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The Great Reset: Point Blank

This is an excellent, and extremely concerning, expose of what the world’s elites have planned for us, with James Corbett and Del Bigtree providing an introduction to this frightening topic for persons new to the topic. If you are like most, your mind will refuse to believe this information and probably categorize it as ‘conspiracy theory’. This mental delaying maneuver however is well covered by both speakers. A highly recommended interview for all watch. Please pass the link on while we are still allowed to.
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Direct Observation

Krishnamurti’s statement ‘the observer is the observed’ baffled me for many years, and still I have not fully accepted it, or come to terms with its implications. Have you? But I think what he meant and was describing, and that we are terrified to admit, is that ‘we are the world, and the world is us’. Therefore, there is nothing we can change about it. The observer, which is our mind, is a collection of the past observations we have made, the conditionings which are now largely unconscious in us. I found this video below from Saanen 1981 to be refreshingly direct, in which he makes several statements of what actually is the ‘truth’. Like all true spiritual teachings, I believe the truth is simple, and what K is describing is so, however our minds fight to find the complexity in it, and failing to do so, abandon it as below our intellect. To look directly at what K is saying seems to me to take great courage, as the implications of of doing so are to question the foundation which our mind (since there is only one) is made of and how it operates. To see that it is not capable of overcoming its problems, is to begin to distance from it. I believe that to distance ourselves from the mind that we have created, is likely the greatest fear the human being is capable of. A Course in Miracles alludes to this fear in many places, but advises […]
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Applying Krishnamurti’s Wisdom

2004 Letter from Johan Lem Issue No. 24, 2004-2005 of the Krishnamurti International Link magazine, contained the letter below from Johan Lem. I don’t know who Mr. Lem is, but this letter struck me as the most common-sense approach to applying K’s work that I have ever seen. To me, this letter is worth decades of reading and studying, if it is applied. I suspect however, that until one has done decades of reading and studying, letters like this mean nothing. I hope it can save you more time than it saved me! Understanding, or Living the Teachings? After having read a few articles in different issues of The Link, I have the impression that the goal of many authors is to understand the teachings, and their approach is often very intellectual and complicated. My approach is simple. Many years ago I used the teachings to understand myself. This understanding is not intellectual, but direct; it occurs through seeing what is happening one’s psyche when it happens. This seeing comes through a state of awareness when inner and outer senses are open, alert, interested to see or experience what is taking place there and then, no matter whether it is pleasant or unpleasant. From that moment on, if one is alert in daily life, the teachings are no longer so important: ‘what is’ has taken over the teaching job. As in this awareness thought has automatically calmed down, such a state cannot be found through any activity of thought. There […]
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Krishnamurti – The Observer is the Observed

‘The Observer is the Observed’. I struggled for years to understand what Krishnamurti meant by this cryptic statement that he repeated often. This is what I think he meant, although I may be missing the essence of it. We are the world, and the world is us, we are not different from what we are ‘seeing’, if we are in fact seeing it at all. I believe his message was to see ‘what is’, not ‘what should be’. When we see ugliness in ourselves our minds immediately escape into ‘what should be…’, what I will do it improve myself… but this (almost instantaneous are largely unconscious) escape prevents us from seeing clearly in the present moment, rather we are escaping into the past or future. It was part of Krishnamurti’s message that only by seeing what is, what actually is, can we can begin to make progress in understanding ourselves, which is the first step in real change. This video, and other incredibly well produced videos on Krishnamurti, are available through the Krishnamurti Foundation of America ©: https://theimmeasurable.org/
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The (Vaccine) Desperation of the Super-Rich

Here I was, sailing through my week, until someone sent me this video below about the ‘vaccine’. I can take most things in stride in a spiritual sense, keeping the first principle of miracles in mind (‘there is no order of difficulty in miracles’) and forgiving (overlooking), but this was different. This did break my personal order of difficulty. It’s things like this that deeply offend me, that are obviously gross violations of the most basic elements of human dignity, that are practiced not by the poor and suffering, but often by the richest people in the world. In this case Bill Gates of Microsoft, Ray Kurlweil of google, and Elon Musk of Tesla. This is hard to understand unless you watch this. But be warned, it’s scary stuff. Really scary, if it’s all accurate, and I have no reason to believe it’s not. NOTE 2020.12.09: THE VIDEO BELOW IS NOT THE ONE THIS ARTICLE REFERS TO, BUT IS SIMILAR. The original video has been censored by youtube and other sources. We no longer live in a society that permits free speech. You should see a ‘Brighteon Conversations’ video below, unless it too is removed. Why would billionaires like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Ray Kurzweil lower themselves to this level? It’s clearly obvious that money has not made them happy. In fact, the more money and control they have, the more they want. The reality is that we all share one mind, we are not inherently different from these […]
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The Difference Between Simple and Easy

August 17, 2020 by ACIM teacher Doug Sparks The terms ‘simple’ and ‘easy’ are so often found together to describe the same thing that it is not surprising that the two terms are often unconsciously conflated. This is of little or no consequence most of the time since what is simple is often also easy. Not so, however, when the term ‘simple’ is applied to ACIM, as Jesus does throughout his course. Ironically, it is the Course’s simplicity that is hard for us to grasp. In describing his course, Jesus says … For here we have an answer, clear and plain beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth (W-pI.122.6:6-7). Understandably, when one begins reading and perhaps, studying ACIM, it can take some time to adjust one’s thinking to align with its thought system. While the writing style is unfamiliar to most readers in the beginning, it is what the Course says that is so challenging. The most basic metaphysical premise of ACIM … that there is no world (W-pI.132.6:2) … confronts our belief in the reality of our perceptions. Thus begins the process of realizing that our self/ego generated experience is not the truth. We must develop the humility to question the assumption that our perceptions are correct, and the honesty to recognize that we are wrong about all of our perceptions when they are generated from the ego. This course is simple, […]