What Are You Feeding Yourself?

Weekly Message, June 17, 2006
What Are You Feeding Yourself?
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on April 30, 2006. - TG.

Ishvara:

"What you see is what you get." That is a nice saying, but I think people do not realize that it is really true: What you see IS what you get.

Seeing, using your senses, your eyes, your ears, your feeling, all of your human faculties are participating in a feedback loop of information and intelligence. Yet what is it that you are watching? What are you seeing? How do you spend your time? So much time is spent in escape. You can think about what you could be doing that would be creative instead of evasive.

I know it is natural, it is human, to imagine that you need "down time," that you "need to relax" or "zone out." But do you really? Isn't that also a form of escape? What are you escaping from?

Raising your frequency through entertainment is a good thing, but if you become a couch potato and "zone out," you are really engaging the programming, the consensus reality and the conditions, and you are doing damage to yourself. You are lowering yourself.

You have seen the advertisements where the television is blaring and someone is slouched in a chair in front of it, fast asleep. Going to sleep in front of the television is not a good idea, because your brain is recording everything.

The same is true when you are feeling the need to zone out or be a "blob," a lounge lizard: in all those instances, you are taking things in. You can contemplate this: When you are "unconscious" in any way, what are you taking in? If you look at your life, you can see the consequence, you can see that how your life is is the result of what you are feeding yourself, what you are taking in.

There is a "weight watchers" program to help people lose weight. There should also be a "media watchers" program to help people lose conditions and consensus-reality beliefs. Maybe we should all sign up for that program, because we are always being confronted with conditioning and programming.

This Space is the "no program" zone. My intention is to give to you thoughts to live by, to present a way of thinking that will liberate you, not enslave you. So much of the systems and structures around us, including the religions and philosophies, are very programming. There is a "how to" or a "should" in these things.

We have no "how to" or "should" in this Space. Instead, we are very direct about it: "Just do it." It is up to you to decide what "it" is. If I say to you, "Just do it," it is your choice; you decide what "it" is. I try to inspire you to be cautious of the programming and conditioning, the neural pathways that have latched on to the various consensus-reality beliefs, the hypnosis of the world.

This is not to say that you cannot watch the news on television, or that you cannot be entertained. Rather, I am saying you will want to be very conscious in that process. You want to be very analytical. This is the place to really use your intellect, to look at what is coming at you, to look at the information and make discernments about it. If you cannot make that kind of discernment, you are probably better off not to watch. It is better to have little knowledge and remain unprogrammed, than to have a lot of knowledge and be programmed as a result.

You have learned through Life's experiences how to discern. You have learned how you resonate with truth, and how there is a sense in you that sort of rebels when there is something coming at you that is not in alignment with who you are. That sense is often overridden because you have a belief or concept that, "This is good for me; I'm supposed to do this." You have to ask yourself: "Who said so? Where did that idea come from?"

Life will teach you if you pay attention. Life will teach you the source of information. Life will teach you about agendas. Everything you see on the television has an agenda behind it. When a government is wanting to go to war, it is supposedly coincidental that, at the same time, a multitude of war movies shows up on television to "entertain" you. Actually, the purpose is to program you to be accepting of war.

If you are conscious of this, you can begin to see how you are manipulated. The manipulation has been going on for a long time. Freud developed a system about how the mind works, what people need, and what they want. Such a system is fine in itself, but when it is used to control the masses, to program you into how you are supposed to be and what you are supposed to accept, it becomes a means to use your own sensibilities and emotions against you in order to cause you to see things a certain way, to accept an agenda. You begin to believe the media, the corporations, the systems and structures, the governments that say, "We have to go to war, because if we do not the enemy will come and take away our freedom."


(To be continued next week).


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