Freedom is not a struggle to break-away from somewhere or someplace at a materialistic level.
Even inmates that break away from a prison are still slaves to the system as they are continuously on the run, need to change their disguise, and continue to live a life full of lies from having different names, masks, and identities.
They can’t really be attached to anyone as that will give themselves away. They can’t walk into public places as there are cameras everywhere. They can’t travel as the global databases will trigger off a high alert limiting movements from one place to another.
It’s funny – but I actually think many of us are actually living in a similar prison system – but is is not one that exists at the material level – it is at the conscious level.
We have become inmates to a prison system that many may actually be completely oblivious to. Look at things closely. Most of your beliefs are not your beliefs – they are of those who have pushed those beliefs down to you from generations. Most of your opinions are not yours – you are just saying things to move with the crowd or position yourselves out of political correctness. You identify yourself with others – you hang out with the same level of thinkers, doers, and shakers.
You confine yourselves to the same spaces – you look to be in areas of familiarity where there is no new discoveries to be made. You create attachments through the conditions of others – you will go to the same college as your parents, mingle with the same kind of like-minded thinker, and talk the same language.
Read the above again and you find that you are really not free.
This is because you have not really become who you really are supposed to be because you have instead become a product of other people’s conditions, opinions, and beliefs – all which confine you inside a Conscious Prison System. You are not an “in”dividual, you are an “out”dividual.
The struggle many of you are trying to figure out is really not the question of “who am I?” where self-improvement so-called gurus try to focus on taking you through an endless journey that really leads to nowhere but temporary spurts of motivation that die out quickly. The real question to ask is: “who should I not be?”
To answer this, I have identified 4 factors that I believe have led to your imprisonment:
- Judgement – you were always compared in some capacity. The worst judge were your parents or guardian. You were judged relative to your Brothers and or Sisters. You to your cousins. You to your classmates. You to your work colleagues. The design of association is to judge to drive higher forms of competition resulting in comparisons between each other. You were always going to be judged as you were placed in a system where you can see for your very self that there was always someone better than you, and where you could see that you were better than others.
- Trophyism – this word may exist – not sure – but it reflects how your parents treated you like an object of branding. You see this in the Indian South Asian culture a lot. They want to brag about you to others – what you are doing, what clubs or honor societies you are part of, where you studied, what grades you got, what instrument you play, who you hang out with. This Trophyism is another way of positioning yourself to compete with others. You were not going to win, but your parents would win the discussion over others. It was always about their image, never about you.
- Belief – by virtue of being born into a particular family this means you get categorized into a particular religion, country, food palette, language, and social associations. Your brand image for the family is key to carry on through these identities. You have to go the church or temple on Sunday. you have to get good grades and you had to maintain good relationships. As a result of these associations you started to develop beliefs – the very same beliefs as your parents. You had to think the “Harvard” way if that is where they went to college, or the “scientific” way to honor their PhD, or the way of the religious book, as anything else would be grounds for getting banished from the family kingdom.
- Fear – There are so many fears that are placed on you as you grow up. The fear of being accepted if you think differently. The fear of being ostracized if any thought comes in break away from family traditions. The fear of rejection if you get bad grades. The fear of failing if you slip in anyway with that musical performance, sport competition, or get that dreaded “B” in a subject eliminating any chance from meeting other’s expectations of straight “A’s”
Keep these things in mind as we continue the journey where I explain how you develop a plan to destroy the Conscious Prison System.