That is an amazing read, Mike. The quote, the clear yet complex analogy extended and expanded, and then the perfect perspective on the spy vs. spy conundrum. So well done I actually felt it "moving" in my brain (somehow), and then I got a big smile on my face. :-)

I'm going to sleep on this and probably write more tomorrow.

Thank you,

Sonar

: "Even in the mother's womb, and especially when a
: helpless infant, as it seems, is given birth in the world,
: the forces of Light in the Universe rejoice."

: This ought to be the way it works regardless if one is
: religious, atheist or whatever.

: Sadly, the powers that still be have a different idea.

: An excellent description of what actually happens, in terms of
: the effects of external stimuli, is perfectly summed in the
: christian parable of the man who found a pearl of great
: value.

: He found a pearl of great value and he sold everything and
: bought it.

: The lifetime of the average individual is cleverly explained
: in one sentence.

: This world is the oyster, but not yours or mine. The oyster is
: the sea with its maritime, corporate structure and values.

: A just conceived unique individual with profound potential for
: things good and constructive, is an irritation to this
: oyster.

: From the first instant of individual life the oyster begins to
: apply impressions which accrue as layers of pearl to an
: irritating grain of sand. For nine defenseless months the
: individual is increasingly encased in formative layers.
: Then the trauma of birth, childhood, school and the rest of
: life. The encrustation never stops until the individual
: sees that potential "I" at the core of the false
: self the oyster has created. At that point the individual
: can begin selling the unimportant layers of false self in
: effort to achieve ownership of true self at the core. Or
: not. It's a choice.

: The problem is compounded when parent pearls give birth to
: child pearls and raises them in unwitting cooperation with
: the oyster. A pearl cannot raise a unique individual. It
: cannot realize a unique individual. A pearl can only raise
: a pearl.

: And so, "Debates arise where Truth is hidden from sight
: ----- "

: There are numerous ways of controlling individuals and
: populations of pearls. The ways are not important. The
: "why" of why they work is the key issue.
: Conditioning, pure an simple. We are conditioned to look
: out from ourselves for truth. The door of truth opens into
: ourselves.

: Contemporary Christianity is a net cast to recapture those who
: protested the religion of the Jews, and other belief
: systems. Islam is another net for protestants. Then the
: Protestant Reformation. All of these nets and more are
: woven by the Catholic Church under the Holy See (Sea) in
: which lives the oyster. These nets, as well as science,
: government, philosophy, medicine, electronics, TV,
: propaganda, hypnosis, etc. all work because we look out for
: information (internal formation). Kind of a paradox.

: How about spy vs. spy as the core being vs. the pearl shell
: and one of them has to go?

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