Here & Now – Changing Our Here into a Home for Life

ART by Marlen Vargas Del Razo

What is Here?

Where is Here?

How is Here determined?

Let’s start off by looking at What is Here as this world, this reality, our existence as human beings, as humanity – OUR HERE.

Our Here is currently determined and defined, in fact dictated, by a world system that is based on profit, a system that exploits life for profit in all possible ways.

OUR HERE is currently an atrocity.

And where are human beings within this all, individually?

Where IS everyone? Where am “I”?

Our individual ‘here’ is determined and defined through our individual relationships, jobs, family, friends, everything we participate in our daily lives. However, when we look at our participation in this world, we’ll see that we interact and participate in our reality through masks of character roles, wearing personality suits, presenting ourselves from a starting-point of self-image whereby value is placed in attributes taught to us by the system according to the system’s values: profit, power, status, beauty, influence – the personal pursuit of happiness.

From this starting-point, our entire participation in our world individually is aligned to satisfying this one point: ‘the pursuit of happiness’ and ‘attaining value’ to define ourselves by. Within this we completely miss ourselves as life as well as our interconnectedness; Within our participation in self-interest, we refuse to acknowledge that when one part of life suffers, is harmed or abused: then all of life is affected as a whole.

How come we have no awareness of the fact that a child dies every couple of seconds in this world, from preventable causes?

The question arises:

Are we Really Here? Physically, factually, fully Here?

No.

Each one is here in separation, and each one’s ‘here’ is pre-determined by the consciousness patterns one has been conditioned with, in other words: each one human being is here as a mind consciousness system only, existing in the pursuit of self-interest in separation from Life as a whole.

All the while, Life is Here. Everything is Here, always, at all times. The universe, existence, nature, the microorganisms that sustain us, everything of substance – is always HERE.

Yet, we are not aware of everything that is Here, we are not aware of everything that sustains us, we are not aware of the fact that we all come from and return to the same substance.

Everything is Here – yet us human beings are not here. Each one is like trapped in a separate bubble of ‘alternate reality’ formed by the mind as consciousness. This consciousness is systematically set to self-interest only, hence the human RACE for SURVIVAL in this ut-most-fear we all share as if there were no other way to live here together...

There exists actual awareness that is all-encompassing. And we do have a choice: One either remains trapped in one's own mind bubble preoccupied with one's self-interest, seeking, hoping, waiting, blaming, wishing - blind to the actuality of the ONE reality we all share; or one is Here in self awareness as a physical being on this earth, breathing, self-realizing life as the one common interest we all share, thus practically living every moment in alignment to what is best for ALL.

The Journey to Life is the journey from CONSCIOUSNESS as mind systems only in separation from life / ourselves / each-other, into an AWARENESS of the entirety of SELF, as life, as all and everything that is here within and as existence.

The Journey to Life is about changing our HERE, which is currently our world system and our individual existences as mind systems, from an awareness of/as self-interest in separation, to/into/as an awareness of/as life in the interest of ALL that is HERE as LIFE in oneness and equality.

The simplest ‘practice’ for us human beings in terms of getting to an awareness of self as life, is stopping the mind pre-occupation and becoming aware of/as the Breath of our physical bodies.

The breath of our bodies is what sustains us, and yet we are separated from breath, we are not aware of ourselves breathing in every moment because we are so preoccupied in the mind – yet the mind is what dies the very moment the breath of life stops and the body returns to its source, the physical substance.

Obviously we cannot just move our awareness from the mind to the physical and have it ‘done’, because the mind has in a way ‘possessed’ our very physical beingness, manifesting dis-ease, dis-comfort, mis-alignments in/as the physical body. Our bodies are formed by the mind, by the personalities and patterns we’ve accepted and allowed ourselves to participate in and define ourselves by/as.

It’s gonna take a process of ‘MAN KNOW THYSELF’ as mind consciousness systems to begin with – to see, realize and understand how we have accepted and allowed ourselves to function, to perceive, to react, and what patterns we have accepted and allowed to form ‘who we are’ and to in-form our world into relationships of self-interest and manipulation.

In order to STOP our existence of ego, self-interest and abuse, we have to see it for what it is in all its detail from beginning to end, realizing cause and effect, thus acknowledging how we have in fact created ourselves and keep creating ourselves as mind consciousness systems of separation, through our own acceptance and allowance of separation and an existence as patterns of self-interest.

In this process of seeing, realizing and understanding what and how we have become, what and how we have come to be:

We cannot but acknowledge that we are products of the profit-based world system, organic robots as system slaves that end-up recreating the same system of separation, abuse and exploitation over and over again. We may be advancing our technology, but we are not in fact evolving OURSELVES. Our technology is but the externalization of our mutating consciousness – as within so without, as above so below. Everything that is here IS ourselves.

Within seeing the CONSCEQUENCES of our existence not only on smaller scale/our individual relationships and environments but also in the bigger picture of and as the world system and the conditions we accept and allow to dictate life to atrocious results:

we have no CHOICE but to Stop recreating the same polarity patterns of ‘superiority’ and ‘inferiority’, ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-Nots’, Stop recreating Money as Debt, Stop participating in power-games, Stop exploiting ourselves and the resources of the earth for profit, for an image of ‘progress’ when we are in fact only degrading, devolving, deteriorating.

An equal money system is a new system based on the value of life and aimed at restoring the value of life and in fact changing our HERE to what is Best for All.

To do this, we require to start with ourselves and change our Here – our starting-point, our awareness, our participation, our interaction – and align ourselves, our awareness, our practical living, to the interest of life as who we all really are.

We are HERE – therefore our Responsibility is HERE. Let’s make of OUR HERE a place that is a Home for ALL LIFE EQUALLY.

Read up on the MIND and CREATION:
http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://earthsjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://heavensjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://desteni.org/articles

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by Anna Brix Thomsen

Setting Life Free from the System – part2

ART by Maren Vargas Del Razo

If I have to look at what the most significant factor is that stands in the way of setting life free from the system – it is self-interest; it is the system itself.


The System does not exist without the human. It is manifested in the image and likeness of the human nature. Blatantly put, it is based in self-interest – thus a profit-driven system that places profit before life and reflects the “value” of profit in all its mechanisms.


Acknowledging the implications of what this means, it is inevitable that each human-being must examine in self-honesty how self within oneself and within the projections of all of self’s relationships exists in the pursuit of self-interest that places the individual in separation from life as a whole and that often drives the individual to obsessive, possessive, fanatical extents in a fantasy role play where it’s always about ‘winning’ and ‘losing’;



We create our conditioned projections as relationships of ‘superior’ and ‘inferior’ and develop personalities that will play this game and seek out only those that will agree with our OWN categorization of the world, with our OWN definitions of things, of ourselves –

hence the power game based world we exist in = the externalization of the power games we accept and allow ourselves to participate in within our world as a projection of what goes on within our minds towards our own self and towards all our relationships.




These are realizations that each human being with some common sense should be able to see, and that those who seriously walk the process / the journey to life, known as the Desteni group, are busy ‘walking’ in terms of self-investigation, self-honest participation, common sense discussions, writings, blogging and vlogging, forum moderation, the development of and exchange on the proposal of an equal money system, self awareness courses, interviews and articles for self-education, and much more.



I am committed to what I see is required from every human being: stopping our addictions to self-interest and the illusions of energetic experiences, understanding the creation of consciousness, debunking mental projections and getting to the core of self to finally take self-responsibility, stand-up and live in dignity in all possible ways without the veils of self-delusion or fear, without illusions of ‘grandeur’ or ‘bliss’ –

because clearly, what bliss can exist in a world where a child dies every couple of seconds of preventable causes, in a world where 2/3 of the population cannot afford a dignified living, where kindergarten politics and the dictatorship of the money-system distract and absorb the average human being to such an extent, that ‘happiness’ and ‘freedom’ are defined within the very parameters of this prison of a system – and thus barely anyone seriously questions the entirety of the system, this existence as is.



It is not enough to question just selective parts of this existence, for example that which you don’t like or don’t agree on or that which you find bad or negative; EVERYTHING requires to be looked at in common sense through critical thinking to understand cause and effect, within and without –

otherwise there will always be something to which one submits, to which one indulges, by which one can be manipulated and controlled.

Is it a coincidence that the golden platter the systems serves and calls ‘life’ is full of ‘positive’ things?

And is it a coincidence that the human being YEARNS for ‘positive’ experiences and FEARS the ‘negative’?



And how come all those ‘positive’ things are always concepts, products, ideas, projections ‘out there’ to gain, to attain, to achieve, to earn, to die for!?

While the world is in Fact ‘negative’ in all possible ways, right here, in every moment, right before our very eyes.



Yet man, are we clever, we understood that you can use the ‘positive’ illusion to hide the ‘negative’ actuality, and then wow you even experience the ‘positive’, in spite of the fact that all around you a child dies every couple of seconds, constantly, around the globe;

yet we starve life to death while we consume the energy of illusion –

and in the end we’ve consumed ourselves to death and leave the world behind just like we found it, with the same illusions, the same power games, the same happy pills, just different names, different faces; advancing only in terms of easier and quicker illusions – through the evolution of technology and enhanced products of consumerism – from cosmetic science and longevity products to religions and spirituality: all promising SALVATION in one way or another. Really?



How long can one keep up the lie?

How long can one keep up the ‘positive’ while inside oneself all kinds of suppressions get noisy, things one does not understand why they exist, how they exist, and how come they seem to still be there in spite of the ignorance?



We consume the ‘positive’ – because we don’t wanna deal with the actuality of reality.

this is how Consumerism was born in the first place. It was then no longer about practical living and life support equipment – it was about experience, feeling. Sell them that feeling, they’ll buy it. Give them a dream to live for. It’s done.





We are here realizing we have to un-do it.

Stop the system.

Stop the game.

Get real.





CONSUMERISM exists within as without, above as below. This is in fact one of the core findings of the Desteni research and also on of the main messages –

and understanding the implications thereof is a key to change, a key to power as life, through equality – a key to Life as who we all really are.



The system does not exist without the human.

Therefore to change the world, to change existence, it is not enough to change the system; the human must change.

Because the nature of the system is in the nature of the human.



What is currently keeping the human from changing is, next to self-interest: the system – the world of the human race for survival.

Everyone walking this process of sharing awareness and support in the journey to life of existence, still have to go to work, do jobs, earn money, to support self to be stable in this world under the circumstances of the current monetary system.



The system literally sucks the life energy off of you. But is life really energy? Well if we participate in the system through and as energy – giving in to power games, moods, motivation struggles – then we have defined ‘life’ through and as energy and have accepted energy to be something which has power over us, yet interestingly enough some understand this and use it to manipulate the world for profit: media, perception generation, public opinion, mass manipulation, (k)new(s)... yes, you ‘knew’ it, because we have history repeating, as if preprogrammed…

So yes, ironically, it is irrelevant whether or not currently a secret elite somewhere controls the whole world, because the control is already automated – the system doesn’t really need anyone in particular to run it, it runs through the human fear, the human desire for power, the human dream-quest; and all the ‘knowledge’ of the world is literally set up to keep the system running.



We are standing-up to stop this from the inside out. Yet we realize that you cannot change the world by only changing yourself.

The quicker we change the system into a system that will ensure the dignity of life for all, the more time everyone will have to face self, to educate self, to explore, investigate, get to know oneself and understand creation.

This awareness allows for actual self-responsibility for the first time in the history of mankind.

Responsibility for life as a whole. We are now ‘big’ enough or ‘far’ enough or ‘evolved’ enough to grasp this – the world is a global village and we can no longer deny the interconnectedness of everyone and everything on this earth –

but will we, or will we just sit there (god forbid (lol) under the perception of some galactic federation of light beaming good vibes and blissful love unto humanity) and be ‘proud’ with the idea of ‘big’ or the idea of ‘far’ (think ‘ascension’), ‘mesmerized’ by the energy of even ‘further’ and ‘bigger’ (think ‘enlightenment’)?



Currently, the answer mankind gives to this question does not shed any light onto the actual problems of the world, of humanity, of existence.

Blinded by its own consciousness – mankind is unkind.





Will we stand equal to life, or not?

The answer is and will be determined by each one, for oneself and humanity as a whole.

At this point I always remind myself that if the human were to vanish into self-destruction, the physical universe would still be here. This also means that the human is currently like a parasite in the universe, it is so inferior that it stands no chance to transcending this li(f)e into LIFE as oneness and equality, which obviously is the ultimate power, but a power that cannot be abused, and a power that will not abuse. This is the true magnificence of equality – and just by reading this you will agree that humanity’s got a long way as far as this magnificence is concerned.



Yet each one can make the decision to start walking this very process within oneself, and transcend the nature of self.

This obviously already requires some self-honesty, self-respect and the will to stand-up to self-interest of the mind and the addictions of energy.

It takes dedication, support, and patience, and thus time –

time which in this world system costs money; and money costs time.



So – sorting out the systems of our world is a big undertaking, but if we don’t do it we can’t say we cared about life, if we don’t do it we leave behind a world of fear and abuse in OUR name. If we don’t do it we don’t really deserve any better world.



Support an equal money system as it will very quickly eliminate starvation and poverty and will allow all living beings the best available of everything.

Consumerism will undergo a process of devolution, and the human being will be faced with itself, with life, with actual choice for the first time.

So much more is possible, and we all have dreams and things we’d like to do, talents to explore, theories to examine, to research, to work together, to understand: creation.

Life could be so much fun!





Investigate Desteni and Equal Money, study what has been written, shared, worked on thus far, and if you are serious about life, bring in your feedback, your suggestions and perspectives, yourself – work with us until it is done and all life can work together, as One, as Equals.



Life must be born from the physical, in the fact of the matter, as a living organism, self directed, self motivated, transparent and fluent, in full awareness, within and as oneness and equality of life.

ART by Marlen Vargas and Scott Cook

Read up on the MIND and CREATION:
http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://earthsjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://heavensjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://desteni.org/articles

For support and participation visit:
http://forum.desteni.org
http://equalmoney.org/forum/

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http://earthglobalreview.wordpress.com

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* How I was able to Hear the Desteni Message <<< PDF Download - Blog Compilation
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Real Oneness implies EQUALITY

ART by Marlen Vargas Del Razo

Equality must be seen within the context of VALUE. If we look at this world, but also at the human psyche/mind – we see that VALUE is un-equal as it is based on polarity (‘superiority’/’inferiority’),and this leads to inner friction and outer war, in a world where profit and fake “values” (‘power’, ‘status’, ‘personal happiness’, ‘success’, etc.) are placed before LIFE.

The point of investigating the Mind as what we currently exist as, which consist of mainly thought and value-judgment/polarity – is because the Mind has come to define and determine all expression from within the unconscious which is conditioned through the world system / past generations / history repeating / fake values / fears of the forefathers etc. Therefore no human expression is currently actually FREE and no actual individuality exists; only systems, as patterns of polarity, within and without.

In the process of getting ourselves to the point of seeing, realizing and understanding ourselves in self awareness as what we've become as the human psyche/ Mind: it is to come to the point of standing One and Equal within and as ourselves. This is perhaps the first point of actual freedom.

The ultimate point of freedom would obviously be that of an equally free existence, where our freedom is not undermined through systems of abuse, and at the same time our freedom does not compromise the freedom of other parts of LIFE.

Let’s come back to the point of ‘standing One and Equal’ – what does that mean?

Interestingly enough, we human beings, just like our world: are ONE (one human being / one world / one earth) but not equal (within ourselves or the world). Hence the friction and conflict within and without.

So we have oneness, but we have no equality.

‘Man Know Thyself’does not in fact exist as a living expression of who we are.

This missing point of EQUALITY would imply to see, realize and understand ALL of self and also ALL of the world, so that there is nothing that can control / define / bind us – nothing that has power over us or power over this world, like currently the mind-system within and the money-system without, both of which are systems based in self-interest/profit in disregard of life / dignity / freedom.

Equality and Oneness is the point where we may, individually and collectively, be the directive authority of Self / the World. Any other form of power is on the one hand the abuse of power as it in fact leads to exploitation and inequality, even if on the other hand such ‘power’ it is but an illusion of power, merely a concept, a definition, an accepted idea defined within the world consciousness system of polarity and separation. 

How can Oneness be valid without Equality? Oneness by definition implies Equality.

Interestingly enough the history of mankind has brought about many examples of abuse that cause Equality to be feared. But there has never been actual, real Equality on Earth. There has always been abuse of power. 

At Desteni we investigate how to End the abuse of power in our world and take back the directive authority we abdicate to systems of polarity –

In this process of restoring the VALUE of LIFE, we start with/within ourselves: which is the point of self-responsibility.

Self-responsibility is in fact power – and in the realization that self = life = all = equal we are able to manifest a world where LIFE IS the POWER, an existence where All Life can be FREE to live in Dignity and discover what it really means to LIVE, EXPRESS, and EXPAND, in self-realization as Life.

Read up on the MIND and CREATION:

http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://earthsjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://heavensjourneytolife.blogspot.com
http://desteni.org/articles

For support and participation visit:
http://forum.desteni.org
http://equalmoney.org/forum/
http://desteniIprocess.com

Visit my Blog sites:
http://breath-expression.blogspot.com
http://misfitsoftheshockingtruth.blogspot.com
http://earthglobalreview.wordpress.com

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* LifeReview - My Life as a Peace Activist <<< MP3 Download
* The Spirituality of the Snail <<< MP3 Download
* Spirituality Under the Microscope - Volume 2 <<< PDF Download
* How I was able to Hear the Desteni Message <<< PDF Download - Blog Compilation
* What the FAQ in an Equal Money System – Volume 2 <<< PDF Download
* Hell Spoof <<< MP3 Download - Music for Equality
* What makes me Starve in a World of Plenty <<< MP3 Download - Music for Equality

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[2012] Living Compassion to Manifest World Peace

Compassion has been preached and promulgated in this world for eons of time. So how come we are not compassionate enough to stand up and stop accepting and allowing the current status quo to continue exploiting life in the name of profit?!

What is Compassion?

It is not charity, as charity only relieves the conscience of the giver while it offers a band-aid for a wound that take much more to heal.

It is not mercy, as mercy is the taking-away of responsibility and thus the taking-away of power from another and thus it is the declaration of superiority towards a weaker part of existence.

It is not donating, as that again only perpetuates the polarity of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ in this world, further accepting the polarity we have established as if there were no other way.

It is not feeling sorry for others, as that only states that one is actually fearing to be in their shoes, experiencing what they experience, and thus feeling sorry for others is in essence self-pity as ego.

Compassion has become the feeling of Ego to justify status/position towards those less fortunate and maintains that separation through constructing a 'I am compassionate human being' - but again: does nothing practical to relieve the situation for all, equally as one in this world but only gossip in their friend-circles about their ego's compassion and so generate energy in their illusionary reality [1]

What is real COMPASSION as a living word?

<Kristina> compassion - standing in the shoes of another - daring to create a world where we can all stand is all's shoes

<BernardPoolman> compassion is the active living of a solution as another because due to circumstance they are unable to stand up for themselves

<Esteni> Compassion is the act of sharing and giving of oneself as self is able to see the path of another as self

<BernardPoolman> compassion is the understanding of the suffering of another and to take action to make sure the suffering is removed from the accepted reality and to never give up till it is done

<Garbrielle> compassion is to never give up on self thus never giving up on life best for all until it’s done

<LeonPerry> Compassion can become the action of ways to being about what's best for all as practical application of manifesting physical foundation where all man lives a dignified life of equal satisfaction

<MattiFreeman> compass - to navigate all to a world that is best for all

<BernardPoolman> real compassion is the living self as breath that live the solution within the achievable context as it is created breath by breath -- to try and do more than what can be done, is also illusion, therefore we do what is here as breath and as more do this, the physical living word as compassion will shape the world as one as equals

Why do I say Living Compassion will manifest World Peace?

Because peace in this world has only been the opposite of war. It has only existed as polarity and never as a state of being that is best for all; that is sustainable and viable and undeniable as ‘who we are’.

Peace has only existed in pieces, under circumstances, under conditions – never unconditionally for ALL.

Is peace on Earth at all possible? 

This is a question that must begin within each one, because it is all of us together that determine the living-conditions of the whole – this world, planet earth as our existence.

Peace has become an idea of self-interest, where people talk about "inner peace" or "peace of mind" and spend hours meditating trying to ‘achieve’ peace... But how can that peace be real when the moment one open one’s eyes one is again faced with the actuality of this world. 

Peace of mind in this world is like an alternate reality as ‘comfort zone’ where one is trying to be ‘more’ that what is here as the actuality of reality. Does that ‘inner peace’ create a person in a way that would bring forth peace for all? No, otherwise this world would already be a different place!

Inner Peace when the system that manages Life on Earth cause suffering only proves the ability of the Master of Peace to deny reality effectively. The Buddha found a way to deny reality through inner peace and so end individual suffering. This self-interest has misguided many over the ages and caused those with the ability to create a world that is best for all to be lost in a state of blissful ignorance. [2]

So what would be living PEACE as a living word?

Would living peace be the peacemaker that make sure a way of life is implemented that would ensure peace for all where the new system is so peace-producing that no one wants to disturb the peace because they enjoy it so much? [3]

Peace - breathing, living breath in the physical as stability so that there is always equilibrium and assisting/supporting others to walk the same - in conflict/friction, walk the point into/as stability as practical solution as breath and be a living example [4]

Dare investigate ANOTHER WAY of Life for Life on Earth – Dare Live real compassion to manifest PEACE within one’s world and the world as a whole – for LIFE, for all of us!

[2] [3] Bernard Poolman

[1] [4] Sunette Spies

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Showing True Compassion

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Of WAR and the RAW nature of Life

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Peace on Earth is impossible

How Equal Money will Transform Humanity

A new morality is here: Equality & Oneness as Life

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2012 | ‘Conscious Living’ is a Con Science

Conscious Living has many faces, but it has one common denominator: to make the life of the individual more ‘valuable’.
If we look at the ‘expressions’ of ‘conscious living’ around the globe, we find for instance trends like ‘going green’, shopping ‘bio’, going to that ‘fitness class’, going on a ‘diet’, cutting down on fats, quitting smoking, following a ‘spiritual path’, donating to a charity, etc.


All these are examples of how one can make one’s life more ‘valuable’...to oneself! That is, how one can ‘feel better’ about oneself, feel like one is ‘doing the right thing’ or even helping those in need etc. Then, one can continue basically living the same life with a ‘clear conscience’.
Where am I getting at?
I am looking at the fact that no path of ‘conscious living’ as promulgated in this world ever actually looks at the whole, ever looks at the individual within the context of the entire existence, this world, and at the role each one plays (consciously or unconsciously) within it all.

What can be seen is that ‘conscious living’ is only actually making a difference on the consciousness of the person choosing to follow a certain trend / walk a certain path or taking certain decisions to improve one’s life quality. There’s nothing wrong with that per se, but let’s not delude ourselves believing we live in awareness by following/applying concepts of ‘conscious living’, because any such concepts in this world are in fact merely another form of consumerism in the broader spectrum of a system that creates needs based on the desires it has already created for you.


What can also be seen is that ‘consciousness’ as such only ever consider the personal interest of its ‘host’, and even in the case of charity: 
one does not seem to realize that supporting ‘charity’ is actually equal to supporting the system and the world as we know it; that one is actually merely  creating/supporting a ‘justification’ for the current system, through thoughts like “well what can one person do, at least I give to charity” – not realizing that for charity to exist, inequality and suffering must exist.


So ‘conscious living’ is in fact a bragging self-consciousness, within and as which one is not really considering the implications and consequences of one’s decisions for the world as a whole.
The term ‘expanding our consciousness’ also exists only in the context of self-consciousness without regard for the outflows of one’s existence in the context of life.

Conscious living should actually mean that one is conscious of cause and effect of one’s practical living for the entirety of existence. 


But ‘conscious living’ in this world has been a concept which, just like any other, has been used by the capitalist system to create new definitions of self-image, desires to be pursued, niches of ‘specialness’ for people to seek happiness in. And so the whole concept of ‘conscious living’ has but perpetuated a phenomenon that is becoming more and more obvious in the modern society: the religion of self.
Self-Religion: 
a core belief-system one creates, be it through a copy paste process using several already existing belief-systems and/or religions/spirituality, or through a patch-work fuzzy-logic approach, wherein one firstly determines what it is one is wishing to ‘prove’ i.e. ‘justify’, and then works out the ‘logic’ that makes it seem plausible. 


Does that ring a bell? Yes – this is the con science we all function through, based on the ‘education’ we receive within the system.
Even our major and well-established religions tend to work this way. And if we look closer and listen carefully, we will see that even the most dogmatic and strict of religious followers have in fact their own interpretation of their religion, tailored to fit the personal ‘demands’ of the follower’s mind and to ‘justify’ or explain or validate why one exists the way one does and why the world is as we know it.


The modern version of self-religion, which many will call ‘conscious living’, works in the same way: 
it serves the validation of the follower’s mind, and is thus a tool of and for self-righteousness, a tool that does not place the individual in the context of reality as a whole, as this world we all share, but instead considers only the individual’s mental bubble of reality as self-interest, which is basically an already preordained, preprogrammed ‘picture’ or ‘symbol’ ABOUT reality, an interpretation created through a lifetime of ‘education’ i.e. brainwashing through the fears, desires and beliefs each one was ‘raised’ with, through schools, culture, society, peers, religions – the entirety of the world’s systems.


Within this, one is in no way able to take into consideration or even at all investigate the consequences / outflows / effects of one’s existence on the Whole.

What is forming consciousness about the different ways of ‘conscious living’? Is it not the capitalist corporations promoting their products and services through media, movies, ads? In a system where money as profit determines and dictates the direction and even the results of scientific research as well as the selective publication of ‘knowledge’: what is promulgated as ‘conscious living’ can only be but another part of the system, created to satisfy the trigger-happy consciousness of the human psyche.


How effectively ecological can any agricultural products really be in an environment where for instance genetically manipulated crops are utilized? Does the seed that travels with the wind know barriers? Is there really anything that is untouched by the corporate manipulated genes of profit and greed? 
Organic products have also reached the point of mass production, but are offered at a higher price for bigger wallets. So we are basically accepting that only those with money are able to pursue a lifestyle of ‘conscious living’, since the rest of the world cannot afford it, and some are even left to survive on what the money-holders throw away. 
We cannot delude ourselves into thinking we are 'going green' or 'doing the right thing' unless we take on the entire system that allows for consumerism, abuse and exploitation and the whole con of the current money-system.


Or take for instance the point of recycling: While people are motivated to recycle as this being the ‘right thing’ to do, and while money and time and energy is invested in recycling, in fact more energy is used/wasted than gained in the process, and in many cases most waste ends up being mixed up again, which makes  the whole process of waste organisation superfluous. So here again the point seems to be to trick the consumer consciousness into thinking and believing one is ‘doing the right thing’ or even contributing to a ‘better world’, while in fact all currently existent lifestyle options are part of the system, created by the system in way that ensures the recreation of the system.




So what can we do for and as actual conscious living?


First of all we have to get to self-honesty about what it is we are participating in and why; become aware of the ‘hidden motives’ behind one’s consumption patterns for instance. What do we buy? Why? How are the products we buy being created? Investigate their creation process from beginning to end. Who profits? How is the product or service selling and why? What are we actually buying into? And what drives us to the desire for a product, a lifestyle or a service? What are we compensating for? Does a product/service and our participation in it change anything within the bigger picture? And what would it take to make an actual difference in the world system as such?


Investigate the equal money system and its base principle: Equality and Oneness as Life. 
Explore the practical common sense research, considerations and suggestions discussed on the equal money forum and start debunking the current system through questioning your own motives, fears and desires from the perspective of how one’s own existence and participation contributes to this world as we know it. 


What would it take to create an entirely new system that actually nurtures life, instead of feeding off of life like the current socio-economic system of consumerism, consumption and con science? 
What will it take for us to stop placing profit before life, to stop exploiting life out of fear of scarcity, to stop thinking only in selfish terms trapped in a self-consciousness of greed and degradation, and start factually expanding our awareness to encompass all life including planet Earth and all our fellow Earthlings!?


Why are we accepting the belief that there is no other way? Why do we keep blaming the ‘big brothers’  when on the other hand we embrace the ‘treats’ we are being offered, hoping that the next ‘top thing’ will finally bring us the health, wealth, stealth we desire to become so that we may become ‘bigger’, ‘better’, ‘more desirable’!?


Isn’t it time we stop making objects out of ourselves, stop selling ourselves to the systems, stop buying into bright shiny things, stop being driven like happiness machines!