What's wrong with people? (Part Four)

It appears religions key focus is to control the individual by means of a plan that at its core decrees you are in some manner a lesser being. Religions promote themselves as the only path to a better future. Not here now mind but in some imagined place usually requiring you to die to get there and only if you become a member now. You will still be a lesser being but at least one of the subservient herd tending to who or whatever is ahead of you in the pecking order. Religions are basically used to train slaves or servants if you prefer while at the same time preventing any true evolution of soul to manifest.

This process is employed by all religions, be they conventional, New Age or cult, even science and atheism employ these time proven methods.  A scientist has his structured world that is rarely flexible and demands compliance to the agreed "facts" as they are perceived to be at that time.  The atheist is in denial and can see nothing beyond now. The end result is the same.

Every means of deception is used, any method justified as long as the end result is a distraction away from truth, it matters not that the lies and fabrications are plain or that they say one thing and then practice the opposite. You end up being either fooled, confused or scared into compliance with the herd or forced by peer pressure or other more direct means. The end result is you give your power away to these deceptions. They rob you of your ability to choose and leech your energy to serve them.

The manipulations employ a classic well tested method of deception, use complexity to bewilder the mind to create a state where the issues become too big, too confusing. So much so it is easier to go along with it and let others make the choices as there’s nothing we can do anyway. In this way the few control the many.

What is hidden is simple and basic. You are part of reality, you are part of the Universe, and you are part of God. You are not less than or more than anything. You are part of. I acknowledge that there are many genuine people caught up in the various religions, cults, orders and what not. Caught in the trap of thinking they have to choose between what is in effect the same thing. You can choose not to choose! Yet many give away their power, their energy to these deceptions, blind to the leeches on their very souls.

These deceptions or control methods also remove freedom of speech. Or rather the freedom to express a different view point or any doubts. You cannot be said to have freedom of speech if someone else is deciding for you what you can or cannot say. The issue here is that with the limiting or control of speech comes the limiting and control of thought. Peer pressure then becomes an effective way of policing the herd to maintain the status quo.

That is why it is important that people have freedom of expression, to be able to ask questions and speak freely about important questions. By defending this right you defend your own right to freedom. As the time honoured line states: "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it."

The same applies to life; you have no freedom if someone else is telling you how to live your life. Often we are pressured into giving away our rights and opinions to blend with the herd, to "fit in." It is however still our choice. That is the one consistent fact, we can choose. Admittedly it is made easier to pick the choice of least resistance. The way of the herd makes is safe. Or is it?

Interestingly that is exactly how we manage sheep and cattle, we encourage the herd, why? Because it makes them easier to control, to fleece and to slaughter. I would now like to quote another author who had a very interesting observation to make about this.
 
What Don Juan told Carlos Castaneda:-
 
[... We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don't do so [act independently ...]
 
Don Juan understood that we are like cattle herded and controlled, milked for emotional energy, harvested at leisure. And we carry on unknowing of our fate, unaware we are captured or controlled. Religions and the like are but one of the very many methods employed to keep us in place. They act like fences steering us to the path desired not by us but by our predator. We for the most part plod along sometimes getting a glimpse of the other side of the fence but then hurrying on as if nothing happened.

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