Life is a Rorschach Test
by Christopher Rudy

Most people who have studied some psychology probably know of the Rorschach Test. A reminder serves the purpose. It's those abstract ink blot images that are held up to someone to determine if they are a mental case.

I studied psychology on my own while in college.  It seemed "psyche"-logical to me that to "know thyself" was the beginning of wisdom -- the "higher" part of higher education.  In those terms -- "psychology" (science of the psyche) -- ultimately means awareness of HOW one is conscious.  Likewise, "sociology"  ultimately means HOW we are conscious as a social whole. Two years of Latin in "high school" gave me a lifelong love of the source meaning of the English language and "sem-antics" (system antics) in word meanings.

It took me three years of college to realize that what I really wanted to learn was the ultimate meaning of life.  Not just my life and lesser loves but the big picture of greater Love.  After discovering an old flame from high school had moved to campus, and rekindling that flame, I went into shock when she shortly after died in a dormitory fire, blaming myself because I didn't follow my intent to take her out that evening when the fire occurred.  Something snapped.  I lost all interest in the irrelevant "brain stuffing" of college. A core impatience with understanding the meaning of it ALL took precedence.

I came from a long line of self-employed independents, and had grown impatient with owning my own life.  Self education had proven far more valuable than "formal" education and I just knew that, "If I was going to BE, it was up to ME."  Realizing that the fiery prayer of desire is not seldom the prelude of the revelation -- what I was going to do with my life -- I spent a lot of time on my knees, having no other place to go for answers. Finally, I had a lucid conversation with my higher Self that snowballed with great enthusiasm into an experience known as "cosmic consciousness" that no words can describe. 

You might say I had a "life-reading" that put the past in perspective and gave me a compelling vision of the future - my "calling", "mission", whatever. Inexplicable gifts of the holy spirit followed.  I was seeing auras around people and knew what they were going to say before they said it.  The "small voice" within had become anchored in my conscience. A certain KNOWING had transcended everything I once believed.  And I seriously engaged the path of understanding all this.

Being true to this vision, I didn't see any need in wasting time, so I dropped out of college to begin studying the mysteries of God full time -- the "high end" of the "psyche" as a Higher Power.  And of course, my concerned parents of social prominence wanted to have my head examined by a doctor friend who was directing a new mental health wing of the hospital in town.

That's where I first saw the Rorschach test I had read about. I knew it was simply a "projection tool" that allows patients to project what they are thinking and "seeing" in the blob.  Since I knew that game, I projected what I knew from the perspective of Modern Psychology (Jung) that explains HOW we are conscious.  Those who ever studied Jung and "got it" know what I mean. 

Many of my e-news posts contain terms like "universal law language" that refer to Jung's archetypes in our collective conscience. You might say that these archetypes are thoughtforms representing the processes of consciousness whereby we are individually and collectively conscious.  Cosmic consciousness is a function of cosmic law as governs HOW we are conscious.

So when I was given the Rorschach test and asked, basically, where my head was at, I said what this ambitious clinic-director needed to hear to keep me from being a new paying customer in the town's new nut house.  My parents had insurance and this doctor knew there was "blank check" available.  He had his own agenda that challenged my pure intent for freedom "big time".

You see, I had confronted that doctor with my "cosmic consciousness" when my Mother first brought me to just have a chat with him at the clinic.  He began with a nice Fatherly rap about the norms of society.  I let him meander with his own justification for his rise in the food chain as he explained the maturity of his "judgment" as though I was suspect for being abnormal. But then he finished with his pronouncement -- in the context of his definition of "normal" -- by saying that "mysticism and metaphysics aren't that important."

My response -- from deep within my awakened "BEING" -- welled up with a Higher Power that I have tried to accommodate with more humility and grace for the 35 years since then.  But at the time, this Higher Power thing was new to me.  And I spoke Truth to power in an inappropriate way. 

As I began responding to the doctor, an emotion rose with my words that spoke with increasing power and authority that matched the welling volume and intensity of my words as I responded: "You're telling me that metaphysics -- the source of physics -- the MIND isn't important... AND I'M LISTENING TO YOU???"

Believe me, you would have had to have been there to appreciate the unfettered intensity of the words spoken and the "judgment" it conveyed.  I kid you not, the doctor fell back in his seat, his eyes rolled back in his head, and he started shaking violently.  I knew I shorted his circuits with the lie in his own words, and made a fervent call for God to snap him out of it with my agreement to take full karmic recompense right then.  Almost instantly, the doctor sits bolt upright, grabs the phone and yells at his assistant, "Bring in a shot of Thorazine RIGHT NOW". 

Since I had studied psychopharmacology on my own -- well explained in then-current issues of Psychology Today -- I knew that thorazine was not just a mental straight-jacket -- numbing free will -- but also a chemical lobotomy with permanent brain damage side-effects if used regularly.   But I was compelled to learn the first law of "cause and effect" (karma) in a free-will universe. To every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.  Response to stimulus.  We reap what we sow.  I had asked for this lesson and, by God's grace, I was going to make the most of it!

"Acceptance is recognizing that whatever happens, and however we respond,
is precisely what we need for our highest good and learning."
- anonymous

So I went with the flow, letting the doctor shoot me up and sit there while he stood over my chair like a wild man, flailing his arms, spewing forth psychoanalytic jargon with unmasked frenzied terror that condemned me as "dissociated", "strung out" and "mentally disturbed".  Duh!  If I believed this guy, I would accept that virtual curse and BE that way!  BE as in the first part of  "BElief" (BE-live).  In other words, this doc-in-a-box had a lock-step "box" of "BS" (Believe System) between his ears... with an ambition for fulfilling his own standard of "importance", normalcy" and "success" - a thriving nut house!  And my "judgment" challenged his own.

Anyway, that's how I got admitted for "observation" and the Rorschach test.  So when the doctor's clinicians asked me what I saw in that ink blot, I told him I saw angels and all kinds of good things. I saw universal meanings to the mysteries of God. Waxing poetic, I said things like, "the ultimate meaning of life is the life of ultimate meaning"... "and to see the connection to all of life through those eyes of universal meaning, value and purpose". 

It took three days to get out of there, discreetly disposing of my medication after pretending to take it.  I kept a journal of the many lessons those three days, my first baby steps on a life-long path of awakening to the Law of BEING (BE IN God)

You see, life is a Rorschach test.  It's not what happens to us -- but our take on it -- that shapes our frame of reference regarding the ultimate mysteries of "God in man" as raises man unto God.  Without a moral conscience, the consequent sense of separation from Higher Power veils reality and "sees" through the "glass" darkly.  This is what causes all suffering... and failing the Rorschach test on the screen of life.

Self-serving worldly powers feel threatened by Higher Power.  Like the ambitious doctor -- with a self-serving standard for "normal" -- love of the worldly world is enmity with Higher Power.  It is just such low standards for "love" that feels threatened by higher standards of Higher Power - the power of greater Love. For Christ's sake, you'd think a Christian people would "get it"!

Take a look around.  The most powerful worldly special interests in our instant-everywhere-interactive global village have a vested interest in making war, selling drugs for whatever ails you and treating you as abnormal if you don't support their agenda for more war, drugs and torture of "potential terrorists" who resist their lockstep "in the box" standard for "normalcy".

The point to this point is this - the Internet is a Rorschach test.  This "global brain" has all knowledge but people see and know only what they want to see and know.  To a large extent, the "Net reality" of the public has been programmed by the mainstream corporate media that has a vested interest representing those special interests in profit and power that virtually "make a killing" on war, disease and drugs for whatever ails you.  And if you challenge the virtual insanity of this politically correct "norm", you are considered not just "abnormal" but -- by their standards -- the problem.  Or as the incessant media mantra of Bush-league sycophants goes, "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists."

You might say that the Internet Rorschach test is the test of modern civilization.  The worldwide web of knowledge is like an ink blob that people "see" with different "eyes".  Those who appreciate how "the best education is self-education" are thrilled to know better so they can pursue the truth that frees them with knowledge power.  Those whose minds are made up by mainstream media "BS" (propaganda)... they may feel threatened by Truth itself and condemn the Internet's exposure thereof.

Open minds champion an open Internet.  Closed minds want everyone as closed with the same lock-step Belief System that is their comfort zone.  Like money or the brain itself, the Internet is only as good or bad as its use... to represent "checks and balance" of, by and for higher CONSCIENCE at the heart of global consciousness.  And without conscientious common sense morality as the mediator in this process, checks and balances are corrupted. 

Corruption requires immorality and intentionally recreates it, calling evil "good" and good "evil".  Witness the wasteland of boob-tube immorality and terror-tyranny programming that has become the "norm".  How else could the war profiteers profit if they didn't make common sense uncommon?

The REAL problem challenging "Net reality" in the all-connected "global village" (Internet) today is like the problem I had when challenging the doctor with the truth that betrayed his own real purpose.  Metaphysical Truth -- the Spirit that matters -- is always a challenge to the poor in Spirit who are subservient to materialistic success in worldly terms of pride, prestige and power to profit without principle. There are always people who sell their soul to the company store, the hospital nut house or the corporate "bottom line" in collusion with government regulators.

Indeed, The most difficult thing in the world is to remain non-attached to worldly BS, thought and feeling about "the Truth":

"When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth,
he will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest."
- anonymous
 
The "bottom line" is the highest Truth.  An individual or civilization can rise no higher than their concept of God Truth in Spirit and form -- the Spirit that matters. By default, the lock-step "BS" of scarcity economics will prevail as "good business" that sees "profit" in terms of power and control over "captive markets" that make merchandise of people. In short, unfettered intelligence will see how "monopolizing momentums" (tyranny) is created through the collusion of big business with big government as would create a Big Brother Orwellian agenda for authoritarian control of the physical and human resources of Earth.

To really "get it", read the excellent recent article by Edgar Steele that I've archived at www.heartcom.org/economy.htm. And keep in mind the common sense that is uncommon -- that the economy is only as good as the REAL "bottom line" (foundation) of "fair trade" (golden rule).

Think about that. The REAL bottom line here is "worth ship" (virtues) we bring to the worldwide web of consciousness that the Internet has created.  Higher Power in the wisdom of divine Love is always a challenge to power elite giants who are ethical infants.  Yet the power of Love is the heart of Higher Power -- the greatest power in the Universe. 
 
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love
has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time and
they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
 -- "Mahatma" (Great Soul) Gandhi
 
Those who embrace this Higher Power are already "saved" -- they've "made it" -- while those who don't are still "in the box" of lock-step BS. And yet, such BS considers the Truth of this as "abnormal" because a higher standard of CONSCIENCE challenges their self-importance, success agenda, and what is "normal" for them.  Their time is short and their terror is great... that they will lose control.  Terror management -- that creates and manages terror for profit and control -- is their "norm".

I can laugh now at what happened when I challenged the doctor with cosmic consciousness. The "cosmic joke" was on me - what a revelation to see how that played out.  What a hoot to realize what a nut house the world has become.  You have to laugh or you would have to cry.  Pleasure/pain, loss/gain, fame and shame are all "the same" (check and balance) from a more "objective" (cosmic) perspective of "morality dynamics" (virtue).

The cosmic joke is thinking there is any "security" (physically) without "purity" (virtue).  The Internet as a Rorschach test is just a mirror of who we are and what we see. It's like a giant brain connecting all the computer "brain cells" of the planet.  But the only consciousness that the network of "brain cells" has is the consciousness we bring to it.  Without purity -- the power of love as a higher CONSCIENCE in the global "brain" -- there is no security.  The love of power of corrupt power elite potentates will -- by nature -- "short-circuit" or otherwise subvert the power of love with fear-based terror-tyranny tactics.

"Where love rules, there is no will to power.
And where power predominates, there love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other."
- Father of Modern Psychology, Carl Gustav Jung

Corruption of natural-universal law -- the common sense of the Golden Rule -- is by definition a "short-circuit" that by-passes virtue for worldly values of "importance" (prestige), "ownership" (control) and "profit" (more power and control).  Once corrupted, fear of loss of those worldly "perks" is greater than any vows to the Constitution or a God of Love.  And like a big Rorschach test, such corruption projects the fear of being exposed onto the "ink blob" (public)... to make everyone as afraid as they are.  The big lies of big corruption from big business collusion with big government power and control leads to black hearts with "black gold" values that subvert the golden rule.  Exxon-Mobile is the largest corporation in the world with "black gold" as its god.

Without the golden rule as the standard, black hearts rule.  "Security" becomes the catch-word of tyrants who feed on fear and suppress mainstream media truth of their corrupt war-creation agenda in the name of "national security".  Voltaire once said, "Beware of the words 'internal security,' for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor."  That is what happens when the fabric of civility is corrupted for lack of the golden rule. Civilization fails the Rorschach test and declines with a whimper or a "bang" (out of control war) if we don't get it right. 

A new "Net reality" for "Net worth" at the heart of the Next Economy will follow a new system of governance that cultures higher CONSCIENCE in the "nervous system" (instant-everywhere-interactive Net) of humanity in our global village.

Of course, the Truth of this is a challenge to those worldly powers who are love-challenged.  Corporate law puts their profits before the public.  Security in the name of selfish gain of a few is blind to the pure intent of U.S. Founders and the Constitution "of, by and for the people". When their powers to profit resorts to lies and fear, it stands to reason that such betrayal of truth and love will resort to more drastic actions to cement their end-justifies-the-means moral relativism down the slippery slope of treachery and treason.

Like the high priests of medicine with their drug sacraments, the "placebo effect" of belief in failed government programs gives more power to government for their "solutions" that -- like drugs -- only cover-up the symptoms of failure while compounding the core problem with "toxic" (tyranny) side-effects. Media "BS" (Belief System propaganda) becomes an extension of those policies.  Conversely, interactive media DNA -- with natural-universal LOVE at the heart of it -- will create homeostasis and healing of the body politic.

So humanity has a choice.  The Rorschach test is the mirror in the Internet "web of Truth" that reflects the CONSCIENCE we bring to it.  The rEVOLUTION of that Internet -- the Next Big Thing in the computer/Internet rEVOLUTION -- will culture a web of greater "Light" (higher conscience) and greater "Love" (true morality) with a definite standard for "cyberethics" at the heart of it.  The virtue in the Constitution is -- at heart -- the Constitution of virtue.  Without that vision, the people perish.

It may sound simplistic to sophisticated intellectual pride or the arrogance of self-serving powers that be, but natural "cosmic laws" of the universe are the REAL standard for human behavior.  It stands to reason -- at least to reasonable people -- that either a higher standard of ethics -- The LOVE Model -- is the golden rule/law standard for global unity in the Family of Man... or the rule of law based on the golden rule will be further corrupted by the total inversion, subversion and perversion that says, "He who has the black gold, makes the rules."

When "black hearts rule the profits-before-people interests of war profiteers in collusion with the privately owned banking system... the result becomes self-evident for all who have eyes to see -- a "black ops" system of covert dark forces running government, bankrupting civility, and destroying civilization "to save it" in terms of their corrupt agenda.  Economic manipulation and World Wars I and II were used to consolidate the same power elite powers that are now orchestrating economic collapse and WWIII.

Obviously we won't solve these problems with the same corrupt consciousness that created them. Someone has to challenge this insanity called "politically correct", the "way things are" or otherwise "normal".

We're all in this together -- no one can ignore the consequences of willful ignorance in this matter. If the golden rule doesn't permeate the rule of law in the worldwide web of CONSCIENCE, then by default, the prevailing collusion of highly centralized powers of corporate-government corruption will destroy that which ALL free people hold sacred, honorable and intelligent. Either we ALL agree on the rule of Law centered in the golden rule, or we will all suffer the consequences.

Or as wise old Ben Franklin said following the Revolutionary War that began the Constitution-formation process leading to the present "final Rorschach test" of global civilization. "Either we all hang together or, most assuredly, we'll all hang separately."

May the Constitution of LOVE fulfill the U.S. Founders' legacy.  The ultimate meaning of security is in the pure intent that secures the ultimate meaning of "God is Love" and is "for-giving", NOT for-getting.  Remember this "Common Sense" at the heart of the global rEVOLUTION of higher CONSCIENCE. Real Love is selfless and for giving.  Pseudo love is selfish and for getting.

The greater the as Higher Power, "higher conscience" (wisdom) and "holy Spirit" (Love-in-action), the greater the RESULTS that honors, institutes and otherwise incorporates ACCOUNTABILITY of, by and for the Law of LOVE.

Sooner or later, we all pay the price.  Ignorance is no excuse before the Law of greater LOVE in the golden rule/law "language" that will mediate Net reality with Net worth based on more "Light" (consciousness) and "" (the Law of "BEING).

Network this Truth so will prevail, sooner rather than later.

May it begin with "US" - United Sovereigns in the United State of .

Christopher Rudy
Author, Blueprint For A Golden Age
Director, The Legacy Project
Founder/CEO, HEARTcom Services
 
PS - For an enlightened understanding of the brain's structure re: Love -- and how to "click forward" to greater Love -- see: http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/crazy.html .  For an enlightened understanding of the neural-networked "global brain: (Internet) -- and how to "click forward" to the heart of holy compassion and mind of "G.O.D." (Geometrically Ordered Divinity).  If you want to get out of the "nuthouse",  visualize the angels of our better nature in the Rorcharch test of Net reality.  Interject your highest and best imagining into that ink blob -- it is your divine right to speak for Higher Power that represents our instant-everywhere-interactive connection as the Family of Man in our global village.  Consider how the "Language of the Angels" (heartlink) is the heart of the "Law of the Angles" (heartware).  Embrace what "IS REAL" and the  VISION whereby the gathering of the "tribes" of IS~REAL -- social networks on the Internet -- will resurrect LOVE-centric civilization. This is the Rorschach test for all humanity.  Details at www.heartcom.org/CosmicCube.htm  When we "click forward" to Love -- with Love -- we encourage Love.  The Internet "ink blot" has greater LOVE at the heart of it... when you do.  Conceive how the Net reality of Net freedom -- the Constitution of freedom on the Net -- can frame Higher Power, center greater Love and culture extraordinary wisdom through the Power of LOVE. -CR
 

"The heart of your religion is the heart of ALL religions."
- Mahatma Gandhi


"Tyranny hates reason! Tyranny hates honor! This is because
Tyranny is overcome by REASON and HONOR.
It is Folly and Fear that is the food of Tyrants.
Tyranny thrives in a climate of dishonor and tolerance for dishonor.
Turn on the lamp of truth and justice and tyrants flee to hide."
- Reinhold Sommerstedt

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

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LOVE heal all.   All ways has.   Always Will.
Network for the Net worth of Net reality
that makes LOVE the standard for
conscientious common sense
in our global all-connected
instant-everywhere
diversity in
unity.
  
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Framing Net Conscience with Divine Order

Universal LOVE -- in principle, form and frequency -- is, at heart,
the "Law of the Angles of G.O.D." (Geometry Of Divinity)
whereby the "Language of the Angels" is framed by
the holy spirit of LOVE-in-action that mediates
the mass media’s collective conscience
with the golden rule-law language
as the interactive interface
heart of Net-centric
vision~mission
of, by & for
LOVE
   THE HOURGLASS OF THE SANDS OF TIME AS...    G.O.D   ... IN THE INFINITE AND ETERNAL HERE AND NOW
VISION
-LOVE MODEL-
the heart & mind of
global TeLeComm~unity:
high touch HEART of high tech
with a higher understanding of LOVE
defining ~ refining ~ combining and shining
our God-given gifts & talents via Net Standards
for a New Economy based on LOVE-centric Net worth
and the Abundant Life culturing the "KINGdom" Conscience
with "all" (om) as KING with Keys to the INner sense of G.O.D.

To love with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul,
 and your sovereign neighbor in our Global Village as thyself.

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