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5 Ways to Awaken the Master Inside of You

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5 Ways to Awaken the Master Inside of You

“A master awakens the master in others.” ~ Matt Kahn

I have yet to come across one teacher on the spiritual journey that has not at one time been a student. In fact, it’s the discovery that there is so much that is not known and so much to be learned that inspires most of us to start our spiritual journeys in the first place.

The countless questions and thirst for more understanding is what characterizes a student, whereas a master is characterized by the one who has the answers.

Often many spiritual seekers take on the role of the diligent student. They read the material, listen to the teachings, perform the rituals but at some point their own inner wisdom and knowing must trump everything.

And while both archetypes, student and master, are required to be experienced in any journey (meaning one is no ‘better’ than the other, but simply stages what any seeker goes through), we would all be lying to ourselves if we said we wanted to stay a student forever.

So how exactly does this switch take place? At what point does the student turn into the master?

Below are 5 things the Master knows, that the student doesn’t:

“A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for others.” ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

1) Teachings are taught, but Wisdom can only be known

It is one thing to read the teachings, memorize verses or quotes from our favorite spiritual teachers, but it is an entirely different experience to “know” the wisdom that is being taught. In most cases, life gives us an actual experience where we are able to integrate the teachings that we have read.

At the point of the integration, we can see the difference between wisdom and knowledge. While knowledge requires some “belief” in something or someone outside of ourselves in order to be conceptualized, integrated wisdom is felt on a deeper level. 

It is felt so deep that we often “become” the wisdom, and at that point instead of just knowing the teachings, or trying to convince ourselves or others of them, we begin to embody and live out the teachings themselves.

A master knows that until one has integrated the wisdom as a result of direct experience, the teachings can not truly be “known.”

2) The master knows he is the master (but knows the student is as well)

The master trusts himself and his own intuition, while the student is always looking for validation from the master. However, a true master is only trying to awaken the master inside of the student. At each stage of our spiritual journey, new “truths” become obvious.

And no matter how many times we tell someone what they “should” believe, there is no greater understanding than the intuition our own hearts will provide.

The student becomes the master when he realizes that everything that he knows, he has already known deep inside of himself. At the point where the student’s faith lies in the hands of himself and the universe, he becomes the master.

The master always trusts his own wisdom above anyone else’s, and the master also knows that everything he needs to know for that exact moment, he already knows. The minute more wisdom is needed, it will be provided by a higher intelligence, therefore there is no need for a constant wanting of more information.

3) Only love is the ultimate truth

Sometimes when the hunger for more knowledge and understanding takes precedence over tending to our own hearts and embracing our own innocence, a person may find themselves right in the depths of spiritual ego or the “over-thinker.”

And what we get from that is a highly intelligent person that has lots of facts and knowledge, but unfortunately is not a very pleasant to be around. Is it any coincidence that the greatest spiritual teachers have also been the kindest?

Perhaps they knew something that we often forget in our quest for knowledge. In the present moment, all the knowledge in the world is still just a concept in our minds, the truth of any moment is inner stillness, emptiness or also known as love.

Because the master recognizes love as the only truth, the love inside of him draws forth the love inside the other, and at that point spiritual understanding becomes irrelevant. The master knows that only love will awaken and open the student’s heart, and only love will transform the world.

4) There is really nothing to be known, and nothing to be “taught”

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

At a certain point of complete liberation all facts and knowledge become only concepts. Yes, of course, they can be interesting to talk or learn about, but in the present moment does any of it really matter? At the point of this understanding, life becomes joyful.

Everything we do isn’t taken so seriously because we can find as much understanding from watching a sunset as we can from talking to a great spiritual guru. The irony of the universe is that when one is no longer “wanting” more and more understanding, the greatest understanding in the world occurs.

Life no longer becomes a riddle that we are trying to find the answer to, but rather a mystery to only be experienced.

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“I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.” ~ Brother Lawrence, Zen teacher

When a person climbs a huge mountain and gets to the top, would they look down the entire time, looking at the path they took? No, because to do that would waste the view from the top.

Exactly like this is our spiritual journey. It doesn’t matter what path you took to get to the top of the mountain, because at a certain point all paths lead to the same place, and from that place which path one took becomes irrelevant.

The master never clings to any “this way is the right and only way” ideologies because the master knows that every path is right and relevant for any particular person. When everything in the universe is made from the “all that is”, there is no wrong way to find it… you already are it.

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The Wild Woman Archetype and the Power of Intuition

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The Wild Woman Archetype and the Power of Intuition

“Why do women keep trying to bend and fold themselves into shapes that are not theirs? I must say, from years of clinical observation of this problem, that most of the time it is not because of deep-seated masochism or a malignant dedication to self-destruction or anything of that nature. More often it is because the woman simply doesn’t know any better. She is unmothered.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

As it becomes increasingly apparent that along with the threads of new paradigm that are speedily plaiting themselves together and becoming rapidly distinctive in design, gender and the dissolving boundaries between our two perceived ones is also beginning to melt.

The slow and inexorable tick of the clock is becoming more like a drumbeat and woman are increasingly waking up and saying No. This is not right. We will no longer put up with this.

Contrary to this feeling that a revolution on all inequality and discriminations is coming, women have probably always felt this disconnection with their true essence – the wild woman – and even those who have the freedom and incentive to try to step out and express her, like any student stepping into the unknown, will probably feel like the precarious path she attempts to walk is invisible and entirely dangerous.

‘Women don’t know any better. She is unmothered’ really strikes a chord.

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Not only do we condition young girls from an early age to hide their true being —the raw and unfettered essence that authentically expresses the human self —but the path does not speak the language we are familiar with.

The path is not written or logical, it is not structured or plain to see but sensations in the body, an echo of something bigger and pure unadulterated intuition and instinct. To say the wild woman is animalistic is accurate, but for many who misunderstand and fear that side of the self (in both men and women), seeing that the only acceptable way to be civilized is to conform and suppress.

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The wild woman, in my experience is animalist in the right way… in a shamanistic and spiritual way that can lead to greater actions and high thinking. The wild woman is not reptilian and racked with greed, nor is she savage and irrational like a beast in a cage.

The wild woman is like a wolf; only bearing her teeth when her family or nature is questioned, but otherwise completely in touch with her natural rhythm and cycles. She is also unashamed, something which the patriarchal societies and Abrahamic religions fear beyond anything.

That is why woman has been turned into a marketing pawn and pumped with fear, much more than men, because she is to be feared in her natural state.

The wild woman cannot be controlled by society. She is the original rebel, the original revolutionary. With the anger of the lion and the wisdom of the child she is everything the establishment are afraid of, and more. And that is why many are coming to understand that a rebalance of the feminine is the only way out of our current system.

The wild woman doesn’t discriminate, is not jealous, hysterical or dangerous as traditional mythology paints her. She doesn’t need to be lost in the mysteries of the night or the shallow waters of suicide (most likely caused by the denial of this aspect of her being) and post natal depression.

We need to write new myths and bring the wild woman to the forefront of our minds because she stirs in all of us. The oppression of the female, in the non-physical, psychological sense comes from the need to put her as consort rather than heroine.

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This is what all religions, even paganism, Buddhism and other esoteric religions that are supposedly progressive or free from restriction – even Native American ideology – paint her as. But actually, in our ancient memories, those that existed before even the ancient Egyptians ruled and have resurfaced from time to time before being plummeted back down by the system are that of her being free of the rib of Adam.

She was an individual, not for man’s enjoyment, not to assist him to rule, or counsel him, or mother him, or make any other part of his life easier… but actually be there on her own merit. This is why we are unschooled in her. We (men and women) feel we must keep our appreciation of woman on the quiet, hidden behind beauty magazines and love of our mothers.

The wild woman represents that unshaken and integral part of us that is a sacred true being. And it’s perhaps for this reason that for a woman to discover it is so much more of a powerful act than it would be if a man were to do so.

We’ve already seen what happens when a man balances the genders within himself; look at any prophet and you will probably find something close. But for a woman to do so, without pretending in any way to be a man or adhere to the expectations of a leader who leads in a masculine and tyrannical way, then wow.

I think we’ve all sensed her. After a long time spent in natural surroundings, when our vibrations realign with the earths and become authentic again. Or perhaps when we practice yoga, a very gentle and self-loving exercise that often works on the hips.

Then we are able to release those ancient fears of rejection and disconnection with our true ontology. After that, we may shine if only for five minutes before we remember to hide her again.

Wild woman is not just us reverting to our tribal way of functioning, where jealousy and gossip still reign, but using the release of this long buried archetype to use it for spiritual progression and move back in alignment with our higher selves. Wild woman is resurfacing and calling to you. If you only stop to listen.

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The Greatest Conspiracy of All: To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate

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The Greatest Conspiracy of All: To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate

 “The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism’s 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.” ~ Jenny McCarthy

It’s been a long time happening, but is a new generation waking up to the dangers of inoculations at long last? Or is the theory of herd immunity for contagious diseases, (most famously for stamping out smallpox in 1977) a good thing and something that will be threatened if more parents are opting out of vaccinations for their children?

Herd immunity was introduced and has been pushed – even put out as mandatory in certain countries such as most of the U.S – since the 1930s as a way to eradicate viral and contagious diseases when a certain threshold of population are vaccinated and the disease is unable to spread to epidemic levels.

This theory works if most of the population is vaccinated and so is understandably pushed by medical professionals, (although it doesn’t apply to infectious diseases that are not contagious like Tetanus), as it also theoretically protects those who cannot be vaccinated such as very young children and those undergoing treatments for other diseases.

An increasing amount of ‘free-riders’; those who are not vaccinated but who are free-riding off the fact that most of the population is vaccinated, is causing anger in the medical community, leading to many to want to put extra pressure on those opting out and calling many parents for religious reasons or because they believe vaccines are unsafe to take more responsibility and join herd immunity at once.

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There are even some states in America (most recently California) where kids ease of getting into schools may be affected and some employers discriminate against un-vaccinated adults meaning many experience difficulty getting a job without their vaccination certificates. Vaccinating has become compulsory.

Where the tide turns on this issue can usually be found with the ‘milder’ contagious diseases and the vaccine that protects against them – the MMR or Measles, Mumps and Rubella (German Measles) vaccine. In the UK children who had received a ‘one shot for life’ in the 90s were then receiving second and even third booster shots and then still contracting the disease.

Many believe that these children should naturally contract measles or mumps and that vaccination against these milder viral diseases are unnecessary due to the extra exposure to what is put into the vaccines such as Thimerosal which contains traces of Mercury and neurotoxic Aluminum when many mercury-containing vaccines were removed from the vaccination schedule.

When you consider the flu shot for children contains less than 3mcg of Mercury yet the safe amount is 0.5mcg, it begs you to wonder at how these levels are allowed in the vaccinations.

Where Thimerosal has been replaced by Aluminum which as a heavy metal has been found to be more harmful than Mercury and 2-month old babies are receiving a whopping 1,225mcg of Aluminum in all their vaccines combined (that is 50 times higher than the safe and advisable levels for that age group). A heavy metal that has proven to cause Autism.

And, there’s more. With Whooping cough, medically known as Pertussis, statistics show that the disease was on the decline BEFORE the introduction of the vaccine for it. Many diseases such as Cholera and Scarlet Fever have been on the decline due to improvements in public health, but we have been led to believe that the eradication of these viral and highly contagious diseases came about as a result of the introduction of vaccines.

What the statistics actually show, is that Whooping Cough has been on gradual decline since before the turn of the twentieth century in both the UK and the United States, and in sharp decline since the 1920s, almost 30 years before the vaccine for it was introduced in the 1950s.

So why are babies routinely vaccinated against this disease? And why, even when we have been told the safe levels of Mercury and Aluminum are over the limit in our children’s vaccines do they continue to be administered? Although the medical professional who originally questioned the MMR vaccine as leading to autism has been repeatedly discredited, a huge question mark still hangs over this early societal pressure.

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The information out there can often appear ambiguous, the statistics correlating to adverse effects vague. Studies published by the NCBI (National Center For Biotechnology Information in the U.S) show that “Of a total sample of 946 children, ranging in age from 0 to 14 years (50.8% girls, 49.1% boys), 191 non-serious suspected adverse reactions were detected, representing 19% of the vaccinated children. Reactions to the diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis acellular and Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTPa + Hib) vaccine appeared in 43.4% of cases.”

And any word said against vaccines often is word of mouth – I know more parents whose children have had these adverse effects than those I have read about. Is this information being removed for the sake of a universal belief in herd immunity or is the anti-vaccine movement riding on the tail of any new age belief and conspiracy theory?

You have to decide that for yourselves, although with articles like these, there may be more to the argument that is being covered up than you might think.

Asking questions and considering each case as separate seems to be the best option for parents, and resisting this one shoe fits all approach that is administered and promoted in Medicine today.

And, if there is a darker side to vaccinations, is it solely to do with Big Pharma and a dysfunctional medical system raking in millions or is there even murkier corners to the debate, those to do with de-population and the numbing of the masses?

As far as the debate surrounding Bill Gates ‘mission’ in Africa that keep re-surfacing in the media, this could be less of a conspiracy theory than you might think:

“Kenya’s Catholic bishops are charging two United Nations organizations with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus inoculation program sponsored by the Kenyan government.”

With antibiotics known to strip the immune system of its ability to stand up for itself and vaccines having this huge question mark persistently above it, what is proving to really keep these medicines thriving among nervous mothers and brainwashed doctors could be the deadliest disease of all: fear.

With questionable statistics and unclear facts, perhaps vaccines do save lives and are valuable but aren’t as perfect as they’re made out to be. Whatever the ulterior motives, perhaps it’s time we learnt to trust our hunches a little more and opt for raising kids on better diets and teaching them how to treat themselves lovingly to avoid depression and bad lifestyles.

It’s either that or pump them with stuff that, let’s face it, we can never be entirely certain is completely clean, necessary, or in complete alignment with what nature intended.

Reference and for further reading
Jayne Donegan
Thimerosal Toxicity
Mercury in vaccines was replaced with something more toxic
Vaccines and Autism
Mandatory vaccines think Jim Carrey recently spoke out about that in California
Vaccination laws in the US
Vaccines are dangerous
How To Legally Say ‘NO’ To All Vaccines

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3 Ways to be an Effective Teacher Without Preaching

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3 Ways to be an Effective Teacher Without Preaching

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” ~ Alexandra K.Trenfor

There comes a time when we reach a level of awareness – about our selves and others – when we are able to function with love and security, slowly working on ourselves as we move towards the light.

There may still be bad days, but all in all we will have dealt with the stealthiest parts of our shadows and are simply working towards being a ray of light for others; an example to follow.

With this comes great responsibility – perhaps the reason why many are avoiding it! – but this is where our true selves shine out. We become a teacher. Not a preacher. The ego preaches.

The ego wants to tell everyone else that they are right and you are wrong. A teacher doesn’t need to do this. They have solved the problem of themselves and are simply existing, enjoying the experience of being alive.

If you are already moving into that space, here are three ways you can increase your light and be an effective teacher without preaching.

Give someone the benefit of the doubt

In social interaction, those who are fragile and who have not experienced a wealth of experience will often be confident, but also judgmental. The preacher wants to show everyone – look! This person doesn’t have what I have. This person has got it all wrong.

They hide a fragile ego who was taught that there is right and wrong rather than degrees of experience. Since many people were taught this, many people suffer from this judgmental way of interacting and it can be difficult not to get sucked into it yourself, if only to save yourself from being the target. This is clearly how bullying and pack mentality operates.

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Being in your light self and having woken up to the realities of life (which is probably what drew you to read this in the first place) means that you understand that, just because someone is quiet, confused, jittery or any other number of things that means they don’t get it quite right, doesn’t mean they are weak.

Far from it, it means that they have had experiences that were challenging and have not quite yet healed from those. So, instead of joining in the cruel sideways glances disguised as moral superiority, you break the mold and include them, taking the time to talk and not interpreting their rudeness or discomfort as a snub.

Without judgment yourself of course, or without the intention to shine, you show them kindness with an open heart.

This, apart from possibly changing the object of your compassion’s life, you are also showing, not reminding others that this is the humane and kind way to treat someone who is making mistakes.

Don’t automatically match someone else’s energy

By resisting this, especially with those who feed off being able to influence other’s energy as the mask of status and dominance, your example will work wonders with everyone you come into contact with. Usually the dominant party either sets the energy bar or uses their high energy to sound out everyone else without lifting the energy of the group.

A true teacher stands outside that energy soup – not looking down their nose at it, but having the ability and loving detachment to not get involved. Rejecting a high energy but insecure person who uses their energy to dominate will help reflect back to them what they are doing and, even though they thought they were doing the right things, that there are others options.

This also helps those stuck in patterns of low energy and victim states. Often these people are despised because they do, in their stubborn forcefulness, have the ability to pull down the energy of a group, but it is a desperate if not immature cry for help that no-one answers. Ignoring them will not help them, but could put them on a downward spiral.

Instead, reject to match their energy, or negative words about their situation and selves and redirect them to more neutral but uplifting topics. The only way to completely step out of this battle for status that celebrates low vibrational human patterns, is to reject to take part and follow your own rules. People will see this and it will niggle them… in a positive outcome kind of way.

Keep your integrity

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Keep your integrity doesn’t mean be solemn all the time and force yourself to go on a raw food diet so that you can claim superiority to everyone else all the time. It means love yourself enough to develop healthy and self loving habits that involve getting enough rest, eating a diet that makes you shine, and doing what you love. It really is that simple.

Of course everyone’s opinions differ. Some might see having integrity as working and doing more than your fair share in a group setting. While this may also be yours, if it’s not and mucking in just isn’t for you who’d rather daydream or make people laugh once you’ve done your share, then don’t apologize for this.

Showing others that you don’t need to pretend to be someone you’re not or go against your own truth to please them will earn their respect and probably inspire them to do the same.

Everyone has their own merits and if someone is punishing us for not being the same as theirs then it’s probably because they’re insecure or resenting their part in the whole, in which case it’s their and not your responsibility to change that. So keep your integrity and say what you want, and never do what you don’t want to do… apart from when others truly need your help.

Being a teacher and not a preacher is testing, but is the next step up in our spiritual practice. It will be ongoing, but the more we practice these three steps, the more we will manifest masterful interactions and pave the way for others.

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How to Remain a Zombie-slave in Five Easy Steps

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How to Remain a Zombie-slave in Five Easy Steps

“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” ~ Walt Kelly

Have you ever caught yourself thinking that maybe the examined life isn’t for you? That becoming the best possible version of yourself sounds like way too much work? That perhaps the pursuit of enlightenment is for the birds and maybe MLK’s dream is nothing more than a pipe dream?

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And all that peaceful warrior, rainbow warrior, and infinite player talk is just highfalutin psychobabble? Then this article is just for you. So kick back, relax, and forget about all those self-improvement articles. Here are five easy steps to remaining a zombie-slave. Brains not included.

1) Stop questioning authority

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

Forget the first part of that quote. You’re a zombie-slave now. Obedience is the name of your game. Obey. Obey. Obey. Forget the fact that you sound like a sheep. Conform to the status quo, especially the authority that reinforces it. Kowtow to cops. Never question their callous actions.

Never question the law no matter how stupid, outdated, and immoral the laws may be. Keep developing that particularly banal flavor of “schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to its imposed behavior, but we are also the police force of it,” paraphrasing David Icke.

trickledown Pay homage to the plutocratic government and the mindless mandarins who run it. Just fall into line like a good little zombie-slave. It’s so easy it’s stupid. You are now duty-bound to the system, no matter how unhealthy, unsustainable, immoral, or unjust it may be.

Leave the cart in front of the horse. Maybe someone else will move it, maybe not. It’s not your responsibility. Dare not reason in the realm of the unreasonable.

Like Lord Byron said, “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”

2) Work a mindless job

“There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.” ~ Jose Rizal

Find a nice little hierarchy of nine-to-five depravity. Work relentlessly with your culture’s outdated sense of responsibility like a whip on your back. Let your slave-boss pound pusillanimous presumptions into your zombie-brain, while the powers that be piss down the pyramid and tell you it’s rain.

As far as you’re concerned, it is rain. Trickle-down theory is perfect. Who cares it smells like piss? You’re a zombie. Who cares if it tastes like tyranny? You’re a slave.

Money is your master. It’s everyone’s master. You might as well accept it. To your zombie mind, money looks like brains. To your slave mind, money looks like food. Yum! Eat it up. Get as much of it as you can or the next zombie-slave will. Profit over people. Power over love. Equity before equality. Screw equality!

That shit is for conscientious, compassionate human beings with empathy. You’re a one-track-mind zombie-slave with your eye on the prize. Screw the journey! The journey is just a disguised grind anyway, right? You’re set on the goal of being head zombie, the destination of being master of slaves. You strive for the trophy of having it all.

3) Wastefully consume

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” ~ Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Greed_by_Liol There you sit, a too-fat king on a throne of oil and pigeons. A giant, detached, breathing-in thing of dissociation, codependence, and ignorant bliss. Reveling in your zombie sloth and slave inefficiency. Nature is all around you, beleaguered and decimated by your overreaching overindulgence. She’s your own personal whore, and you her inadvertent rapist.

Guided by gluttony’s cruel compass, God’s own fat curled around your stomach, you reek of immoderation and excess. Just like every good zombie-slave should.

Who cares your beaches are fat with oil and human stains. Who cares nature is choking on six-pack plastic rings. Who cares your sun is a chemical orange, and your moon is a dead-gray god looming over the rotting meat and bone, the offal and the waste. You’ve gotta eat, right? Moderation is for the pecking of birds.

Wherever there is hunger – the hollowed ribs of children, the honeycomb, the crib, the volcanic throat of this-or-that means or end– you eat. You eat in the gutter. You eat in glitter, in sequins, in sequence you line the chow halls, begging, bulging, and belching, over and over. You eat from the star-spangled dish, the gas tank, and the lesser slave’s hands.

You eat the smorgasbord while others eat the scraps. You want nothing less than everything. You want all the brains, all the whips and all the guns. And the only thing that can stop you is the will of healthy, courageous, free men.

4) Never read or travel

“The irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can’t smile, because your lips have rotted off.” ~ Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

Do not stray. Stay inside your nationalized bubble. It deserves your faith. “They” deserve your xenophobic rancor. You were born into the greatest nation ever, after all. Who cares that the other nations aren’t as inherently awesome as yours is. Surround yourself with sycophantic patriots with Big Macs for brains.

Stick to armchair-quarterbacking from your La-Z-boy chair. Stick to your next material fix, as you succumb to the so called elite commercial-narcissists in suits snorting oil through star-spangled straws while the rest of the world dries up to a crust.

Never read. Brains are for eating, not for gaining. If you do choose to read, stick to just one book. Preferably a dogmatic book that claims to have all the answers but prevents you from asking questions. Forget philosophy, spirituality and meditation. They would be too much for your little zombie brain to digest, and too much for your little slave heart to handle.

You’d have to think outside of the box of being a slave to the system and a zombie to the unhealthy state of the human condition. And especially don’t try to come up with a philosophy of your own. That would require a courage and a sense of humor of the most high. Forget about it.

Set your alarm. There’s “work” to be done keeping the fundamentally unhealthy, unsustainable system in place so that zombies are “free” to be dumb and debt-slaves are “free” to pay for their chains.

5) Put all your brains in one basket and cling to it for dear life

“Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.” ~ David Wong

zombiejesus Ignore all the other infinite baskets out there. Stick to the dogmatic myopia, the blind patriotism, the tyranny, and the blissful ignorance of your own basket. Cling to it like you long for brains. Cling to it like you cling to your chains.

Carry it with you to work like a good little somnambulant nine-to-fiver, where the steely juggernaut of Corporation Inc. splits the smog with its artificial stink, and the pensive faces of your fellow debt-slaves look on as they chip away at a debt that can never be paid back.

Keep your comfort zone tiny, invulnerable, and averse to stretching. Don’t give into the temptation of other baskets. Don’t budge an inch from your way of viewing things, even if a healthier, smarter way presents itself. Relish in the cognitive dissonance. Placate yourself. Pity yourself. Cry your whiney, woe-is-me sob story while doing absolutely nothing about it, but still expect things to get better.

As for the box, might as well admit that you can’t think outside of it. Quit trying to. Just cling to your basket and do your freaking job so you can buy more things-things-things you don’t even need.

So you can go home to your innocent, impressionable children and teach them to cling to the same damn thing. Plutocracy or Idiocracy? Either way, welcome to the Dawn of the Dumb.

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