Lacewing wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:02 pm
Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:54 pm
My view is that no *path forward* will manifest.
I suggested a shift in choices and direction that might become available on the path forward. I'm not attempting to define '
The path forward'.
I think I have to clarify better what I mean. It seems to me we are talking about
different things.
But very bluntly our present is now dominated by the reality of being at war. It is a very different war than we are accustomed to. It is *fourth and fifth generation warfare*. The political situation in our country, the social and cultural situation, is one of breakdown and dissolution. These have previous causes. One giant one is the engineered destruction of the Twin Towers and the extreme war machinations that followed. What does it mean to say *engineered*? It means that, it is largely
directed process. It is true that that event has other precedents but 9/11 is a very good image of the *fracturing* of the country on so many levels.
These types of events have nothing to do with the individual. I mean the individual does not create them. Individuals however do adapt to the negativities that result and, certainly, these negatives create pathologies: angst, existential confusion, fear, distress, but really loss of the sense that there is a stable platform.
There is *no way forward* in the sense that vast powers are playing vast games -- some overt and obvious, but most of it hidden and shrouded. We are *at war* but it is war on other levels preliminarily. But *we* (individuals, minor players, people with no relationship to the machinery and thus to the machination) struggle to see and understand all of this because it is all hidden and shrouded.
Take just one example: most people now see that 9/11 was both planned and allowed. It was a contrived event made to seem one thing, when in truth it was really something else completely. That is what I mean by *shroud*. What *it* indicates is that people, groups and forces are playing games at levels which are nearly inconceivable to us. But why? And what are their ultimate goals and objectives?
To begin to answer that question will instantly put us in the *interpretive* sphere. But because we are so much in the dark, and because we must *guess*, to one degree or another our interpretations are generally off-the-mark. But it does look like our government, our governing structures, these have been rendered irrelevant because real power operates from other power-centers and these are invisible to us. But just to tie this up: if what I propose is true, then at a world-scale level, people, factions and groups vie for control and power -- the ability to direct the world on a global level -- and yet who they are is unknown to us.
Is that merely a paranoid observation? I do not quite think so. Because we saw our world upturned and set in very bad directions by 9/11 and we know that these events
were engineered (so may still doubt this, myself I do not).
As it stands now no one has a sense of who or what to
NAME. But we do know that
something is going on.
At the same time, life and awareness can shift very suddenly... from unexpected adjustments and circumstances. I think stagnancy results when humans get too locked into certain patterns that they expect to continue or grow indefinitely. When they discover new possibilities and whole new ways of thinking, they can adapt very quickly! In NO WAY do we see and comprehend all that is at work and possible. That, alone, should cause us to pause in our headlong rush toward absolute ideals and limitations.
Here is where I believe you refer to the solitary individual. Your awareness can change and you can adjust to circumstances. You can make all sorts of choices in how you handle yourself at an inner, emotional, spiritual and inter-personal level. You or I and any of us, within certain limitations, can grow, evolve, release, improve ourselves, achieve higher awareness -- all of this is open to us for as long as the beginning and on-going war does not come to bear on us too directly. In Gaza right now -- for a macabre example -- only some ascended master could avoid being simply a victim of war's exigencies. Anyone there scrambles around like an ant.
The *new ways of thinking* do not, in my view, seem on the verge of showing themselves and exerting power. What is likely is that *what has been set in motion will remain in motion*. Apparently, that involves a wider, regional conflict.
In NO WAY do we see and comprehend all that is at work and possible
I can only agree with this statement, yet at the same time I do not find much utility in it. But I do know that you are, at least I believe so, talking not about outside and exterior events but about your own self and what you feel capable of.
