Author Archives: Jon Rappoport

LOGIC AND PSYCHIATRY

 

LOGIC AND PSYCHIATRY

 

JULY 19, 2011. First, an appeal to long-time readers. Back in the day, I offered a product called INFOMONSTER. It was a CD that contained miles of my work. I need it now for a project in the making. If you have one, please contact me at qjrconsulting@gmail.com

 

Okay.

 

One of the basic rules of logic is: define your terms. This particularly applies to science. We can talk all day, but if we don’t know what the basic words and terms mean, we’re hopelessly lost.

 

To get rigorous, a further step is needed when it comes to scientific definition: how did you arrive at it? Where did the definition come from? What experiments were done to support it?

 

IF YOU ARE A SCIENTIFIC PROPAGANDIST, which is a whole other game, involving deception—you often have to PRETEND to have clear and good definitions of terms.

 

That’s your job. You’re not doing science, you’re persuading people. You’re trying to slip vague terms past them. You’re claiming these terms are very useful. You’re claiming they represent breakthroughs.

 

In short, you’re saying non-science is science.

 

Think about this. In the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), which is the bible of the psychiatric profession, there are 297 separate mental disorders, each one with its own name and definition.

 

The DSM is offered as a highly useful map. But where does it lead?

 

As I’ve explained and documented in prior articles (click here and here and here), not one of these 297 disorders is diagnosed by a biological or chemical test of any kind. No such tests exist.

 

Instead, lists of behaviors form the basis for the disorder-labels, which are hashed out by committee.

 

This would be comparable to physicists sitting down in a room and deciding, by debate, whether electrons are real.

 

So, in psychiatry, we have a new kind of language, and this language claims to be science.

 

We have 297 new terms, which are used in very strange ways.

 

They are said to refer to actual mental (brain) malfunctions, and yet there is no proof offered.

 

Bipolar. Clinical depression. ADHD. ADD. Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Labels—but no unambiguous diagnostic tests.

 

So how does the propagandist proceed? He uses the fact that people experience quite real suffering, confusion, and pain, and he implies that the 297 mental-disorder labels a) cover the waterfront of human anguish and b) break up the territory of that anguish into distinct sub-areas.

 

By doing this, he achieves a bonanza for the profession of psychiatry. It works.

 

A parent will say, “My child lacks focus. He can’t concentrate. He fidgets all the time. There is something wrong. I’m upset, I can’t figure out what to do with him.”

 

On this foundation of fact, the propagandist builds a little castle in the air called ADHD. And the parent accepts the term as a real designation for her child, because it seems to provide an answer in four quick letters: ADHD. And those letters are pronounced by a licensed “professional” with great surety.

 

But on looking closer, we see that “ADHD” is a stretching of language. It is a term that claims to be science, and yet no scientific proof is offered. It is supposed to be shining a spotlight on the activity of the brain, but there is no common-denominator brain malfunction among all the millions of children diagnosed with ADHD.

 

ADHD is promoted as a discrete and real THING, but there is no evidence that such a thing exists at all.

 

I have pointed this out many times to parents, and the usual response is, “But if ADHD isn’t real, then why is my child out of control?”

 

This response testifies to the power and success of the propaganda. The parent can’t even imagine that her child’s difficulty could exist UNLESS IT HAS A NAME, A TITLE, A LABEL.

 

It’s as if a person can’t believe he owns a car unless he thinks of it as a VW or a Honda or a Chevy. Without one of those labels, the car doesn’t exist.

 

Consider this statement: Many years ago, after much trial and error, humans finally learned how to fly. Planes were built. They got off the ground. This is the way science works. Through experiments. In the same way, scientists have, so far, discovered 297 mental disorders. These disorders are caused by brain malfunctions, and they all have names.

 

A completely false analogy.

 

But once you have the 297 mental-disorder labels in your pocket, you can then work backwards and analyze human behavior and apply those labels to aspects of it.

 

And once you do that, people want to hold on to those labels. They want to wear them. They want “the treatment,” but just as important, they want to know what label they fit into.

 

Which of these statements do you think a parent would accept more readily?

 

One: Your child’s ADHD may actually be caused by a serious nutritional deficit, which can be remedied.

 

Two: Your child doesn’t have ADHD, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Nobody has ADHD. It doesn’t exist. Your child may well have a nutritional deficit, and this can be corrected.

 

Obviously, One is the preferred statement. It keeps the label. That label has acquired great value.

 

It has great value, in concrete terms, for pharmaceutical companies, too, because they can sell a drug to “treat the label.” For every one of the 297 labels, there are several drugs.

 

The label has great value for the psychiatrist, as well, because he can make a diagnosis. He can then write the prescription that leads to the drug. If he couldn’t do these two things, he would be out of business.

 

“What do you do for a living?”

 

“People come to my office and I apply labels to them. The labels are fictions. I then use those fictions to dispense drugs.”

 

To close the circle of propaganda, you would have something like this: “Well, some serious charges are being brought against psychiatry here. I think we need an expert opinion. Let’s talk to a professional in the field, a psychiatrist, and see what he thinks.”

 

Which is, of course, how the low-IQ major media operate.

 

This is the living equivalent of what, in logic, is called a circular argument. First, self-appointed authorities invent and apply the labels. Second, to confirm these labels are based on anything real, reporters consult the same authorities, who offer arrogant assurance they’re doing actual science.

 

Media consider this a valid way to do journalism.

 

If it’s valid, my uncle’s pet parakeet is flying to the moon in a model airplane.

 

JON RAPPOPORT

An investigative reporter for 30 years, Jon is the author of an 18-lesson course, LOGIC AND ANALYSIS. To learn more about the course, click here.

Jon is the associate producer on a film in progress, American Addict, detailing the effects of pharmaceuticals on the US population.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

 

NEW STRATEGY IN THE NUTRITION WAR

 

NEW STRATEGY IN THE NUTRITION WARS!

 

JULY 19, 2011. Well, well. We might just have something here!

 

A few days ago, I wrote a piece (link) detailing the current threat to nutritional supplements posed by:

 

the FDA NIDA Guidelines 2011,

 

the Food Safety Modernization Act 2011,

 

and the new Dick Durbin bill now in committee (S.1310 – Dietary Supplement Labeling Bill 2011).

 

I suggested strategies. One was: contact nutritional companies you do business with as a customer, and demand action on their part.

 

These companies are apparently convinced everything is all right and their trade organizations and lobbyists are doing a swell job representing them in Washington.

 

So one reader took me up on my suggestion. She called a supplement company and had an unpleasant conversation with a rep, who told her, guess what?

 

These matters are handled by nutritional trade organizations, and the Durbin bill is no threat, and she, the customer, is succumbing to scare tactics.

 

Really?

 

So my suggestion to her (and to you) is this: call your favorite nutritional company, and if you get such bland assurances, write an OPEN LETTER TO THAT NUTRITIONAL COMPANY and email it out far and wide and post it somewhere. In the letter, demand that the company explain exactly HOW AND WHY new FDA regulations, the Food Safety Law, and the Durbin bill are NO THREAT to them or us. Get it?

 

I have a feeling this would stir some action and finally open up the can of worms that has been festering under the surface.

 

As in: let’s drag the debate out in the open. Let’s put cards on the table. You bring your experts, I’ll bring mine.

 

Because you see, as far as I can tell, the main problem here is that the immediate targets of the FDA, Durbin, and the new Food Safety law—WHICH ARE THE NUTRITIONAL COMPANIES—don’t see this as a problem. Or don’t want to.

 

And as long as those companies are resting secure in their illusory nook, our side in the war is going to be at a major disadvantage.

 

Now, if you follow my advice, email me with specifics and details. I want to know how it’s working.

 

Click here for my prior article on the subject.

 

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

GOVERNMENT KILLING NATURAL HEALTH NOW

 

GOVERNMENT KILLING NATURAL HEALTH

 

HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT

 

re: FDA NIDA Guidelines 2011

re: Food Safety Modernization Act 2011

re: S.1310 Dietary Supplement Labeling Bill 2011

 

JULY 13, 2011. I just finished interviewing brilliant constitutional lawyer, Jonathan Emord, on my radio show. Emord has taken the FDA to court and beaten them eight times. No other attorney in America comes close.

 

So when Jonathan talks, I listen.

 

And I can tell you that the government is coming after your nutritional supplements. Again.

 

Update, 7/14/11: click here to listen to the interview with lawyer Jonathon Emord.

 

You need to listen to the full hour. Then, get the link out there to anyone who has a pulse.

 

The new approach to killing natural health is through the bogus issue of “safety.”

 

There are three vectors in the attack—the recently passed Food Safety Law, new FDA regulations, and a bill now in committee sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin.

 

They are all draconian. They use the issues of “good manufacturing practices” and “potentially unsafe ingredients.” The intention is to drive nutritional companies into the ground via a bureaucratic nightmare that involves inspections, charged fees, red tape, denying the use of many nutrients, and prosecutions.

 

Nutritional supplements are safest ingested products in the world. On the other hand, the pharma-system kills 106,000 Americans a year with its drugs. (See Starfield, JAMA, July 26, 2000, “Is US health really the best in the world?”, and, click here read my interview with Dr Starfield.)

 

In the next three years, you will see nutritional products disappearing from the shelves of your health food store, and then you will see a sudden escalation of that process, as funding for these government attacks swells.

 

The nutritional industry has been asleep at the wheel, scared, blithely wishful, and deferential to government regulators. It has displayed egregious weakness, and the FDA, which is an owned and operated subsidiary of the pharmaceutical business, has moved in for the kill—to eliminate its boss’s competition.

 

The trade groups that represent the nutritional industry are the most idiotic, fawning, and ineffective bunch of lobbyists Washington has ever seen. To them I say: if I’m wrong, prove it.

 

The only rescue and hope is a sustained and very aggressive grass roots campaign launched by millions of Americans, who want free access and free choice when it comes to their health.

 

There is at least one online petition circulating. I believe the best way to go is the old-fashioned way: letters and phone calls. Not emails. When they can delete anything delivered online with a click, they feel nothing. When they have to deal with phone calls and postal carriers delivering tons of letters, they are inconvenienced to the point where they know something is happening to them.

 

Flood them.

 

Make yourself known to your representatives, the FDA, and the White House.

 

In 1994, this worked. I was there. Slicker methods of communicating don’t necessarily mean better ways of communicating.

 

The difference between what I saw in 1994 and what I see now is the difference between a tiger on the move and a tiger asleep in a zoo cage.

 

We also need at least one nutritional company with deep pockets to pour finances into this campaign, and to enlist celebrities who care about natural health to step up to the plate and speak out. On television. Celebrities who will be listened to. It isn’t just a Twitter world.

 

Get the link to the Emord radio interview and this article out there.

 

In the last 15 years, since the explosive and partially successful Health Freedom movement, the public has been trained in Being Nice. This is operant conditioning. This is useless.

 

If you want continued access to all the elements of natural health, if you want the marketplace to reflect your needs and concerns, if you want freedom of choice, instead of a corporate statism, in which drug-based medicine will be the all-embracing, all-ruling monopoly it intends to become—step up.

 

To the degree that the White House has claimed it is an advocate for health, it is a complete and utter fraud. The president should make it clear these new FDA regulations and the Durbin bill will never see the light of day. And the DOJ should take steps to declare major sections of the Food Safety Law unconstitutional. Sorry, but one organic vegetable garden on the lawn of the White House is not enough.

 

But don’t hold your breath waiting for the federal government to bail us out.

 

If you’re a consumer of nutritional supplements, write to those companies you buy from and ask them directly what they plan to do about this attack. Demand answers. And don’t settle for “our lobbyists and trade organizations handle this for us.” That’s like saying “we have no answer.” Make it clear that as someone who spends dollars on their products, you expect action now—otherwise, you’ll take your business elsewhere.

 

If you know, or have connections to, celebrities who are advocates of natural health or rely on nutritional supplements, make every effort to contact them and alert them that their help is needed. Athletes are included as celebrities—many of them rely on supplements for health and performance.

 

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

 

FDA ATTACKING SUPPLEMENTS

 

FDA ATTACKING SUPPLEMENTS

 

JULY 12, 2011. You’ve probably seen the articles and the calls for action.

 

I went to the man who has beaten the FDA in court eight times.

 

Brilliant Constitutional lawyer, Jonathan Emord.

 

He’ll be on my radio show, tomorrow, Wednesday. 7PM Eastern Time.

 

To listen live: www.ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com

 

Archive: www.ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com/the-jon-rappoport-show

 

Tell your friends.

 

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

IN MY CONSTANT NEED

IN MY CONSTANT NEED

JULY 8, 2011. In my constant pressing need to examine false advertising and point the finger at high-IQ androids, and also to demonstrate that my attacks against the foundation of psychiatry are on the money, I recommend that:

the next time you see a shrink—whether in an office or at a cocktail party or an ATM or next to a dumpster or at a rocket launch or in a sushi joint or in the Sahara Desert, you ask him what unambiguous diagnostic tests exist to prove that the 297 listed official mental disorders are real.

Such tests would have to involve drawing blood or scanning the brain. They wouldn’t involve committee discussions in conference rooms among said high-IQ androids hashing over so-called reports or rumors or gossip.

See what happens. Take a chance.

And if the shrink does try to pawn off some nonsense about the existence of actual tests, call for the citations from published studies.

Give him your email address so he can send the cites your way.

Odds are you’ll never hear from him again, which is not a bad thing.

In the presence of a psychiatrist or a pediatrician, narrowing your focus, you could work the same gambit vis-a-vis autism. What is the unambiguous physical diagnostic test which defines and confirms a case? (Note: neurological damage is not the same thing as autism.)

I like to hammer on this issue (See my BIGGEST BULSHITTER IN AMERICA? post) because it wakes some people up. They believe it’s impossible that a whole profession could be lying through its teeth, until they look below the surface.

Analogy: A rocket is about to be launched into space with five astronauts on board. Pressed for a statement, the head of NASA says, “Well, we built this ship from the parts supplied by two hundred companies. We don’t actually know the names of the companies, and we’ve lost the specs for the parts, so we don’t know how well they were machined. We assembled the ship by forcing pieces together that didn’t fit.”

Beware: don’t fall for the “we’re doing the best we can” argument from shrinkoid types. You may counter with, “In that case, put a label on every bottle of drugs sold to treat these so-called disorders. WE’RE NOT POSITIVE THE THING-A-DOODLE FOR WHICH THIS DRUG IS THE REMEDY IS REAL.”

I’m all for honesty in advertising.

THIS PIECE OF CRAP MAY FALL APART IN TWO WEEKS IN YOUR KIDS HANDS.

WHILE DRIVING YOUR NEW CAR OUT OF THE LOT, SOMETHING MAY GO WRONG. RETURN TO POINT OF ORIGIN.

HEY, WE DIDN’T INTEND IT TO LAST FOREVER.

SO TRY TO SUE US. YOU CAN’T. THERE IS LAW AGAINST SUING A VACCINE MANUFACTURER FOR DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR CHILD. HA-HA.

And here’s a nice one. On July 3, 2000, Michael Connett, of the Fluoride Action Network, interviewed Dr. William J Hirzy, senior VP of EPA’s Headquarters Union, about the safety of fluorides. Hirzy asserted that tests on rodents fed fluorides turned up enough cancers to cause alarm. In fact, he stated, if the government hadn’t stepped in and downgraded the test findings (arbitrarily), sodium fluoride would have had to be labeled a carcinogen, in which case, that would have been the end of fluorides in drinking water. This, from an EPA chemist, blowing a very loud whistle.

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

A MYSTERY SCHOOL NOW

A MYSTERY SCHOOL NOW

BASIS OF MY CONSULTING

JULY 6, 2011. Since every motivation, plan, goal, ambition, desire and belief can be imagined, why not at least consider the possibility that imagination itself ought to be understood?

Imagination, after all, gives LIFE to goals and desires.

Without imagination, goals and desires tend to fade and lose their power over time.

Therefore, in my work with private clients, I focus on doing exercises and techniques which strengthen and expand the scope of imagination.

This is what power is actually all about.

Any goal can be broken down into a plan for its achievement, but the energy BEHIND the goal—imagination—is what needs to be brought into the foreground. It’s the star of the show.

Imagination is the core of a mystery school of the 21st century; but the mystery is right out in the open. Imagination has always been there, available. It has largely been ignored, because those who use it take it for granted, and those who don’t are in the dark about it.

After experimenting, it became clear to me that all protocols and systems and step-by-step programs that seek to target and enhance imagination are ultimately useless. They are sometimes counter-productive.

This is because imagination is not a structure to be taken apart. It is infinite and can operate in an infinite number of ways.

And the baby-step approach is deflating. It drains away energy instead of increasing it.

No, you have to “start from the top.” This means giving the imagination material to work on that is vivid and powerful and multidimensional. On this basis, starting some 20 years ago, I developed several different types of techniques—and each type naturally gives birth to a virtually unlimited number of exercises.

One of the outcomes of doing this kind of work is clarified perception about choice and freedom. I don’t mean muddled rumination about possible directions in life. When desire, imagination, and freedom meet, the ignited spark is unstoppable.

Everything else is compromise.

The world largely operates on compromise, the acceptance of which is said to be a sign of maturity. Well, lots of lies are floated to the masses. That’s one of them. Whole lives are frittered away on a staircase of successive surrenders.

The opposite end of the spectrum is profound desire, wide-ranging powerful imagination, and unambiguous freedom.

Of these three, imagination is the best avenue of approach. All the mysteries are solved there. All the energies are recovered there. All the magic is inherent there.

This is my position, and I’ve confirmed it many times in many ways. My e-book, The Secret Behind Secret Societies, reframes history to show that a tradition of imagination, like an invisible thread, runs through the past of this planet. It has diverted its course and has detoured around obstacles. But it has always remained alive, and now is its period to flower.

The baggage and the rubbish and the concealments and the diversions have been cleared away.

THE CENTURY OF IMAGINATION

The unspoken superhighway of history tells a story of the unshackling of imagination.

By the second half the 20th century, it became clear to many people that imagination had become unhooked from ideologies, metaphysical clap-trap, religion, the pretensions of psychology, and the juvenile materialistic philosophy coming out of science.

Finally, after centuries of work, imagination stood alone for all to see.

But few were ready to look.

Instead, they dove back into a jungle of spiritual symbology. They dove into a hodge-podge of resurrected ethnicity. They grasped at “revivals” of ancient cosmologies.

Nevertheless, IMAGINATION HAD EMERGED AS THE NORTH STAR.

It was no longer necessary to pretend that imagination was inevitably bound up in its products; which is to say, it was apparent that all the metaphysical meanderings which had taken place since the dawn of time were CREATIONS OF IMAGINATION, pure and simple.

So why not admit it?

Why not stop all the nonsense?

Why not confess that imagination is there for the individual? Infinitely.

Well, people were still obsessed with wrapping the individual in various flags and pennants of “something greater.” It was the old religious impulse reborn. The individual is just one atom in the super-atom of cosmic ding dong.

This cover story never goes away, and one just has to learn to live along side it.

This “something greater” is like recreational drugs. A thing to imbibe, a lot to talk about.

But there it was, imagination, the exposed gold centerpiece of alchemy. Finally. And people said, “Let’s go back to lead.”

In the middle of the 20th century, America was poised in the transition-moment from air flight to space flight. Technologically, imagination had won a great battle. More importantly, people with high intelligence were dreaming large dreams. A titanic future out there on the horizon—and if the journey into space were thrust into the center of human affairs, there would be jobs for virtually everyone, as a side effect of the dream.

And people KNEW that imagination was behind it all.

And then the dip into metaphysical molasses started all over again.

But…no matter. Because the mystery is out in the open.

For those who can see it and use it.

They will discover that every longing pointing to cosmos, illumination, enlightenment, transcendence is answered and fulfilled through imagination deployed. And every delusion is evaporated.

This is the true spiritual tradition of planet Earth. It has been buried, repressed, sidetracked, and misidentified—but now here it is.

In a very real sense, it was always the goal. It was always the thing to be distilled out of the dross of history—and out of the rambling life of an individual.

When I was 20, I finished studying the history of philosophy in college. All the answers I’d been seeking were still missing in action. I approached one of my professors and said, “Suppose all of this, everything the philosophers have proposed, was created? Created by them?”

Like works of art, I meant.

The professor stared at me, and then shook his head.

“No,” he said.

That was my first inkling that I should have been studying the history of imagination, rather than philosophy.

It was only when my publisher, Bonnie Lange, gave me the green light to write The Secret Behind Secret Societies, that I realized I would have a chance to explore this whole area.

The difference between the heavy baggage of traditional cosmology/metaphysics and imagination is: the former requires nothing and the latter implies action. You need to do something.

Imagination isn’t merely a sign on a road. It is the road. It is the action along the road.

And most people prefer no-action.

The first part of my work was to strip imagination of useless and distracting accoutrement. The second part of my work is to show people imagination’s scope and range and power, and what can happen when you use it intensely, without limits. Click here for more details.

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

Part 5, What is The Matrix?

Part 5, What is The Matrix?

by Jon Rappoport

July 6, 2011

From one point of view, the Matrix is a central block of energy that is fed by millions of loops and tubes of energy—and those loops are all human actions that follow a script called:

THE HUMAN CONDITION.

“The human condition” is a fake image of the limitations of human life, plus all the implications and melodramas that follow from it.

You can imagine it as one vast bureaucracy, in which the workers are grossly unhappy with what is going on and yet love every misstep, mistake, postponement, crisis, and grinding routine.

It’s a culture. To one degree or another, it pervades every area of life.

As long as limitation is the overriding principle, the human-condition drama is going to play over and over again. The faces and names will change, but the production will go on.

Limitation has to do with: obscuring the existence, range, and power of imagination. Limitation is ultimately based on the PRETENSE THAT IMAGINATION IS AN UNIMPORTANT FACULTY.

Once you accept that pretense, life as we know it and the “human condition” follow as night follows day.

The “human condition” and its implications are really coming into their own now—they are being promoted as the reason we must have “share-and-care”global governance that continues to advance its agenda. Which includes cradle to grave medical status as a patient with constant need for treatment.

Global governance resonates closely with the Matrix.

The US Constitution was written for an agrarian society of about six million people who were living in a relatively small area along the east coast of the continent.

Thomas Jefferson’s view was that each generation, every 20 years or so, should write their own Constitution. This is a rather staggering point, ignored by most so-called conservatives.

Jefferson also believed a Republic would succeed only if the population was rather small.

So, for example, we might now have 50 or 60 separate Republics on this continent—each one writing a new Constitution every 20 years.

If that were the case, the present national government in Washington DC would be a thing of the past. Gone.

The 50 or 60 Republics would hopefully maintain good relations with one another, and one assumes Bill of Rights provisions would be part of each Republic’s basic law.

Decentralized government.

I would favor at least 200 Republics on this continent.

That way, citizen participation in government would actually mean something.

One Republic, so-called, with a population of 330,000,000 people, trying to fulfill The General Good of All, is going to fail progressively and spectacularly. The taxation rate alone is a disaster. Further, the attitude of the central government is going to be shaped by people who think in terms of 330 million people—planners, problem solvers, bureaucrats and administrators. And this tendency is going to slant action in the direction of attending to the masses, as units or groupings, rather than as individuals. It’s a self-defeating proposition.

I believe a man like Alexander Hamilton, however, saw this future and did not flinch from it, because in his eyes “the people” were doomed from the beginning by their nature and character. They had to be ruled from above.

It was Jefferson who was more optimistic about the potential of the individual.

In our world today, we are seeing big governments getting bigger—as a strategy for solving their unsolvable problems. The venality and greed and duplicity of political leaders are all about extending top-down control. It’s not just a plan, it’s what happens when the nation is so large, because the people who naturally gravitate to “serve” have this predilection for power/control.

The weave of the reality-Matrix and big government harmonize. They both exist to make people passive receptors.

“I’m basically John Jones living in the Untied States in 2011. I’m trying to get ahead. I’m encountering problems and trying to solve them. I’m looking out on the world from this point of view. I have no reservoir of inherent power. I’m striving. I’m doing the best I can…”

This is the shrunken attitude of a member of Matrix reality.

It is fostered by a minimized and restricted sense of possibility.

And THAT naturally seeps in when imagination is not the prime piece of the equation.

Imagination not only conceives of extended possibility, it projects it into space and time AND BEYOND.

When imagination swings into operation, physical reality is more an occasion for creating new realities, rather than a definer of reality.

The difference is crucial.

In 1932, Henri Bergson wrote, “The universe is a machine for creating gods.”

The Matrix plus John Jones is a collaboration that brings gods into being, the result of which is passivity.

As I’ve written before, the universe (Matrix) is one work of art among a potentially infinite number of works of art. The idea of exploring one work of art to the point of obsession, to the point of forgetting all the other potential works of art and the “means of their production” (imagination) is the sine qua non of the Matrix.

Imagination exceeds the space-time continuum.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.

Part 4, What is The Matrix?

Part 4, What is The Matrix?

The Easy Way Out.

by Jon Rappoport

July 5, 2011

Point one: The basic fact to remember about the first Matrix film was that a hero had to be chosen. ONE MAN. A person who would function beyond the rules of the space-time continuum.

Not a group. Not a committee.

Real power would accrue to an individual.

Point two: in real life, the reason the real Matrix endures is that there is an audience for it.

And audience is fascinated by, and glued to, STORY.

There are certain kinds of stories that are particularly effective at maintaining audience in a state of being audience.

For example, the hero is faced with a problem which turns into a mystery, and he then penetrates the mystery after much work and danger—during which time his friends lose faith in him—and finally the hero does away with the villain at the heart of the mystery…

WHATEVER KEEPS AUDIENCE BEING ONLY AUDIENCE KEEPS THE MATRIX IN PLACE.

For the most part, audience wants to remain being audience, and it will search for and rationalize ways to do just that.

Religion can be an excellent way to remain being audience on a cosmic scale.

The power to exit from being audience is real and significant. Without it, you stay in the Matrix.

Story has beginning, middle, and end. This pattern, so obvious and universal, is rarely thought about, but it creates a trance. Try writing a story without that sequence and see how many people want it.

“I’m audience, and I want beginning, middle, and end, over and over.”

Part of being audience is experiencing the letdown that happens after the story ends. This depression stimulates the need for another story. And on and on it goes. But the letdown, at a deeper level, is really about a dissatisfaction with the WHOLE PATTERN of story—people want to break out of that. They want to conquer that addiction.

And how is that done?

Well, the first step is being able to invent a story of your own.

And this is where people balk.

I recently received an email from a reader who expressed, in a vague way, his dissatisfaction with “my story.” As if he had been looking for a “master story teller”—which was an idea in HIS own mind—and since I didn’t fulfill that ideal, he was unhappy.

This was a perfect illustration of what I’m talking about. He wanted to remain being audience, and he was looking to me to supply material for his trance.

BEING AND REMAINING AUDIENCE magnetizes people to Matrix.

At a conference, I once gave a talk about freedom. In the middle of the talk, I told the audience we were going to do a few exercises that would possibly enhance their sense of freedom. The very notion that I was asking them to DO something, to come out of their audience-trance…which they hadn’t expected, caused a stir, a sense of apprehension. They were programmed for beginning, middle, and end—and I was suddenly shredding that.

They had planned on being entertained with the notion of freedom.

After the lecture, a friend of mine came up to me and said, “Did you catch what happened there, when you told them you were going to have them do exercises?”

“Sure,” I said. “That was on purpose.”

THE MATRIX EXISTS BECAUSE THERE IS AUDIENCE FOR IT.

On the level of mind, Matrix IS whatever keeps audience being audience.

Consciously or unconsciously, every salesman knows this.

I knew a quite successful salesman who revealed his secret to me. If he had told this secret to a psychiatrist, he would have been diagnosed as bipolar or schizoid in two seconds.

He said he knew he had been a salesman in many past lives, and therefore he knew exactly how to act and speak “in the role” of Salesman. If he followed the role exactly, his prospects would buy whatever he was selling. If he didn’t, they wouldn’t. There was a beginning, middle, and end to his pitch.

He had the knack of keeping his audience in a state of being audience. In a trance. And part of the trance was signing the check and the contract. It was a piece of cake.

AUDIENCE DOESN’T INVENT.

THEY EXPERIENCE.

AND THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT.

MATRIX.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Part 3, What is The Matrix

Part 3, What is The Matrix

The Yin Yang Experiment

by Jon Rappoport

July 4, 2011

Let’s pretend that a few Chinese sages, long ago, decided to float a trial balloon.

They spread the word that opposites could resolve in a state of harmony. Each polarity could reflect the other.

It was a poetic thought that might be embedded in a few verses.

The sages watched and waited. Eventually, they saw that this fancy had taken hold. In fact, it had become embedded in a philosophy. It was now being discussed as a principle of the universe, the cosmos.

The sages were shocked but not surprised. Humans exhibit strange fetishes.

What started out as a poet’s passing rumination on a summer afternoon—entertained purely for the purpose of writing verse—was now an all-embracing weave of the Matrix.

From the sages’ point of view, what might be done in a poem was far more important than what might be attributed to Universe.

I use this as an illustration of “piling on”–how humans add one idea after another, one speculation after another to a Matrix that is already built to give the impression that it is the prime reality.

Richard Jenkins, the extraordinary healer I write about in The Secret Behind Secret Societies, once told me, “The addiction to Universe is like every other religious addiction. People aren’t satisfied with just two or three myths. They have to keep making them up. It’s like children with dolls and clothes. You’ve got to have more outfits.”

The Matrix is made into a magnet. Instead of understanding that products of imagination are art, people have to embellish the Matrix with those products. That gets them dug in deeper.

Nearly 40 years ago, I rented a garage in Santa Monica and turned it into a studio. It was small, and I wanted to paint large. I stretched three canvases, the biggest of which was 15×8 feet. Because there wasn’t enough room in the studio, I kept painting over that canvas.

Six months later, I had done perhaps 15 paintings on that one canvas—each painting covering the one before it. I’d used all sorts of paints—acrylic, oil, enamel. Finally, I painted the whole thing black. I looked at the black space for a few days, and I noticed there was a small glint of light green peeking through in the lower left.

I worked at the area with my fingernails, and suddenly a two-foot section of black came away like a swath of rubber, exposing many colors and shapes, which were intact.

I realized that, because I’d used different kinds of paint, I’d done distinct layers. The layers hadn’t adhered perfectly.

For the next week, using a screwdriver and a mallet, I uncovered painting after painting, going back in time.

Eventually, I arrived at a painting composed of several layers at slightly different heights. I liked it.

If the painting had been the Matrix, and I had been a devotee, I would have fallen on my knees at that point and said a prayer. I would have, for the moment, been happy I had determined how many layers (myths) were necessary to give me the One Painting For All Time. The religion of Matrix.

But it was a painting. And of course, since I was the artist, I knew that.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Part 2, What is The Matrix?

Part 2, What is The Matrix?

Sub-structure

by Jon Rappoport

July 3, 2011

Basically, the mechanical structure of the Matrix is derived from the concept that:

Everything is connected to everything.

This notion is increasingly hailed as a positive marvel. For example, in quantum entanglement, pared particles, even at great distances from each other, both react to an impact on either particle.

“Everything/connected” produces a sensation of Weave&All Inclusiveness.

It’s ultimately designed for long-term rental. The occupant is there, and there he will stay.

Feeling this Oneness is Matrix religion, and it is meant to instill a sense of the sacred. Holy, holy. The mind completes the equation: sacred=forever. It’s a ruse. “Sacred” is no more forever than listening to a Bach concerto is forever. It’s one thing to bathe in a majestic feeling. It’s quite another thing to infer it means eternal occupancy.

There are many people ready to shake your hand and embrace you and welcome you into the labyrinth, the weave, the connection of everything to everything.

People aspire to be wired into the “everything/connected” apparatus as their highest ambition—which is their primary substitute forimagination.

That they don’t realize this doesn’t make it any less true.

“I’m one atom in an infinity of atoms all connected throughout the universe, and this is what I want to feel. This is illumination and enlightenment. This is the grand essence, the final stop on the train ride.”

Well, let me put it to you in this way. Let’s say you’re an actor. You work in a repertory theater that stages 100000000000000000 plays. In each play, you have a role, a different role. You’re “connected” to each one of those roles. BUT YOU’RE AN ACTOR. That means you can inhabit a role and then take it off like a coat. It doesn’t mean you’re forever chained up to every role you play.

However, this distinction is lost on most people.

The idea of everything/connected is quite old. You can find it enunciated in ancient Egypt and China, and traces of it exist in Aristotle. It’s often arranged as a hierarchy. The “great chain of being.”

So are we talking about an architecture of the universe or a notion in the mind?

Both.

Think of everything/connected as a style of building among various possible styles.

And religion is its goal—the inducement of religious awe. That is the stage play.

People join the “everything/connected” church of the universe. They want to be in that congregation singing a song, melting down into butter.

Oh, look. There at the altar is a priest. He’s delivering a sermon. Let’s listen in:

“If you know that everything is connected to everything, could you possibly kill a whale? Of course not.”

Remember two things, though. One, you don’t need to embrace everything-is-everything to know you don’t want to kill a whale.

And two, the priest, as he’s delivering his sermon, is thinking to himself: “If I want to kill a whale, I damn well will.”

You see, when you really unpack the “everything is everything” wow, it’s not as sensational as it first seemed.. Any more than, say, the fact that every national newscast covers the same stories from the same point of view.

“I can’t believe it. ABC just did a piece on the Supreme Court, and now CBS is highlighting it, too. Let’s light a candle and kneel.”

“Everything/connected” is supposed to signal that the universe is conscious, and to boil the argument down, since universe is also so much larger than a human being walking around on a street in a city on planet Earth, he is obligated to defer to universe.

He is programmed from a young age to defer. He learns how politically incorrect it is to reject this church.

Matrix.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.