The Principle Behind What We See
The question: What was the real illusion that caused so many to think that the comet Elenin would bring great destruction by now?
We received a wide variety of answers on this from a literal interpretation of doomsday Bible predictions, to people feeling helpless – having little power over events, to those seeking authority from an external god, to wanting to see those they dislike punished, to how we are programmed etc.
A lot of our illusions and other flaws have their origins in past lives. We may not have our memories when we are reborn but many of our basic impulses carry over.
We do not realize how good we have it in this age and how much things have changed. Through most of our recorded history average people lived in fear of catastrophic happenings.
Today if there is crop failure in Kansas they just import what they need from somewhere else that had good weather. But in the old says a famine created mass starvation. It was just 150 years ago that one million people died from the Irish Potato Famine. Even today there are still many millions starving in various parts of the world.
Very few of us lived in freedom in our past lives and had to deal with a king or tyrant who had power over our lives.
In other words, many of us faced the end of our personal world many times in our past lives. This has got to have a strong influence on us in the present and cause the consciousness of many to contemplate some type of apocalypse.
That said the group did a great job of describing influences that lead to doomsday illusions, but no one has described the principle.
Think… what is the principle involved?
All these influences the group mentioned push the pilgrim toward illusion, but what actually makes him see and choose illusion over reality? What principle explains it?
Again, we had some good comments and insights that went something like this:
“It must be a corrupted perception of the world and in that perception the whole truth is not seen, like when we do not see the whole truth about our past lives… They see what they expect to see and find evidence to support it whether it is true or not… We accept the illusion because that is what we want to see…. Inertia… We see ourselves as victims… the Pendulum Principle, where the persons current understanding of the truth is at one of the extremes”
Several answers received pointed to the core principle which is:
“You find what you are looking for.”
If we find what we are looking for then why in the world are so many looking for doom, destruction and gloom rather than creation, joy and prosperity?
Have you found yourself being guilty of this misdirection yourself?
What is the key to shifting our attention toward the good, the beautiful and the true?
Is such a shift really possible when every day we read and hear from associates about events and situations that indicate calamity may be around the corner?
What is the difference between finding what you are looking for and finding what you are looking at?
Again, the group gave an impressive response to my questions. Unfortunately, I do not have time to itemize them and comment but will attempt to paint an overall picture.
As we said earlier, each of us has lived many lives and in the past our lifetimes were a much greater struggle for survival than they are today. I know life is difficult enough today, but in the past we had to worry about losing our heads if we said the wrong thing, losing our possessions through conquest or tyranny, losing our freedom etc. Despite our problems, we really have it good today compared to times past.
In addition to deep-seated feelings from past lives there are other influences.
Religion is a big one and influences many, even a few that aren’t that religious. But those who are strong in a faith take prophecies of doom much more seriously.
The problem is that most of the world scriptures talk about some type of end of the world scenario. If one takes the Book of Revelation literally and think that the time of fulfillment is near then doom and gloom will indeed be his lot.
Islam expects the coming of a great savior, the Imam Mahdi, who will appear coinciding with great destruction. Many think the Jewish state must be destroyed first.
A problem which many of the religious do not consider is that numerous writers of religious works were strongly influenced by a negative thought form themselves. When reading the New Testament with an open mind it becomes obvious that they expected some type of end of the world, not now, 2000 years later, but in their day.
Do you see any visionaries in this day making end of the world predictions for the year 4000 and beyond? No one even thinks that far ahead.
Even so, in the first century I can assure you that 2000 years in their future was not even in their minds. Their concept of time was more limited than ours. Most thought like Paul who said: “we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord…” I Thess 4:15
Most of the early Christians thought the end of the world was near and they would live through it to see the coming of Christ in glory.
This mistake has been repeated decade after decade, century after century since then.
Later Christian sects had this same problem. The Mormons, the Adventists, the Jehovah Witnesses and others all thought they would see the end of the world and coming of the Lord in their lifetime. This occurred at the foundation of these sects and this belief continues with their members today.
It is interesting that this religious type gloom and doom is not restricted to believers in God. Many atheists and agnostics have fallen into this trap with a religious type belief in an environmental apocalypse that borders on the fanatical.
Al Gore has scared the unthinking and little kids as much as any old time preacher has with the fires of hell. His illustrations of how global warming will submerge many of our cities and lands underwater and destroy thousands of species is terrifying to those who love Mother Earth.
Then in 2006 he said we have only 10 years left to solve the problem: Drastic global action to reduce greenhouse gases was needed within 10 years or the planet would reach an irreversible “point of no return” with escalating calamities.
Fortunately, the data does not back him up but the media falls behind him just as the old-time media did with the doom and gloom preachers not that long ago.
Many of these environmentalists see humans as a virus that mother nature wants to destroy to heal itself. Some feel that there is only room for a few million people and all will be destroyed except for a handful of purists. Of course, the true believers think they will qualify to remain here after the polluters are destroyed.
I talked with a member of the Sierra Club a while back and he was expecting an end to the civilized world in the near future. He seemed to think he would happily live in the wild on berries or something and not be affected by it.
This thinking is indeed prevalent. And why? The reason lies deeper than the influence of scriptures, writings and teachers. Those caught up in such things are usually frustrated with the life they are living. They see the situation as it is now as hell and want it turned into a heaven. They are powerless to make earth heaven by their own power [so they think] so they expect God or Mother Nature to do it for them. All the bad things will be destroyed and replaced with the new.
For the heavenly world to make its appearance the present world must be destroyed. Therefore, what do the true believers look for?
They look for signs of destruction for such signs also means that a heavenly new creation will shortly follow.
The principle involved is that we find what we look for, and if we eagerly await destruction of those we do not like then that is what we look for and signs of such is also what we see.
We had gone through a small space of time when there were no major threatening planetary alignments or signs in the heavens when Elenin was discovered. Normally the discovery of a fairly insignificant comet would be no big deal, but then someone posted alarm and predictions of doom around this followed by statements that NASA was covering up the fact that it was a red dwarf that was doomed to destroy us.
Instead of checking out valid scientific data on this, which was readily available, those who were looking for signs saw this as a sign the end was near. Soon the internet was ablaze with misinformation about this comet.
I found the noted Coast to Coast science advisor, Richard C. Hoagland’s comments on Elenin interesting. He is an educated and intelligent man but has certain mindsets and always finds what he is looking for. For instance, he believes there were ancient civilizations on Mars and the moon and in almost every picture he studies he sees remnants of ancient structures. I look at the same pictures and see structures that are most probably natural formations.
Well, George Noory asked him what he thought of the Elenin predictions. Being an actual scientist, he had to admit it was just a couple miles in diameter and was far from being any red dwarf. He could see the chances of it causing any destruction were slim. But when this guy looks at anything long enough he always finds something very odd – because that is what he is looking for.
After studying Elenin he found what he considered as too many oddities to be a normal comet and determined that it was some probe sent here by aliens. It might be here to cause destruction or maybe just to study us and we should find out soon.
Elenin has now came and gone from its closest approach to the earth and there is no sign that it is an alien manufactured device. Hoagland has since moved on to other subjects.
The fact remains that Elenin is a small comet having a miniscule probability of having any effect on us.
Seeing anything else is merely the result of seeing what one looks for.
Never get on another man’s island without your own boat. – E. J. Applewhite
Oct 1, 2011
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