Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.
Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.
The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.
In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened.
This is a dark age. That’s not news. It’s a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.
While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.
Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.
Human beings, when they encounter that which can’t be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.
They’ll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It’s more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?
Whether it’s a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they do with them here? They shoot them, crucify them, and get them out of the way because people are afraid of truth.
Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.
In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn’t pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn’t crucify Christ because they liked what he said.
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don’t think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.
Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn’t define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.
This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn’t really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.