The Next Target

Beauty, symmetry and order surround us in nature. Everything natural proceeds in its measured pace, perfectly in rhythm with itself and its environment. In fact, nature teaches us to be orderly. From the smallest atomic particles to the movements of galaxies, the natural world moves in tune to strict patterns and invariable mathematical structures. It's like being part of a grand machine whose parts are all in sync one with another. People have bodies that function upon certain principles in a practically invariable manner until things are introduced into the body that do not belong in the system and so cause malfunction.

 Horse whisperers have taught us that working with and not against this natural order of things has the effect of empowering people to heal and help where there has been serious malfunction in a horse's behavior. There are people who are attempting to accomplish similar things with people using natural laws and understanding the principles of how the body and mind work. To me, this is a great advance in knowledge, if we can use it to benefit people and our world directly.

However, on the other side of this coin, there are those who would use these kinds of knowledge in order to control and destroy instead of to help. According to some, next to the desire for wealth, the desire for power is the most captivating human frailty. For some reason, people like to have the ability to manipulate people and circumstances for their own ends. For this reason, I think it is wise to beware, especially today, of those who have control over the things that provide ideas. This control (ie. Power) can be a dangerous thing.

The headlines say,  "The Jews are our Misfortune." Germany, 1936.

I recently saw an interview with a man who had been present at a speech given by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of his rise to power. He happened to be a man who was not a German and certainly not a follower of Hitler at any time. However, he confessed that after hearing Hitler speak, he was carried away by a sort of mesmerizing quality that leader seemed to possess and was surprised to find himself caught up in the feeling of it, to the extent that he began to believe in what was being said. The perspective of this man gives us an interesting insight into the use of certain little-known knowledge and practices which were only beginning to be used in the early twentieth century. Today, I believe we witness daily the full-scale, widespread use of those same techniques, perfected by long and diligent use on an unknowing population of avid listeners and viewers.

The question arises: Why would anyone want to control or influence the way people think? What possible end could it achieve? In my opinion, the only end that could be of any value would be to gain more wealth and more power.

To take a current example: The massive smear campaign against a certain race/culture, obviously promoting fear and hatred against these people. If someone is my enemy, I will find it out myself by what they do to me. But, when someone undertakes to try to persuade me to fear and hate someone, in the absence of my own evidence, I think it behooves me to find out the truth for myself. If all I have is hearsay, circumstantial evidence and vicious gossip I should be wary of the perpetrator of such misinformation and I should be very cautious of any judgment I make based on this obviously biased information. It is apparent to me that someone wants me to hate a group of people to accomplish some end for themselves while disguising their actions as “protecting” me. Interestingly, and coincidentally, these are the same tactics used by a certain leader over fifty years ago on a certain group of people within his country, to get his own people to hate them so that he could justify his mistreatment and finally annihilation of them.

So, I say again, beware of anyone who controls the things that can change the way people think. Instead of just being grateful that the target is not you, it makes sense to realize that the next target might be.