Transcending the Perception Wars

Rising to the Challenges of Modern Living

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For most of our history, we didn't know everything that was going on in the world all the time, immediately, all at once. The information had to travel. The distribution networks of information would move originally at the speed of which humans could move. As we sped up our ability to move bodies, information followed. Then, with the telegraph and telephone and radio signals, information began to move faster than people. Yet, the distribution of trusted information relied primarily in written form on paper, and then to radio, and then to TV. Even then, there was only so much bandwidth and time and space to communicate to the audience, and so what was happening in the world would be curated and edited and selected by gatekeepers. The speed increased, but the amount was still limited to the hour or so of news that people consumed in a day.

The internet opened up the amount of information that was available. The creation and availability of smart phones paired with social media networks and their addictive design changed the speed and amount of real time information about events everywhere in the world being consumed.

That has led to the information wars, or perhaps more accurately called the wars of perception, in which we find ourselves currently immersed. In the information wars of perception, your peace of mind and emotions are the collateral damage.

Most people don’t even realize the extent to which they are being manipulated. They haven’t even identified the battle properly. If you are constantly upset about what is taking place in the world, then you are the mark (to borrow a poker term).

People have been conditioned into a constant state of reaction to the information they are being delivered about things that aren’t even happening in their own lives or to those they personally know. They are experiencing events across the world as if they are happening in their own personal space, because their brain doesn’t know the difference.

The emotional and mental wellbeing of so many people has been hijacked by these technological structures of informational control. We weren’t designed to innately know how to healthily handle every bad situation happening on the planet as if it were happening to us. That level of awareness used to be reserved for the greatest of enlightened mystics and prophets, but now everyone is supposed to just know how to process and overcome all the suffering in the world on a daily basis. It’s created a mess, but also an opportunity.

Being exposed to so much negativity presents a challenge that requires a great deal of conscious effort to overcome. You need to transcend, to move into greater positive consciousness, or you will be enslaved by your own emotions and beliefs that are being externally manipulated.

It is an extraordinarily difficult time to be moving towards the Light of a loving and aware consciousness. On the other hand, the payoff is that much more amazing as you succeed. The strengthening of consciousness that is available right now is incredible. You have an amazing opportunity to rise to the challenge.