DEAR FELLOW TRAVELLER ON THE FREEDOMROAD
WELCOME
Our subject of prime interest on this journal is that of human FREEDOM!
INTRODUCTION
Therefore, the challenge for each of us must surely be to create a new, coherent, and stable psychology, if we are to have any chance to escape the monstrous trap we all find ourselves caught up in. This will, of course, be no easy task. However, to our minds, there is no viable alternative. How are we to even begin this enormous quest?
Lets start with a new foundation or working model.
PROPOSITIONS
We have found the following concepts to be, if not completely provably true, at least an effective working hypothesis:
• there is a Creative Force of life itself which is inherently perfectly Good and can therefore be completely trusted
• this Creative Force is infinite/eternal and beyond measure
• our consciousness is limited, and therefore the Force must remain essentially a mystery
• life is a wondrous, never ending interplay of ever changing energies
• some necessary measure of those energies are given to all created entities, and any energetic diminishment of such will be problematic
• therefore, any psychology which causes a waste of energy must be eradicated, if we are to live a life of joy and fulfillment
• our conditioned psychological structure is unbalanced (neurotic), and this condition causes us to conduct our lives in energetically wasteful ways
Are we FREE?
Now, perhaps you feel you are already free. Are you really? To answer that question, we must define:
what is freedom?
Is it just being able to travel around and think whatever we want? Or is it much deeper; to be free from the common problems of fear, pressure, influence, conflict, guilt and all the rest of it.
When put in these terms, it becomes a much more difficult proposition, does it not? And if we are not free, does that not necessarily imply that we are actually enslaved by these energies or problems? Oh oh!
This kind of fact, so huge and overwhelming, can be very difficult to face or admit. We must do it, however, if we are to have any chance to see our way through to a solution. Are you prepared for the most arduous, but also most rewarding, challenge you have ever faced? If your answer is yes, we salute you for your courage and audacity and are honoured to have you with us.
GENERAL
This situation in which we find ourselves (virtual slavery) is a very difficult and complex one, and therefore it must be approached as simply as possible.
In that light, and for the purposes of this exploration, we would like to propose that we use the following as our starting point:
Proposition: Everything is Energy!
If that’s true, a human life could be most simply described as a process of receiving and applying energy. Obviously, trouble will arise if one doesn't get enough, or wastes it by misapplication.
If we, individually and/or collectively, are experiencing problems in life, as indeed is the case, the cause must lie in one or both of these areas.
Now, the question arises, are we receiving sufficient energy from the Source? Perhaps this is the problem. Surely not, for it seems evident to us that nature supplies an abundance of energy for all of its’ creation to function as it was meant to do. So if that’s not the source of our difficulties, where else could it lie?
Could the root cause of our problems be this: that the basic education we all receive as to how to conduct our lives is fatally flawed, in that it causes unnecessary energetic waste? We think that this is actually what is happening.
If this is true, then why, after all the millennia mankind has been on this earth, have we failed to find the solution? From this we can only conclude one of two things; that either there is no solution to these issues available to us, or that there remain very deep and difficult barriers that are, nevertheless, still possible to overcome.
As objective explorers, we are making the scientific experimental proposition that the latter possibility may be true.
Our challenge, therefore, is one of completely re-examining every aspect of the conduct of our lives, on the basis of its’ energetic efficiency.
MISAPPLICATION OF THOUGHT PROCESSES
Addiction Formation
Have we not been conditioned to attempt to gain an advantage in life by constantly using thought to predict the future?
We do this by mentally projecting from the past through the present into the imagined future. Although this seems to be a logical approach, it unfortunately breeds the painfully pressurized psychological states of FEAR and DESIRE.
In order to cope with this pressure, we are taught to numb the pain with all kinds of psychology and substances, which inevitably leads to mental neurosis and various addictions.
Addictions are repetitive unnecessary actions conducted as a means to an end, which is to numb pain. They are not a solution to the problem because they do not deal with the root cause. Their terribly debilitating side effects create additional difficulties, not to mention the vast energy loss incurred.
These processes, all of which consume energy, are all unbalanced and come loaded with negative side effects, both physical and psychological. This causes even more painful pressure and you can see the energetic negative spiral that is created.
This is all so endemic in society that it is accepted and ‘normalized’. Hence we have a designer coffee shop and pub on every second street corner. Substance abuse is relatively easy to acknowledge but difficult to cure. Negative psychological processes are even more problematic. These must include rationalization, justification, condemnation, and sublimation, along with comparison/competition, control, domination, manipulation, and various forms of conflict. All a terrible waste of energy!
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESISTANCE
The next major energy waste involves the psychological movement of resistance to various Facts of Life or, in other words, 'What Is'
This process of acceptance/rejection, like/dislike, craving/aversion and so on, is a form of conflict with 'what is'. It consumes a great deal of energy, all of which is completely wasted. This is so because it engenders no positive effect on the situation, and in fact generates even more energy depleting side effects.
Coming next: How the revolutionary science of Quantum Mechanics/Physics can help us!
