I asked my ladyfriend in LA to simply turn off the tube for 3 days. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. She was shocked. Her brows rose. "No television? For three DAYS?"
That technique is good for 'breaking the beam'. In this case the beam of fear, which is not big here in Aust as yet, although it has been on the 'boat people' thing that happened some years ago - madness and fear, all pumped for political reasons. Which I should add is not a good tool in political theory - it is a very short term effect, after which people's natural qualities turn against those who employ such tactics, as happened recently in India.
But it is not a good technique for us who 'should' have some degree of freedom from such things. For us, it is imperative we can
balance the forces. If you have a problem with talking too much socially, it is easy to just say nothing - much more difficult to say just the right amount. If you have a problem with eating, it is easy to just stop, and fast, like I do every week - no prizes for saying, no, no food today. Much more difficult to eat only the right amount, and the right foods. Much more difficult to find and hold
balance.
But to demonstrate to someone how they have become ensnared, total removal from the source is the best advice, as it does indeed break the beam, and for some, that is the most critical task.
The economic crisis is a virus of fear.
Lets be clear here - this crisis is caused not by fear, but by greed. These two are married. All depressions have a real cause, and in this case it was the huge property market in USA - plus the things which went into causing that market to show its exposed underbelly. Causes never stop - the more you search the more you find. But in this as with other cases, the element was greed. That amount of greed has purchased the equal amount of fear.
But make no mistake, economic depressions are caused by fear. A downturn in the economy is natural, but sometimes it goes beyond a critical threshold, and that threshold is called the rupture of trust. Past this point, fear generates fear, and that constitutes 99.9% of how a depression works. All the efforts of controlled systemic influences is directed towards re-establishing confidence.
But fear does more - not only does it incapacitate an economy, it also incapacitates us individually. Renders us victims. And low and behold, who feeds off anxiety? You have been told, but no one ever wants to admit it, because that which feeds also has a deeply vested interest in remaining hidden.
This is a dairy farm - humanity - which periodically needs a mass milking by its mind-owners. You can give them your milk if you want, but there is no way they are getting mine!
What to do? - take QT's advice, reject fear. Shut off completely if necessary, to regain a purchase on sanity. Then seek the sanity of knowing how to avoid danger while remaining 'collected'. Just think about how you cross a road - do you panic at the thought of being run over? Perhaps you did at first when very young. But now, you simply look carefully both ways, then step forth - based on knowledge instead of anxiety.
Yet fear has its usefulness. It can awaken people out of their ignorant slumber - their belief in 'immortality', their belief that surprises never happen, that the world will always be as they have known it. A dash of fear makes for a good dancer.
Be afraid, be very very afraid, not that you will lose your position and possession, not that you will lose your children and your own life, but that you will live this opportunity and not catch the star which is your birthright. (My God! Why can't people see!)
CC asked DJ, is his Ally also controlled folly? No was the response, because he could not see through his Ally.
