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In our ego-driven, divide-and-conquer world, we live in a duality reality. This reality reflects a matrix of opposites: introvert vs. extrovert, beginning vs ending, living vs dying, mind vs. matter, wave vs.particle, self vs. other, material vs. spiritual, on vs; off, right vs. left.
This is merely a separation of the mind that wants to compare everything. The truth is that we are both and neither. Humanity is a part of Nature and Nature is a continuum. In Nature, there is no separation, no opposition, no self and other, no conflict, and no destruction. Destruction is balanced with creation to sustain itself. Just as Nature is self-sustaining and self-healing, so are we.
The hierarchical, dual systems in which we find ourselves, from prisons to politics, are grounded in duality, promoting separation over unity, creating leaders and followers. The system is served well by the Hegelian Dialectic.
The Hegelian Dialectic originated with George Hegel, a nineteenth century school teacher, who argued that human nature is a series of conflicts and resolutions that eventually elevate humankind to a unified spiritual state. The process is based in three easy steps: Problem-Reaction-Solution. Create a problem. Foment a reaction (of anger or sympathy). Provide a solution.
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Two hundred years later, whatever Hegel’s good intentions, the goal to achieve unity from conflict-resolution has remained unproven and unachievable. Under duality reality, economic chaos has produced increased taxation. Shortages of oil and food have reinforced monopolies. The threat of pandemics has led to untested and unapproved medical mandates. The threat of terrorism has resulted in restrictions on individual freedoms. Conflict has only bred more conflict.
The obvious truth that refutes Hegel’s idea is that unity is not uniformity. Unity follows no leaders and leads no followers. Unity does not restrict, limit, or conform through education or through more regulations and mandates. Unity fails where players must choose to align with a tribe and plug into the implicit biases of tribal programming. The tribe – wearing the suits of political stripes or the robes of religious sects – reinforces the divisions and the information that we already believe and want to hear.
Hegel’s goal for unity can never work because in duality reality we naturally choose competition over compassion. We segregate ourselves with signs Black Lives Matter instead of seeing the truth that ALL Lives Matter. If you question the official narrative, you are biased, racist, opinionated, and further separated from the greater whole.
In a system of choosing sides, people lose their individuality. We hope for peace and wonder why nothing ever changes. Those who believe they are on the side of peace accuse others of being on the side of war. Each group fights with weapons of words, never able to find peace, unity, or common ground because the very foundation of the system keeps people divided.
Duality Matrix
Each side feels threatened by the other in a struggle over control. The duality matrix creates winners and losers. The media reinforces the infighting that keeps both sides distracted while an imbalance of power is maintained – the few controlling the many. The many are promised protection and security against all their fears. However, no guarantees are granted. As a consequence, the many are left feeling vulnerable and powerless, embracing their servitude and begging for greater protections at the expense of their freedoms.
As a nation, we experience the fear of vulnerability every time we are faced with the consequences of an unexpected natural, or man-made disaster. We have become dependent on the guise of security in the form of the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), so much so, that when the information is incorrect and the system fails, we are left helpless, not knowing how to forage for food, build shelter, or fend for ourselves as our ancestors did. We are a technically advanced nation without a community and without a connection to the land on which we live.
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We believe that in giving our allegiance to the State and Federal government that we are protected from invisible viruses to the boogeyman. However, the State, including local law enforcement has no duty to protect us at all. The Supreme Court revealed this truth in 1856 in South v. Maryland when it ruled, “Local law-enforcement had no duty to protect individuals but only a general duty to enforce the laws. The Supreme Court uses the Constitution to protect the State in it’s ruling in Bowers v. Devito:
there is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen. The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties; it tells the state to let the people alone; it does not require the federal government or the state to provide services, even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order.
In exchange for votes to uphold a dual system, people receive a false sense of security. However, inherent rights do not come from the government, The Constitution, or The Bill of Rights, or any paper document. These are merely symbols. Inherent rights and freedoms are not dictated by regulations and statutes but by common sense and morals, as long as no harm, injury, or loss is caused. Inherent rights are higher, transcendent rights that are “unalienable.” These rights are God-given under the laws of nature, and can neither be granted nor withdrawn. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution reads in part:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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New Hampshire is the only state in the country to have an express, written right of revolution in the state constitution. The only concern is the non-negotiable prohibition against violence of any sort in the enforcement or manifestation of this right.
Text of Article 10: Right of Revolution:
Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Transcend Duality Reality
For you to grow, there has to be something in your life that is difficult and challenging. There has to be a goal where the chance of failure is very possible, and it has to be hard enough where you’ll be required to call upon forces within you that you didn’t know existed. There has to be a point where you wonder to yourself, “Maybe I can’t do it—maybe I’m doing all this for nothing.”” –Roosh Valizadeh
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The division of opposites will continue to play out in reality until we recognize that all war and peace, introvert and extrovert, light and dark exists within us. To attack another is to attack your very nature. To judge another is to judge yourself. In peaceful resistance, you can either opt out or withdraw consent from any system that would invite anger, hatred, and violence which serves to subvert unity and cooperation. Just saying NO to anything that insults your spirit can be a powerful message. Walking away is a powerful stance because you choose not to participate.
In any crisis, from child trafficking to forced medication, ask yourself:
Can I do anything about it right now? If not, just the act of holding fear, anger, or any kind of polarity actually does them a disservice because on some energetic level it’s actually feeding whats going on, in the wrong way. And if I can’t do anything about it, what can I do? And It always comes back to what can I put out? – Tom Barnett, TomBarnett.tv
Transcending duality reality comes down to creating rules under Natural Law, that does away with the hierarchical systems of authority. Tell the truth and do no harm. It also requires real choice. Choosing not to participate in a system that doesn’t serve the greatest good is making an energy statement as powerful as choosing to participate. Choice determines outcome. Withdrawing consent is not apathy but the opposite of apathy. Being vulnerable is not the problem, but fear is.
F.E.A.R. is False Evidence Appearing Real. Fear is merely a construct of the mind, but it serves to hold humanity in shackles. The power to transcend conflict, and come together, is found in choosing kindness as your tribe.
Are you ready?
A portion of this blog is excerpted from the book Nature of Healing, Heal The Body, Heal the Planet by Rosanne Lindsay.
Very excellent.