Liberating Ourselves from Collective Mass Hypnosis

When the thing we identify with the most falls apart, we lose our footing, we don't know what our next step is. The foundation cracks and sinks away as we stumble around to remain standing on what was once solid ground. Our comprehension crumbles, leaving us with darkness in it's place and feeling lost from having lost what we were attached to.

We need to learn to let go of the falsity and cracks in our foundation. We need to want to see these cracks in our selfview and worldview. Aspects of our identity can be destroyed. Falsity within us can be destroyed.

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Part of who we are is created. There isn't only the nature of our genetics from our parents, but also the nurture of our environment and society (which includes the influence of our parents).

We don't get to choose how we are created, shaped and formed for a significant part of our lives. Certainly not when we are too young to know how this all works, and get influenced and conditioned automatically as a sponge that soaks up water.

But even after childhood, some people don't engage in the self-examined life to really evaluate what they have previously been told and bought into unthinkingly and uncritically as we grew up. They go through the motions of the programmed and conditioned way of life that is presented to us. They live within the confines of the conditioning, in a somnambulistic hypnotic state of repetition, cycles and routines.

Modern society places intellect or "intelligence" as the superior capacity for success, where social skills like being nice to others is less important. What about consciousness? To be with-knowledge, with awareness, consciously aware, and to be more aware, more alert and wiser in how we conduct ourselves. Some people may be very intelligent, but aren't too wise.

Just as we can be physically asleep by night and awake by day with varying degrees of alertness and awareness (some wake up at loud sounds while others don't, some wake up easily at being touched while others need more physical stimulus, etc.), there are also varying degrees of wakefulness, where we can be very alert and awake but have diminished capacities for alertness and awareness. Sleep deprivation causes this in our conscious state. Our conscious awareness and level of being aware and awake goes beyond having enough sleep or not, into the domains of understanding and wisdom about ourselves and the world.

There are levels of consciousness; levels of awareness that can be attained in life. The faculty of consciousness can be lacking in some, where they are less conscious and awake, and more asleep, stuck in that somnambulistic, automatic, programmed and conditioned modality of living. They are "awake" to some degree -- to walk, talk, feel, act, survive, procreate, live and die -- but without ever being aware of their hypnotic condition, a form of "sleep walking" we can say.

Others have awakened more to a higher level of consciousness, liberating themselves the collective mass hypnosis. They have gone beyond the impositions of education, culture, imitation and conditioned reflexes about how to think. Some people awaken to greater levels of awareness that free them from the shackles of their condition and conformity that was imposed upon them. Many people in history have become awakened and understood various truths, trying to share what they have come to understand. But all too often, their words were not heard and fell on deaf ears who remained blind to what was going on, both in the world and within themselves.

The individual program of our ego-personality-identity construct can be reconstructed to a certain extent. We can take advantage of a fracture or crisis in consciousness and identity to recognize the opportunity of being shown the fault in our foundation. Without awareness of the cracks in our foundation, we can't repair it and make it stronger, thinking that we are walking on solid level ground, but one step on a crack can cause the foundation to crumble, taking the whole edifice with it.

Facing the negative and falsity of our foundations is a positive step towards building a more solid foundation in truth. Talking about the negative isn't being "negative". What is being negative is being in denial. What is being negative is being in avoidance of accepting the truth about ourselves and the world.

We need to wake up and face reality, not go on living in a conditioned unreality and illusory somnambulistic dream-state. Liberating ourselves requires that we learn. Liberty has the same root as the French word for book, livre. Reading or engaging in other inputs of knowledge is important. It starts with waking up from the collective mass hypnosis and realizing we need to learn more.

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Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.

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