In these stressful times of political upheaval, pandemic, and fear, it's important to be aware of how we're moving forward as individuals and as a society.


As a society, we certainly have some healing to do. We have been trying to do this healing for centuries, and while there has been some success, we are still facing the same issues that we faced hundreds of years ago.


One of the reasons for this is because our society tends to look at the SYMPTOMS of our problems, rather than the ROOT CAUSE. This is just like our modern medicine system. Antidepressants, for example, target the SYMPTOMS of depression but do very little for the ROOT CAUSE, which can only be dealt with through introspection, therapy, self-reflection, etc.


These tools allow you to figure out the many possible causes of your ROOT ISSUES – such as trauma, neglect, bullying, environment, and so on. Once you work out the ROOT CAUSE, then the SYMPTOMS DISAPPEAR.


The same is true for our global society. If we were to iron out the ROOT CAUSES, then our society would become BALANCED and HEALTHY. Instead, we point to the SYMPTOMS: war, homelessness, violence, and the officials that represent them: Trump, Biden, and so on.


To use the American example, many voters consider Trump to be a more dangerous SYMPTOM than his competitor. Participating in this type of election is like a medical patient choosing a drug that gets rid of the worst of his symptoms but does nothing to FIX the ACTUAL PROBLEM.


The problem here is that we have entire nations focused on using the band-aid approach to cover up the SYMPTOMS of their DISEASED SOCIETY, rather than trying to figure out the ROOT CAUSE. Only by identifying the root cause can we work through these challenges and return to a HEALTHY SOCIETY.

Much like the ROOT ISSUES of mental illness often arise in childhood and early life, many of the ROOT ISSUES of our society were formed during its early years. Gender inequality and racism are just two examples of ROOT ISSUES that are built into the fabric of our society, and these issues are then imprinted onto the people born into the society.

This is what creates the SYMPTOMS OF SOCIETAL DISEASE: division, class warfare, and the political figureheads chosen to represent us. These SYMPTOMS are the result of what we could call SOCIETAL TRAUMA.

This societal trauma much like childhood trauma, generates UNHEALTHY THOUGHT PATTERNS and BEHAVIOURS which are then adopted by the people living in the society. And, just like all of us are wandering around with our own individual childhood imprints, WE ARE ALSO COLLECTIVELY EXPRESSING THE IMPRINTS OF OUR SOCIETY.

When we express these imprints, we create the symptoms of sickness like war and violence. If we learn to get rid of these thought patterns in OURSELVES, then they will stop manifesting in our society simply because there will be NOBODY to ACT OUT these trauma-based behaviours!

As above, so below. When unhealthy thought patterns are imprinted early in a child's life, they will grow up engaging in self-destructive behaviour that reflects their traumatic experience. When an entire society is traumatized and its members are imprinted, large-scale self-destructive behaviour occurs. This is what we're seeing now with homelessness, division, violence, and judgments based on race/religion. These are the SYMPTOMS. To heal the SYMPTOMS, address the ROOT CAUSE.

We need to begin POSITIVELY imprinting the new members of our society. Overall, the SOCIETAL IMPRINT needs to be replaced with something more sustainable, and this can only be done by providing future generations with healthy, positive imprints. To do that, we need to break through our own negative imprints.

As members of our society, we are, ourselves, a part of a larger entity. Each person in a society is an important part of the whole, much like a cell in the human body.

The cells in our body work together if they detect illness. Heart cells work with liver cells which work with stomach cells, and so on. The dumbest thing the body could do would be to turn these organs against each other because of their differences. If the heart rejected the lungs, then the oxygen wouldn't be pumped through the body and it would die.

This is HOW OUR SOCIETY IS FUNCTIONING. Fundamental issues like RACISM and INEQUALITY pit groups of people against each other based on their differences. The HEART, one could say, is fighting the BRAIN, which fights the STOMACH, which is making the whole society sick with symptoms like warfare, ecological rape, inequality, and hunger.

Rather than pointing fingers at the SYMPTOMS of the illness, it is our DUTY as INDIVIDUALS to heal OURSELVES. Once each INDIVIDUAL in the SOCIETY heals their IMPRINT, the society will begin to reach a state of BALANCE.

When the cells in the body are working according to their natural imprint, which is to SUSTAIN LIFE, the result is HEALTH, VIGOR, and HARMONY. When the cells are negatively imprinted, they malfunction and produce the symptoms of illness. When too many cells are negatively imprinted and fail to function, the organism shuts down and dies.

The same is obviously true of our society. Too many members (cells) are unconsciously acting out their negative imprints – judging, attacking, belittling, and regarding others as separate from themselves. Wars, wealth division, and segregation are just symptoms of these INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOURS on a |GRAND SCALE.

This means that the most important thing for anyone in our society to do is to OVERCOME their own imprints and to HELP OTHERS OVERCOME THEIRS. Pointing fingers at the symptoms does nothing to heal the illness.

If each member of our society was to dedicate themselves to deprogramming their IMPRINT BIAS, then the SYMPTOMS of DISEASE would disappear within a couple of generations.

This is why I get frustrated when I see people pointing and shouting at SYMPTOMS like Trump, or war, or violence, when really it is the ROOT CAUSE that needs to be addressed. And, since we ARE the components of our society, we ARE ALSO the ROOT CAUSE!

This gives us TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY because it means that each one of us is capable of changing the outcome of our society, one cell at a time - not by voting for the lesser of two SYMPTOMS, but by improving our own CELLULAR FUNCTION as members of society. With every action, we are choosing to either HEAL or HURT the larger societal organism.

Imagine you had a flu, and you had SYMPTOMS like a cough, an upset stomach, and a headache. The CELLS in your body must now work together to keep things in balance. Imagine, instead, that your cells were imprinted so that rather than working together, they simply bickered amongst one another, arguing that one SYMPTOM was worse than the other SYMPTOM.

This is what's currently happening in our SOCIETY. As the cells of our society, we have been NEGATIVELY IMPRINTED which prevents us from working in tandem. Many of our behaviours are unfortuately destructive and unsustaniinable, which creates the SYMPTOMS of our SOCIETAL ILLNESS.

The symptoms are easy to see, which is why it's easier to discuss them rather than take responsiblity for them, but the only way to HEAL the SYMPTOMS is to BREAK the IMPRINTS that we, as individuals, are carrying. Only once everyone has overcome these centuries-old imprints can we return to being members of a SELF-SUSTAINING, HEALTHY society.

We must work in HARMONY to eliminate the SYMPTOMS of the illness, and this work needs to start with yourself. If you can make these changes for yourself only, then you have still made a massive contribution. That means your offspring, and theirs, and theirs, will all be inherently capable of HEALING the system.

Overtime, as each one of us learns to activate our full potential rather than simply pointing fingers at the infected wounds of our society, we will realize that WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE THE MEDICINE.




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