Hello again steemit family, I am going to continue my Spiritual Warfare series that I am creating for steemit and I am working on practicing my shoop-da-whoop (photoshop) skills. This series is meant to inspire "out of the box" thinking and self development. Feel free to discuss or ask any questions in the comments below. We are all in this reality together and we gain power through applying information to create knowledge. The previous posts have gotten lengthy so I will include an index and try to break up the meaty text for easier reading.

Index

1.) Introduction
2.) Learned Behaviors
3.) Negative Reinforcement Tactics
4.) Breaking Free
5.) Conclusion

1.) Introduction

The first step to getting better and fixing any problem is to first acknowledge that a problem does indeed exist. The problem I am going to present today is probably the most insidious and self replicating disease of human existence and is the root cause of practically every issue we face as a species. I am not here to convince you the Earth is flat or that the Illuminati control the world and are out to destroy your soul. Personal thoughts and beliefs are irrelevant to the problem at hand, in fact, most people don't actually have personal thoughts or beliefs anyway, which is the reason I want to discuss this issue. Imagine if you will a child, they have very vivid imaginations and a wonder to explore and learn about the world they have been born into. They ask many questions and test rules and learn by trial and error. The education system is a tool designed to enslave the mind and destroy all of these attributes that make children so joyful and eager to create and shape the world to their choosing. Parents have been programmed into perpetuating this unhappy cycle of enslavement and individuals grow up weaker and more controlled with each subsequent generation. If you are still with me at this point, I'm going to breakdown how this system works, how to deprogram yourself to stop the cycle, and how to achieve higher consciousness.

2.) Learned Behaviors

Children start to learn self limiting behaviors and building an ego from their parents or guardians. I'm not calling anyone out here, it's just a fact that people perpetuate their own beliefs and adaptations to their children. Before anyone get's upset about these topics or thinks I am calling out their parenting skills, please keep in mind that right and wrong and morality are all perspective based and do not change facts. Children learn at an astronomical rate compared to adults. You may be inclined to think it's due to their blank slate and needing to learn so many more things, but it's actually not. All humans have the ability to learn or do anything and be anything that they want. The difference between a child and an adult is that the adults have already been taught and trained not to question what they are told, not to disrupt the system, that they aren't powerful enough to change the world, or that they don't really have any control over the systems in place. If we all look back over our lives and how we became the person we are today with complete honesty, it should be obvious that it was drilled into you and not discovered through your own experiences.

Children develop an ego throughout their life and carry it into adulthood. The ego is a self created survival system to help us all hide who we really are. I know everyone likes to think that they are not putting up a false image of who they are, but very few of us have actually broken free of our egos and learned how to free our minds. If you have never had a complete mental breakdown and rebuilt your fundamental understanding of reality, you are trapped in your own ego. The truth is we live in a world of control based on fear and scarcity of resources meant to keep us powerless. Simply think about the imagination of a child before society breaks it away from them; Children can play for hours on end with whatever they find in the world around them and exist in a reality that only they see. The truth is we all have the power of creation and ability to free ourselves, but most people never actually self reflect and learn why they believe the things they do or act a certain way.

3.) Negative Reinforcement Tactics

I'm sure by now some of you are wondering how such an elaborate system of illusion can exist and people mindlessly go with the flow. It's easy really, we are all trained through negative reinforcement to become docile. We are taught that if you don't follow the rules you get in trouble. We are taught that systems are too big to fail. Worse yet, we are taught that "the right answer" is the only answer and not to question what we're told. We learn in school that there is only one solution to a problem and critical thinking skills are so poor and underdeveloped that they are useless. The fact is that we are all co-creators of this reality we are living in and all have the power to change it.

The good teachers and radical thinkers are labeled as disordered or extremist and viewed as dangerous or a threat to our ways of life. We are taught that different is a bad thing and trained to uphold our belief systems. The problem is these belief systems that we were taught and accept as our own are actually meant to enslave you. They are meant to separate and discriminate and spread fear. We are taught that people with different religious views want to hurt us or destroy us because they are different. If you actually study different religions you will find many of the core ideologies are the same and they predate governments. Religion is a tool created by man to divide and weaken us. We are easier to control when we are all afraid of each other. Can you even imagine a world or way of life without fear of something or someone?

4.) Breaking Free

The only way to break free of this system and learned existence is to have no past or future. Ego is a learned behavior system created to enslave and weaken us and the most deceptive part of it is that most people don't even know what an ego actually is or how it works. The entire system is perpetuated by keeping us separated from each other and ignorant. We are taught lies or partial truths and this has been going on so long that people just accept their ego is who they actually are deep down. That little voice in your head that reminds you of the past or makes you worry about the future? That is your ego. The voice telling you that I am crazy and you would know if you and the majority of the species were enslaved? Yep, that's your ego. So how can someone actually think critically for themselves without letting their ego and beliefs taint their mind?

The first step is admitting that you don't know anything and have no control over your own life. Okay now you know I'm crazy because I said you could create and embrace your own reality and obviously to do that you have to control it. Wrong, the fact is that we have no control over any other person. We don't control anything outside of our own mind. The fact is that your mind has been shackled and broken and to ever be free and truly see the world as it is, you have to learn to look within for the answers and guidance you seek. The best way I can describe what I'm saying is through comparison. Think of your mind and body as a computer, your computer self has been bloated with viruses and adware that control what you actually do and think and how you function. There is no virus scan for your mind.

The only way to break free of a system you have never even realized existed is to actually start over. You have to admit that you know nothing, everything you have ever been taught is a lie, and start rebuilding yourself from the inside out. You need to perform a clean install of your operating system and start completely from nothing. We are the source of creation, we are all one, and only we can fix ourselves to know our true power and potential. Don't look to anyone or anything but yourself for the answers you seek, because you are the answers you seek. We are all energy, we all start from the same source and return to the same source. We have no beginning or end and we are both everything and nothing all at the same time.

5.) Conclusion

I know this was a very long post and hopefully it will get some of you thinking and questioning your own reality. The first thing I had to realize is that looking for answers from other people or the internet is not helpful. If you can accept that we are all one , then you can break free. It's as simple as that. The only starting point anyone could give you or hope to spark the process in you is to fully and utterly embrace the fact that we are all one. We are all just energy and the rest of your existence in a 3D world is just a self limiting belief system. To put it in religious perspective, if that helps some of you, God created man in his own image, thus we are all God. We are all everything and we are all nothing. We are all the problem and the solution. We are all right and wrong. In the end, the only thing that matters is we are all one. Namaste.