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28 September 2005
Part One
Humans are destined to rise to the level of cosmic consciousness. Each of us is destined to actualize the level of the “Meta-Human.”
This Ascent from the present “embryonic” state cannot, however, be activated by will, desire, or any other conscious force, for it comes as a necessary predicate to human organic existence and is circumscribed by the inviolate laws of nature.
Its impulse lies seed-like within the deepest strata of the Being.
We cannot force the lotus to grow
against its true nature, nor can we force the human consciousness to grow in
one specific direction, at one particular rate. Attempted intervention and
control of this kind results only in confusion, calamity and ruin.
It is, in fact, due to subtle impediments occluding its dynamic movement. Until these impediments are removed, all the secondary incentives, strategies or preoccupations in the world are not going to avail it.
During the sixties, for instance, the prevailing mood among the sensitive was that western man was approaching the denouement of his moral and spiritual evolution.
Drugs and drug-taking were, at that time, even considered a means to this end. Yet, in spite of such diversions into pseudo-shamanism, despite the good intentions, the healthy mass rebellion, fine catch-phrases, and the “do or die” conviction of so many intellectuals and counter-cultural pundits, mankind still finds itself in a worse state, morally and spiritually, than it was just twenty or so years ago.
Today, we find that the reactive excursion into the fields and philosophy of technology may be for the most part, as predicted, yet another escape, yet another dead-end. Technology as we see it today, for all its utilitarian benefits, is hardly bringing people together, hardly fostering social cohesion. Amongst the youth the digital “revolution” merely reinforces estrangement and the “masculine” modes of expression and cognition.
This does not mean that it has to go, for the technology behind
the internet, for instance, is a valuable "flaming sword" to be used by the
forces of "Light" in the meta-battle that is taking place on this planet and
whose end-game is definitely in sight.
However, little do we still know about the thinking of the ancients. We know very little about the way they communicated amongst themselves, and hoped to communicate to others that they knew would be coming after. We know that the ancients did have so much to communicate to their descendents. The testimony in stone, as well as in painting, music, folklore, etc., is all there to see and inspire.
But the twentieth century is possibly the worst vantage point for looking back into antiquity.
The intellectual vanity of our times distorts rather than clarifies the vision of the past. We must not forget that the ancestors were technologically advanced, and obviously considerably more-so than we are today; for it took a sublime technology to construct the Giza Pyramid and to map the heavens.
Along with the technology of the ancients was the reliance on, and understanding of, great metaphysical principles. In the ancient world magic and science were never separate. The great megalithic sites were designed and constructed by theologically advanced races, by semi-enlightened priests and priestesses, not by rich technocrats and atheistic scientists.
These great cyclopean treasures of marble, granite and
sandstone are temples and shrines to human beings who intuited no separation
between macrocosmic and microcosmic phenomena.
They were more concerned with symbols, colors, rhythms, numbers, geometry and with dance and music. The greatest of riches possessed by ancestral humankind was the ability to convey the most abstract philosophical concepts via composite symbols. As this writer has detailed elsewhere, no modern form of constructive intellection could even have come into being without these bequeathments.
The success and skill of the ancestors in figurative and iconic communication alone lays to rest the idea that they were superstitious primitives. Now today it is unacceptable that throughout western society, where all manner of symbols proliferate, there is massive “symbol illiteracy.”
Everything else, it seems, is prioritized. So, in light of this we do not feel redundant in asking how the edifice of the personal intellect may be established and oriented correctly when the very foundations are weak or misaligned?
If we do not own our own thoughts we cannot own our own actions. It follows that someone else will.
Without inheriting and absorbing the gnosis of symbolism the individual intellectual apparatus can never move toward the pretension of wisdom.
As J. Krishnamurti, Carl Gustav Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have warned, it is simply not possible.
And as Brian Wilson Keys, Vance Packard, Jane Kilbourne and others have detailed, the psyche of entire generations can be contaminated by the subversive use of symbols.
Some have asked why there are no “Beethoven’s” or “Blakes” today.
The reason is obviously because we are not, for the most part, involved in cultivating the kind of holistic mentation that brings the conscious mind into harmonious dialogue with the other parts of Being. As Wilhelm Reich has pointed out we are not even experiencing integration of the somatic level let alone the noetic. The authority structures of the day are doing everything possible to make sure that the psychic scission is augmented.
A look at the preoccupations and mores of today’s teen-culture is enough evidence of this tragedy, for those with the eyes to see. Today, the youth consider it chic to dress from head to foot in corporate logos with no idea what they really mean with most parents having no clue as to why the delinquency and deterioration is occurring.
Teen delinquency began as Madison Avenue publicists and advertising agents gained control over the subconscious of the western child, over the strata of awareness that has long ceased to be nurtured by the sacred.
Thanks to our social and educational institutions symbol, illiteracy has been created and reinforced, for we repeat, it does not occur naturally and this most dangerous development in our personal and collective evolution, the lack of both telestic ritual and symbol literacy is met with by a frightening indifference from those in the position to do something about it.
We almost seem programmed to move from exclusively private aspirations and it is, for the most part, unthinkable to us that the mediocre activities and escapes of our lives can be laid completely aside in favor of the revivification of the long lost symbol literacy that really bestows lucidity and meaning to the biographical and collective or biological life.
This incredible mediocrity of all we do, though cleverly disguised by the media’s barrage of fantasy and the millions of dollars that are thrown into passé distractions, is the symptom of each person living in forgetfulness of their own inner being.
Centuries of religion, philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis, of scientific and medical “cures” have done little to truly enrich mankind. They have, for the most part, served only to maintain the semblance of abnormality that passes for normality in societies that are rapidly heading for their own cultural and perhaps even physical immolation.
As Alfred North Whitehead lamented:
We inhabit a Universe that no amount of scientific exploration is ever going to fully comprehend.
This much has been scientifically and mathematically proven. As the knowledge of left-hemisphere cognition increases so does the amount of human ignorance. Mathematical equations have even been found which delineate this. And need we add that the very means of gaining scientific knowledge is often profoundly uneconomical and destructive.
The physical and applied sciences that are meant to be, and pose as being, impartial and objective are constantly found to be subservient to the control of power monopolies, corporations and even secretive governmental ”think-tanks” which make sure that the research follows their often perfidious agendas. Luckily, the metaphysical sciences and arts are, comparatively, not yet so underwritten.
It is obvious that if we are really to apprehend the great underlying truths, the metaphysical and occult sciences are the most attractive means to do so. It is for this reason that the “New Age” movement, though retarded by its initial fallacies and fantasies, came into being. Once it becomes proactive and disciplined, instead of reactive and chaotic, as it is succeeding to become, discoveries of real importance to all on the planet will be forthcoming and transmittable.
These truths will
be universal and not reserved to one’s class or financial and intellectual
status.
Dream is the closest most of us come to the reservoir of ancestral knowledge and knowing, to that “Akashic Record” which lies within the unconscious. and on a biologically cellular level.
When we finally
manage to
consciously utilize our Right-Brain capacities, we will, like the
ancients, be able to see reality as it is, and end the "subject versus
object" dichotomy, which holds us from a true and direct rapport with life.
Their ideas of deity, and of the mysteries of being and universe, would not find comparison in today’s “Age of Entertainment,” or as Gore Vidal terms it "The Age of Amnesia."
However, one thing that can still be gleaned and embraced from the days of the high cultures is the symbolic, iconic dimension of expression, which ultimately leads us individually and collectively back to psychic integration. The western world’s collective psychic profile is patently autistic and narcissistic, as any with the psychological background can see.
We are technologically advanced and spend much time congratulating ourselves because of it.
Nowadays there is even talk of “man created man” as the genetic sciences and approach become vogue. Science prides itself on its incessant search for perfection, the implication being that man is not already perfect.
However, the contrary is true. Man is perfect, just as he is, until he becomes programmed to believe otherwise.
We cannot hear the voice within that tells us of our own perfection due to the clamor of the world which violates and numbs the senses, and which grows ever more obnoxious and all-pervasive as time goes by.
We cannot see perfection in anything or anyone while our own thoughts and intelligence is poisoned with doubt and self-abnegation. We no longer recognize the utter perfection of nature while we exist in a state of inner disorder.
The man riddled with inner anxiety, jealousy and sadism is in no position to heal the world.
As the numerology of the Tarot's Major Arcana reveals, the Twenty-First Century is the time when the human race comes full circle.
And endings invite new beginnings. In this new century the teachers will be those who have understood the mystery of themselves, as well as the mysteries of science and nature. They will be revealers rather than deceivers and inner-directed individuals rather than controlled and repressed role-players. They will be those who can provide healthy, functional solutions to the problems that have beset their brothers and sisters personally and collectively.
These solutions will be rooted in the wisdom of the ancients and will afford us the ability to make those necessary quantum leaps toward authenticity of life and performance. The Twenty-First Century may also be a time when history, as we know and knew it, comes to an end. Indeed, the world around us is changing faster than ever. Some even think that time is "speeding up."
As existentialist psychiatrist R. D. Laing wrote:
It is, lamentably, somewhat naive to expect the sciences to be governed by Gnostic visionaries, rather than anti-human technocracies of power.
It is also unwise to expect those still addicted to, and hungering for, power and wealth to be concerned with the planet's overall welfare, or for psychotic corporations to cater to the spiritual needs of the under-classes they seek to enslave and dehumanize.
However, it is still a good policy to expect positive changes ahead, especially on the grass-roots level, and to expect man to discover within himself powers and abilities that have long been dormant. Mankind can always be certain to surprise itself. In any case, the door to social justice is always unlocked, and we all hold the key. The door to self-realization is, likewise, always ajar, for all the heedless passers-by.
Some willingly enter in from the chaotic and odorous "market-place" of the world. Others become their own "Pharisees."
They fear
to enter themselves, and use all manner of guile to prevent others from
entering therein.
The man who understands the sanctity and value of the NOW, wastes no time, not even a moment, worrying about tomorrow's world, or the quest for "perfection." For the authentic self, tomorrow does not exist, and Man is already perfect. The higher Guides of such a man are continuously teaching and caring for his welfare. They teach quietly by symbol and intimation, by dream and vision.
The man who
listens and heeds his numinous Guides, is instructed in the Art of Life, not
just the mechanics of it. His life becomes a living mandala of many petals
and colors, one that cannot be erased by time or death.
Due to chronic symbol illiteracy we tend to be unaware of a great poison in our midst, something that has a profound effect, negatively, on our conscious and unconscious selves.
This is the use of subliminal persuasion in media and advertising.
This persuasion constitutes nothing less than a psychic dictatorship.
It involves the conscious subversive manipulation, and public purveyance, of words, images, numbers, colors, rhythms and symbols which are then directed, via the ubiquitous media oracles, toward the limbic areas of the human brain.
The artifice of the Persuaders produces an elaborate and insidious cryptic language specifically designed to stimulate fantasy versus reality dichotomy, compulsive urges of the lower appetites, and a plethora of mundane and dissonant drives which conflict with an individual's higher conscious nature and intentions.
Constant exposure to such subliminal content serves to undermine the healthy drives. It subverts the natural moral sensibility and ultimately arrests human spiritual maturation.
The devastating effects of such subversion on our selves, and on our children, has rarely been explored to any great depth and has yet to be recognized by the public at large who, being victims of chronic “symbol illiteracy” are un-shielded against the constant barrage of subliminal information entering their minds causing, over time, a nightmare list of physical and psychic disorders.
There can be, in the mind of this author, no question of positive social change, no question of either national or global healing until human beings, particularly those in the western world, become lucidly cognizant and profoundly educated concerning the power of symbols, not only as transcendental portals, or mathematical devices, but as weapons in the hands of plutocratic elites, with occult agendas, laboring to arrest the mental, emotional, and spiritual maturation of the under-classes.
The alarming existential chaos which the young presently endure, though mostly deplored and ignored, serves as a direct indictment to the existence of the symbolic subversion I mention.
The young are, by definition, closer to the creative force than the average adult. They are also more influenced by the drives of the limbic brain and, therefore, respond with greater zeal to the erotic and even perverse symbolic messages which are becoming more and more pervasive in their life- and think-space.
The invasive, clandestinely directed content has been adroitly designed to bypass their moral conscience and rational filter.
Subliminal messages permeate television programs, computer games, magazines, billboards, products and musical productions. They are, however, not limited to the ambience of the young.
They are just one of the weapons in the arsenal of soul-less, conscience-less, and psychopathic corporations whose entire modus operandi concerns profit and dehumanization.
All that is truly aesthetic, traditional, cultural or substantial, merely stands in the way of their monopolistic stratagems, their aggressive, relentless efforts at reducing the entire human race to a body of narcissistic, sense-infatuated, desensitized, amoral, immoral or actively criminal "happy depressives" wielding credit cards.
Business is business we say; people are merely selling their products. If only this were true.
A little research and objective observation tells a different tale. The elite of the advertising agencies are extraordinarily educated and intuitive people usually from private schools or hired by prestigious think-tanks. Though it may come as news to the consumer, it is a fact that selling products is only an ostensible concern to them.
Though it may sound rather bizarre, it is their job to implant political and aesthetically conditioning motifs within the brains of their erstwhile viewers.
These implanted messages are, more often than not, against the interests of the conscious volition. It is therefore an actual crime to put them out. Their ability do this successfully arises from the fact that the advertisers are fully conversant with the intricacies of human and social psychology, the operations of the mind and the autonomic motor skills.
They study the complex nature of desire, emotion, libido and appetite and many of their researches take them into occult fields, into the realm of sabeanism and magick where talismans, amulets, symbols, mudras, mantras and rhythms are frequently used for healing and apotropaic means.
Down through the centuries symbols are memorized and become part of the collective phylogenetic reservoir.
They are in our "Race Memory." When such symbols are used they invariably stimulate reactions, often emotive and sexual. Some were and still are specifically designed to affect the limbic centers of the brain. In primitive cultures we hear of the Voodoo doctor and his attendant zombie.
The latter was an ordinary live, thinking person, who was slowly and surreptitiously administered the juice of the Datura plant, which drugged his senses and consciousness into a state of listlessness and passivity. Each day, lest he revive, the zombie had to ingest more of the potion. Today, we see the same process at work, only with greater frequency and over a larger demographic.
In our case, the "Datura" is not organic, but auditory, visual and digital. We have ivory-tower witchdoctors and cyber-space sorcerers.
Their particular concoction of spells are cast via techniques that go by names such as: New techniques, yes, but with the same deadly effect as any past voodoo, sorcery or telepathy.
Recently, a professional hypnotist declared that the very same skills used to lull the mind into a state of suggestibility are unquestionably used by advertising agents.
Yes, it appears that the magicians and wizards, the "enchanters" of the story books, are still alive and well and very busy.
Advertisers are the “Leonardos” and “Michaelangelos” of today and are still very much under oligarchic patronage. They are, however, not utilizing their prodigious endowments for the spiritual or cultural uplift of mankind. They are master persuaders and deal in behavioral and motivational sciences. Their modus operandi is the systematic erosion of the moral, intellectual and spiritual architecture of society.
Cannot the spiritual vacuity and moral degradation of our century be traced to the corruption peddled by these Apollonian persuaders in their gleaming corporate penthouses?
We readily accept that most other species can be trained and their behavior altered.
This occurs either by direct manipulation and "training," or by the circumferential change to a creature’s environment and habitat beyond its conscious awareness. And though its sounds controversial, the situation is no different with the human race.
The injustices and criminality that proliferates at every corner of the planet is proof enough as to the success of the Pavlovian artifices here described.
In fact, the only way to really comprehend the complete ramifications of their work is to familiarize ourselves with spiritual symbolism and even with the subjects of Tarot, Alchemy and Astro-Theology, etc,.
It is only through studying the nature of consciousness and its intimate relationship with color, symbol, number and word that we can take back the power we are, unconsciously, placing in their hands. As the cultural critics have asserted, there are few more physical frontiers to for man to conquer. It has been noticed that there is, however, unlimited room for expansion and expression in cyber-space, on the “information highway” in what is called the “data-space.”
There, symbolic motifs of all modalities can proliferate and literally infest our minds. The danger here is that these images and their frequency come into minds that are almost entirely illiterate in regards the meaning of symbols. There are 250,000 miles of neural threads in the brain, enough to stretch from earth to the moon, and on each micro-meter of these threads there are over 240,000 bits of information.
This data is, however, not in words but in pictograms, composite images. There are 37 sensory inputs to the brain and not just the five we have been told about. The image merchants know how to communicate to the deeper strata of the mind.
And in order to discover how put the spell on us, we need to develop a new kind of literacy, and new correlative meta-sight, which transcends the linear, left brain modes of comprehension and analysis.
Symbols have been used by all major cultures and, naturally, there could be no true advance to higher forms of language and communication without them.
Symbols are higher forms of communication. However, within the greater "book," so to speak, of Symbolism, there exists a master-chapter - that of the Tarot. The Tarot, with its rich and enigmatic imagery, constitutes the key chapter in the great “book” of Symbolism.
I have personally found that the esoteric study of the Tarot, and its sister arts of Astrology, Kabala and Numerology, greatly assists us to awaken our innate intelligence (Wisdom Body). Through these great arcane arts we succeed in cultivating true "Symbolic Literacy" and the capacity for "Pattern-Recognition."
These Arts allow us to shift the intellect, imagination, and attention into a synergetic and polyphrenic mode, where the reason and critical apparatus operate consistently at a high amplitude, and in which the psyche is protected from the incoming "viral" messages damaging to its equilibrium and core nature.
Through them we gain access our inner spiritual "Guides" who have all our answers, thus freeing us from chronic dependency on other people who are, themselves, likewise condemned to rely on the hit-or-miss "advice" of others around them.
Working correctly and responsibly with these high Arts serves to liberate the higher will within us and makes it easier for us to detach from unhealthy fears and longings. Having our higher Self as friend and counselor dramatically alters the "ignorance versus knowledge" and "failure versus success" dichotomies in our favor, and allows us to perceive, and heal, the compulsions that chain us to our respective socially-vetted roles.
Eventually, we are not only able to release ourselves from our dysfunctional relationships with other people, but also from those lower-emotional and mental labyrinths that so frequently entrap us inwardly.
Through these Arts we assume command over our own destinies and can end the habituation and mediocrity which, unfortunately, has defined the lives of the great mass of urban humanity, since the Industrial Revolution.
The return to sanity, both personally and socially, has been a major theme of innumerable psychologists, activists and philosophers for decades.
The men and women of reason have concluded that something is very wrong, existentially, with post-Industrial humanity. Experts have gone to great lengths to describe what is wrong with the way urban man lives.
However, they offer precious little of substance when it comes to coherent solutions to mankind’s vexatious problems. We are now in the twenty-first century and the time for "problem-think" is, in the mind of this writer, over. It is now time for "solution-think;" for mankind to proactively face reality in order to change it, and to have zero-tolerance for all the factors which enslave the psyche or the body.
This paradigm-shift involves the acceptance and confrontation of the "dark sides" of the human ego-personality, and a desire to see ourselves in totality, for who we are morally and psychologically. It is our habitual avoidance and denial that have brought the world, and humanity, to the brink of ecocide and psychosis.
The ego reigns, but the ego is nothing less than the ghost which has arisen from the grave of the Self. The shift also means a return to the wisdom of our ancient forbearers who did things right the first time, and who lived in harmony with the elements and with the flora and fauna.
The high Arts of Divination are their solemn and beauteous bequest to us, and a gift that we need to respect and ardently employ in every aspect of our lives. The Divination Arts contain the mystery of the great rites of passage, and of how a man may make the crossing from the “horizontal” plane of ego-life, to the “vertical” one of self-hood.
They contain the secrets of how we transcend Karmic existence and become one with our Dharma (life purpose). Within these Arts we find the archetypal and numinous symbols of Individuation which, like a golden key, serve to unlock the gates of wisdom and salvation.
As this gate opens toward freedom and empowerment, the vile door to the world's calamity and debauch is closed and locked forever.
Central to our healing and empowerment is the awakening of a socially astute hermeneutic regarding the subversive use of symbols and the complete, detailed exposure of the subtle means of persuasion employed by those shadowy oligarchs and technocrats who have always believed us incapable of taking responsibility for our own intelligence, our own mental and spiritual evolution.
Over 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato emphatically warned his society of the consequences to evolution and truth if the “artists” were unrestricted in their influence of the consciousness of mankind (see The Republic). I believe that he was aware of the existence, even then, of the subversive elements which seek to manipulate thought through that which appears innocent and harmless.
In 1835, the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, phrased the same concern in this interesting manner:
However explicit, the cogent warnings of Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Jean Baudrillard, and others, have largely gone unheard. Nor should we need the great philosophers to tell us that are symbolically literate personages operating in the world adroitly employing their "art" for the pernicious purposes of control and suppression.
Theirs is a legacy of what may be called "black magic" practices designed to adversely condition behavior, control thought and engender all that is sordid and grotesque in the human psyche. Through their malignant manipulation of words, numbers, colors, images, rhythms, sounds, and light, great injustices infest the world.
The ancients would not easily have believed their descendants capable of such sacrilege. In historical times, symbols were employed to inspire and to illustrate the subtlest and loftiest of mysteries, and give expression to man's deepest philosophical realizations.
Cynics who continue to doubt whether symbols and images have any lasting negative affect on consciousness had better remember and study the most recent example of mass control through the use of occult manipulation and symbolic suggestion: Nazi Germany.
The Nazis openly used ritual choreography, ancient symbols and rallying chants, powerful mystical logos and regalia, etc., to facilitate their designs and give them control over an entire people.
It is known that Hitler and Himmler had close ties with occultists and astrologers and took precautions to wipe out those who would threaten their schemes. Evangelists and other members of the religious elite are also expert in mass-suggestion.
As financier J.P. Morgan said:
The news-anchors are forever subtly emphasizing stereotypes, dichotomy and dialectical divisions. Sports also provide one of the most adroit ways of creating and reinforcing not only competition mania, but endless allegiances based on dialectical divisions.
Dialectics are found throughout the business, political and entertainment worlds:
There can be no doubt that, in general, dialectics are a necessary part of human evolution.
It is when the dialectical art becomes a weapon in the hands of those trying to lead humankind to moral and psychological perdition, that society has the obligation to take resolute action.
The danger arises when a powerful philosophical premise is applied to social problems in the same cold, unfeeling and pragmatic manner as a binary calculation is used to solve some mathematical conundrum.
Such egregious manipulation is injurious existentially and socially precisely because it is so pervasive and because the injury is often proportional to the natural innocence and impressionability of the victims. Subliminal content enters the personal or collective psyche against the conscious volition and at the cost of that which is qualitatively superior.
It is the proverbial enemy within.
Throughout the ages it has been considered normal, and even exemplary, behavior to die for a flag.
We still assault others over a sport or political allegiance, feel superior due to the clothes, home or car that we possess. Ours is a time obsessed with comparison and prestige, over-achievement and of the projection of fantasy into reality.
It does not matter a jot whether nature, animals, children, the elderly, the invalid or other nations and indigenous peoples suffer. I have traced many levels of psychosis and multiple personality dementia, as well as teen and adult dysfunction and sexual criminality to the effects, through the years, of advertising. Now there is even talk of genetic technology that allows man to make man.
We certainly excel at the artifice and technology, but seem incapable of allowing existing men to live in freedom, or even to be happy.
And no man can be happy when his thoughts and behavior are being subliminally manipulated by a decadent technocratic elite bent on programming him as if it were a mere machine.
Their creation is not a happy or free man inhabiting a secure Utopia. He is the addicted victim suffering psychic and emotional impotency and enmeshed in guilt and conflict as a result of it. His inner life is a miasma of unfulfilled desires and misplaced allegiances. He is under the "Hex."
Once the connection and rapport with the inner self is occluded, we become slaves of external approval and security.
Consequently, those who command our adoration must be like ourselves, or be those who appear to possess a greater abundance of those chimeras which we believe to be of value. Western man has replaced life with lifestyle, and continues to award himself, and those he gives birth to, for knowing, as speedily and vacantly as possible, everything there is to know about everyone and everything else in the world, other than the Self.
He sees but rarely observes. He thinks, but rarely with his own mind, and rarely about his own moral and psychological welfare.
He fights and dies for the preservation and sovereignty of friends, family, countries, states and ideals, but is estranged from himself, and bereft of personal psychic sovereignty and emotional immunity.
Tragically, that which man consumes also consumes him. Sickened and desperate in his own soul, and knowing next to nothing about his own essence, he charges back and forth vainly, with a thousand and one ideas and plans, administering to the maladies of his equally debilitated neighbors and fellow humans.
His mind is plagued with "media viruses" and his libido rages within from all kinds of toxic embedded programming.
By divorcing ourselves from our center, and in losing our once natural sense of interior life, we become a generation of those who must have but cannot be, who know what but not how to think. Persona-drives and limbic-drives predominate, and compel man to live at the periphery of Being, on the surface of himself. He does not own his own thoughts, and yet believes himself capable of "independent" thought and choice.
True, thought can be creative, but thoughts can also be created, and distorted, by agencies that seek to enslave the very soul, and confound the natural intelligence of man.
Pestilence and injustice ride their steeds through our world, but go unseen, sowing the seeds of doom among the innocent and pure, within those hearts and minds as yet unprotected by knowledge and awareness.
The subversive forces that operate as described and who deal so contemptuously with the "under-classes" they inwardly fear, can be sanctioned, penalized and even overthrown once we return to the "Symbol Literacy" natural to our ancient forbearers.
When the "inner eye" is opened and "Pattern Recognition" becomes as natural to us as breathing, the tables will be turned on the subversive malefactors of Madison Avenue and similar corporate tyrannies.
After we develop even a rudimentary critical intelligence, it will be then that Truth will decide to once more return and dwell among us. Our indifference and neglect has banished both Truth and Virtue to the voids.
To welcome them back into the human circle and to be nourished again by their company, we must first adopt a zero-tolerance attitude toward any living, or corporate, entity whose agendas and artifice flies in the face of reason, which contributes to the rape of the earth, and which profits from the humiliation and impoverishment of all sentient and non-sentient life-forms.
The German sociologist George Simmel once said that the educated person was someone who knew how to find out that which he did not already know.
If he were alive today, he would perhaps agree that the time has come for humanity to get smart, get educated and get “into the know,” about the psychic dictatorship which has claimed the sanity and the souls of millions.
In the terms of the Ad-Men, a new hot slogan and meme are needed - ones to appear emblazoned on the virtual billboard that looms over the troubled and hypermanic world…
For years they have been studying you.
The time has come for you to study
them!
The Subversive Use of Sacred Symbolism in The Media by sian gunn November 11, 2014 from YouTube Website
Have you ever wondered whether the billion-dollar artifice of the media, and of the advertising conglomerates, has any lasting negative effect on your mind and behavior, or whether the young are particularly affected by the all-pervasive presence of ads?
Is it rational to expect large ad-corporations to jeopardize their vast monopolies by becoming more responsible in the future?
Can Madison Avenue agencies and other "Hidden-Persuaders" ever be held accountable, if it is discovered and proven that the glamorous creations of their industry do indeed have lasting negative effects on our minds and behavior?
Is the new designer disease of our age "Affluenza," and is the consumer the consumed, in these times of excess and chronic commercialism?
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