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The In-Sanity and Terrorism Continue
Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, August 13, 2006A bit of an “alternative” direction today ... maybe one that points away from terrorism, fear, panic and the sense that “the world is coming to an end.”
Hello All,
Once again it's morning ... and I've made it to another day. I haven't been kidnapped, maimed or killed by the terrorists, yet. If you've attended to any of the "Headline News" lately you'll realize it's only a matter of time until they all get us ...
I'm begin facetious of course, only if you have been watching, listening to or reading the "NEWS" you wouldn't necessarily think so. The real terrorist plot seems to be the attack on our minds - NOT BY THE "TERRORISTS," THEY DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO DO THIS ALONE - they need to support and collusion of the mass media to do this!
And, the worst thing of all has to do with the fact that they need us to be in collusion with them as well for this to work. For the most part it seems most people I meet are in fact in this game of collusion to warp our minds to the believe that "the world is coming to an end" - simply by agreeing to the input data stream called THE NEWS.
Without droning on let me get to the point - "I'm suggesting that you "unplug" from the "NEWS." Just drop out of the endless stream of negative data and plug into the world-at-large. Simple, go out and experience the world directly ... you'll find out all you need to know.
Want to know about the impact of the newest "terrorist plot" foiled in Britain recently - go and take a flight, you'll find out what has happened as a result directly. The lines at the airport will be a little longer, there will be more tension in the folks around your (especially those who are "plugged in") and other than that generally speaking you're life will be as "normal" as it has ever been.
Now this doesn't mean you should drop out of attending - keep listening, engage in conversations - even tap into the news stream selectively ... select carefully your sources of "NEWS" ... instead of simply watching, listening to or reading whatever the mainstream news media wants you to be paying attention to for their reasons and not yours. Remember this ... the new media resides at the heart of "Big Business" - they have a corporate mission they fulfill by presenting the "news" they do - and very seldom will you find "unbiased" reporting.
Since you won't often (read: NEVER) find "unbiased" reporting, you can choose to know something about the bias of the sources you are watching, listening to and reading. This puts you heads and shoulders above the "corporate mission."
If you've made it this far you realize that I don't usually take this direction in my blogs ... so something must be up, eh? Well I'll tell you what I think ... I think my mission focuses on how people organize their way of being in the world ... and the most basic orientation that you can take will be: Positively Organized" or "Negatively Organized" - get it? You get to choose ... EITHER ... Positively Organized -or- Negatively Organized.
So ultimately ... once again it comes back to your choice ... SO CHOOSE!
This privilege ... to choose ... has tremendous power ... and may be the most powerful and potent force in shaping the future we experience. What we choose now will determine what we experience next. I can make this as simple as possible ... when you choose to notice for the positive, you act towards that direction in your life ... and this becomes the direction you share and engage around with others. The opposite tends to be just as true ... choose in the direction of the negative and you will move in that direction - both on your own and with others.
I'll put this another way ... what you most expect to happen will be what you most empower to happen. I'll say that again ... what you most "EXPECT" to happen will be what you most empower to happen - NOT what you most "WANT" to happen! This information incorporated and acted upon by you can and will change the world if you let it ... how simple can it be ... CHOOSE!
Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Princeton, NJ
PS - You may be noticing that I'm not suggesting "mediation" or "contemplation" as the solution ... instead I'm suggesting that you "BE IN THE WORLD" ... what has been referred to before by me as a "Fourth Way" model - for more about this take a look at: "Paths of Transformation".
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From Prometheus Rising, by Robert Anton WIlson,
Ilya Progogine won a Nobel Prize in !977 “by demonstrating the evolutionary value of instability, by his concept of the ‘dissipative structure’.
“A dissapative structure is highly complex and therefore highly unstable. The more complex it is, the more unstable it is, mathematically, certainly; and the more unstable, the more likely it is to change-to evolve”
“All dissipative structures are teetering, perpetually, between self-destruction and re-organization”, on a higher level of information(coherence).
Progogine’s is the mathematical demonstration ....that many seeming symptoms of ‘breakdown’ are actually harbingers of ‘breakthrough’
Mass media is in constant competition for eyeballs, and are appealing to human nature’s greatest fear, “will I (my family)survive”, in order to pump up ratings, so they can sell advertising at a higher rate.
You never (and never will) hear a news broadcast that tells the story from a rational, evolutionary standpoint. It doesn’t sell soap.
Give’em some intense limbic stimulation and they will stay and listen, and get that neurochemical brain bath that keeps them in fear.
Is the world ‘going to hell in a handbasket’?
It could be, and then again maybe not. If we were focussed on the the humanity message and the need to respect each other as global partners, instead of the fear that our survival is threatened at the gas pump, and the movement of consumer goods, (as the media screams to us), there is a good shot, we will be around to decide what comes next, and if it is to be a positive, or negative outcome for the planet.
Hi Joseph, I took a look at your 4th way model as you suggested in your PS (clicked the link) You have there the polarities of Psychosis (Detatchment) below in the “inner space” and Neurosis (Involvement) above in the “outer space.”
Psychologists have suggested that both Psychosis and Neurosis are not positive states of being, as they are both different states of insanity. Certainly, you are not suggesting that we are to go toward Neurosis, become Neurotic, are you?
James,
I’m suggesting that “over-correction” in either direction creates these kinds of conditions ... in the case of “neurosis” an over-correction towards sensation.
When we override our sense of balance - what we know internally to be true and what we perceive in the environment to be true externally - we will be moving in the direction of one or the other of these “conditions of imbalance.”
BTW - I seldom agree with “working psychotherapists” and less with psychiatrists ... not NEVER, but definitely seldom!
Thanks for the comment,
Joseph
Joseph,
Thanks for this brilliant, brilliant post.
I will not begin to discuss here the rise of terrorism as a consequence of the rise of Western World aggression in politically weaker countries which have valued physical resources. I do not believe I will ever have enough (or true) data to sort out any speck of “truth” in this matter. That’s why I have switched off from TV News and now only watch Disney channel (not much less aggression there, either!)
Looking at the world with pink eye glasses is a fallacy. In my part of the world, anyway! We were flooded with Kosovo orphans. My son shared a “tent” with 3 “sponsored” Iraqui kids at Summer Camp this July. My friend Kalie, in Cyprus, this year went back for the first time to her birth house in Morphou, from which she was kicked out at gun point 30 years ago, when Turkish troops showed up at her door. This year she was allowed to go back, only to find Anatolian immigrants in her mother’s kitchen. How much does a lost childhood cost?
So, it is not about a rosy outlook. It is about still believing in Brave New World. And letting all this information about what is happening in the world today connect me with even more strength and resolve with the “I have a dream…”, despite the bullets, bombs and terrorist schemes!
Agnes
