Ideology comes from within – part III

Last Updated on August 1, 2016 by Patrick

Ok, so in the last part of this series I’ve talked a little about the reactionary mind and how it functions. I’m now going to detail this subject because I think it’s crucial, paramount to understand it. Without this, we would always be slaves to our thoughts and above all, we would be very easily manipulated because of the lack of understanding and the lack of changing one’s own way of thinking. Ideology still comes from within like blindfolded solutions that have nothing to do with people whatsoever even though it may apparently have.

In the Buddhist doctrine there is a very beautiful allegory about the mind being similar to a quiet lake and all of the information that we receive from the so-called outside world are like stones thrown in the lake. These stones stir water waves that go from the center point where the stone entered the water of the lake to its periphery. These waves are the results of receiving the stones, or, in our case with the mind, the information like it is, without questioning it, without verifying it and thus it transforms into ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and above all ways of being. If we are fed lies during our childhood years and we believe them, they can become philosophies of life for us. We act, feel and think accordingly. So where is the mindful freedom? Actually, it’s nowhere to be found within us. People, we often neglect the profoundity of our minds. What was true decades ago, now it turns out to be a lie. So why are we still clinging to past ideologies?

Many “isms” evolved and entered the inactive periods in our world and now we face the fast paced so-called century of technology believing that the machines can make us happy. So if happiness is what we look for why do we look for it outwardly?

Let us just take the example of the industrial revolution. It was meant to cope with population growth and provide for every individual of the society but nevertheless it failed to do so and nowadays there are more hungry people in this world than ever before. Why? Because of the fascination with the technological progresses and the greed of other hungry fellows that were granted huge powers and control over many. These are the very rich few individuals that inhabit this world along with us. But who granted them such powers? The rest of us did by allowing them to get them.

Other “isms”, or let’s just call them ideologies, infested other realms of human life. Let us take the example of evolutionism that nowadays invaded even the realms of spirituality and today we can hear many people bottled within this “ism” talking about the origins of life on Earth, the origins of man and about God, about love, about wellbeing, about the source of happiness and abundance mingled with the Big Bang idea, with the fact that Earth was created through a catastrophy between the already created planet and a piece of another destroyed planet that traveled through space and hit our planet and this way Planet Earth (Terra) was made, and also about the fact that they still think that man came from apes, from monkeys and so on. Why do we always mingle old lies with doctrines that suppose to be new? Why do we mix the spiritual paths with fantasies created by reactionary minds of the 18th century?

So what are the characteristics of the reactionary mind? First of all, this kind of mind is a weakened mind, and this, actually, speaks everything about it. It is weakened because the people that have it never in their lives, or probably never protected their minds from information that were not supposed to get, or from too much information, they didn’t do their so-called spiritual hygiene and now they react to everything.

The next characteristic is that it is vengeful, meaning it revenges on everyone and everything that comes in its path and never forgives nor forgets. This is a dangerous kind of mind and it’s the actual mind of the creator of all of the world’s “isms”. If we think, for example, that comunism, nazism, fascism, evolutionism or the industrial revolutionism are gone, we should think again, because they are far from gone. In my country there is a expression that says “the wolf changes its skin, but not its habit”. So, like I said, these ideologies can also infest other aspects of life. Many people nowadays think that the next world war will be fought with information, with mind manipulations and psychic assaults and so on, not with actual physical weapons, therefore not with weapons of mass distruction but with weapons of mass distraction. Just a letter off in the word and we got it. ;)

Another characteristic of the reactionary mind is that it’s skeptical. It never believes nor trust anything or anybody. It’s also a matter of self-trust, self-reliance and self-respect. This kind of mind is a mind that likes to mingle many information about many things trying to associate them together, to compare one with the other in order to see if some of them, or all, are true. Comparizon is the modus operandi of this aspect of the mind which is an out-of-its-place aspect. It doesn’t have anything to do with the given information, ultimately. In this aspect, the thinker likes to also deny the truth and modify it to his or her unconscious liking. If these kind of thinkers are non-believers, they are also truth adulterers transforming the initial information into lies, by ways of fantasies. In this way the initial information that was true, it ultimately becomes a lie. Try to spread the word about something that you heard about some of your friends, for example, and you will see that in the end, when the news comes back to you it will be distorted in some way or totally.

Ok, so why do I say that ideologies can infest? Because I think they are like informational viruses. A virus is a DNA molecule wrapped around a protein capsule. That DNA is a text, a message and every biologist knows this. Also, a virus is not quite a living being because it cannot spread, reproduce by itself, it needs a host to do it for it. The protein capsule provides its protection from the gastric acid, for example, so it can bypass this “security system” very easily, so it can then be absorbed in the bloodstream a little later invading the organism’s cells. Then it will be included within the cell in order to go to the nucleus and modify its DNA molecules with its own. This way, the organism acts according to the “program” of the virus’ DNA. But why isn’t it destroyed by the imune system of the organism? Why is it received in the cells like it’s their own? Something must trigger this kind of behaviour. It does, unfortunately! :| The mind and first of all, the thinkers behind the thoughts make what the organism is, make how the organism behaves. I think that every biological or informational virus (both from the IT realm and from the ideological realm) is created by us, by the thinkers, feelers and actors, so to speak. Every physical molecule is, therefore, the result of a way of thinking, feeling and acting. It must be! Because this is their origin, this is what generates and triggers them to act and spread. So, ultimately the creation, the virus, the text, comes back to its creator.

But keep in mind this one thing, we all have a reactionary mind. It’s not like others have it and we don’t, we are clean and don’t have anything to do with it. Remember! It all comes back to us. ;) This is the clue to understanding why ideologies happen to us, why are we conditioned by our fellow men that try to impose on us their own creed systems.

Anyways, how can we transform our mind from a reactionary one to a healthy, strong and reflective mind, always questioning and being opened to the present moment? First of all we must stop thinking when and where we shouldn’t be thinking. Second of all, I think, we must always question the authority of every information that reaches us. And third of all we must select what information comes us. The great Greek philosopher Socrates used to say “is it true, is it good and is it useful?”, if not, why bother?

In conclusion, ideologies are waste products, ultimately, like biochemical free radicals. They’re half-truths, so to speak and can never provide for every aspect of our life. They can never replace the present moment.