As long as we stay within the rules of the matrix, it largely leaves us alone and we can experiment and/or play endlessly. However, when we start looking for the exit, various possibilities are put in our way.
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Since “C” at the latest, we have been living in an age that has cultivated anger and raised it to an academic level.
Anger unites!
No matter about which group, against which group.
Everywhere you look, you can find nicely prepared topics around which you can gather and unload your resentment and frustration towards the other side.
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Just imagine that you’re bored, you haven’t been getting any initiatives for quite a while, and you feel as though your life lacks excitement. Afterwards you discuss it with a friend and you get an earth shattering idea: You’ll build a labyrinth with all the possible fine tuning so as not to make it dull. There’s a little something for everyone: action, darkness, horror, chaos, temptation, provocation, challenge, seduction, distortion… Word about your labyrinth spreads around. On the opening day people are already queuing up in front of the cash desk. Everybody wants to try it out, everybody is just crazy about getting lost, not knowing where he is, getting really scared and pretending as though they are frightened. Your labyrinth has flourished into a huge amusement park. And it’s the same every day, the same queues lining up in front of the entrance. New levels of difficulty are constantly being built in so that those who have already experienced it-once again have got something new and unexpected to go through. But, all of sudden, it starts to get unbearable for some. They might have overestimated their capabilities. They’ve chosen a level of difficulty too high for themselves or wanted to get the biggest kick right away. They’ve been lost for several days. They’re stuck and no one is on the way to help them. And why should they? It’s just a game, what could possibly go wrong? On the insides and outsides of the labyrinth you can see different scenarios taking place. While families and friends are forming search parties or are getting ready to storm the labyrinth, others are still waiting in line to experience it. The people in charge are trying to lure the lost ones out of hiding, but they’re not reacting because they’re scared and don’t trust anyone anymore. What to do? Rebuild the haunted house into a pleasant room where only soothing sounds can be heard and where every nook and cranny has got plenty of light? What about those on the outside, who bought tickets in advance or maybe even, got them on the black market? Sometimes I compare our lives to a labyrinth. But the most significant difference between a labyrinth in an amusement park is that we don’t know how we got into it. We don’t remember going through an entrance or paying admission fees. We often think that we don’t have a clear goal in our life. Contrary to a maze we actually don’t know where we are going – there doesn’t seem to be any real exit or an end to it. We sometimes don’t realize anymore that we find ourselves in this complexity of countless ways and dead ends. And while we are in them, every now and then we run straight against a wall or get distracted by numerous “attractions” which we encounter along the way. A hall of mirrors that reveals us in the most obnoxious of deformations, grins and poses which every once in a while scare us, making us tremble. We are prone to identifying ourselves with what we see at the moment, instead of taking a few steps back with a smiling face and detaching ourselves from the intentionally distorted images and returning to our own true nature. When we are already caught in this labyrinth we can see it as a challenge, a training course, an adventure or a game. Be it a very nice and well constructed maze we can still lose our courage for a short time, we can still give up, we can still doubt and not know which way is up and down or left and right. We regret the moment we set foot into this labyrinth, we curse the moment when we got the idea to engage in this complicated and entangled adventure. Were we not ashamed and scared of being laughed at by our family and friends we would long ago have yelled: “Please, get me out of here!” or “I can’t find the exit, can you please show me the way?” or “it’s too dark, I’m scared, can someone please turn on the light” or “I’m so alone and lost, I’m scared and don’t know anything anymore – please help me, don’t leave me alone…” or “I’ve had enough of this so called fun, I don’t want to do this anymore, I’ve had enough, please show me how to get out of here…” and … if we aren’t currently located in a super modern, state of the art and computerised compound, where just a single press of a button on a specially designed wristband will suffice to connect us with the command centre in order to open the door, if we think that we have no one to rely on but ourselves during the whole course of the maze – not to forget that this is naturally a part of the game – we have no way of knowing whether our cries of despair will be heard, if they’ll find their way to some opened ears. The question that presents itself is, how desperate do we have to get, how much of our strength and nerves do we have to lose, how many times do we have to take the same way or run around in circles before we are ready to cry for help or to just stand still to look around and think if the exit is truly that which we are searching for or if our concepts of its appearance and shape aren’t exactly that which is preventing us from seeing it even though it’s right in front of our nose. Maybe it will suffice if we just take off a special type of glasses from our eyes in order to see that it’s all just unreal, a virtual world, a game in which we’ve gotten so entangled, a type of hologram that can vanish by the press of a button. Maybe…. But, whatever…. We can look at life as a
The book Consciousness Training – Human Paradox written by Kristina Hazler describes in vivid and various stories and interviews big and small daily troubles. These interviews – as a synonym of exchange and communication – take place on various consciousness levels and accompany the readers on adventurous and fascinating way of our own awakening and self-knowledge. In her book author describes very personally and illustratively the possibilities of more conscious recognition of ourselves and our own lives. In her stories this successful author and consciousness trainer take us for exciting trip in order to understand and know ourselves. She leads us to discovery of deep and dark parts of human soul. This way is full of stress and the readers of this book will “feel” and “experience” it, too. Kristina Hazler recorded her own experiences she experienced in altered states of consciousness, in which the daily consciousness and common human sense, as well as human blocks don’t block a free thought flow. In the form of diary she thinks of various exciting experiences with hunger strike, describes the dreams, wishes, desires and fear and after all she address the question what will happen with a man, when he needn’t do nothing more, when he has no obligations, when one day the mind will „stop“? What to do or how it is when we needn’t do nothing more? Will our existence end or shall we be broken to parts inside? In this book also many other interesting questions of daily life occur and are literally washed to the surface – for example if disorientated man doesn’t follow in his life a course given him by other people, with which he is not identified and which brings him no real joy. Or why in our society the earning of money and serious life has the highest priority. Is such unsatisfactory life really right and meaningful? What are people driven to by their many negative personal experiences? What are they expressing then – and are they capable, with regard to their needy shape/state, of experiencing and understanding more? With her quite different way of view from totally changed visual angle Kristina Hazler helps us in her „human paradox“ to see and experience the problems in rather different way – mainly the eternal problem “to must” and tries to find answers for other questions: “Don’t the words „to must“ and „to need“ themselves keep this world in motion? Who does assign certain subjects their importance? It seems like just the people are more or less important. We live in a world full of false illusions? And what should we do with all the negative experiences – „mud” of past, which had been stuck on us for long time, how can we get it to the surface and how to handle it? An impression occurs that a man moves all his life on a stage full of illusions – everything in his life is getting faster and rotates faster and faster. The hopeless and busy people are trying to survive this tempo. Anyway, beyond this role played by people in their lives everything moves in its own time, with its own velocity as if vitality, joy and harmony rule in life. Because the right and true principle we find in quite different perspective and frequency. Sooner or later each of us will experience the “time of awakening“. The author says that each man meets also the situations not corresponding with his current state of consciousness and development – first of all with his personal experiences, in which even the little things can be important. Nothing in our lives is accidental – all the life consists of experiences and knowledge. Each event needs its own tempo, way and time being characteristic for specific man. At the same time our bodies and souls undergo continuous transformation. The author says:„We should experience and learn consciously we are still ourselves. This fact forms a man, his individuality and his diversity“. „Paradox in life is that no paradox exists.“ Review of the book: “Consciousness Training – Human Paradox” ( from the german Original „Bewusstseins Coaching – Das menschliche Paradoxon“ ) Autor of review – Horst Exler
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