Collective psychosis
Entire societies can be infected with hysterical fear and worry over anything and everything when told they should.
Eckhart Tolle wrote what I think is a very fine book called “The Power Of Now”, which has sold 12 million copies. He asserts that there is no past or future, but that there is only the present moment where all eternity resides. He contends that the past is gone and the future isn’t here yet, so all that we ever have is what he calls “the now”. I have to say that this concept seemed very strange at first but the more I thought about it, the more I realized this gentle soft-spoken man was right. He changed the way I viewed the world, the people, and the things in it. For those who disagree, add your comments below.
I was therefore delighted to see him interviewed by one of the YouTube personalities that are included on my website, David Rubin, who used to be a far-left left-winger. He changed his views radically based on hearing different ideas and knowledge, thus proving my premise that minds can be radically changed from deeply held beliefs that one was sure were “true” until they started examining why they believed what they did. One of the people who changed David Rubin’s thought process was Eckhart Tolle and for those who want to watch an interesting interview that will take less than an hour of your life, I highly recommend watching the video.
We are in a period in history that I thought would never come to America and truthful historians will look back in a hundred years or so on these days in awe as to how fast the indoctrination process of humanity can take place. Dispassionate observers will find that it was inevitable based on the complacency of the populace too consumed with the desires for control and power by the rich and the evil and the desires of the people for material possessions at little or no cost to them. They will find that dividing people conquered from America within by instilling race and class and warfare, fear, hate, and anger by the governmental leaders in the masses for their own personal aggrandizement and financial gain.
In the interview, Eckhart says that the greatest danger that humanity faces is not from any external force like natural disasters, diseases, or pandemics. He said the greatest danger that humanity faces is collective psychosis. He uses the example of Cambodia where 1/3rd of the population got massacred because you were considered an enemy of the people if you weren’t doing manual work. What are we seeing in America and across the world now? A few years ago, those who said masks didn’t work were angrily shouted down by the left and FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube. They silenced the doubters to the approval of half the world who claimed science was on their side. It turned out that science was NOT on their side but that is not the subject of this article. People were forced to believe masks “work” without stopping to think what “masks work’ really means and watching those who wear them religiously got infected anyway. Like stupefied derelicts, humans believe because they heard those “in authority,” said so.
Those “in authority” across history are the ones who brought death and misery to humanity as the current Congress and Senate are doing today by agreeing to socialist policies that will bankrupt America such as free college, free preschool care, family leave, free health care and ignoring the massive debt that the future humans will incur. Once programs are started, they never end and only get bigger while growing government and those in it more rich and powerful while the private sector is burdened with high taxes that go to support the inept, irresponsible, and lazy.
How does the individual deal with this worldwide collective psychosis that is happening today? You have to observe life and what is happening around you and not be nervous, afraid, and fretful but stay in the present moment with your thoughts calmly collected and decide that you will not join in the collective hysteria and madness but you will resist and fight against it. You don’t do that with a sword or a gun but with reason and knowledge. You cannot sit passively by and let others control you even if the “others” are more than half the populace. Just because the majority believes something that does not make that belief true. Otherwise, you would have to agree that Islam is true in Iran and socialism is a true belief in Venezuela, and if you were living in the time of Hitler, that the Jews were your enemy and deserved to be exterminated.
It is not what others tell you but what you tell yourself that will be the guiding force in your life. You are not your past or your future. Neither one of those exists. The only thing that exists right now or ever will exist, is the present and you must be the dispassionate observer of the present moment so that you can be the master of the ship you are the commander of in life. You cannot hand over the reins to someone else and let them lead you off a cliff. When the waters are roiling and the ship is tilting, it is you and only you who can right it and keep it from capsizing.
The government won’t do that for you, God won’t do that for you, and your friend or lover won’t do it. We have a pandemic of the minds going on right now where half the world is clamoring for more and bigger government and control of the populace and what information they are allowed to see and hear, and the other is not. Disaster will follow if you don’t steer your ship of life. If you don’t, you cannot teach others how to steer theirs and stay calm in the eye of the storm. Much of the world is truly crazy right now because of media bombardment with crazy ideas 24/7 but no one has to join.
We do have to throw the current leaders out of office and send a clear message that we do not want a socialist or communist-type government in America. We have seen the carnage that results in all situations where socialism, Marxism, or Communism was tried, meaning that it is demonstrably true that type of system does not work. In a sense, each of us is steering the ship of America’s future and we do that by calmly and bravely positioning our sails to take advantage of the winds to make them work for us instead of against us until the waters calm and those who were in a collective stupor wake up and look back in awe at how they could have been so
