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Keep white white
Lime scented
Fresh and Clean
Lemon scented
Colors bright
Laundry white
On Truth
in brief
(Background to the The Light at the End of the Path
and other books)
It is 2012...
"And truth is not a voice within,
But the twisted child of corporate whim."
- From "The Great Legacy"
"The twisted child of corporate whim?"
Hear now a great truth...about truth: our world today is awash in a sea of seductive persuasions and much trickery and deceit that hold forth a host of ideas, beliefs and material things to which we may easily become attached…at our peril. Therefore form not your world view on foundations of false promises, for to do so is to bind yourslef in chains of misunderstanding that keep the spirit earthbound and unable to fly free…
In this atmosphere of information overload, many of the values, beliefs, and desires of our day have been forged not on anvils of experience and reason as in bygone days, but from the soft clay of the constant, often devious persuasions of a hundred years of advertising, and the voices of high priests and politicians. These persuasions serve not our best interests...but theirs. And many who subscribe to these fabricated sales pitches pay a steep price for their subsciptions.
The result?
We live today in a collective hallucination.
- Richard DeGrandpre, scientist, author
But it is a hallucination that we are slowly beginning to peel back as truth is brought into the light.
Know that in these times there are those who will continue to propogate the illusions so they might continue to live blindly, frenetically in their consumptive, materialist lifestyles, destructive as those lifestyles may be to them, their children and...our Earth. These are the people caught in the grip of the great disease of our day, the disease of self-service.
This they will do at the expense of those, an increasing and much larger number, whose quality of life, whose human rights, have eroded to a point well below what they should or could be. That is why today, with increasing imperative...
t Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This fact applies these days especially with family, friends, and even strangers in private and public discourse. And in every corner of the land. For the stakes are high. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt said diring the time of the Great Depression...
This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.
And be ye not seduced by the superficial, or wrappings of false promise, for they often wear a mantle of undeserved authority. Remember...
Truth is often found at great depth...
And so, Dear Reader, be ye true first to yourself: look critically at the world through the great lens of truth and believe not what is comfortable or convenient, nor build your life on foundations of false persuasions, myth and hearsay. Thus and only thus can you, can your family and friends, can our world avoid the deep and dark morass of moral, spiritual and fiscal bankruptcy that now lies at the end of the twisted road before us.
“Seek ye the truth and it will set you free.” - The Bible
Click HERE for Pillar Number Two: LOVE
Hear now a great truth...about truth: our world today is awash in a sea of seductive persuasions and much trickery and deceit that hold forth a host of ideas, beliefs and material things to which we may easily become attached…at our peril. Therefore form not your world view on foundations of false promises, for to do so is to bind yourslef in chains of misunderstanding that keep the spirit earthbound and unable to fly free…
In this atmosphere of information overload, many of the values, beliefs, and desires of our day have been forged not on anvils of experience and reason as in bygone days, but from the soft clay of the constant, often devious persuasions of a hundred years of advertising, and the voices of high priests and politicians. These persuasions serve not our best interests...but theirs. And many who subscribe to these fabricated sales pitches pay a steep price for their subsciptions.
The result?
We live today in a collective hallucination.
- Richard DeGrandpre, scientist, author
But it is a hallucination that we are slowly beginning to peel back as truth is brought into the light.
Know that in these times there are those who will continue to propogate the illusions so they might continue to live blindly, frenetically in their consumptive, materialist lifestyles, destructive as those lifestyles may be to them, their children and...our Earth. These are the people caught in the grip of the great disease of our day, the disease of self-service.
This they will do at the expense of those, an increasing and much larger number, whose quality of life, whose human rights, have eroded to a point well below what they should or could be. That is why today, with increasing imperative...
t Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This fact applies these days especially with family, friends, and even strangers in private and public discourse. And in every corner of the land. For the stakes are high. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt said diring the time of the Great Depression...
This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.
And be ye not seduced by the superficial, or wrappings of false promise, for they often wear a mantle of undeserved authority. Remember...
Truth is often found at great depth...
- Lord
Byron
And so, Dear Reader, be ye true first to yourself: look critically at the world through the great lens of truth and believe not what is comfortable or convenient, nor build your life on foundations of false persuasions, myth and hearsay. Thus and only thus can you, can your family and friends, can our world avoid the deep and dark morass of moral, spiritual and fiscal bankruptcy that now lies at the end of the twisted road before us.
“Seek ye the truth and it will set you free.” - The Bible
Click HERE for Pillar Number Two: LOVE
or read on for a sampling of delusional contemporary myths
Further reading...
A Few Popular Contemporary Delusions
that Illustrate the Point of
How We Have Been Seduced
Buying Beauty in a Bottle
You will never find beauty in a bottle. Although you are often told you will.
Look at the list on your left. There stand just a few examples of what we as a society put on our hair and flush down the drain and into the body of Mother Earth every day. Most people have no idea what these chemicals are.
Look at the list on your left. There stand just a few examples of what we as a society put on our hair and flush down the drain and into the body of Mother Earth every day. Most people have no idea what these chemicals are.
In reality, what makes shampoo work is simply a surfactant,
a simple soap just like old fashioned stuff that great grandma
used to make. One ingredient. The amount in a bottle is worth 20
or 30 cents. Maybe. The rest of
the cost is advertising, transportation (hard on
the environment), and profits that
go to an assortment of sales people, distributors, middlemen and
ultimately…the
shareholders of the large corporations whose ravenous thirst for money
escapes the calipers of common sense...while others, even in the
developed world, can barely afford food for their tables.
So why do people buy into all this? Because it cures split ends? Because it makes hair shine? Or, supposedly,because it makes one attractive to the opposite sex?
Truth is that split ends are, most often, caused by the very chemicals and harsh treatment applied to (what is essentially dead) human hair. Ladies, and you, according to the statistics, use most of the shampoo on the planet...
So why do people buy into all this? Because it cures split ends? Because it makes hair shine? Or, supposedly,because it makes one attractive to the opposite sex?
Truth is that split ends are, most often, caused by the very chemicals and harsh treatment applied to (what is essentially dead) human hair. Ladies, and you, according to the statistics, use most of the shampoo on the planet...
The truth is...true beauty is in the eyes, as the eyes are
a window on the soul. If you wish to be beautiful to others, hide
not behind the powder and paint in the cosmetic aisle, but cultivate
your innermost being until it shines under its own light. The world around you will be the better for this.
Keeping Your Whites White?
Let us ask ourselves the following: why "whites…white?" Why not blues blue? Or yellows yellow?
Again, what, here, have we been paying for? What myth propels us towards this Great White Obsession?
What we see on the supermarket shelves
is a only a host of simple soaps, again just like granny used, but now wrapped
in bogus claims that are carefully researched and woven into a myth
specifically to get your attention…and your money. What is worse, corporate competition is so fierce today, in some
well-known universities, hard up for funds, researchers are doing brain scans
to find exactly which brand attributes have the most appeal…to you. If you wish to explore this, go to
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002414.html
What we are paying for here is a little soap and a lot of overhead...and
for the propagation of an advertised myth, a myth that propels the collective hallucination in which we live. Born in the days
when the dutiful housewife stayed home and made sure
the house was clean, the myth of keeping whites white was propagated by a bunch of men sitting around a
boardroom table in New York in the late 1800’s who were having trouble
selling their soap. Racial overtones aside, they dreamed up the whole thing. But it’s
a myth we swallowed and we live by it to this day. And if we
believed that tall tale, what else will we believe??
The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie,
but the myth.
- J.F. Kennedy
Far better, perhaps, that we concern ourselves, not with stains on our laundry, but with stains (or myths) that may have wrapped themselves around our hearts, keeping us from living fully and loving freely and unfolding the miracle and gift of the uniqueness that is ours...
The Myth of the Cowboy Hero
Romanticized in story and song, held high as heroes on Hollywood
screens, the lowly cowboy emerged as the icon of the tough, Indian
shooting, knock’em down idol of many youth: youth of the same
generation that control today’s military machine: those same youth that
today produce a continuing stream of violent "entertainment|" onto our
video and movie screens. Inured to violence, they are in many ways, the
people who define the character of a nation. And the populace,
unwittingly, is seduced by the myth and behave with a reckless abandon
that has stained our age and spilled blood not only abroad, but at
hime.
Truth
be known here, most cowboys were young, knock-about teenage drifters;
dirty,
flea infested, unskilled and untrustworthy. The commonly accepted
portrait of the cowboy, like that of the opening of the American west,
is a myth, and merely the whimsical product of a wildly absurd
collection of Hollywood fantasies and politically manufatured lies that
appeal to our basest natures, and that allowed the reality of the evils
that came to pass to pass unnoticed.
The true
story of the opening of the American west was a sad tale of treachery,
deceit and self service. Just ask any historian. Or Aboriginal. One wonders just how much harm has befallen
innocent people because so many citizens swallowed this myth|: it is still ongoing today as a vast military machine chews
up and spits out innocent people by the thousands, sewing seeds of distrust and hatred all over the world.
Far better, perhaps, that we learn to look for and celebrate our heroes
among common everyday folk, folk perhaps like you or your friends who
try to do good deeds in small corners and who thereby change the world
for the better. They are the ones who history will remember...the ones the world needs right now.
And so it goes, and thus do we weave our collective, societal world view from threads of myth and misinformation that wrap us in a chilling cloak of false promise. From the shape of our bodies to the myths behind the world’s religions: from a white wash to the White House, from ego-serving, gas-guzzling cars to the illusion of what we think of as democracy, we weave our collective delusionary world view and thus become pawns in a game that serves not us…not us…but something else...
Mind
and society have become subordinate to something larger: something that
serves neither the earth nor us but itself. – Richard de Grandpre
It is that which we must come to understand.
So let us, fellow travelers on Planet Earth, with the limited amount of
time we have together, as a first and very important step, let us begin
to peel back the layers, and seek truth. For only when we begin to see our world as it really is can we rise above
the noise and confusion of everyday life and put into place the first of the three
foundational pillars that will allow us to make sense of our lives.
And think again for a moment of the words of J.F.K. …
The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie, but the myth.
And the greatest myth of all is one we hear often: that we cannot change the things in our world that we want to…
We can.
NEXT...Thoughts on Pillar Number Two: Love