Over the years on this blog and in similar previous efforts, I’ve tried to explain the concept of Two Realms. I’m not the first. Well within our reach is the last chapter of the Lewis’s Narnia series of books, a chapter titled “Farewell to the Shadowlands” — a very pointed reference to our existence here below. I’ve referred to it in the past as “the prison of the soul” (1 Peter 3:18ff). At times I’ve approached a clinical explanation and even published a whole book of academic research reconstructing the ancient understanding of it. I contrast our existence on this plane of reality with something utterly beyond, the higher reality.
Most people can eventually get the concept itself. It’s not utterly foreign to our Western heritage, and most people can get it when I insist the Western mythology is all wrong about what that higher realm is like. I suppose most folks can even absorb at least some portion of my ANE version of it, at least in theory. They can grasp the idea that said higher realm is real truth, whereas what we have here is a shadowland of lies and other attempts to obscure the truth.
The problem is the huge conceptual gap between that and the facts with which we all have proceed. This is the task of explaining the moral fabric of the universe, a monumental job. Most folks have this overwhelming sense of having at least enough facts because it seems to work. What they don’t understand at some fundamental level is that this whole thing is conditional. Most of what seems to work does so only because there is a wider perception that it does, an artificial construct in itself. Let this context shift just a bit and the whole thing starts coming apart. But that exposes folks to such an alien reality that they often don’t see it. They can’t process it, or they process it very poorly. There is such a broad base of “ought to be” this and that, and the shock can be just too much.
So much of our social conformity is so deeply ingrained that I struggle to introduce corrective perception without choking my readers. If I tell you that the single greatest threat is indebtedness to any financial institution, you might get that, but see no way to proceed without it. Some people very close to me still can’t find a way to live within their means, despite a much bigger income than mine. Their shadow insists they must have certain things with a measure of availability that responds to the most ill-considered whims of the moment. Something in that unreality sounds in their ears like a siren call and they crash on the rocks repeatedly. For a time they pull back into some recovery mode, and then they build another boat and do it again. Something fails to touch that core of behavioral orientation and the unconscious process that keeps it alive.
Precious few souls are capable of making significant progress quickly once you point that out. But even pulling all that stuff out of the basement of the soul into the light of consciousness is only half the battle. They still have no idea what to do with it. They still keep changing the same old price tags on things, without realizing they are working in the wrong currency in the first place. The underlying value system is what’s wrong; that’s what got all those things crammed into the basement in the first place. Most of it is trash.
It’s one thing to swallow all the crazy Internet conspiracy theories that you encounter. It won’t matter how much fact informs the theory, as long as there is one grain of falsehood to distract. If it creates fear, TPTB will encourage it. Fear itself is what keeps this world system in place, wandering the shadows of falsehood. When you realize this life itself is not much to lose, it’s easier to wade through the shadows because you can orient on the light. You realize that the very solid looking barrier is just a shadow; push through it. We are still in the shadowlands for now, but we don’t have to believe in the shadows.
Yes, the single greatest slavery is the system of debt. It’s not a bad idea to whittle them away and get yourself out of personal debt, but almost every currency in use today is itself a form of debt. Every human entity today uses debt on both sides of the balance sheet because they don’t realize they can prosper without it. Even if they do, some wicked political authority will simply find an excuse to impute an involuntary debt, so most don’t try to see the system in-depth. They don’t look for ways to maximize independence.
If I try to identify the entities behind this broad system of control, readers are likely to be seized by some unconscious revulsion. We’ve been programmed by a false reality that makes certain discussions inherently wrong because they are socially forbidden. How do you sing the sweet truth when the very air itself filters out your voice? There are so very many tripwires programmed into human minds that any discussion is blown apart before the words can get through. The few who do get some portion of truth feel like they have to embrace the shadows because the facts are hidden behind the shadows. It’s not enough to toss out precise labels or to name names; there are multiple layers of shadows and each one hides yet another falsehood. It really is just a tiny minority of humanity that has managed, up to now, to control not just the perception, but the very eyeballs and nerve fibers of the rest of us.
It forces me to be guarded about what I post lest my blog disappear and my account suddenly cease to exist. No, I do not trust WordPress to do the good moral thing, because their very existence depends on a certain measure of keeping the shadows in place. So it’s pretty hard to avoid the impression I’m hiding secrets that I show only to certain initiates, or that I simply don’t have the knowledge or talent to express it. Rather than confront this thing head on, I’m finding a measure of success by working at a different angle, one that those in control cannot themselves understand very well.
I’m planting signs, subtle indicators that, if you really get what they mean, you are in a position to find it for yourself. Lord knows, there’s enough self-cynicism to distrust my own perceptions just for my own use that I don’t need to offer my own detailed analysis of everything. I remain confident that I can point out enough leaks that, instead of putting your finger in the dike to hold back the flow, you’ll probe and pick at it until you find your own stream of reality. The dike is just a bunch of dirt, no solid rock of truth, holding back the sea of lies.
