The document discusses the pervasive nature of brainwashing within society, influenced by various authorities such as parents, teachers, and media, leading to a culture of lying that obscures the truth and hinders enlightenment. It emphasizes the importance of unlearning preconceived beliefs, reflecting critically, and fostering open-mindedness to achieve personal enlightenment. Ultimately, the text proposes that true happiness and fulfillment come from aligning one's actions with their deeper spiritual destiny rather than societal expectations.

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August, 2011
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2. First, We Must Understand That:
 We are all brainwashed for years by:
 Our parents Some of it was done
 Our teachers and professors intentionally and
some of it was done
 The academic world unintentionally
 The intellectuals and philosophers
 Our religious leaders and religion itself
 Our Leaders
 The Media
 Society at large
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3. The Degree Of Brainwashing Affects
Who One Is
Brain Power
Openness
Free Thinkers – open to accepting some
Mild
paradigms that make sense (no agenda)
Liberals or Progressives – open to all new
Fair paradigms (as long as they fit a personal agenda)
Independents or Moderates – open to
Moderate most new paradigms
Conservatives – stuck in certain paradigms,
Serious open to some new paradigms
Fundamentalists and Cultists – closed to
Severe new paradigms and hating all changes
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4. People Understand Brainwashing
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5. No, It’s Not Funny
Brainwashing is
actually one of the
most serious things as
it affects one’s life
thought patterns,
cognition ability,
mental models,
decision making, and
even Enlightenment
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6. Clarification
 There is a huge difference between telling other people
things one believes to be true (that later on are proven
to be false or wrong) and telling lies and fibs on
purpose to influence other people’s minds, decisions
and outcomes
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7. Some Famous Lies
 Three American Administrations lying about our
involvement in Vietnam. It took Daniel Ellsberg to
expose the truth
 Andrew Jackson claimed that "the Indians in general,
receding farther and farther to the West, have retained
their savage habits.“
 George H . Bush proclaiming that he will not raise
taxes with his now infamous speech of “Read my lips!”
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8. Other Famous Liars
 Pete Rose, Roger Clemens, Many Ramirez, Barry
Bonds, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James …
 Bernie Madoff and all ponzi scheme architects
 Jayson Blair, James Frey …
 Angelo Mozilo, Ken Lay, Dennis Kozlowski …
 Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, John Edwards and 90% of
all politicians
 80% of Defense Lawyers
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9. Reality: We Have A Culture Of
Lying
 We have Lobbyists (= professional liars and mind
manipulators)
 We have Propaganda Ministers /Spokespersons for
each political party and each major corporation
 We have tabloids (= professional liars and rumor
mongers)
 We have a Political Talk Show Hosts (= professional
liars and spin doctors)
 We have Political Correctness (= to sugarcoat ugly
truths and hide or mask obvious flaws or defects)
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10. An Interesting Article
The National Culture of Lying: A Problem with the National Vocabulary
By waywuwei - May 3, 2008, 12:54PM
It was discovered recently that the "McCain family Recipes" posted on the McCain website were in fact
lifted verbatim from the food network. A tempest in a teapot for sure, but in the aftermath of the flap,
a staffer was fired for doing this. Clearly, John and Cindy McCain knew from the start that these were
not family recipes because they did not provide them to the staffer in question. So they knew,
assuming that they had knowledge of their own web site that the whole thing was a lie to begin with.
It is clear that in Washington and in the broader American culture, lying is the business of the day.
There is in the whole culture a confusion of truth with PR. The media culture that has honed the art
of creating illusion is in fact a culture of lying. Truth has nothing to do with it.
The recent media flap about Hillary and Bill's lie about the events surrounding Hillary's trip to Bosnia
underscores again, the pervasiveness of the Culture of Lying. In an AP news article, the headline is
"Clinton misstates wife's Bosnia Tale". Note the word "misstates". They didn't say lie. Look around
and see how often the word "lie" is used in the media. People "misstate" things, they even "misspeak"
at times. They never lie. The word "lie" has been effectively expunged from the national vocabulary. If
there is no word for an untruth, there are no untruths and if there are no untruths, there are no
truths. It is all a game to see whose propaganda is more effective. The truth is what you can get
away with. No wonder the American people have lost their way. We have a culture of national secrecy
so extreme, that even the people elected to represent us really have no idea what is really going on. To
conceal their own inability to find the truth, they perpetuate the culture of lying.
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11. We Now Have All These Categories
Of Lies
 1.1 Big Lie Follow the hyperlinks to find
 1.2 Bluffing
 1.3 Barefaced lie
their definitions
 1.4 Butler lie
 1.5 Contextual lie
 1.6 Economical with the truth
 1.7 Emergency lie
 1.8 Exaggeration
 1.9 Fabrication
 1.10 Jocose lie
 1.11 Lie-to-children
 1.12 Lying by obsolete signage
 1.13 Lying by omission
 1.14 Lying in trade
 1.15 Lying through your teeth
 1.16 Misleading/dissembling
 1.17 Noble lie
 1.18 Perjury Obviously things got
 1.19 Puffery
 1.20 The View From Nowhere
more complex since
 1.21 White lie Reagan’s time
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12. Conclusion: It Is Hard To Know
What Is Real and True. We have a
Truth Crisis
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13. Here Is An Example
It is not just a crisis re:
Global Warming; it’s a
crisis regarding truth.
Do you know the truth?
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14. Key Realization
 One cannot find Enlightenment when surrounded by
lies, wrong theories, false prophets and prophecies,
bad science, garbage statistics, fanciful philosophies,
questionable beliefs, tainted history, one-sided stories,
far-fetched myths, manmade legends, sham
mysticism, hazy or distorted views, and problematic
dogmas, codes and doctrines. The problem stems
from the fact that we all believe that none of these are
afflicting us. They only afflict the other folks
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15. The First Step Towards
Enlightenment
 Empty your mind, clear your thoughts, decouple your
self from your beliefs and axioms, get rid of rigidity
and narrow-mindedness
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16. Unlearn In Order To Learn
This is one of the hardest
things to do in life and this
is why we have so few free
thinkers and even fewer
enlightened individuals
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17. Next Step Towards Enlightenment
 Then read, reflect, question, challenge, hear and
appreciate the “other side”, judge, evaluate, and
rethink everything
 Become a free thinker
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18. Do Something New.
Stretch Yourself
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19. See
Things
From A
Different
Angle
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20. Consider These:
 You don’t really own a home. You are renting it from
the government. Property tax is your rental fee
 Working in the office or factory is new form of slavery.
There are no whips or chains, but there are rules,
regulations, codes, procedures, policies, processes …
and cameras
 We still have Barons and Lords. We now call them
CEOS and Chairs
 We still have pirates. They don’t have swords, but they
have diplomas from fancy universities
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21. … And These:
 Justice is not blind
 Equality is a noble cause and feeling, but it is not
reality. The reality is we are very different. Trying to
put us all in one bucket hurts those that are gifted,
intelligent and unique in some many other ways. This
is not an elitist view, but a pragmatic view
 The US is losing more freedoms with every passing
year. We accept totalitarianism for the sake of safety
and security. We are stuck at the basic human needs
 New Age is promoted by fundamentalists, not liberals
or free thinkers
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22. Some Key Questions/Challenges
 Is Capitalism and Consumerism great systems that
apply to all people?
 Is democracy a great system to govern large and
complex societies?
 Is Organized Religion geared into dividing people,
rather than uniting them?
 Is homosexuality a threat to society?
 Is marriage necessary?
 Is polygamy a man-made sin?
 Are there sins at all?
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23. The Truth Will Set You Free
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24. Key Realization
 Most people do not have the guts to probe those type
of questions deep enough because they are afraid of
the answers
 What if the answers are opposite to what one believes?
Believe it or not most people cannot handle the fact
that they have been believing BS all their lives.
Enlightenment takes strong individuals to be able to
accept the truth and move forward. Weak-minded
people convince themselves that are strong by hanging
onto their BS beliefs --- very distorted thinking
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25. Great Question;
Great Introspection
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26. Here Are Some Things That I
Changed My Mind About
 I thought Daniel Ellsberg was a traitor. Now I see him
as a hero and an enlightened individual
 I thought Nixon was a patriot and a savior of America.
Now is view him as a paranoid lunatic
 I thought that Government was infallible and caring.
Now I see our politicians as fumbling buffoons
 I thought my personal God was the best and only God.
I now realize that there are no personal Gods --- only
one God for all
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27. Here Are Some Things That I
Changed My Mind About (cont’d)
 I thought The Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Cathars,
Illuminati and other such groups were bad (because
my church said so), only to find out a whole another
truth about them
 I thought Gnostics were bad people and heretics
(because my church said so), only to find out that they
understood Christ and Christianity better than the
fathers of my church
 I thought that we needed a Head of the Church. Now
I realize that we don’t need anyone to believe what we
believe
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28. Clarification
 Understanding The Cathars, The Gnostics and the
rest of them doe not mean that I agree with everything
they have said or believed. It only means that they
have expanded my Gnosis and Consciousness well
beyond what my own religion did
 The Cathars , Gnostics and the rest have said many
outlandish and outright ridiculous things. That does
not detract from the fact that they had some very
valuable perspectives about God and Christianity.
They have contributed greatly to my Enlightenment
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29. Next Step: Relearn
 Relearn based on solid understanding of new
paradigms, new ideas, new knowledge/Gnosis, new
trends and new views
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30. Gardner’s 7 Levers (or 7-R’s) For
Changing Minds
Understanding
the meaning
and significance
of certain
things like
Paradigm Shifts
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31. One Way To Understand The Changes Is
To Understand the Paradigm Shifts
Lifecycles of
each Paradigm
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32. Here Is One Simple Example
Before:
Doing
things
sequentially
After:
Doing things
in parallel
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33. Another Example of Shifts In The
Health Care Industry
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34. More Examples Of Paradigm Shifts
Before Now
 Main Frame Computer  Personal Computer
 Cell phone  Smart phone
 Marketing as a monologue  Marketing as a dialogue
 Our galaxy as the cosmos  Our galaxy is one of billions
of galaxies in the cosmos
 We are the only ones in the  We are not alone
cosmos
 The planet can heal itself  The planet has limits in the
ability to heal itself
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35. Some Major Shifts
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37. Enlightenment Is About:
 Seeing things in a new light (like never before) and
understanding things at a level of depth that does
make a difference in the way one lives and enjoys life
 Obtaining and applying profound knowledge (called
Gnosis)
 Recognizing certain truths as being eternal and life
shaping
 Knowing that you’ve been lied to … and forgiving the
liars
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38. Visual Representation Of One Form
Of Enlightenment
http://wiseguyshq.com/2011/04/30/visual-representation-of-how-to-
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39. Here Is The Essence Of My
 Life has nothing to do with what we are doing for a
living, or supporting our families, or achieving self-
actualization. The “hierarchy of needs” only exists for
people that live at the animal level
 Life has to do with what we are --- spiritual beings
enjoying the journey on this planet. It has to do with
love ---giving and taking love. Loving the ones
around us, especially our families, provides us with the
ultimate joy. Knowing that you are loved by those that
matter the most, matters the most.
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40. Here Is The Essence Of My
(cont’d)
 Happiness and enjoyment of life is not derived from
doing things or obtaining and accumulating things, or
using things. It is derived from fulfilling your destiny
and realizing your real bliss
 So, do you know your Destiny? Do you know your
bliss? They are not hard to figure out. Just remember
your first dreams, inclinations and attachments.
Think of what made you happy. I certainly know what
makes me happy. I now know my destiny. It fits with
my bliss
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41. Here Is The Essence Of My
(cont’d)
 Choosing arbitrarily a profession or career may bring
you money, glory, fame, and power, but it won’t bring
you what matters the most: You being you, fulfilling
your destiny. It is the fulfillment of your destiny that
brings you the ultimate contentment, peace serenity
gratification and self-actualization
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42. Here Is The Essence Of My
(cont’d)
 One Buddhist friend of mine told me once that: “Life
has nothing to do with what you are doing, and
everything to do with what you are being.” However,
my Enlightenment has shown me that if you are
doings are aligned with your destiny, then doing and
being become one. And that my friend is the ultimate
way to live your life. This is true Gnosis. This is true
Enlightenment
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43. Key Question
 The previous four slides mentioned several very
profound statements. Do they make a good reading or
do they affect one’s life?
 The answer to this question underscores the difference
between understanding and “knowing”. Knowing
leads to drastic and life-changing decisions and
actions because knowing without doing (= taking
action) is just a theory or conjecture
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44. Key Realization
 There is a Zen proverb that says: “Before
Enlightenment chop wood carry water, after
Enlightenment, chop wood carry water.” The
consciousness has changed but not the tasks. Read
this article at:
http://www.interluderetreat.com/meditate/chop.htm
to get the gist of the difference of before and after
condition. However, it would be even greater if the
man would focus on his bliss (such as carving wood)
and make a living that way
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45. Knowing Is Also This:
or been able to
express in words
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46. Knowing Is Also This:
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47. Knowing Is Also This:
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48. Knowing Is Also This
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50. Opened My Eyes To This:
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51. The Essence Of Free Thinking
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60. The cosmos itself represents the
breath of God or The Force.
Each exhale represents a new Big
Bang era, and every inhale
represent the new Big Crunch era.
Every breath you take represents
the birth and death cycle.
Black Holes destroy and create
stars and entire galaxies. They too
breath in and breath out.
How interesting it is to understand
breathing!
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63. For More Thought Provoking Ideas,
Please Visit:
 www.lightenabler.com
or
 www.thegrandparadox.com
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