Wednesday
How does the Mega-Ritual Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games Connect to the Ascension of Humanity?
The over riding theme this year for the 2012 London Olympic's is ASCENSION there is no escaping this fact, which is the only reason I am spending some time to explain some of the symbolism proliferating the mega ritual to occur at the opening ceremonies.
The power control forces (those that presume to run the world intent is to control and manipulate your ascension in the hopes that you stay ignorant by staging false flag events, wars and other dark and sinister scenarios like the satanic ritual the 2012 Olympic games. These are not new scenarios as they are entrenched with the very fabric of this existence all by design to facilitate their agenda to keep humanity enslaved in their negative thought system, prison matrix while they live in constant fear, that you may one day wake up and reclaim your divinity as a sovereign free being.
Now you may be asking your self why would they do this? well because they are about power and control and if you wake up to who and what you are which is divine wisdom, this 3D world would cease to exist as you know it. Now don't let that alarm you, you see there is a wonderful opportunity for humanity to create a world of our own choosing, and let go of the world that has been SPOON fed to us. Now I know this idea may seem far fetched and I can't imagine that many people could ever fathom a different world but in all honesty that is what is supposed to happen it is our destiny as a species to create a world based on the principles of our paradise state it is actually wired within each of us waiting to be awakened. You see as divine wisdom we live in a constant state of paradise and although most of humanity is asleep to this many are waking up to this inner gnosis, we are in the process of remembering our true self our paradise state. Thereby allowing each of us to live and manifest in our paradise state and live in an world of utopia this truly is the opportunity presented to each of us, but we must wake up out of our slumber to make this happen.
Now in order to facilitate this awakening we currently find ourselves in the midst of a very intense process of evolution and it will continue to intensify in the coming weeks and years, but please know that we have lots of energetic support, an unseen force, the original source from which we come from, our creator is available to make sure we come out winning. What we are witnessing before us is our darkest hour precipitated by our own inner and collective outer metamorphosis to clear the individual and collective shadow, negative thought systems, pattern and attitudes allowing each of us to transcend the negative ego into heart consciousness. Yes! the opportunity is wetting your appetite I am sure, scintillating, tantalizing, coaxing you at every breath and I mean that literally, that is if you haven't already noticed? Therefore I encourage you to heed the inner call and become your own inner activist, an active participant in your own unfoldment. "Why me you ask?" because you are so needed right now to support this transformation and shift; there are gifts within you that you bring to the world, that you may or may not know of yet. You are to wake up to who and what you and allow the unfoldment of your gifts to be revealed to you and then share your gifts and talents with the world. Now the question becomes are you READY?
Now before we get stated in laying out some of the details of the 2012 London Olympic Ascension highlights depicted throughout the opening ceremonies what I want to emphasis in this post is that a tremendous amount of time and energy goes into deceiving humanity, as I often mention in my videos and radio shows. The power control force (those that presume to run this world) have a very well scripted, well choreographed plan to deceive, manipulate, and coerce you into giving up your sovereignty and freedom willingly through all forms of terrorism. Now please know that most of humanity is under a spell, drunk on the wine, sunk deep in the delusion of this Matrix System, because they love not the truth. The truth may hurt initially but in all honesty it will most certainly set you free.
Now in order for the this satanic end-game to come to fruition, the world must be prepared in advance and the stage perfectly set for the arrival of a Saviour. The entire world must be thrust into a state of complete chaos, panic, and fear as the world we have come to know ceases to exist. Through this chaos the False Prophet - installed by the power control force will emerge and begin preparing the way as the world responds in authoritarian fashion.
The 2012 London Olympics will be considered by the power control force that notice is given to humanity in the guise of the free will clause or secret code they must adhere to. "We told them that ascension is upon them now it's up to them! a very twisted way of justifying their deceptive program for their own gains to keep the illusion of of the 3D matrix intact.
Now I wanted to cover something I consider to be a very significant power play by the power control force to dupe the masses who will be participating in the GAMES this weekend, and remember regardless of what you read here it is simply a sharing as ultimately only you can decide if you will continue to allow yourself to be duped and manipulated, kept in hypnotic trance state, fear, paralysis and in denial and continue to turn a blind eye, and not decide to be the game changer in your life so that you can play this game as player and not a pawn. It takes WILL and POWER of which you have both it's not impossible it can be done! the question becomes do you want to play to WIN?
First off the 2012 London Olympics stadium topped with pyramids, inclusive of capstones! are the lights that will illuminate the stadium and its occupants. The outside of the stadium will illuminate the colors of the RAINBOW.
When you see a RAINBOW in sacred art it is usually viewed as a link between heaven and earth. Hence, it symbolizes ascension, and also a stargate. it looks like the 2012 Olympic stadium is a replica of a stargate.
Now these are the Olympic ceremonial costumes which are intended to be worn for all the awards ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics and the Paralympics. They are considered to be the ugliest costumes, by the way!
I want to point out the woman's ceremonial “bloody guts” dress, the one with zippers
(slashed abdomen) and a red sash (intestines), if you interpret this symbolism of trauma-based mind-control programming (like MK-Ultra and Monarch) you can identify the red sashas bloody intestines and the open zippers as slashes in the abdomen??? what could this mean? I have a few answers but I want to see what happens after the opening ceremonies and the events around the Olympics to see what scenerio best fits for the dress and I will update you later if something arises to be shared in this context!
Now hang on:
We know that the The Crown Chakra is associated with the pineal gland and pituitary body and is related to the development of the brain and spinal system of nerves. Well the pineal gland and the pituitary body is Notice the colour of the ceremonial dress and the Crown Chakra picture below again I know its weird but it is all in the power of suggestion.
The rising Kundalini pulls the energy up from Mother Earth through the nerve channels, into the medulla oblongata, through the pons area of the brain and then down into the pituitary gland behind the eyes. The increasing pituitary radiations then pass through the third ventricle to awaken the pineal gland which has received light from the higher dimensions. The feminine earth energy merges with the masculine pituitary gland and the feminine pineal gland receives the masculine unmanifest energy from Spirit. When the two awakened chakras’ essences meet in the third ventricle, there is the union and harmony of spirit into matter as the multidimensional forces of spiritual light merge with the matter of our third dimensional brain.
Can you see what is happening here do you see how the power control force is trying to steer you away from achieving the mystical marriage or your ASCENSION! that's why there are 7 billion people on this planet at this time in history there are 7 billion beings of pure consciousness you included that came to earth to experience witness the evolution of human consciousness.
You are the rainbow bridge between heaven and earth, don't allow those who fun this world to deny you your right to ascension why? because it is your birthright. Don't continue to allow yourself to be manipulated by this system. It is time for you to reclaim your power and you do that through reclaiming your right to ascension.
Now what is ascension? there are many interpretations, and you may have your own, but simply ascension is a movement upward to your higher self and your highest potential. Ascension is basically a change in frequency and a change in focus of our consciousness. Ascension is about moving our consciousness from one reality to another. That is bringing spirit into matter, or consciousness into the heart. A good example is an Olympic athlete except without the higher states of consciousness, that being said I can not know if an Olympic athlete has not achieved higher states of consciousness, but I could not see how anyone who really knew what these games where about would willingly compete as an Olympic athlete so I would question the level of consciousness and say that while the intentions are good most athletes at the game have no clue that they are really participating in a satanic ritual.
Interesting how the medal bearers costumes are the same colour of the crown chakra in this photo below, not to mention we can see vividly the rainbow bridge from heaven and earth exists that exists within you.
Now meet Wenlock & Mandeville (2012 Mascots for the 2012 London Olympics The One Eyed RAINBOW Riding Aliens.
The power control force want you to believe that you are decendents of an alien race from Sion at the centre of the milky way galaxy or Zion as the 2012 logo would imply.
The mascots are RAINBOW riding cyclops depicted below emerging from a cosmic RAINBOW and illuminating the Olympic (Stargate) Park.
or ZION or SION as they would have you believe not in a literal sense but by using the power of suggestion that you are a descendent from aliens rather then directly from the creator or the original source of all creation.
The gnostic believed that Christ
consciousness and our illumination by the sacred fire came from the Galactic Center,
a place that was once called Sion by the ancients.
NASA ( never a straight answer) I believe a lot of what they tell us is propaganda so you have to use discernment but what I found interesting in this piece is the picture of the colour of the plums coming out of the milky way galaxy are the same colour as the crown chakra and the medal bearers costumes.
Here is what NASA had to say about the purple plumes!
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy.
"What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center," said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. "We don't fully understand their nature or origin."
The structure spans more than half of the visible sky, from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus, and it may be millions of years old.
NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/new-structure.html
Now remember everything stems from the hydrogen atom or ion or iris = isis which is the milky way galaxy. I will provide explanation in a latter post so stay tuned.
The Mayans tell us that in 2012 a ‘serpent rope’ is going to emerge from the center of our Milky Way galaxy out of which will step a bearded god of enlightenment symbolically, Anish Kapoor’s sculpture outside the 2012 London Olympic Stadium could represent both a wormhole & serpent rope. You see this is all leading up to the end of the Mayan calendar end date December 21, 2012 signaling the new age or your ascension portal. Please note this is all suggestion the ascension of those who choose to ascend as it is a choice has been happening for many years and so for those of you who think that December 21, 2012 your going to automatically ascend it does not happen that way it is a process a very rigorous process one very much like training for the Olympic's. It takes dedication, focus, strength WILL and POWER to ascend!
The power control forces ( those the presume to run this world) ultimate goal is to substitute themselves for the Sovereign creator of the universe and they us the Olympic ceremonies to remind you that they sit upon the throne of creation. However it takes a bit more effort on their part to simply remind you through the power of suggestion and manipulation. In order to achieve there ultimate goal, the power control force must destroy the creator's creation, Adamic-Mankind, and replace it with his own hybridized form of Satanic-mankind that is truly of inorganic lineage and no longer human.
To bring about the destruction of Adamic-Mankind created by God, the power control force intends to alter mankind's DNA. The plan is to change mankind's double-helix DNA structure into a non-human, Satanic-hybrid triple-helix DNA and will be presented in the form of an implantable microchip. Now your not going to let them do that to you ARE YOU now remember the cell phone is the first step in that direct to be A-WARE?
Transhumanism an intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. is widely talked about and so for those in the know this is already around the corner, what do you think all the body enhancements like liposuction, breast implants, lip augmentation these are all steps in the social acceptance of transhumanism. This is just another example of how the power control for is trying to play GOD!
If people would take their ascension seriously, in all honesty the ability to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities already exists within each human being and embracing the ascension process will get you their, but the power control force does not want you to know this so they simulate the process that is natural and organic through technology designed really to enslave the masses.
Through this post I hope that I have been able to shed some light on the 2012 London Olympics, remember it is the holy of hollies Olympism is the new world religion the power control force keeps talking about that is coming it's already here and it has been here for some time! my hope is that people will start opening their eyes to the deceptive program in plan and stop participating in what many believe is an innocent event! it's not we need to wake up to this because until we do this insanity of a world will continue on it's spiral downward!
In closing humanity has turned the mighty power it possesses to every object and principle of force in the universe except him or herself the greatest miracle of all. When humanity focuses it's divine thinking lenses upon him or herself he/she will realize he/she is the epitome of unlimited cosmic energy. When this happens heaven and earth will rejoice as humanity takes it rightful place as creators of heaven on earth.
Tuesday
2012 London Olympics, Ceremony Symbolism, 27 Ton Bell, Hypnosis, Tree of LIFE, Ritual & MagicK
All The Bells Work
1197 is a major ritual working for the 2012 London Olympics,
but even without it, the bell in the stadium is
a big deal of itself.
Danny Boyle the mastermind behind the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics “Say's the giant bell, hanging at one end
of the stadium, sounded "absolutely amazing". It will ring to begin
the show.
"You will feel different when you're in there and you hear it ring.( YEAH RIGHT YOU WILL BE UNDER HYPNOSIS IMAGINE THAT? )When you hear it it's very sweet. It's ancient, so it reminds you of the past. It's also timeless, so it evokes the future. That was how communities notified each other something important was about to happen," he said.”
"You will feel different when you're in there and you hear it ring.( YEAH RIGHT YOU WILL BE UNDER HYPNOSIS IMAGINE THAT? )When you hear it it's very sweet. It's ancient, so it reminds you of the past. It's also timeless, so it evokes the future. That was how communities notified each other something important was about to happen," he said.”
If we dare to look to the past the bell as a device was historically an
item enabling the High Priest to enter into the presence of God in the Holy of
Holies of Zion's temple. The bell is used by witches and priests of many kinds
as a magickal instrument, for invoking and evoking demonic spells. the bell is
not intended to function as a stargate actuator, a cursed device made to
control dimensional doors.
When Danny Boyle says of the bell, “It's ancient, so it reminds you
of the past. It's also timeless, so it evokes the future.” This
really must be taken with a literal interpretation, as a crafted NLP signaling
made by a man in the know.
This gargantuan 27 ton bell which will be used in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, (inscribed with Caliban's quote from 'The Tempest') is deeply significant - especially because of how Vibration, Tone and Harmonics affect the physical body (and our DNA) as well as our consciousness.
The frequency of a bell's note varies with the square of its thickness, and inversely with its diameter. It would be interesting to know what the harmonic frequency of the bell will be we can certainly rule out the frequency of the heart that is for sure!
This is the symbol commonly associated with the Olympic bell above it looks to me to represent the sign wave identifying the norther hemisphere the tip at the highest point representing the summer solstice point June 21, 2012. If we look at celestial mechanics from the standpoint of the human physiology the summer solstice resides at the heart Chakra. So when the sun reaches it's highest exaltation June 21, of every year this is the most potent time for humanity to ascend. Don't take this information lightly as this is the day that Prince William was born he representing from the power control force standpoint the SUN or SON OF MAN!
I digress, it will be interesting to see what role Prince William (who just turned 30 years old) and Kate play in the 2012 London Olympics, and more importantly the opening ceremony with a consistent theme of "Procreation" running throughout all Olympics throughout history could this XXX (30) Olympiad signal a coronation of the new king or an upcoming announcement of the couples STAR child?
Then we have the WORK NO. 1197, I found that odd could this mean reversed another 911 in the 7 month? could be why the TERRORISM meme and a False Flag event is running rampant throughout the lead up to the Olympic games, remember the Power of Suggestion, it does not necessarily mean it will actually happen. I believe it is done by the power control force specifically to keep humanity in a low vibration of fear and anxiety as people can be more easily manipulated when then are in a constant state of fear and remember the power control source feeds off of fear which is why 90 percent of what we experience in this physical dimension is based on fear! sorry yeah the TRUTH HURTS but it WILL SET YOU FREE!
Let the Games begin!
No but honestly I am very intrigued with this bell ringing at the 2012 London Olympics as it will be directly across from the tree at the top of the stadium platform could this in fact be an Oak Grove Tree?
To the druids, the Ash symbolised the gateway
from the subconscious (which was represented by the “nemeton” or “oak-grove”)
to the conscious mind. With the appearance of the tree at the top of the Tor, a
portal for the awakening of sacred knowledge is created. This forms a pathway
along which this sacred knowledge can travel, from our subconscious into our
conscious minds, where we can act on it more deliberately.”
a tree of life, it looks like a reference to the tree of knowledge of good
and evil.
Or could the tree on the hill a cosmic connection point, bridging the stadium with the underworld? Is the symbolic Tor with the oak-Holy Thorn intended as a portal for the awakening of sacred knowledge? Is there going to be magick ritual performed during the Olympics.
What about the center of the 2012 London Olympic Stadium? The focal point of Danny Boyle’s “Green & Pleasant” set will be the sacred Glastonbury Tor, topped by a cosmic Hawthorn tree. Legend has it when Joseph of Arimathea set his walking staff on the ground to sleep, it miraculously took root, leafed out, and blossomed as the “Glastonbury Thorn”! Symbolically, ancient trees atop sacred mounds are said to create “cosmic connection points”. While the branches reach into the heavens, the roots reach for the underworld.
This replication below of Glostenbury Tor could be symbolizing the return of the messiah to cosmic gateway STARGATE, hathorn tree or cosmic connection tree to open a portal or how about a Stargate opening to create a higher frequency vibration for Kate and William to conceive a star child or star being?
Either way it is important to know what the masses will be participating in, the question becomes will you be one of them? remember the power control force uses humanities energies to implement their dark and sinister programs throughout the world, they can be looked at as none other then harvesters of energy, they see you as a battery for their use and consumption, and disposal. It is time for each and every human being to take back their power and stop participating in these deceptive and manipulative programs! Imagine if we turned our attention and intention away from everything that supports the Power Control Force (those that run this world)? We could create a world based on who and what we are wisdom simply resting in a constant state of paradise!
In closing the Olympics theme is truly about procreation with the ultimate intention of keeping humanity from it's birthright Ascension! YES! that is the nature of this game! the master programmers work very diligently to denying you the right to your ascension through ritual and magick to manipulate who and what you are
which is wisdom- events like this keep you in a state of hypnosis, a trance
state- capturing your true essence so that you never wake up to the truth that
you are a slave – a battery to be used and discarded!
You must wake up to this and have eyes to see through the deception program! This 3D matrix exists only because humanity continues to allow itself to be manipulated! What is your limit, what is your threshold where reclaiming your POWER, right to ASCENSION, SOVEREIGNTY and FREEDOM becomes YOUR GAME CHANGER?
You must wake up to this and have eyes to see through the deception program! This 3D matrix exists only because humanity continues to allow itself to be manipulated! What is your limit, what is your threshold where reclaiming your POWER, right to ASCENSION, SOVEREIGNTY and FREEDOM becomes YOUR GAME CHANGER?
Thursday
Sunday
Are We Ready for a ‘Morality Pill’?
The entire scene was captured on video and caused an uproar when it was shown by a television station and posted online. A similar event occurred in London in 2004, as have others, far from the lens of a video camera. Yet people can, and often do, behave in very different ways.
A news search for the words “hero saves” will routinely turn up stories of bystanders braving oncoming trains, swift currents and raging fires to save strangers from harm. Acts of extreme kindness, responsibility and compassion are, like their opposites, nearly universal. Why are some people prepared to risk their lives to help a stranger when others won’t even stop to dial an emergency number? Scientists have been exploring questions like this for decades.
In the 1960s and early ’70s, famous experiments by Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo suggested that most of us would, under specific circumstances, voluntarily do great harm to innocent people. During the same period, John Darley and C. Daniel Batson showed that even some seminary students on their way to give a lecture about the parable of the Good Samaritan would, if told that they were running late, walk past a stranger lying moaning beside the path. More recent research has told us a lot about what happens in the brain when people make moral decisions. But are we getting any closer to understanding what drives our moral behavior?
Here’s what much of the discussion of all these experiments missed: Some people did the right thing. A recent experiment (about which we have some ethical reservations) at the University of Chicago seems to shed new light on why. Researchers there took two rats who shared a cage and trapped one of them in a tube that could be opened only from the outside. The free rat usually tried to open the door, eventually succeeding. Even when the free rats could eat up all of a quantity of chocolate before freeing the trapped rat, they mostly preferred to free their cage-mate. The experimenters interpret their findings as demonstrating empathy in rats. But if that is the case, they have also demonstrated that individual rats vary, for only 23 of 30 rats freed their trapped companions.
The causes of the difference in their behavior must lie in the rats themselves. It seems plausible that humans, like rats, are spread along a continuum of readiness to help others. There has been considerable research on abnormal people, like psychopaths, but we need to know more about relatively stable differences (perhaps rooted in our genes) in the great majority of people as well. Undoubtedly, situational factors can make a huge difference, and perhaps moral beliefs do as well, but if humans are just different in their predispositions to act morally, we also need to know more about these differences. Only then will we gain a proper understanding of our moral behavior, including why it varies so much from person to person and whether there is anything we can do about it.
If continuing brain research does in fact show biochemical differences between the brains of those who help others and the brains of those who do not, could this lead to a “morality pill” — a drug that makes us more likely to help? Given the many other studies linking biochemical conditions to mood and behavior, and the proliferation of drugs to modify them that have followed, the idea is not far-fetched. If so, would people choose to take it? Could criminals be given the option, as an alternative to prison, of a drug-releasing implant that would make them less likely to harm others?
Might governments begin screening people to discover those most likely to commit crimes? Those who are at much greater risk of committing a crime might be offered the morality pill; if they refused, they might be required to wear a tracking device that would show where they had been at any given time, so that they would know that if they did commit a crime, they would be detected. Fifty years ago, Anthony Burgess wrote “A Clockwork Orange,” a futuristic novel about a vicious gang leader who undergoes a procedure that makes him incapable of violence. Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 movie version sparked a discussion in which many argued that we could never be justified in depriving someone of his free will, no matter how gruesome the violence that would thereby be prevented.
No doubt any proposal to develop a morality pill would encounter the same objection. But if our brain’s chemistry does affect our moral behavior, the question of whether that balance is set in a natural way or by medical intervention will make no difference in how freely we act. If there are already biochemical differences between us that can be used to predict how ethically we will act, then either such differences are compatible with free will, or they are evidence that at least as far as some of our ethical actions are concerned, none of us have ever had free will anyway. In any case, whether or not we have free will, we may soon face new choices about the ways in which we are willing to influence behavior for the better. Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and a laureate professor at the University of Melbourne, is the author, most recently, of “The Life You Can Save.” Agata Sagan is a researcher
Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems?
When someone comes to justify the status quo, they also come to see it as what should be." Reviewing laboratory and cross-national studies, the paper illuminates four situations that foster system justification: system threat, system dependence, system inescapability, and low personal control. When we're threatened we defend ourselves -- and our systems. Before 9/11, for instance, President George W. Bush was sinking in the polls. But as soon as the planes hit the World Trade Center, the president's approval ratings soared. So did support for Congress and the police.
During Hurricane Katrina, America witnessed FEMA's spectacular failure to rescue the hurricane's victims. Yet many people blamed those victims for their fate rather than admitting the agency flunked and supporting ideas for fixing it. In times of crisis, say the authors, we want to believe the system works. We also defend systems we rely on. In one experiment, students made to feel dependent on their university defended a school funding policy -- but disapproved of the same policy if it came from the government, which they didn't perceive as affecting them closely.
However, if they felt dependent on the government, they liked the policy originating from it, but not from the school. When we feel we can't escape a system, we adapt. That includes feeling okay about things we might otherwise consider undesirable. The authors note one study in which participants were told that men's salaries in their country are 20% higher than women's. Rather than implicate an unfair system, those who felt they couldn't emigrate chalked up the wage gap to innate differences between the sexes. "You'd think that when people are stuck with a system, they'd want to change it more," says Kay. But in fact, the more stuck they are, the more likely are they to explain away its shortcomings. Finally, a related phenomenon: The less control people feel over their own lives, the more they endorse systems and leaders that offer a sense of order.
The research on system justification can enlighten those who are frustrated when people don't rise up in what would seem their own best interests. Says Kay: "If you want to understand how to get social change to happen, you need to understand the conditions that make people resist change and what makes them open to acknowledging that change might be a necessity."
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Tuesday
Ignorance Is Bliss?
The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. And the more urgent the issue, the more people want to remain unaware, according to a paper published online in APA's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"These studies were designed to help understand the so-called 'ignorance is bliss' approach to social issues," said author Steven Shepherd, a graduate student with the University of Waterloo in Ontario. "The findings can assist educators in addressing significant barriers to getting people involved and engaged in social issues."
You can regard this post as an adjunct to my important essay "The Optimist's Brain". That article noted that humans normally deflect or bury unwanted, pessimistic (albeit realistic) inputs. What level of ignorance are we dealing with here?
Individuals are often confronted with information that they do not know how to comprehend or evaluate, even though this information can be of critical importance to the self (or society as a whole). In the case of energy, nearly 40% of respondents in a Public Agenda (2009) survey could not identify a fossil fuel. Nearly one third could not identify a renewable energy source and incorrectly believed that solar energy contributes to global warming. This lack of knowledge should be of concern to these individuals, as 89% of respondents worry about increasing fuel costs, and 71% worry about global warming.
Even I was taken aback by that stunning result - 40% of those surveyed could not identify a single fossil fuel! One's ignorance on this subject could be remedied by asking Google what is a fossil fuel? It's that simple. Most of these ignorant humans undoubtedly have an opinion - it is often a strong opinion - about anthropogenic climate change.
We can learn more by reading the abstract (summation).
How do people cope when they feel uninformed or unable to understand important social issues, such as the environment, energy concerns, or the economy? Do they seek out information, or do they simply ignore the threatening issue at hand? One would intuitively expect that a lack of knowledge would motivate an increased, unbiased search for information, thereby facilitating participation and engagement in these issues - especially when they are consequential, pressing, and self-relevant.
I think these APA scientist guys need to get out of the house more, take off those white lab coats and stroll among the people, observing as they go. If they did, they would quickly discover that there's no reason whatsoever to expect that - intuitively or experientially - a lack of knowledge motivates an "unbiased" search for information. That might be the case for scientists in the general case, but this expectation certainly wouldn't apply to the man in the street (non-academics).
And of course "unbiased" research can hardly be said to exist. You might be amazed at the number of stories I don't cover on DOTE because a cursory investigation reveals that the story (or analysis) is simply bullshit (based on a false premise or alleged fact).
Back to the abstract -
However, there appears to be a discrepancy between the importance/self-relevance of social issues and people's willingness to engage with and learn about them. Leveraging the literature on system justification theory (Jost & Banaji, 1994), the authors hypothesized that, rather than motivating an increased search for information, a lack of knowledge about a specific sociopolitical issue will (a) foster feelings of dependence on the government, which will (b) increase system justification and government trust, which will (c) increase desires to avoid learning about the relevant issue when information is negative or when information valence is unknown.
In other words, the authors suggest that ignorance - as a function of the system justifying tendencies it may activate - may, ironically, breed more ignorance...
Is it truly surprising that ignorance is self-reinforcing? I think not. Ignorance is the default case. How many people learn anything important about the world they live in after the age of 18, outside of specific skills acquired in college or practicing a trade? Very few. And Ignorance + an Optimist's Brain = Disaster. A picture is worth a thousand words.
What I found interesting about this study was the self-reinforcing "trust in government" part. According to various surveys I've seen, trust in government is at an all-time low. (Congressional job approval currently stands at 12.7%!) That's if you ask people whether they trust the government. However, at least 50% of them are going to vote in the 2012 elections, indicating that this substantial segment of the population does indeed trust the government to solve their problems.
Thus if the government is not solving their problems under the current regime, it's simply a matter of tossing the bums out and electing a new set of self-serving posers who are not going to solve their problems. Our insane, pointless four-year election cycle has all the intelligence of a washing machine - wash, rinse and repeat.
Avoiding learning about the relevant issue when information is negative does not increase due to increasing trust in the government's ability to solve our problems, as specified in (c) in the abstract. Avoiding negative information is a hallmark of our species. See "The Optimist's Brain". What increases is the desire to stick with one's psychological habits, along with fear of the unknown. We might call this cognitive hardening of the arteries. That's an altogether natural process, especially when people are confronted with a barrage of negative information they can't do anything about (as in this study). People dig in, not out.
Trust in government - in authority figures or ruling institutions - does not increase desires to avoid learning if there's no desire to learn anything in the first place. That's another hallmark of our species. As always, when I say these sorts of things I am talking about the general rule of thumb. The rare exceptions only serve to prove that rule.
And when people are motivated to figure out what's going on, it's usually due to a simple desire to make money. Think about investor types. Even these people are relatively rare in the general population.
As we know in 2012, and are likely to find out with a vengeance in the near future, ignorance is not bliss. More precisely, ignorance appears to be bliss right up to the moment when it's not - that terrifying moment when Reality rears its ugly head. In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, and during the preceding 30 years of the Empire's decline, lots of Americans have learned that lesson the hard way. But denial is resilient.
Therefore, millions more of our fellow Americans will find out to their great dismay that ignorance isn't bliss in the future. They won't have long to wait until they are on the receiving end of this hard lesson about life.
Saturday
11-11-11 Psyops, New World Order = Hypnosis of Humanity, Manufactured Systems of Deceit
The Power control force (those that run this illusory world of insanity) are control addicts. They must plan and map out every move they make so as to not lose their grip on the money, business, banking, military and media systems of the world.
They are ignorant. Why because they ignore the suffering, hunger, death and disease in the world -- when they have the wealth to alleviate all of it. If they would stop creating the epidemics and pandemics in the world, and stop intervening with our food, water and air, there would also be no disease.
However, that's not the plan. The plan is to use deceit and devastation to take total control of who we are which is divine wisdom - a state of paradise which is our ultimate expression of being and this is who and what we really are and they take every measure to stop us from reclaiming our true nature!!
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