Some years back I had my first chance to question reality after reading a book by Vance Packard titled “The Hidden Persuaders.” The author told of the ability of skilled advertisers to use subliminal messages to influence people to buy certain products.

Admittedly, Packard’s exploration of mass mind control in his time was narrow in its scope, but the book helped me understand how easy it is to dupe large numbers of people, even entire nations, into believing anything you wanted them to. Adolf Hitler was a master at this kind of stuff. Numerous other world leaders have successfully tricked their followers into accepting lies as truth. Even George W. Bush succeeded at it for a while, and some people still believe we have valid reasons for being at war in Afghanistan and Iraq, even today.

When we are at war, think of how our government’s propaganda machine goes to work on the way we perceive the enemy. Notice how effectively we have painted the bearded Muslim as an evil terrorist. The brainwashing has been so well done since 9-11 that all Muslim people, even valid U. S. citizens, are under constant suspicion. Some report having difficulty boarding aircraft for routine travel.

Before that the Serbs were characterized as mass killers who murdered thousands of innocent Kosovo men, women and children. Our media compared them to Hitler and the Nazi regime. During World War II the Germans were characterized as evil, goose-stepping soldiers who were mechanically following a madman with a little square bush moustache and a slash of hair drawn over the right side of his forehead named Hitler. To this day, that type of moustache is rarely seen.

The Japanese soldiers were depicted by editorial cartoonists of that day as cross-eyed, buck-toothed little people who looked too silly to have been any danger to anybody.

Today, however, our perspective of the Japanese, and the Germans, is much different than it was in 1942.

Our point is that people can be easily controlled through skilled conditioning, and made to believe almost anything the leaders want them to believe. Our understanding of the tendency to manipulate the mindset of people makes us natural skeptics when it comes to believing even the most dramatic of events. Thus we tend to question everything, even the facts behind the 9-11 attacks because there appears to be intended motive designed to strip Americans of Constitutional freedoms.

During my years as a journalist, I practiced a basic rule when gathering information for a news report. When there was a disagreement, we always heard both sides of the argument, then looked somewhere in the middle to find balance.

Contemporary author, the late Robert Anton Wilson described what he called “tunnel reality” in his Cosmic Trigger trilogy. Tunnel reality is the way Wilson claimed most people perceive the world around them. He said we tend to look with one eye through a long dark tube (think of a cardboard toilet paper roll) and accept what is visible to us at the other end as our world. We reject expanding the vision by opening the other eye.

Why do we do this? Wilson believes that there are two primary reasons: (1.) we are molded from childhood by parents, the church and our schools to accept a cultural belief system approved by the tribe, and (2.) we are conditioned to be fearful of looking beyond the comfortable little world we are taught to accept as our reality.

Unfortunately, we live in a fear-based culture. We are afraid of death. We are afraid that if we violate the rules established by the church, we will be condemned to spend an eternity in hell. We are afraid of not having money and will do anything, even lie, cheat and steal to get it. We are fearful of pain and suffering so we cling to a terrible job that provides health insurance rather than break from the pack. We are afraid to take a chance, to quit that boring routine that provides a regular pay check and security. Consequently, few of us ever get a chance to follow our bliss.

Most people are conditioned from the moment they enter this world to be slaves to the few who run it. All people who work those dull jobs for meager wages, and are satisfied with going home at night and consuming a six-pack while letting their minds be further dulled by television athletic events, are no more than servants of the taskmasters. They have no original thought. They are so conditioned they would never consider changing their situation.

The few who dare to break from this mold, to open the other eye and look beyond the dark tunnel, enter a brave new world that leads to fantastic freedom. These are the people who sometimes become the kings; the ones who are masters of the sea of blinded slaves. They also risk becoming the persecuted ones, targeted by the pack for daring to be different. 

Some examples of such contemporary persecutions come to mind. I think of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Dr. Timothy Leary, Jessie Ventura and even Charles Manson to name a few. Ventura is the only one of the four who did not go to prison, but he once made himself a target when he dared to publicly proclaim the church "a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." It took guts to say something like that.

I also believe that the troubled human condition goes beyond what I have said so far. We are not simply three-dimensional beings. There is a fourth dimension to our existence. It is a spiritual realm from which we came and to which we still are closely linked. But our ties there are pushed down into the subconscious. Most people never think about it at all. But it is real, and it has a profound effect on everything that happens to us. It even affects the way we think.

As I have written before, there appears to exist a spiritual conspiracy, supported by entities in sub-space who play with our minds and keep us restrained.

Why would they do this? Could it be because sub-space beings are afraid of what we might become if the human race ever wakes up to discover its full potential. As allegedly stated by the Elohim after Adam and Eve tasted of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, “Behold, the man is become as one of us . . .” Indeed, with both eyes open and both sides of our bicameral brain functioning at full throttle, we find the god within us. We become the creators of our own universe.

We have been fooled for thousands of years by various religions that would have us looking outside of ourselves for a grandfatherly god in the sky who looks down over his creation, and manipulates our lives. This is a lie. The truth is that that God has always been in us. Anyone who has a soul possesses a spark; a piece of the light that collectively is God.

Scientists know that we humans only use a small fraction of our bicameral brain when we go about our daily routines. Few humans like Einstein, Plato, Aristotle and other great thinkers have gone much higher. Most of us live our full lives using only the left side of our brain. So why were we given such large brains if we don't use them?  Indeed, that question has baffled us for a long time. Is it possible that we have been blocked from evolving to a state of godhood that is supposed to be our destiny?

Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that everything we think is true about good and evil is a lie. What if there is no heaven or hell, no good or bad, no light or dark. What if, as I have suggested in past writings and based upon personal out-of-body visits with sub-space, death is actually a passing from this physical earthly body to a spiritual realm and that there is no end to our existence?

If this were true, then everything we believe today is a lie. By accepting the fear-based theology of the religion we believe we must follow, we have managed to enslave ourselves in a way no human despot could ever have imagined.