Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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THE PRIEST, THE PARENT, THE PEDAGOGUE AND THE POLITICIAN in general

terms, can be viewed as four unconscious conspirators who are

responsible for the programs which have been fed to every one of us.

And we carry all of them within us unknowingly.

As children we are fed old programs which have been made by someone

else. Any intelligent child who rebels against such treatment is

invariably regarded as an outcast or has to adopt another competing

belief system. The son rejects his father's Fascist beliefs, yet

promptly picks up a borrowed Socialist stance.

Neither of these belief systems is his own inner vision or experience.

The imposition of acquired knowledge on the small child is often done

with the very best of intentions. The aim of most of the programmers

is that the child should follow their particular belief and world

view so that they are able to fit into the surrounding society.

It was pointed out by Bertrand Russell that all the supremely gifted

polymaths, scientists, inventors or eccentric adventurers had

childhoods which had little or no pressure towards conformity. They

were allowed and encouraged to experiment and pursue their own

interests, whatever they might be.

We are engulfed by ready-made, easy-to-serve concoctions on

Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, or New Age Consciousness. The

wrappings become even more exotic when the questions are spiritual,

or on the nature of the universe, God, or our place in the scheme of

things. But the programmers seldom admit that they just don't know

anything. It is important, in the context of what you are reading at

this moment, to remember it applies to this text as well.

Dionysius, an early Christian mystic, once said: " Not knowing is the

most intimate. " The state of innocent questioning has been lost and

with it the capacity to ask questions of who we really are. Knowledge

and belief get in the way, and unless we undertake the grueling task

of de-programming ourselves — of breaking out of the rigid frames of

other peoples' belief systems — we face the coming apocalypse as

irresponsible and blind as the programmers themselves.

 

Unknown Man...Yatri

 

posted ......bob