the Institute of Unlearning, editorial 29

The power in the unlearning process is found in its ability to challenge and destroy some of the most cherished concepts that humans hold dear. It is our thoughts about each other and the world that give our collective reality its shape. If you want to change the collective reality, and there are plenty of good reasons to want to change the current one, then the thoughts that support our current world must be brought down like the Berlin Wall. One of the more sinister thoughts keeping humans in a depowered state is belief that we are all created equal.

This belief is widely accepted because of similarities in our physical creation. We all appear to enter the earth in roughly the same fashion. A male and female mate, there is a period of gestation in the female's womb, after which we are spit out into the world to soon fend for ourselves. If inequality exists in the world, proponents of this belief argue, it does so because many of us have chosen not to exercise our equally apportioned powers.

We can begin to deconstruct this belief in the very ground in which it started. Physically, we are not all created equally. Some are born through caesarian section, others fertilized in a test tube, others cloned, and many more born premature or past due. Quite a few humans are born with physical defects. Some are born women and other men. Many of us differ in physical stature and prowess. Staying on the physical level but moving to a different aspect, we can see that not all children are born into the world with equal resources at their disposal. Untold millions will be and have been born into poverty and starvation. Even in affluent countries, humans manifesting into the flesh can not be guaranteed they will at least have two loving parents to watch over them.

Some will say that the “created equal” phrase is merely a noble aspiration to treat all people fairly under the law. Lady Justice holds the scale with her breast exposed (at least until Ashcroft got through with her) but her eyes blinded. Is this to indicate she is a whore available to the highest bidder? Experience would seem to say so. Only the naīve can still pretend that justice is administered fairly in this country and throughout the world. We are constant witnesses to the wealthy and powerful flouting the law to their whims and fancies while those without the connections and resources are crushed by the weight of our statutes.

Many of you get the point already. Others who haven't will insist that the “created equal” philosophy really means that we were all created by the same god. This is a porous argument because human beings throughout history have not been able to agree on who this god is. Many, especially those in positions of power, worship the "devil" or an alien race as their god. Some worship the earth as god. Also stepping into this generic title have been mythical characters who never wore a human body at all like Zeus and Jesus. The belief of god creating mankind must be particularly troubling to atheists, who are rendered nothing more than the bastard children of the universe by such thinking.

Human beings were indeed created. The raw elements of nature on this planet seem to have been mixed together by otherworldly genetic scientists for widely possible reasons. The Hebrew god is recorded to have said, "Let us make man in our image." This biblical deity, popularly known as Yahweh, also possesses the name Elohim, which is a plural noun. While many explain away this discrepancy as the transition between polytheistic and monotheistic understandings, they do so against the wealth of knowledge about ancient cultures. Our human history is littered with thousands of accounts of being visited by “star beings”. The advanced knowledge demonstrated by these ancient cultures is an embarrassing anomaly to our current modern and scientific worldviews. These early accounts must be revisited with new minds that do not judge them as simple myths.

If anything were truly a myth, it is the belief that we are created equal. Instead of focusing on our physical similarities and so-called divine origins, we would do better to focus on what we define as “created”. It is this important process that shapes our perception of the world. Creation in human terms does not end with physical birth, it begins.

Scientific research has documented that a human baby is born with the capacity to speak over 600 languages. Other human visionaries suggest we are born with great intuitive powers as well. During the first 5-6 years of life, humans spend the majority of their time in a state of consciousness below the normal “waking” one. At this time, we are subjected to all kinds of psychological bombardment which have tremendous power to shape the courses of our lives, whether we are aware of them or not.

This critical phase of creation is very unequal if we objectively observe the reality of our day. As a world society, we tend to put the most resources into “higher” education, which by current standards, does not begin until a person is roughly in their late teen years. We can now understand why higher education has failed to produce the streams of enlightenment to better our human condition on this planet; we are reaching people too late in their development. By the time one reaches university level, much of her innate potential has been destroyed and his worldview has been consigned to the narrow perspective created with "educational" blinders.

If you don't understand by now that this process is an intentional one, you still have much unlearning to do. The current paradigm of human creation serves to depower the masses so they can easily be controlled by the few. The “few” are not created in the same manner in which the common person is. It is not foolish to say that we are all “bred” to play our roles.

Some of you may argue still that despite the challenges of our creation, many rise from less than ideal circumstances to become examples of true admiration. And many who are raised with all the desired resources at their disposal live absolutely miserable lives. Surely this hints at something equally distributed in all of us? If one can surmount the obstacles of human existence, can't we all? If even the mighty can fall, can't we all? While it would be easy to give the desired “yes” answer to these questions, one must not submit to the mind control so easily. In doing so, one would be forgetting very important knowledge about the self and the human experience.

That knowledge pertains to our non-physical nature, which is indeed the greater part of who we are. The physical aspect of ourselves will one day pass away, while the consciousness that created our form shall not. By engaging in dialogue with our greater nature, we come to the understanding that we exist in all times of history, collecting a myriad of experiences for our “soul's” understanding. In some lives, we may be experiencing the pinnacles of power and wealth and in others we may be swimming with the so-called “dregs” of society. Each life, many of them experienced as different sexes and races, has the opportunity to reveal a particular aspect about the human experience. After several thousand experiences, all occurring simultaneously, our higher selves assimilate the knowledge for their own consciousness evolution. We are after all, more than human.

These higher selves are as individuated as you or I and are not equal in their experiences, understandings, or intentions for living. It is no wonder then that inequality is so pervasive on this earth. By accepting this as our higher self's desired reality, we can begin to transcend it.

What does that mean? It means that instead of trying to fit all of human society into ever increasing norms based on control, we can begin to create a world where we have the true freedom to pursue our happiness. By accepting the belief that we are created equal, we have been marching ourselves into a world of conformity where no one's experience is vastly different than another's. Those who make the decision to stand out and be themselves have always done so at great risk to their physical existence.

By allowing ourselves to be unequal, we give ourselves permission to be excellent rather than normal. In concrete terms, this means that we as a human society would dedicate ourselves and our resources to construct an optimal creation phase of human existence. We would concentrate on enhancing the powers we are born with instead of dumbing them down through our current indoctrination procedures. We would provide all children the world over with more than adequate food, clothing and shelter and spare no expense on what would finally be seen as true education.

Imagine what the world would be like if we all began our lives under such circumstances. I sincerely doubt that we would think the destruction of our fellow man was entertaining or politically expedient as our current “advanced” civilization does today. Whether this vision comes to manifest or not will be largely determined by the number of higher selves willing to play a different game. Are you one of them?