Prison-Seeking Programming

 

Why is collectivism so powerfully attractive to some people?  To anyone who values personal freedom at any level, the very concept seems repulsive.  I think most people don’t actually believe Communism is a good idea, even in theory.  But a lot of people do.

But why is it that, even with the mountain of evidence showing that collectivism in all its real-world examples has been a horrible failure – and I mean unbelievably horrible, not subjectively – people still gravitate to this concept?

Why do people join cults?  It seems so stupid and self-destructive to anyone being objective.

Why do a significant percentage of prisoners want to stay in prison?

All these questions point to the same human trait, which is “prison-seeking behavior.”  People say they don’t want to go to jail, but if you made the jail comfortable enough, eliminated the violence and cruelty and put in just enough things to give it the illusion of personal choice, a lot of people would gladly volunteer to live there.  Not most people, but a significant percentage.

This is prison-seeking behavior. 

Don’t believe me?  There are massive dorm structures going up on college campuses with no windows, thousands of students crammed into these things, and a waiting list.  China has waiting lists for multi-story apartments that are worse than some actual prisons, and there are people who want to create that reality in Europe and the US.  Cults still exist with no shortage of members.  A lot of people stay in the military for the structure and the rigid boundaries, or have difficulty transitioning to a more open-ended lifestyle.

This gravitation toward systems that deprive agency in exchange for predictability, conformity, structure, safety and lack of personal responsibility (basic needs are taken care of for you) is powerfully strong in some people.

It turns out this attraction is strong in people who grew up in “permissive” households where there were few if any boundaries.  This environment created an anxiety that makes being controlled very attractive.

And if you don’t feel that attraction, the prison mentality can evoke a visceral negative reaction – it feels like they’re bargaining away your freedom along with their own.  And in many cases, that’s true. The irony of the prison mentality is that it lacks personal boundaries, having never learned the concept as children.  They just assume, since they have no boundaries, neither do you, so they’re entitled to give your agency away as if it were their own.  They literally can’t tell the difference. 

This is why I say there is no bargaining with collectivists, or with the prison mentality.  They see their own freedom as a personal threat, so they see you exercising your freedom also as a personal threat.  You can’t bargain with people like that.  This is why standing for freedom often leads to conflict – the other side literally has no concept of personal agency or sees it as a form of evil, so free people have to constantly fight back.  And it’s why collectivist societies inevitably lead to genocide – the very concept of people having personal agency is so threatening to those living in the prison mentality they have to delete them and call it good.

Those outside the prison mindset – and that’s most people – can see the fallacy of collectivism in all its forms.  Ultimately there is a structure that sits above the prison mentality that manipulates them and benefits from their voluntary servitude.  A collectivist society with free people won’t work, because the free people will just leave or refuse to participate.  The prisoners can’t operate the prison because that would require making choices and taking responsibility, which terrifies them.  So the system naturally needs to recruit and cultivate a certain number of free-thinking people (who are inherently corrupt and often outright evil) to run the prison.  They benefit from the system and run the system while living apart from it (notice how all the Communist leaders live like excessively wealthy Capitalists without actually producing anything of value themselves, unlike the actual Capitalists they emulate).

Can people in the prison mentality free themselves?  Yes.  But not from within the structure, which reinforces the learned helplessness and low personal self-esteem that creates the crippling fear of personal agency.  They need to see that, yes, they can take care of themselves better than the group.

And by the way this mentality plays out in micro levels in codependent and abusive relationships, so don’t think just because someone votes Republican they’re immune from the trap.

And events can trigger otherwise independent people to revert to prison mentality out of confusion or fear.  Look at all the people who reveled in locking themselves away, masking themselves and standing in long lines for tests and vaccines during the “covid pandemic.”  This wasn’t a case of a few politicians making edicts, large numbers of people gladly went along and tattled on their neighbors for living normal lives.  Because they wanted the prison, and they didn’t want to be pained by the thought of others enjoying a freedom they were incapable of giving themselves permission to enjoy.

To those who recognized the lunacy of the lockdowns, the prison mentality people seemed crazy, cruel, stupid and downright evil.  And objectively they were those things – those are inherent qualities of Prison Mentality Programming, lets not mince words or be quick to dismiss evil thoughts and actions in the false name of equanimity.  That’s not the purpose or function of equanimity and we shouldn’t corrupt noble terms by blurring distinctions between fact and fiction or good and evil.

But dismissing the masses of lockdown fanatics as “stupid and evil” because it’s objectively accurate misses the deeper lesson here, and I’ll admit I’ve been guilty myself of overlooking the bigger picture out of revulsion for the behavior in front of me.

Another aside for those who think I’m being too harsh on my lockdown-loving neighbors.  I’m not saying their hearts are evil.  But it has been proven that a large majority of people will set aside their morals to do something cruel and wrong to another if directed by a perceived authority.  And among that large subset is a significant minority who will willingly and gladly do so if properly motivated.  So no, everyone who supported lockdowns is not evil.  A lot of them are, and all of them were being evil at the time. This is just an objective fact.  Can they find forgiveness and change their hearts?  Sure, but I’m not Jesus, that’s not my job.  I’m looking through the lens of “what is” in order to dispel illusions and help people find true freedom.  I’ll leave it to Jesus to handle the “what can be” and “what will be,” that’s not my domain.

So what to do about the Prison Mentality Programming?  I’m assuming if you’ve read this far that means you haven’t succumbed to this programming, because otherwise you’d have reacted violently, rejected this and either tried to attack me for calling out the truth or, more likely, gone away back to your prison.  The most important thing is to recognize the programming – after a while it’s pretty easy to spot.  Look for the physical and emotional signs of the “artificial hive.”  You can also spot the leaders, the people who are consciously exploiting submissive followers through manipulation without producing anything of their own.  They’re all over politics, but not just there, they’re everywhere. 

Notice it and guard yourself against it.  Just as you can’t argue with a hornet’s nest, you can’t reason with the prison mentality.  Avoidance and personal protection is your only really effective strategy. 

Also this will help train you to identify other programming, since this is one of the more prominent ones that exist, making it easy to identify and inoculate yourself from.

And also, we humans are complicated.  There might be parts of you that are attracted to a form of prison or commune.  Notice this feeling.  It is a compass guiding you to wounded parts of you, places where you fear freedom or severely doubt yourself.  You are capable of far more than you realize and you are stronger than your upbringing.  Remember that and keep walking toward the light of freedom.

Spiritual Freedom: Grand Opening of a Deeper Communication

 

I’ve spent a lot of time in the communication wilderness, withdrawn from most external modalities for many years, thinking about my path and continually hearing the message: “wait.”

It’s been lonely, boring and frustrating, but also apparent why God was giving me this message.  Bit by bit I began to be aware of how deeply imprisoned I was – entirely of my own making.  I was running on all sorts of programming that wasn’t mine, and yet at the same time finding flashes of inspiration and independence that reminded me, somewhere, “I” was still there.

And as I worked through this I became aware of just how overloaded my system was with external programming, on so many levels.  To the point that complete withdrawal and self-healing, along with time, was the only way out.

The flashes of independence and inspiration emerged in the quiet and boredom.  The urge to move to Florida.  This prompted me to buy a house, which I now live in part-time.  And apart from realizing how poisonous the environment in California is (and that not everywhere is like that), I also discovered how important it is to me to have a house of my own, with land, something that is my home and responsibility.  And a part of me reawakened.

It’s nice to have a house again, very fulfilling. But this time I bought a home entirely out of choice, not necessity.  In a location I wanted, at the time I wanted, in the manner I wanted.  And for periods of time I experience the freedom of living my own life.  Many things I do there – from fishing to enjoying coffee in my kitchen to sitting on the front porch – feel like a celebration of life instead of another turn on the hamster wheel of obligation.

I’d look back over the years I’ve been going back and forth to the Florida house and those times in Florida are me living my best life.  That’s not to say all my good experiences are there, but that it’s my best, purest, most authentic life.

From this place – physical and spiritual – I upgraded my spiritual life, rediscovered my inspiration for writing and found peace. 

I also found space between the programming.  I could see the gaps in the programming matrix.  I could see the simulation around me when I was in California, and I could step apart from it.  But I didn’t know what to do with this and continued to get the message to “wait.”

But that “glitch” in the programming was the beginning of my invitation.  The space I created living part-time in Florida created the space for me to see the glitches in the programming.  And I discovered – and this is important – that when awareness shifts while the programming remains intact, everything around becomes a simulation.  And you are now the glitch.

Once I can see the layers and layers of artificial programming, the manipulative structures, the culture of voluntary servitude, the societal prison of authority-worshipping programming, the attachment to illusion that animates people to be “for” and “against” things that don’t exist for the purpose of harvesting their life force, I can’t return.  Once I saw truth and its contrast with the “real world” sim all around, I can’t go blindly back into the sim.

And it’s also an invitation.  I was told to withdraw, to slow down, to go inward, because my heart rejected the sim but I was blind.  So I was punching air, spiraling into deepening anger and frustration with everyone and everything.  In other words, I was becoming exactly the kind of “outcast” that the programming seeks to create. 

Rejecting the system while living in the system is something the system knows how to deal with.  It programs you into an “outcast” NPC and you become another feature in its game.  When you step outside the game, even momentarily, and see the entire “real world” is a complete bullshit game, the program loses its control.  If this is offset by a reality of sovereignty that exists outside the programming, now there is a pathway to choice.  Others can free themselves from the programming.

I’m not just escaping, I’m being given the knowledge and tools to allow others to escape and reclaim their freedom and sovereignty.

Suddenly all that time spent in the wilderness makes sense.  I was detoxifying in order to connect with my authentic self and find purpose.

Spiritual freedom.

“Freedom” gets thrown around a lot these days.  Now it tends to have a political connotation which is sometimes noble and other times contradictory, confused, or even downright corrupted and hypocritical.

There is certainly a value in advocating for freedom on a political level.  It’s a critical part of societal evolution.  And I speak to these themes here, if incompletely (I was largely in the dark myself, even when connecting to Source). They’re important, but not primary.

The primary freedom that is my purpose is in guiding others to see the programming, step away from it, reclaim their sovereignty and live authentically in genuine connection with God. 

So yeah, that’s kind of a big deal.

The challenge in this is creating that pathway to personal spiritual freedom without supplanting it with another manipulative programming structure.  Every single “evolution” coach or modality I’ve worked with failed at this point.  They all in one way or another sought to supplant one societal programming matrix with another centered around them.  Some did it unintentionally while others literally broadcasted their intent, complete with funnel systems and covert (and even overt) cult structures.

I don’t want to get too much into the details.  This is introduction to a more refined purpose and communication, the grand opening of “Spiritual Freedom.”