Sensationalised journalism, news reporting and the like offer us a reflection of what we as a society are demanding. Supply and demand affects everything in this world – if there is no demand then there will be no supply. It literally applies to everything.
When we consider the mass volume of reported and consumed news through the medium of newspapers, that which is watched on television and through social media daily, it feels imperative to ask a couple of questions:
- What is it that we are actually consuming?
- What are we over and over again, continuing to ask for?
From what I see, our world today is set up to entertain, to distract and to position life, people and events in either the right or wrong basket. It is not about truth. We, as a global society, no longer seek the truth of matters and do not foundationally base our perception of life from the point of truth and untruth. Even though we all know truth deep down, each and every one of us has in some way contributed to this fact, whether we can consciously admit to it or not. We all have a role, a responsibility to take in how our world is as a whole, collectively.
If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist. However, if we are complacent, stand back, do not get involved, have an “It’s nothing to do with me” attitude, or do not want to take responsibility, are reserved, are happy to act on only a functional level in life and in relationships, then we allow a way of being in society that is rotten to the core and allow it to have an open road to continue and extend itself.
It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so. Evidently, this is reflected in our media platforms, our journalistic manner and the cyber-abuse that has absolutely no consequences or rules to uphold that which we have already established and agreed upon in our physical interactive world.
The fact is, we are actually choosing and even enjoy sensationalised, tantalising media and news reporting instead of calling for that which simply gets to the facts and truth of the rot in life and exposes it for what it is. The news and social media platforms allow us to know about issues from an emotional, elated view, whether they are the truth or not. It is the elation, the emotional aspect and the sensationalism that we have become familiar with and accepted.
News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life with this misinformation. We can even talk about it as part of the distraction and circulate the story to just regurgitate it. However, in-truth our news does not require us to stand up, or call us to account in life – to make changes that eliminate the rot and call people to take true responsibility, especially energetic responsibility, in all aspects of their lives.
The way our media is today allows us to remain distracted from living life in-truth, side-tracked from taking responsibility for our own quality and ‘how we bring, and the what we bring’ to life. I mean, why do we need to bother with the importance of the above statement when we have much worse things to focus on, talk about and distract ourselves from how we are in the world? When in actual fact it is our quality – what we establish as our foundation in our life, in our relationships, the decency and respect we live with – that then filters out to lay the format for how the rest of life plays out, not the other way round.
We must ask as a society, as a growing world population… why is this so? It may be something we complain about, similar to that of the obesity crisis affecting such countries as America, Australia and England to name a few. However, we still buy pizza, soft drink, feed packaged food to our kids. The issues we all complain about and do not like to see and feel, especially when they come knocking on our own door, are the very ones we have been investing in. It’s a simple case of supply and demand. And one that we are constantly choosing until we decide otherwise.
Are we willing to look at …
- How much do we do about bullying and cyber abuse if we are not directly bullied?
- How much do we care about the climbing rates of illness and disease both physical and mental, what causes it and those affected by it, unless we or those close to us are affected?
- How much do we do and work towards eliminating the inequality in the world? There is a vast difference between those who have nothing to those who have too much to list.
- How much do we care about someone’s character being defamed or the lies created to do so and the impact that has in all areas of their life?
- How much do we care about the rate of suicide and self-harming behaviour, self-abusive behaviour and why people get to that desperate state of seeing no other way?
- How much do we care about neglect, physical, mental abuse and domestic violence unless it is in our face knocking on our door: often people will walk past such incidences, pretending they haven’t happened.
- How much do we care about the atrocities such as human slavery, human trafficking, child labour, and torture in some places – and the fact these behaviours are condoned in parts of the world?
- How much do we care about the way the courts, the family court and the way law and justice is served in our world unless we feel unjustly done by?
- How often are we happy to sit back and listen to or view the latest dilemma in a celebrity’s life when there are people in the world who do not have running water or plumbing?
- Do we think twice about the homeless person sitting on the street and how they got there, or even the young children who may seem to be unaccompanied on a train or bus port?
- How much do we care about the impact we are having on our natural environment and the adjustments it needs to make, from the way we choose to live in it?
- How much do we question, care about or want to take a stand against the actual rot that takes place in the world, the what we know is not true, decent, equal or of true good – from something right in front of us to the issues going on in another country?
How much goes by around us that we simply do not want to take part in or get involved in, enquire about or voice our position about to another to start the conversation? These examples are but a few of many more that currently exist in our world today. However, the common thread among them all is that they exist and will continue to exist as long as the majority of the population sit back, relax, and allow them to keep existing by not saying a word or showing any different way of being.
How far will we fall as a whole before we are forced to do something that makes true change? Will it be to the point that everyone experiences these atrocities on some level forcing us to stand up and stand firm against them together, or will we wake up and understand there is another way of speaking up, living truth and love in the smallest areas of our life; that this actually affects the whole and sets a standard?
Time will tell and as always, will reflect all of our choices.
By Johanna Smith, BA Education, Diploma of Counselling, Esoteric Practitioner
Perth, Western Australia
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Words on Serge Benhayon 
Ariana we have all contributed to society life after life, so as a collective we must prefer the comfort that the lies give us. We now have the responsibility to clean up the mess the world is in because we as a collective made it what it is today.
‘Each and every one of us has in some way contributed to this fact, whether we can consciously admit to it or not. We all have a role, a responsibility to take in how our world is as a whole, collectively.’
I got to feel recently how I have contributed to a way of life that crushes us from when we are small children. There is a consciousness that we allow that actually encases us in such a way that we cannot feel our connection to God, then we blame God for not being there. Thankfully there is a way out of this, Universal Medicine teaches the Ageless Wisdom we are supported to reconnect to the sensitivity we are naturally born with and in that reconnection we can feel our way back to God, who has always been there waiting for us all to come back to our truth.
The abuse and bullying these days is coming from every angle as we are treated like sheep. So it is important to focus on our alignment to our essences, so we have to discern the truth energetically as much is not holding the energetic truth. Exposing the greed and corruption is simple as it is seen for what it is with most not even trying to hide the fact as they are so lost.
Truth comes with an energy and when we understand that there is an Energetic-truth and like Love that also is an energy, and as everything is energy and thus must be because of an energy that the words mean little if there is no True-energetic-love. From what is being shared understanding energy is extremely important as True-energy comes from a Lived way that understand energy and the Energetic-truth ❤️.
I hate the fact that the media can blatantly lie as it does and that people think that because they read something in a newspaper it must be true. It’s like all sense drops away from the body. I recently had a conversation with my family about an article that appeared in a national Sunday Newspaper and it was clear they believed the utter trash that was written. I had to remind them that they have known me for 45 years, they have witnessed the ill metal health I was in and they have also seen how I have changed my life around. I am living in a way that has supported me to come back to a true way of being myself by reconnecting back to my love of God. There is nothing wrong in reconnecting back to the truth of who we are, so I wonder why the media are kicking up such a huge storm is it that they are actually puppets of a different way of life that wants everyone to live a reduced life so that they never get feel what it is like to reconnect to God and the universe and how powerful that connection is.
Life will always “reflect all of our choices”, or it is our Livingness that provides a platform for without a living way even the truth will not stand up as it is tainted by the discordant way we are living.
Its very interesting to discover that a very well known tabloid news paper which posts nude women on page 3 has actually been banned from Liverpool because of the article that was printed in it about the Hills borough football disaster in 1989. Many fans were killed and injured. It was felt at the time that a British national newspaper was acting as the propaganda arm for an establishment cover up and a concerted defamation of the innocent dead. And 30 years later the paper is still banned. I feel the paper made a huge mistake when it thought it could lie about the incident and in no way appreciated that the people who were at the football match who were witness to what actually happened took on the paper and the establishment and even though there have been apologies from the news paper, the people of Liverpool do not feel that the apologies are genuine otherwise the ban would have been be lifted surely? This shows me that we do know that newspapers lie and cheat and cannot be trusted and if there was a total ban until the press reported what was true and not made up lies, fantasies, and didn’t allow themselves to be used as a propaganda machine for establishments to control the masses we would be able to believe what they said was true.
They will bring themselves down because more and more people are actually waking up to the fact that newspapers cannot be trusted and they lie.
If we do not live in way that supports what we are sharing then the virtues we bring are under the umbrella of lies that we have lived, so we can all stand up against injustice and not add to the lies like the Liverpudlians have done for the last 30 years. Thank you Mary, this simply shows we can make a difference when we get together as one.
One of the key things for me to support true and lasting change in the world is simply in how I live my life. I care about what’s going on but the magnitude of abuse globally can be overwhelming, and our historic tendency is to get in there and take action. Sometimes that is appropriate and needed related to local or world issues, however I’ve learnt that the state of the world is made up by us as individuals and the way we live and the quality of presence and expression we bring, true change comes from love, truth, harmony, i.e., life lived from soul, and this is how we can make an impact on everyone around us. Every calamity and abuse in the world has come about from human beings not living from soul, so what could be more important than living soul myself and reminding others that this is the way out of the mess.
This is a great sharing Melinda Knights, because so many of us wring our hands in despair at the way our society is heading, including me at one stage in my life but what you are sharing and what I know to be true is that if we were all to take full responsibility for ourselves and our actions it would have a positive impact on the world.
Supply and demand. Everyone who buys, or has ever bought, illegal drugs has to accept responsibility for the aggression, violence and misery caused in countries that supply the drugs to meet the demand. This is true of anything that is harmful to us all.
“The power of media, whether direct or indirect, is a real power which acts on us, which modifies our behavior, our tastes and probably our thoughts. Like all authority, it cannot be applied at random. Otherwise, that power could become arbitrary and irresponsible. The power gives media people responsibility comparable to religious or political responsibility. In their own way they contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a human community. The well-being of that community should be their first concern.”1
1: “The Dalai Lama’s Book of Daily Meditations; the Path to Tranquility” compiled and edited by Renuka Singh
We are on a perpetual merry-go-round and have chosen to not get off. If you look a fashion it is like the alphabet, there is a finite number of letters and repeats its self. When was the last time you watched a movie that is not a reinvention of an older one or worse a new one that is the same as original but just done in today’s time! In my short lifetime, we have gone from three tv channels that were only on from 6am to midnight and party-line phones. Today you talk to someone the other side of the world with video from almost anywhere on the planet. But we seem to have stopped talking to each other, face to face. Where does truth get a look in nowadays?
Steve Matson I do not feel personally that truth gets a look in at all, I feel that we are out of control and slipping into a world where machines are taking over all areas of our daily lives and I do wonder what humans will do with themselves when the machines take over. It may seem like something out of a science fiction book, but I see what is happening in the industry I work in and it makes no sense to me. It as though we prefer machines to people.
The greed and corruption that is exposed in Robin Hood 2018 produced by Otto Bathurst is a shining light that exposes the ill ways on many levels and things have not changed so it is time to “take true responsibility, especially energetic responsibility, in all aspects of their lives”.
“The fact is, we are actually choosing and even enjoy sensationalised, tantalising media and news reporting instead of calling for that which simply gets to the facts and truth of the rot in life and exposes it for what it is” So true Johanna. There seems to be no such thing as unbiased media these days. The number of ‘reality TV’ shows is increasing because they are cheap to produce and the demand is there. Do we really want to hear the truth any more?
The energy that created all the ills of the world cannot and will not solve them. Which is why we need to be shaken out of our stupor (via an incident, illness, misery, etc.) to see that it’s all rotten and not working. Thank God that there are some people living outside of that rotten energy so that when people do start to get shaken there’s that something else to be seen and felt.
Taking responsibility for the energy in which we choose to live will, eventually, have the cause and effect to bring change to our world.
Yes, one by one, drop by drop, when we all start to take responsibility the world will change. We have to start with ourselves, for we cannot make anyone else change. We can however give a different reflection and thereby inspire others.
Supply and demand is the driving force with whatever is popular at the moment, including the extreme ugly behaviours we participate in physically or adding to it with our thoughts. As an example, I hated it when people would gossip about others but I would still enjoin in order to get recognition but now I have curbed that avenue of entertainment I feel so much clearer for it. Not perfect but greatly improved.
You always share generously and inspire me with your blogs Johanna and give much food for thought and action.
Johanna I would agree with you that we have set up this life as a huge distraction from what we are in fact here to do. In Greek mythology we can read about the fallen Gods, I feel these stories are an analogy of what has actually happened to us. We have fallen so far from our origins and we know this and the only way to alleviate the utter pain and constant misery of the separation is by distracting ourselves, but in the end even this will not be enough to a assuage the devastation and we will retread the steps back to heaven.
The sad fact is as a world wide society we are to involved in gossip, stimulation and entertainment to really care about what’s going on.
True caring comes from an alignment to a particular consciousness, it’s not a choice or a way of looking at things, it is a bi product of an alignment. In exactly the same way as caring for people, the environment, the homeless etc also comes from an alignment and if that alignment is to an energetic source that is not true then it will produce actions in us that serve to ensure that we draw in more of the consciousness that is not true and so it goes. We are all the consciousness of God but it is the energy that we align to whilst we’re here on Earth that will dictate whether or not we’re in step with Him or not.
The fact that as an English teacher I have to teach my students how to be discerning about the media they consume, more so now than ever before, is such an indictment on how society has preferred comfort, sensationalism, drama, gossip etc., over what is true. Whilst I am much more aware of the diet fed in the media to me as a consumer I still ask myself about all those other areas in my life where I allow truth to take a back seat.
I feel this is a big one for the whole of humanity “It’s nothing to do with me” attitude’ and I know many times I have had this attitude if not conscious unconsciously. My learning here is it is not about protesting, rah rah-ing or throwing the blame at others but to instead start to take a look at how we live, our own back yard so to speak. What do we put up with in life, what do we value and hold dear to us, how do we want the world to be for future generations and actually holding and raising this awareness not shutting it out or down because it is too much for us and ‘it will never change’. It also comes back to self-love and self-care because if we truly love ourselves and hold ourself dearly then this of course will reflect out to others and so this then becomes our baseline not ‘it has nothing to do with me attitude’.
Very true, I remember coming across a quote which said something along the lines of: “Everybody wants change, but nobody wants to change”, and that left such a profound mark on me. How can we expect the world to change but we ourselves remain forever the same, stuck in our ways and dogmas? If we are open and willing to see how we contribute to the mess we are in, if we are open to changing our ways, then we can perhaps see the world around us start making changes as well…
The crazy part is, we are actually given what we ask for. So what if we actually asked for the truth, asked for growth and evolution and for love to be the true and real foundation of our lives? Because, if this actually is our natural essence then it would appear that this would then come very easily for us, would it not? But since this is not our lived reality, could it be that we are very good at bringing in all kinds of issues and problems and complications by demanding (and hence being supplied) everything and anything but the loving foundation that we are from? Interesting to ponder on how much of our energy goes to what I call backwards evolution or un-evolutionary demands…and it appears to be a habit we all indulge in in some way or another!
I can put my hands up and say that there are many times when I have accepted the status quo not willing to rock the boat because to say the truth would be unpalatable for those to hear. What I am learning is to say it a way that doesn’t come from a judgement but genuine care, so that those who are open have the possibility to make a different choice. If we all keep indulging by keeping the status quo nothing will change.
Most people will not take action unless what has happened has directly affected them or a close one to them. The only time we see people truly coming together in the world is when there is a large scale natural disaster, and in this time, people work together and put aside all their differences and realise that we are all the same in the end. But why is it that we must wait for a natural disaster to be this way with each other? Why can we not live like this on a daily basis?
Because we are determined to carry on as we are, even though it’s so obviously not working. We kid ourselves that if things aren’t really bad with us or our immediate family then we’re doing well. But we know deep down that this isn’t the case. This rather shoddy representation of our true life is a greatly reduced version of the splendour that we’ve all lived before. Maybe we just can’t be bothered to change it because changing it has to start with changing ourselves. Easier in some regards to carry on as is, until that is, until it’s not.
Alexis I get what you are saying
‘Maybe we just can’t be bothered to change it because changing it has to start with changing ourselves. Easier in some regards to carry on as is, until that is, until it’s not.’
Because to be honest that is sometimes what I feel it’s easier not to rock the boat but to carry on until we cannot and we as a collective will forced to look at the mess we have made for ourselves and start to clear it up.
As a country Australians seem very complacent and though they get mildly outraged at things happening around them, the first response is “when is someone going to do something about that?” as opposed to taking action themselves. There is a real arrogance in this, where one is so deeply steeped in their comforts that they will not get up and do something that needs to be addressed. And so here too exposes the demand for comfort and how that can buy people into inactivity. An interesting tactic to dis-empower a whole population.
Johanna I agree with you while we are willing to stand by while these atrocities of life continue unabated then I feel we are doomed. I have personal experience of people being vilified who are known to a community but the community has not stood up as they do not want to get involved. So to me it always seems to come down to a choice and people’s perception that if something is written in the press or watched on television then it must be true. I can now see that mob rule simmers just below the surface of any society that in reality it shows me that as a species we have not evolved at all.
Your questions are good ones, the thread that I read all the way through is, are we willing to do anything if it doesn’t actually affect us? The majority would answer no. I have become so much more aware of things since I experienced them, things that I would have read or heard and just not taken in. Now I listen with less naive ears and I see with less naive eyes. We each have a responsibility to work for the good of the all rather than our own comfort in life.
This blog highlights for me the many ways we are willing to use the media as a form of entertainment and a distraction without wanting to see that behind every story is a person who is struggling with something.
The media has become the child jumping up and down wanting attention. Their actions feel like the reporting of anything out of the ordinary supports only the organisation presenting the information that draws more readers that in turn increases revenue.
Could your list of illnesses just be the tip of the iceberg for today’s men and women that is become the norm?
Yes I agree allowing lies to stand, or not challenging lies when we know they are lies, is the same as lying in my book.
Yes, a very humbling sentence. If you don’t speak up, are you allowing or even feeding the behaviour? Clearly it is an uncomfortable ‘yes’.
But the difficulty is that if we were to start to call out the lies then we’d have to call out every single aspect of our lives because none of us are living the truth of who we all are (apart from literally a handful of people). We’re multi dimensional beings living a one dimensional life, which is why life sucks so much!
Alexis what you are saying is that we all lie and we do because as you say there are just a handful of people who live the truth. So that must mean the rest of humanity is living in a cesspit of lies of our own making, which is as you say why life sucks so much!
This is becoming much more easily obvious to recognise the game played here. So often we consider the supplier to be the ‘baddie’ where if there was no demand, the supplier would have no role to fulfil.
Well said Gill – it goes much deeper than that. No different to a man or woman who ends up as a criminal and we dont stop to ask what kind of society allowed a person to grow up and feel they had to deal with life in that way? We are good at shying away from responsibility and blaming others, but how much are we really willing to look at in our own lives?
The energetic source that the ‘supplier’ uses to supply us is the same energetic source that we draw on to ask for the supply, it’s all The What is Not Truth and just to add that if we get emotional about the supplier supplying us then the emotion that we feel also comes from the same energetic source that is being used by the supplier. The only way to pull the plug on the suppliers is to switch the source of energy that we ourselves are drawing on, there’s no other way, holding up placards just doesn’t work.
Who decides in the sensationalised journalism world what they think we want next? Has it gotten to the point that it is like giving free drugs in the schoolyard to hook new customers? These journalists would not exist if we did not have the habit of consuming what they present.
As I deepen my awareness I am returning to the fact that everything is energy first and what I am feeling is that the energy we are currently living in has not changed for aeons. There is an energy at play that wants to keep us in distraction so that we do not have a sliver of a chance to return to all that we are. There are establishments that have aligned to this energy and because of this they have chosen to peddle the lies and miss truths that we now all live with as though they are the truth. There is a saying for it, It’s called ‘running with the hounds’ however there are consequences for this lack of responsibility and we are seeing more and more of the consequences of such ill behaviour in the weather systems that are affecting everyone. Mother nature is reflecting back to us that we are out of kilter and if we do nothing then it will only get worse and we will have no one to blame but ourselves. We are choosing or we could say we are demanding this waywardness and the energy is quite happy to supply it, the majority of us have no idea we are being played with like a cat plays with a mouse rather than killing it outright.
Have we all become turtles that just pull our heads in and ignore the world and never speak about anything? You only have to look at their evolution of non-change for what is in store for us!
I love the simplicity of truth. There are no grey areas. Being honest with myself is the way I am seeing through the miasma of lies that we have built our societies on, whether that is around cultural beliefs, religion, race, parenting, education, health… And each day is more refreshing as I explore the simplicity of truth.
Of course how we live has an affect on everything and this includes energetically what we are demanding. I have recently seen how often I will try and find something cheaper but in this what am i demanding the price or the quality and also am I valuing the person who makes the product or offers the service? First and foremost I really feel we need to value both ourselves and others in doing this it will change both the demand and the supply.
I read an article on a big news and entertainment site that was advising people on how to deal with the addiction of distraction as they called it. It’s quite something for this to be recognised but interesting how strategies are given but the call to ask what are we wanting to distract ourselves from and really name and address this, isn’t there.
I know for me half measures don’t take away the need to distract myself; what does is facing what I’m avoiding until it’s passed and I’ve come to a deeper understanding that doesn’t require any element of needing to look away.
Yes, there is that deeper question waiting to be asked, because otherwise we are using coping strategies to deal with coping strategies which just goes round and round in circles!
Only when we start to address that great long list you have supplied for us Johanna, will we be able to start to change the demand that we are coming from. But small changes can make a huge difference and there are now many people who are doing just that right now.
All journeys begin with the first step. And, that will always be our choice.
The media also contains a lot of judgement, they present a snapshot of a person’s life without the bigger picture being represented, and the opportunity for understanding.
If we look at the way the public in general often reacts to sensationalism journalism, it’s a proper lynch mob culture. There’s so much unexpressed, undeakt with emotions, which is basically suppressed feelings, waiting for any trigger for it to burst.
That’s very true Fumiyo, the media can also be quite intentionally manipulative, inserting unnecessary words about someone’s race, for example, to incite racism or imply such crimes are typical of certain nationalities. Garnering sympathy is another common tactic. The media is very cyclic with the use of emotion, content to elicit reaction, and a way of presenting information that ensures no true change.
Yes. I remember the relief of reading about other people’s dramas, indulging in salacious gossip basically, because it kept my attention from my own life and the stuff that needed dealing with at my front door.
Media is about selling entertainment and sensationlised stories including abhorrent lies, no longer about truth only because that’s what we will buy. We have lost our care for knowing what is truly happening because we would prefer to remain in the comfort of our current existence apart from those who live according to a deeper truth which has always been there when we choose to return to it.
I love the accountability of looking at the world and seeing what is being demanded. I listen to the news and though people seem to be demanding of truth they are looking in areas that obfuscate the truth at hand. For example, Did a politician say or not say some derogative remark about another politician or not? A whole debate that takes us from what is at hand needing true discussion.
What am I focusing on that is really a distraction, a procrastination of what there is to do?
We see it over and over again, we can blame suppliers for everything but if the demand is asking for something, the suppliers are simply filling the need.
Yes I agree. Although I would add that the suppliers are not innocent either. We all have a responsibility to consider the impact of our choices and this includes in business.
A great question Gill. Indeed what are we demanding? i remember being a bit bored oin the long school holidays but soon found something to occupy myself with. I recall my own children saying the same thing and they’d go outside and play. I doubt my grandchildren will say the same, as there are screens to occupy them day and night – for distraction. However the adults around them are reflecting screens at every opportunity – rather than interacting with the young ones around them. Why are we not taught to enjoy stillness and to be at one with ourselves – wherever we are and whatever age we are?
“Sensationalised journalism, news reporting and the like offer us a reflection of what we as a society are demanding.” In the UK currently so called news organisations promote their own bias. So who’s to know whats really true. We tend to read/ view the articles that support our own viewpoint. yet we, as a part of society need to take responsibility for what is happening currently – not just in the UK either, but on a world-wide scale.
In a world constantly demanding sensationalism, truth plays no part in what it is fed.
‘It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so.’ because we do not generally value older people in western society in the same way as some other parts of the world, or indeed in our own past, as a consequence we tend to forget the lessons learnt by previous generations much to our own cost.
In 2011 the UK abolished the retirement age. Was this to save the government money paid to retirees? Or, to keep people working because they could not afford to stop working. How have we gone from respecting our elders and the wisdom of lived life, to old people becoming an expensive commodity most governments can ill afford to support?
Our existence has become so far from truth that even when it is so clear that what we have as a way of life is not working, rather than make it about truth because that has become so distant, we turn to good and solutions to try to fix it. The truth however is never as far as it may seem as it lives inside each of us constantly and only takes a simple choice to start to connect to it and live from it each day.
While we ask for something over and over and over again, the supply will continue.
We’re literally begging to be tranquillised in whatever form it takes, be that trashy news, super sized portions of food, fizzy alcohol, emotional drama, extreme porn, constantly updated computer games, we literally don’t care in what form our tranquillisers come as long as we don’t have to feel. My drugs of choice were strenuous exercise, food, coffee, trashy TV and clubbing.
It is salutary to consider what we are demanding for in this life and what are we making available for everyone else with our demands.
We are living the lie that because of our advances in technology and scientific research etc that we are evolving but it is very clear from our ill health and recycled forms of abuse toward each other and ourselves that we are not. This being the case, this blog clearly shows this is not something we are victim to but rather a situation of our own creation and in realising this we have the choice to change it.
Indeed lets look our why we keep demanding things. Are we caught by our nature to seek stimulation and experiences over and over again? Or are we simply avoiding the truth that we disconnected from our very essence that does not seek individuality?
We get what we ask for, it is proven time and time again. It’s simple economics, when there is something in demand, the market finds a way to deliver – and the more they deliver, the cheaper the goods get. Exactly the same as journalism, in the past journalists were regarded as people of integrity, people who may bring to light what is going on in the shadows. Today, journalists (many, perhaps not all), remind me of hyenas, looking for dead meat to indulge on and fight over.
I am inspired by the realisation of the impact I have in my choices. What supply chain am I perpetuating… blame, conflict, gossip, drama OR joy, true work, responsibility and awareness?
A wise question to ask ourselves: “what are we actually consuming”? Have we stopped to look at this?
I’m seeing there’s such an accepted level of corruption in society that people just accept. Deceit is everywhere and I have been a part of this until I choose to address all the ways I have wanted to ‘get away with something.’ Recently my car broke down and I could have sold it with a fault and ‘got away with it’, but having this happen to me a few times I couldn’t choose doing this to another.
The feeling of being ‘got’ has always felt awful. There have been times I ignored what I’d knew was dodgy because I had wanted something too good to be true, but there were also times when I’ve done my best to be honest with what I was feeling and been got too. I have no doubt I’ve had my own past karma come back at me!
‘If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.’ profoundly powerful to bring this quality into everything without compromise. No shade only light.
‘no shade only light’. Well said. Feels like one can bask in the sunlight.
When we live in truth, anything less is as apparent as a full solar eclipse.
It is the quality of our expression that makes the difference. If the intention is to sensationalise to draw attention to a media source or ourselves then we are circulating the need for external validation and that is merely circulating a poison that does not offer an answer for our ills and disharmony.
So next time we go to the supermarket and they have run out of a favourite product, it’s good to consider what we are demanding is supplied to us and what comes with our demands.
Demanding in itself doesn’t work, whenever we try and demand that something either happen or not happen then we are using force to bring it about and force has never worked long term. Long term change can and will happen but only as a natural consequence of energetic alignment to the truth.
The supply and demand equation is very real. We conveniently ignore it when it challenges our comfort or chosen level of responsibility.
Spot on Matilda. It’s like the nimby syndrome – not in my back yard – others need to change, but I’m alright Jack. Wheres the responsibility in that?
Most of my life I was very good at pointing the finger of blame at this or that. There seemed to be a sense of superiority gained through the belief that I was on a moral higher ground and the comfortable thought that I had somehow done my bit because I had participated in a conversation about how wrong everything was. Yet when we bring in the understanding that there is no supply without a demand, and consider the invitation to go deeper into our relationship and actual impact on everything that is happening, it all starts to look quite different.
Golnaz I know exactly what you are sharing because recently I was having a conversation with someone sharing a situation that happened at work and I completely exposed myself in my arrogance, justifications, and back off attitude. The moment we fight back we are lost to the same energy we are fighting. It’s such a set up one that I fall for it every time. The key I am discovering is surrendering and going deeper into our relationship with ourselves, as the energy is constantly goading us to react because when we react we take on that energy and we are not ourselves but a slave to the energy.
‘it is our quality – what we establish as our foundation in our life, in our relationships, the decency and respect we live with – that then filters out to lay the format for how the rest of life plays out, not the other way round.’ So true, we can’t underestimate the power that comes through us or, indeed, the forces we may indulge in when we aren’t allowing of that power.
It’s either the quality of God or the quality of What Is Not God that is coming through us at any one time, there are no other choices. And it is the quality of what is coming through us that will lead to the next set of options available to us in order for us to make our next move, have our next thought, say our next thing. We are being walked, thought and spoken through, there is no ‘us’, ‘our’ expression is not our own, we are vehicles for the expression of the consciousness of God or Not the consciousness of God, it’s as simple as that.
The quality of life we experience is determined by the quality we live, not the other way round.
Johanna, reading your article I can feel how when we do not say anything about the abuse and lies in the world then this allows things to slide and gradually get worse. It is for each and everyone one of us to stand up for what we feel is true.
Johanna, I have noticed a real change in the media that is now available in shops, particularly with women’s magazines. There used to be a lot of real life stories about people and their health and their lives, in the last 5-10 years this has changed from real, true stories, to more of the content being instead gossip about celebrities.
Interesting you’ve noticed this. Sounds like what’s consumed is becoming more toxic – and I say toxic because I know whenever I read any of this I feel very ill at ease, nauseous even. It doesn’t sit well knowing people are being spoken about in negative ways and copping the effects of this.
And, what a small part that is, when you remove the advertisements in the magazines which is the significant portion.
it is worrying when our need for recognition is the driver behind journalism and media.
Whilst we seek, en mass distraction, gossip, sensationalism in favour of the truth… this is what we will get.
Yup. And it is an indicator of our ignorance when we ignore this and/or blame someone or something else.
“If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.” So true Johanna, yet we are choosing anything but, preferring to wrangle about right and wrong, as per our own individual perceptions. What if we paused and took a moment to see the bigger picture at play?
The vacillation of the government in regards to Brexit is a good example.
The supply and demand cycle is one of circulating what is not the truth of who we are in life and never ending as its source requires constant feeding.
Truth comes to the fore when we are prepared to say no to the abuse.
I like that Paula, there needs to be a willingness first.
‘…are happy to act on only a functional level in life and in relationships…’ this really highlights the lack of attention we pay to the quality of a lot of things in life, whether determining whether something is truth-full or not or just the quality of energy which comes with all things.
An interesting way to view things came to light as it is all too often the simple way to blame another, blame a system instead of asking why that system exists. Take my attempts at different businesses over the past 20 years, whenever I had a great idea I wanted to supply to the world it never worked. Then on the flip side say I got a sense of what the world wanted and then supplied that the business worked great. In effect, it was only the demand that created the success in my supply. So if we don’t like things, we first have to stop demanding them.
There is so much we can change in this world simply by our own living ways.
“There is so much we can change in this world simply by our own living ways”. Esther I would add that we can’t change anything any other way other than by changing our own living ways.
It takes two to tango, one to lead and the other to oblige.
It occurs to me that our own experience of life begins with supply and demand also. When we choose to align to a quality of energy we are asking for all that comes with it, this determines our experience of life.
It feels like we have already fallen rock bottom from where we could be living lovingly when we look at the state of the world. We can start by looking at how consistently we live and how loving our relationships are. These small changes will grow into something bigger as we reflect a different way.
Food scientists call the perfect combination of sugar, salt and fat the bliss factor that fools the mind to not stop eating. Is there a bliss factor in sensationalised journalism that makes us want more and more?
Enter social media and this has become even more obvious. Do we use sensationalised media, soapies etc, to numb ourselves to what is going on in our own lives – and thus stopping ourselves from doing anything about it? And how much time do they waste?!
Daily I observe on my commute, to work in London every day that people around me are plugged into something; music, video or reading. The others are catching up on their sleep. Two Million people use the tube daily, how many hours does that waste?
‘We all have a role, a responsibility to take in how our world is as a whole, collectively.’ this is fundamental to a return to a true way of living which is based on our understanding of how we are inextricably connected.
We can indeed consume news as if it is our fodder to circulate and pass on to give us a sense of inclusion and belonging. However we miss the opportunity to feel how we are part of the whole and understand the energetic games at play.
When we as a humanity demand truth, there will be an opening for the abundance of truth that is already there to come forth.
Discerning lies from truth becomes more difficult when we live or chose the lies on a day to day basis or live amongst them AND accept them as normal. But if we live by the truth, then it is easy to see a lie for it stands out like a sore thumb, and then it is easy for us to say no to this or simply not accept this as normal and hence not take it on board in our own life as a way to live. So the game becomes one of standing by the truth and feeling which things around us are the lies and which ones are truths to abide by.
News is meant to inform us of the truth – but our current media is not serving this role. Instead they have catered for the gradual and increasing demand which is the delivery of sensationalism and untruths. This is a bastardisation of what media is truly about.
“The fact is, we are actually choosing and even enjoy sensationalised, tantalising media and news reporting instead of calling for that which simply gets to the facts and truth of the rot in life and exposes it for what it is. The news and social media platforms allow us to know about issues from an emotional, elated view, whether they are the truth or not. It is the elation, the emotional aspect and the sensationalism that we have become familiar with and accepted.” – the demand is sensationalism and not for Truth and facts.
Yes, asking myself how much do I care is a very practical way to start to see my place in the world’s matters, and then go a step further and ask how deep do I care and how can this care then be lived and expressed.
How often are we supplied something, we are made to think, we want or need?
Great point Steve, the media are also like clever sales people who know what to say to sell their product, but even then it is about the buyer being discerning – for with anything in life we are still ultimately responsible for what we have said yes to.
We are so deep in the lies which have become a way of life that we don’t recognise the truth when it is right in front of our faces and more so we reject it due to all it exposes in us.
Why do we only try to show we care at Christmas? It has become the artificial tree we put up for a few weeks then back in the box for another year.
If we do not demand truth and unwaveringly stand up for it then we will continue to be served up lies, propaganda and others’ bias.
We would also see the true effect that all of our behaviours or demands have on others and that we have chosen this.
What is so ludicrous about the right and wrong basket is that things keep changing and the goalposts keep moving and yesterday’s hero is tomorrow’s villian. Such is the game being played by many. Love and truth however are constants to come back to and surpass any right and wrong judgements that we might be tempted to make.
We feed the demand by simply saying to ourselves “well that doesn’t matter because it doesn’t affect me”. Essentially even if we say we don’t like something, but we continue to use that something then we are agreeing in full what what it is we say we don’t like. Talk is definitely cheap.
Too often we wonder through life without living and planting the seeds of the qualities we so cherish. And far too few take up our part in taking care of nurturing and deepening these qualities in ourself and others. Then we get upset because of the dearth of such qualities in our life. But sooner or later we need to face up to the fact that you reap what you sow.
I agree with you Ariana, and the lies are of colossal proportions which only goes to show the level of comfort we have created.
‘If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives…’ this is absolute, meaning not only do we need to look at those things where this is not the case, but also the ones where it has been but they have not continued to deepen as truth deepens and expands as we do.
I love what you have brought here Michael, in how we can deepen with things.
I guess the bottom line is, how much do we care enough to actually stand up for truth?
It takes specific conditions for certain types of bacteria to grow, if we understand that and change those conditions it is not able to do so. There is much we can learn from nature…
When we read or hear something in the news we have a choice to question it or simply just accept what is being presented. I have observed this in myself and there is a definite moment in myself to either accept it as it is or to question, and too many times I just accept as is.
To demand truth we must first supply truth.
The way to provide truth is to live it.
It can be so easy to switch off from your list of questions, feeling there’s nothing I can do…. Alternatively go into overwhelm and or try to ‘do’ lots to alleviate the suffering there. Coming back to myself and finding the balance within and the quality I bring to every situation has answered my dilemma somewhat. Expressing when something is wrong and not contributing to the demand – two things I can do to reduce the supply of evil.
And as Steve said in his comment the way to ‘reduce the supply of evil’ is to live truth. I add – be honest and committed to unearthing what we have in our lives that has us avoiding truth.
“How far will we fall as a whole before we are forced to do something that makes true change?” Such a pertinent question Johanna. How long will it take for us all to wake up to what is truly going on in the world. There are signs now it is slowly happening for some….
This certainly offers us a stark point of reflection when we find ourselves complaining about anything in society in that we are shown our own responsibility in having created it and continuing to fuel it until we choose a new way.
It is good to have all these questions written down here and ask myself how much do I care and if not why and if yes what is there for me to deepen to not be part of these careless actions.
There is so much that is not okay in our world and we tend to be so good at blaming and pointing the finger. But if we truly consider the concept of supply and demand, we would realise that the power for change lies much closer to home than we imagined.
Something that has been repeated quite a lot in this blog is “how much do we care?” An important question for us to ponder on deeply. For we need to ask that question of ourselves before we even consider how much we care for others. It is very natural for us to care, but what is the quality of that care?
This is a very important point to consider as we have made care a very functional activity instead of allowing ourselves to care with every fibre of our body.
Yes, so many ‘carers’ out there – but what is the quality? And even more importantly what quality do we – and they – care for themselves?
So true Jennifer … we can say we care and use caring words, but we all feel it when the quality and actions don’t match the words.
We are consuming all sorts of material, entertainment, news, food, conversations and yet we often do not stop to consider the quality and truth of these. All the while the body must deal with our energetic choices of what we engage with that is not true.
I used to be really unwilling to look at any of those questions Johanna, I thought they were nothing to do with me: such ‘head in the sand’ behaviour. But nothing ever changes with that, we all need to ponder on them because they actually affect all of us.
I agree Gill, just because we do not see, or want to see, our part in it doesn’t mean it does not affect us.
‘We, as a global society, no longer seek the truth of matters and do not foundationally base our perception of life from the point of truth and untruth.’ this is huge and to be understood reveals the depth of the lies that we have been living and are prepared to not see past in order to remain in the comfort of existence.
Settling for lies exposes our choice to avoid responsibility.
Yes. I agree. And if we can break this pattern the world becomes a rich place to learn and grow.
Whilst we allow and accept the unprecedented lies of this world, we are not open to hearing or seeing truth, even if its right in front of us and glaringly obvious to another.
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Supply and demand is relatable to every aspect of human life. I see the stress of Christmas for many and I feel it myself, though not in an obvious way because I don’t have to cook a meal for people or get loads of presents etc. But I still feel the pressure to make the day special. Why is this? Is the demand placed on Christmas day to deliver the closeness we didn’t work on in our relationships during the whole year ? Do we put an inordinate pressure on ourselves to make the day perfect to avoid the lack of connection we have with ourselves and others on a daily basis, and we try to make up for it on this one day? Instead of getting caught up in all of this I have the luxury of a day, like any other, to feel where I’m at with myself and where I can be more loving with others.
There is something in the way that we consume the media we consume. Most are aware that there are questionable media outlets, but most would have a very trusted source. But do we really ask what is it that is being circulated and what is it that we need out of what is being circulated. Are we really being informed by the media or is it simply entertaining us to a level where it puts a veil over what is the real news? The bottom line here is that we are choosing the veil, we are choosing the entertainment, which means we are choosing to not know the true story. I still consume media in different ways and I want to get to the bottom of what it is that I need from it and how this feeds the current cycle of media.
It is so simple to see from this that if we live anything but truth it is the last thing we would ask for from the media however this is not to say that the those working in the media do have a responsibility for what they too are choosing. Collectively we must come to a point of realising that we are all in this together to ask different questions, seeking true answers.
The media has a lot to answer to but so do we as individuals and the first step to changing this destructive trend is to have the integrity ourselves and take responsibility for our actions.
So true Julie – the media can only sell what we are asking for or are willing to buy.
I was reflecting on this the other day when retail stores say ‘now back by popular demand’ etc. Why do we demand products yet not demand truth?
We underestimate the influence of the news on our perception of life but more so our influence on shaping it that way.
I was having a conversation with some of my Turkish students the other day and they were telling me how the media makes out that everyone is uneducated, backward, living as villagers and marrying at 14. It had me pondering on how much of our perception of a country is based on what the media puts out and the power of their agenda.
Yes, we are sold a story by the media that plays into ways of viewing a people and then ways of behaving towards them. We are so manipulated because we don’t stop to question.
Our problem is we don’t want to hear the truth! It rocks our boat in the choppy water we have created that we call life!
What has happened to truth in this world? Its a great question to ask as it seems we as a humanity are doing our utmost to avoid truth – at great cost to us all.
We all innately know truth – its just that we override it to fit in with everyone else … but if everyone was living their truth there would be no fitting in.
Right or wrong has become our gauge in life – where in fact our lives need to be all about truth.
I agree – the news makes me feel included by hooking me in to become a part of the ongoing story of human life, or so I would like to think. But what if the story is just outright wrong, the headlines sensationalised, the basis some whim of the reporter or a strategic twist on a mogul’s personal agenda. Forget truth, forget right or wrong, there is a game being played by the media.. which we are all supporting, and it serves no one.
The fact that there is such a big demand for sensationalised articles in the media (as opposed to true reporting of news), shows how most of us prefer to be entertained (which includes our emotional outbursts which is not dissimilar to watching football or some other sport) rather than bothering to actually find out what is going on, let alone consider what could be done about it.
If we bring truth to all aspects of our lives there wouldn’t be any room for what is not true. This is so true. I can certainly close the gaps where I let in what doesn’t serve humanity. I know where I am not running a tight ship.
What is the easiest thing to consume, something that is free! Newspapers on trains, planes, waiting rooms, junk food that is handed out as samples. Are all these freebies just a method of fishing?
It makes sense to broaden our enquiry of what we consume to not only material things but the quality of the energy we choose to live by.
The question, ‘how much do we actually care’ about whatever it is that is not right in this world is more honestly answered by our willingness to actually stand up for the truth.
It sure is Sandra and it is a great question, because if we truly cared about something or another we would say no to anything which is less than the love we are as anything less is abusive and an assault to the body.
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Almost everything in life is there because of a demand, our demand. ” Ask and thee shall receive”. But do we know what we are asking for and what the consequences of that will be over time.
The thing is that when we get honest with ourselves which is the precursor to truth, life becomes so much simpler.
And, a simple life makes anything that is not the truth, to stand out even more!
“The way our media is today allows us to remain distracted from living life in-truth” – and this could be said for many things in our lives – how much of what we live is lived for us growing and evolving versus simply being distracted from the all that we feel?
An every moment choice we have to live responsibly – open to learning and growing – rather than settling for a comfy plateau existence.
Consumerism is what dictates the market with demand controlling the supply – but what is this saying about our current consumerism? Perhaps there is something behind consumerism itself that is controlling this too…
I do have to wonder at the choices we are making having recently watched part of a documentary called ‘County Lines’. It is where drugs are transported into the rural areas of the UK to be pushed by local dealers who report back and get their supplies from the drug bosses back in the cities; it’s rife apparently. People who are on drugs sometimes allow or forcibly have their property taken over by the drug dealers this is called a ‘cuckoos nest’ where the house/ flat becomes the focus point for the dealing. It all looked pretty appalling. But there is a part of me that has to ask why is this is happening what is it about us that we don’t wake up in the morning full of vim and vigor looking forward to the day ahead? Why is it we go to bed at night so tired and yet wake up just as tired? We go to school, get a job, get married, have children, retire, die and our children repeat the same process surely there has to be more to life than this? And if we don’t think there is then no wonder there is a demand for drugs or anything to suppress the monotony of a life bereft of any meaning or joy.
“But there is a part of me that has to ask why is this is happening what is it about us that we don’t wake up in the morning full of vim and vigor looking forward to the day ahead? Why is it we go to bed at night so tired and yet wake up just as tired? We go to school, get a job, get married, have children, retire, die and our children repeat the same process surely there has to be more to life than this?’ Agree Mary, this is the very question we all need to be asking ourselves.
I’ve been looking at my demands, how much I want to be distracted and entertained. It’s been very sobering and to feel the energy I’ve demanded (mostly TV shows) has felt awful. I can feel how I’ve sold myself so short of the glory of who I am. I can feel this great heavy, dulling blanket over people that people are grabbing for comfort. But the blanket is dull and grey and very damp, it’s making us sick. If we were to do away with the blanket we’d discover beautiful sunlight coming through us. But we have to be willing to see through the lies and corruption and say no.
It would seem that many are only called to stand up and be counted when they are affected personally. Your list of questions makes sobering reading. How much do we truly care about our fellow humans?
Why do we feel we can control the supply of the truth? Have you ever been told by someone that they held back the truth for your our own good? But at the same time, demand that we are told lies?
There is no judgement when we see that life is based on supply and demand. We have created a market in the world for things to be needed so that we can numb and dull our connection to who we are. In fact we demand it.
It’s pretty awful to see where we are as a society and the abuse that goes on within the media. There are so many cases just at the moment of where the media has failed to tell the truth and that is then what the readers believe. There is a responsibility to be taken both as the reader and the writer – and the worst thing is that we are comfortable with where we are rather than questioning of what we are presented with and what we want to believe is actually the truth.
Well shared HM – when we consume blindly we feed more of the same, and this has repercussions on many levels.
And so important to note that it is both the reader and the writer that are complicit in this. We get the press we deserve – nothing more nothing less.
This becomes a cycle of not asking for truth and accepting that which is not true which we feel then allows us to indulge further in a lack of responsibility in this regard.
Have you ever been accused of doing something you did not do? Then justify it to yourself that it is OK to do it now because they are adamant you’re guilty! How long have we played this game of tit for tat, playing the blame game?
It is actually exhausting trying to stay up with the supply and demand of general media circulation and yet connect with truth in what is expressed or reflected and there is an expansion that is offered.
The more we bring truth into every facet of our life, that which is not the truth stands out like a sore thumb!
“News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life with this misinformation.” And thus we sell ourselves short of achieving a society that innately nourishes all of us rather than one that at present favours those who value money, power and wealth more that people’s welfare.
If life is just about two types of energy, let us all be clear about the variety we supply and put the call out for each and every day.
The media have a smorgest-board of topics that they can play with to keep the public attached to misadventure, misleading agenda, gossip and the excitement of the chase all of which are designed to hide the Truth by their shadowy tactics to make so called good reading in other words they knowingly contrive to eliminate the Truth.
We get a deeper understanding of how greed and corruption affects us all in the latest 2018 movie on Robin Hood produced by Otto Bathurst. So then the question becomes how long are we going to allow the greed and corruption to go unabated before we become honest about what is going on and start asking for change as a collective society?
Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam from a major or minor traffic accident, on the other side of the road that is caused by rubberneckers slowing down to have a look? Does this obsession that makes us have a look, make ourselves a fertile bed for the media?
True – and the amount of print that goes into intruding into the lives of so-called celebrities. Wanting to see what’s going on in others lives – is this a distraction form taking a long hard look into our own – and seeing the mess we create on a daily basis?
So True Steve, and looking for fertile beds, which are usually made of Compost that is composed of poo and left-overs or in other words a lot of crap makes us believe in efforts that are futile as far as our evolution is concerned. So we make our own “fertile bed” and once a seed is planted it will flourish being feed on crap! Until we re-connect to our essences and feel the difference between Truth and S___!!!!
Well said Greg. It is our responsibility to call a STOP to it all and ask the Media to take responsibility to write and print the TRUTH for truth sakes.
“STOP” buying or subscribing to lies and when there is no demand we all then will start asking for change!
The Truth is always available … the question is, are we willing to hear it and see it?
Time can certainly be used as a marker for our choices, but space is the one that determines the quality of those choices. In the end when we look back, we get to feel where we stand, not in terms of how ‘far’ we have come for there is no such thing, but there is the quality of the space we stand in and with. What quality do we want to be standing in – that of lies and sensationalism, or that of Truth and a foundation that is solid and known? These are big questions to ponder on especially in today’s climate.
Truth does not appear popular, instead people are drawn to sensationalism and lies. This is the reality of the society that we live in and the way that the majority are living. Truth asks you to be accountable, to step up to truly living life and to being honest about where we are at – this can be too confronting for some and so out of comfort it is easier to ignore the truth and by default opt for the lies and sensationalism. But there comes a point when this too will feel hollow and pointless and then we will eventually seek Truth. When will this happen to us as a collective, I wonder?
And so it follows that to dry up the supply we simply need to cease the demand, but we have to want to cease it so herein lays the problem.
‘How often are we happy to sit back and listen to or view the latest dilemma in a celebrity’s life when there are people in the world who do not have running water or plumbing?’ This one is very typical of the way we love gossip but ignore Truth.
Sensationalisation sells – morsels that pique and distract from the already lie we in truth hate living.
It seems as though the misery of others is being used for entertainment by the media in response to what we are asking for. Are we asking for it because it then distracts us away from our own miseries?
Well said Julie – a distraction from what we should be dealing with is a powerful tool to delay any true work on and for ourselves and our own growth. What are we then investing in?
There is so much in the world where we simply don’t care enough as the list above begins to show us, yet it is not that we can go and resolve these directly, first hand, that would feel like an impossible task – yet what’s shared here of we can do, is play our part by living truth and love in the smallest areas of our life.
At first glance truth may appear unexciting but as an alternative for circulating emotion, heightened emotion, distraction, numbing and so on, it provides a refreshing foundation that feels solid and the deeper we allow ourselves to go into truth the richer we find the stillness and awareness it offers.
A drop of rain on our head is of no concern. If it rains harder, we just put up an umbrella. What are we going to do when we are up to our neck in water and it is still raining? Is this not the same as not standing up for all the things we are allowing to go unchallenged?
Great analogy Steve … will we wait until we are almost drowning before we wake up to the reality of this world we have created?
The truth becomes a very hard sell when it exposes that we are all shirking our responsibility, big time – we want to read what will allow us to feel good about ourselves and stay comfortable. It appears, we are not truly interested in knowing the truth if it’s going to challenge our status quo.
Therein lies the demand.
Reading this I am asking myself what is it in life that I am demanding? No different to what foods am I craving tells me if I am honest with myself, what’s going on, the same too with seeking out films or clicking on certain ‘news’ headlines.
Great point Karin – when I am craving foods that I know are not good for me, this is a great opportunity for me to consider what else am I craving and choosing that is not true, that is not helping me to evolve, but keeping me in circulation energy, in comfort.
It is a great question to reflect on, be honest with ourselves and to ask what in life are we demanding even on a subtle level.
Do we get to the point of awareness, where we have the opportunity to accept the responsibility of what is on offer or choose to dull ourselves?
We tend to stay in our own comfortable bubble until something impacts us directly. I tended to ignore drug addicts until I lived in a street where drugs are sold and consumed and the aggravated behaviour that resulted from drug and alcohol abuse disturbed my sleep. What have I done about it? Nothing directly, but it has made me explore my own addictive behaviours.
Yes, we definitely do stay in our comfortable bubble, I can attest to that! I love what you raise here, Carmel, when we find something disturbing, even if we’re not contributing directly – it’s a great opportunity for us to consider what other ways we may be contributing to the same energy in other area’s of our life.
‘It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so.’ We so like to bemoan this fact and blame everyone around us, but if we are not taking responsibility for our own expression we are adding to this pool and are equally responsible for it.
I was having lunch with some colleagues recently and one of them ordered a Fish curry and when it came some of the Fish was raw and they were not happy about this, but they did not complain to the staff but said it didn’t matter. I watched and felt that the person was already so given up in life that it was as though they felt it was just another incident to show them just how much life is a drain. When we do not stand up for what we know to be true it sends out a message that we don’t care and it is the ‘I don’t care’ energy that dominates and everyone gets to feel this and can be persuaded by it.
I love the way we can take this example to the greater end effect – that by one person not speaking up makes it so much more normal for these types of situations or quality of service to be expected and accepted by others.
Reading this I can appreciate how much I have changed as in the past I would have felt a similar way (thought it didn’t matter) on reflection this was an ongoing effect of being younger and feeling that what I said did not make any difference, or ‘did not matter’. The truth is what we say does make a difference, our voices do count and also I now know it is easy to change from not loving yourself to starting to love yourself when you know how.
I can relate Vicky because I used to hate speaking up about things and used to tell myself that I hated making a nuisance of myself or it’s not worth the hassle was a good one. What I have now come to realise is that by not speaking up we add to the rot and keep it all going.
We are drowning in a sea of sensational journalism. Noah at least had a boat!
Truth seems to have become a rare commodity these days because often what we call the truth and swear by it, is often lies, or a watered down version of the truth.
Truth isn’t even a word that we use very much. Yes we are in the habit of calling people liars but then that often has nothing to do with the truth.
Are we just inviting them into our club? For not standing up for truth makes us a paid-up member of the liars club!
Steve we’re all honorary members of ‘The Big Fat Liars Club’ the ironic thing is, most of us are too dishonest to admit it!
‘We all have a role, a responsibility to take in how our world is as a whole, collectively.’ – when we make life about right and wrong – this is not taking responsibility – it provides us with a means by which we can remain irresponsibly comfortable in the knowing, and justification, that we are doing ‘better’ than others.
“What about Truth?” Indeed … we seem to avoid it at all costs but perhaps that is because it often comes loaded with the reactions of the person presenting it? But how amazingly healing is truth when it is presented with love – presented without any judgment and with the honesty that is there to be truly felt … this is when truth transforms our lives in the most inspirational ways.
‘How much goes by around us that we simply do not want to take part in or get involved in, enquire about or voice our position about to another to start the conversation?’ Too much! It’s been so easy for me to discount what I do know because I think I don’t know enough, I’m not knowledgeable enough about a subject but actually, when I give myself the chance to express, there isn’t a subject I can’t comment upon. This is incredible and I’m no different to anyone else. We’ve all got a completely valid perspective that needs to be heard that, more often than not, we’re stifling.
Can it ever be wrong to express what we feel?
I watched a clip the other day on county lines in the UK. For those that haven’t heard of county lines it is where gangs recruit young people as young as 12 to be drug runners and where drugs are moved out of the town and into the country expanding their patch. The reason there is a lot more knife crime in London and other areas. In the interview one business man was interviewed smoking crack saying how he can’t stop and he spends all of his money on it. Later on when a young girl was interviewed sharing how a young person she knew had been killed because of county lines the top she was wearing said ‘supply and demand’. To me this summed up we are all responsible for what is happening within the world for if the demand is not there then the supply will not be.
Supply is a reflection of demand.
And, we are the one that chooses what we demand.
I find this very confronting, there is a part of me that is struggling to accept the truth of what you are sharing because it’s so tragic that children are being recruited and used in this way, that as a society drug use has become normal/not out of the ordinary – in truth, this is exposing a level of comfort that I’m living with – nothing will change unless we are willing to be honest about how we are choosing to live and the consequences on us all from those choices.
So true Alison. The depth of our irresponsibility is shocking and hence the desire to look the other way is huge. Addressing how we live each and every day has a much bigger impact than we may care to acknowledge, as everyday we can either fuel the demands for more of the same that keeps everyone in the same rut, or begin to restore integrity, respect and truth to our every move and thus create a different demand that can empower real and lasting change.
‘It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so.’ I had the pleasure to be talking with a elderly gentleman yesterday of 102 years in age and it was amazing to feel the quality in which he has lived his life and continues to despite his age. We really have got so much we can learn from our elders if we but valued the lives lived by them irrespective of age.
A few years ago, it was just funny clips of people on their phones walking into posts ponds and walls. Today it has become a statistic that is rising, from people dying by walking into traffic. What is hooking us to exit everything around us? As you have stated, ‘what are we actually consuming’?
All that is not right in the world is going to have to get so bad and to the point where it effects everyone before we all say enough is enough and demand change. The majority needs to wake up and force the powers that be to strive for a fairer and true way of living where no one hungers and no one is without true medicine.
We have made life about everything but the truth and yet the truth is the base for everything.
We are demanding that we be almost permanently distracted and that is exactly what we’re getting.
‘… our world today is set up to entertain, to distract and to position life, people and events in either the right or wrong basket. It is not about truth.’ – right and wrong is a distraction and comes from a position of separation and judgment where there is a need to attribute blame, but the root cause isn’t addressed – as there is no right or wrong, rather what is true and what is not true. With that comes a responsibility to live the truth and to allow the learning that is constantly there for us along the way.
The truth is always about everyone. We all have a shared responsibility in expressing and living the truth.
‘If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.’ – this is huge, this is the potential of how we could all be living together right now, but in order for this to happen it’s up to each and every one of us to take responsibility and choose to live in this way. It’s up to us.
“It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so.” Alarmingly so and it seems very few of us are saying anything about it. Do we need a major catastrophe for us to put the welfare of people first and foremost or are we able to avoid disaster by turning our tide of indifference now.
What if there is no demand for the truth or the demand for items that are not true is much higher?
It currently seems this way Christoph that the demand is for lies and not the truth. I cannot wait for this to change ✨ for it is sooo needed.
‘The issues we all complain about and do not like to see and feel, especially when they come knocking on our own door, are the very ones we have been investing in.’ – Yes, more and more people seem to be deeply concerned about the state we, mankind, find ourselves in – question is, are we honestly prepared to make the necessary changes in our own lives?
We have collectively allowed untruth to fester and fester it does.
‘If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist’ a powerful point to ponder and observe the ways in which we do or do not do this as we go through the day.
It has been really interesting and actually quite alarming to realise how much I have found and thought that I have even enjoyed the stimulation from drama and misery in my life. I see this much more acutely in those around me too and recognise the energy that it can bring – an energy that is in truth quite harmful and when we allow ourselves to really feel it’s quality is ugly and pervasive.
There will always be a thirst and demand for lies when living is without simple love.
You can tell what you have been demanding by what is supplied through your internet advertising feeds; what pops up on your screen, what junk emails do you receive – never has the demand/supply system been so immediate and accurate.
If just one person in a crowd stands up and expresses what is wrong in the world, they are treated like a nutter and ignored. What if everyone that feels and knows what is being presented to us is all lies, expressed our disgust fully? And, not in reaction, just truth.
To read the news as a prop as a way of being engaged in the world, involved … that prompted an ouch, for the truth asked here is what is the news doing and what are we buying into with that news, is it truly about the world and what is going on and do we in fact do anything about it in our consumption of news … or is it the world as a ‘safe’ distance with a false picture?
News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life’. Much of life relies on us swallowing information hook line and sinker that we don’t think to question or consider beyond what has already been accepted.
‘How much goes by around us that we simply do not want to take part in or get involved in, enquire about or voice our position about to another to start the conversation? ‘
Great question. It’s actually shocking to admit that we have news all around us when we open our eyes (homeless on the streets, people getting so visibly wasted at night in town centres, the things we put into our shopping trolley that aren’t at all healthy) and yet we consider news to be what we read or see on the TV, social media. It’s like the news all around us we’ve put blinkers on and without the spin and filter put on by the media we don’t want to acknowledge what’s in front of us.
We’ve made life about what the world does or what other people say when all along it was down to whether we choose to say ‘yes’ to Love.
“What about the truth?” It seems as a society we are avoiding truth no matter how dire the state of the world is … but we all have to face the reality that we have each been responsible for this mess, which is not the big deal we are set up to believe.
Indeed, we are too busy blaming others to see the effect of our own contribution.
We might consider truth when all else fails …
‘News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life with this misinformation.’ – And that’s how we become puppets that pass on the same misinformation as ‘truth’.
A call for us to get honest about where we truly stand and what it will take for there to be true and lasting change.
Rather take those steps now to bring true change, than to fall as a whole before we are forced to do something.
Yes is it not our collective responsibility to do so..
‘If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.’ How many of us have been living a lie? Pretty much all of us, especially since we were not told as children who we truly are.That is the one big lie we have all been living and at the same time we have not been taught to rely on what we feel inside in order to discern Truth, we have been taught to give our power away to outside authorities. We can start small, allow ourselves to feel and discern small things so that our sensitivity grows and expands.
‘What are we over and over again, continuing to ask for?’ – great question. Do we have the honesty to admit that if we weren’t asking for things – everything that is not true would not be here.
Absolutely and realising that we are making a choice to ask for something in every moment – not just when we go to buy a newspaper.
What causes an; I would like, into a demand?
For the world to change it begins with each of us taking responsibility of our own way of living rather than waiting for the world around us to change.
Absolutely Elizabeth – an approach that is the polar opposite to the common ‘who can I blame for this situation’.
So true Elizabeth, it is our own ‘loveless ways’ that establishes the lovelessness in the world that we object to and wish to be changed.
Sensationalism is an addiction that keeps us stuck in the same loop, never expanding our awareness or deepening the quality of our lives.
Indeed it is – sensationalism if taken on, is poison to our entire body and being.
Sensationalism is justification of the choices that we have been making.
History reflects the continuing cycles of persecution and abuse against those who have been prepared to deliver truth to shed light upon our contracted and checked out human condition. Sadly this still continues as we prefer to remain in our self-constructed bubble of comfort, victimisation, blame, reaction and judgement against anyone who dares to live and reflect the truth of living from love. Time to open our eyes to the undercurrent of ill and evil that still runs (controls) our human existence.
There is a small group of birds that collect shiny things for their nests, have we become another species that does the same?
There is a truth to everything but we have for aeons allowed the lies to take precedence with the effect of believing our own lies and not wanting to rock the boat even to the point where we tell ourselves that things are better than they are.
The only thing we should demand is the truth or does it hurt too much to face up to what is really going on and we need that distraction so many of us buy into?
Could it be a resistance to admitting that we have all contributed to ‘what is really going on’ and hence we need the distraction to not have to see the truth of the matter.
Yes and the bigger the distractions need to be to keep the Truth at bay. At some point we will be forced to face it, the sooner we take that step the greater the opportunity becomes to sort it all out.
Your partial list of things we have ignored only scratches the surface of what we have allowed growing into every aspect of our lives. Have we reached the tipping point and now require something cataclysmic to get our attention?
All our news and interpretation of news is an echo chamber of what we want to believe or told to believe .
There is a level of putting our heads in the sand that takes its toll. But when we truly want to see what is going on, we can also be supported to respond rather than react.
“News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life with this misinformation.” A sad state of affairs, but true, that misinformation will make us feel included in life … when nothing outside of us will ever succeed in making us feel included – it is up to each one of us to include ourselves in life, to commit and partake of life, to feel our true purpose for being here.
I don’t normally read newspapers or even listen much to news on the radio but I do get to hear about what’s happening in the world through Social Media and it isn’t nice. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the enormity of it all and feel somewhat helpless but I am reminded by wise friends that it is our own personal livingness that will make a difference in the world, I don’t need to set up a project to save the world from its own destruction, just let my light be seen in my local community, do as much as I feel needs to be done and always look for ways to express that light. How I am living is far from ‘perfect’ and can always be refined and that is what I am working on.
Truth is always lived and never bought. The livingness of it produces the demand to then be supplied with what is also of truth and never less.
I think it’s a really great point about how we can use media as a distraction to avoid being more aware of the choices we are living in our life rather than seeking to be truly informed and inspired, and how what we seek from the media feeds into the quality of what is actually published…
Do we prefer to read the news or read life?
The news seems to be there to distract and or entertain us, to keep our minds away from the serious or true issues that are going on in and around each and every one of us. We as a race and a planet are in really bad shape and that needs to be looked at honestly or we are going to find out the hard way that looking the other way and going with the distractions will get us to a point we are in total deep trouble and there is no turning it around without the greatest of suffering. The way we are living is causing the fires, the floods, the earth quakes, tornadoes and storms that we have not experienced before, not to mention illness and disease, so what is it going to take to take proper notice of that instead of all the rubbish that keeps us distracted.
We wink all the time. Are we now driving and taking micro naps? The more we refuse to see all that is ugliness in the world are we just driving faster with our eyes tightly shut?
Our world is so steeped in corruption, deceit, greed and lies it is difficult to get a real picture of how our societies could and should be when governed by an integrity, honesty and genuine altruism that puts the welfare of people first and foremost. The question arises, is it possible for us all to rise above such behaviours in order to bring true governance to our world?
I love what you have presented here as it has asked the reader to stop, ponder and reflect on how we are living, what are our values, what are we saying yes to, what are we saying no to (even subconsciously). Everything matters. I also loved how you shared that the quality (or not) we live in is the foundation for our life, this is really important for all of us to ponder as it speaks volumes.
Very true,… when we allow things to run and play out we feed the ill-energy. It is because of the feeding the energy remains alive. We know truth and are supported immensely to live truth and no matter our excuses and justifications and these are never going to be enough or accepted no matter how hard we try, to be and live love is the ultimate way of being for everyone here on this planet.
“It is the elation, the emotional aspect and the sensationalism that we have become familiar with and accepted” – yes and in the process, we are cleverly (self) steered clear of truth to make the great untruth our everyday reality the media knows and plays on to keep its fans going.
When Rome burned in 64 A.D., and Nero did nothing, and the phase of ‘Nero fiddled as Rome burned, was born. What phase will we use in the future for doing nothing about sensationalised journalism today?
Life comes alive when we finally see that it’s coming to us not something we seek. Everything that occurs does so because of the choices we make. Our influence is huge ~ way beyond what we currently admit.
‘What is it that we are actually consuming?’ Great question that really doesn’t get asked. It’s like what we a consuming inhibits our ability to discern what it is we are consuming. But don’t we know this? So what are we avoiding seeing and feeling?
We have our comfortable bubbles and the world around them and the questions raised here are so important, for all the things we say we hate in the world would not exist if we did not allow them, and our principle way of this is making it about ourselves, and maybe our family or group and not making it about all of us. We are affected if we don’t seem to be affected if any one of us is abused in any way.
That said, no matter what the demand, we always have a choice of what we supply.
True there is responsibility on both sides so to speak but it is important also I feel to recognise the effect we have on the world around us and in this case the media industry by what we are buying into or seeking from it…
Great point Michael … every one of us always has a choice – in what we demand and what we supply.
That is actually a great point, I see petrol stations that put sweets, sugary drinks and now alcohol in reach as you wait to pay. It looks desirable to tempt the punter and I have seen people look at it hesitate and then grab. If it wasn’t there in the first place it wouldn’t even cross our minds but when shoved in our faces it does take will to avoid.
Years ago they band sweets in the checkout lines in most major food stores in the UK to end the temptation for impulse buys for children. I was recently in a new, motorway services that were a maze of shelves with all that you have described and observed people in the queue; look, ponder and grab. Why does our will fade standing in line?
This is a powerful point and shows how universally responsible we are.
True Michael, I always used to supply what I thought people wanted, which was pure fodder and harmful to both me and those that I supplied to. Now I’m dedicated to supplying the truth which is healing for both me and for others, even though it may feel a lot less comfortable to receive.
Yep exactly Alexis there is a choice within us all.
The series of questions following the question ‘Are we willing to look at …’ brings it back to what is so evident in the world when we look and highlights that to remain ignorant we are almost walking around with our eyes shut.
Truth when compared to Sensationalism doesn’t look that sexy and may not sell papers, but it does consistently deliver true meaning and purpose to our lives that deepens the quality of everything we do, from the moment we wake to the end of our day. I know which one I would spend my money on any day.
The reality is that every one of us, in some way or another and over lifetimes, has contributed to the mess we now find ourselves in. When we are each prepared to bring this honesty to the table and take responsibility for those choices, only then will life as we know it now, begin to transform.
It is a shocker to realise the depth of how I have contributed to the mess and yet I am not sure I have fully allowed myself to feel the extent of it. It feels like until I am really willing to go there I will continue to dance around the edges of fully committing to a life that is all about all of us, all of the time.
We reduce life to function and live in an emotional stimulation or stagnation when we only operate at the superficial level.
“News makes us think we are informed…” and we are but are we informed of lies or truth – this is what we need to discern and investigate for ourselves.
Are we assuming, we will have more time if we swallow the bitter pill of what they are presenting without discerning what it contains?
Integrity today is not what it used to be, nor is respect, care and decency. I sound like a really old person writing this, but so it is that I have been privy to observing this in our society all around the world in my travels – “It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so. Evidently, this is reflected in our media platforms, our journalistic manner and the cyber-abuse that has absolutely no consequences or rules to uphold that which we have already established and agreed upon in our physical interactive world.”
In the end it is consumerism that dictates supply – and so if there is a supply that we feel is inappropriate, we only need to look at the consumerism to realise why the supply even exists. Hence as consumers we have a control over the supply and it is the numbers or masses that count here too.
Is there demand for truth? Is there sufficient demand for truth? Is there any demand for truth?
Whether we like it or not, everything we do has an impact on not just ourselves but everyone in the entire world if not the entire universe. Thinking we can do something and get away with it is a complete lie
And humanity chooses to remain in deep slumber, numbness and being checked out to avoid the pain of the depth of degradation we have plummeted to and, sadly now accept it normal to be glorifying the lies and sensationalism about all manner of things..
“The fact is, we are actually choosing and even enjoy sensationalised, tantalising media and news reporting instead of calling for that which simply gets to the facts and truth of the rot in life
and exposes it for what it is”.
If I don’t say No in everyday practical matters when I have the choice to do so, how likely am I to say No to press and media abuse? Everything starts with the quality we live and love we have for self and humanity. Before pointing the finger elsewhere, let’s put our own house in order.
Agreed kehinde2012, how we are with self to the very detail in our lives makes a difference and a big one at that! We love to point the finger at another or situation but it is through pointing the finger at self the change needed is brought about.
How bad does it have to get before people sit up and wake up? When our single focus is to build a comfortable and secure life for self and family, no surprise this stops us from seeing and feeling the stench of modern life, pain and suffering of others. All is designed to not rock the ship carefully crafted for self and keep us blind to the impact of doing nothing has on our world.
“Supply and Demand – What about the Truth?” – the truth is always missed or conveniently overlooked whenever standards are dropped.
Spot on Zofia – When standards are dropped as they have been in our world, the Truth is no where to be seen for it is burried under the disregard and the abuse that people can fork out so willingly.
Even if we stop buying and listening to the lies that are being presented that are continually trying to maraud our minds, will anything change? If you look at smoking, that not that many years ago was expectable everywhere, it is now shunned to outside. We can make changes, but until we start using our voices, why should they stop.
This revelation is hugely significant : “our news does not require us to stand up, or call us to account in life – to make changes that eliminate the rot and call people to take true responsibility, especially energetic responsibility, in all aspects of their lives”. It is worth asking as does this article, if this is not what is offered, what then is it being used for?
‘We must ask as a society, as a growing world population… why is this so?’ – My experience is that more and more people are starting to question the state of affairs in our societies, however, are they/we truly prepared to make the changes in their/our own life and look at what they themselves/we all are contributing to the whole?
It is a stark reality that we are collectively living with what we have created to date.
Taking a step back and beginning to really catch a glimmer of what we have created collectively is pretty stark as you say Victoria. The rot stinks but we refuse to say that we can smell it.
We do indeed need to be …”… calling for that which simply gets to the facts and truth of the rot in life and exposes it for what it is.” The day this happens will be extremely exposing for us all but at least the mess is fully revealed and we have a way of moving on from this, of re-imprinting and establishing new foundations.
Opening up to the Truth is incomprehensible for some as they are caught up in the greed and corruption and the latest movie on Robin Hood produced by Otto Bathurst shares some history about this.
It is easy to look the other way, get on with our lives, not rock the boat and pretend we are not responsible for the world we have but that abdicates our responsibility and denies the power each and every person has to be the change they want to see in the world.
Very true, and it also misses the joy that is available when we live responsibly.
If we are not happy with the current state of the world but at the same time hold an “It’s nothing to do with me” attitude”, taking no responsibility for our part in it, the state of the world will not just remain the same, it will worsen. Each one of us is part of the whole of the wider world family and therefore we, like everyone else, have a part in creating the world we don’t like, and therefore we have a part in healing it; and yes, one voice and one more truthful choice can make a difference.
Yes Ingrid. “one voice and one more truthful choice can make a difference’ True change is not fuelled by big mass movements, simple steady ones made by one person in truth can ripple out and heal many Everything starts with us.
Serious questions need to be asked when we can live in the midst of such corruption and lies and yet in the main not bat an eyelid.
How true – goes to show how much we resist to see truth.
Our most powerful voice is to stop buying the objects that are spreading the muck they call truth.
when we ask ‘What is it that we are actually consuming?’ we have to look at everything, including all that we see and hear, even our words are re-consumed as we hear them – ‘eat your words’ takes on a whole other meaning.
I wonder how our world would be if we made our education system about Truth rather than Winning. What a different track we would lay for our children to walk down.
When we settle for replicas of Love we become invested in something outside of us that will never ever be enough.
There is no escaping it, in the end it each comes back to every single one of us to ask the question ‘how are we living?’ …. truly living and what is important to us. I don’t have a telly haven’t had one for years but the other day whilst staying at someone’s house the telly was on with a popular reality tv show on about singing and it was coming to the final so the event was being held in a stadium and seeing the sheer number of people there cheering on for the same tv show that happens every year (where I thought that surely the show had run its course by now) showed me as society just what we are demanding and this is only one small part of it as there is so much more we have been and are demanding that is not in truth loving for us.
If the media is a reflection to us then we are not doing that well.
With all of the competition for a viewing/reading audience, has the truth become a none sellable commodity?
How much do we truly know about what is going on in the world? We can choose to remain ignorant or we can open our eyes, see how the way we live causes pollution, chemical fumes. plastic waste, and harmful energetic imprints that we leave behind.
‘We, as a global society, no longer seek the truth of matters and do not foundationally base our perception of life from the point of truth and untruth.’ This is evident in how society is, how deep the corruption lies and how there isn’t an authority that is immune from said corruption. But isn’t this also evident in how I am living my life? – sadly yes. But I’m clocking where I’m falling for right and wrong and addressing why – mainly the fear of being falsely accused or vilified and wanting to prove I’m ok. As I drop living from right and wrong and refer only to truth I’m one less person adding fuel to what’s harming humanity; and I have no doubt I’ll be seen as wrong and worse by some.
‘How far will we fall as a whole before we are forced to do something that makes true change?’ So often we need a catastrophe or a major incident to make us stop and question what we are doing. Yet what if we started from the knowing we are love and so anything which is not of the same quality is already a step away and too far?
Truth seems to be low on our list of demands in society at the moment.
Truth has always been like whole fresh milk, where the cream always rises to the top. Todays sensationalised journalism, throws away the cream and sells us a watery white liquid as the truth.
“We, as a global society, no longer seek the truth of matters and do not foundationally base our perception of life from the point of truth and untruth”, so therefore change is slow! Maybe it is like starting with a sunny day that ends up with a gentle zephyr in the evening, then as the night goes on it becomes a simple breeze, and this may last for days until it builds into a balmy wind, which then become gusty and unpredictable, then a storm may ensue that lashes out followed by the full power of a cyclonic depression.
“It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so. Evidently, this is reflected in our media platforms, our journalistic manner and the cyber-abuse” so are we going to wait for change or start asking for it now before the tsunami hits us? Could it be that change does not have to be slow? Then it must be possible if we all as a collective society ask for at-least some honesty from the media and demand the same honesty of social media? This asking and demanding from us all to show “decency and respect” with at-least being honest towards each other with the openness and due diligence needed to avert a cataclysm can bring change now so is not the ball at our feet!
“Maybe because the majority of the population sit back, relax, and allow them to keep existing by not saying a word or showing any different way of being creates this level of injustice?” So lets take our bat and ball and go home to our divine essence “and understand there is another way of speaking up, living truth and love in the smallest areas of our life; that this actually affects the whole and sets a standard?”
To demand anything less than the love that we are and consume it to the point where it begins to have a detrimental affect on our physical, mental and spiritual health so that we then attack the supplier, is the ultimate in irresponsibility and a game we engage with to play less than the all that we are.
Absolutely agree Liane. It’s us who make the choices and the supplier is simply fulfilling our every desire, so how irresponsible it is to play the victim game and blame them for the consequence of our choices. Yes, we have free will, but with every choice comes a consequence, one that has our name on it, no one else’s!
Playing the ‘none of my business’ card serves to keep us irresponsibly ‘safe’.
‘How much goes by around us that we simply do not want to take part in or get involved in, enquire about or voice our position about to another to start the conversation?’ – This is a question well worth asking and if we are to be truly honest, how often do we turn a blind eye to the illness, abuse, disregard, inequality, disrespect, violence etc. that is happening all around us on an everyday basis?
Yes, it is none of our business or we are afraid to get in the firing line. Realistically though, would there be a firing line if people stood up and called bullying behaviour to account right from the outset?
It is quite sobering to realize that all the horrors that exist in the world today are because we have created a demand for them. Turning our backs does not solve them but addressing the root cause of the demand does. When we restore our self worth eradicating the demand becomes very simple.
Truth is clearly not in the FTSE 100 and likely wont ever be – I’m sure the crashes will happen all around before truth is called for on a grander scale.
Important to understand hat just because we don’t buy into something it doesn’t mean that we are not contributing to it. If we do not live truth we are still part of everything that is a lie.
I have recently become more aware of this Michael, and on seemingly small things too, that being tolerant of something, even though I wouldn’t do it myself, is contributing to and enabling it (the harm), to continue.
Absolutely Rosanna and Michael. We can be so easily influenced by others who buy into untruths as it is a way of staying comfortable, even if we dont buy into them ourselves. But unless we are prepared to expose the lies, then we are also a part of the problem.
Lies get exposed when truth is lived not ignored.
Very true Michael and well said, there is never an innocent bystander.
It is useful understanding that there can not be a supply without a demand, because only then can the penny start to drop about the level of responsibility we ourselves hold in our own hands.
The trouble is there is not enough demand for truth in the world.
I asked myself the question, If we stripped everything away from life that wasn’t the truth, would life be boring? And the answer was that it would be anything but boring, it would be simply amazing so the best thing we can do for ourselves is accept nothing but the truth and the demand for the abundance of nonsense we indulge in would be exposed and cease to be needed.
Very true Kevin – question is, are we willing to have the nonsense exposed?
Years ago at a check-out in a grocery store that had a few impulse buy weekly sensational rags that had a headline of ‘man cuts off own head with chainsaw and lives’. Sensational journalism is like the flu, constantly changing but forever present.
When the masses demand truth, and only truth, then the supply will have to change to truth.
Indeed Paula, perhaps we need to ask the question now then why are we all not demanding truth, how much truth are we not demanding and what is the reason?
The demand is only there when it impacts us directly … and until the masses are directly affected, nothing seems to change.
The ‘how much do you care’ list is confronting, as we really don’t tend to care very deeply if we do not feel the effects directly ourselves. I have been in a developing country for the last few weeks and seeing things like poverty, poor health care, and corruption in person that statistics just do not convey. The media is similar as it lets us be informed from the comfort of our homes without feeling the devastation that is affecting humanity.
The list continues to grow when left undealt with, is just like something left in the back of our fridge. The longer it is ignored the furrier it gets
Fiona agreed and when we do feel the effects ourselves them we start to want change, but in that it exposes how much in life we let go on that were it happening to ourselves we would want to change and demand is changed.
Yes part of uncovering the lies we comfortably live with, is honestly asking and answering the question how much do we really care?
I agree Fiona, ‘how much do you care’ generally links in with ‘how much does it effect me’. It is a sad state of affairs where just because something is happening to another somewhere else in the world it does not concern us.
‘If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.’ We are brought up on lies and are not encouraged to discern truth. It makes a huge difference when we allow our bodies to be our marker of truth because they are the most sophisticated instrument for measuring energy and can discern truth and lies very easily and simply, we just connect within and feel and the wisdom is there.
Thank God for the body!
Why make life about anything less than the immense Love and Truth that we immutably are.
‘The fact is, we are actually choosing and even enjoy sensationalised, tantalising media and news reporting instead of calling for that which simply gets to the facts and truth of the rot in life and exposes it for what it is. ‘ The level of corruption and lies is huge and people do know but want to turn a blind eye to what actually we are all feeding in some aspect of our lives. Rather than hide from reality, which only adds to the lies because I give energy to them by not saying no, I’m opening my eyes and seeing how the rot goes to the core of society even in all its highest achievements.
It’s like, the complacency that people have chosen along the way has added greatly to the current mess and choices we have. However now, to me it feels like the issues are so many and so much that people continue to turn a blind eye because dealing with it all is overwhelming. For me, I feel that dealing with each and every part of my life from a truth supports the untrue parts to society to slowly be debunked.
Is the truth in demand? Are we willing to listen to a child expressing their feelings from the bottom of their heart, ever so innocently, or do we feel uncomfortable at that? That is a simple question to ponder on whether we do or do not want to hear the truth.
It’s a very good question. With small children I’ve noticed that people, even if they find the truth they bring confronting, it is actually easier to accept than if the same truth is brought from an adult. This is also something to ponder.
We really do have the opportunity to set the standards of our society in how we live our life, we may not see immediate effects or changes that we want to see but the standards that we live do get communicated and do make a difference.
Many of us really don’t want to know the truth and have other priorities and are ready to deal with the consequences – which they may not be truthful about either.
Only when we start to demand the truth, will the supply for untruth begin to cease.
‘It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so.’ I would feel that this is a fair statement. Simply looking at increased rates of obesity, alcoholism, mental ill health and our general health would suggest this to be true.
It can take a sudden jolt or an experience that leaves you feeling very unsettled that makes us question what is it that I am actually choosing. When we stop and consider that the way we live is what creates the supplier and that we are responsible for all that we have on tap then there is a lot for us to answer to. How many of us are really and truly ready to look deeper and see the truth. Those that do get ridiculed are made to feel abnormal because they are rocking the boat. One day we will all be forced to look at it as we can’t continue the way we have ignorantly have been. The question is why wait until we are forced to look at it?
Yes, there are factors out there that want to reign supreme so anybody challenging that, just by not joining in, are targeted and made an example of to warn others from following in their footsteps.
We tend to blame the suppliers for everything that is unacceptable (e.g. drug runners and newspaper headlines) and yet we are the ones being irresponsible in demanding more of these evil distractions, rather than to feel our sensitivity and truth that we are naturally so.
With blame it negates the impact that we as consumers have by what we are buying into; it stops us from seeing the effect of our choices on our world.
We as humans can not complain about the state of affairs that we have here because it has been humans that have created it to be like this and it must be humans that undo it too. Systems exist because humans create them and allow them to continue.
The news today definitely reflects our desire to not know the truth.
The ability to question is perhaps the human trait that challenges demand. If we simply go along with the status quo, we are consumed by an already established supply.
Very true.
We defer our own responsibility to live truth to news and media organisations to offer us an acceptable alternative, such is the life of lies we have come to live – time to live what we know to be true instead and expose the corruption and rot which has become the norm.
This morning I flicked through a Women’s magazine that a guest had left on the kitchen table, when I closed the cover I could say I had spent ten minutes being shown/told/coerced in how to look/dress/behave, shown what other people were doing/saying, or being provoked to think I was thinking about some important issue or other – sold under the ‘feminist or sex-worker’ argument – but in truth just sensationalism in another guise. I can see why this magazine sells well, but (unsurprisingly so) there was not a drop of truth in it.
With each day that passes we get to see how lies get escalated, truth tries to get buried and as a society, we eat this up. What if we demand truth, then lies would not surface and society would operate together in the way it has the potential to.
In order to demand the truth, we need to be able to discern it first for ourselves. In the past I had no idea how to feel truth as an absolute marker in my body, as I was living from beliefs I took on rather than the truth I could feel in my body.
For many years I would hear and read the news in all its sensationalism and never did I question is that even true. Now that in my mind is worrying because I’m just one person and if I was like that then there are a whole bunch more others, if not millions doing the same. The question should be why don’t we challenge things and just accept that’s how things are.
We don’t seem to question the way life is enough in general, I feel. Except when tragedy finally lands on our door and gives us a shake-up. And even then we complain about it instead of asking why has this particular thing happened to me in this particular way?
One could say our plummet had taken its greatest drop from the last century a mere 19 years ago! The first iPhone has only been around since 2007. Have we abolished the ‘Six degrees of separation’ with access to everything instantly on our phones? With the overload of information, have we lost sight of what is true?
We have many more ways of avoiding ourselves, truth and love and right now we are taking advantage of this new variety.
‘News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life with this misinformation. We can even talk about it as part of the distraction and circulate the story to just regurgitate it.’ I just read a news story out loud at home and realised it was for the entertainment or wow response from the people around me. As you say, it does not call for us to take any action, simply to react with an emotion. We can feed off emotions and not recognise how draining they truly are. There are a lot of shock horror stories that we can react to without any action being taken as a result.
Indeed we have to look at what we are wanting to see as a society and the quality of content that the media has become.
We rail against the state of the world, but use it as a convenient excuse not to choose truth. The irony is it’s us who keep sustaining and feeding the horrible way that it is.
True, and if we admit so there is no one to blame but to take the responsibility and live but our deepest truth.
Great point, and what if instead of giving up in reaction to the state of our world we were to draw a deeper sense of purpose and commitment to bringing the love that we can so clearly see is missing…
If truth was a universal demand it would be supplied, called for and lived. However, what we are calling for is comfort and gossip to take away the edge of life that we have difficulty dealing with and love the distraction this offers.
“… to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are” The true purpose of life, without which humanity is deeply lost and hence ceases to recognise and address all un-love that creeps into our world.
Crazy how as a society we all know deep down the harm caused by the media, yet we still continue to indulge in the sensation offered. We can moan about what we read or hear but we remain compliant to the fact we support it with our non action.
“If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.” There is such simplicity in this statement and yet the consequences if we were to all do this would completely transform our world.
‘News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life with this misinformation.’ We so give our power away to written words, whether they are online or on paper. If we are not willing to truly look what is going on in our world we can try to convince ourselves that we do know because we read or saw the news, yet so many topics are missing and so much information is twisted or taken out of perspective because of our demand to not want to know the truth and the desire for excitement.
‘It is fair to say that our level of decency, respect and care in life with ourselves and others has taken quite a plummet over the last century or so’. Absolutely, decency and respect have lost their true meaning and don’t include any energetic aspect. It is not just men opening doors for women and not cursing. True decency and respect asks us to take responsibility for every single choice we make, for everything effects all of us.
How much do we spread gossip ourselves by telling someone about what’s going on for others?
Understanding that ‘if everything is energy, therefore, everything is BECAUSE of energy.’ (Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, p 220) we start to see our own responsibility towards every aspect in life.
“News makes us think we are informed” yet practically all ‘news’ is selective and with an agenda, consequently we end up mis-informed.
We need to re name that type of news! or add a disclaimer: this is the opinion of the writer and the consciousness that informs him.
Yes, the majority of ‘news’ as it is currently presented comes with an agenda – self-preservation in a job and making money … truth isn’t a priority.
‘If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.’ this is deeply revealing about the way of life which has come to be seen as normal and yet is based on and perpetuates constant lies.
Reflecting on the harm and separation the media has caused over the years gone by we can point blame at the media but it is us who are demanding the very lies and distortions that we are being fed.
When the demand is not truth, how do we expect the supply to be truth?
Exactly David … falling for the lies hook, line and sinker will only encourage more of the same.
I agree Richard. And that commitment to truth is for me an ongoing process of deepening my relationship with my body and its always wise feedback.
The supply and demand formula can be applied to every area of our lives – our relationship with food, the media, each other, exercise, rest etc. – and if our foundation is not true, based on an honest connection and interaction with our bodies and how they are, our demand will feed further waywardness.
It is for sure something that we can reflect on in all areas of our life, to get a deeper understanding and awareness of what we are choosing and what we have the potential to choose…
Johanna, you ask some really important questions in this article. I can feel that unless it happens to us we don’t care or take action. There have been incidents happening with a family member who is being bullied and now I see and care about and want to take action against bullying, but I can feel that whoever this happens to we need to stand up and call this out and not allow this to happen. We are all family and our natural way is to care about all of humanity, not just those who are blood related.
‘Supply and Demand – What about the Truth?’ Reading this makes me realise that what becomes ‘common’ and the ‘norm’ is actually what we demand and what most people are asking for rather than what is true. And so because something is in demand and it becomes the norm, we see anything outside of this as different or not-normal and there can be cristism and seeing someone as ‘strange’ or even ‘wrong’ who makes these different choices, however loving and true they maybe. I find this with my choice to not drink alcohol – that because I choose not to drink when the majority do drink alcohol I am often seen as strange or different, when in fact it is for me a very loving choice as it makes me feel il.
The first printed book made a reference for judging others, ‘Judge not, that ye be not judged’. Today it has become a part of life we have chosen to live with.
‘How far will we fall as a whole’? We appear to be comfortable in the bottomless pit we are currently in. Have we booked our tickets for our journey through Dante’s 9 rings?
It is very easy to look at somebody and pick out all of the things we would like to change about them, the things that bring sore to our eyes, but how willing are we to take a look at ourselves and change all of the things that bring sore to our hearts?
What is being asked of us here is to dig deep and reconnect to our true integrity, which has immense power to address everything that is not love in this world. When we bring this quality to bear, there is little that can truly stand in its way.
Truth is available and has always been available – it’s the demand that is lagging behind and it will continue to do so while we are happy and content to be distracted and numbed by our lifestyle choices.
So true Gabriele … we can choose to be numb and distracted by the lies we are fed – or – we can honour the truth we innately know and make different choices.
Few are brave enough to bite the hand that feeds them and the media is fed by the evil of our own comfort…thus why should they, or could they, or need they deliver the truth. But only when we stop pointing fingers will anything change.
Nothing will change, until we look into the mirror and realise the person that is hurt by our finger pointing the most, is staring back at us.
Much like Uncle Sam, pointing straight at us!
“How far will we fall as a whole before we are forced to do something that makes true change?” A long way it seems as things are already dire yet we as a humanity continue to deny and or ignore this.
It is interesting waiting for the tipping point and the fact that we need crises to wake up from our reveries and see the importance of working together.
Yes indeed … “what about the truth?” It seems truth is something that very few are willing to acknowledge let alone express and live.
We also have the issue of the fake news erupting into social media and life, things that are tampered with, changed, in audio or visual, complete lies written for the sake of personal agenda. And in honesty there is very little difference between much of the fake news and so called legitimate news providers…it is really is something to look at when we seek distraction to such a degree in life that we will read disgusting emotionally loaded stories that may or may not have happened, slandering people and having no respect and decency.
Thank you Johanna for bringing this up. In the UK, the media are relating Brexit to us as a tragedy and it is. But interestingly enough, they are the one instigating it for not calling out the poison that the pro brexit campaign was at the time and allowing it by printing pages, day after day of this double decker bus trying to make us believe that the UK will be better off without the EU when almost everybody knew this was utter lies. And why did they do it? Just to sell sensationalism! And as a whole, people in the Uk have allowed this to happen… and we are still unsure of what the outcome will be as it stands today.
Great questions, Johanna, to keep putting on the table until we wake up from our stupor and look at what we have collectively allowed to perpetuate.
The world is intense and the media and social media provide light relief, this is what the majority are calling for, and so it is supplied in all its many flavours. There will never not be tension but we can find a way to be less and less seduced by the multitude of flavours and instead savour that of Truth.
I find this really distasteful, it is like the amphitheatre entertainment of romans in the sense that people are shoved out into full view, with no rights, their lives are pulled apart with lies, hearsay and gossip and they are often left in tatters, if not physically dead as in the past bereft, exhausted and untrusting of humanity…which is pretty much is death. Some people do in fact kill themselves and we often pick up a newspaper or look on the internet without a second thought that these are real people that others are mocking, ridiculing and lying about. Disgusting behaviour, no relief, but collusion in a poisonous and corrupt institution and whether we like it or we are all responsible for our choices, every single seemingly banal, inconsequential choice…..builds up and is expressed in how we live. So what is our next choice when it comes to consuming the news?
Well fleshed out Samantha, the damage is so deliberately done which is the most disgusting thing about the collusion.
Yes, I heard about ‘group think’ recently, that happens in crowds in places where there is a mass panic etc…, it very much relates to the fact that we are energetic beings and when we do not read energy we can align with energy that is a group consciousness, yes and this can be collusion that imposes and attempts to intimidate or harm others either consciously or unconsciously.
I’ve not come across that term ‘group think’ before, but you do see it in action, even outside the panic situation example – aligning to a consciousness and acting en masse; could be Harrods sale, football match or political rally. ‘Group think’ is quite a descriptive term teamed with the understanding it’s a consciousness that is being joined/acted out.
The term relates to trying to find uniformity or keeping quiet in groups, but you can see how we adapt depending on what is happening around us and how we do in keeping quiet in a group situation aligns us with the energy of a group, we either do not question it, go along with it. People would not call this ‘group think’ but ‘mobbing’, what ever the name is, we do often group….is showing itself a lot in the world where because of the lack of ‘trusted’ law keepers, public lynchings and revenge are increasing. There is a group consciousness that is aligned with and things one person would not do on their own are being perpetrated by the group. It is horrific.
It’s very interesting how you bring this up Samantha, we were just discussing what is going on from a consciousness perspective in the Sanford Prison experiment carried out in the 1970’s, observing the outcome in human behaviour where ordinary human beings took on the role of either prisoner or prison officer.. the outcome was indeed horrific as you say, the ‘things one person would not do on their own are being perpetrated by the group. It is horrific.’
Truth isn’t something that is spoken by choice – it is a fuel source of life, and is something that is a lived quality.
How far do we have to or need to fall indeed before we truly wake up? It does not have to be this way in the slightest. I am allowing myself to see the rot, lies and corruption in the world even more so and we are seeping in it … we have been for eons but maybe just maybe we are starting to actually see this more clearly now! Maybe! or Maybe not as you say the choice is ours and what are we choosing?
So many are addicted to the emotional distraction that passes for journalism in our current press and social media outlets and continue to feed their habit further than feel how they can, in an instant, align to truth and start calling out the absence of energetic responsibility that negatively impacts so many directly and all of us indirectly.
I was in the shop today and I saw the newspaper on a shelf, lots of tabloid papers, full of front page stimulation, be it someone else despair, murder, theft, infidelity, the pictures where atrocious and intentionally unflattering. I felt the stink in them, they do nothing for humanity but numb the mind, encourage righteousness and judgement and stop us from truly caring for others.
‘From what I see, our world today is set up to entertain, to distract and to position life, people and events in either the right or wrong basket. It is not about truth.’ I agree and to the detriment of everyone.
“From what I see, our world today is set up to entertain, to distract and to position life, people and events in either the right or wrong basket. It is not about truth. ” I totally agree – when I look back this is what I wanted, and so this is what I found and if so many of us want the same then we end up with no truth just entertainment.
This revelation exposing that it was we, en mass, who wanted, put out a call for, and in effect created whatever it is in society we now have objections to, is a bitter pill every one of us has to wake up to on our way to understanding that we are not the victim of life, but have far more power and impact than we have been choosing to see.
it is easier to claim brotherhood than live it. True brotherhood requires that we are on red alert constantly, fully aware of creation’s lies and vigilant with ourselves to discern whether or not we add to or condone what is going on. Complacency and living on cruise control signals we’ve switched off and are part of the problem.
Why do we knowingly sit back in comfort, enjoying the view on the train of life, knowing the bridge ahead has collapsed?
Is it because we shirk responsibility and wait for the next technological marvel or scientific breakthrough that promise to keep us in the comfort of our habitual ways and lifestyle?
That will work just fine, until we create a better and bigger carrot on the stick!
When we look at our current supply and demand in many industries of our society, it is clear that truth is very difficult to find. When we look at our media industry, what do we see? Our health system, education system, government, law system etc. what do we see? I see corruption and lies in so many areas. It looks like truth is nowhere obvious to be found and we have created a society that shows a majority may easily react to the truth because we have been so used to accepting lies. Our ability to discern what is true and what is not has been mainly forgotten so it is then easy to give our power away and believe the lies that we are feed through the numerous systems we have created.
If we demanded truth, then Truth is what we would get. But we don’t always like the Truth as it calls for us to take responsibility for our selves and so it becomes easier to indulge in pointless gossip and pursuits in an attempt to hide from what we know we should be looking after.
Whatever we indulge in will continue until we are prepared to be honest and face the truth.
And how bad life gets until that point of honesty is totally up to each one of us … we cant blame anyone else for our choices.
I am not sure many of us use the media to find out the truth except on specific occasions. Most of the time media is consumed for other reasons.
One of the few true things in print is the weather! But, that is one of the best jobs forecasting the future, you don’t get fired for being wrong!
True Christoph, I used to read the media to while away some time, distract myself, momentarily live in someone else’s life, and have a bit of light relief.
What’s worse than the evil acts we commonly associate evil with? Being an enabler of it convinced you hate it and do not contribute to it or care about it in anyway. Without the enablers evil cannot exist!
Great point Joshua, this shows how much we are responsible for all that exists in this world. We are contributors by either enabling evil or by exposing it and living truth.
Often we are so judgemental of our choices and others to ignore or be a part of what is going on, but that just adds to it all, I know I need to develop understanding to all and realise this whole mess is going to take quite a long time to change.
“Time will tell and as always, will reflect all of our choices.” So when will we start to make the changes? Or to quote a line in a film I saw recently “If not you then who? If not now then when?”
Great article, Johanna. Is it true, there is too much complacency, circulation of lies and bullying, and not enough discernment. Lately I’ve been disgusted by the media and the courts for blatant violations of truth, harmful violations and discrimination that’s even against the law. However I’ve been witnessing these and writing and speaking about them for decades. I now question every single story I ever saw or read in any media, whether it was ‘taking someone out’, or ‘singing their praises’. I wonder if a word of it was ever true. Or just part of the outplay of an agenda going on behind the scenes that few people bother to question or demand accountability for. You say ‘rotten to the core’ – definitely true. And true that we, en masse, and as individuals, must allow it, or it could not occur.
It’s an interesting one because I fear not knowing what is going on in the world and still feel to try and find a source that is not totally corrupted. The BBC is no longer seen as impartial or reliable. I suppose we have to bring it back to ourselves and being fully aware of what we see and feel in our communities being engaged, open, willing to connect and that will make a difference.
Read, listen, discern. Also, cross-pollinate, draw from many sources and then put together our own take on it. Personally I am feeling it is really important to know what is going on, because that fuels our love and hate of how we are living.
Yesterday I was having a conversation and the other person was saying what was right and wrong about a situation. I wonder what is true I offered and the other looked totally flabbergasted and said “What do you mean true?” We all too easily leave truth on the shelf and sell ourselves out to right and wrong.
This is a great insight. Many people assume that being right is the same as being true. That is not necessarily or even often the case.
If the media would report the truth and nothing else then the truth possibly not many people would buy it.
I am not too sure Nico, it’s possible. Most people I know by the news with a knowing that a large part of its content is rubbish, because I’ve had people tell me this, but they buy it out of habit and scan through to the parts they are interested in. The danger I feel is when we do things out of a habit without discerning the quality of what we are buying with our money. If we know that something is 60% rubbish and the other 40% is of some truth and we buy into it, then what are we paying for? How often do we settle for less and accept that this is the way it is?
Best you can say that they are addicted to it chanly88. Like with drugs, people do know that they are devastating to their lives but something in them makes them to continuously choose for it because they are avoiding to start living the truth.
And maybe that exposes that it is no longer needed? With the advent of online information it has been easier to access free information but with all of it the question is what is the quality of the truth being expressed or not.
“If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives – our relationships, our interactions, the things we create and the way we are – then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.” It is from people not being truthful or better said living in disregard of who we truly are that makes the untrue world to exist and makes it hard to recognise even that a true world does exist.
You’ve presented a HUGE topic here Johanna, and yet it is down to the individual to make a difference to it.
“News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life with this misinformation. We can even talk about it as part of the distraction and circulate the story to just regurgitate it.” We have come to use news as a form of distraction or enticement and no longer as a source of information that reflects the state of our world and the consequences of our choices. This is why we do not demand truth from the news for if all the news was reporting is the true state of our world and humanity we could no longer pretend we are making it work.
Forgot the movies, the fact we treat each other with such abuse goes to show we need to change, change big time. Otherwise, what are we delivering our children into? a world of yet more lies and abuse?
Sometimes I hear conversations dominated by what was on the news and I often feel uneasy and don’t contribute because I was never really interested in watching, reading or listening to the news. I recall feeling heavy, daunted and dragged down by these conversations and now I understand why, they are based on a circulation energy that feeds fear, sensationalism and drama so the energy is very dense. And, by not saying anything is also a form of contributing to this dense energy.
Powerful read Johanna. It is true we don’t care until things start to affect us personally, and then we get outraged. As I read the list I could feel how easy it is to dismiss and override the plight of others and this planet, and that’s what keeps all of this madness going.
Why is it that we are addicted to the drama, the misery and sensationalism that is reported, if we actually cared about people and what was going on in the world would we all not be doing something to change it?
Great question Fiona. Looking at this further it we are addicted to the drama, misery and sensationalism then what are we not wanting to feel within our own lives and within the world that leads to the addiction in the first place? Also what this has made me see is that an addiction to anything, even a certain foods adds to this energy.
With all of our self-made illusions that ignore what is really happening around us, we then are surprised when the reality of the world creeps into our lives and often ask, why me?
Yes and so if that is the case, is it time for us to be honest about the extent of the addictions we have, I love order for example however I need to be honest about why I live with disorder.
“Supply and demand affects everything in this world – if there is no demand then there will be no supply. It literally applies to everything.” Ultiamatley, we have a responsibility for what we are demanding.
Thanks Johanna. Your exposé clearly reveals where we are at as a society. In a world where almost everything is established to entertain and avoid the awareness of what we are allowing, this call to awake is a treasure that invites me to go deeper and revise my own investment in this common creation. This revision is never comfortable but always needed to take responsibility and to rectify.
Stop reading newspapers, watching TV or following on-line news feeds for one day, a week or extended period and be amazed at how this supports the body to feel yummy and loved. Why do we go against this and choose to point the assault rifle at ourselves rather than breathe our own breath.
“Supply and demand affects everything in this world – if there is no demand then there will be no supply. It literally applies to everything.”
If what you are saying is correct then it does not bode well with our society as we seem to live in a way that is becoming more and more stressful and out of control and it is of our own making.
It is indeed of our own making and this is key, for often we feel as if we have no choice in this life. That it is as it is and it is to grand for us to tackle. But we do have a choice, and challenging as going against the grain may be, all our choices have an impact, one way or the other.
To feel the assault on our bodies from news programmes and newspapers is a good thing, it means we have not become numb to the vileness they often publish. To resist the temptation to allow what they offer to feed us can be hard to do, but essential if we are to cut off demand, and block out the incessant bludgeoning of senses.
Once upon a time, journalism was a way to inform people of what was happening. But, because we relied on it to disseminate the true, it was also a way to transmit propaganda. Fake news is not a new thing. As long as there has been the printed word, there has been the author’s opportunity to be liberal with the truth. We must feel into and discern that we what are told for truth is out there but hidden in a fog of lies.
Super wise. The same is true with the moving image. Documentary does not equal truth.
Making supply and demand a focus will show us exactly what we need to do to get out of this mess.
I have not seen this so clearly until reading this ‘News makes us think we are informed, thus we feel included in life’ we do feel informed when reading the news and that we are are up to date with what is going on in the world …. BUT do we discern what we are being fed or do we just drink it in as part of our day and carry on with our life? AND what makes someone decide whether something is newsworthy or not. I recently watched a programme John Cleese had made were two journalist came on the show to talk about their previous jobs with newspapers and say just how much they lied in their job and literally were making up stories left right and centre. The more we know about this, or should I say the more it is exposed trustfully we will then start to demand the truth and not just drink in what has been given/fed to us.
No demand, no supply. The more we work to resolve our neediness and emotional cravings, the less demand we create for the ills that exist in our world. As the consumer, we are the ones who are in control and it’s our choices that have created the world as it is today.
‘However, in-truth our news does not require us to stand up, or call us to account in life – to make changes that eliminate the rot and call people to take true responsibility, especially energetic responsibility, in all aspects of their lives.’ Our news invites us to feel overwhelmed, disheartened, powerless, sympathetic and grateful it’s not us who’s in the firing line – better stay quiet so we’re not next. This may sound extreme but I know I’ve thought I’m glad that’s not me when I’ve seen a headline berating a famous person for example and have felt relief that that’s not my life when actually it may as well be. What’s done to another is done to us all – unless we are willing to stand above the parapet and say, that is so not ok. I’m not giving that any attention or merit at all.
Life doesn’t happen to us, we call it in. Like a huge magnet attracting events, it’s crazy to think of it all happening by ‘chance’.
Could it be that what we want or what we demand is in fact governed by an energy, and that this energy is one we can choose to run us? Maybe that is considered as too far fetched for some, but when you consider that everything is energy and everything is because of energy there is a good chance that could be true…so then would it not make sense to learn about the energy and what is our natural source and recognise that source which is not natural to us, and realise that we do not have to choose the unnatural one?
Years ago in the USA they launched a news paper that shared ‘good news’ – this did not sell well and they had to can the idea. This is not an example of supplying truthful news necessarily, but it does go to show what people have a preference of reading and seeing in the news…
Interesting to know Henrietta and it shows that what the majority are demanding is quite specific – sensationalised bad news.
And so it is: “Supply and demand affects everything in this world – if there is no demand then there will be no supply. It literally applies to everything.” – our current world has so much on offer that is not supportive and does not truly benefit us as individuals and as a society, yet the only reason that these things persist is because of the demand for them. If people stopped demanding these things, then there would be no reason for the supply to continue. Hence a wise question to ask ourselves is how much do we play a role in the supply of all out there?
And the truth is that whatever we have here today has a large part to do with the fact that we have allowed and created it to be here through our previous choices.
The news was meant to keep the masses informed. In the days of old, in the UK town criers read the news. Today we have; tabloids, yellow journalism and muckraking as an excepted form of expressing. These rags would not exist if we did not buy them.
Even in the days of old the town criers did not deliver what was true. Someone had to pay them and get them going, so it was always an exercise that was benefitting someone or another.
The difference is today we are the ones buying, clicking on and seeking what keeps us entertained, fixated in our beliefs, caught in emotional reactions, suspicious of one another, conveniently blaming others rather than rise to greater responsibility – and we don’t seem to care that there is basic lack of decency and regard for people in most if not all of what is communicated.
Do we really want to put our name to all of this? If not, it is time to re-assess and be clear going forward of exactly what it is we are backing.
‘What are we over and over again, continuing to ask for?’ This is an important question to ask, because in the asking of it, or in the not standing up to what we do not want; we create a life that we do not like but settle for.
What would happen if the media printed the truth for 1 week or even 1 day? No gossip, no innuendo, just truth. As consumers would we cope with this? What would happen if as consumers we did not watch any TV, read any printed or online media for 1 week even 24 hours. What would happen to the media? The truth is difficult because it reflects to us our choices that are not based on truth. It shows us where and how we have set ourselves up in life so we can easily ignore the truth.
I wonder . . . But would guess that it would not be popular or sell.
Equally, Jennifer is to clock what happens within ourselves when we cut out media streams from our lives. Do we choose to feed ourselves or the media juggernaut?
Great questions Jennifer, this would be an interesting experiment but even for 24 hours, I think it would a big ask for humanity to participate in this, because we are currently too invested in the illusion and lies that keeps us blinded to the truth.
The points you raise Johanna highlight the depth to which society has sunk to and its easy to feel overwhelmed and think “what can I do?”, but by doing so we under estimate the power of our reflection when we choose to live truth and love in all that we do.
If we truly consider what is written here, we wont be able to point the finger of blame, act a victim or imagine we have no part to play in any area of life .
Spot on Golnaz, we all have a part to play in this…and in everything! We are not little players in this game…
Very true Golnaz. Next step is then taking responsibility for all aspects in our own lives if we truly want life and society as a whole to be at its foundation about truth, love and connection.
I agree Golnaz, there is no blame or victimhood when we are willing to take responsibility for all that we have created. Life would be very different if our focus is on responsibility instead of irresponsibility.
There are so many questions here that encourage us to think about how we are living, what we accept, what we demand and what is being supplied. But we can choose not to join in the games at play and not to put our heads in the sand but to make changes in our lives where we can and they will have a knock on effect.
What I have been feeling is how much I am actually enamoured by the lies of creation, and the comfort it offers.
I love your honesty here Fumiyo, and it is something that I have to put my hand to as well. The comfort of the lies of creation are so tantalising and are so often extremely hard to resist. But unless we recognise them for what they are and start giving them less energy by saying no, they will continue to have us hooked forevermore and a day.
That’s what I love Sandra, starting to recognise the lies for what they are. It is changing my standards in life, forever.
If more people held up their hands and admitted the same, then at least we could begin to examine why we do this and nail what is missing in our own lives that makes the lies of creation so seductive.
Yeah it is everywhere and it is so normalised to be in comfort and lies that moving to honesty and truth is a very different way to live.
By holding back from expressing what is true we become the enablers for the lies to exist and persist.
At what point do we say enough is enough and be willing to stand up and express this? We live in such a comfortable bubble of lies that when truth is right before us it can rock our comfortable boat and the very foundations that we have built our life upon. We have to be willing to be stripped bare of all our ideals and beliefs and be humble enough to say that we are contributing to the supply and demand of the very ugliness of the world that we dislike.
The complacency with which the majority go about their daily lives avoiding confronting the many abuses and inequalities around the world (until they directly impact them) whilst consuming the sensationalised media on offer is a sobering reflection of just how far we have strayed from truth and the responsibility that we all hold to expose lies wherever we find them. However we can make a difference and it is only when individuals start to live in a way that aligns to truth that the tide will start to turn for humanity.
I think this is why we adore babies so much as they are truth, they are absolute in how they express and are so deeply surrendered. It is this we move away from micro move by micro move every day until we arrive at adult hood living lies.
It does seem as though we have gotten used to letting something go because we are not directly affected and leaving the issue to others to sort out. Then when it does come closer to home we want the authorities to do something about it.
I recently watched a BBC investigation program about ‘fake’ news, the team travelled to an Eastern block country and interviewed several men who said that they get paid to circulate on social media ‘fake’ news, it is how they earn a living. It was quite interesting to learn how people can earn a living from this, I personally had no idea this was so rife in our society.
Someone came up to me recently and asked about a major incident that happened saying that they had read in the press that the company was being sued because of insufficient information in the training manuals. I receive almost of the technical information and I could find nothing in them that suggested this particular company was being sued. So to me what was reported in the News Papers was sensational fake news this particular occasion showed me how easily people get caught up in it and believes it to be true. It’s been a long time since we have been able to trust what we read in the media.
No, we as a society do not seek truth. We seek confirmation and comfort.
Johanna I can’t wait to read the truth in the papers for it will then be an indication that the majority are looking for truth and not distraction and lies.
Stepping out of comfort and the bubbles we create around ourselves leads to the observations of life listed here and exposes the ill way of living we have chosen. From here we can ask true questions and seek news and media which support them rather than the sensationlised, untrue, biased and corrupt sources we currently support with our desire to remain in comfort.
Have we have turned into a; you get what you pay for society? But, the truth has never had a price and at the same time is priceless.
If we see life only about function then we have lost the true meaning of our existence. We champion and give credit to function however without love function is empty and worthless.
No doubt we will continue to demand entertainment, sensationalism and drama until such time that the distortion is so extreme that we have to wake up to something different, until that time we will use the media as a relief, a distraction from the tension and lack of love that we are not wanting to feel in our own lives.
Although it is the opposite what it does today, the media can be a means to bring people together on a higher plan if we choose it to be so.
It is interesting to ponder on the existence of the news or media as we have it currently. When I google it the media we have now dates back from the first half of the last century. But it existed before in plays, paintings on walls or engravings in stone. I have to conclude that the media now is so much more aggressive and manipulative than what we had in the past and that it has something to tell us about the way we live. The media is either a great support to get a greater awareness on what is happening in the world (when reporters work with integrity), but to that, it is a means to control, suppress and keep people locked in ill ideals and beliefs, an experience we can have every day.
“Time will tell and as always, will reflect all of our choices.” That is what is guaranteed in our life that all the choices we have made had an impact on us and on all the people around us . . . the question is – do most of us really want to learn from that reflection????
There’s a lot here, and I wonder if some of the points written here could be different blogs in their own rights.
The supply and demand factor is a huge one to consider. We have to take responsibility for what it is we are truly wanting to get from media.
Addressing the immense abuse that exists in this world actually begins within our homes and ripples out. When we bring our care, love and attention to the details of our lives, how we meet and greet each other, deepen the intimacy and love in our long term relationships and the respect for everyone we meet, we establish a foundation of respect that underpins our communities, local, national and international. When these foundations are strong, we will never tolerate any behaviour that does not equal what we innately know is true, correct and incorruptible.
If we keep on demanding distractions and our comforts related to being ‘happy’ with bettering out individual status, it is going to be a very long time experiencing ‘unhappiness’ and major disharmony worldwide before we return to live in the joy of true brotherhood once more.
Even though there is a general culture of sensationalised rotten journalism happening across the world, I have met with many many decent and honourable people who do not want any part of it, who choose respect and instead to stand away from that form of abuse. And even though I get the sense that they would not call themselves brave for doing this, I would consider each one to be very brave and courageous.
It is truly revolting how foul life is for so many and for those who aren’t in those trenches an even greater malaise as it is drenched in the illusion of life.
I do wonder sometimes how bad or intense life has to get before as a collective society we start asking the real questions and start really wanting to change things.
“However, in-truth our news does not require us to stand up, or call us to account in life – to make changes that eliminate the rot and call people to take true responsibility, especially energetic responsibility, in all aspects of their lives”
Our news is not asking this of us as humanity is not asking it of itself. Supply and demand as you say.
The world of lies exists as it is because we do not stand up for truth.
“If we each chose to bring truth to every facet of our lives … then that which is untrue would have no place to exist.” So true Johanna and so simple – yet this would change the world we live in forever.
Because of the demand we are supplied with what is demanded. Therefore we are not given what is really going on in the world. This is reserved for middle of the paper new (if at all) rather than front page. As much as we like to blame the media for all that is in the media, there must be a demand from the public. What are we demanding? What are we avoiding? What are we each not wanting to take responsibility for in our own lives?
Yes it is easy to blame the supplier or moan about why the world is as it is but nothing will change unless we all look at our own appetite for destruction and lovelessness.
I like your use of the word appetite. Very apt.
Really good questions that help us be more be honest about what it is we are doing to add to the mess.
The news has become more addictive, it’s accessible now in so many different ways, news papers, radio, television, social media and websites. Online stories go from one leading you to another in a way which is highly addictive, giving a short snapshot of each news article. It’s this stimulation we want, to distract us and feed the theatre, the next hit and so it doesn’t matter if it is the truth or not as long as we get our fix.
There is supply and demand, there is old and new. What we get under the name of news is ‘olds’; it is simply vibration we demand to help us keep moving in the same spot, under the illusion of a changing landscape.
Very true Eduardo, so the ‘news’ we get is simply a regurgitation of the past trying to keep us caught up in it and thus not moving forward and expanding with the ever expanding Universe.
Is news always about the past? Except when it is pictures of the future?
Lies become a great and valuable commodity when the truth has become too uncomfortable and exposing to accept.
And as history shows this tactic has been used more than once to suppress truth. However, eventually truth does always come out as does love always win.
“Supply and demand affects everything in this world – if there is no demand then there will be no supply. It literally applies to everything.” when you look at life from this angle and we look at what we do not like in life the question should arise ‘in what way am I myself demanding this’? We tend to look at the excesses and say we do not want it but in it’s more subtle and comfortable forms we may be demanding a whole lot more then we thought we did.
yes, we have been so ‘trained’ to look outside of ourselves that we have become blind to the choices we are almost unwillingly but often unwittingly making. To pause and look at it in detail can prompt big changes in our life.
‘The fact is, we are actually choosing and even enjoy sensationalised, tantalising media and news reporting instead of calling for that which simply gets to the facts and truth of the rot in life and exposes it for what it is” this is so true and even more so many are willing jump on the bandwagon on social media adding their own 2 cents worth creating blown up stories that are far removed from truth. We have spun completely out of control in the sense that our hunger for entertainment, distraction and sensationalism has left us out of control in our own action sand consumptions.
It’s something I find so scary especially with the fake people news, in some ways it asks us to up our game and discern exactly what it is that we can feel is true or not.
I do feel that is the only way Vanessa, to learn to discern for ourselves, trust in what we feel and see beyond the physical appearances, but also to be willing to see the reality that what we read and hear is often not the truth and definitely not the whole truth.
Johanna Smith says “The way our media is today allows us to remain distracted from living life in-truth…” and she makes the point that the media is clearly shaped by our demand…
A chillingly truthful blog. Sobering to the bone.
What I feel is that we do all care, very deeply, about the injustices and suffering in the world but the horror is that we are choosing not to feel and access this care for others or even for ourselves…
The most painful part to see is that, not only do we ask for and choose the dis-honestness of distractions, consistently in so many ways everyday, but that we deny truth and even repress and attack it when it is presented. If this were not the case more people would have access to honest reporting in our world because there would be more places for a clear and truthful media to stand and present without being attacked.
why?
We ask for ‘comforts’ (the self-medicating of the pain which is a sign post that something is wrong) so we can stand-to-put-off doing the work we need to do to restore our integrity (live the truth of what we feel and know; the truth of our love); we choose not to see Truthfully so we can justify choosing relief instead of doing the work to get to a place where relief is no longer needed.
We are like children with rickets and in front of us is always a a nutritious meal… next to a pile of cookies!
If we want the world to be different its time to dig deep, time to honestly look at what is going on inside and around us, time to hate the pain we are perpetuating more than we want/need our self-medication and distractions.
If we want change in the world, its time to grow up and choose love in every little way and moment we can.
Time will tell- and I feel it has to become even more extreme and loveless out in this world, before people wake up and question their lifestyle and choices.
I agree Stefanie. Ignorance feels so imbedded in certain areas that the wake up call will have to match that level for true change to take place.
An important note though is that caring does not mean reaction. If we react to the atrocities we just feed the energy of separation and abuse even more. Calling out the injustices and the lies in our own lives brings a spot light to what is happening in the world.
Hear hear. It’s the bring truth to our own backyard so to speak that supports the whole to eventually shift.
Looking at that giant list I thought “There’s no way I could speak up on all those topics, there’s just too much for one person!” but then what came next was that I don’t have to. If I live my truth in my aspect of life then that gives another who may be more vocal in another part of life to connect and speak as well. That’s my responsibility rather than trying to save the world solo.
When we look at the depth and breadth of the oceans of rot in the world we can think it is impossible to tackle. Yet this makes it very simple and manageable to begin to turn the tide, ‘will we wake up and understand there is another way of speaking up, living truth and love in the smallest areas of our life; that this actually affects the whole and sets a standard’
What is exposed in the blog is huge and shows the deep, deep depths to which we have sunk…but it does also offer enormous inspiration for it actually shows us a very clear way back to the truth. And so we then have the choice; indulge or respond?
It feels so important to register what is true and not true throughout my day as I live it. Then I am not giving energy to what is not true inadvertently and pretend to not know this. I’ve noticed how much I want to retreat into my own little bubble in life and so am working on being present and seeing all that I see. It doesn’t feel pleasant but retreating into my bubble through food or TV only adds to the yuck I am trying to avoid. I’ve a responsibility to see it all, we all have. Being present and knowing what is there is what gives me the ability to respond.
It’s shocking to me how quickly I can walk away from some of the world’s atrocities and allow my life to wrap me up again in a comfort ball of my own stuff. I need to constantly build, deepen and express my relationship with the hate that I have for the world’s injustice and the love that I have for my brothers. It is absolutely in me but the world is immaculately designed to keep us in our own bubbles.
There is a whole book and more that could be written on ‘Supply and Demand’.. To keep it simple and personal, is understanding how we live in the quality of our movements confirming the unimposition and the power of love, is enough to change the bigger picture because, where do we start with this en masse of complexity.
When we don’t speak up, we are colluding with the injustice that is taking place.
What I got from reading this is we will see the truth when we want to see the truth, if we do not want to see the truth the world is going to reflect this. So what will it take for this to happen? We already have continual wars, poverty, greed, corruption, lies, … the list is endless that has been going on for eons and is getting worse. When is enough enough? Personally I have had enough. Bring in the absolute truth, up my awareness and start to be more responsible for my actions and the way I choose to live knowing everything I do affects the all.
Thank you Johanna, this is a very powerful article and it’s a call to each of us to consider everything you have shared and step up. We have lost the values of decency and respect, and the power of changing this world for the true benefit of all by living the love and truth we innately are as human beings.
If we start in our own life to live by the deepest truth we know and no less we will begin to restore truth back to this world.
If you are effected by the media then the sensationalism, lies and theatre of the news is so clear, it makes your skin crawl, I experienced this during the banking crisis, the adverts that were on television accompanying the drama in the news felt so dishonest that I could no longer watch television. I found that the news was all about entertainment and nothing about the truth.
It is truly depressing to read how little we care about each other and ourselves, here we are in bodies made of divine ordered particles the same as the stars above and we mutulate it with loveless actions and inactions.
We are not here to save the world eg. Someone said to me a couple of days ago ‘it feels too big to do something about it.’ Every movement we choose love in whatever way this is to be expressed we make a difference and it doesn’t have to be big – we are not here to be seen for what we do but through living love first it is sensed and sometimes accepted to be inspired and learned from.
Journalism is a good feat. These days, some bad eggs roll its crate. https://broadissues.org/peace-security/can-aung-san-suu-kyi-get-back-the-adoration-she-once-enjoyed/
It is like the world has given up on truth and I feel some of this is because when people do stand up and question say the media or the judicial system or religion or anything that has a strong hold on our society we are vilified bullied and lied about. We have to truly see the rot that is happening everywhere, in our homes our work place and in our relationships our education system and see how we have willing gone along with it. We are all responsible for the world we have today and we are also all responsible for bringing about the change that is so desperately needed.
If we stop buying – a certain newspaper for example – then when the demand ceases that paper goes out of business – end of supply. Ditto for every product on the market. So it is up to us – public/humanity to not feed the supply of lies.
We are being consumed by social media that pours out fake news and we do not seem to be able to discern the truth from the lies or seemingly care. We are digesting rubbish in more ways than just one.
Great post Johanna. “How far will we fall as a whole before we are forced to do something that makes true change? It is said we get the government we deserve – but how much of that is due to complacency and not expressing what we feel?
Yes it is really good to see how evil does not just happen, it is us that allow it to happen and so too is it with truth we have to bring it forth ourselves and it is not something that is or is not happening. It is a clear choice.
Johanna, this is a great question; ‘Supply and Demand – What about the Truth?’ I have noticed a deterioration in the quality of women’s magazines – what I have observed is that there are a lot less ‘real life’ stories and a lot more celebrity gossip instead. it seems that we as a society are asking for this celebrity gossip and so this is what we are getting at the expense of true, real stories.
Every choice we make contributes to the whole existence that we all live in.
True Mary, keeping it at the micro yet knowing the affect on the macro.
And most of humanity makes a blind eye to this, as it would mean every move carries responsibility and requires a presence in life. No more ME time and distraction but full commitment to your purpose in life.
Absolutely brilliant blog Johanna, this is what our world needs to hear and the questions you’ve raised are imperative. I agree, there is no point blaming the many industries who produce products and services that are not supportive and even harmful because the demand is there in the first place for an industry to exist. So, the responsibility comes back to us, the consumers and the voice that has the power to change the world if we so choose.
I watch in horror at the many examples of man’s gross inhumanity to man and natural environment all the while asking what it will take for the madness to end. Responsibility rests with each one of us to go beyond our own comfortable circle and be prepared to expose, question and challenge where-ever we are and not wait for others to do so or be content to engage in talk and blame, without taking any action.
In reading this blog I came to the realisation that people tend to be consumers of life and in that consciousness bring the minimum of them to it to get the maximum for themselves out of it.
The world is as it is, because we are as we are. We have become on-lookers and bystanders, not seeing or responding abuses and injustice unless directly affected.
Beautifully said Kehinde, we are so removed from the pain that so many of us are feeling either in loneliness or actual torture from another. To feel where the world is at and accept it is where it is is a major thing and certainly not one I have come close to mastering.
I haven’t read newspapers for a couple of weeks or watched the news. Yesterday, I opened one and felt physically assaulted by its content and stopped reading. But to stop reading or watching news programmes, doesn’t make the pain experienced by our brothers go away, it just means we block it out and carry on with our own lives. To be aware of pain and torture, without absorbing it, supports us to stay present to the true state of the world without necessarily accepting it.
In the UK they put a tax on sugar amounts in soft drinks to look like they are doing something for the obesity problem we have. Or, is this an easy opportunity for a tax cash cow?
With the level of unabated abuse that is the current norm that you have described, have we reached the tipping point of no return? What does all of this ill energy do to the planet? Is there a correction coming that we will not be able to ignore?
As far as I am concerned, it’s our “it’s nothing to do with me” attitude” that a huge majority of the humanity has, which has resulted in the big mess the world is in. Absolving ourselves of the responsibility of what is going around us, is simply denying we are all a part of the whole of humanity and as such we are all responsible. Yes, it may be rather overwhelming to know what to do and how to address any issue, but simply starting with the way we are living and the way we are treating others, is definitely the best place to begin.
Once you become aware and can see how things are reported, written and advertised in a sensationalised way it makes you not want to watch the news or buy a newspaper. It also makes you develop the skill of truly reading whats going on ‘between the lines’.
I arrived here 25 years ago after being involved in incidents that were reported wholly inaccurately by every newspaper including the ones everyone thinks is so right on. We have been lied to with propaganda since the beginning of our beloved ‘democracy’ with the utter illusion that we are some how ‘better’ than our counterparts in obvious dictatorships.
As an English teacher I have taught students how to be discerning when consuming news. It is quite shocking how manipulative journalism can be, even more shocking how we seem to feed on it..
Very true Johanne. Media is turning more adversarial, But we also need to look at ourselves. Read a lot of social media comments and they are no different. But like you say it’s important to read between the adversarial lines.
Supply and demand basically dictates what our world will be. Is it time to take responsibility for this fact, and accept that we have created the world we have and we are the ones that can change it?
It is always time for those that are willing to lift the veils that keep the truth of how the world really works hidden. Welcome to the world of truth.
Precisely Ken, very well said. This shows us that the power to change this world is up to each and every one of us. One person may inspire and create a ripple effect of true change but ultimately it takes the commitment of everyone to make a consistent change.
Oh, but it’s so much easier to point the finger at someone else….
It is certainly the enablers and bystanders who have more to answer for where we stand today than the so-called perpetrators.
Spot on- the ones that keep quiet and let things happen avoiding to stick out their head, are the ones that allow all of this falsity in a comfortable, non attackable position. I prefer someone attacking directly and showing themselves like this, then those, that seemingly are doing good, but actually only focussing on their own advantage and security.
The very fact that you have to ask the question Johannna is a massive indictment on how we, humanity, behave when not experiencing the suffering directly. Bringing our attention to the quality of our personal relationships and lives empowers us to begin to redress the wider abuse we so comfortably ignore. If we step it up in our own homes, then it becomes second nature to expect that level of love and honesty in our environment and extremely obvious that anything less requires our immediate attention, action and input to correct it.
Yes Rowena, it all starts in the home, family being the first education platform. And yet education has been appropriated, separated as a lived experience and formalised and controlled in institutions, schools, universities, churches and become part of the problem we seek to eradicate. When we can take back the reins, we become responsible for the quality we want in our lives and not be dictated to by outside forces.
‘…if there is no demand then there will be no supply. It literally applies to everything.’ This is a huge, huge statement and one I am coming to realise is true. For example, I have attracted relationships based on needs and got exactly what I was putting out there. I cannot complain I got a mirror reflection for me to learn what I was doing and how I was being. The same is true for everything else in my life. That we have a media who do not care about its readers or subjects makes complete sense to me. We aren’t truly caring about each other but are in competition with one another or trying to be better in some way.
We cannot ‘demand’ truth or expect truth or even criticise those that do not deliver truth, if we ourselves are not living truth in our own lives. So – much work to be done by us all.
Absolutely Otto. It is very hypocritical of us to criticise others lives, when we live in exactly the same way in ours. And yes there is ‘so much work to be done by all of us’ and coming together with those close to us to support each other as we do, is the foundational platform that is needed to take the changes we are choosing to make out into the world.
I agree Otto we are all responsible for not living our truth we have all contributed to the lowering of standards across every aspect of our lives.
And so we go to work and start raising them again.
Very true and once we are living truth in our own lives we don’t demand we simply reflect and offer another way.
I agree ottobathurst, it is easy to blame and criticise those we feel do not want to know truth let alone live it. When I am faced with this reality in my own life I ask myself ‘what is the reflection offering me to grow and expand?’ I bring the offering back to me because I know I have been given an opportunity to either observe or express truth regardless of the outcome in that moment.
This comment made me sit up Otto as I still like to criticise the media for its lack of truth when the reality is that I do not live the truth that I am wanting in my own life.
Exactly. Don’t shoot the messenger! But it’s a great understanding too, because it debunks the myth (held by our responsibility) that we are powerless.
So true Otto – living our truth is down to each of us and the ripple effects of that will be felt.
So important to understand the true source of the rot and the poison that feeds this toxic sludge. We have made the bed in which we now lie (pun intended).
“What about the truth?” Indeed … as a humanity we have drifted so far from truth we no longer recognise it – or want to see it – when it is staring us in the face.
This is true. But when we connect to truth in an instant, we return in an instant, such is its majesty. Denying truth takes constant effort!
Supply and demand … it really is that simple – make our own lives about truth, love, decency and respect and this will constellate in our every day.
Reading this article I can feel how if things do not affect us or our family then there can be a lack of care or interest. This feels unloving and not a true way for us all to be in the world.
Jo, What you are sharing here is very true; ‘the common thread among them all is that they exist and will continue to exist as long as the majority of the population sit back, relax, and allow them to keep existing by not saying a word or showing any different way of being.’ I can feel the responsibility that we all have to set our own standards of what feels true and acceptable and what does not.
I agree, setting our own standards with respect, love, truth and honouring is an imprint there for any others to do the same. A footprint that does not add to the enabling energy or supply and demand.
If we do not demand what is true, naturally it follows that we will be supplied with everything that is not.
Newspapers now have far more feedback on their writing through their websites. They know exactly who reads what, how often, whether they pay and whether they click on the ads and they had ample opportunity to maximise their readership and the involvement of their readers. In other words the current disgusting state of the media is largely demand driven. We have found the enemy and it is us.
Very well said as ghastly as it is!!!
This is a very important comment. What you are saying, I believe, is that the supply/demand chain has become even more efficient and accurate and thus what we are getting now is an even more perfect reflection of what we are asking for. This is very sobering. Especially when you see that the media’s abuse and disregard of the truth is getting more intense every week. Thus, it must be so, that ours is too. Thank you Christoph for your insight.
Well considered article Johanna. Without the demand there is no supply. We can blame anything essentially for our woes but until we look at our own reasons why we ‘need’ something and see that we are part of the demand, nothing will change the supply of whatever it is we are consuming. True change starts from within each and every one of us and it will need to cover all aspects of life as we know it today.
Without a demand for the truth it will not be supplied. But slowly there are people waking up again and realizing how corrupted our world actually is and how there is little to almost nothing to support us to be the amazing beings we actually are.
‘Without a demand for the truth it will not be supplied’ The density of lies and corruption is monumental, deeply woven into global consciousnesses and multi-layered. That this is accepted without question means, the majority of people can no longer discern truth from untruth. This is the sad reality we face.
My feeling is that as long as the atrocities are happening ‘out there’ and to ‘someone else’ not much will be done.
But how ‘out there’ does it have to be? I would wager that almost everyone has been affected either directly or indirectly by Cancer, heart disease, mental health issues, poverty or inequality. And so the question then becomes, how bad does it have to get? I shock myself by some of the stuff that I have let go without responsive action.
I reckon’ pretty bad Otto. I too shock myself with the stuff I let go without responsive action. It is sobering.
Have things really changed or do we now just have the tools to make our voices heard without consequences. The internet has provided a platform from which we can say what we like and feed gossip and drama like no tomorrow.
“Time will tell and as always, will reflect all of our choices.” The last part you say here, that that what happens in the world is reflecting all our choices is what we need to get and understand. The answers are all right in front of us but we choose to not take matters into our own hands and take the responsibility we have, every single one of us.
You expose how the way of the world, Johanna, that we have come to accept, does not work. Over the next few decades, more and more people will become aware of this, and as we wake up, changes will happen. But first we have to get through the blinkered fog.
It is only because we do not live in truth that we allow the world of lies to exist.
Yes, it starts with us, before we look out at the world, first look within and feel how true we are in our own lives.
‘How far will we fall as a whole before we are forced to do something that makes true change?’ Even though the world is full of pain both physical and emotional we seem unwilling to accept our part – we have reached a point of arrogance that is quite unbelievable and yet we continue to forge ahead without a second glance not willing to see that we can stop and begin to turn the tide.
I guess most people know that things are rotten but sort of accept that as the norm in a giving up mentality. One of the ways to affect change is to show there is another way simply by living it and offering that reflection. There is a way to live a loving, joyful and soulful life regardless of what else is going on and that way is called The Way of The Livingness.
Yes there is a huge given up-ness in the world – as if ‘little old me cant do anything’. But viewing Serge Benhayon and the inspiration and reflection he offers and how so many of us have made different choices – learning to commit to living with quality and purpose – demonstrates how every single one of us has an untapped power. If I change me others may observe and be inspired too. Its up tp us – what do we choose? Truth ?
Brilliant blog, Johanna – it may make uncomfortable reading, but sadly, everything you share is so true – it’s as though we are brainwashed as a society – going about our lives in a self created daze, without any awareness or interest for the truth of what is going on all around us.
When we see hear and feel life it’s obvious we know what’s right. But do we live it? That’s the uncomfortable conversation we really need to have.
Exactly Joseph, when we see, hear and feel life we know what is right… this is why we are so good at dimming our awareness! If we don’t ‘see’ the lies we dull our guilt for not standing up for truth…
So we do know what is right and Yes, this is ‘the uncomfortable conversation we need to be having’, everyday.
Perhaps we ‘think’ we are ok right now as we are not being directly affected by anything too terrible, yet, the truth is, we ARE being affected and as long as we allow the rot to continue with our ‘inaction’ we will all continue to be poisoned in blissful ignorance of our own making.
That complacency you speak of and the laissez faire, ‘each to their own’ tolerance is something I have experienced to be totally enabling of the supply chain of lies and corruption, greed and atrocities. Understanding the harm in this energetic ‘impartial’ stance – which is an active acceptance of the harm, I’m choosing to step out of that cycle and say no to its machinations.
One day we all say no to the machinations the impartial stance does bring and I am looking forward when that will happen and how that will change the world. But to make this happen some people like you have to start and give the example of how simple it is to bring care to life.
When has the human race ever really ‘cared’? The media (social and mainstream), hand in hand with Government, has ensured that we, as individuals, have no need to accept personal responsibility; it’s always someone else’s fault. In this way we have ended up with a society that will blame everyone and do nothing. Riots and protests are the fault of Government, gun crime and knife crime are the fault of ‘society’, drug abuse and suicide are the fault of online (anonymous) trolls. Until we, as individuals, take responsibility for our own lives and the choices we make, nothing will change.