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Beliefs we accept as our own are destroying everything, including who we really are

Being right does not automatically make anyone else wrong; even when you have the loudest voice

The Penny appears to finally be dropping amongst the masses that power does not necessarily mean virtue. And it’s certainly no guaranteed of integrity either.

Meanwhile, for the powerful, reality is also now dawning that position, influence and how loud they may be in public (or how many people hear them) doesn’t mean that they can do anything they want and that the power they seem to have will automatically make anything they do right.

The problem is, belief that position and being seen to have won the argument, got the result or controlled the narrative – often with words, deeds and actions that are morally apprehensible when it comes to political power, have not only convinced the political classes that ‘do as I say, not as I do’ is baked in.

Politicians really have reached the point where they believe they are right, no matter the consequences or real human cost from whatever they do or what they say.

All because they are the ones deciding what’s right and what’s wrong.

Wrong things shape our beliefs and make them feel right

It’s not only a problem that public policy that isn’t really about the public at all is damaging lives, people, communities, the environment around us and the businesses that we need to survive and thrive.

The fact that sanitised but nonetheless tyrannical behaviour is coming at us constantly through every channel and digital stream that most of us regrettably consider to be credible sources, mean that many people are becoming conditioned with the belief that behaviour that is reflective of what our so-called leaders are doing is not only correct, but good for one and all.

The Dehumanisation of Life through remote-controlled Techno-Tyranny

Regrettably, there is an urgent need for us all to recognise that the dehumanised way of life that is progressively taking over with each and every step taken towards the Tech and AI Takeover, where it seems that every need possible can be met through the tap of a finger on our phones, is feeding into the nightmarish version of an increasingly dystopian life and living environment for us all.

It’s sucking up lies from each direction, whilst simultaneously convincing us that we still have freedom and choice.

We’ve lost sight of the very principles and values that equip us to function, communicate and interact with other human beings face-to-face. All within a rapid, dehumanising transformation process, that is currently succeeding in convincing otherwise very sensible people that the only guides and directives necessary for a successful life come from a smart phone or online.

What is more, the whole process has already began removing and questioning ‘common sense’, taking everything in life backwards.

We find grown adults fighting over whether the basic tenets of life are either wrong, right, open to interpretation or that taking what should be obvious as read and thereby offending somebody over what only they might ever believe is itself enough to justify ruining the other persons life.

We are the sum of our experiences

It really doesn’t matter who we are. One thing that we can almost certainly be sure that we have in common, is that if you or I were to stop and reflect upon our current view of the world; what everything means and how we see it; we would both be right.

We would both be right, because as individuals that’s what all the experiences up until this moment have taught every one of us. Even when our experiences may have been harmful to us, been incorrect (because of what others have done) or because for whatever reason, they are basically skewed.

Experience is cumulative too. Whilst none of us may wish to admit that the understanding we have of anything can only be as much as layer-deep, or that we have only reached a certain level of knowledge about anything; such limitation of understanding can therefore mean that what we believe to be right isn’t completely right.

It can certainly be very disconcerting to reckon with the reality that reaching GCSE, then A-level, then degree level, then masters level, then doctorate level in the same very specific subject may well mean that whilst we may have a very good and correct subjective view; in objective terms, even then, as an ‘expert’ or with even a recognised level of qualification, we are still a very long way from getting it right.

Misplaced confidence based on our beliefs being ‘who we are’, when our beliefs come from those who influence us

Recognising the value that we give to others when they have been awarded academic qualifications is one thing.

Then there is also the phenomena which is the way that we give credibility to others simply because they have a role (like politicians or public officers) and most alarming today, to influencers (which can mean many things), based on nothing more than the reality that they have a platform of some kind, where the number of people watching, following, liking or subscribing gives them credibility that reaches beyond all other things.

Oddly, when anyone speaking or even writing doesn’t appear to have one or more of these status anchors, we seem to consider whatever they are sharing to not have the same legitimacy. No matter the content of what they say. And if what they say contradicts our own message and belief system in some way, there is all too often the chance that we will simply assume that whatever they offer has no value and that they are therefore ‘wrong’.

Misplaced confidence based on our beliefs being ‘who we are’, when our beliefs come from the establishment, religion and the shibboleths they impose

Perhaps more difficult to consider and accept is the role and influence that what we might otherwise call cultural or societal norms have on our beliefs and therefore behaviour. Because we can all too easily believe that these are just the things that ‘normal’ people do.

How we behave in public. How we consider some behaviour and actions to be acceptable whilst others are not. How we consider right and wrong. How we look up or look down upon others – in ways that would be called prejudices in any other terms. Increasingly how we stop and question actions and behaviours that we had previously not given a second thought to because we considered them to be normal, but now we stop and feel guilty because we thought them.

These are all based upon the belief systems that are set, adapted and increasingly forced into our lives by the organisations that we recognise as being the establishment. And for some more than others, from our religions which can become the most important source or framework for our behaviours and what we expect for ourselves and from others across our lives.

Whilst we must recognise that some of the rules and social codes that have come from our system of governance and our religions can be very good for us and for everyone in very specific contexts, we also need to understand, accept and therefore recognise that many of the rules and social cues that we live by were or have been created as forms of social control.

They have been created and are used to foster and promote fear of something that is apparently outside of our control, so that what we do have control over can in turn then be restricted and therefore controlled by someone else.

For instance, there is no need to question the existence of a God, Source, universal force or whatever we may each choose to call the focus of what we might ultimately believe in, to recognise that words and interpretations can change each time they are passed on.

We must recognise that ultimately, to further the scope, reach, influence and power of religions, the people who benefit from being in control of those religions have created compelling stories and interpretations of those stories and what they may or may not require of us. All based upon material that has itself been passed on potentially many times, each time by another person who was never actually there at the time whenever the chain of these stories first began or could be witnessed firsthand.

Genuine, voluntary and uncoerced faith in the system and faith in a religion can be the same or should be the same. In that they are most powerful, most compelling and most beneficial to us and to others, when they are left to us all to recognise what we believe to be true and in turn to then apply our understanding of everything in terms of what we know to be wrong or to be right.

There is no system in existence that seeks to control or compel others coercively that is also unquestionably right or correct

Doing anything because someone with authority or because a book says so isn’t voluntary belief or choice.

It is dogmatic servitude that excuses itself by insisting that slavish adherence to whatever it teaches, automatically makes it right – even when it is very clearly wrong.

We are indeed fortunate that what we might call the societal operating system of British Culture is based upon the secularisation that the evolution of a Christian system has allowed to develop, that was itself probably only possible because of The Reformation and the otherwise questionable parts of the reign of King Henry VIII.

However, the freedom of thought and expression that becoming unshackled from the Church has ultimately brought has also made us massively vulnerable to anyone who understands how narratives, group thinking and the tools that media offers can be used to introduce and make us subservient to contrary systems of belief.

Indeed, alien beliefs that run contrary that everything our society has been built on have been progressively introduced and are reshaping societal beliefs, leading to people questioning their own common sense, whilst others simply accept philosophies and agendas that are ultimately not offering anything that is good for anyone and least of all you or me.

Fear is today being used to disproportionately exaggerate societal problems, in ways that have created the risk that those problems may quickly become even bigger problems that we would never otherwise have experienced.

Whilst learning to stop, count to ten and then think about what is being said, who is saying it, why they are saying it and what is really happening would help every one of us to uncover the truths that are good for us all to believe.

Finding and creating beliefs that we can trust

There exists no person, no government, no establishment and no religion that has the right to insist that either you or I believe whatever they say or require of us, without question.

Such expectation is an abuse of the rights of whoever they are victimising or making a victim of. Whether that victim is aware or sees their relationship as being that of a victim under an oppressor or not.

This is not a question of those with responsibility hiding information from those under their care that would otherwise be harmful to them.

This is about those with responsibility for others abusing the trust that others have given and that has been assumed from anyone who is vulnerable and then either ignorantly or deliberately misusing that trust to abuse they very people they are there to protect from such abuse.

We are in troubling times

Regrettably, few institutions now exist where integrity can be assured from the actions, behaviour and decisions from anyone that we don’t personally know and have no good reason to belief that they are and always will be as good as their word.

The digitisation and mission creep of the online world has exacerbated this greatly and made the overall process of dehumanising everything progressively worse.

The reality we must face is that if we want to own our own beliefs and develop them using reliable and trustworthy sources, we can and must only use face-to-face relationships and the benefits of the social interactions that remain open and available to us without accessing anything that is only available to us online.

The only relationship that matters is the one that’s right in front of us

For all the benefits that we may be able to agree upon, the latest forms of digital technology and artificial intelligence are also introducing a much bigger and malevolent dark side into the world as we know it.

Almost every system that has and is being introduced into daily life for you and me, is either already or soon will be used as a tool of control.

And these tools can and only will work as effectively as they do, because we believe that what they bring or give to us is good for us in ways that make us forget or overlook the freedoms they have replaced and ultimately the non-financial price that we pay.

Yes, AI for medicine, AI for diagnostics, AI for workplace safety and purposes like these are and will always be good uses. Especially so when they are not about profit but about improving life and therefore the common good.

But AI in any form that appears to make life easier, quicker, or that replaces the need for us or any person to do anything are not and will not be good for anyone other than those who profit from it.

The AI and Tech-takeover really doesn’t offer the whole of humanity anything that any of us need in day-to-day life. But it is set to take away a massive amount from us that we do.

Of all the beliefs that we have been conditioned to have, the belief that whatever is outside of us is better than us and that it reduces our value in any way, is the worst one possible for any of us to have.

When we interact properly with others and use all of the senses and skills that we have to communicate and to read, listen to and understand communication in the circumstances that can and only will ever be offered through real one-to-ones, we will soon begin to remember or realise that these are some of the very best sources of learning – and therefore belief development that any of us could ever have.

Once you become a number, it won’t matter what you believe

Relationships – that’s real relationships, with real people, in real life, really matter.

Once all those relationships have been lost and we no longer have the ability to interact normally beyond familial or friend-based relationships in person and everything else is done without people with names online, our opinions, what makes us happy, what makes us healthy and what is actually good for us will no longer matter. Because the humanity in relationships and therefore the values that make us human will have successfully been cast aside.

The most concerning aspect of the process and steps that are now taking us towards this destination is just how quick and therefore soon we will arrive there.

Whilst most of us still don’t even question what we have unknowingly given up and that has been taken from us, because we have accepted the belief that what has been given to us or that we have often actually paid money for has been good or even better for us in some way.

Thinking for yourself isn’t about being right. It’s all about thinking the right way

Whilst we may not have used this term here until now, critical thinking is the key for all of us to unlocking the door to the pathway that leads to understanding what everything in life is all about.

Critical thinking isn’t just the magical formula that gives us back the power to define our own belief system.

Critical thinking is the golden gift that enables us to recognise and understand the value of all the experiences that have made us and therefore to self-define who we are, and who we will be.

A certain truth that we would all benefit from learning, understanding and living is that none of us are right or will be right until the time that we recognise we are all right and that being right is just the next step in learning what else is right, until we all agree that right is exactly the same thing.

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If Extraterrestrial or Non-Human Intelligent life were proven to exist, should we fear them or our own leaders more?

With everything and perhaps everyone we see and hear about online appearing to be or on their way to becoming completely mad, the question of who or what lies behind the months of ‘drone’, UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) or UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sightings in the USA and over air bases in the UK hasn’t caused anything like the alarm that we might have expected it to, even 10 years ago.

Whilst there is much to suggest that Congressional Hearings in the USA indicate that the establishment is working towards introducing some new truth into the public realm, the question over the existence of Extraterrestrials of Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) forms visiting or even being present on the earth would no doubt raise many questions for the worlds population. Even amongst those from within different communities who believe that they have already accepted and are comfortable with the idea that either civilizations from outside of the world or entities that cannot normally be seen, exist.

Given the behaviour of the political classes and the world elites of late, the idea that the presence of aliens from other parts of the Universe or beings visiting Earth who have crossed dimensions and possibly even time could have been covered up and kept secret from the masses, certainly isn’t a story that many of us will find difficult to believe.

However, the question of why and for how long is a different matter.

Now, before you think that we are about to go down some conspiracy-driven rabbit hole to discuss the different ‘known’ types of extraterrestrials and spiritual beings who may be brushing past us in some shape-shifted form on the high street, there is plenty to read about on the internet or watch on platforms such as YouTube. If this is a minefield you want to walk across carrying an open mind.

The more important questions to focus on, is ‘Why would the presence of any intelligent non-human life forms be problematic for those who govern and have governed us?’ and ‘Why does this question remain highly relevant if disclosure of some kind is on its way?’

‘Disclosure’ would take power over ‘the narrative’ out of Leaders hands

Fundamentally, it all comes down to control. Or control of us, to be precise.

Those who are supposedly in control have always understood the value of information.

They know and thrive by the rule that what the general population believe and that the careful use of fear of just about anything can be used to influence the way that the majority of people behave.

However, when we talk about those in control, we should look above the politicians and the establishment beyond them, and also consider the historical role that religion and the interpreted or guided role of God, Source, some ‘higher force’, or whatever we may wish to call any form of unseen and all powerful deity that is important within our lives.

Our relationship with faith and religion is where all of us should be able to observe the most obvious example of how life plays out for us all, depending upon what believe, in whom we believe, and why we believe it.

Religion or more accurately religious dogma, rather than accurate truth or well-intended metaphor, are perhaps the cleverest and most dangerous tool that man has ever created for use against his fellow man. Because its main purpose has always been a tool of social control, with the pathway of faith within really being left to little more than the gift of chance.

Religion uses belief – and more importantly fear of the unknown, the unseen and the all powerful – and a hierarchy between us and any deity – that suggests there are special people who have a relationship with them that we don’t – to create, maintain and police rules that carry eternal punishments as well as in some cases, a premature physical death.

It’s that element of doubt, fueled by the restriction of information and learning that is enough to quiet even the most inquisitive of minds. Whilst knowledge of ‘the game’ empowers all of those who are ‘in the know’ about what religious dogma is intended for, and what the metaphors and stories that it contains really mean.

Religion was at its most powerful when there was very little choice or option for the masses. When the world in today’s terms appeared to be extremely small.

However, learning could no longer be contained as the enlightenment and industrialisation pushed through changes that led to it being normal for all classes within society to be given the opportunity to learn.

The power that had been held so tightly within the grasp of men of the cloth and the monarchs and lords who were bought into the way things were done, gave way to the printing press, to media and to westernized money-centric governments and other unscrupulous leaders who used other forms of fear and the threat of material loss in very effective ways to control us all too.

As the world has itself become smaller, the great countries and the empires that once existed have increasingly fallen behind the movements and organisations that run themselves today as a world government in waiting. All under the pretence that becoming the one, ideally alone, or one of the few, who rule the world is just about as good as it gets. No matter whether such systems of governance are genuinely good for all mankind and certainly without any regard to the real cost.

After all, if you are in charge of everything; there is nothing else and the buck stops with you, what you say really goes. Doesn’t it?

If the world is all there is in terms of intelligent life in the Universe, it would arguably be the case that this statement is certainly true.

But just like the questions that anyone who can think for themselves will surely have about the presence and meaning of God, or whatever we would like to call that all powerful being or energy; and whether those who place themselves in the role of middle man between us and whatever God is, have any genuine or ‘God given right’ to hold that responsibility, what is there really to tell us that Extraterrestrial beings or non-human intelligence doesn’t exist and that it could already have been on earth for at least 80 years already. Just because it or they are something that the masses haven’t yet seen?

Who do our leaders lead for?

It stands to reason that our leaders would know quickly, if the presence or visits of such entities as Extraterrestrials, forms of Non-Human Intelligence or openly active Spiritual Beings were to genuinely exist.

The question that therefore naturally follows is ‘Would it make more sense for world leaders to cover up the presence of Extraterrestrials or Non-Human Intelligence, or just come clean and let everyone know that they do exist?’

Such a question is only likely to be relevant, if such entities were generally peaceful and looking to help; to perhaps benefit mankind in some way, or find some other way to coexist.

If not, and if they were already here, there is as good a chance as any that the world would have already have experienced something akin to HG Wells War of the Worlds. Or something rather like one of the modern Alien Invasion Films like Independence Day.

However, if our leaders were not using any gifts that were shared to help makind, as the intent may otherwise have been, it is also arguably likely that whoever or whatever is visiting us would eventually become impatient with the worlds leadership. Especially as those visitors become more and more aware of what having the type of leadership we currently have on the planet really means for us and the planet itself.

The realities of ‘Disclosure’ for our leaders and then for us?

So, let’s say that the presence of the drones and the questions that surround them are heralding an oncoming form of disclosure, where the truth will be revealed to the world, and that we are indeed not in any way alone.

In one moment, we will all become aware that in terms of a very big Universe, the world and its human population has suddenly become very small indeed.

That in itself will raise questions for us that we will return to shortly.

But for our leaders, who have relished their dominion over the world and intelligent life, such an ‘outing’ would also revise their place and seriously diminish their perceived or ego-driven value in the Universe.

We can of course live in hope that our leaders would or would have had the good grace and be big enough to just accept this new reality and what it would really mean.

Sadly, we are not blessed with good leaders in the sense of them being good for anyone other than themselves.

Big egos, mixed with the perception of great power and the idea that their position makes them inherently right is a dangerous mix.

Holding on to and protecting the power that they have become so jealous of will almost inevitably be their priority. If the arrival and presence of Extraterrestrials or Non-Human Intelligence should be disclosed outside of the realms and conditions of their control.

And they are likely to do anything and everything they can to maintain that power. No matter what and who they destroy.

Can we take away the uncertainty of a post-Disclosure Future?

We need not share the ins and outs of what that pathway would look like.

But for us, it is very unlikely that the result of their actions would result in anything good for  the rest of humanity.

It is almost certain that we would experience tragic levels of loss, rather than anything that we would recognise as being akin to a win. Even though we can be certain that the establishment narratives would tell us that was exactly what we were experiencing and that the cost was both unavoidable and necessary.

However, the truth that we would face, if the presence of a non-confrontational, non-controlling, non-warring presence were to be confirmed, is that the Universe and potentially the races and cultures of intelligent life that exist out there could be infinite in number.

The new place that we would then inhabit within the Universe would bring with it the requirement of another truth we will have to face: That we can no longer continue to live in the way that we have been, by abusing each other and the planet that we inhabit, as if it doesn’t matter. Because what is there is there for us to fight for control over, as it’s all that there is.

If the technology that some suspect is now being introduced to us over UK airbases and American skies does demonstrate just a little of what does already exist, it will defy the logic of any one of us who is materially obsessed that we either know all there is to know, or that we have the ability to conquer those who might already be visiting us. Let alone any others who have been sensible enough to stay away from such a selfish and troublesome place.

There can be little doubt that those of us who place material possessions, wealth and power above all things have lost sight of what real values and respect for life, humanity and the environment which we share and in which we live really mean.

It is the choice we have to recognise and to embrace this, where our post-Disclosure future would really lie. Irrespective of whether we can only accept that those who share the Universe with us are also physical in nature; whether they are spiritual or even thought-based in nature, or indeed they are something that we can make sense of that falls in between.

Inevitable change for us all lies ahead

One way or another, this planet and its occupants are on the pathway to inescapable change. Because we are either putting money, power and influence before other people, or we are playing a role at some level that is allowing others to do so.

None of us will know whether that change will be triggered by some plan for a New World Order, a pandemic, a financial crash, a third world war or the arrival of an Extraterrestrial or Non-Human Intelligent race that quickly makes our ridiculous leaders and all of us realise just how powerless they and we really are, when it comes to the way we have been living and what we have prioritised in life.

However, whenever and whatever that change is and what ever it will be, there is nothing more certain that that with that change will come a choice.

That choice will either be to stick with what we know and believe that the system we are living within serves our best interests through its obsession with material living.

Or, we can choose to leave the obsession with money, power, influence and top-down hierarches behind us and embrace a very different way of life that puts values, the love of our fellow man, our communities and the environment that we exist in partnership with. Right at the centre of a world that doesn’t recognise any difference between what the world tells us today is very small, and the true value of anyone living being, being as big as big could ever be considered to be.

The most interesting thing about the Universe, everything that may or may not exist and the place that we all have within it, is it is something that we can learn about and enjoy the pathway of discovery it offers us all, just as soon as we recognise that we have always had that choice – and that it is a very real and valuable choice too.

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Is your truth the truth, or just a small part of a much bigger truth that looks so different it doesn’t resemble your truth or beliefs at all?

Yes, I’ve been writing again! 😊 Those of you who know me will be aware that I’ve been writing and publishing eBooks for nearly seven years.

Of late, I’ve been focusing more and more on social problems, the political (and public sector) mess, and food security – which I am that concerned about, I’ve even done a PGCert to look even more closely at it!

However, as I’ve looked and thought more and more about what’s happening in the world or worlds that surround us all, a common theme has emerged that has become increasingly alarming.

It’s something that those of you who have had reason to learn about or consider psychology in your work might recognise as something akin to situation bias, where in this sense, no matter who we are and what perspective we have of the world, we aren’t open to there being a different way of looking at things.

We do this, because the experience we already have of how things work has become the stepping off point for everything, wherever and however we think and picture what the future might look like – not only for us, but for us all.

We don’t think of the future being written by our relationship with the past. But that’s how many of us are creating our plans for the future without even realising it.

Getting this point across to people who I respect and have bags of common sense, learning, intelligence and everything that makes them great isn’t easy. Because it’s pretty normal to look at life this way.

And that’s the problem.

Because we are comfortable with our own view of the world and how it makes sense to us, we are not open to other points of view that may rewrite the way we see ‘the problem’ we all have, so that it isn’t just something that we see in relation to our own lives, businesses etc – but as the problem as it really is and will become for us all.

When we can see any problem from the broader perspective and together as one, we all be ready to consider the implications and consequences of that problem more deeply; learn about it and then work collectively to find a solution that we can all own.

Having thought about this more and more – especially as I’ve watched farmers spending massive amounts of energy and time shouting at a government that isn’t going to value what they do, no matter how much noise they make – I decided that using the concept of Timelines might be a good way to share the picture or rather the different pictures of the different views, perspectives and mechanics of what may or may not be going on in the world we share around us, and what they really mean in the past, present and future tense.

Timelines are a genuinely good way to consider different perspectives. Because beyond the Marvel, woo woo or spiritual interpretations that most will almost certainly have heard of and be able to relate to at some level, the idea that there are at least as many perspectives as there are people in the world, and that at different levels these perspectives may be shared, is certainly easier to picture and validate in the sense of timelines as they are discussed within ‘Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow’.

How did we get here? Where are we going? What happens next? Why?

These are all questions we should be asking, right now.

If we can identify which shared timeline we are on, we may also see how our expectations of what is happening and what our future is likely to look like could be very wrong.

‘Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow is available to buy (for £1.99 UK at 13/01/25) as a book for Kindle immediately below, or alternatively, you can find it as a blog version which is available to read online FREE on my blog HERE. (Link to downloadable PDF is at the bottom).

It would be great to have feedback and please do DM me if you have any questions.

Thanks for your interest 😊