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no matter how many times they transfer blame
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to yet another person or yet another group.
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We need chaos in our lives, we crave destruction,
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we beg for cattastrophe.
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Because if we don’t have these things
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to act as a form of exorcism or a catalyst for us,
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we start to notice these things in ourselves
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and that’s what we don’t want.
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See, we can deal with wars, we can deal with terrorism,
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we can deal with stock market collapse and economic collapse,
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we can deal with these things.
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But once we start to notice this chaos within ourselves,
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that’s what we’re really afraid of.
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We’ll take a million September 11’s over one moment
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of true insight toward our self-hate.
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“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
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“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain
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that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.”
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And you know that the most interesting part of all of this is…
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We encounter things everyday.
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Every single day that we either accept with open arms
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or that we reject violently,
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the interesting part is not really what we’re accepting or rejecting
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as much as what it is inside us
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that makes us feel compelled to a certain thing or repelled from a certain thing.
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There’s this fundamental duel behavior of muscular strength or weakness,
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attraction or repulsion, and what’s interesting about this is
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when you realize that consciousness, awareness,
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that intangible essence that animates all matter
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into what we see around us as life,
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that is where you will find the origin of this duel behavior.
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It’s been explained as the inhalation and exhalation of Brahma.
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The contraction and the expansion of Arman and Lucifer
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in an anthroposophical setting.
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The active and the passive qualities in Electricity,
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The masculine and feminine qualities, Yin and Yang,
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Existence and Nothingness,
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These are all ways to explain the same behavior process
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that begins with awareness, begins with consciousness.
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And if you get rid of all the images and concepts in our minds,
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of these sayings in your head,
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and just try to feel the difference between the two polarities,
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you’ll begin to notice that all of the different scenarios and possibilities
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that are playing out in the world, all spawn from this common origin.
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You’ll have a million people telling you why the bible is supposedly
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the word of God and that you should follow it word for word.
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And then you’ll have another million claiming that it’s a form of Mind Control
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and not to believe any of it.
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Everybody will tell you to “Be aware of this”, or “Watch out for that”
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“This is good information”, “This is bad information”
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And I just have to wonder,
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what makes anyone an authority figure enough to say that something is true or false?
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And why are you denying or accepting anything
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based on the suggestion of another person?
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Why aren’t you making that decision for yourself?
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Information is information,
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there’s no such thing as good or bad information, it’s all what you do with it.
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I say, let everything be your Bible,
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Give every piece of information, every person, every event or scenario
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or situation an honest and open mind.
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Because that is your responsibility to respond to it in the way that you choose.
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Not following the herd, not following convention, it’s your responsibility.
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And that’s the point when no matter how many people
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tell you you’re wrong or right, you’re not dependant upon their approval.
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If we at least question our own actions, question our own thought process
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and make a conscious decision to what we feel is right every single day,
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that’s what I believe to be Divinity.
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That’s true shamanism.
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And that, to me, is what it really feels like to be alive.
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In this conscious living universe there are no laws of nature, just habits.
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There is nothing external to the universe to enforce a law upon it.
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The illusion of a fixed law of nature
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is only the result of there being no need for that habit to be broken.
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When habits need to be broken,
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to ensure the survival of the organism,
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we see this event in nature, and call it Evolution.
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The collective mind shapes our evolution.
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And a great example of this is the experiment done by
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John Karat in 1988.
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His team put lactose-intolerant cells
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in an environment with only lactose for food.
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Under a “Law” of nature,
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every one of this lactose-intolerant cells would have died.
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But surprisingly, they all survived.
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Every one of them understood the problem that they were facing,
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and replaced the defective lactase-enzyme with a functioning one
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to utilize lactose for food.