I like your comment about the 100th monkey Will. It makes "giving UP"that much easier. As Soren Kierkegaard has said, the father of Existentialism, life is a Leap of Faith. It is what has propelled me to leave a life of darkness, and turn my light on. I so enjoy your weekly writings. Please forgive me for not commenting more frequently.
I love all the different ways htat you lean into any and most subjects. It helps to open doors that we may not have thought of. "Giving Upwards" is a wonderful way to tweek the mind. Mahalo Will
“The verbal battle against man's concept of truth and against his mind seems to be ceaseless. For example, if I can instill in eventual future enemies fear and terror and the suggestion of impending
defeat, even before they are willing to fight, my battle is already half won….
…Free men in a free society must learn not only to recognize this stealthy attack on
mental integrity and fight it, but must learn also what there is in side man's mind that
makes him vulnerable to this attack, what it is that makes him, in many cases,
actually long for a way out of the responsibilities that republican democracy and
maturity place on him….
We cannot be enough aware of the continual coercion of our senses and minds, the
continual suggestive attacks which may pass through the intellectual barriers of
insight. Repetition and Pavlovian conditioning exhaust the individual and may
seduce him ultimately to accept a truth he himself initially defied and scorned…..
…..The weapon of terror has been used by tyrants from time immemorial to make a
meek instrument of man. In Totalitaria, the use of this weapon is refined to a science
which can wipe out all opposition and dissent. The leaders of Totalitaria rule by
intimidation; they prefer loyalty through fear to loyalty through faith. Fear and terror
freeze the mind and will; they may create a general psychic paralysis.
In the panic caused by totalitarian terror, men feel separated from one another, as by an
impassable vacuum, and each man becomes a lonely, frightened soul. Even panicky
hovering together could be suspected of being conspiracy against the state.
Separated from any real emotional contact with his fellow men by his own inner
isolation, the citizen of Totalitaria becomes increasingly unable to fight against its
dehumanizing influences.
The inner harmony between social adaptation and self-assertion has to be re-formed
in every new environment. Each individual has to fight over and over again the same
subtle battle that started during infancy and babyhood. The ego, the self, forms itself
through confrontation with reality. Compliance battles with originality, dependence
with independence, outer discipline with inner morale. No culture can escape this
inner human battle, though there is a difference in emphasis in every culture and
society and in every family.
Freedom and planning present no essential contrasts. In order to let freedom grow,
we have to plan our controls over the forces that limit freedom. Beyond this, we must
have the passion and the inner freedom to prosecute those who abuse freedom. We
must have the vitality to attack those who commit mental suicide and psychic murder
through abuse of liberties, dragging down other persons in their wake.
Thanks for digging into that one, it's actually very significant because it contributed to the demeaning of women RE spirituality. I'd enjoy learning what you discover.
Dear Will, thank you. So often you write or record a podcast that is absolutely where I find myself at that moment, and the Giving Up article is just that. I like the play on words. It makes me stop and think. For some time, as I meditate after yoga, I communicate with my light being connections, sending love to all. This simple act fills me with gratitude and joy. I'd also like to thank you because my husband and I were just gifted your new book, The Success Paradox :) And, because things always work well in threes, thank you for doing what you do and being who you are.
Brilliant graphic to illustrate the exponential ripple effect that we're always emanating whether we realize it or not. So valuable to see this and recognize the opportunity we always have to emanate compassion and love -- we're choosing in every moment what we want to support in the world..
Profound and timely, as always, dear friend. This perfectly aligns with everything I'm currently experiencing. I've been diving deeply lately into reading more about one of my favourite subjects - the deception and gas-lighting that has gone on for 2000 years about Mary Magdalene and her shared mission with Yeshua. We have been lied to for centuries - its an ancient struggle of polarity. I love your re-interpretation of giving up - I'll be applying this in my meditations from here on. Many blessings to you for your on-going work to keep shining a light and championing others to do the same. I stand with you and all who are giving it up to a higher intelligence - it feels like a lot of hard work right now with so much nonsense going on, but it is always so rewarding as we can feel the old indoctrinated belief systems falling aside as the veils of illusion keep falling away one by one.
John Hall
Will, this is brilliant stuff and inspired thinking.
All I can say is that I'm giving up (in the right upward way) and trying to be one who helps to illuminate all the light bulbs.
I like your comment about the 100th monkey Will. It makes "giving UP"that much easier. As Soren Kierkegaard has said, the father of Existentialism, life is a Leap of Faith. It is what has propelled me to leave a life of darkness, and turn my light on. I so enjoy your weekly writings. Please forgive me for not commenting more frequently.
Thanks Gary. You're an inspiration, how you transformed your life!
Thank you Will!!!
I love all the different ways htat you lean into any and most subjects. It helps to open doors that we may not have thought of. "Giving Upwards" is a wonderful way to tweek the mind. Mahalo Will
“The verbal battle against man's concept of truth and against his mind seems to be ceaseless. For example, if I can instill in eventual future enemies fear and terror and the suggestion of impending
defeat, even before they are willing to fight, my battle is already half won….
…Free men in a free society must learn not only to recognize this stealthy attack on
mental integrity and fight it, but must learn also what there is in side man's mind that
makes him vulnerable to this attack, what it is that makes him, in many cases,
actually long for a way out of the responsibilities that republican democracy and
maturity place on him….
We cannot be enough aware of the continual coercion of our senses and minds, the
continual suggestive attacks which may pass through the intellectual barriers of
insight. Repetition and Pavlovian conditioning exhaust the individual and may
seduce him ultimately to accept a truth he himself initially defied and scorned…..
…..The weapon of terror has been used by tyrants from time immemorial to make a
meek instrument of man. In Totalitaria, the use of this weapon is refined to a science
which can wipe out all opposition and dissent. The leaders of Totalitaria rule by
intimidation; they prefer loyalty through fear to loyalty through faith. Fear and terror
freeze the mind and will; they may create a general psychic paralysis.
In the panic caused by totalitarian terror, men feel separated from one another, as by an
impassable vacuum, and each man becomes a lonely, frightened soul. Even panicky
hovering together could be suspected of being conspiracy against the state.
Separated from any real emotional contact with his fellow men by his own inner
isolation, the citizen of Totalitaria becomes increasingly unable to fight against its
dehumanizing influences.
The inner harmony between social adaptation and self-assertion has to be re-formed
in every new environment. Each individual has to fight over and over again the same
subtle battle that started during infancy and babyhood. The ego, the self, forms itself
through confrontation with reality. Compliance battles with originality, dependence
with independence, outer discipline with inner morale. No culture can escape this
inner human battle, though there is a difference in emphasis in every culture and
society and in every family.
Freedom and planning present no essential contrasts. In order to let freedom grow,
we have to plan our controls over the forces that limit freedom. Beyond this, we must
have the passion and the inner freedom to prosecute those who abuse freedom. We
must have the vitality to attack those who commit mental suicide and psychic murder
through abuse of liberties, dragging down other persons in their wake.
𝐒𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧; 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬; 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧.”
~ The Rape of the Mind, 1956. Joost Meerloo, M.D.
Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology, New School for Social
Research, Former Chief, Psychological Department, Netherlands Forces.
Thanks for digging into that one, it's actually very significant because it contributed to the demeaning of women RE spirituality. I'd enjoy learning what you discover.
Thanks Bonnie. The art needs some work! But it gets the point across.
After all these years, that turns out to be a big truth!
Thanks Janet. Gratitude and joy!!!
Dear Will, thank you. So often you write or record a podcast that is absolutely where I find myself at that moment, and the Giving Up article is just that. I like the play on words. It makes me stop and think. For some time, as I meditate after yoga, I communicate with my light being connections, sending love to all. This simple act fills me with gratitude and joy. I'd also like to thank you because my husband and I were just gifted your new book, The Success Paradox :) And, because things always work well in threes, thank you for doing what you do and being who you are.
Feels like a song I've been guided in singing lately... Let your little light shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!!!
Indeed 💜💜💜
Brilliant graphic to illustrate the exponential ripple effect that we're always emanating whether we realize it or not. So valuable to see this and recognize the opportunity we always have to emanate compassion and love -- we're choosing in every moment what we want to support in the world..
Your words and your art 😊 work for me!
Profound and timely, as always, dear friend. This perfectly aligns with everything I'm currently experiencing. I've been diving deeply lately into reading more about one of my favourite subjects - the deception and gas-lighting that has gone on for 2000 years about Mary Magdalene and her shared mission with Yeshua. We have been lied to for centuries - its an ancient struggle of polarity. I love your re-interpretation of giving up - I'll be applying this in my meditations from here on. Many blessings to you for your on-going work to keep shining a light and championing others to do the same. I stand with you and all who are giving it up to a higher intelligence - it feels like a lot of hard work right now with so much nonsense going on, but it is always so rewarding as we can feel the old indoctrinated belief systems falling aside as the veils of illusion keep falling away one by one.