Article - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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Article - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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Chapter 19 There can be no doubt that the alienated person, when they actively pursue the "lights" of alienation, do become exceptional and even eccentric. Most people follow rules that are made for them by others, communicated to them by traditions, shaped into fixed forms by imitation, and continued by force of habit. The alienated person does nothing of the kind. For the alienated person, the perception of the world is not according to the rules of the Control System. And there is indeed something singularly "feverish" about such individuals that can be perceived as "nervous instability." They are generally geniuses and are often commemorated - posthumously, I should add - even though they generally have led discordant lives; and most likely they have suffered melancholy at some point in their career. As a result of their struggles against the "system," driven by their inner light of resistance against external controls that they assess - most often objectively - as hostile, alienated people often suffer a great deal and in many ways. This suffering, instead of breaking them, builds in them a single pointed focus that would be viewed by the people who have sold out as obsessions and fixed ideas. This suffering may induce chemical changes in their physiology; they can fall into trances, hear voices, see visions, and manifest all kinds of peculiarities that are commonly classed as "pathological." We cannot ignore these so-called pathological aspects. We must describe and name them. Even if the psyche recoils from such a laying bare of the causes from which a thing originates, we must still consider our passions and their properties. However, as with everything else, there is a process of "naming" involved, and this naming relates to the dictionary we use. It is all too easy to utilize the Juvenile Dictionary and say that Vinnie believes in magic because he is overly emotional; Nellie is overly conscientious because she is obsessive-compulsive, and that is due to congenital hypertonic nerves; Berthais melancholy because she suffers from liver problems; Jojo is attracted to religious groups because she is a histrionic personality; Geoff wouldn't be so worried about his soul if he would go to the gym more often, and so on and on. This materialist reasoning about our reality reduces ideas about other realities to something that is becoming popularly known as memes. A meme is a self-propagating idea, a unit of cultural imitation that, much like a biological or computer virus, effectively programs its own retransmission. They spread through motivating their "hosts" to create novel presentations of old ideas, and to proselytize. In this way it is suggested that ideas and beliefs are created by a specific combination of physical and psychological factors, and spread like contagions - cognitive viruses. For more information about "memes," see Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society, by Aaron Lynch, The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme, by Richard Brodie. "Experts" will tell us that the concepts of "Alien invasion" are merely memes, or metaphors for penetration by forces we perceive as originating outside of ourselves. They suggest that such ideas are pathological contagions that contaminate our conscious and subconscious lives the same way a computer virus invades an operating system. It is then suggested that such a "virus" can destroy what is orderly and leave only fragmentation and disintegration. Some of them even suggest that the very idea of aliens is like the movie, "Alien," where the creature breeds inside the human, and at some terrible moment, erupts in blood and gore. We are assured that this idea "eats at us from the inside out." Whoa! That's a heavy image! One person in ten says that they have seen a UFO. According to a survey, about ninety percent of us believe Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. But it is the strangest thing I have ever observed that these statistics will lead ordinarily intelligent people to suggest that this is a "psychosocial phenomenon of huge magnitude," rather than addressing the broader "reality" of UFO-ET phenomena. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome! The reader is by now aware that I had spent years studying psychic and psychological phenomena, and had come to the firm idea that any and all of it was simply a matter of understanding the nature of consciousness, perception, beliefs, memory, dreams, memory of dreams, the formation of images and its philosophical counterpart - it was all mind, and nothing else. I was convinced that our beliefs created our reality, and that "you spot it, you got it. If we didn't believe it to be possible, we don't see it. After spending some time attempting to prove that the ET hypothesis was essentially a psychic contagion, a meme, a "Millennial Disease," and failing, I came to the realization that the reality of the phenomenon of psychic contagion was an important part of the process, but in a completely opposite way of what was being suggested by the "experts." What I noticed was the fact that it seemed to be significantly present in the context of obscuring the issue. What seems to happen is that false ideas about what is really happening spread from core "authorities," such as the SETI report cited above, and this is seemingly designed to create "attitudes," perceptual controls, "reinterpretations" of personal experiences by the act of implanting doubts about oneself and about the nature of experiences which, due to their hyperdimensional nature, are ambiguous. In short, "memes" are the essence of Societal Stockholm Syndrome! As it happens, in spite of the many claims that only those who "believe in the phenomenon" tend to experience it, the fact is that those who report the most intense involvements frequently never "believed" in the phenomenon at all, and confronted with the traumatic nature of their experiences, do NOT want to even consider that it might be real. So, again, we find a funny glitch that refutes the "standard wisdom." Getting back to pathological conditions such as "alienated" people who begin to view the world as it is, defying the memes that are generated and released on society like a form of bio-semiotic warfare, we find that the same types of explanations are used to "reduce" or macerate those who suggest a reality to the UFO phenomenon as were typically used historically against anyone who perceived a higher reality, including great saints and mystics of all kinds. In this way, a connection between sexual life and religious emotions is often drawn; conversion is a "crisis of puberty;" devotion is just the parental instinct of self-sacrifice run amok; the search for meaning to it all is merely a hysterical starvation for a more earthly object of affection. By now, we are becoming rather familiar with the tactics of discrediting states of mind that produce nonlinear shifts in the psychic landscape. St. Paul had an epileptic seizure on the Road to Damascus, Saint Teresa was a hysteric, George Fox suffered a disordered colon, Carlyle had an ulcer. When you dig to the bottom of alienation, you will find all sorts of disordered glandular functions, and voila! All spiritual verities will be successfully disposed of and skepticism and the Blind Watchmaker will reign supreme! The problem with these reductionist explanations is this: even if it is true that St. Paul had epilepsy, and that is the "existential account" of his vision on the road to Damascus, does that then negate the spiritual significance of the event? Because, in point of fact, every single "spiritual condition" - positive or negative - probably does have an expression in physiology. As the C's have said:
We would also like to note that the hard-core skeptic is as likely to be skeptical because he suffers liver disease as the born again Christian is likely to be converted because his ulcer drives him to seek relief. The evil magician can have a dirty colon and the psychic vampire can have false teeth. In short, raptures and rants can be equally represented by organic conditions. And if this is taken as the model of verity, then none of our ideas, our thoughts, feelings, scientific doctrines, beliefs or disbeliefs, have any value at all. If such an idea is the theory upon which we are to evaluate our reality, then we must theorize that EVERY idea emanates from the state of the body of the originator. What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander.
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