow our awareness of evil to intuitively filter out the useful from the useless and allow it guide us to the kinds of external information that might prove meaningful and useful to our own particular circumstances within the larger framework of the totalitarian system. Most importantly, we should put our trust in faith in God and the Holy Spirit, allow ourselves to proceed on a need to know basis, and keep our channels of communication open to Divine communication. At the same time,  we should match this communication with our own concerted efforts at creative, intuitive thinking. Eventually, the external details we need to know will emerge, and with them, all the advantage we require.

Note added: I am not suggesting external information-based resources be avoided or details be ignored, but rather that these resources be vigorously sieved through the filters of our own intuitive and spiritual learning and knowing. As is the case with most things in life, being informed is far better than being uninformed. At the same time, a relentless pursuit of details, details, details coupled with a steady diet based exclusively on external information could lead to a state of being vastly over-informed - a state in which we allow external information-based materials to drown out or overwhelm our own intuitive and spiritual faculties to know and understand. This could confuse priorities and dull discernment and lead us into a state where the overabundance of information actually makes us misinformed about what is most important in our mortal lives. 
11 Comments
Andrew
7/4/2020 05:08:17

Thank you, This is a fault of mine. I’ve noticed being too involved with the workings of evil, or evil things being done leaves me feeling ill and hasn’t been good for my spiritual growth. Too much information can actually lead to worse decisions.

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Francis Berger
7/4/2020 06:33:08

@ Andrew - It happens to me all the time, but I am able to catch myself much more effectively than I was in the past. You draw attention to a key point when you mention being too involved with the workings of evil.

That's it! It's important and necessary to take note of evil, understand the important points for spiritual understanding and growth; but spending hours every day ruminating over evil's plots and schemes at the expense of our spiritual growth, well that's another thing entirely.

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Francis Berger
7/4/2020 06:59:52

@ Andrew - One thing that works for me is remembering motivation. I ask myself two questions before engaging with any piece of external information.

1. What are the possible motivations of the person who prepared it?
2. What are my motivations for wanting to read it/engage with it?

This tends to clarify things for me personally and helps me distinguish between what is meaningful and what is merely distraction.

Luke
7/4/2020 05:09:34

It's difficult, because I hear something that I'm sure is a lie and I have an itch to go find out why it is a lie. Partly, because I am worried that the lie will remain in memory and become part of my life. But as you point out, the lie and the effort spent to disprove it is simply a distraction I need to overcome.

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Francis Berger
7/4/2020 06:44:49

@ Luke - It all comes down to personal discernment. If you feel you must uncover the lie because you believe it will help you learn and move forward spiritually, by all means uncover it. But we must keep in mind that many of the lies as blatantly self-evident. In other words, they don't really need to be proved for us to recognize them as lies. This is where intuition comes in. If our intuition is working properly, it should be able to cut through most lies quite effortlessly.

I have to keep reminding myself that much of what I encounter is nothing more than bait meant to hook me and reel me toward a place I may not really want to go.

Some of the information we encounter will be vital and necessary, but much of it is merely distraction. We must remember to distinguish one from the other (having said that, what might be vital and necessary for you individually might prove to be a distraction for me. We are all in the same circumstances, but our personal situations in all of this differ -which is as it should be).

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Francis Berger
7/4/2020 06:53:50

@ Luke - One more quick point. A good example of something I had to deal with recently.

I encountered an article claiming the mass rioting and civil unrest in the US and elsewhere has actually reduced the rate of birdemic infections around the world.

I was tempted to read into it before I realized all I would be doing is wasting my time unpackaging a series of lies neatly wrapped in several layers of additional lies. This in itself is learning - and I believe I ended up learning more by not reading the article than I ever could have learned by reading it.

Ingemar
7/4/2020 07:51:58

Francis,

How serendipitous I read this post when I did. My priest assigned a penance of "no recreational internet this three day weekend" and it lifted a load. (Let's leave aside the fact I failed that penance by reading this excellent post).

"Knowing" won't add an inch to my height nor will it make the remorseless criminals suddenly grow a scruple. At best, it can make us plot a course from where we are now to where we will be months from now. Given how evil the times are this second, the only thing we can do is resist the evil affecting our soul, even if it costs the body.

Detachments are the surest protection and the less dependent you are on the System, the easier it will be to resist Them. Cutting off social media and traveling without a phone are great baby steps; prepping is as well. Yet these are delaying tactics at best since the enemy commands hundreds of thousands more resources than the ordinary person.

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Francis Berger
7/4/2020 22:35:26

Thanks, Ingemar - but now you have pulled me into sin by breaking your penance. :)

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James
7/5/2020 18:05:17

In some sense I think that by immersing myself in this 'fog' of information, I risk making it harder to perceive what is actually true, but I also think that, to prepare myself, I need to be aware of what might be being planned and what options I might have.

A difficulty I have (which I think I share with many people) is thinking spiritually. The west is perhaps now the most materialistic civilisation to have ever existed. The meaning of the word "spiritual" is not clear to me, and I have more often encountered it in use by people who wanted to distinguish themselves from the "religious", i.e. "old-fashioned" church-goers. I think it is a kind of negative definition - it realises there is something wrong with materialism and rejects it - but lacks a more positive definition. My reading has more often been an encounter - to use the zen phrase - with the "finger pointing at the moon" rather than the moon.

Thank you for your wonderful post.

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Francis Berger
7/5/2020 20:08:13

@ James - Thanks for the comment. What you have stated in your first paragraph is essentially my view as well.

As for word spiritual, I get your point. It has become somewhat of a blanket word, pregnant with connotations. It has also been hijacked and bled dry to a certain degree by new agey types. As such, individual interpretations and definitions tend to vary. Of course, the same could be said about a simple, basic word like 'good.' It's unclear. What does it mean? Can it have a negative definition, etc.

Semantic considerations aside, when I use the word spiritual I am referring specifically to metaphysics - the fundamental nature of reality, which for me resides in Christianity. Not old-fashioned, mostly passive Churchianity; not liberal/leftist hippy-dippy christianity (with a small c); not Zen-yoga aerobics; and certainly not healing crystals or some other such thing. When I use the word spirituality, I am strictly referring to the positive Christian definition.

Thinking spiritually (or religiously) is difficult. I struggle, too. One thing that has helped me is to invite the Holy Spirit to become a part of and help guide my thinking (hence, the positive definition of spiritual).

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Andrew
7/6/2020 01:49:43


Knowing what I do now about the nature of evil, more than I wanted, I think our ancestor's fairytales used to warn our children were very right.

I also wonder if our Lord's saying to be like little children could also be like this, to avoid and not get intertwined in the machinations and plots of evil.

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