Predators of the Human Mind, The Warning

If you owned a magic lamp, the kind that contained a genie who would grant any wish you made, what would you do with it? Really think about it.  The question is not "What would you wish for?" but "What would you do with the lamp?"  This lamp could make you the most powerful human being on the Earth; it could bring the perfect relationship; it could grant long life, indefinitely, a high quality life of meaning; it could bring the tools and conditions necessary for anything you desired: boats, planes, pilots, crews, skilled helpers, fortresses, associates--anything.  What would you do with such an object, one of a kind, and of measureless value to you or anyone else who could get their hands on it!?

I would probably create a protective structure around it.  I would use the genie to help me devise an impregnable system, foolproof, one that included safeguards for me, the owner.  I would screen my associates for their integrity.  I would screen myself to be sure I was not inflating, becoming paranoid, overly trusting, or any other trap that might endanger the lamp directly or indirectly. 

Then I would try to understand what I had; how it could best be used. Maybe the wealth of the lamp could equalize the differences between myself and others, therefore making the dangers of greed or envy less acute.  I would set the task of finding wise counsel either through my own gut sense of who to trust, or through some wisdom the genie might provide; (Genies are famously untrustworthy in fables. Always trying to get out of their servitude, but bound to it none-the-less.)

Then I would pray that it all worked out; that the possibilities would not drive me crazy; that the lamp would stay in my domain, that I would use it well, that the genie would not trick me into destroying myself, that the genie would not create unholy alliances during his missions to get things done.  I would get the genie's help in securing protection and guidance that was a level up from us, one that actually had the ability to protect. 



These steps correspond to the lines of the Gayatri mantra.  I did not look at the mantra to guide my protection plan, it seems that the mantra is a plan devised by ancients, Vishwamitra if we can believe the story, to protect a resource that they realized was of infinite, immeasurable, and practical value.

 ...the average cost of a prime-time spot is just shy of $110,000 a pop.According to analysis by New York independent media agency TargetCast tcm, the average price of a 30-second spot in the first quarter of 2011 was $108,956, up 5 percent from the year-ago period.  Anthony Crupi. Ad Week

  ...but the average cost of a 30-second spot in "Sunday Night Football" in the 2012-2013 TV season is a budget-busting $545,142, up from $512,367 last season... Brian Steinberg.  Ad Age/ Media News

Notice that these prices, a million dollars a minute, do not seem important; they do not seem to create a sense of alarm or caution.  Ad prices tell you that someone is willing to pay a million dollars a minute to get in your head because they feel confident, based on research and experience, that they can make you do things you would not do on your own creative volition.  This is mind control,  hypnosis,  brain washing; call it what you want, but manipulative coercion by any other name is still manipulative coercion. Notice that you might feel some fear, imagining yourself tied to a chair for hours, or even minutes, with a Chinese mind-control agent performing "Tham-zing" to induce you to "See things the right way." Yet, you feel certain that the soothing voices, gentle or jarring wash of images, combined with your own relaxed body is not effective, and instills no concern.  Why don't you notice that they are the same thing? Could that be part of the message...that you are invulnerable to coercion through media?

Predators are real.  Believe it. Explore it, don't take my word for it.  It is easy to notice; watch the Disney channel for an hour, the news, even National Public Radio. Notice your reactions to events in life, a smiley ball flashing on a computer that says, "Good job!"  or, "Sorry, about that." Feel the calm that might come when a soothing synthesized voice says what floor the elevator is on; or the sense of relaxation and surrender when white or blue coats are all around, speaking medicalese, offering firm suggestions with complete confidence for what you can do with your own body. Notice that they have no accountability at all, and you will pay the full price for those suggestions.  Notice where your sense of comfort comes from; is it based on research? Or is the conviction based on conditioning, Marcus Welby ,MD, or Criminal Minds? Notice most of all that your reaction to events or information seems like it is all yours, that you produced it through some flawless integral process.  But do you know what that process is? Predators are real, and they know what that process is far better than you do. They are professionals, they go to school to learn it, they work to practically understand it every day; they have Phd's, research grants.  They have a genie in a bottle to figure out how to get at yours.  Enough.  You should no more trust your mind to media of any kind, talking heads, experts, etc...than you would send your 9 year old daughter to a Los Angeles liquor store at 2 am. 

This blog is media.  The writing and photos are meant to influence you. The questions to ask are: Who is presenting the message?  Why are they presenting it?  What is in it for them? How does the message affect me? (Does it create fear, anger, desire; or does it cause me to seek information, question my world, connect with others in beneficial ways?)

It helps to examine the difference between "Big Mind" small mind, the brain, patterns, anti-patterns, and memes.  Later.