the Institute of Unlearning, editorial 24

The great voice of modern out-of-body pioneers, Robert Monroe, used to teach those who sought the OBE (out-of-body experience) an affirmation which began with the sentence, “I am more than my physical body.” As my own personal unlearning journey proceeds, the understanding imparted in that affirmation takes on deeper and deeper relevance. Confined to the perception that Who We Are ends at our skin, many humans continue to flounder in an earth-bound existence replete with struggle and powerlessness. It is clear that almost all of us are dummies of one kind or another.

Before your ego takes offense to what was just written, first look at the definition for this rather insightful word. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word “dummy” has this as one of its meanings;

Dummy: one seeming to act independently but in reality controlled by another.

It is hard for most people to imagine themselves as dummies, especially since we espouse to live in a world that promotes freedom and individuality. Yet this is the exact nature of the con that allows the few to rule the many. As long as we seem free, it is quite easy to be manipulated into doing the will of another.

This observation is easily verified by those studying the actions of the United States throughout its history. The nation with the most “freedom” has economically and violently subdued most of the world since its constitutional birth only a short 214 years ago, becoming the world's first, and now only, superpower. The rapid amalgamation of power has garnered the concern and sometimes hatred of many across the globe despite the seemingly good-natured ends to which this power claims to be exercised in favor of. Delusional U.S. citizens are dumbfounded by this conundrum.

While Europeans may consider themselves more astute in worldly affairs than Americans, they are no less the dummies for it. Having broken the shackles of oppressive monarchies in the 19th century, many Europeans now consider themselves free as well. Few realize that protesting the US aggressions in the Middle East will only serve to empower the legitimacy of the United Nations, which itself is another tool in the Elite's control of the planet. The creeping authority of the European Union also signals the further removal of representation from the local vote.

Here is where the unlearner must begin to look beyond the physical events per se and try to discern the invisible signs and signals of our collective and individual experiences. Failing to do this will leave us screaming at the apparent injustice of one global event after another, when the actual truth of the matter seems to be that the “universe” or any other larger power you feel is in control, really couldn't give a rat's ass as to what happens on this planet.

Time and again we as a power species have used our extraordinary abilities to destroy each other so that the few can live in the lap of luxury at the expense of the many. Even the high minded ideals put forth by modern democracies have done little to change the nature of this game. All that democracy has done is to allow us to kid ourselves that we are somehow better off than past forms of controlling societies. In actuality, the control is still there but is now ingeniously hidden from the programmed eye.

Those on my mailing list know that I am writing this editorial from a secluded ranch in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where I am also completing my first book, The American Messiah. I mention this little trivia only because it serves to illustrate the point I am making about dummies. Los Alamos is a city that has the highest concentration of PhDs of anywhere in the world. The super majority of those minds have been bent on creating weapons of mass destruction and control since they first gifted the world with the atom bomb nearly 60 years ago. Here we have another example of supposedly free humans deciding to use their extraordinary abilities to aid the suppression of their brethren in other places throughout the globe.

What the dummy often fails to inquire for himself is the one question that could supposedly set him free; WHY? The potential power of this question is lost if it is focused on the external events being perceived with the five physical senses. Fixated on the unseen, the question has the ability to introduce the questioner to the TRUE architect of one's life; the Higher Self.

The answers you receive to these questions will have their greatest value only to you. Why you have decided to place your powerful self on a planet seemingly isolated from other intelligent life in the universe; where a control structure exists to prevent you from realizing those powers; only you can tell.

One thing is certain; the present situation will not change on this planet until one admits that they are a dummy. Denial is the first reaction to any great truth when someone has been living in a matrix of illusions. But if one is willing to accept their apparently free condition as false, then the strings of control that have been guiding you will begin to become detectable and visible. At that moment, the dialogue can begin as to why your life has taken the road it has. You may even gain the ability to influence the part of you that has been “pulling the strings”. In the very least, you will have an understanding of yourself that has been hidden from you since your birth. The power of that understanding can change your life in an instant; empowering you to craft a life on your terms. No matter what that life might look like, isn't that a fun reason for being here?