It is a little warmer this Morning than it has been, 8 degrees F. It is snowing and it is beautiful. Jamie needs to go to her piano lesson and get milk from the Amish; hopefully, driving will be fine.
Weather permitting, we will attend our first Christmas party of the year this evening. We have a wonderful time with this group of people and we are looking forward to it.
I am sitting here without the slightest idea of what to write about. The world is so splendorous outside my window, it is hard to see how there could be pain and strife in the world. The folks in my neighborhood are so loving and friendly it is hard to believe that they could be talked into any violence, including war. Yet history tells us they can be convinced that war can be just. How do folks make that leap in their mind?
How is group A convinced that group B should be annihilated? It seems that people are beginning to see the answer. They are beginning to recognize that fear is induced about the other, then played on until it becomes second nature to believe the other is dangerous or evil.
Waking up to how we have been manipulated into fighting our neighbors around the world is one thing. How else have we been manipulated? Billions and billions of dollars are spent attempting to get us to buy what we probably would be better off without. Fear in some subtle form underlies almost all advertising. With drugs and other medicines it is fear of risking your health. With automobiles, furnishings, appliances it is fear that you will lose status if you don't have the latest.
We are made to be aware of our relative worth to an ego-centered world and advertisers play on that consciousness. Are we attractive enough? Do we have the right job? Are we sexy? Are we too sexy? Do we have enough money? Do our neighbors look down on us? Do we get enough exercise? Are we eating right? Are we getting enough sleep? Are we too fat? Too skinny? Whatever our fear and insecurity is, some advertiser is trying to exploit that aspect of us to make money.
Think about that. Think about how our thoughts and beliefs are inculcated to make somebody money. Then, if corporations do this to make money, what are people in power willing to do to maintain their control? What kind of distortions are governments, religions and other institutions willing to foment in order to keep us under control? How have our ideas and thoughts of the world been altered to maintain people in power?
At the base, we know that the solution is to Love. Love doesn't allow fear. Love undercuts all this manipulation. The old world is waning. The forces that maintained the old world are losing control. How can we hasten the demise of the old world and help the new world of Love emerge?
We have to accept something that may be difficult for some. We can't trust what we believe. The way we look at the world has been manipulated by those who want to make money from our existence and keep us under control. Accept the fact that we know nothing.
Sure we know the basics of bodily survival; if you touch a hot stove you will get burnt etc. But our beliefs about who we are, our purpose, our reason for being have been largely shaped by those in control.
We can use a simple exercise. Look at what we believe. Is it Love. Love will not limit anybodies freedom, ours or theirs. Love contains no judgement. If what we believe is not love, it cannot be true. We must be scrupulous. We have been convinced of much nonsense. Let us start over; look at the world with love. That is all there is.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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