(Note 16 continued)
In the sense of our definition of a major aspect of slavery, most religions try to control the minds of their believers. This is clearly enslavement (actual or attempted) to the religion's Deity. Note that the concept of deities has largely been erased from the vocabularies of humanity - primarily because the believers of the one Deity concept for centuries systematically murdered, enslaved or otherwise destroyed everyone who believed in more than one god. Furthermore since mythological times the Deity has taken a non-active role in governing the lives of human beings. Men, and occasionally women, have represented the Deity and interpreted "His" wishes to the earthly masses.
The Eastern Religions that stress the search for
Enlightenment have names for this state of mind. Some of these names have found
their way into western dictionaries. i.e. Satori, Nirvana, etc. This effort to find the source of
thought in oneself and/or becoming one with that source can be illuminating even if only
partially successful. Learning to control one's mind in the manner prescribed by
Yoga ("The Path"
to enlightenment) can make one aware of levels
of thought, and communication, above the normal human perception, before one reaches the
Enlightened State. Generally, in the west, those who know of these other levels of
thought and communication keep it secret. Whenever it pops up, it is treated as one
of the possessions mentioned above. In some cases groups of people develop a way of
working their way together to some higher level. When we see these large cults
commit mass suicide, we wonder, how could this kind of thing happen. As with one who
has never experienced a sexual climax, no concept of the ecstatic impact of sex, and
therefore, of sex itself can be understood. So it is with one who has never
experienced the mental ecstatic thrill available through these higher states of
mind. My first encounter followed years of Yoga meditation.
Consider:
3.4.1.
Another scientist walked up and engaged David, an engineer, in a conversation about
an old project that was failing. During the
course of that conversation, David looked at me, smiled and said "you know how old
that is, and there's nothing coming from it." That
was the basic "non-sexual 'double entendre'" applied differently. To the other scientist, David was making an
apropos comment about the old project. To me,
David said the other scientist is older than either of us but none of this level of
conversation / communication was forth coming. What David was doing had nothing to do with
any religion. David was not a religious
person. But David could produce this level of
thought and communication / conversation at will. He
would never answer questions about how many people he could extend to include. I thought I had noticed an apparent physical
strain when there were more than 3 people involved. Consider
now what a person like David could do as a self-styled religious adept (a god). The literature says that these people convince
those who are exposed, that it is God that he has connected their minds to, and those
thrills are just the foretaste of the ecstasy to come. Of
course he is the messenger of God (sometimes actually God).
Few people in the West seem to know that this state of mind is available to
everyone, whether you believe in God or not. Similarly,
hypnosis works whether you believe in God or not. Add
a knowledge of hypnosis and standard religious brainwashing techniques, to this other
ability and you get a Joseph Smith, Daddy Grace or a Father Divine on the one hand. And a Jonestown or a Waco on the other.
3.4.2.
17. A
sad commentary on Civilization is that after 2 decades of Computer Aided Education, we
have failed to iterate the best educators/schemes to provide a complete, effective and constantly improving education system. The reason appears to lie in the area of --- we
haven't figured out how to make money from it.???
18. The power mad nut section ---- We know from the many lessons of history that power corrupts. The follow through is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. With this in mind, how much power can an individual have before becoming a menace to society? Understand, we know the person with power is being corrupted (power corrupts). We also know that the person with power will be the last person to perceive his/her insanity. How is a democratic society to protect itself from power mad nuts. When they kill someone directly, we can sometimes successfully prosecute. But indirect killing, like hiring thugs from country B to attack country A in the name of country B, in order to sell arms to both sides, the democratic society can only bring war generated extremist killers from countries A and B to war crimes justice occasionally. The real villain and the rich got richer. The power mad nut now has more power. The war they started is payed for by the poor in blood, toil and money. Excess resources taxes is a way of controlling the power growth of individuals. (Even this must be enacted worldwide or it would not work --- they would move their assets to countries they control where excess resources taxes had not been voted in. NO! This is a problem in the modern world, anyone who is rich enough to warrant watching/control will have assets in every major country) Does a democratic society have a right to know who owns how much of what in their country? If potential power mad nuts (up and coming new rich, the super rich getting richer faster) are to have their growth (measured in assets) severely restricted, we need Excess resources taxes NOW. Does a democratic society have the right to tax the rich more heavily than others? Historically the answer has been an emphatic YES. BUT, the rich keep trying to buy an emphatic NO. Where they succeed, we move from a democratic society to plutocratic society run by the rich and power mad nuts.
But
what about the ecclesiastical
power. One
19.
If we can vote the rights of groups out of existence,
then why can’t we vote the rights of the rich out of existence?
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