Cognitive Dissonance

My poetry tells a story
the evolution of a soul
Dissecting life around me
understanding, an impassioned goal

Since first man was created
gave voice to that around
Naming and defining
convicted to each sound (*1)

A good boy acts like this . . .
a bad girl lacks respect
Providing all the labels
a template, I'd suspect

Freedom isn't free
a line that's over-used
To draw out forces needed
Corporations seem abuse

Let's change the meaning sharply
by looking inside our mind
To notice our resistances
of which conveniently blind

Freedom lives inside each moment
as we qualify our part
In creating all this chaos
because we've closed our heart!

Awave upon the ocean
crashing on the shore
Washing clean the shoreline
from now to forever more. . .

3/29/15
Written after typing The Power in Forgiveness and Living with Our Judgments

(*1) As we have developed as a race mammals, of human beings, we've most of us at one time or another, looked outside ourselves with an interest in understanding the world around us. Everything gets a name, a definition and as an extension an expectation. We are of God, he lives in us and speaks through us. We have some inherent knowledge or feeling of it (that something else); but through cultural stereotypes we've lost that intimate connection.

That being the case, we've gone in search. . . perhaps because of our impassioned need to know, many illuminated souls have come in and tried to help expand our understanding of God and our relationship to God. Each one has left their mark, but consistent with the concepts of Babel, they've engendered divisions and dissension.

[Regarding my remark about Babel, it lives as a faint memory about God being angry because mankind was temples as a reflection of the needs of the ego, so God gave us different tongues or languages which started the divisions. That may certainly be a bastardization of the story but that's how it lives in me.]

My original point was that we, as a generalized (universal) body of humanity, connected through spirit have lost our direct connection to God, therefore our affect on our world as a result of this unconscious disconnect. We've cast Him out and feel compelled to look for him outside ourselves. This has resulted in a multiplicity of interpretations and thus chaos.

Where does the chaos stem? Indoctrination. We have allowed ourselves to become indoctrinated. The indoctrination is a left brain function, which is the storehouse of our beliefs and or psychological debris consistent with our experiences. Our ego is the place that holds our convictions, thus our judgments.

Quantum physics shows us that the observer affects that which is observed, we intentionally or unintentionally create or affect aspects of our world so that it (the world) can better mirror our attitudes (judgments) back to us. We are the problem and the solution. . .

As an example (and not as a judgment of right or wrong): The subject of homosexuality allows us to see our own convictions about what's happening in the lives of others. If we want to be free, why would we enter into a conversation about what other people do in their lives. I suppose as taxpayers we feel we have a right to speak to creating a category that would allow someone else the benefits that a monogamous couple enjoys. This instead of addressing the aspect of taxation itself, or the disparity in how the burden of taxation is distributed. No instead of addressing those kinds of issue, which we seem to have little control over, we go to the doctrines to justify our position The ego must be right and if a bunch of old men wrote something down and someone else bothered to collect it and print it, that's good enough.

The trail of messages that were left by those behind us were written text of their own judgments, we need to look at those texts and forgive the writers, so they too can be set free. To hold any doctrine up as absolute truth is to crucify Christ all over again.

The only power in the Bible or its indoctrination is the cumulative number of people who believe it, they themselves create a force. The rapture can be heard from every pulpit. Perhaps the rapture and the cumulative joy that that word engenders will be experienced by those left behind as the phenomenal plane is relieved of those holding fixed ideas about end times. Maybe that's how we will end up having a thousand years of peace. I would prefer to think that there will be an awakening that will make obvious the mistakes of history.

Live and let live. Look at the malignant aspect of cultural development as being reflected in the disease of cancer, for example. If we could universally cure our minds of the psychological debris which enfolds us (which would definitely create a temporary state of cognitive dissonance) but we might find that peace which passes understanding.

[as a further note: cognitive dissonance is something that occurs when we take on information which is not consistent with what we believe is true, it begins to disrupt that state of equilibrium that has been culturally induced.]