It is a gorgeous day. Cool though, it is past 11AM and it is just above freezing. We still have two rows of potatoes to dig. Jamie has been doing the digging. I hope to help this week and we will get it done. We still have some Winterizing to do in the chicken coop. Winter could come anytime or not.
Have you ever wondered why folks are so easily manipulated? You must have thought about it during this political season. The advertisements are awful and very naive. Who could believe them? Yet they must shape opinion on some level.
Duality is separation. We are divided up into a myriad different groups. Every person is a member of a family, a gender, a race, a religion or no religion, a political party or view, a profession or occupation, etc. Each group has rules and codes, written or unwritten. Our ideas and perception of the world are formed by these groups. Every group learns a story about themselves. A story that contains values and ideas of their being.
Duality creates a we/other scenario. When stress is applied the other becomes the enemy.
Those who wish to manipulate people, for their own purposes, merely have to make up a story that supports one group and demonizes the other. Successful manipulators make one group good and all opposing groups evil. They are extremely clever and can actually change the meaning of words. Two examples you may be aware of: Cult, according to the dictionary, is a group of people organized around a particular religious view. Some time in the last several years it has become to mean something quite different; something dangerous and sinister. This reinterpretation was apparently made to demonize some fringe groups that the status quo found dangerous. According to the dictionary any religion is a cult, but that is not how we see the word now. The other example is the word, Liberal, which was changed to equate with everything immoral and excessive in our society. This word is gradually regaining its original meaning but is still heavily loaded for some.
Because of duality every group is vulnerable to the idea that they are better than the other group. This judgement easily reduces to good and evil when any threat occurs. You can witness this in political ads, often the insinuations about the opposition are vile.
It is easy to be seduced by these manipulations, because we all want to belong. None of us can stand the separation of being all alone. Any group, whether it be a motorcycle gang or the police, supply a sense of security by their "weeness". There is great security in identifying with a group. Inside the group there is "oneness". The essence of this energy is positive. The exclusion of others, the separation, is the negative.
All through history, the manipulators have used our need to belong and turned it into a negative. They have been able to turn one group of people against another by making up stories that imply, that other groups are a threat. Your group contains the truth and all positive values: the other group is evil. People are so willing to believe that their group is good, pure and decent and, under enough stress, they will believe anything about the other group.
You see how easy it can be to get people to react irrationally. War, slavery, genocide- all the product of duality.
Yes, we have a need to join, to come together, but lets not listen to any more stories that divide us. All of us on Earth are one people. We all belong to each other and our source. Whatever your interpretation of our source is, it need not divide us. As we travel towards oneness, let us not be captured by ideas that we are separate.
The intensity of the light is reminding us of our oneness. The light is Love. Love will always dissolve duality.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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