This is something I’ve been
thinking about for the last little bit.
I recently watched a documentary/program on PBS, which covered
9/11. In it they cover many different
topics and points as they relate to the twin towers and building 7 that also
collapsed and the psychological effects it had on first responders, victims,
and victim’s families. I have different
feelings on what happened and why on 9/11 than I think most people I know.
What was interesting is that the program
was chock full of experts, approximately 1500, in many different fields of
science such as demolition, fire, architecture, electrical engineering, etc
talking about their points of view on 9/11 and the buildings specifically and
how what the public was told and what actually was were completely different.
What I REALLY liked about this
program is that they then brought in a whole slew of psychologists that had met
and counseled with people involved with those involved with the tragedy of
9/11. They described the Kubler-Ross
model, or more commonly referred to as The Five Stages of Grief or
Awakening. If you haven’t studied this
model, DO! What really resonated with
me was the explanation they presented on why people don’t want to let go and
move on from their denial phase.
When in denial one is safe and
protected from their own lack of knowledge or some would call it ignorance,
i.e. “ignorance is bliss”. Just
admitting ignorance is scary and traumatizing.
Doing says to the psyche, if I’m not safe and right and in truth what do
I do? I don’t know what to do or what
to do to find the truth and put my life in line with it and that is scary. In this program these victims had lived in
the perception that they were safe and protected from forces without AND
within, but after being presented with the evidence provided by independent
experts in the program their minds, according to the psychologists at least,
revolt and shut down. In fact, one
psychologist likened it to a computer.
When you’re built one way and expect it to work one way, but then are
asked to process and handle more or new information then you’re used to or
programmed (indoctrinated) to and en masse then the computer shuts down. The key for these people to break through
their trauma (or in our own personal lives trauma or drama) is to take in the
information from both sides and decide for themselves what is true. I like this quote from Buddha that is
pertinent to the point I’m making…”Believe nothing, no matter where you read it
or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense.”
I’ve heard, been through, and
understand that accepting a new truth is traumatic and scary and hence the
reluctance to accept it, but it didn’t really connect with me or I couldn’t
truly empathize with people who didn’t accept so many of the conspiracies,
including this one, that surround us until I saw this program as this program
and the tragic event it portrays was also a part of my life and I know how
painful it was to see and experience what we did as a country. I can only imagine the amplification of that
emotion if it touched me on an even more personal level through family or
friends being lost in it. How if I had
been told one thing for years and years from some source (government, food
industry, finance industry, NASA, the US military, your family dentist, etc)
that I considered to be impregnable to corruption or deceit or even secret
combinations that in fact it was all a lie that my mind would certainly draw
back in revulsion at the thought.
Be WRONG. It is human to be wrong.
Don’t fear. We all are imperfect
and don’t know everything. Admitting
that is hard as we’re taught to not make mistakes ever and to be perfect. We aren’t wrong or make mistakes
because…we’re parents, 4.0 students, graduates from masters programs, actually
very righteous and don’t break the commandments, we’re very trusting or we’re
very forgiving of others, big time executives, or whatever gives one a sense of
self worth or validation. The list
obviously is endless for why we don’t want to hear what we don’t want to
hear. We are not taught to openly and
perhaps even proudly admit we’re lost and scared and looking for help cause we
don’t know what is actually right and true in aspects of life.
There are others who have come to
that realization deeply and have embraced the unknown and fear of not knowing
what to do next and are willing to share what they then learned...more on this
later. THAT is what makes us human. That is what connects us to others whether
they’d like to admit it or not. I have
a little story to tell. I felt a
literal panic when I watched Peter Schiff’s video on the coming housing
collapse on Youtube.com after I read the book The Gig Short by Michael
Lewis. He also wrote Money ball, which
was later made into a movie with Brad Pitt and he wrote The Blindside, which
was later made into a movie with Sandra Bullock. I was scared and shocked and panicked and literally sweating and
my heart was beating on second floor of England logistics in the northwest
corner where I was sitting when I saw that someone was living outside of the
state of mind I had occupied and openly exposed that fact to the world in
regards to housing and finance (me). He
exposed what were then my toxic or damning thoughts on housing and (broadly the
world economy) and introduced what was really the truth about housing in this
case. This exposure then led me to
question whether or not I might have other toxic thoughts in my life and how to
deal with them in a healthy way and without having the near death experience I
had seemed to experience with learning what I had from the Peter Schiff/Michael
Lewis awakening.
What I have now realized in
hindsight is that there seems to be a pattern to truth and truth finding. Truth resonates. It is logical. It is
simple to understand. The hard part
about finding and discovering truth is that it is often buried underneath
blatantly or otherwise false pretenses or opinions or studies or statistics or
money or thinking. When truth is
discovered without pre conceived notions it is easy to see. I think children best represent this. They are pure and true and when they see
truth it resonates with them.
Unfortunately in our current world society is controlled and manipulated
so as to crush that natural truth seeking in all of us and we forget it and our
blinded by our lack of it.
The cure for finding truth is honestly seeking to
see both sides of a story or equation AND find some one or some people who have
already traveled down the path of discover you’re currently on, i.e. find a
mentor of some sort. Question
everything. Who is telling you the
information? Cui bono? That is what the roman’s said when they
learned Julius Cesar was assassinated.
It means, “Who benefits?” If
you’re reading a study done on mice and msg or the 9/11 towers collapsing when
no other steel frame building that caught on fire had ever collapsed or
whatever you want, why are they presenting you the information? Why are they presenting you the information
they did?
This is a big question I’ve found
useful. Who paid the people who are
telling you the information they’re giving you and what do those people stand
to gain by doing so? Are they telling
you something you’ve already heard or perhaps just a slight variation on that
that you hadn’t heard before? If
so, they’re likely still gaining at your expense and keeping you blind to the
truth and binding you to the molded thinking you’ve been trained to think. If they’re gaining at your expense, whoever
it is, their motives ought to be considered suspect and if they’re found to be
true and resonate with you anyways then you can and should move on. Otherwise, yes there is an otherwise, you
WILL be missing out on what you didn’t know you could have known or been or
seen. And you WILL miss out on it
whether you knew you were or not. I can
honestly say I am at more peace and calm now that I know the things I know
because of the things I have questioned and subsequently found out to be not
true.
Partners or Mentors. They are an integral part of truth. I feel that this is another core to truth
and finding it. What has been nice for
me is that in my path of discovery I’ve come across people who have already
been there and learned what I’ve learned or wanted to learned and have pointed
me to truth instead of having to wallow through all the mess of information
that is out there, which I’m grateful for of course as I don’t waste tons of
time and can likely turn to these people for other information as the thought
process then goes, “If they knew this important thing, what else do they know
on completely unrelated subjects that I’m not even thinking about that are
important to me and my family that I should know about?”
The most important person in this
journey of life is Jesus Christ. He has
been through everything and knows the truth about everything. He even says for people to come unto him and
work with him and he will help you overcome your burdens. Now I ask.
Is this just a spiritual/repentance principle or could it apply
to…government, military, health, NASA, and crazy talkative dentists? I think honestly it is an eternal principle
that people team up with those who are stronger, smarter, and been there people
who speak truth. Without this it is
very difficult to wade through all the BS that is out there. Teaming up and trusting others is key to
finding truth, but I must say that just because some of the people I interact
with have truth to share, doesn’t mean they share truth 100% of the time. I won’t even share truth 100% of the
time. I hope people will have the
courage to remind me, nicely and patiently of course J, of the fact that I
have missed the boat on this or that.
That is the beauty though of this life.
That I can say, “Hey I messed up or made a mistake and realize that and
openly admit that and THAT is OK and GOOD.”
If I don’t do that or others don’t do that they aren’t embracing their
human nature of, at times, being dead wrong about something and again are to be
questioned and deemed suspect as they are, through their actions or thoughts or
words and deliberately or not, trying to lead me away from truth and right.
I feel like there are more thoughts
I wanted to flush out, but feel I have touched on most of them. Good luck with assimilating them into your
train of thought lol.
