The Fall, Redemption and Play

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[Jana]

There are infinite permutations of the biochemistry of status dynamics but social immunity is a major one.

We establish social immunity by maintaining an open heart and since our immune system is instantaneously affected by stress, social immunity gives us physical immunity as well. This is the main key to maintaining our Self as unique entity in order to figure out who we are and what we want from life. Without social immunity we are simply going along with the crowd, capitulating or rebelling against what is. Thus sovereignty is the path of the ever expanding heart, with a wider and wider embrace, coupled with increasing discernment and refinement of who we are. It is in a sense a nonviolent, life enhancing martial art, every moment of the day and night.

[Jana]

POSITIVE PROJECTION OF GRACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKSq2tV1kE&feature=related  — Gregg Braden - The Science of Miracles (1/7)   
“We must feel the feeling as if the prayer has already been answered, and in that “feeling” we are speaking to the forces of creation, allowing the world to respond to us, allowing this field to respond to us with what it is we are feeling in our hearts.” Gregg Braden, The Science of Miracles (1/7) youtube.
A priori manifestation…con-fidence, that is with fidelity and faith in uplift to allow the highest outcome is the principle of participatory union with the Universe in an ongoing reciprocal dialogue with the nonlocal field. Skill in dreaming within the mirrored universe involves “being” the state that we desire in the world. That is to be the love, be the peace…and this then will be what is reflected back to us. Compassion allows us to “generously” interpret the people and events of our world in order to inspire the emotional contagion of grace.

It is a significant shift from old brain to new brain regions when we move from fighting with that which we don't want, to projecting the energy of what we do want out into the universe. I think this is perhaps the most significant challenge the human species is now undergoing...where the new warrior, the new hero is he or she who has the strength of heart to positively project the desired outcome, rather than simply shadow dancing with the darkside.

Having just watched the movies "Battle in Seattle" and "The Fountain" we see the protagonists have not yet mastered this art of positive projection as opposed to doing battle. In fact if we look at literature and cinema...I cannot think of one hero who masters the art of positive projection other than perhaps Michael from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. 

I suppose the key issue in the redemption of the inner and outer man...is that we must feel the change, be the change and enact the change for the circle of positive manifestation to be compete...and for us to be spiritually whole and authentic. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." So said Edmund Burke. To be good, we must not just to avoid evil but be actively working for what is good. "Good intentions" are not enough, nor will apathy, inaction and absence suffice, for whatsoever a man soweth, so shall he reap.

[Jana]

Dealing With Chaos—If you see our present era as the reign of the crazy-trickster ape...a delinquent period prior to greater integrity and maturity...then the current antics of humanity are more tolerable and less disappointing. Consider, that you are watching a David Lynch movie...and expect the bizarre and silly...then you get the joke of it all, as the chickens come home to roost. If you expect sanity, clarity and good will, then you will only be disappointed. This is not a jaded stance, but a realistic meta-adaptive one. One in which we can maintain our humor, while things are falling apart. This is the apocalypse...the great unveiling, as we derepress our emotions and the right-intuitive side of the brain. Until we learn how to become fully human, after eons of living automatically in response to circumstances...things are going to look like a warped irrational dream. And if you want to ground yourself in absolute sanity, read the books of Viktor Schauberger, to get plugged into the larger truth.

[Jana]

It is important to not polarize and separate ourself our as “different” than others, but to connect to them via the heart-strings, and to be empathetic to them, rather than doing, fixing, helping, healing or teaching. More progress can be made through heartfelt connection than through our “efforts.” This is one ofIt is important to not polarize and separate ourself our as “different” than others, but to connect to them via the heart-strings, and to be empathetic to them, rather than doing, fixing, helping, healing or teaching. More progress can be made through heartfelt connection than through our “efforts.” This is one of the lessons of humility we quickly learn when treading the sovereign path. You will have to be patient, for they will test you once they find out you are running different programs than them. The key word to remember is “inclusion,” or as the Integrals say, “transcend and include.” We could expand that to “transcend and include creatively.” And the Spiral Dynamics chart will help you work out the psychology of level differences to formulate your method of creative approach.

The opposite of delinquency is proactive executive creativity (prefrontal cortex) and the refinement of adaptive functions and responses. Remember, you cannot fight bad will with bad will. The way to overcome delinquency in relationships is to purify thyself, refresh your view, raise your energy and come at it from a higher vantage point. In this way the sovereign is a leader of man, by setting an example and modeling mature-integrated-intelligence. Turning from the culture of the Borg to the sovereign ideal is a major learning curve. We cannot expect to much of those still caught in Borg consciousness, for we are not well educated in reality, for we have been programmed by Western industrial civilization with its own “suspect” agenda. Divorced from nature, cosmos, right brain, heart intelligence and emotional wholeness, it is a wonder our social world is not more toxic than it is. Only by constantly focusing on the larger historical and geopolitical forces at play can we navigate the learning curve from slave to sovereign without drowning in a pit of reactivity to those that try to provoke and tempt us as we rise out of the box. the lessons of humility we quickly learn when treading the sovereign path. You will have to be patient, for they will test you once they find out you are running different programs than them. The key word to remember is “inclusion,” or as the Integrals say, “transcend and include.” We could expand that to “transcend and include creatively.” And the Spiral Dynamics chart will help you work out the psychology of level differences to formulate your method of creative approach.

[Jana]

Can we overcome arrogance and hubris without a “fall”? Can we overcome our individual false pride when our entire country, our entire civilization is based in hubris? These are some of the questions we are now collectively facing, whether we are aware of it or not.

[Jana]

Getting a little heavy...I hope I can finish this soon.

The comfort and security of the given is how the Borg world perpetuates itself as a facsimile of humanity.
Until we have opened up our higher cerebral circuits and traveled in inner space, we are still a nascent human. That is a beast with a veneer of social and cultural conditioning. As a chimera of nature we are not integrated into the source of ourselves and are thus not yet sovereign, but a pawn of the collective. With no power of personal destiny other than in rebellion, compliance, resistance or default to the given motivators of daily life and materialist propaganda machine. This is the status quo of the Borg world, composed of the gravity of the given that we are all inclined to to one degree or another. However the stickiness of the given is not immutable. The formal fallacies of a life destroying culture are undone as soon as we raise our own biology beyond the ongoing vibration of death and suppression…and come back to the full vibrant energies of nature and cosmos. Similarly the psychosomatic processes that keep the Borg world intact are undone as soon as we raise our vision beyond the prison of orthodox opinion. The brave are simply those with the clearest vision. It is through metamorphic heart expansion that we open our brain to visionary faculties beyond those of the nascent human. It takes the “human spirit” to break away from the stagnation of the Borg and grow in the light of the cosmos.
 

[Francis]

The fall into violence and greed was precipitated by a fall into fear. Fear drives the borg, while self-pity sustains it. So It seems self-acceptance is required.

We cannot even get started in any kind of 'play' until we accept without prejudice our role and the other conditions of the game. Obama once said that he cannot govern out of anger. Anger, of course being yet another manifestation of fear, as is stress.

I think the first step to overcoming fear is for people to realize consciously that they are afraid by recognizing greed, anger and other drives as manifestations of fear. Then the fear can perhaps begin to be mitigated. When these things are driven by subconscious forces behind the scenes, not much can be done. Sunshine is a great disinfectant. 

[Jana]

Fear is  coped with by a gestalt of life that removes one progressively from the circumstances, thoughts, feelings and relationships related around fear. It must be dealt with on the substance/diet, physical, movement, vibrational, nature, Gaian, philosophical, psychological, relational, and spiritual levels. Plus there is a need to transcend inherited fear, noospheric fear, and species or planetary fear. I also think that the trap of simply perpetuating the normal coping and defense mechanisms of the past must be dealt with. The process of rising ones sense of being beyond the dictates of perpetual fear is a process of becoming ever more conscious and ecstatic...it is the same path as the Muse actually...for one cannot get over fear if one is not tuned into ones divine vocation...which allows all of ones levels and parts move in the same non-ambiguous direction.

[Francis]

Fear is  coped with by a gesalt of life that removes one progressively from the circumstances, thoughts, feelings and relationships related around fear. It must be dealth with on the substance/diet, physical, movement, vibrational, nature, gaian, philosophical, psychological, relational, and spiritual levels. Plus there is a need to transcend inherited fear, noospheric fear, and species or planetary fear. I also think that the trap of simply perpetuating the normal coping and defense mechanisms of the past must be dealt with. The process of rising ones sense of being beyond the dictates of perpetual fear is a process of becoming ever more conscious and ecstatic...it is the same path as the Muse actually...for one cannot get over fear if one is not tuned into ones divine vocation...which allows all of ones levels and parts move in the same non-ambiguous direction.

Coping mechanisms work by starving fear of oxygen, but the fear just lies dormant in a sort of hibernation. I like to ask myself, "What if your worst fears are eventually realized, what then?" This brings the stakes of the game into sharp relief. Once I make the scenario conscious I can formulate a rational plan of action to prepare for the worst and perhaps even take some rational action to avoid it from happening. For me the only thing that's worked is facing the fear and giving it a seat at the table so it can be heard. When fear is shut out of the room, it's left out in the hallway and can only pull the fire alarm when it wants to be heard and then rationalism goes out the window and bedlam ensues.

[Jana]

Fear is illusionary as it runs away from itself. It is not necessarily specific, but can be dispersed, pervasive and layered. It takes mindfulness to stay on track with an opening/loving/joyous/humorous lifestyle to counter the generalized nature of "retreat from life" that constitutes fear. It is related to the dopamine receptors as to ease with risk and willingness to learn.

I had a dream the other night that wherever people were, they were impinging on me...there was a point where I became conscious of victimhood. In that I was hypnotized into paralysis and yet also conscious that I could get out of that condition of stasis-restriction if I could only break the hypnotic spell. That it was my system that was doing the default shutdown mode and that if I could snap out of it through the power of will and effort, that I wouldn't have to go into catatonia in response to others. That I could be free in the world by choosing to be.

[henry]

Jnana, almost no one here would dream of "impinging on you". you will find Grace when the unconcious "shutdown mode" becomes concious. rather than reacting to my lame observations be present with your somatic sensations. breathe and forgive and be free

[Jana]

Thats what it feels like in totality. As we live our lives backwards to conception again. I am addressing the aborted movement from the cradle into the social world and the "conscious" taking up of the right to life and right to sovereignty. The royal jelly and heart tree meditation get right to the core of the blockages and allow us to deeply address the crude oil spills of our existence.

When I became lucid that I was in social paralysis I was stuck down beside a car in a garage with someone using the car door to keep me pinned down. Motor  control not within my control. Then had been a dozen forms of social impingement in that dream. The day after the dream I was somewhat freed up.

[Jana]

The inability to take possession and charge of our life can feel like social impringement, repression, abandonment, Big Brother or whatever. We then react against that projected pressure with our addictions and maladaptive consolation processes, which act to solidify and perpetuate the infantile state of paralysis. Growth, risk, learning and maturity are thus aborted, as is the life of the human soul...where true satisfaction and happiness are only possible.

The point to remember and to really drive home somatically in every way is that sovereignty/freedom is not bestowed on us by others, and because it is still a presovereign culture it is not even modeled for us. From conception we are not given the social cues and energies needed to build up the sovereign brain and so the threshold of moving into cosmic shamanic mastery requires touching the emptiness, blockage and stagnation we embody due to the lack of incarnation of the Self.

That is moving into sovereignty requires the palpation of the void where sovereignty is not. This may be painful, like the feeling of blood returning to an areas of the body that have become numb. The process bubbles up from the deep unconscious and is accessed most frequently through dreams, shamanic and peak experience when the normal repressive mechanisms are offline. As we consciously cultivate the sovereign brain the process informs itself and accelerates geometrically.

The active part of the process is in clearly receiving the cognitive component of the biochemistry with loving embrace, in order to allow the opening of greater spiritual maturity to proceed without confusion, counteraction or doubled effort at repressing hte emergent Self. If we have not yet taken our own reigns with regards to livelihood, lifestyle and life purpose we will feel the world of others pressing in on all sides...push/pulling us with every passing whim, mood and figment of our archetypal matrix.

[Francis]

Fear is illusionary as it runs away from itself. It is not necessarily specific, but can be dispersed, pervasive and layered. It takes mindfulness to stay on track with an opening/loving/joyous/humorous lifestyle to counter the generalized nature of "retreat from life" that constitutes fear. It is related to the dopamine receptors as to ease with risk and willingness to learn.

I had a dream the other night that wherever people were, they were impinging on me...there was a point where I became conscious of victimhood. In that I was hypnotized into paralysis and yet also conscious that I could get out of that condition of stasis-restriction if I could only break the hypnotic spell. That it was my system that was doing the default shutdown mode and that if I could snap out of it through the power of will and effort, that I wouldn't have to go into catatonia in response to others. That I could be free in the world by choosing to be.

This reminds me of the eight of swords tarot card.

The Eight of Swords shows a woman exiled from her home, tied up, blindfolded, and surrounded by swords which act as a kind of prison or enclosure. She stands in the midst of a barren, watery wasteland far from the town or castle in the distance. The sky is gray and cloudy above her and there seems to be no possibility of escape. The woman's feet do not touch the water (emotions), indicating that the feeling of being restricted in the Eight of Swords is based on an intellectual motive and not emotional. There is a path cleared before her, so there is a way out of the situation, but at this time being blind folded and everything, she just can't see the way out! The sky is dark with lots of clouds (again, an indication of the state of mind), yet, the blue sky can be seen in the distance, and the rays of sunlight are peering through a gap in the clouds. So there is hope, and the clouded mind is only a temporary state, a momentary situation.

Eight is about power. In this case she feels powerless. She's wearing white which symbolises purity of intention, yet the robes are torn. Perhaps her intentions need re-examining. The cord which binds her is red, which symbolises power - who's power is being misused to put her in that situation? Her own?

Eight of Swords - Tarot Card Meanings
Emotional upheaval. Feeling trapped, bound. Don't make a decision right now. Go within (blindfold).The castle is in the background - safety is within reach. At the pinnacle of a scary situation. Choices are available.

Her own thoughts and ideas are restrictive. She has too many ideas running through her head. The best is for her to wait for the sun to come from behind the cloud.... there is not much she can do right now except wait... and intellectually rescue herself. She mustn't get into the mind game of wanting to be rescued. She must take back her power and responsibility and open her eyes, then she will realize that the path forward is clear.

The Eight of Swords predicts problems in the situation. Your interests will be opposed by other people. You may be restricted as a result of the obstacles which are placed in the path toward your goals. Want to get out of an oppressive situation or change your present line of work. The problem is not with you but with others. They are the ones who are not coming through, living up to their end, or causing misfortune. But even though the problems are great, they can still be overcome.

The Eight of Swords portrays a dilemma much like that experienced in the Two of Swords. We are again faced with the difficulty of a painful decision and we are at an impasse, uncertain which way to go. However, unlike the Two in which the choice is forced upon us, the decision in the Eight is the result of our own actions. This card follows naturally upon the Seven of Swords which is a card of duplicity. If we use deception for our gain, ultimately we will be faced with the difficulty of dealing with that deception; for all that is hidden must finally come to light. However, despite the fact that we have "boxed ourselves into a corner," there is way out. The solution is simply to deal with the situation in the most direct yet tactful manner possible, and face our choice with inner strength. We must be aware of the consequences of our actions in all aspects of life and if we are able to deal honestly with ourselves and others, we won't find ourselves in this kind of situation. However, if we are here already, there is still the possibility of freedom from the bondage of our own fears and uncertainties. If you encounter the Eight of Swords in a reading, it is time to be honest with yourself and others in order to be free of the burden of fear or guilt.

On the face of it, this is a card about hopelessness, restriction and lack of options. but it isn't. Not really. If you look at the Ryder Waite deck, you see a woman, tied from the waist up in such a way that she cannot move her arms, and blindfolded. She stands between eight swords--and there is a featureless background. It would seem that she can't go anywhere--that she is imprisoned. However, keep in mind that this deck, as did many of the older decks, portrayed the negative meaning and implied the positive. So, let's consider our tied up lady. First of all--there is nothing in front of her. She could just walk straight ahead, if she so chose--blindfold or not. But she does not choose to do so. She seems to be waiting for rescue.

Let's consider the nature of the Swords. They represent the mental world - our conscious minds and what they do and how they work. In terms of our thought process, this is typical of the times when we think we're safe, but in fact we're trapped, without any options, and must depend on the kindness of others. But is that ever the case? We always have options, but those options may or may not be acceptable to us. This is fine - so long as we acknowledge that we have them. If we don't, it doesn't take us long to drift into victim mode. And that is where our lady is at the moment.

Feeling fenced in, restricted, vulnerable. Too many ideas/no direction. Handle difficult situations immediately, Gossip, advice, over analytical (back and forth), Pay attention. Problems are behind woman. Legs are not tied; blind fold can be removed. Find out who put you in this situation, realize that you are not trapped, that you are free to move. Restriction. Run of bad luck, feelings of being trapped and powerless. Patient effort needed to get out of situation. Help is available if you ask. Restrictions will gradually fade.

http://www.biddytarot.com/card.php?id=65&name=Eight%20of%20Swords

[Jana]

Yea, but I am not blindfolded, I can see, but I am gagged.  I tied myself up like that because I was gagged. I gagged myself because I couldn't find an appropriate way to say what I wanted in a sleeping world...the world hates what I have made of myself in my gagged state, so I remain gagged.
Home/place/castle has been "put off indefinitely," as I can't focus on a personal life, and there is no one to join me.
Don't want to be saved, not looking for help, detest advise even...trying not to save, help and advise others also.
It is the gestalt that is needed, but also discernment drawn from getting in touch more with wants rather than needs.
Been putting off the visionary work, while the sovereignty thing is going down.
I did find a spectacular female friend, but don't expect anything to come of it.
Nose to the grindstone still, trying to find some interest in the world, but its so boring.
But my dreams are cool.