Saving Syria’s Children Documentary Announced

No offence intended in my comments above. For the most part I agree with pretty much everything you post.

I see is a deeper cognitive dissonance in that ‘information’ is considered a weapon and truth is nailed up on a post and left for dead.
It used to be that if you wanted to lie, and get away with it, you had to evade,shut down or discredit anything that exposes a lack of substance and false intent. Now the mainstream idea is just make reality up and keep repeating it or referring to it. This may be because a significant section of the population is effectively mind-captured by a broad spectrum of degradation and disincentive to question or challenge – and I am including the fronting players of the leadership class.

There is a view of being attacked or betrayed by a usurping intent that progressively chokes Life – but there is also the willingness to comply and conform to its dictate by taking the bait of deceits that are allowed to operate as true because not conforming will self-identifiy us as an object of dissonance and vilification or attack under accusation of hateful intent, or by association with it.

There is a Christian perspective that those who choose NOT to join in false witness and instead give willingness and with-ness to the true, shall meet persecution. It goes with the territory. Perhaps less clear is that this is the condition in which faith in the capacity to discern the false and recognize and align in true is deepened and strengthened.
I am not a ‘Christian’ in any organisational or institutional sense – but I love and honour truth wherever I recognize it – and meet others – regardless their personality beliefs – in shared willingness.

Truth is not in what we say or do or present or assert or agree or defend – because all these things can be masking over private hidden agenda. Now it may be that for many – reality is a battle that will be decided by which narrative assertion wins – and so belief in power as the arbiter of ‘truth’ is the belief that uses all other beliefs, ideas or forms of life and truth to undermine all rivals and prevail. (Truth by combat is an old idea that if God is on your side your will prevail. Truth by deceit is perhaps the conflict and the father of it).

And while there is conflict such intent operates as a ‘unity’ set against the feared or hated. But there is no alliance that will not turn to hate and betrayal – WITHOUT such opposition because it is not power at rest in Life – but power given it by the deceit and subjugation of others.

There is another Christian Perspective that is not apparent in the frame or mind of the world and that is that whatever we do, we do it unto Christ or to our Self. I realize this may seem crazy to ‘mind as a thing set aginst its experience of others and world’ – but the sense that I use the term is not in support self-specialness – but a quality of being that is hidden or covered over BY indentifying in fear and division and conflict, pain, loss and hate – and the compulsion to seek love or power – outside the self, rather than extend these true qualities as our recognition of others and life. An extra point to me writing this is that this is not a call to add more guilt to the already guilted self, but to wake to a choice that is unworthy of persisting in.
Seeing this truly is already releasing allegiance in it as true of us.

A lie cannot kill truth but wanting or fearing and believing it true captures or entrances the mind to defend the lie – against a now un-recognized truth.

(It is easier to deceive a man that convince him he is deceived – Mark Twain).

Discovering we ar being lied to is easy to react to with attack – because it feels like being denied is attacked – but if we do so it generally reinforces the mind-captured in their right or justification to attack their attacker – and not show or allow weakness of self-doubt.
There is a difference in forceful expression and anger. Passion serves presence when it is brought into service instead of serving personal grievance.

I understand and can easily feel a hatred of deceits that work against Life because they are are not just untrue but actively seeking to undermine and block truth – justified by that there is a war on – (and a perpetual war at that).

But the result in many who wake enough to see deceits is often a dispiriting, disturbing and hateful cynicism – that may then dedicate itself to vengeance as a core self vindication.
But that – as I see it – is the NATURE of the Beast – and not its undoing or exposure to light of a true awareness.

It is not enough to be ‘right’ over and against wrongs, and become a captive opposition by nature of operating from the same framework of seeking power. We have to become aware of the right of others to the power of choice – even when we do NOT share their choice – and then we can speak to their capacity to make better choices in the light of self-defeating and destructive outcomes.

This is not merely in or with words – that may in any case remain unintelligible to a defensive directive NOT to understand them – but in our presence, demeanour of addressing the issue WITH and TO the person – only I would prefer to say – to the being of the other.

If I need to vent or move anger or hate from me in expression I DON’T want it to occur as the self-sabotage of an opportunity for communication. This is not a judgement against leaking, and some idea of how we ‘should’ be – but a perspective from a recognition of how what seems self-protective can so easily effect self-frustrating outcomes. If we do not move it and transorm it we store it in the body as a debilitating condition that can easily be retriggerred over and over again.

Whatever might be ‘going on’ in our time, an ongoing and deepening education is a context for seeing it in a truer and more practical light. A willingness to learn, needs listen and watch and recognize what a mind blinded in its own thinking has already reacted to as if it knows. It only knows it is upset – and believes the upset is caused by its Adversary of circumstance of threatening and therefore feared and hated intent.

Intifada is an Arabic word literally meaning, as a noun, “tremor”, “shivering”, “shuddering”. It is derived from an Arabic term nafada meaning “to shake”, “shake off”, “get rid of”, as a dog might shrug off water, or as one might shake off sleep, or dirt from one’s sandals.

While this MAY be associated with armed rebellion – the phrase reminds me of Jesus’ teaching, for when there is no receptivity to giving witness to the recognition of love’s awareness – the teaching was to shake the dust of your sandals but leave with a blessing.

The blessing may be ‘Thanks – but no thanks’ to abuse – but in terms of ‘moving on and putting it behind us’ the act has to shift to a quality of conscious attention when the body cannot leave the reach of abuser. Saying NO! as an expression of self-integrity takes the form that serves the moment, and may not be able to prevent the physical situation – but it can refuse to accept the frame of victim and un-valid or un-worthy inferior – by aligning within an integrity of being that underlies the mind of the fear we have none or are robbed of it, because the inducement to hate and fear seems overwhelming. Where do we find our “No!”? It is the expression of a “Yes!” to Life instead of a fear of pain of loss and death. My experience is that a little willingness lets truth in. That is abiding an extra moment than the mind would allow – breaks the spell that closes down our vision – and even that much is a significant gain to grow on.

Likewise then, to seek and invite a little willingness in the other to open to more than they think they are – and so act from – is an invitation to truth rather than trying to push our truth onto them or trick them into an outcome we think is a true god – I meant to type good – but a god is anything that we assign reality to and act from.

God extends reality AS our awareness of Life and yet if we are busy or engaged or indeed en-tranced to making up our own reality – then we give or extend unlike truth and set our ‘self’ in error.