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“He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.” - Baruch Spinoza
In this time of mass awakening upon our planet – rife with chaos, darkness, and division – most everyone would acknowledge that society at large is collectively walking upon a highly destructive path leading us nowhere good really fast. Most would surely also acknowledge that real and radical change of some type is needed to correct humanity's wayward course, in order to avert even greater disaster than that which is already being witnessed across the planet. Everyone can see this, and yet there is much disagreement over what the proper solutions to these many obvious problems actually are, how it is that humanity should collectively proceed, and what the proper way forward should be in order to realize the brighter future the vast majority of us seek.
This causes much division and confusion, which is now being witnessed and which is amplified further by societal constructs of control – particularly the controlled Media – that feed into and off of this energy, for a divided and confused people are a dis-empowered people. And dis-empowered people are easily controlled and manipulated people, people who are readily enslaved by those dark forces on our planet which would keep humanity in a state of perpetual oppression for their own selfish purposes.
Fewer, but still a great many there are, who are beginning to recognize that a vast majority of the societal constructs long trusted and revered as the positive pillars of society – from organized religious and educational institutions to corporate and government organizations of all kinds – are corrupt to the core and not quite the friend of humanity they all claim to be, but rather are our enslavers. Large portions of humanity are fast awakening to the realization that these establishments which have long claimed to have humanity's best interests at heart are in fact actively working against those best interests in contravention of the very outcomes and ideals which they all claim to stand and fight for. It is no longer a fringe minority which sees that humanity's heroes of yesteryear are in fact the villains of the present. Nor is it any longer a secret that these corrupt systems of planetary control are one of the largest contributing factors to the needless suffering, oppression, disparity, and senseless wars and conflicts being perpetuated upon Planet Earth.
Awakening, false Light, and the root of all darkness, the 'devil' within the mind of Man
"The reason people awaken is because they have finally stopped agreeing to things that insult their soul."
In such a chaotic and divisive global landscape as this, especially in this modern information age, confusion is naturally running rampant, and false light abounds. There is no shortage of countless varying and contradictory thought constructs and belief systems all at once vying for our attention and allegiance, with dark forces masquerading as beacons of light popping up everywhere one looks. These various servants of the false light are ever seeking to pull awakening human souls back into the matrix of enslavement from which humanity is collectively awakening out of in this unprecedented time of great awakening, whether intentionally so or merely as unconscious pawns of the dark forces which such ones are being manipulated by.
This matrix of control from which we as the human race must break free if we are to collectively progress forward in a positive direction, is characterized by what we might call the slave frequency. This is an energetic set of low-level frequencies at which a being is highly susceptible to both mind-control and emotional manipulation of all kinds, not to mention also being highly weakening and therefore making one far more open and susceptible to bodily disease.
One who is stuck in such a dis-empowering state and who is operating from this frequency is easily enslaved in all manner of ways and by various methods. Such states of mind and states of being are always characterized by fear, and one cannot rise above the frequency of fear until first overcoming the fear of death. Fearless beings are impossible to enslave, and fearless slaves do not remain slaves for long. Harriet Tubman is a perfect historical example demonstrating this, and her fearlessness led to her ability to successfully lead hundreds of additional slaves besides herself to freedom along the 'underground railroad.'
This truth long handed down in so many of the various ancient traditions is captured well in the Christian Bible, where it is written that Christ incarnated on earth in order to “destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.” Fear is the ultimate slavery and fear of death the ultimate human fear. That the fear of death is the root of all human fears can be confirmed directly through experience as one treads the inner path out of the realm of fear and into the realm of love, and has also been confirmed by the work of Dr. David Hawkins, writing in Power vs. Force that this “particular fear underlies all others.”
In order for humanity to free herself from these dark forces largely controlling the planet, and thus finally realize the peace and freedom we all seek, we must first understand how the Dark Side operates; for the negative path has only a limited number of tools, tactics and strategies at its disposal. And until we can clearly recognize these and understand how they are weaponized against us, we are bound to be led astray, for the Dark Side is ever so sly and crafty indeed. It is just as the old saying goes, the devil comes clothed as an angel of light, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, as a venomous snake disguised at first as a harmless dove.
“For even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” - Apostle Paul
And while it is true indeed that the proverbial devil often appears to us clothed as an angel of light, it is equally true that false light is readily distinguished from true light by those who know how to recognize the difference. Those who have come to understand the underlying nature of light and darkness, along with the often fine and subtle differences that differentiate these, are thus able to more easily spot the difference between true light and darkness manifesting as false light. Light is associated with love, power, unity/oneness, the path of service to others, and the positive polarity; whereas darkness is associated with fear, force, separation/division, the path of service to self, and the negative polarity. Light is inherently expansive, whereas darkness is suffocating and constricting, with the deeper the darkness but a stronger reduction of light.
Indeed, unlike the light which is limitless, dark forces of any and every kind, whether visible or invisible to the naked eye, and whether operating within our minds or externally upon the world stage, have only a limited arsenal of weaponry at their disposal. And though the material weapons utilized by the dark forces now present on the earth may appear to change over time, as with the various cults of death and bloody sacrifice which have operated on our planet for centuries, the underlying tactics and strategies by which these material forms of destruction and enslavement are utilized and unleashed upon humanity remain always the same. Fear is the most powerful of these weapons, alongside deception.
Acquainting oneself with these limited tactics and strategies of the Dark Side is therefore of the utmost importance for any and all who wish to aid in the liberation of humanity from the clutches of these dark and oppressive forces wreaking havoc both upon the collective mind of Man and our beautiful planet alike. And while society would have us believe that the sources of darkness and suffering observed in our world are external 'bad guys' – some villain outside of ourselves which we are indoctrinated into seeing as the 'other' who is 'dangerous' and threatening' – the truth is that the source of all darkness and suffering lies within us, in our very own minds.
This state of inner darkness from which a true spiritual path will always serve to liberate one from, can be best described as fear or separation consciousness. Consequently, the source of our own inner darkness is the very same source of the external darkness we see all around us, as the world is but a mirror, reflecting our own state of consciousness back to us, individually and collectively.
This inner source of darkness is probably most widely known as the ego, the voice of fear that lives within our minds, variously known as the 'monkey mind', the 'reptilian brain' and the 'knowledge of good and evil operating system'. Whatever one chooses to call it, it is but a mental program within our minds and not the mind itself, and it is the source of all our fears, the false belief in separation, and all mental suffering, holding our minds hostage in a state of separation consciousness until it is at last transcended. It is but the false self we come to identify ourselves as, but in truth are not. There are a number of theories as to why and how this program came to be lodged within the human mind, but it nevertheless operates just the same regardless of the reason(s) for its existence there.
It accomplishes its work primarily through false identification, which occurs when one takes this mental programming to be the mind itself and then falsely identifies oneself as their ego, as a body-mind rather than the soul-spirit which we truly are. It does this by convincing an individual that “I am the body,” when the truth is actually that we as spiritual beings upon the planet rather have a body.
For we are all fractals of light, pieces of God, expressions of the one universal consciousness in which, one and all, “we live and move and have our being.” This ego programming is a complex web of fear-based thought processes, false mental constructs and limited belief systems, consisting of that inner voice of fear and its countless thought constructs and beliefs systems created to reinforce that one original and foundational fear of death. In esoteric Christian traditions, the ego and its many thoughts are called 'the devil and his angels', in which this program is also referred to as 'the flesh', among other things.
Dr. Wayne Dyer did a wonderful job of laying out the six foundational lies of the ego that underlie the entire convoluted construct of our false self, which can be heard in the short video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LwCCg-59KY
True light, on the other hand, is always a reflection of love and truth; and one whose feet are firmly planted upon the path of light, the positive path of service to others, is one who is ever reaching towards unconditional love and moving increasingly into oneness or unity consciousness. It is here where one begins to increasingly see the divine love-light within themselves equally in all others and indeed in All That Is. One begins to realize that as an individual, they are a wave in the ocean of consciousness, and are no more separate from the totality of life than an individual wave is separate from the sea.
Whereas the darkness of fear arises in the mind through mental programming and is always associated with force, the light of love arises from the heart and is always associated with true power. This is why meditation is such a powerful spiritual practice, because one must quiet the chattery mental voice of the ego in order to hear that “still small voice” of truth which speaks from the heart, through our intuition.
Society generally goes to great lengths to present force – violence, anger, pride, greed, etc. – which is energetic weakness, as strength; and to present the highest expressions of true power – unconditional love, forgiveness, compassion, etc. – as weaknesses. But as Dr. David Hawkins demonstrated with his research through clinical and scientific methodology, power is strong and force is weak, regardless of our misconceptions. And that which is strong always ultimately prevails against that which is weak. So it is that truth will always prevail over falsehood, love will always triumph over fear, and nonviolent peacemakers empowered from within will always ultimately prevail against the forces of violence on the earth, no matter how big and well-armed the enemy's army may be.
One cannot properly liberate their minds from mental bondage, find inner healing, transcend mental suffering, or reach a state of inner peace, until that one first recognizes the way by which the 'devil' within us has enslaved and oppresses us in so many ways, shapes and forms, and to varying degrees. In the same way, humanity cannot collectively liberate herself from her material chains of bondage; nor will collective peace, healing, and the end of the insanity of rampant human-caused planetary suffering arrive, until we first collectively recognize the means by which these institutionalized forces of darkness control the planet through the enslavement of humanity.
Due to the sheer amount of distractions, distortions, confusion and division present in the world today, it is all the more important for those of us alive at this time to familiarize ourselves with these tactics and strategies. Many there are in the world today who erroneously think they are awake, simply because they have experienced the first phase of a multi-phased awakening process. And because of this false though entirely natural perception – a result of pride which is itself still an energetic extension of the ego-run world of darkness – many awakening souls are being corralled by malevolent forces of false light, right back into the very prison of darkness they had just begun to start liberating themselves from.
To quote Sarah Ekhaldy, in The False Light Deception, “The characteristics of this false light are extreme polarization, extreme fragmentation, inversion of truth, ego, worship, and a militant form of hierarchy.”
In other words, exactly the themes we see playing out so intensely on the world stage today, with extreme polarization and inversion of truth especially prominent just about everywhere one looks it would seem.
False light and false awakenings of every kind are currently prolific and are manifesting in numerous varied forms upon the earth, and they will continue to proliferate and shape-shift as humanity continues to collectively awaken. For this is the means by which the dark forces enslaving us respond to a human race on the verge of its final liberation from those chains which have held her in bondage for ages.
It is for this reason that it is an incredibly inefficient use of our energy to attempt to expose the countless examples of this great inversion of truth and light, one by one, when we can simply acquaint ourselves with the underlying tactics and strategies being utilized in every single such case. In doing so, we are highlighting the means by which any of us, regardless of how spiritually developed we may or may not be, can begin to recognize the dark forces controlling our planet in all of their many forms, including those of false light.
By doing so, we can effectively save ourselves much time which would otherwise be lost to diversions which are designed to steer us off of the true path to freedom, peace, and total liberation from the prison of fear which has held humanity in bondage for so long.
‘Know thy enemy’: Acquainting ourselves with the Dark Side’s limited arsenal of weaponry
“Fear is the path to the dark side.” - Master Yoda, in Star Wars
In stark contrast to the power of light and love, the forces of darkness, having cut themselves off from the only one universal source of all all life and power - the love and light flowing through all life that binds all living beings together as one cosmic family - have only one means of gaining and increasing their power; and that is through the theft of the life energy of other beings, the stealing of their light. And just as Jesus taught, when he said, “You are the light of the world,” so it is that humanity, one and all, is the light of this world here on Planet Earth. The dark forces upon this earth, then, can only remain empowered by enslaving humanity and thus feeding off of our energy; with the only endgame for these malevolent forces being the complete and total enslavement of humanity, or “full spectrum dominance” of the planet and all life on it.
So it is that anyone, anywhere, anytime, who seeks to violate the free will of another in any way, shape or form, is at best but a pawn for the Dark Side in its global chess game being played for total domination over the earth. Free will is the ultimate gift of our Creator, and Love never seeks to control another being in any way. Where fear seeks to control by manipulating and coercing people into making desired decisions, love simply offers guidance to others. This is one simple way to distinguish between the true light and the false light, between those serving the light and those serving the darkness.
Furthermore, it is my understanding that there are only four underlying strategies by which the darkness operates to achieve this single overarching goal, under which every plot and scheme it hatches, and every plan and maneuver it makes will thus fall under.
The 4 Strategies of the Dark Side
These are: First and foremost, the weaponizing of fear; secondly, the creating of hierarchies of control, most often pyramid-structured by design; thirdly, the manipulation of light; and fourth, the manipulation of human weaknesses.
For a recommended video discussion on these four strategies in a Law of One context, see the following video by spiritual teacher Aaron Abke, which also includes an amazing breakdown of just how strong of a hold the planetary control structures employing these methods of enslavement have upon western society:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTsMNukhl2Q
- Weaponization of fear
Not only is fear the path to the dark side, it is also the dark side's most powerful weapon, with the weaponizing of fear being the primary means of humanity's enslavement. Deception, coercion, and instilling of victim consciousness in those targeted for enslavement are all employed when the weaponizing of fear is in play. In order to be put into and kept in a state of fear, one must first be convinced that they are the victim of a dangerous, threatening world from which the negative entities seeking to enslave that one can then 'protect' the 'victim' from.
One blatantly obvious example of this strategy seen playing out on the world stage in recent times was with the COVID Plandemic, during which time the virus was portrayed as the terrifying, all-powerful and exceedingly dangerous enemy threatening humanity's very survival. The people of the earth were then made out to be the helpless victims of this ominou