Everything people tell you, everything you read and watch, influences and impacts your conception of reality. We can easily be influenced by others into accepting beliefs as truth; unreality as reality. Manipulation and deception works on psychological beings. Of all the animal kingdom, we are the best at manipulation and deceiving, and we are the ones that are the most manipulated and deceived.
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This is all done with symbols. Symbols are required to communicate knowledge and/or influence others. Be they pictographic or abstract like letters and our verbal languages. Our imagination can reflect images from the outer reality, but also fabricate things that aren’t directly reflected or exist in reality.
Using and understanding symbols and language is common place. But some are more skilled at it. Being better able to manipulate symbols and language translates to an increased ability to influence others. This was even more evident in the past when few were even literate enough to read or write.
The writers of the past who authored most text were known as scribes. Whether writing through their own intent or being paid to write things for others, they wielded the power of symbols and could influence people with beliefs. The priestly cast of various ancient civilizations also had this power, such as Egypt for instance.
The priestly controllers who had the ear of the ruler, also often put them in power as figurehead. The priestly cast held the power with their science of imagery. These are the symbol sorcerers, the dark occultists, using word magic to manipulate society. With influence, you can instill confusion, anxiety and fear in the minds of people. Imagery, convincing rhetoric, symbol manipulation can induce, invoke and summon feelings in people. Think of a poem or church sermon as examples. People can be given beliefs which feed them hope or faith in something else, or someone else. The sorcerers of symbol then have their claws in your consciousness; in your sense of self and sense of reality.
As much as symbols can generate fear, those with dark intent can also create beliefs or use existing beliefs to alleviate fear. This is a two vector pathway to control. People put into a state of fear can respond to input stimulus in predictable ways which makes them more easily manipulated towards a favored outcome. The fearful in their insecurity will welcome the control of those who promise to give them security. They are in chaos and welcome the seeming order that control brings.
People will give up their freedom for the promise of illusory order and security. It’s not real order or security, but a false proxy which does the opposite. When you have less freedom you have more slavery, and this is chaos, not order. The world has been and is being driven into chaos and slavery through abstract beliefs and manufactured threats to invoke fearful responses and desired predictable outcomes. This year, 2020, has shown how well this methodology works on us.
We are powerful beings of consciousness, with the capacity to yield great power over ourselves, others, and reality. With great power comes great responsibility. We have the power to create good and evil into the world. People are failing to understand the immense power of belief and how it can shape the direction of life, for ourselves and other beings on this planet. Believes drive our behaviors and actions. Changing beliefs, or not using them as foundational motivators, can change what happens in the world.
We are sold and buy into many beliefs that motivate immoral behavior. Looking at history shows how often this has occurred. Look at Nazi Germany. Communist Russia and China. Religions in general, especially the Inquisition. History is a story of how we fail and succeed to live morally at different times. Humanity has been fooled by beliefs, buying what others have sold and acted in consequence to those beliefs. The belief in authority is one of the most entrenched that has led to most of the atrocities in history.