A Pacifist is still a Fist – Passive Resistance as Active Acceptance

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Acitivists, Activism, Desteni Group, Desteni2012, Destenicult, Destonians, Equal Money System, Pacifist, Passive Resistance, Resistance, Viiolent Resistance

In my years as a political activist, I often heard the expression:  “I am not going to do that, I am a pacifist.” When people spoke these words, it was with a sense of pride that, by not acting, by not speaking up, they were in fact making a very loud statement. Many of these for instance refused to vote, because they did not recognize the political system as valid, so they believed that not voting, by remaining silent, they were casting a vote. It is the same with passive resistance that many people implore; by remaining passive, yet resisting, they are in fact sending a message to the “powers that be.” In the activist tradition (and in political discussions) this is seen in contrast to violent resistance, a form of resistance that often has more physical consequences for those participating, for instance as seen in riots where people get beaten or incarcerated by the police. In Danish we have a saying: “voluntarily forced” that refers to the acceptance of force, for example in how we cannot chose not to go to school as children, but at the same time does not have to like it. Children that do not like to go to school but do it any way, are passive resistant and any teacher will most likely recognize the class room full of unwilling participants.

Another expression goes: “non-action is equal action” and that is important to consider in relation to passive resistance as a form of activism. Active pacifists that are passively resisting the system will most often think and speak about what is wrong with the system. They will get angry and sad, but because they see the only alternative to accepting the system as violent, they accept that there is nothing they can do and even experiences a sense of pride in “at least not being violent.”

Not speaking is not the same as having a voice that the void of one’s presence somehow will have an effect. Not acting is not the same as showing one’s stand. Not buying a specific product will not have an impact on what is produced.

Therefore: passive resistance is a scam. It is a form of cowardice that the enabler justifies as heroism by non-action. And it makes sense from the perspective of seeing no (or only a violent) alternative to accepting the system as it is. But by simply remaining passive, one is in fact actively resisting the system and within that accepting the system (or the injustice or abuse) to continue existing. The pacifist has as a pacifier of comfort the belief that by not acting they are in fact changing and thus as pacifists, they are still passing fists, ironically their non-action becomes the very action, they so passively oppose. It is important to note though that “the pacifist” is a label that has been created by the very system itself, to create the false hope that not acting can have some kind of impact, just as violent resistance will end you in jail. It is designed to be redundant, yet provide people with a sense of hope.

At Desteni, we present an alternative to resistance, but we also investigate for ourselves the nature of resistance, from the perspective that: “what you resist will persist.” – What this means is that because we are responsible for the world and ourselves in it, by resisting a point or a system, we are in fact resisting our own responsibility.

This will often be within a polarity of accepting oneself as less than the system and therefore incapable of changing it (or self) and accepting oneself as more than the system and as such believing that one can simply step out of the system and not participate and as such participate in changing the world. Passive resistance is active acceptance, because in not acting, we are in fact acting. By not speaking, that IS what we are speaking, that we don’t need to speak or act, because we are apparently more or less than the system. As long as we live as such, nothing will change. Turning the other cheek will only ensure you one thing: you will be slapped on the other cheek as well. If you keep turning your cheek, you will keep getting slapped. There is nothing honorable in that. This suggestion must have been invented by someone that wanted obedient slaves.

What we resist will persist, because all that exist is a part of us and it is only by taking responsible for it, that we can direct it. It is only by standing equal to it, that we no longer are enslaved by it.

Desteni stands for practivism, a practical activism, from where we act to stand self-responsible for what is here and direct the systems of the world as ourselves, in equality. As Destonians we are practivists that live to act in ways that are best for all, where resistance is not needed because we direct the system as ourselves.

Suggested listening for further perspective:

“Open Letter to Zeitgeists recent declaration of Passive Resistance” By Anna Brix Thomsen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_wkWBnbwM

“2012 Passive Resistance – ZEITGEIST – Ghosts of Time Gone by?” By Anna Brix Thomsen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FhEKUd1iZk

“Dear Zeitgeist.
You Stand to be the prime of our time
In opposition to those bagging nickels and dimes.
Now with this declaration of “Passive Resistance”
You’ve advocated patience as a brief intermittence
Encouraging waiting and wishing and hoping
With love as the drug you are pushing and doping.
You tell us to fight with love as a weapon
While we sit here and wait for change to happen
You place yourself as a group, as ‘a-gain-sting’
The system that is here as ‘that abusive, mean-world-thing’
Though conveniently forgetting that you helped create it
Now advocating that we should all abdicate it
By loving our way through passive resistance
Avoiding war and violence from a safe, ‘but loving’ distance
Instead of Realizing that We ARE All in Here
Caught in the same net of suffering war and fear
Because Resistance is Futile and what you fight creates sequels
Because All that is Here, is Living One and Equal.
Zeitgeist does not stand for ‘The Spirit of the Times’
Zeitgeist are merely Ghosts of Time Gone By.”

“Passive Resistance is Just Another Brick in the Wall” By Cathy Krafft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIDbhx-M8qE

“2011 Why Passive Resistance is Futile” By Viktor Persson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FErY-TnT0

2012 – Who’s Voices are speaking in our Heads?

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depression, Desteni Cult, Desteni I Process, Desteni2012, Destonians, Equal Money System, Fear Week, Inner conversation, Self Talk, Voices in the head

Artwork by Andrew Gable: "Inner back chat personalities". Click the image to see more of Andrew's art

As I was listening to the interview Voices trapped me in my mind, I started looking back at my life and my experiences with voices in my head. When I was around 9-10 years old, I started noticing how there were several layers of thoughts in my mind. I started playing with it and discovered that I could sing in my head as the same time as I was thinking about something else. I got fascinated by it and the more I started looking at my thoughts, the more loud the thoughts seemed to become.

I remember how when I became aware of the fact that I was thinking that I started to verbalize thoughts in my mind as words and it became difficult to stop. Initially I was fascinated by it, i felt I was special and superior, but I also noticed how I constantly had conversations going on in my mind. It was as though I was sitting in a little bubble inside my head, that all “who” I was, was this little bubble of consciousness sitting in my head talking about what was going on outside my eyes. I would talk and talk and talk about what I saw and heard. Exactly as in the interview, the self-speak in my mind started becoming nasty and judgmental once I started becoming a teenager, towards others as well as towards myself. The thoughts were mean and brutal and I would feel ashamed. The girl in the interview Voices trapped me in my mind explained how she refused to accept that the voices were herself and that she simply could not accept that she was not the sweet girl that she had believed and experienced herself to be. For her it became the end.

I had no doubt that the voices in my head were my own, in fact I instead identified strongly with the voices. It became my comfort. As I grew older the thoughts and self-talk as back-chat in my mind became patterns that ran and ran in loops, like a constant noise from a radio. In my mind I would analyze how I had acted in situations, if I had been good enough, what I had said. I would also plan how I would be in the future, if I were to meet a boy, how I would act, what I would say.

At the same time I turned my thoughts against myself. I hated myself, I despised myself and others. I created thought loops of self-judgment where I would repeat the same words over and over: “I hate myself”, “I am such an idiot”… over and over.

An interesting aspect of my relationship with judgment as back chat was that through out my life I have listened to my mom verbalizing her back chat as judgments towards herself and others. When we watched TV, she would comment on the clothes people were wearing, their faces, hair, body form and place judging remarks, nasty comments and spite. She did the same towards herself, saying that she was a bad mother or that she hated herself.

I would judge my mom for her judgment of others. I would literally talk nasty shit about my mom in my mind for being judgmental. And within this, in promising myself that I would never be like my mom, I started building and creating a personality – a self-belief, definition and ideal of myself as the opposite of how I saw my mom . So I started suppressing my own back-chat and judgment. I judged myself for being judging and I created this personality of someone that is “nice”, “warm”, “tolerant”. I wanted to get as far away from how I saw my mom as possible. I wanted to get as far away from myself as possible. The more I suppressed the back chat, the more extensive it grew in the back of my mind and I would literally become possessed for days at a time, where I became completely apathetic and could do nothing but lay in my bed. It would take over my body and I would become tense in my back, shoulders, neck and in my legs.

After I listened to the interview Voices trapped me in my mind I started looking at when this pattern started with the voices in my head. And I saw that even when I was a small child and I experienced shock, I would start separating myself from my physical body. Ironically I have been using these thoughts to keep me pre-occupied and away from myself, even if the nature of the thoughts always, always have been self-centered. Even when I thought about others and how to support them, it would be part of my plan of making myself this “good-natured” personality.

In the book  New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle states the following:

“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”

I used to read Echart Tolle and loved quotes like this. I believed that it made me enlightened, uplifted and an upstanding citizen. But what does it actually imply? It implies that we are not responsible for what goes on inside us, for what we participate in and as, as thoughts, emotions and feelings. According to Tolle we are not the voice in our head – we are the observer that sees the thoughts and so we apparently become “liberated” through separating ourselves from the voices in our head. Yes, that is liberating from the perspective that we then have a justification, with endorsement by the spiritual authority that Tolle has become, to not take responsibility for ourselves. It is like a permanent absolution or remission of sins for Catholics: “it is not you, so don’t you worry about it” – sure that gives a form of temporary relief but then what when the thoughts and voices just keep coming, keep speaking? And what happens when we gather in social settings and spiritual gatherings and everyone else is apparently “free” of thoughts and of the dense darkness of the material world and our inner shit just keep coming up? Who will we believe ourselves to be? I believed that there had to be something wrong with me because I could not get to that state of mind that I believed Tolle was in. I thought that there was something wrong with me because everyone else seemed so at ease, so comfortable.

A really cool thing about the interview on Voices trapped me in my mind that assisted me, was when she said that we are only able to judge ourselves because we separate ourselves from ourselves, the same with being hard on ourselves, self-hate and even these ideals we create about ourselves. We externalize ourselves and place ourselves in a relationship with the reflection we have created of ourselves in the splitting up of ourselves. This is what I have done even with and through walking with Desteni. And I can clearly see how I ironically have been holding onto the self-judgment in separating myself from myself because I wanted to hold onto the ideal image I had of myself as being tolerant, “good natured” – anything that I saw my mother was not. And in looking back, I was exactly like my mother. I judged and despised her for being judgmental and no-one is responsible for that than me.

So what is the solution? Not to reject the thoughts or the voices in our head saying “this is not me” – because it IS me – it is who and what I have created myself as, who and what I have accepted and allowed myself to be and become, through years and years of participation as the voices in my head, endorsing them, fueling them,  holding onto them as myself. This is the point: the voices in our head ARE us – they are a part of us that we have separated ourselves from and thereby given away our self-authority to in doing that.

Thus, it is when I accept the fact that these voices, these thoughts, experiences, emotions and feelings are my own creation of myself in separation of and from myself, that I become able to change. In taking responsibility for the fact that this IS who and what I have created and accepted myself, I can make the directive decision to change. Because until, unless I do that, I exist in a self-made prison, a prison made up of bits and pieces of myself secluded into parts in my mind, into bits and pieces, existing only as that voice as  those different voices in my head.

We cannot simply say “this is not me” as a positive affirmation and then be done with it. That is not taking self-responsibility. That is not self-direction. What it is, is self-suppression in fact and it is a direct abdication of self-responsibility. It is fear of what is inside us, as us — and then only way we can change, is by facing that.

Through walking this process, I have experienced extensive difficulty with self-judgment, meaning that I have found it difficult to stop. Listening to this interview, assisted me to see that there was a point I was missing. I was missing the point that I have been unwilling to let go of my ideals, ideas and definitions of myself that was positively charged. And they were so based on a fear that I was becoming my mother. When I judged my mother, I saw her as I believed others would see her. I judged her as I saw her through what I believed were the world’s eyes,  but it was my judgment of myself, it was me separating me from myself.

I could had looked at who my mother was within this judgment. I could have seen that it was her judgment of herself projected onto the world. I could have supported her to stop. I could have simply seen it for what it was and not participated. I could have learned to understand what judgment is and why it exist in the world. But I did not, because that is not what we learn in this world, that is not the pattern that has been established of how to live and exist. Instead we learn that we must unconditionally follow in our parents footsteps, take over from them, become like them — it is such an integrated rule that we do not even have to write it down in our constitutions or speak about it out loud. It is just the way it is.

No matter what – it is my responsibility because I created it within myself as who I am. I accepted the voices in my head as myself. I am the voices in my head that I have separated myself into and as. So it is my responsibility stop, stand up and change myself. See, the voices in my head might be who and what I have created and accepted myself as, but that does not mean that I have to stay this way forever.

Through participating with Desteni, the Destonians and especially through walking the Desteni I Process I have been assisted with tools and perspectives to actually, by my very own hand, to stop participating in thoughts and back chat. The difference is that we do not suppress the thoughts, we do not pretend that they are not us or who we have become — instead we embrace the thoughts and investigate them in detail, seeing exactly how we created them, one by one. For me this has been a continuous process and I see now that the idealized idea of myself has been a primary point as an obstacle with which I have placed road blocks for myself. So I am here, I am walking this process – I fall and I stand up. And if I can do that, anyone can.

Let’s walk.

 

2012 – I am Anu

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Annuaki, Anu, Desteni2012, Destonians, EQAFE, Equal Money System, God, Reptilian, Reptilian God

The story of Anu is our story, yours and mine. This is our story. It is not a fairytale, a myth, a dream, a night-mare — it is in fact our story. And it is being told at last, so that all can be equally aligned in understanding where we come from and how we have gotten to where we are today in this world, this reality and in ourselves.

In the interview with Anu, he says:

“There is much more within this existence than just your idea of yourself. And one only has so many opportunities and so many chances, and that there is a point where it is too late. And many still within this existence wasting Time! There is such a thing as Time, at the moment. This physical existence is the manifestation of time, and time is being stretched, to allow for windows of opportunity as realization to emerge. But there’s still an extensive amount of: everything is ok, everything is fine! I’m ok and I’m alright! I’ve got time, there’s lots of time! I just have to do this little bit here, little bit there…  Careful! Because that reality can prove to you that you’ve been within an absolute illusion within who you are in existence. So don’t wait till it is too late!”

With his story Anu asks us to initiate our story, for me and you to initiate our story, that realization is possible in every moment. When I heard this – and exactly as Anu, it is not the first time I have heard this and missed the point – I thought: “how is that possible considering ‘who’ I am, ‘where’ I am?”

In these reviews of interviews, I have focused mostly on the story the being was telling or how their story related to “the grand scheme of things” – however with Anu’s story I can see that what is relevant Here – as it is at all times – is to bring the point back to myself.

So how am I wasting time? How do I not stand absolute? How do I believe that “there is enough time”? How have I been missing the obvious for so long when it – as myself here – was right in front of my face the entire time.

Usually when I write, I have a totality of a point within me and all I have to do is simply to write it through from beginning to end. But this time I have no such direction. What I have done when I have listened to the interviews for review has been to latch onto a specific point mentioned in the interview and then ‘rolled with it’ from there, giving perspectives and sharing my own insights.

Not this time. This time I start with the birth and death of myself in every breath. I start here from scratch without a preconception about where this writing will ‘end.’ And I do so because I was ‘inspired’ by Anu’s words and who and what Anu as an emergence of being represented of and as all of us.

As I walk and live my daily life-experience, I exist within a framework of being in full control. I have realized this in relation to living with pets and how they are at my beg and call – I decide when they eat, what they eat, where they eat, sleep and shit.

Initiating my story is the initiation of a story of abuse, deception and control. Except for the purely physiological requirements of a human physical body, I have, as the mind been in total control of the organism that is this body sitting here on a chair typing. I have decided when this body slept, when it ate, what it ate, who it had sex with, how and when it had sex and through participating in emotions and feelings and thoughts, I have superimposed myself as a mind-consciousness-system onto the body, perceiving the body from within and as my ivory tower of the personalities as ego, as a toy, a tool, a mere representation of myself. I have never given much thought or consideration to the processes the body goes through on a daily basis.

In fact, I have forced the body into submission and I have used it as scapegoat, as a place to cast my spite and vengeance. When I say this, I mean it quite literally. An example is a pattern I have recently realized, where, if I experience that someone has done me wrong or that I have been treated unfairly, I have suppressed the experience of anger, and immediately taken this anger out on the body as a twisted form of punishment through indulging myself in food or candy or entertainment or even drugs. In this pattern my idea of myself is that I am in pity and that I deserve some kind of treat or compensation for the wrong that has been done to me. So I indulge – but what I have actually been doing is to punish myself, force myself to eat foods that were not supportive for my body inverting my anger towards myself. I know where this pattern stems from, and I am working with stopping and releasing it through the writing of a Mind-Construct about that period I my life in the Desteni I Process.

Once seeing this, it is a shock to discover that I have done exactly to myself as Anu did to existence. I am Anu.

The body is an organism, a community made up by all the cells, the blood stream, the nerves, the muscles, the organs, the skeleton, exactly as the universe has stars and milky-ways or how the earth exists as an eco-system carefully orchestrated by all life-forms, plant, animal and mineral-life. The body is no different.

And I have been existing as the sole ruler, the god over myself as an eco-system, a planet, a universe. There has been absolutely no equality in my ruling of myself, because it has all been about one point: consciousness. The consciousness as my experience and perception and acceptance of myself from within and as the mind, only caring about my own ideas and feelings based on accumulated threads of memories and information intertwined and tangled into each other into personalities that I perceive and experience as a monocracy that I perceive as “myself”, a single entity.

What is best for all as the entirety of the system that starts with this physical body and is no different in the world or existence as a whole, is not something I have ever considered. I have only considered my body-functions and possible diseases from a starting-point of avoiding pain and death.

How the blood stream, the intestines or the organs experience themselves in the human physical body is never something that has crossed my mind. Why? Because I have been entirely obsessed with my idea of myself in the mind. I have not given a shit about the body or its components and life-forms, because all I cared about was what the body could do for me, what it would get me, how I could use the body to create experiences of pleasure and excitement.

My entire life has been about indulgence, about getting to the next sensory experience and no matter how the body has responded; I have kept going and going – exactly as Anu. And the body has simply been here all along, silently and unconditionally supporting me, no matter what – exactly as the earth, the plants and animals has done for us as human beings for so long.

So this is the core of my message today and what I got from listening to the interview with Anu: that I have existed as an Anu in myself – even in the words commonly used to describe this living as “my own body” – I have perceived the human physical body as my property, not even existing in itself.

This is the thing with slavery – and quite interesting actually, that it only works as long as the one being enslaved is deprived of being considered “life”, sentience or even existing and is silenced to exist only as an object to be used. This is what the human physical body has been to me.

As I have been working with Pilates and with my body in discovering what types of food are supporting I have started to discover myself as the physical. But what I have learned first and foremost is how little I have been in my physical – that is even in itself an oxymoron that shows the absolute absurdity of how we have existed. Because no matter what we are in fact here in the physical – we are in fact here as the physical. So the fact that we can live in a way that is not physical, described not even being in the physical, but in a make-belief reality in our minds, ought to serve as a wake-up call that something is not as it should be in this world and in ourselves.

It is fascinating the belief that we must control the body through the mind, because that in itself is a form of dictatorship, where one part of the eco-system is placed above all else, as a god that dictates and decides how to live and interact. It is simply not an effective – or the best way – to exist.

So what I am looking at here is the understanding and progressing realization that the body is a multitude of equal parts, equal parts and make up a whole, the whole that is me walking around, living, typing, existing – this is the wholeness through and with which I can stand for what is best for all. As the entirety of me as the human physical body stand for what is best for all, all parts will operate optimally as they will all support each other and none will claim to be more or less than other parts. The body does not require a king or a god or a monocratic leader because it’s oneness consist of and exist as equal parts – the liver cannot exist without the kidneys functioning just like the blood and the heart work together.

It is about time that we as human beings start seeing that this is what is required on this planet, if we are to co-exist and not destroy ourselves through a simultaneous implosion and inflation of the world systems we live in and as.

The body is not a temple, but it is also not an object or a slave of consciousness. And furthermore: this entire point is in reverse; consciousness is not who I am or who we are. From that perspective consciousness is an artificial insemination that is ‘born’ from an accumulation of consequences, over and over until we began believing that all these excuses, justifications and lies, were who – and all we were.

The physical is here. The physical is the totality of what is here. And as I exist in and as a human physical body, I too am a part of that. There is no one to blame for what is here. All we can do is to as the whole take responsibility for the parts we are standing in and as, and as the parts we are standing in and as, take equal responsibility for the whole.

I am not the god over the body. I do not have “a right” to do with the body as I please.

Realizing ourselves in the moments of opportunity becomes a lot easier and accessible as we stand one and equal in the group that is the community of the human physical body, feet grounding by gently pressing into the earth below us, ears alert, eyes open, back straight and breathing ourselves in and out, through the lungs, the blood stream, the heart. In that we can stand in self-support, all parts coming together in this moment of realization – equal and one, best for all.

 

 

 

 

2012 – Gender Equality and Women’s Rights by Sunette Spies

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Desteni Cult, Desteni2012, Destonians, Equal Money System, Feminism, Gender Equality, Sunette Spies, Women day, Women's Rights

“80% of the victims of human trafficking are women; 60 million girls are forced to get married every year as minors; in the European Union, which adores calling itself “civilised” and imposes itself on other regions with a top-down approach, between 40 and 50 per cent of women have been the victims of some form of sexual harassment at work; 25 per cent of women worldwide are subjected to physical or sexual abuse.
What have the 101 Women’s Days done for the one third of women beaten, coerced into sex or abused during their lifetimes in some regions of the globe? For the one sixth of American women who have been the victims of rape or partial rape or attempted rape?” View source here.

“I suggest a change in the question “What have 101 Women’s Days done…” to “What have we done?”. It is frightening in itself that Woman have to “fight to be a woman”, to “fight for rights” in this world, where countless women in this world is still haunted by a generational past of the inequality between males and females for centuries. In addition to this – many people in this world is not even aware of/educated on the struggles of women in this world; as we’re so conditioned by family/education to only be taught lessons on ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘survival in the system/money’ and most of the REALITY of what is really going on this world is side-lined/veiled.
I suggest an approach to ‘woman’s rights’ not within the vantage point of ‘fighting it’ – because, in the very starting point of ‘fighting for something’ we’re ‘fighting against something else’, and then it simply becomes a state of war – a war within gender-equality that has, as seen within the statistics: not brought forth any solution to the current relationship between males and females in this world, especially for women.
The main problem that we’re facing here is the definitions of relationships between males and females within all the different cultural/socio-political/socio-economic factors that interplay within countries/generations.

We require a solution, where – in this world, you will not be placed in a position of responsibility only based on money, class, gender, race or culture; but each self honestly have a look at what they are ‘good at’ / ‘capable’ of doing/contributing to the world as a whole. A system that is not governed by the principles of Money, but the principle of what will contribute to all of humanity in equality and oneness for each and all to have a dignified life in this world. Where education will change to REALITY-education, getting to know ourselves, how we function/exist, the nature of all relationships within existence, how we can develop/grow/expand as human beings, and no more have education only orientated towards ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘surviving the system of money’.
The situation of gender-equality is but one of consequential-outflows of our past generations as the sins of the fathers being passed-on throughout time, where we’ve been possessed by the voices of our past generations that has now being our mind, our thoughts, our internal conversations, our behaviours – not considering stopping, questioning that: how things has always been done, has obviously not worked to the actual betterment of humanity as clearly seen in the evidence of this world/reality.

It’s time for the generations of the young that is now here in this world to stop for a moment, to look at this practical world/reality and see: how we’ve always done things/approached people/this world has had no effect of change to anything/anyone: on the contrary – it’s gotten worse. We have to take the responsibility of what the past generations have left here: if we don’t do it – no-one will. We’ve still got a window of opportunity in this life to change/transform what is here if we all stand together.

So – we have to stand as the future, and I suggest investigating the Equal Money System and Desteni, through which and within which we’re accumulating 1 + 1 + 1 – one by one by one, as human beings that are stopping the transfer of the sins of the fathers, and standing up to take responsibility for and transform this mess that has been left to us, to prepare an existence for future generations with no more inequality, separation, conflict, wards, starvation, famine, poverty, slavery exist.
It starts with you. Join us.” – Sunette Destonian Spies

2012 – Music that Changed my Life: The Forgiveness Song by Matti Freeman

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Desteni2012, Destonians, Equal Money System, Equality Song, Matti Freeman, Protest Songs, Self-Forgiveness, World Change

This song changed my life when I first found Desteni and discovered Self-Forgiveness. http://eqafe.com/i/abrix-thomsen-mfm-radio-forgiveness-song It brought a word as “Self-Forgiveness that sounded abstract and religious back to practicality and in brutal self-honesty assisted me to face myself as who and what I have accepted and allowed myself to live and exist as.

Music and Lyrics by Matti Freeman 2008. Matti Freeman:”This song came through shortly after I began my Process of Self Honesty with Self Forgiveness in the quest for universal equality for all life to have a world where participants act in ways that are best for all life.”

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Ring Tones by Matti: http://eqafe.com/categories/ringtones

2012 – The Dark Side of My Life as a Psychic

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Clairvoyance, Desteni2012, Destonians, Equal Money System, Lightworker, Psychic, Psychic abilities, Spirituality

‎ Here I share the story of my life as a psychic and I expose the Dark Side of working as a psychic. Even before I was born, I was prophesied to be special.  My grandmother was working with the Chinese divination tool called I-Ching and while my mother was pregnant with me, my grandmother laid the I-Ching coins for my mother so that they could see what kind of person I would be. Apparently the answer they got was that I would be a savior of some kind. When I was two my mother was told by a shaman that I had “abilities”. I was told none of this until I became a teenager but already then was the “path” laid out for me to eventually step into a life of spirituality and “magic”. Little did I know that it was not a path to enlightenment, but in fact the path to utter self-deception and disconnect from reality.

Already as a small child, I would start crying when I was around drunken people and could always sense what people were really experiencing, in spite of what they might present themselves as. It was my foster mother that introduced me to spirituality when I was 15 and my first encounter with a psychic was when I went with my foster mother to get a reading from a psychic lady. I felt very special and in awe. I created a belief that this woman was special and that the information she could give me, would change my life. Mostly I wanted to be told that I was special and that I had abilities and I also wanted to know what my future would be like.

The reading itself was quite expensive and because of this, I believed that this psychic lady was “the real deal”. She told us that she was communicating with spirits and that they were speaking to her in different languages. I found that very fascinating. I remember only now that she did actually say that I would have a career in sociology or something like it. She also said that I would work at a magazine. I took every word in. After that I started becoming very interested in divination and psychic abilities. I wanted to be a clairvoyant myself so I would literally look for signs that I was special and had these special abilities.

As a teenager and young adult I had some experiences that profoundly made me aware of my apparent clairvoyant and psychic abilities and through which I eventually ended up working as a psychic myself.

The first experience was in relation to a boyfriend I had. We were driving and he was driving very fast. Suddenly I heard a voice saying “He is going to die young in a car-crash, he is going to die young in a car-crash” over and over. I did not think much of it as he was driving really fast. Around six months later, we had broken up and I was riding my bike to school with a friend. We were driving on a narrow road with cars parked on both sides next to each other. Suddenly a truck came and it felt like it hit me. My friend was riding on the inside towards the cars, so she was thrown in onto the curbs. I remember seeing a wheel coming towards me but I am quite sure that this is an over-dramatization that I have placed onto the memory at a later stage (this is not the first or only memory where I have done that). Anyway, the truck drove on and we lay on the street, shocked and feared we had hurt ourselves. I had small bruises and scrapes all over and we went to the emergency room to get checked out. It turned out nothing had happened to either of us.

When I got home later that day, I got the news that my ex-boyfriend had killed himself in his car. Suddenly I remembered the day we were driving and was shocked and intrigued, even in the midst of a tragic situation, how close I had been. He died in his car exactly as I was in a car-crash.

After that I had no doubt that I was a psychic and slowly started building myself as a personality of a psychic. The next experience was when I was with another boyfriend. We were talking about an experience he had had were he had been abusive towards a homosexual guy. He admitted that he had a problem with homosexuals and as we were talking about it, I suddenly was overwhelmed with an image and experience of a small boy being molested by an older man. I explained what I was seeing and feeling to my boyfriend and he got extremely angry. He said “who told you that?” and finally shared that he had had a sexual encounter with another boy where they had touched each other and where he had felt violated by the other boy’s advances. Later I interpreted my “vision” as having picked up on the feeling of the experience, as that of being violated and then I had created the image of the child and the adult to fit the experience.

When I look at these experiences now, I can see how I simply wanted to be a psychic and so I did everything to fit my experiences and memories into that, even altered them so that I would seem more special in my own and in the eyes of others.

A couple of years later, I had a friend that wanted to go to a workshop for psychics to see if she was psychic. I decided to go with her and was already hyped about me showing off my abilities. I can see now how I was already then stepping into an ego-personality of superiority and being special.

When we got to the workshop we had to do some exercises to experience our psychic abilities. One of the exercises involved sitting in front of each other and simply “tune into” the other. I immediately started “receiving” information about the other person and quickly wrote an entire page. I could later see that the more one was able to simply “jump into it” without fear of making mistakes, the easier it was to get the information.

The teacher was very impressed with me and after my second visit there, she offered me to partake in an education towards becoming a certified psychic coach. I felt extremely special and I immediately said yes. She even offered me to take the course which lasted for one year for half price as I did not have the money to participate, something that also made me feel special. During that year as I partook in the lectures and seminars and gave many, many hours of psychic readings, I developed my abilities to give readings and became more and more engulfed in the spiritual community.

When I did my readings I always focused on that the readings should be as close to 100 % as possible, saying to myself that it was because otherwise it would be worthless, but there was also an aspect of that where I was competing inside myself and with the other psychic students.

We had lectures in auras, chakras, the spiritual world’s build up and experimented with different types of psychic reading and clairvoyance. At the end of the education I also became interested in channeling as I saw channeling as superior to psychic reading, so I decided to start “channeling”, which involved writing things out in nonsense language and speaking nonsense – lol – it was all make-belief. In the beginning I was mostly interested in the fantasy-aspect of psychic readings, in telling people about their pasts lives and how special they were, but eventually my readings developed to be more of a “here and now” snapshot of where the being were in their lives and how I could assist them to realize points about themselves that would support them in what I believed to be their personal and spiritual process.

I also got a vast amount of psychic readings from all kinds of people. Often they would be about past lives and the one’s that told me I was special was the one’s I liked the most. My favorite reading was with a lady that told me that I had been a dragon hunter in a past life.

As these readings became a constant part of my life, I got less and less interested in them. I started experiencing that what we were doing at the school was fake. It was however clear that there was money to be made in the business of psychic readings so when I had completed the “degree” in psychic coaching I started working as a psychic part time.

In the beginning I enjoyed it a lot. My favorite part of the reading has always been to “jump in” to another being’s life and experience, open up the information and see how I could assist them in whatever they were walking through in their lives. Many stories opened up and exposed points of depression, sadness, adultery, but increasingly I started experiencing that the people who came wanted to be told that they were special, that they too had special abilities, exactly as I had years before. They came to hear what they wanted to hear, for example in suspicion that their partner was cheating on them or in wanting to be told that someone was their sold-mate.

Often when such people came, they could walk away angry simply because I did not say what they wanted to hear. At some point I visited a well-known psychic woman who were making lots of money and who also had her own school for psychics. When I came in, I was wearing different clothes than I would normally wear, and one of the first things she said to me was that I liked partying and going out drinking, which could not be further from the truth. Everything she said seemed to be based on a brief look at my clothes, it is called cold reading – where the psychic does not actually access any information, but instead simply “reads” the person. So if the person looks sad, the psychic will “pick up” on that and say something like: “I sense you are experiencing sorrow.” Slowly but surely the pedestal I had placed the psychics on, started crumbling and I started doubting my own abilities.

I was becoming suspicious towards the very act of getting psychic messages and my vocation as a psychic. Many times I was requested to attend bachelorette parties as the entertainment segment of the night – I said no every time, because at that time I took my psychic abilities quite seriously and essentially believed that they should be for free. But as I went to spiritual and alternative health conventions, all I saw was people making money, including myself in how I actually saw that I would be able to make this ability my job.

I finally realized that there is no reason why the spiritual with their abilities should not take money, that there was no differences between spiritual work and any other form of work. I realized that it is a deception to believe and claim that the spiritual should be free because this world is based on survival through the accumulation of money – and even the most esteemed gurus or people like Eckhart Tolle cash in lots of money.

But there was a perception and belief in the spiritual communities that we were more pure than normal people who slaved away to survive, there was a belief that it was only those in lower frequencies that had to work to survive, that it was possible to live without money in a more pure and dematerialized life.

So I strived towards becoming free of material possessions. I stopped working as a psychic and would only do readings for my friends once in a while. For a long time I judged the entire spiritual community as I judged myself for having allowed myself to get sucked into this fantasy dream world; where everyone pretends like they are doing it for the Universe, but really just want to be special. Like the saying goes: “Believing that we are special and unique is the most common belief in the world”.

I just wanted to be special. That is the hardcore truth. I never investigated where the messages were coming from or if they were even coming from anywhere but my own imagination – because I was so consumed in my role that I had assumed and made for myself that I refused to look at common sense or self-honesty.

In participating with Desteni I have learned that physics, channels and mediums as they have existed in this world has been programmed to be who and what they are in a vicious and manipulating political game – yes, a political game – where heaven, as the elite standing above all and everyone else, presented these people to give forth the messages that people wanted to hear, exactly as the media and the spin-doctors spin the stories so that the public will accept it.

It could have been a shock to me, but it was not. It made complete sense. And so I started walking the process of untangling myself of the mess I had created through deceiving myself into spirituality. I realized that it is possible to remain here and simply see another being as and if we are able to see and listen unconditionally. It is not a magic trick, it is not that the being seeing another is more than or more special than the other. It is simply a seeing here and we are all able to do it, if we only let ourselves see and hear what is here.

Investigate Desteni. Become a real truth-seer as you start seeing yourself and what is here as who and what we have accepted and allowed ourselves to be and become.

Suggested reading and listening for extended perspectives:

Questions and Perspectives: How was psychics and channels controlled and why?

Chakras, The Soul and Astral Projection

History of Mankind – Part 109 – Psychic Self Testing

History of Mankind – Part 34 – Psychics

Information from a Psychic or Channel

Bernard Poolman – Light Worker 101

Articles and perspectives from the Desteni Material:

Questions and Perspectives: Oneness and Equality with regards to ‘Channelings’

 Questions and Perspectives: Oneness and Equality with regards to ‘Channelings.

Original Article: http://desteni.co.za/a/questions-and-perspectives-oneness-and-equality-with-regards-to-channelings

By Winged

Date : 25/01/2008

Have a look at considering the following with regards to the ‘channelings’ – and the principle to be taken into consideration is oneness and equality.

The question is: Why oneness and equality?

I, in one moment – moved completely, entirely out of my human physical body and experienced myself within and as the dimensions – as though ‘dying’ but my physical human body remained here ‘alive’, and as I moved out – another being entered my human physical body: And I could actually see this as I experienced me within the dimensions, see the other dimensional being within and as my human physical body communicating to the other human beings who was sitting around my human physical body – a complete swap had taken place. So in that moment I knew my body is still here, I am still here – there is another being experiencing themselves within and as my human physical body communicating and expressing himself with the other human beings, so I might as well explore the dimensions and return later – so I did!

What we discovered according to ‘what was going on’ within the dimensions and ‘what was really going on here on earth’ was shocking and unexpected, because nothing within this world and human beings is what seems according to what you see with your human physical eyes.

This is how we discovered the ‘mind’ – how human beings’ define themselves as the mind and that the mind is actually a programmed system specifically designed and manifested within and as the human physical body – which human beings have come to believe and perceive themselves to be as ‘who they are’. There were interdimensional systems, implants, devices of multiple variations within and as the human physical bodies of human beings – controlling and enslaving them to remain within and as their mind system designed ‘self’, human beings literally programmed to exist as they do currently within this world – through the mind consciousness system design as what they ‘think’ / ‘believe’ they are. And that your very thoughts/feelings and emotions, that which you experience within you = is of this very system: And human beings were not aware of this in any way whatsoever – no-one was.

This all and many more was discovered as I explored the dimensions, together with Bernard – we investigated everything within this world and the dimensions and realised that the dimensional existence, was no different to how it was here on earth experienced by human beings = no difference.

Now the question:

How will h uman beings hear what we have discovered, realised, understood, seen, experienced in the past two years (it was two years that we investigated the dimensions, dimensional beings, earth, human beings, existence before we started the website) as we explored and investigated what was really going on within and as this existence?

How are we going to assist and support human beings to realise what is really going on in this world, within themselves – and how they’re individually able to assist and support themselves – to ‘stop existing as a mind, because it is that very mind system within and as them, which human beings are participating in because they think/believe it to be ‘who they are’ that is currently manifesting, designing and forming this world it is experienced by all in this moment?

How are we going to assist human beings to understand the importance of realising that everything they have ever believed, trusted, had faith in, loved and experienced within themselves as ‘who they are’ = is not real, but all consisting of their mind, a designed programmed system within and as which they are enslaved?

How are we going to assist and support human beings to be able to assist and support themselves to stop participation in their mind system as who and what they think/believe themselves to be – to stand up, live, experience and express ‘who they really are’

Before I continue – I would like to expound on the ‘who we really are’ principle, and what I mean by ‘who you really are’:

I have walked this process for quite some time with Bernard, even before I could move completely out of my human physical body and experience me within the dimensions. He had walked this process of stopping the mind and standing up, living, experiencing and expressing ‘who he really is’ – he had walked for 14 years when realising ‘who he really is’ and thus, ‘who all really is’ and he’s still walking, in every moment of breath here as ‘who he is’ – not stopping until all of existence realise ‘who they really are’.

Let me explain: He said to me once that he found something that exists within and as each and every single human being, each and every single particle/refraction as expression that exists – which he discovered exists within and as ‘who he really is’ – this is Life, Life as all as one as equal.

And this ‘point’ – Life, exists within and as each and every single one of us, each and every single refraction that exists – one and equal – and he walked a process of 14 years with absolute self commitment, self dedication and self discipline when discovering ‘who he really is’ as life and discovered that life as ‘who he really is’ as Life as all as one as equal exists within and as each and every single being/expression within existence. Thus, each and every single being/expression within this existence – ‘who we really are’ is life as all as one as equal – but is only able to be self realised through a process, an extensive process, as it cannot be given, because you can’t be given yourself – you must realise you for you as you.

So, he’d been looking/searching for a way for human beings to hear – because no-one wanted to listen/hear what he had to say, and so he realised that if he could bring together enough beings and assist and support them within and throughout the exact process he had walked, to realise who they really are as life as all as one as equal as he realised himself, if enough beings commit, dedicate and discipline themselves to apply and live this process in realising ‘who they really are’ and how to live, experience and express and apply you here in every moment of breath as ‘who you really are’: Maybe then many more will also start hearing, in this way: Human beings will start hearing.

You may ask: But, what do you mean by ‘no-one wanted to hear’ – see, when in and as your mind, all that exists is your mind, a programmed system, therefore you are programmed in such a way to only ‘hear’ what you are programmed to ‘hear’, you will only listen to that which you ‘know’ and which will not ‘compromise’ ‘who you think you are’ of and as the mind. Thus, you will only listen/hear that which keeps you in the limitations and boundaries of your mind-set as ‘who you think you are’. And what we’re saying here, through the material and video interviews – is way beyond the ‘mind’s programmed nature’ of human beings.

Therefore some will fear what is said, ridicule it, judge it, resist it – because they fear losing ‘who they think they are’ of the mind as the mind and will only listen/hear that which will validate/support their existence as a mind as ‘who they think they are’ and will thus discard anything else, such as what we are presenting here.

Because here we say: ‘Stop your mind entirely – everything and all that you have ever thought/believed to be ‘who you are’ is not real, but a mind system design’. And this frightens beings, because the mind is all they’ve ever known, ever trusted, ever believed in – but what they don’t realise is that there’s ‘something else’ – ‘beyond the existence of the mind’ = which is who you really are as life as all as one as equal. And it takes a seven year process minimum to walk – to realise it for yourself, dependant on your application. Bernard had to walk for fourteen years, he found ways/methods to ‘shorten’ this process for each one.

So therefore, beings didn’t want to hear him – they were too afraid of ‘losing themselves as the mind’ according to which they have defined ‘who they are’ and therefore he decided he’ll have to ‘approach the situation’ in a different way, by working one-one-one with beings and guide them directly through this process he had walked, and this is how and why I am here. I was but a waitress in a coffee shop, just finished school when I met Bernard and my process started.

But he realised that in walking with beings individually, directly one-one-one would take lifetimes – thus, there had to be another way, to assist and support many human beings at once, but couldn’t find a way.

Then the Portal opened – as I moved out of my human physical body, and experienced myself within the dimensions. And this was also still when demons existed, I’d worked with demons before the Portal opened, I transcended my fear of them and thus I was not afraid, it was actually a demon who was the first being who came within and as my human physical body, the first moment I moved out completely. The reason I mention this is because I have also seen that ‘point’ as ‘who each being really is’ – and the first moment I saw it, was when I observed a demon, while in the dimensions – I could see there within this demon, there I see who this demon really is as life as all as one as equal. But this being believed himself to be a ‘demon’ – ‘lost’, see, demons were no different to human beings at the moment, also ‘lost’ within a mind construct, just like human beings are lost within and as a mind construct/system. So, I took the demon, while I was within the dimensions – and placed the demon within and as me, I stood one and equal as the demon as me as ‘who we really are’, and I held him and I showed the demon as me ‘who he really is’ as one and equal as me as ‘who we really are’ as Life. And because of quantum time = the demon immediately transcended the ‘mind construct’ belief of ‘what he is as demon as who he thought he was’ and realised himself in one moment.

This ‘point’ – Life, existent within and as each one, I have also seen, this as who we really are exists within and as each one – even within the demons.

Now the question: What is ‘Life’ – what do I mean when I say ‘life’:

Even though the demon ‘realised himself’ = it does not stop there, when you realise you, it doesn’t mean you ‘stop’ and ‘wait’ and ‘it is done’ – no, now you have to go into self application, self expression as life, and this is what it means:

In realising ‘who you are’ as Life = you stand here as all as one as equal as existence in it’s entirety as one and equal as you, you ‘become’ the living manifestation of life as all as one as equal as everything and all that exists. In this – your responsibility is towards you as all of existence – to walk this process together with all of existence as you, until each and every single refraction/ex­pression/being is one and equal as you as life, until all are one and equal as life = so, you apply you, you move you, you direct you = until all are one and equal as life: Until it is done, no matter what – you walk here in every moment of breath.

So, in the opening of the Portal – we focused on assisting and supporting all dimensional beings to understand ‘oneness and equality’ in application, because the dimensions were a mess, no different to how the world exists at the moment. The dimensions were not even near human beings, not even here on this ‘earth plane’ – only the demons existed amongst human beings. All the other dimensional beings were in different various dimensional planes, different heavens, different alternate dimensional existences, different dimensional planets – all existing in separation and fear of themselves and each other, also lost within their own ideas/perception of themselves as mind constructs = all of the dimensions were lost in mind constructs, just like human beings on earth.

The channels and psychics within this world were not channeling ‘actual real dimensional beings’ – there were absolutely no dimensional beings, coming here through the channels that exists in this world, at all – there were literally only demons here amongst human beings.

See – ‘dimensional beings’ (the one’s that were not ‘demons’) did not enjoy coming down to earth, amongst human beings to ‘channel’ as they much preferred to remain blissfully ignorant of what was happening within and as this world together with human beings and be by themselves within the dimensions and do what they want to do – they did not care for human beings in any way whatsoever.

So, they devised a way to design the mind system of certain specific human beings known as ‘channels’ in this world – in such a way, to ‘presumably channel an actual dimensional being’, but what human beings as ‘channels’ within this world is currently ‘channeling’ is a ‘designed programmed system of information’ as a ‘being’ within and as their unconscious mind of their mind system, that works automatically so that an actual dimensional being doesn’t have to come through from the dimensions. The ‘programmed designed channel system’ in the ‘channels’ unconscious mind, as a ‘programmed designed being-system’ speaking information according to which it was designed to speak – then dimensional beings didn’t have to come through at all, as the ‘channel system’ designed and programmed as the human being as channels’ unconscious mind did it automatically. Therefore – the ‘channeling here, you sent us’ and this is all ‘channelings’ that come through human beings as ‘channels’ within this world = is not actual real dimensional beings at all, but they are channeling an ‘information designed programmed system’ from within their own unconscious mind.

All of the dimensions, for the past three years have been in the process of establishing oneness and equality within and as themselves, there exist no more demons, no more ascended masters/gods/god­desses/angels, no more ‘dimensional planes’, no more ‘dimensional planets’, no more ‘soul constructs’ – all of the dimensions, all dimensional beings are one and equal within and as their individual processes.

With regards to Bernard finding a way of how we’re able to assist and support ‘more beings’ at once within this process:

We have focused for the first two and a half years only on the dimensions – in assisting and supporting them within their process of being able to assist and support human beings effectively here on earth, then to also open the website and do video interviews to assist and support human beings from here, while dimensional beings assist and support human beings as themselves, as dimensional beings assist and support themselves within their processes. So human beings and dimensional beings may assist and support themselves one and equal = within t his process of realising ‘who we really are’.

And therefore, the website is here, the video interviews is here = for those who will hear, this is how we found will be the most effective way for human beings to hear and realise and understand what is really going on within this world and human beings.

So the question: Are you ready to hear?

Understand that what is coming through ‘channels’ at the moment is a ‘programmed design system’ within and as their unconscious mind, not an actual dimensional being – such as for instance this ‘channeling’ you sent us. I am certain of this, because I am within the interdimensional existence, just like any other dimensional being – there is no ‘Sanat Kumara’ that exists, there is no more ‘soul constructs’ that exists – the entire soul construct was a system to enslave human beings to their own mind and was able to be removed interdimensionally while the dimensions were within their process of standing up and understanding oneness and equality as ‘who they really are’.

Thus, I will leave you with some video interviews and articles to go through – and after this that I have given perspective for and going through the video’s and material – you decide for you, within and as self honesty as you – whether what is said within these ‘channelings’ stand within and as oneness and equality as life, assisting and supporting human beings individually to stand up and take self responsibility to assist and support themselves as life as who they really are and whether what is said is ‘valid’.

Articles:

http://desteni.co.za/Osho/kryon3.htm

(Kryon: Pre-programmed channels)

http://desteni.co.za/Osho/Osho1.htm

(Osho: Changes)

http://www.desteni.co.za/a/osho-changes

(Buddha: The end of the Soul and Reincarnation)

http://www.desteni.co.za/a/buddha-the-end-of-the-soul-and-reincarnation

Bernard Poolman – The History and purpose of channeling

 Written by Bernard Poolman

Original Article:
http://www.desteni.co.za/a/bernard-poolman-the-history-and-purpose-of-channeling

Date : 06/07/2007

This is a fascinating question. When you go back to about 1900 and study the work of Baird Spalding – Life and teachings of the masters of the far-east, you notice an interesting situation. The nature of interdimensionality is part of life. Beings appear, communicate, walk on water – all normal in that time.

This book entered my life in a strange way. When my father-in – law died, he was a deep trance medium and a healer on earth, I communicated with him the first time two days after his death. The session was difficult and strained. He told me he left me a gift and told me where to find it in his office. These books really tickled my fancy and interest; this event took place in the early 1990’s. This was the last time I spoke to my father-in–law till the intedimensional portal opened. Not that I did not attempt to contact him. I tried all the time, because we use to investigate and discuss interesting topics all the time, but to no avail—he remained silent.

What he explained to me once we were face to face at the portal, was that to make sure he was not recycled to Earth by the White Light, he had to act as if he was mad. When beings acted mad in the dimensions, they were normally left alone as the white light did not see them as a threat that they could wake up from their conditioning.

I studied the books of Baird Spalding and found something fascinating. Although much of what was to come and technologies to be discovered was indicated, by the 1950’s all disappeared. Even the publishers indicated that since Spalding’s death no-one knew where the stuff is he referred to in his books or what happened to the information.

I followed the channelings of all beings I could find. Tested the practical workability of it here on earth. Will this change the experience of us here on earth? , was the question I asked. Is this how God wanted me to experience him as his Image and Likeness?

Some of the channeled information I experienced as real in my reality although it became clear only as real as I would believe in it and create it as I see it as part of myself. I used Kinesiology to infuse and test applications. I did this for a period of 12 years. I established my own library and collected books, looking for the answer that was apparently me, but I simply could not find it. I went into seclusion to meditate and silence all – to no avail.

The reason; I am still HERE. And this here is the world. I must pay rent, buy food, educate children. Nothing made sense.

The channels were disseminating beautiful words and inner experiences which I applied and followed but it made no practical difference to HERE. I listened to people giving discourses and teaching about channels and new energies. Fascinating, when you got close to them, you could see – they are not living or becoming in all of their experience what they are teaching. A separation occurs. They still pay rent, need money for food and are slaves to a system – the system that controls this reality. Unless they get enough people to believe in the channels and buy products related to the channels, their work was to no avail and their lives end in misery. Many lives did end in misery or giving up.

The question was why? All these words of hope, of beautiful inner experiences, no change to the HERE of the world. No change to our reality.

I contemplated and tested. Let me be in a cave as a sage and find Peace and Nirvana. Will I able to be present Here and be able to make a practical substantial difference? What is directing the HERE we experience as the world in our day to day participation? Why did the words and examples of Jesus or Osho or Buddha or any being that reached inner greatness not make a difference to the HERE in this world.

Obviously, when I studied the beings, I noticed that what they presented was not practical in this world. What became clear is that this world is based on groups of beings that amalgamate with beliefs and then follow it as something greater than themselves, waiting for some intervention to save them or waiting to die to go to heaven.

All we’re waiting for is each other or an event. Some tried to change. Gandhi did, but look, he changed a country, but not the people. Mandela he changed a country but not the source of the people or how the people acted. He did nothing to change the self directed principle in the being as the being. He could not. Each must do that for self. It was clear that we are at some level responsible, but we seem unable to understand this responsibility while we are in the middle of survival and making money.

Eventually, I distanced myself from the channels and psychics – I could get no practical way that will make a difference in this world. It was clear that HERE in this world, we are alone and that not any one man in this world will make a difference. We require agreement between all. We require realization that we are the creators of this reality in all ways.

How is that possible to reach such agreement between all in this world as it is HERE now in its present form and manifestation? Impossible with everything that we know and understand now, impossible in all religions, by then even the channelings became a religion of inner journeys, beautiful words – No new INFORMATION. NO PRACTICAL DIRECTION – NOTHING that will prepare the way for the CHILDREN to come or help us realize that we are the practical answer to the problem we have accepted as our world and reality.

I researched practical ways to breakthrough. Then a flicker of light. If we ALL could READ effectively! Maybe that will help. I pushed reading. Some beings responded and expanded, but the notion that we are responsible for the HERE of our reality – No ways – immediate deep despair and depression came over me.

Then I discovered the Demons. A challenge – will they be able to possess me? Can’t they be helped? This led to the portal opening and a series of events that led me to the dimensions and the White Light and the Annunaki and the Angels and much more.

Then – where are all the masters that were channeling? I spoke to them. They were like me – they explained to me that all channels were preprogrammed according to the instructions of the White Light and the Annunaki. This started in seriousness with Alice Bailey. My reality was being shattered daily. The anger grew. How is this possible? Where is God? What is going on? Despair. I will end in the same heaven in the same situation. NO WAY ! There must be another way. What am I willing to practically do? Am I willing to tempt fate and death? There was nothing else. Just ME. Am I going to accept this? Can this be directed?

For months I tested and probed and communicated. Day after day. No answer. I found beings spread throughout the universe. Many were in absolute despair. They said to me there was no answer. They have tried. God abandoned creation? Or was there no God? Is there only me? Have I done this to myself?

I looked at all practical possibilities. If we direct this situation, where is an answer possible? I went into the darkness and the light and everywhere only found deceit and evil. Power and greed, fear and disdain. Many heavens waiting for god. I was not alone in this. Sunette walked with me. We compared notes. Some dimensional beings walked with me. We contemplated. I discussed this with Anu, Alice Bailey, Jesus, Mohammed, Osho and many more, Einstein, Jung, Freud, Tesla, beings that just crossed over. Testing information.

No direction stepped forth. The first point that was clear was that we must all come together as one HERE and see what we have allowed. We have to stop. The process of direction started. The gods and goddesses and masters and Satan and the devil were not happy. They had a controlled certain way of doing things that gave them a certain standing in “reality”. Satan and the devil put up the greatest direct fight. They called me a puny human being. What can I do? They blacked out heaven and hijacked Sunette and disappeared with her into the dimensions. What to do. I made a choice. I will not stand for this. I see in each this Oneness and Equality that I see as me. We each have this we can call life. I must interfere. I must act and prove that there is something more. I acted and with the assistance of some beings, all was brought together as one. Still there was fear and deceit. What if god returned? We have turned heaven upside down. We will deal with god when it is HERE, but if I look at it, god would be really pissed off if he sees what we have allowed reality to become. All we have to work with is here in this moment. We must act. If we wait, we will keep on experiencing what we have allowed ourselves to become.

We closed the channels and found all the ways it worked. It was explained. Yet, channeling continued. We sat in the being when they channeled to see where the information was coming from. It came from the MIND. We challenged the MIND, the universal mind, all minds, there were many. It was clear that a process is going to be necessary to understand ourselves. All in heaven was challenged to face self and apply forgiveness. Heaven did participate even if it was only from the perspective that there was no alternative. It was clear that we were infinitely stuck in the same cycles. Both heaven and earth were stuck. We were responsible.

Then it became clear that the information through the channels were going nowhere. It was the inner journey or mind creation of beings with no practical value in stopping, war, famine, crime, abuse or death. Channelings have become inspired beliefsystems that is perpetuating itself like a religion, but is of no practical value for all as one.

What was clear was that death is the equalizer for all on earth. When a being died, they were so grateful to be free from the body and mind.

The body and mind became more clear that it was a structural sound resonance of words and thoughts that seemed stable, but was not. Anu explained its creation as creator of physicality. Fascinating. I discussed this situation with the planets, the universe, the animal kingdom, plants, nature and all agreed. What the MIND of man cannot control was the forces of nature, or all the animals, or the bees, or the bugs or the viruses or death.

They all agreed to become the teachers of man. To stop man from destroying everything through fear and ignorance and survival.

So, channels will continue on earth but no substantial new practical information will come forth. It has become like a religion. Look, the pastor read the bible and prays and become inspired and speaks in the church – NO – this is channeling from his mind the compound energy of his belief. There is no difference between a channel and a pastor. They are both promoting hope to suppress fear. NO CERTAINTY. So, man kind is facing an interesting time. Only time and events will prove this. The guideline is animals, nature, death and all that the mind cannot control. Many will die, new diseases will proliferate. Storms, floods, you name it. All families will be touched.

We will assist, but the process of realizing what we have allowed is personal. Children now born are coming to correct the past, if we are able to assist them not to be trapped by the MIND.

The money system must stop. – See all writings about money. We will focus on the children. First the recently departed children. In fact, the primary assistance on earth now is from children. Many dimensional beings are still in process. When you now cross over, you face all creations, thoughts and past lives you participated in. An absolute recreation of self through forgiveness. Earth is easier than heaven at the moment. That will change and as heaven stand up as each that die face themselves and what they have allowed, assistance on earth will become more directed, but no help is allowed to remove the consequences of what we as mankind have allowed. We must stop and take responsibility and the mess will increase on earth till we wake up. Nothing else is certain. We will stop, either here on earth we will take responsibility or with death we will take responsibility. We will be no more than the responsibility we are willing to take. This is the end of time.

We are grateful to all that stood up and dedicated themselves to freedom and life. Slavery will be no more – we do not know how long it will take. We estimate we are only able to help children up to 7–8 years old. – Few adults will have the discipline to recreate themselves as I showed in the article: I, the living word. Yet, nothing is impossible.

Questions and Perspectives: Unconscious Mind Pre-programmed Channels

   Typed by Winged

Date : 18/10/2007

Question:

For several weeks in June, I transcribed my „conversations“ with Saint Thérese of Lisieux (aka The Little Flower). If anyone is interested in reading and/or commenting, please PM me. Edit: I did have some text posted here but choose not to leave it up indefinitely. Please contact me if you are interested. Thanks!

Perspective:

Hi

Many beings from within the dimensions were specifically reincarnated here on earth to experience a specific life for specific purposes upon their return to the afterlife/dimen­sions.

One of the reasons was for the specific purpose of channeling – the beings’ specific life experience, all information of the beings specific life experience on earth, was ‘downloaded’ and ‘saved’ within the Soul, within the Soul Construct that was manifested within the Solar plexus of each human being on earth interdimensionally. Such beings’ life experiences were not ‘logged’ into the Akashic Records and such specific beings’ who was sent to earth for a specific purpose to experience a specific life – was inserted with what is referred to as a: ‘Clean Slate Soul’.

The information of the specific dimensional being’s experience as a human being on earth was downloaded and ‘saved’ within the Soul – the Soul was connected to the dimensional being, but not of the dimensional being, meaning that the Soul was actually able to be removed upon entering the dimensions after death on earth, as it was a mere circular construct within human beings, connected to the dimensional being within the human physical body (defined as a human being), to download all information of the dimensional beings’ experience here on earth as a human being.

When such specific beings ‘die’ on earth, that was sent to earth to experience a specific life and have specific life experiences, with which all such specific beings’ information of their entire specific life experience was downloaded and saved within their Soul – the Soul will be removed from the dimensional being upon entering the dimensional realm. The moment the Soul is removed – the being themselves that had been sent to earth, that has just come from their specific life experience on earth are sent for what is referred to as: Re-cycling. They’d be reinserted with another ‘Clean Slate Soul’ and experience other different lives on earth – having no remembrance or recollection of the specific life they had ‘just’ experienced.

The reason such specific beings’ specific life experiences’ on earth ‘downloaded’ and ‘saved’ information was not stored within the Akashic Records was for the following reason: The moment they removed the Soul Construct from the specific being – this particular Soul only consisted of information of the specific life experience the dimensional being was sent to experience – they’d actually design and create a ‘being’ of the ‘downloaded’ and ‘saved’ information from within this particular Soul of the specific dimensional being who was sent to experience a specific life experience. Creating a ‘being’ that is a system of information that speaks/communi­cates/interac­ts as the information it is. Therefore – certain human beings in this world ‘channeled’ was but information systems presented as real ‘beings’.

And this is exactly what happened with the dimensional being that was specifically sent to incarnate as: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (aka The Little Flower).

The dimensional being that incarnated on earth as Saint Thérèse was specifically sent to earth to experience themselves as the human being referred to as Saint Thérèse. This process works as follows: Within the dimensions existed a realm that was referred to as the ‘Zombie Zone’ where dimensional beings merely floated around purposelessly and aimlessly – they were suppressed by a dimensional mind consciousness system which wiped them completely of all and any remembrances of themselves and their own existence: All they did was ‘float’ and constantly and continuously move around within the ‘Zombie Zone’ realm. These beings were specifically placed here for specific tasks such as the task the being had who incarnated as Saint Thérèse. Thus, the being who incarnated as Saint Thérèse was taken here from within the ‘Zombie Zone’ realm.

The being (to incarnate as Saint Thérèse) is then inserted with a ‘Clean Slate Soul’ – the Soul Construct which will download and save all information of this particular dimensional beings’ life experience on earth as the human being Saint Thérèse incarnated.

The reason why the being who incarnated specifically as the human being Saint Thérèse, died at such a young age, is because the necessary information was obtained for the specific purpose of transforming the information from the beings’ life experiences into a manifested system design as a ‘being’.

The reason this course of action was required to be taken to transform downloaded information from such a specific beings’ specific life experience that is retrieved from within the Soul – was because the downloaded information from within the Soul contained the ‘essence of experience’ – meaning that the downloaded information of the being’s life experience was of the being themselves and thus contained actual moment experiences the being had in ‘real life’ on earth as a human being. Such actual moment experience contained an essence and it is from this essence that the ‘system designed information being’ was manifested.

Therefore, the moment the being incarnated as the human being Saint Thérèse, had the sufficient information necessary as downloaded information of life experiences on earth within the Soul Construct – the being as the human being Saint Thérèse was removed from earth.

The moment the being as human being Saint Thérèse entered the dimensions – the Soul with downloaded information of the being’s life experience on earth will be removed from the being and the being will either be sent for Re-Cycling to reincarnate again or be sent back upon return to the ‘Zombie Zone Realm’. The downloaded information from within the Soul (which are ‘captured moments’ of life experiences on earth), which still contain the essence of experience, almost like a ‘life essence’, will then be used to design what is referred to as a ‘manifested information system design as a ‘being”. Or they would actually design a mind consciousness system from the information the dimensional being obtained through the downloading of life experiences within the Soul Construct as a human being on earth. The dimensional being would then be inserted as this mind consciousness system consisting of downloaded information of an earth life’s experience and then in such a way ‘activate’ the mind consciousness system – therefore becoming a system that communicates as the information it consists of.

Though in Saint Thérèse’s case – the being who was the human being as Saint Thérèse on earth was sent back to the ‘Zombie Zone’ and all the downloaded information from within the Soul, as all the being experienced on earth as the human being Saint Thérèse, was used to manifest the dimensional ‘system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse.

The channeling of such a dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse for instance worked as follows: A specific human being is then ‘selected’ here on earth to have ‘channeling’ abilities – though such ‘channeling’ consisted of the following practice: This dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse would be infused within the unconscious mind of the selected human being as the unconscious mind of the human being. Instead of such human beings’ unconscious mind being connected to the entire world as all of humanity (meaning being plugged into that what is referred to as the ‘unified consciousness field of the world as all of humanity as mind consciousness systems), such selected human beings’ unconscious mind consist of for instance the dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse. The actual ‘starting point’ of when such ‘channelings’/con­versation is initiated is at/during a specific pre-prepared/pre-programmed moment – the unconscious mind is then activated, which consist as the dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse and voila – the ‘channeling’ is undergo.

Thus – the Saint Thérèse you’re communicating to is a dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse – also connected to the entire religious system of this world, also specifically all the information of the religion that the being as human being Saint Thérèse practiced.

Thus – what you’re communicating to is the manifestation of the dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse as your unconscious mind. The being who was incarnated as the human being Saint Thérèse – never channeled. You have been communicating to a dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse as your unconscious mind.

Because this dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse is your unconscious mind – it is so ‘part of you’ as you – that it’s going to require quite a process for you to ‘remove’ this unconscious mind manifestation as the dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse. See – the unconscious mind is the foundation upon which your entire mind consciousness system within you is based and founded and exists within and as your entire human physical body. The unconscious mind doesn’t only exist within your head/brain area – but is manifested and infused within and as your entire human physical body. Therefore I said that this dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse has become ‘part of you’ as you – because it’s manifested as the unconscious mind – it’s manifested within and as the entirety of you. When you channel – you merely ‘activate’ the unconscious mind as this dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse and you ‘communicate’/‘chan­nel’.

I understand that this must be difficult to comprehend – though you are able to assist yourself and your structural resonance is assisting you as well. The only way you are going to be able to assist yourself in no longer being a slave to a dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse as your unconscious mind – is to let go of the mind completely – to stop the mind.

The ‘situation’ is the following: That you’ve defined ‘who you are’ according to your ability to channel and also according to this dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse as your unconscious mind. Defined from the perspective that its become so much part of you as you because of the manifestation of this dimensional ‘manifested system designed information being’ Saint Thérèse as your unconscious mind – therefore, it’s to altogether STOP the mind in its entirety through forgiveness and practical application.

Understand also, that you’re not alone in this situation as there are many human beings within this world that’s currently ‘stuck’ with such ‘manifested system designed information being’ as their unconscious mind and that each one will have to STOP their mind in its entirety to finally be ‘free’ and release themselves from the enslavement of such manifested systems as their unconscious mind.

2012 – Burma: Virgin Land the Upcoming Travel Destination ?

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Adventure, Asia, Burma, Desteni2012, Destonians, Equal Money System, Myanmar, Travel Destinations, Traveling

The ”Virgin Country”, an ”Untouched land”, a land that is as innocent as Thailand was 30 years ago. These are the words and pictures used by travel agencies promoting Burma (or Myanmar) as the next “upcoming destination”. The British travel agency Explore has reported an increase in 70 extra added trips to Burma this year. Prices on hotel rooms have doubled in a short period of time. The tourists want to “go native” and go to “authentic places” where “authentic people are living”.

Burma  is currently under military dictatorship and as with countries like Tibet, Cuba and North Korea, it has been difficult for tourists to get into the country. Their famous icon the civil rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi was last year released from house arrest and is now running for a seat in the parliament.

But as fast as the development in tourism goes, the infra-structure of the country cannot keep up. A travelling agent called Peter Fredriksen says to an article in Politiken that it is up to the individual travelers and agencies to not “ruin” the country by attending lectures in “responsible tourism”. An example he uses is that it is not smart to give everyone tips as 10 dollars has no impact on the poverty in the country. Similar articles focuses on the neighboring countries with headlines like “eat your way through Laos and Cambodia.”

Now – let’s stop for a minute.

Through the years, Burma has experienced extensive occupation and colonization and it is the home of the world’s longest running civil war. Since 1949 rebel groups such as the Karen have been fighting against the army dictatorship. Initially the war was about independence but now the insurgence is more about the violations of human rights that are being carried out by the military. Across the country the ground is filled with landmines and thousands of people have died. Thousands of people have fled the country and the civil war seems unending. There are nine refugee camps in Burma and Thailand has announced that they plan to send at least 100.000 refugees back to Burma in 2012, which has caused the refugee camps to close their doors for new people coming. Child soldiers are being recruited by both military and rebel groups, yet the military is known for using torture and forcing civilians to work for them.

In spite of Burma being the world’s longest ongoing civil war, the international media has changed its rhetoric and discourse regarding Burma and it is now considering more moderate and civilian, in spite of it being a military dictatorship where civilians are chased from their homes and their villages burned. The international community has consequently (or conveniently) started to see the government more as a civilian government, even though no significant change has happened. A question is whether the international community is acknowledging the dictatorship as acceptable, so that rich westerners can get an adventure in an apparently “untouched land”.

The analogy to the desire for virgins is paramount, where humans are driven to soil, consume and use that which is seen as “innocent” and “pure”. Looking at why Thailand for example is now considered “overrun” and “ruined” than 30 years ago is because of what? Tourism and tourists; westerners who go to live out sides of themselves that they would not be able to in their homelands; having sex with prostitutes and even children, drinking and ravaging as well as being able to live like kings because of the difference in affluence between Thailand and Germany, the UK or the U.S.

The term “eat your way through Laos and Cambodia” is no less paramount in what it depicts figuratively as well as literally as the countries are known for harboring some of the biggest child sex trafficking rings in the world.

But from the perspective of the western tourist that lives in comfort without having to bother themselves with disturbing information such as the one above, they are looking for new and exciting places to go, they are looking for authenticity, oddly enough not to be a part of, but to look at, consume and take pictures of.

There is absolutely no consideration for the Burmese people or for why the country is in the state it is in. The possible danger involved with going to Burma simply adds to the adventure as the tourists seek more and more exotic and adventurous experiences when choosing their holiday destinations. This is something that is also seen in the consumption of porn and drugs, where people require stronger and stronger doses to get the same exhilarating experience. Eventually the body is worn down, the mind is consumed by pornographic images and there is nothing left than a shell of human being, addicted to the chase after new products to consume. This is no different for the earth itself as the humans rape it, consume it and burn it.

If we would only open our eyes to the reality of what is here and see that we are all in fact interconnected and that the lives of people in Burma or Thailand or Cuba are directly interdependent and interrelated with the lives of people in the West. By this I do not only mean how westerners go to these places and somehow “leave a mark”, but also in the very nature of tourism as a manifestation of elitist lives vs. lives of poverty, democratic countries that support the military dictatorship and in turn are rewarded with hotels and sandy beaches.

Considering the deceptive description of Burma as a country that is given by travel agents and international politicians, it is no wonder that the ordinary tourist simply think that they are going to yet another exotic destination — how ever — who are the travel agents and the politicians representing? They are representing the people – and as such the delusion, deception and ignorance of the people. We are the ones that require top open our own eyes and stop the abuse, in any way, shape or form it might take – even when it looks seductively delicious.

Consider that “authentic” does not exist – as who we are, however we live is what is authentic – is who we are. We can rape the earth until there is nothing left, exactly as cancer cells can eat a human body until it dies. Or we can see that tourism is not all it is cracked up to be; we can see that it is us as Western tourists with our demand for new and exciting experiences that are the reasons why Thailand as a tourist attraction that before was considered “pure” and “new”, is now considered nothing “dirty” and “outdated”.

The very nature of being a tourist is not about exploring untouched land in some romantic fantasy of yesteryear discovery of the world – it is about the exploitation of an unequal relationship, a relationship that did not and that does not have to be unequal.

Investigate the Equal Money System, as a new way of co-existing on this earth, where tourism can be carefully considered and designed so that no place is ruined of its natural habitat, where all people have the ability to travel the world and explore new places.

Join us at Desteni where we expose the true nature of man as ourselves and as Destonians walk the process of bringing Life back from “the dead” as who we have become as zombies following desires, fears and thoughts without any consideration or regard for the Life that is here as ourselves.

Sources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6iQ2-y–qU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma

http://politiken.dk/turengaartil/rejsenyt/storbyogkultur/article1560720.ece

http://www.amnesty.ca/themes/myanmar_overview.php

 

Suggested read and watch:

The Concrete Jungle:

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiz7YcAjZyQ

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBpTkcVAAKQ

http://cameronsprocess.blogspot.com/2011/11/sulfur-ghosts-of-indonesia.html

2012 – Music Festivals: The Ultimate gateway to Fun?

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Burning Man, Desteni2012, Destonians, Drinking, Equal Money System, fun, Fusion Festival, Glastonbury, Music Festival, Roskilde, Ruigoord

There are so many festivals all over the world where people go to listen to music, have sex if they are lucky, get drunk and sleep in a tent. I have been to many and done it for years, been a “festival-goer”. I know many who’s done it every year for more than 20 years. For them it is the embodiment of “fun” and “a good time”. But what is actually the point? To get drunk, see if one can get sex and for a moment forget about one’s actual reality of having to slave away at a job one does not like, living on a lie while constantly compromising oneself to survive and “get by”.

It is the same with holidays. See, these “pass-times” are created to provide the illusion that one has control over and that there is some level of freedom in one’s own life — while in fact one is merely “re-charging” and “blowing off steam” so that one can go back to work and relationships and be a good slave that does not suddenly stand up and see what is actually going on. Desteni and the Destonians is and are exactly NOT that.

Why?

Because we are in fact here to stop that — we have realized that all the years we spend going to festivals and getting drunk was an act of self-abdication – of running away from ourselves. We realize that in order to get to live in a world where we do not have to work constantly to survive through compromising ourselves, we require to dedicate ourselves to change what is here: as ourselves and as the world-systems we live in and with. So we re-educate ourselves through the I Process that Amanda linked and through participating in the system.

By getting relevant educations and by getting to know how the world, we prepare ourselves to stand self-responsible in directing the political systems and actually implement a system that is best for all – an Equal Money System – a system that will allow all of us to live and express and have fun, without it being as a way to suppress ourselves and hide from what is here and without it being at the expense of half the world’s population that has never had access to any form of relief from survival because all their time is spent worrying about when they will get their next meal, if any.

So – cool points to consider here for self :
what are my current definitions of fun? Is my current definitions of fun real or are they based on conditioning and in fact survival and brainwash? Consider that a long term solution that will give us a world where every day can be fun and adventurous requires that we dare to challenge our need for instant gratification and question our definitions of what “fun” as we until now have perceived and lived it really is and what the consequences are — not only for ourselves but for everyone.

From there we can make a directive decision to change our definition of fun , to stand in support of what is best for all — as real fun — Fun that all beings on Earth has an equal access to. Real fun is a world that is best for all.

2012 – Global Women: Inequality is Interconnected

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Desteni2012, Destonians, Equal Money System, Global Inequality, Global Women, Sociology, Women Migrating

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.  ~Andrea Dworkin

Abstract

Keywords: Global Women, Inequality, Intersectionality, Feminist Theory, Sociological Theory

(The article was submitted by Anna Brix Thomsen as a part of an examination at Stockholm University in February 2012. A new foreword has been added for the purpose of this publication and a few comments has been added. All rights are reserved.)

The article draws on the initial inaugurators of intersectionality in social science, the black feminists, specifically with Patricia Collins as its representative[1]  with their initial aim of introducing intersectionality as critical approach to the predominant discourse in social science and from there place the term into a current context drawing on scholars such as Leslie McCall and a practical example that is indicative of a new type of inequality that also raise a discussion for a renewal of intersectionality as a methodological tool to analyze society in general and inequalities in particular. This example is chosen specifically to highlight the discussion about how intersectionality has progressed (or should progress cf. McCall 2005) in analyzing new inequalities.  Within placing the introduction text to Global Women in context to intersections of inequality that are emerging, my aim is to show how intersectionality can be applied to extract and understand the underlying inequalities that are playing out within the complexity of women migrating cross the world.

Foreword

The article is written from the starting-point of showing how global inequalities require global political solutions. It is the aim of the paper to show how global inequalities are created in interdependent relationships between the people that have access to the capitalistic system and those that do not. The reason why a woman in the Philippines is unable to efficiently support herself and her children and therefore has to migrate across the world is directly interconnected with how a woman in the U.S or in Europe is able to hire a nanny to take care of her child. It starts and ends with money and in between are the lives and stories of these women and their children. The children are the ones that in the end pay the price of an unequal money-system where no global policy exists and where money is all that matters to everyone because that is how we have constructed our world and our reality to function. These are the children that will grow up and become adults in this world, having to fight for their survival in a constant chase after money – exactly as do we all.

The article stands in support of a Global Equal Money System based on a Global democratic solution as the decision to change the systems and paradigms of this world with which we allow our lives to be managed, directed and controlled – to a system of equality that is based on the basic principle of what is best for all, as the practical living in such a way that all life-forms are equally supported to live optimally.

Introduction

In December 2011, I walked into a small classroom in the basement at Stockholm University for my first session in a course called “Doing Gender”; I had no idea that this course would alter my foundation as a sociologist as well as provide me with an entire new vocabulary and perspective on understanding global inequality. I had never been introduced to feminist theories during my years at the university and I had never before encountered the concept of “Intersectionality”.  Initially I was gripped by the fact that I had never before heard of intersectionality, because as it was introduced to me, I immediately saw the potential of intersectionality as an analytical tool and how it could expand the methodologies used in social sciences.

As someone who had never before encountered the concept of Intersectionality, I had, admittedly, a somewhat innocent and perhaps idealistic understanding of what intersectionality is and how it can or should be applied in social sciences. However, looking with fresh eyes at something that for scholars long in the field might seem more like a ‘sticky situation’ (referring to the debates within and about feminist theory in general), I hope to bring a grounded common-sense to the debate and through this, make an abstract and complex term simple and practical. Within this I also comment on the fact that the term that Intersectionality seems to have been applied and discussed mostly at a theoretical level and in academic feminist debates. (McCall 2005, Knudsen 2006, Shields 2008, Choo and Ferree 2010,) The critique is that Intersectionality is a “buzzword” that does not rise to the level of an effective analytical tool as its methodologies are not specific. (C.f. Prins 2006, Davis 2008 in Choo and Ferree, 2010)

The perspective I will share  thus contends Intersectionality as a vital approach within analyzing complexity in and through the social sciences, (cf. McCall 2005, Shields 2008) yet it is also the aim of this paper to investigate Intersectionality as a basic sociological method and the various approaches that have emerged and are emerging using the practical example of “Global Women”[2].

I refer to Choo and Ferree’s definition of Intersectionality as “the importance of including the perspective of multi-marginalized people (…) [in] seeing multiple institutions as overlapping in their co-determination of inequalities to produce complex configurations.” (Choo and Ferree, 2010, p. 131)

Patricia Collins and Black Feminist Epistemology

Patricia Hill Collins was as one of the first black feminists that criticized the way traditional social science was predominantly patriarchal. She contended that traditional science was actually preventing social change and presented instead a new black feminist epistemology that had a different starting-point within how it approached and viewed knowledge and the analysis of information; within this she called for a humble approach that was based on compassion. For Collins, Intersectionality could do exactly that through embracing the narratives of individual stories and expanding them into a broader analysis of emergent patterns of inequality and oppression, instead of as conventional science to separate the researcher from the research. The basis of Collins theory is thus that only those who themselves have experienced oppression on their own bodies are equipped of analyzing it fully. She calls for a dialog between the researcher and the research as “all knowledge is value-laden and should be tested by the presence of empathy and compassion. “P. 3) the approach thus requires accountability in the awareness that knowledge is created, selected and impulsed and not simply the act of presenting scientific facts.

Even though Collins emphasize the personal narrative, she does not promote a collective categorization of for example “black women”, yet at the same time she recognizes that there are challenges that a black woman faces that is within a collective tendency. (Allan, 2009.) P. 3)

Collins furthermore accentuates that oppressed groups require a “space” where they can come together safe from the oppressive and hegemonic rulers. (Allan, 2009.) P. 5) This is something that practically and specifically can be placed into the context of Global women as we shall see, but it can also be used as a metaphor for how traditional science that is supposed to be ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’, is in fact indicative and product of a subjugating Eurocentric “white” hegemony.  Even though Collins meant it more literally, I contend that the intersectional approach thus can be a “safe place” where oppressed voices can speak and be heard. What Collins perspective on Intersectionality can contribute with is thus that an alteration in thinking can change how specific inequalities are seen and approached and consequently through that re-articulate points that might often be seen in the public sphere, but not articulated sufficiently to actually accommodate actual change. (Allan, 2009, p. 07)

In relation to gender, an accumulative result of for example Collins research on how knowledge is produced juxtaposed with power relations (c.f. Prins, 2006 p. 4), that in turn has a subjugating effect, has been an increased focus on and awareness of how one’s own social identity and cultural allocation affects how one sees gender.  It is therefore that the social location is a primary point to identify, allocated through an investigation of the intersecting identities that are at play. “In particular, gender must be understood in the context of power relations embedded in social identities”. (Collins 1999; 2000, in Shields, 2008, p. 1) And as we shall see, this becomes relevant in particular when investigating emerging and complex new social inequalities as exemplified by the text on Global Women and in Leslie McCall’s contends for a new approach to Intersectionality.

Intersectionality and the matrixes of domination

Within how we through Intersectionality can see the different forms of oppression and inequalities that interweave into and as a lived experience, Collins contends the fact that these are influenced by the predominant views on objective knowledge that can silence the voices of the oppressed. (Allen, 2009, p. 8, see also Shields, 2008, p. 1) To expose and expand on this, she focuses on the matrixes of domination as the organization of power in a society. (Allen, 2009, p. 08) These matrixes are featured by how the intersections are manifested according to historical, cultural and socially specific conditions, through which the systems of oppression operate. In this Collins accentuate four domains in which power is organized: structural, disciplinary, hegemonic and interpersonal. (Allen, 2009, p. 08)

These can be described roughly as legislative/ policy-based, bureaucratic, cultural and every day spheres such as education and community groups. What emerges when investigating intersections of oppression and inequality in relation to these spheres is a complex system of power relations that in itself intersects. This thus also brings a perspective to the nuances of intersections of inequality that shows that they are multidimensional rather than one-dimensional. The social categories through which intersections are defined are thus not static or permanent as the can alter and shift in level of inequality and oppression according to which sphere or dimension is influential and intersecting.

Leslie McCall on the Complexities of Intersectionality

McCall represents for the purposes of this article, a modern approach to Intersectionality that also encompasses a critique of the initial approach to Intersectionality. McCall criticizes how feminist theory so far has failed to expand Intersectional theory into and as an interdisciplinary field; she furthermore criticizes how this has failed to expand and develop Intersectionality as a methodology that potentially is capable of amending to an analysis of the new inequalities that has arisen over the last thirty years. Instead intersectionality remains within and as an anti-categorical stance and attitude on how to practically apply Intersectionality in investigating social inequality and oppression.

At the same time McCall criticizes traditional social science for not effectively implementing Intersectionality as a cross- or interdisciplinary methodology. She claims that there is a disconnect between reality and theory in both fields and that a new way of applying Intersectionality is thus required, that is able to embrace the complexities that are emerging with the new forms of inequality, such as the increasing gap between rich and poor. (McCall, 2005, pg. 22) The inequalities become complex because the conditions in and through which they play out are complex and inequalities and dimensions of inequalities overlap.

 “Reality is complexly patterned, but patterned none the less. We can determine the source of the complexity, we can describe it, and we can theorize it. In this view changes of patterns of inequality and in the underlying structural conditions of society are dynamic, complex, and contingent but also amendable to explanation”. (McCall, 2005, pg. 25)

McCall calls this the inter-categorical (or categorical) Intersectionality and argues that one of the reasons why feminist theory not yet have fully embraced such a theory can be explained within how they (as other theoretic fields) have not been equipped with being able to address the new forms on inequality that has emerged. (McCall, 2005, p. 23) She argues that the method is based in feminist theory yet invites to interdisciplinary application (McCall, 2005, pg. 25)

What McCall found within applying this method, is that inequalities as intersectional exist rather as configurations of several forms or dimensions of inequality specifically placed in the context of economic structure.

The advantages of the categorical methodology of Intersectionality is that it allows for a much more complex set of data to be used in a much more simplistic way than traditional approaches.

McCall’s analysis holds the categorical method up against two more traditional methodologies where the anti-categorical emerged with the black feminists with focus on narratives and the intra-categorical with a focus on single groups or individuals. She describes how the categorical approach investigates each element of inequality in a given dimension for then to analyze these within a holistic framework, for example held up against an economic situation or analyzing the relationship two groups at a time. This way the complexity of investigating multiple groups is managed.

What is perhaps the most different from the traditional approach is as McCall describes how the categorical approach within multigroup studies as “analyze the intersection of the full set of dimensions of multiple categories and thus examine both advantage and disadvantage explicitly and simultaneously.” (McCall 2005, p. 18) In the following section, I superimpose McCall’s proposal of an explicitly categorical methodology to show why such a methodology is specifically applicable for analyzing new inequalities, onto the example of on Global Women.

The intersections of Global Women

Global women present and represent an example of the new social inequalities that have emerged over the last 30-50 years with an increasing migration of women from the poor south/east to the rich north/west[3], conglomerating with the increase of labor market participation and the increase independent income of women in the west.

I use this example for three reasons: firstly, I use it to exemplify the increasing complexity that McCall describes and the consequent requirement for a re-assessment of the methodologies of Intersectionality. Secondly I use it to show how an intersectional approach in general can assist to analyze and understand such emergence of complex intersections of inequality and why the intersectional approach can be one of the most important methodological analytical tools of social science today. Thirdly, I pose a somewhat polemic stance within how it through an intersectional view on the emergence of the new complex social (and economic) inequalities, can be seen that what converges is a global phenomenon that is clearly not being met adequately by the policies currently being applied to accommodate the consequences of such global inequalities.

 Global Women – Emerging new social inequalities

The introductory text to Global Women focuses on the narrative of a Sri Lankan woman named Josephine who works in Athens as a nanny. Already on the first few pages a conglomerate of intersections is playing out: the role of being a nanny can be categorized within the intersection of class as well as within how a woman from a poor country is working for an affluent family in a more wealthy country and the intersections of South/East versus North/West. The woman being from Sri Lanka relates to culture, nationality, ethnicity as well as language (and language barriers). There is furthermore a generational element, wherein Josephine’s ability to travel and work abroad is defined as “an independence her mother could not have imagined” (Ehrenrich and Hochschild, 2002, p. 11). This suggests a generational shift economic independence and women’s ability to participate on the labor market.

This is furthermore described directly in relation to how Josephine is not receiving help from her ex-husband and thus suggests an intersection of gender inequality. Josephine is saving up for a “modest dowry” for her daughter and is paying off on a bus that her son is driving, a reference to gender and class as well as cultural differences. (Ehrenrich and Hochschild, 2002, p. 13) Finally, the parents of the child for whom Josephine is hired as nanny are characterized as “devoting” themselves to “careers and avocations” (Ehrenrich and Hochschild, 2002, p. 13). This again refers to an intersection of class, but also a specific unequal discourse of valuation within that, where Josephine’s job is seen as survival, her daughter’s dowry as “modest” while the affluent Greek parents have “careers and avocations” that they are “devoting” themselves to, something that suggests choice as well as a view on work as personally or professional fulfilling. The intersection of race is seen within how the migrating women are largely “women of color” (Ehrenrich, p. 3) and through a notion among the Western women that employ the migrating women as nannies of seeing women from 3. World countries as more in touch with nature and traditional values, quality that is valued in relation to caring for a child. (Ehrenrich, p. 9)

What we can see here is a multitude of intersections that are influencing how and why and what Josephine’s story imply within a bigger picture of emerging new global inequalities and this is still barely touching upon the intersections related to the Western women involved in this story as well as Josephine’s Sri Lankan family and how they are affected by Josephine’s leaving to work abroad.

According to McCall’s theory on the categorical approach to Intersectionality that is required to be applied to understand an analyze new emerging inequalities, we would now have to analyze each of these intersections “in its own right” for then only after to bring all these dimensions together in a holistic analysis of for example the entire phenomena of Global women migration and the general inequalities that are playing out here.

What is effective with this approach is that it does in fact encompass Collins notion of Intersectionality as method that works with humility and compassion within the principle that to understand oppression, one virtually has to be able to place oneself in the shoes of the lives of the people one is researching.

A dimension that further more speaks for a juxtaposition of Collins notion of humility relates to the emotional dimensions of the story of Josephine, which reveals complex emotions that has emerged as a result of a global “care deficit” (Ehrenrich, p.3 ) that in turn reveals a broader global inequality that influences the lives on both side of the deficit.[4]

With Collins approach we can thus place ourselves in the shoes of the women whose lives we are investigating and with McCall we can place that information into a more structural and global context without its losing its humility, because we in fact take each dimension pertaining to the specific intersections of inequality into consideration.

Discussion on emerging new inequalities

What can thus emerge when we extract the complex dimensions of inequality involved in this one example, through applying an intersectional point of view and methodology, is in fact a wholeness, a holistic perspective on the global situation, from which we can see that lives are not only influencing each other reciprocally, but are indeed intertwined; “Third world women achieve their success only by assuming the cast-off domestic roles of middle- and high-income women in the first world.” (Ehrenrich and Hochschild, 2002, p. 3)

It is interesting that the third world women within migrating to the west to be nannies or maids are defined as having achieved “success”. Within this it can be argued that a discursive vocabulary is revealed that assumes that all women in the world have become “liberated” and “independent” and thus successful, also connecting this to travelling and uprooting oneself. A different perspective is that success is defined as one’s ability to make money and as such women like Josephine are successful in fact – simply because they do make money.

However this can also be seen as a form of oppression that serves to silence the voices of the global women, who might not feel successful, free or independent, because their fears and worries and concerns are still revolving around how to survive and how to feed their children as well as the intense emotions that can be related to having to leave one’s child in the care of others.

Within looking at these points the question emerges whether equality and independence of “Women”[5] has in fact increased or whether the inequalities have simply shifted around and shifted places. This perspective is only possible within viewing the world as a whole and that is made possible through the consideration of each dimension involved in the intersections of a certain inequality.

This thus also brings the discussion of Intersectionality back to the question of power relations and specifically shows how and why Intersectionality was coined within and through a political movement to expose and abolish inequalities where the black feminists sought to give a voice to the voiceless black women as a “significant political as well as intellectual demand, since only by inclusion of the perspectives of these groups could the political issues emerging from their experiences be addressed by movements, law or policy-relevant scholarship.” (Choo and Ferree, 2010, p. 131)

Conclusion

Within the new emerging inequalities among the migrating women are nation and culture specific migration patterns and streams which results in for example Eastern European women going to Western European countries or Algerian women migrating to France. However, there is also a relevance in talking about Women in general, as the patterns that are emerging at culture-geographical level show that it increasingly are women that are migrating to work abroad as well as in regards to the changes in the lives of women in the Western countries, facilitates the demand for care workers from abroad. What often happens is that these women migrating to become nannies, maids and sex workers in the West, become isolated as their jobs are within the home and not on public display and therefore not receiving media attention. (Ehrenrich and Hochschild, 2002, p. 3-4)

What are emerging are thus new forms of inequality and a new way lives intersect that is complex within how multiple inequalities intertwine at a global level. To address this, the ability to analyze global tendencies from a multidimensional perspective, Intersectionality can potentially be utilized to bring these complex inequalities to the surface, both politically and academically. Polemically speaking, one could say that global issues require global policies. Although it might be hard to comprise a monocausal analysis when taking all the dimensions of how inequalities intersects (Choo and Ferree, 2010, p. 135), there is the silver-lining of an unequal monetary system where a global corporate world acts transnationally while few global policies are made to countervail or interfere. The consequences for women migrating, such as Josephine, can thus be that they have no rights or choices but to follow the stream of migration as they are caught between intersections of inequalities that are caused by global problems. The women who migrate have a greater chance of making money and supporting their family if they leave their home-countries to work in the west as nannies, maids or sex workers. But they pay a price within being separated from their children and often within not actually being integrated into the culture or country they are living in (sometimes for the rest of their lives) because they are merely there to serve a service function that is seen in many cases as empowering by policy-makers and in the media, because they can then send money home and as such “support the country”.  So the discourse around the empowerment that the migrating women experience in comparison to past generations, might exactly is a part of that same hegemony that is responsible for the continuation of global inequality. The Solution is an Equal Money System because within its implementation, it is acknowledged at a fundamental and practical level, that the interconnectedness of human beings lives requires solutions that are able to encompass such interconnectedness and interdependence. The current financial and political systems and institutions are prioritizing segregation and profit  and do not take human beings actual lives into consideration. The result is a world of disconnection, where everyone is able to abdicate responsibility because there is always someone else to hold responsible and because the system is not set up in such a way that it is even possible to take responsibility for one’s own life, even if one wanted to.

The effect of an Equal Money System is in fact that all forms of intersectionality of inequalities will be absolved, because it is  acknowledged, into the very core of the policies implemented, that only a holistic solution will ensure equality for all.

For more information I refer to the Equal Money System Wikipage

In the following video I expand on the points brought up in this article: 2012 – One Woman’s Liberation… The Solution to Global Inequality

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Prins, B. (2006). Narrative Accounts of Origins : A Blind Spot in the Intersectional Approach? European Journal of Women’s Studies, 13.

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 (The article was submitted by Anna Brix Thomsen as a part of an examination at Stockholm University in February 2012. All rights are reserved.)

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[1] Even though Kimberleé Crenshaw is famous for coining the terms, I refer to Collins because she is a sociologist (Crenshaw is a professor in law) and because of her specific approach towards Intersectionality as intra-categorical and because of her view on Intersectionality as providing a needed compassion in the social sciences. (Allan, 2009, p. 3)

[2] I use the term in italics when referring to the text and without italics when referring to the actual lives of Global Women.

[3] I use the terms ”south/east” and ”north/west” loosely to describe the differences in global income and living conditions according to how the text “Global Women” uses these terms to describe the divide between women of affluence and women of poverty in the respective regions and continents.

[4] Referring to Ehrenrich’s description of how the West is experiencing a care deficit because of the increasing number of women on the labor market, which creates the demand for nannies from abroad but at the same time how the migrating women are too leaving their own children behind in the care of others. (Ehrenrich, p.8)

[5] As Collins referred to (black) as having a “collective standpoint does exist, one characterized by the tensions

That accrue [sic] to different responses to common challenges” (Collins p. 28, emphasis original in Allan, 2009, p.4).

2012 – The Dark Side of Anarchy and Naked Ladies

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The following article discusses a picture that depicts a woman standing at a protest rally with bared and pierced breasts and a piece of fabric covering her mouth and nose. The picture is posted on Facebook in support of anarchism and activism.  The picture stands as yet another  snapshot of a world-view as it exposure of a Dark Side of humanity, of who and where we are in 2012.

The basic idea with how the picture is presented by the activists on Facebook is that this woman is a symbol of fighting the system, of freeing oneself of the oppressing grab of capitalism and conformism. From what people express in the comments, what they see when they look at this picture is a symbol of empowerment and self-emancipation.

The Dark Side that is exposed here, as a veneer and vice of humanity’s self-deception and delusion is that the picture is not depicting activism, empowerment or freedom in any way whatsoever. Why? Let’s have a look at the more than 1000 words this picture is portraying.

One of the perspectives shared in the discussion about the picture of the activist with the naked breasts is that: “Anarchy is the ability to be free from one man’s rules and governance over one’s self (when not harming those in that society)….”

So the woman is seen as freeing herself from the restrains of oppression, she is making a bold statement to claim her right to be naked in public.

A bold question to ask could be the following: is being naked in public not simply the same as porn and other forms of portrayals of nudity and sexual images?

It is apparently being ‘outrageous’ that a woman shows her breasts is public – that is considered anarchy – when in fact every day there are images of women with naked breasts in our faces, with new twists of fetishes that people jerk off too. All over billboards, phones, screens and in magazines we see pictures of naked and half naked women. The fact that it is still considered outrageous and over the edge, is in itself quite a paradox. Naked women can be used to sell anything, even anarchy.

Another question is that if the woman had been 100 kg. Heavier, would she have been seen the same way? Looking at the picture, the women resemble Lara Croft with her facial expression and how her backpack is placed around her shoulders. She looks fierce, like an amazon warrior and just like there are men that are turned on by girls in school uniforms, so is this a classic fantasy portrayal of women, one that is impulsed by the capitalistic mass-media industry. Accordingly one commenter says: “I FKN Love Hot Women in Masks!”.

Such an image would thus never have been applauded if the woman had been weighing 100 kg or if she had been a naked man. It “works” because she is fitting the picture of an attractive young woman with perky breasts and a slim figure. The fantasies and fetishes with specific narratives also bear witness of this, with the storyline of a naked anarchist woman that speaks to the mind of the anarchist man. This image falls straight into the lap of the generic porn industry where money is made on the portrayal of a certain body-image and fantasy. So the image is ironically not expressing anarchy, but in fact conformism. We are so used to seeing images of naked women, so used to being impulsed and directed by sexual subjection that we don’t even see that what we are considering to be emancipating, is in fact subjugating to the utmost extend.

Another statement goes: “It’s a protest… she looks angry… and she looks like my many anarchist friends… nothing more”

Alright so the woman looks the part of an anarchist at a protest. That is not emancipating or empowering for anyone, including her. What this comment is revealing is that being an anarchist or an activist is a life-style, a culture that requires specific symbols and costumes where one does in fact ‘fit an image’ or a symbol – rather than that being free in itself, or happy or revolutionary.

I used to believe that activist people were the most free. When I joined a group of radical left wing anarchists, I was shocked to discover that most of them came from middle to upper-class homes and had proper educations. Their culture was in most cases a vice they had dressed themselves in, not unlike the business man puts on his suit to fit the part in the corporate world. I remember one time where I went to a squatted house where all the ‘radicals’ hanged out. Over the door there was a sign that said “NO sexism, NO racism, NO specism! When I entered the house, all the people were dressed in black, the proper uniform of a radical activist. I was the only person wearing color and the people there clearly felt I did not belong; the girls would speak about me and whisper exactly as in any other narrative of a teenage or high school drama. These people were exactly as judgmental as everyone else – a big difference however was the bigotry of claiming they were not.

That was when I realized that politics exists within me, in every moment of interaction with other human beings.

If we claim to be political activists that fight against war and for the oppressed, how can we be intolerant in our personal interaction with other people? How can we exclude others in our reality and at the same time claim to be tolerant towards the oppressed?

Let’s look at another comment from the Facebook discussion on the women with the bared breasts. The commenter says:

“I see a loud statement. She isn’t hurting anyone and obviously knows people are going to react. It’s a sound tactic.”

 It is absurd that the pinnacle of making a “loud statement” is to be naked. This is my point exactly: the fact that we need naked women to make loud statements says more about our view on naked women than actual statements of change – and it shows exactly the kind of politics that is predominant in this world.

 Another commenter says: ” Don’t forget the component of compassion. Nobody is trying to hurt anyone. Helping other is a good thing. We just don’t want to be oppressed.”

Being naked in public is not the same as not being oppressed. The point with protesting against being oppressed is that one is in fact validating one’s own oppression by accepting oneself as powerless to begin with – changing the system requires that we stand equal to it, that we change it from within it and take self-responsibility for the system instead of seeing ourselves as victims of the system – naked or not. Let’s have a closer look at this:

“I don’t think revolution is the answer either. Rebellion is a different story, we should think about taking down the corporations that own the government, not the government itself.”

Who is it that “rebels” in this world? What is the essential symbol of a rebel? Children fighting against parents, children throwing tantrums. Yet who has the power? The parents. Rebellion by definition points to a power struggle between oppressor and oppressed. It points to the very existence of the possibility of someone oppressing another. Superiority and Inferiority is two sides of the same polarity-coin. One cannot exist without the other. This reveals a side of power-relations that once realized, can be the key to actual freedom. Only by standing equal can we change what is here.

“Sadly, we are victims, whether we like it or not. The system is so corrupt that there is no way to change it from the inside. It doesn’t matter who you vote for. The corporations own the politicians, all of them. We have to bring change from the outside…”

Each and every one of us is equally responsible for what is here. Some are capable of responding in a way that makes change possible, while others are not. More than 3 billion people, half the Earth’s population is not because they are excluded from participating in the capitalistic system. The top-elite are too brainwashed by their own greed, fear and power to let it go – that leaves us, the middle-class, the “middle-ground” – the ones that are able and capable of making change happen – the “democratic consumers” as it were. In order to do that we require stopping seeing ourselves as victims and realize that if we don’t direct a change, no one will. Throwing tantrums and being angry, helps no-one, least of all ourselves. And we can’t do that by seeing ourselves as victims of an evil system – only by taking responsibility for that system and our own participation in it, can we make change happen. For many years I refused to participate in the system. I lived “off the grid”, made money through odd jobs and remained in the enclosure of my activist community.

I went to rally after rally, protest after protest and participated in street riots. I finally realized that what we were doing was abdicating self-responsibility for what is here by judging the system and claiming to be more than it, while we were in fact equally a part of it, whether we liked it or not. So – I started taking an education, standing in the system, yet not off it – and are slowly but surely placing myself in a position of being able to make an actual difference. This is not to say that the system is not corrupt – but it is the realization that the system only listens to the system itself and that no one is free until all are free. I dedicate my life and myself to change what is here, no matter what it takes – until it is done.

“What do we do, as the middle class, to protect ourselves from the ‘they’ that don’t exist, as our wages decrease, the cost of living goes up, and we find ourselves amongst the ranks of the poor, unable to do anything but try to survive?”

We cannot protect ourselves – the system is as brutal as it gets. In terms of survival as the system currently exists, all one can do is to make sure that one can support oneself financially and support others to do the same. So what is required is that we place ourselves in a stable position from which we can start making the necessary changes. Before I refused to take an education. Now I am almost done with a masters and will continue to place myself effectively in the system. Why? Because the system listens to people it considers being “experts” – The system only listens to those that have a paper saying they are approved by the system to speak. That is “having a voice” in this world – screaming against politicians in protest is not as we’ve seen over and over again. Why? Because the political system is representing ourselves, whether we like it or not. That is the cruel joke of democracy. So what we are protesting against, what we judge, what we turn our backs to: is ourselves.

So instead of going haywire with anger and desperation, we utilize democracy. We change the family-systems, the education-systems, the relationship-systems and the inner systems of our minds that are reflecting and reflected in the world-systems. We go into politics; we educate ourselves in understanding the political and economic systems in depth. One of the major reasons for our current powerlessness is that we don’t understand the economic system – only those on top knows how the system works and by keeping people ignorant, some remain in control of others. By understanding how the system works, by not fearing it or whining over it or feeling powerless towards it – we can start changing it. We become educated in law, in psychology – in the fields that the system respects as valid and we expose the system for what it really is to ourselves – because essentially, at the end of the day: we are the system. Claiming that the world is someone else’s responsibility is conveniently used to abdicate one’s own.

“What are you saying? That we should just accept the fact that we are getting fucked over, and move on? I don’t get it.”

No quite the contrary. The acceptance of being powerless is in fact a giving-up, a giving-in and an acceptance of the system as it is – remaining within a desperation and rage instead of actually taking self-responsibility, realizing that we’re not powerless – because we are self-responsible for what is here. This is what we require accepting. Then real change becomes possible. Investigate the Equal Money System.

Politics happens in every moment of every breath. Every thought we think, every step we take, every feeling we participate in – is political in-fact, because through that we make our statement of who we are, of that which we are going to be and of what is acceptable in the world.

We are living politics as we speak.

 

Suggested reading and listening for extended perspectives:

Articles:

Anarchism & Equal Money System by Marlen Vargas Del Razo

2012 Democracy Is The Key To Freedom Allegory of the Cave: our excuse to remain as slaves by Marlen Vargas Del Razo

2012 When is ‘Inner Revolution’ real? by Kim Amourette

Videos and interviews:

2012 Real Progress = Political Reform of the System

Attention Anarchists: The Secret to Real Anarchy and my story

SHOUT-OUT to all the Activists out there that want to CHANGE THE WORLD!

REVOLUTION 2.0