The War on Humanity – ‘A Deliberate Restriction of Consciousness’

by Grow Up Conference | Dec 9, 2024 | Media Partners, The New Agora

The War on Humanity –

‘A Deliberate Restriction of Consciousness’

By Julian Rose

Almost everything that’s wrong in the world starts from an implacable resistance to the existence of a state of consciousness.

Denial of the fact that every new human life born into this world is a divine spark, a fecund manifestation of limitless potential.

A denial of the fact that higher consciousness is actually the default position of humanity – not a distant goal only attainable by a dedicated minority.

So many remain in a state of resistance to their innate connection with the source of life, thus sealing themselves in a well constructed prison.

Something greatly encouraged via the dumbing down priorities enforced by the architects of global control.

Religious institutions created within this control system teach that only some outside saviour can rescue humanity from the ubiquitous spread of evil – of which they themselves are the prime perpetrators.

It is the inability to throw-off a long existing fixation with this form of irrational dogma that has brought the world so perilously close to the brink today.

The dictionary definition of dogma is “a set of principles intended to be accepted without question”.

Religious dogma starts by making its captors believe that they are powerless, and that their only hope in gaining a little power is by devoting themselves to praying for forgiveness for the fact that they were born sinners.

Being born ‘a sinner’, one is informed by Christian institutions, is due to the fact that Adam and Eve broke away from the command to obey a rule put in place by some strongly authoritarian master of the universe. He who oversaw events taking place in the Garden of Eden.

And if it was not for this reason that one is born a sinner, then it is because one is somehow implicated as being responsible for having Jesus nailed to an execution pole – the cross – in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.

This, it is claimed, is due to one’s being part of a collective unconscious which links all humanity. Thus the crucifixion crime, perpetrated by a small segment of this humanity, becomes one’s crime also.

Either one of these events is enough to mark one for life, according to the religious teachings that have dominated the Western world for far too long.

Put together, they ensure the locking and bolting of the prison door on the development of the gift of conscious awareness. The unfortunate fate of all who fail to see beyond the Veil of Maya.

And then in the afterlife, one is informed, the same prison guards are in attendance awaiting one’s arrival – to direct one to the properly stoked furnace or to their rather exotically decorated playground known as heaven.

Either way, one remains in the trap; and Life goes on somewhere else. A place/dimension one is warned against attempting to engage with.

This kind of top-down subversion leads to unquestioned acceptance of grand ulterior motives like the ‘Great Reset’ and is taken-up by all who suffer a fundamental fear of freedom.

However, all ‘victims’ of this great hoax carry a high level of personal responsibility for allowing themselves to be fooled.

Taking an overtly trusting view of those who one has no basis to trust stems from a failure ‘to know one’s self’. Such self deception comes from a failure to adopt a proper commitment to follow the road of truth in one’s daily life.

While I concentrate on the leading role played by the perpetration of authoritarian control in diverting humanity from its true path, one must not forget that each one of us is responsible for the choices we make in this life.

One may get caught, but there is always a way of overcoming one’s shortcomings and breaking out of jail.

The Vatican, which has its headquarters in Rome, produces its own expression of dogma via the cardinal rule book known as the Catechisms. Here it states that the cross painted onto the forehead of infants at the first baptism ceremony is an exorcism.

It is needed, says the Vatican’s Holy See, because every little baby arrives on this earth as a sinner and therefore must be exorcised of the demon possessing them and then placed in ‘the safe hands of the church’.

The church, according to the Catechisms, is inseparable from God. What the church says is ‘God’s law’ according to this doctrine.

Such teachings have the opposite effect from that which they proclaim to be their goal. They reinforce an implacable resistance to the independent search for truth and the meaning of life which is the true birthright of all human beings.

This grand deception, sold to we the people under the monica ‘the one truth’, leads to senior representatives of leading religious institutions averting their eyes, as millions are murdered due to fearsome divisions created by the mass indoctrination of mankind to a grossly distorted interpretation of the road to salvation.

Religious institutions feign shock, but do nothing to expose and put an end to the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza; the pedophilia and prostitution laid on for their own priests; the crass power-play of politicians; the gross materialistic indulgence of profit obsessed corporations; the cowardly posturing of their own brotherhood and the anti-life politics of control of the deep state.

The hypocrisy is complete, since – while turning away from reality – they present their saviours as supreme actors in defence of life, justice and truth.

Religious institutions are subservient to the authority of the State, just as they are subservient to their very own gods – each of which is proclaimed as ‘the one and only true saviour of mankind’ and therefore permanently at war with other challengers for that title.

So deeply has this idealogical dogma infested the minds, bodies and spirits of humanity that, over the centuries, it has provoked a thoughtless submission to authority figures as well as a plague of passivity and the denial of the basic responsibility that comes with being a trustee of the health and welfare of planet earth.

The protagonists of this disease have rolled our world onto its back – while simultaneously pleading ‘not guilty’ to reducing divine sparks to lifeless expressions of fear, obedience and cowardice.

But then how else could it be, if indoctrinated mortals fail to reject the accusation of guilt that comes with accepting that one is born a sinner?

Fail to reject ‘guilt by association’ with an act of treachery performed by a tiny band of ancient ancestors revolting against their once hallowed master.

While the tribes of Abraham may not have constituted or consolidated a formal religion, their scholars and esoteric priests concocted a thoroughly indigestible diet of messianic indulgence.

An indulgence centred around a conviction in the unique superiority of the God of Abraham and the manipulation of this Old Testament warring deity into representing the absolute voice of authority concerning the destiny of his chosen people.

In this way they invented the ultimate despot, any criticism of whom is treated as an act of outright heresy.

Divide and conquer, fragmentation and division – are used as ways of splintering the primal condition of wholeness which is our common inheritance. Rendering its oneness into a jarring compilation of antagonistic parts.

But there is only One God – and everything comes from Him – and everything returns to Him. The emanation of Supreme Consciousness.

Truth is indivisible. Oneness with our Creator is our primal condition and will remain that way.

The refusal to open one’s self to such a fundamental form of consciousness is to live in a state of great impoverishment. Yet it is just such a state of impoverishment that is generally accepted as the norm of everyday life – leading to the persecution of those who manifest the noble art of standing for truth.

There are those who enter into religious teachings and ceremonies in a genuine search for spiritual guidance – and who find this within the credo of their particular faith. An environment in which to find a guiding hand onto the path of devotion.

There are prophets at the foundational level of all the main religions of the world, and their teachings have a central commonality of conviction concerning the greatness of God and the supremacy of love, wisdom and compassion.

The tragedy is that this common recognition of the beatitude of the Divine is so rarely, if ever, admitted by different faiths, and is instead claimed as the unique provenance of each one separately.

This lack of magnanimity becomes the touchstone for divisions and rivalries that are openly promoted by the high priests of political sabotage. Those who seek to gain complete control over the lives of others, turning institutes of worship into bastions of political power and greed.

Control is maintained through rules, regulations and promises of salvation for the obedient blinded followers of authority.

Strip away this carefully constructed facade and underneath one will find the small but potent seed of original spirituality that is the actual direct link to the Divine.

It is past time that this original spirituality be set free.

Its suffocation under the various cloaks that have disguised it, has pulled humanity down into a dull and shackled version of its true power.

This hobbled state of humanity is played upon by the deep state globalist architects of control, who work hand in hand with the most influential church authorities in a Faustian pact to maintain domination over the true aspirations of open hearted seekers of truth.

Do we see the Pope or archbishops or leading figureheads of other churches and faiths coming boldly forward to decry those working to genetically modify and re-engineer the DNA of the human, animal and natural environment?

Or unitedly rising up to defy overt cold blooded atrocities of mass murder in and around what is called The Holy Land?

No, we don’t, with one or two notable exceptions.

Yet are not these crimes against humanity and nature the very heinous acts that teachers of belief in God are supposed to implacably stand up against?

Their religious proclamations stand in denial of the very existence of the God of whom they profess to be the messengers.

They are cowards, bowing to the authority of the system and turning their heads away in fear of losing their positions on the jealously guarded hierarchical ladder of the religious world order.

Unwilling to come face to face with the anti-life forces of destruction that manifest in every corner of the world – they serve no function other than the perpetration of the lie.

We cannot help but now see how standing fixedly in the constrictive authority of religious dogma has brought the world to the ultimate geopolitical crisis point.

Somebody’s god has been given the role of stating its absolute supremacy of judgement over all/any other belief systems – and so dogmatic and inflexible is this proclamation that its supporters are willing to provoke a Third World War, rather than see and admit the error of their ways.

Real spirituality is about demolishing ego, not re-enforcing it. Real spirituality recognises the oneness of all nations, peoples, colours and creeds, not their division and mutual attrition. Real spirituality upholds and seeks the supreme guidance of the creator of the universe – of all humanity, animal and insect populations and of the full biological diversity of nature.

There is just one such indivisible Supreme Nucleus. One God. And the division of that God into a hundred warring, despotic claimants to the throne is the single greatest obstruction to the collective spiritual evolution of mankind.

Enforced fanaticism, under the guise of religious belief has brought us to the brink of a collective act of suicide. There can be absolutely no excuse for its continuation.

We who are aware of this and who respond to that great gift called ‘love of life’ represent the majority of the sentient and genuinely human population of planet earth.

We are going to step forward now and put an end to the supposed impregnability of the fanatical clique that holds the whole world hostage to its undisguised megalomania.

We will show the power of spirituality in its true light, freed forever from being chained to institutions of deception that have sought to ‘own the word of God’ and use it to lead mankind into the abyss of an ego fuelled world of chaos.

Rise up, all good people of the world, our unstoppable affirmation of life is fast gaining the upper hand; one can feel its dancing prisms of source-delivered energy multiplying day on day, week on week.

Let them infect our appetite for going determinedly onto the front foot and acting to dispel any last lingering doubts and fears that hold us back from bringing about the full and lasting emancipation of mankind.

Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer,  broadcaster and international activist. He is author of the acclaimed title ‘Overcoming the Robotic Mind’ and other works.

Do visit his website www.julianrose.info

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Ruminations on “Intelligent Healing” and the Role of Psychedelics

by Grow Up Conference | Dec 9, 2024 | Media Partners, The New Agora

Ruminations on “Intelligent Healing”

and the Role of Psychedelics

by Stephen Gray

Intelligent healing? An odd pairing perhaps. It begs the question of what needs to be healed and what would make that healing intelligent? I’ll start with the question of healing and circle back to the idea of intelligent healing later.

There are a lot of ways to talk about this. I have a long history of the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Among other things, that experience has given me a language to address issues like this. With more than a millennium isolated up on that icy high plateau with no television or Safeway, Tibetan Buddhists had a lot of time to explore questions about the nature existence, of what needs healing, and how one might go about doing that healing work. Much of that investigation was done by simply sitting still and looking deeply into the mechanics and machinations of the mind and what lies beyond and around the individual “mind.”—in other words, direct empirical investigation as opposed to speculative philosophical enquiry. An anecdote attributed to the Buddha has it that after he landed on enlightenment, someone asked him how he knew he was enlightened. He put his hand on the ground and said, “This solid earth is my witness.”

One result of that investigation was the core insight that almost all humans are living through the filter of an illusion. In English you could call that illusion ego. The Sanskrit word that encompasses the nature of ego is samsara—the endless cycle of dissatisfaction and struggle that arises from this illusion.

Pretty much from the time we’re born, and very likely carried over from past incarnations, we begin to form our own idiosyncratic picture of what is real and not real, true and false, right and wrong, safe and unsafe, achievable (especially for ourselves) and impossible. We gradually put together a package, a configuration of concepts—stories we build our existence on.

That package becomes our identity. We all do it. It’s understandable. We needed to survive and cope. But this identity package is like clouds or vapor. It only exists in the mind, in thought, (although the programming gets imprinted in the whole-body system, but that’s a huge topic for another discussion.) Psychologists, like Otto Rank, a protégé of Sigmund Freud, have called it the lie of personality. It’s also been called the false or provisional personality. The problem with living through the ego illusion is that while it might have been a necessary crutch to get us through the night so to speak, it’s ultimately an extremely unsatisfying and diminished version of who we actually are.

The central insight of Buddhism, as well as of anyone anywhere who has been able to penetrate to the core of unconditional reality, is that there is indeed such a “thing” as unconditional reality. It’s not a belief or a position of any kind. Its only credential is direct experience. And the message is that when we’re able to release ourselves from the limiting cocoon we’ve built around ourselves, there is a way to live in this world that is free from confusion, free from struggle. It is possible to land on what is. Jesus is said to have called it the peace that passes all understanding. The word Buddha just means awake, or one who is awakened. The Buddha taught that Buddha nature is the true nature of us all, the ground of being.

It’s a long journey, maybe one of multiple lifetimes let alone a lifelong path in this particular incarnational go-around. Lord knows it ain’t easy to let ourselves ease down out of that identity. For the great majority of us, it’s our lifesaver. We don’t know what we don’t know and we don’t trust that we’ll be safe, that we’ll survive, without that lifesaver. One way of describing the path or journey of awakening from the illusion of the separate self goes like this. Imagine a line drawn across a page. The line represents the journey over time. At one end of the line is the state of mind that is completely beholden to the self-story, trusting only the contents and parameters of that story as the manual for living. In its extreme version, there is no trust whatsoever in the Tao—the Watercourse Way of the natural, unforced flow and patterns of energy and intelligence.

The path—the healing path—is one of gradually learning that it’s safe to trust the awakened state, and an immense relief to have given up the struggle. I have a lovely little book in the bookshelf behind me here called The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, by Thaddeus Golas. (The book was first published in 1972 so I think we can forgive him for the use of the word “man’s.” And as a kind of sidebar, Mr. Golas’ insights into the unconditional nature of reality came from his deep exploration of psychonautic realms with the assistance of LSD.) One of the key insights in the book was “Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.”

So, how can one heal? There are of course a plethora of paths and modalities—meditation, yoga, a range of somatic body therapies, schools of psychotherapy, conventional and mystical religious traditions, and again, the potent psychedelics. I’ll offer two related elemental approaches or modalities. The first is what you might call the gradual path. A spiritual teacher named Vernon Howard (Mystic Path to Cosmic Power) claimed that he knew what he was talking about from experience and that his realization is corroborated by all the world’s great mystics. It’s simply this: self-observation, watching everything within and outside with no judgment. As he says, “Without attitude and without comment, you simply look.”¹

Simple in concept, but if you’ve made much effort to undertake this practice of non-judgmental observation, you know it’s really difficult. There’s a Sufi saying, “You’re not as good a person as you think you are.” That’s because acknowledging that shadow side of ourselves can destroy our meticulously constructed self-image as blameless good people just doing our best. I can say from experience it can be humbling. I’d like to see myself as a wise and good person. I’d like to think I’ve outgrown or transcended pettiness of various shades. But ruthless honesty compels us to acknowledge what lies hidden in the shadows. The good news, say those who have traveled far on that path, is that the shadows bind us and shining a light on them frees us.

Two important things about that work. First, it’s not self-absorbed navel-gazing. It’s not about circling back to oneself and thinking thinking thinking. It actually demands allowing space in the busy mind to just observe. That by the way, is the core practice of at least the lineage of Tibetan Buddhism I was involved with. The ultimate practice is what Buddhist teachings call bare attention or emptiness meditation, allowing the restless speed of mind to settle down and then, as Howard says, just observing. Peace might ensue—eventually.

For some of us, it’s also important to note that such honest self-observation isn’t about blaming ourselves. That can be tricky. I have at least one friend who struggles with that. She had worked for years on developing a positive self-image after a history of low self-esteem. The idea of acknowledging “faults” feels like knocking herself back down again. The best advice for that concern is to include such thoughts in the practice. You might say to yourself, “Ah, there it is again, the self-sabotaging thought. Just another thought to be observed non-judgmentally.”

Then there is the fast path, which perhaps ironically, is also a gradual path because the knots of samsaric existence and the intense clinging to the self-story still take a long time to ease out of. That path is the path of working with psychedelics. When understood correctly and encountered in optimal circumstances—a book-worthy subject in itself—psychedelics are not drugs, they’re reality medicines. They can pull back the curtain and expose the fiction of the egoic self. They can do that on the spot. That’s the meaning of the term ego dissolution or ego death that is often used in work with psychedelics.

That curtain pulling has two interrelated and overlapping functions. One is as a truth serum. Psychedelics can hold up a mirror. There’s an assumption underlying that capability, as well as the other related function I’ll get to in a moment. The assumption, or hypothesis is that we already know unconditional truth both about ourselves and about the ultimate nature of reality. It’s encoded, just obscured by the fog of ego’s fear-based tapestry of limiting concepts.

Psychedelics, like peyote, psilocybin, ayahuasca, huachuma, LSD, and others, even cannabis, are highly compatible with human brain chemistry. They can pry open encrusted, unused pathways and release what was dormant. It’s well understood in psychotherapy that bringing hidden material into the light is healing.

The other, interwoven capability of skillful use of psychedelics is that they can also open the channel to the nature of reality altogether. It turns out that the “hippies” of the 1960s and 70s weren’t just blowing (cannabis) smoke and pipe dreaming of a fairyland when they proclaimed the primacy of peace and love. For anyone who wasn’t just parroting the insights of others, that declaration arose from their psychedelic experiences. They’re “only” glimpses for almost all of us, but when they happen, you know they’re real. Psychonauts talk about coming home, the ah-ha moment. That, for example, is often the central insight of people who have breakthrough experiences with 5-meO-DMT—an immediate and irrefutable recognition of non-duality.

These powerful, sometimes shockingly ego-dissolving substances are clearly not for everyone. Thaddeus Golas counselled his readers thusly: “You need only open your awareness at the pace you find safe and comfortable. If LSD is too fast, go slower. This is home. We all belong in the universe.”²

I mentioned earlier that the psychedelic path is also a gradual path because of our intense and long-standing reliance on the stories that form our identity. Old patterns die hard. Not all explorers of psychedelics understand that—a misunderstanding that can have unfortunate consequences in the realm of spiritual materialism and spiritual bypassing. It’s well known in worlds I travel in that some people have had, for example, many dozens of ayahuasca journeys without ever getting to the root of their longstanding egoic patterns. The above-mentioned humble and patient practice of non-judgmental self-observation is the essential foundation of the ongoing journey. These days that is commonly called integration.

So what about the term “intelligent healing,” Jesus is said to have taught that the entry into the Kingdom is akin to passing through the eye of a needle. Can’t take no excess baggage with you. Buddhists call it the narrow path. I like the “feet to the fire” metaphor. As I’ve suggested above, psychedelics dramatically up the ante on the narrow path. The wonderful Buddhist teacher and writer Pema Chödrön titled one of her books The Wisdom of No Escape. It might be the hardest thing we can do.

I’ve learned this for myself in psychedelic journeys. You want to get away from the uncompromising demand. It requires trust, surrender, letting go. In one ayahuasca journey, the effects of the sacrament were really powerful. It scared me. I wanted to look away. I wanted to run. But the medicine had just settled in at full effect and I realized there was no escape. Just keep breathing and tough it out. If you can ride the turbulence and surrender, maybe, like I did that day, you relax into the now and think, “Why on earth would I want to be anywhere else at this moment? This is rich beyond words. This is reality.”

In other words, the wisdom of no escape is intelligent healing. If you eventually manage to peel away all the layers of encrustation to reveal the indestructible diamond within, I’m pretty sure you’ll look back, and say, “Yup, that was it, diligent and persistent neutral observation and continued relaxation and surrender—learning to trust the flow of reality* and not tying yourself up in knots of secondhand head-sourced apperception of life.”

*The title of an old (1970) book comes to mind: Don’t Push the River, It Flows by Itself, by Barry Stevens. Another way to express that advice could be, “Relax and align rather than contract and control.”

Finally, there’s another layer to the principle of intelligent healing. If the healing is real and durable, at a certain stage you begin to realize that your personal healing was just the starting point. It’s like repairing a car. The point is to take the car on the road, not spend the rest of your life tinkering with it in the garage. Wisdom carriers tell us that the healed heart becomes our guide. We’re naturally drawn to think, feel, and act for the benefit of others.

Although it’s a topic for another essay, I’ll say briefly that it appears the planet is in dangerous circumstances on multiple levels. (The term “polycrisis” is gaining currency these days.) You might say that the jig is up. As the great mystic bard of song and poetry Leonard Cohen put it, “It ain’t going any further.” The insights of mystics and deep explorers of psychonautic realms concur with multiple indigenous prophecies from around the world that we have reached a nexus point. The world needs us. It needs our love and our creative action. It’s time to get real, to manifest. God(dess) speed.

Notes:

1. Howard, Vernon, Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, 33
2. Golas, Thaddeus, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, 62 (in 1995 edition with new author foreword)

Stephen Gray is an educator, speaker, conference organizer, ceremony leader, and author/editor of two books: Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer’s Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally (2017), and How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Vsionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out (2022). He lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada with his wife and female cat Henry.