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23 September 2010
The Tender Trap
If you were going to build the perfect prison, how would you build it?
Would you procure the finest construction materials, concrete, steel, bulletproof glass, etc.? Would you utilize the best SuperMax prison design schemes? Hire burly, no-nonsense guards who all weigh well over 220 pounds? Would you place the prison on an island surrounded by shark-infested waters? No TV, no radio, no library, no visitation? Would all these things insure that the inmates would not try to escape?
Or would you build your prison with no walls, no fences, no rules, no punishments? You'd provide the inmates with whatever they wished, forgive their transgressions, serve them the finest food, allow them unlimited congress with the opposite sex, make available to them all kinds of drugs, alcohol, etc. There'd be no fences, no barbed wire, no shark-infested moat to keep them imprisoned. They would be free to leave at any time.
Which prison do you think would be most successful, with the happiest inmates and the least amount of escape attempts? i think that one's pretty much a no-brainer.
That is sort of what has happened to man on earth. We are inmates in a very dynamic and alluring prison. We stand transfixed by the glamour of the world, unable to figure out that we are being fooled into staying in this condition and encouraged to never leave. We think that this is all there is, and what there is "ain't so bad", so why not just stay here and deal with it? That is how a "perfect prison" works. It allows the prisoner to incarcerate himself.
Every night, the prisoner walks obediently to his cell.
Every night, the prisoner locks the door to his own cell, then throws the key outside to his jailer.
Every night, the prisoner dreams of what he will do to pass the time tomorrow, when he opens his eyes and realizes that he is...back in prison, his home.
The most difficult thing for people to do is to contemplate (much less accept) that all of this, this "reality", this "life" that they've built up for themselves is a complete and utter chimera, a dream. Those who insist on dreaming the same dream night after night will be pummelled by Pain and Sorrow until they finally tire of their glamorous prison and begin to Seek a way out.
Meanwhile, those who recognize exactly where they are silently bide their time...and carefully plan their Escape.
~~ g
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Brother Gee
here's a short excerpt from a question asked by an aspirant,on
The New Call
website called 'Love's Sacrifice'. Clicking the link above will take one to the entire answer.
Therefore, if a man going the Way of the Avatars - the Way of the Sacrificial Cross, the true Path that leads to Freedom from the Earth-prison - expects the Path to be all roses and wine, then he will certainly be disappointed, and he will turn back and return to his familiar cell, locking the door behind him and throwing away the key, perhaps for another age or three.
Dear BrotherGee,
I've found your blog couple months ago and have read most of your posts and following your instruction went to TNC web site. And there it was... Everything is so familiar and resonates with this soul like nothing before.
I've read SDP, TNC, RI and all Q&A section. In one or two places they are inviting us to contact them for continuing our awakening process or possibly speeding it up, but when the Contact information page is opened it is just empty... No information.
So, I was wondering, if you’ve ever tried to contact these people and if you did, have you had any success, and could you help me do the same?!
Thank you,
Brother T
Kevin,
Thanks for the quote, my friend. Spurning the pull of Matter to attend to the call of Spirit is difficult for many. We have willfully wallowed in the lower planes for eons of time. With all of its temporality, its pains and short-lived glories, it is what the personality is familiar with, and thus, reluctant to abandon.
Those who are able to clutch the Divine Thread that has ever been offered to us (even moreso as we approach the beginning of a higher cycle of Spiritual Evolution) should hang on tightly and know that it leads to a New Destination. Let the old fall away.
Anonymous,
Familiar, indeed. Like the words to a song that one once knew well, but had forgotten.
Contact me at brothergee2012@yahoo.com.
~~ g
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