8 - Deception / Manipulation

• Much of what our parents told us, they received by word of mouth from their parents, which again came from their grandparents and so on, without anyone ever checking if it was true. We got imprinted with these advices, opinions, prejudices etc. when we were very young and impressionable. Many of our present opinions, behavior and fixations go back to this early programming.
  
      And even if we did the exact opposite of what our parents told us, we only reversed polarity, but didn't create our own individual path.
  
      Example: Many parents convey to their children that people of different skin-color, language, faith, nationality, fashion of dress, eating habits, - those living in other countries or continents, with less money, lesser paid jobs, less freedom etc., also have less worth. When we observe tourists in other - exotic - countries, we know this to be true.
  
  
  

• Much what we were taught in school has long been disproven, but still schoolbooks get reprinted with all their ancient mistakes.
  
  
  

• Everything governments tell us intends to keep us quiet, never to make us well-informed. Political spin, disinformation, propaganda, outright lies, - entire nations get brutally destroyed by this intentional deception.
  
      And politicians only want (re-)election, they'd never tell us an uncomfortable truth.
  
  
  

• Most of what the media show us is highly selective, manipulative, over-dramatized, and has no other purpose than make us buy products we don't need.

• to find the truth about ourselves - why we have life, and what we're supposed to do with it -

• to become greater than we are now -

• to see dormant abilities become reality for us -

• Many things we want to see in a particular way, or like to believe that they should work a certain way - though reality is totally different.
  
      Identify these irrational beliefs - and discard them.
  
      This also means to change your life accordingly.
  
      Example: We may want to believe that medicine cures all sickness. In reality we only retain our health if we treat our body well and watch what we put into it. - A smoker trying to cure his cough with pills while continuing to smoke, never addresses the root-problem.
  
  

• In many areas we pretend to be greater than we really are.
  
      Become aware how YOU want OTHERS to see YOU  - then check impartially whether you fulfill this inner picture or if there is a discrepancy.
  
      Everything we hide and all our pretenses others see far clearer than we think. We cannot fool this perception of others except for a very short time.
  
      To enhance our intuition we either can become what we'd really like to be, - or scale down the propaganda. Both methods work equally well for this purpose.
  
      What doesn't work is maintaining our pretense.
  
      Practical Tip: To find out how others see us, just look at yourself from behind - the one view we never see in a mirror. But that's how everyone else perceives us half the time. - And don't be too shocked.
  
  

• Identify comfortable, but flawed general opinions  you express only because you don't want to upset your social consensus and position, - then stop voicing them.
  
      Example: Paying health insurance safeguards health is quite a common belief. - In actuality only we can protect our health by taking care not to get sick.
  

• Whoever manipulates loses his ability to discriminate between right and wrong.

• We become unable to discern what action leads to success and satisfaction. - Decisions of ours lead us astray and make us waste energy on pointless projects.

• It keeps us in the illusion that certain - ineffective - actions would be supportive for our growth.

• It produces inability to perform or complete activities.

    Others detest manipulation as much as we do. Relinquishing this intention makes us intuitively recognize all such attempts, which keeps us clear of their negative effects. This opens our life for more subtle perceptions.



Desiring Reality

We enhance intuition when we want to see what's REAL in our life.

    Deep DESIRE for truth stimulates an inner perception that alerts us to manipulation and deceit, even if it originates WITHIN US. It makes us aware of deeply hidden inclinations, bias and prejudices that influence us subconsciously.

    When we pursue this longing for truth, we recognize with ever increasing clarity who we truly are and why we really want to experience this world.


        This challenge is about reactivating an archaic
        inner sense how to intuitively find our way to
        greater dimensions, the knowledge of which
        was lost millennia ago.

• Truth carries immense power. The higher a truth we express, the greater energy it carries, the more effect it has.
  
  

• Communicating truth inspires others to trust us in return. - It also stimulates them to offer us knowledge - without us needing to ask for it.
  
  

• We perceive the statements of others with the same clarity we send out. Yet this does not mean that we are obliged to always voice our opinion.
  
  

• Intention to deceive shows clearly in the face. Anyone who only dares to look will recognize it.
  
  

• And then there are those who elaborately try to convince us that this path can't possibly succeed.
  
      Yet this is merely another attempt at manipulating us. Our unusual views and actions remind these people of their own inner abilities - and of the fact that they let them run idle. To conceal this they intend to discourage all further progress in this direction.
  
      Discard this kind of 'advice'. Neither have these people seriously investigated this path, nor have they experienced it well enough to state an opinion. They only voice deep-rooted prejudices to force us back into the narrow life they deem comfortable.
  
  

• Allow intuition to excite you with the path it sees. The more you cooperate with it, the more it fascinates you.