What Do You Mean?
Words conceal, confuse, disorientate, mislead and only sometimes, reveal. Misunderstanding of words is not purely a function of literacy or intelligence, it is determined by the level of consciousness and the strength of the soul. Broadly three things happen, among three types of people.
First there are people who do not understand what words mean.
Then there are those who think the words are the meaning.
Then there are those who understand that words are blunt instruments that can only ever point us toward something in vague and clumsy ways.
Good communication produces words that assist clarity and understanding, but even good communication is flawed and will never be completely clear.
Those in the first group – those who do not understand what words mean – cannot be convinced, reasoned with or persuaded about facts in any way. You say or write some words, and these people’s emotions are so strong that they cannot really grasp what you’ve said because they have immediately layered it over with their own biases. They mistakenly believe that their biases are not biases but are in fact facts. Trying to explain yourself to such people is a waste of time, because even when shown to be wrong such people will not concede, and may well double down in their wrongness. They will project all their own insecurities onto you, deflect, say that black is white and generally resist what you have to offer. They live like this because reality and truth are unimportant to them. What matters is simply their mood at any given time, or their sense of identity as a good, smart or nice person.
The second group – those who think that the words are the meaning – are sometimes known as midwits and are what most of mainstream society call intelligent or perhaps even intellectual. They use arguments from authority (so and so said this therefore it must be true) and are always trying to force you into their frame of thinking, mostly by threats (you can’t say that, it’s offensive, racist, ageist etc). They take everything literally, so if an important government functionary or celebrity is wheeled out to say some words then hey presto those words must be true and you are a fool/conspiracy theorist/racist if you don’t agree. This group may well have university degrees and may look like functional, tax-paying, got-their-shit-together kind of people.
The third group are rare. These are the ones who know that all communication is flawed, that the red that I see is not necessarily the red that you see. They know that individual perceptions colour everything, that words have whatever meaning people choose to give them and that all communication is riddled with misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Such people might be high achievers, but they might also dropouts because their awareness makes it hard for them to relate to others.
To summarise these three groups:
Group 1. “I must be right because I feel right, and my feelings are all that matters.”
Group 2. “Let’s check with the Approved Sources. The Experts will know what’s right.”
Group 3. “Who funds the Experts? Who has approved the Approved Sources? Let’s dig a bit more before we decide what is and isn’t true.”
Words aren’t true just because Approved Sources say them. Pub or dinner table discussions will always descend into arguments when composed of people from the different groups. Religious texts are valuable when used to point the way toward understanding, but are dangerous when taken literally. Most things that people have ever said or written down are at best directionally accurate, nudging our understanding onwards, by one millimetre, if you are lucky. There are no words, written or spoken, anywhere, which explicitly lay out a universal reality, which can be comprehended by all, and there never will be. Words, written or spoken, which gain traction and influence do so because they are co-opted by the powerful to advance a desired agenda. Mass vaccination became the dominant reality because the powerful said it should be, not because it was the right thing to do. This is the case for all narratives. When power gets behind a story it becomes reality, even though it is only a story. The power behind a narrative might not be governmental.
Sensitive souls have to be particularly careful with all of this, because those prone to fear will easily fall into Group 1, rejecting information which might be challenging but helpful, because it doesn’t feel right. People who profess to be smart or intelligent also have to be careful because they might easily fall into Group 2, discarding valuable information because it isn’t sanctioned by Approved Sources. Particular care should be taken by intelligent sensitives, who may reject Approved Sources only to fall prey to Unapproved Sources. Abandoning the BBC or CNN in favour of an uncritical acceptance of David Icke or Alex Jones doesn’t make you a free thinker, or a better person. (To be fair to Alex Jones, he has himself admitted that he aims for directional accuracy only in his attempts to awaken people. He has been fined $1billion for his trouble).
Getting into Group 3, which is the only place where you can even begin to imagine that you know what’s going on, requires an encounter with reality that many people find uncomfortable. Membership of Group 3 demands a recognition that no one is coming to rescue you, they are all lying to you, everything is fake and there are no good guys. Group 1 people may not even read those words. Group 2 people will ask for your evidence for such a claim, but Group 3 people know that those words don’t have to be completely true in order to generate the desired effect and to move you forward in your understanding. Group 3 understanding comes from a recognition of the uniqueness of souls, that every human being is different, not just physically, but emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and that this is an inherently positive aspect of our humanity. The bottom line is this, what you read or hear, as well as what you say, does not have to line up with Approved or Unapproved Sources, nor does it have to feel right, for it to be helpful. Nor does it even need to be true, in the strict sense of the word, because nothing really is. And if nothing is true then everything is permitted. And that’s fine so long as you also know that just because you can it doesn’t mean that you should.
This is one reason why, referencing my recent blog, that the New Age is/was a psyop. New Age beliefs have encouraged millions of people to abandon critical thinking and to instead move their way through life according to their feelings. But feelings can lie! They can deceive, twist, turn, change and though they can give us new information they provide no basis upon which to make decisions or live your life. Navigating through life according to Approved Sources will make you a slave. Navigating your life through Unapproved Sources will make you crazy. But navigating your life according to your feelings will mean that you aren’t navigating anything at all, just adrift in an ever-changing kaleidoscope of emotion. It might be fascinating and absorbing but it will get you absolutely nowhere.
Feelings are not intuition, though they might appear inside you in what you would describe as a feeling. But intuition is something different, and its cultivation is done in the face of resistance from the feelings. Psychic faculties are not based in the feelings, and if they are then they will only ever be half right, half-wrong. Intuition and psychic abilities occur from a movement beyond both the mind and the feelings. Feelings are anti-growth, because in order to grow one must take a risk, and feelings, especially in those dominated by fear, will always have a problem with that. It boils down to this:
Suppression of feelings = bad.
Ignoring feelings today means that they will resurface tomorrow in undesirable ways.
But glorification of feelings takes you to a very bad place.
To consciously and deliberately notice our feelings is one thing. But to glorify them or always believe them to be true, helpful or reliable is quite another. Those who seek power over you would like you to remain ignorant of this.
Hat tip and many thanks to HoeMath for the original concept.
