SO WHAT IS FREEDOM? by David Icke An excerpt from "And the Truth Shall Set You Free"

Freedom, is the right of everyone to follow the path
they feel is correct for them and to respect
another's right to choose a different path.

The only time their behaviour deserves to be challenged is when they seek to impose their views on others. This requires a switch in our attitudes. It means allowing people to believe things that we don't agree with and to support their right to speak of those views openly without suppression. We need to start trusting ourselves. If a person says something we find distasteful, and we are correct in that response, the people in general will reject what is being put to them. Better it is out in the open, anyway. When all information and views are allowed access to the public stage, people can make a genuine choice of what they wish to believe. We have a fusion of knowledge and not an exclusion of knowledge.

Centuries of the latter have led to the imbalance understandings of the human race because we have been subjected to imbalance, one-sided, information. Truth does not come in neatly packaged parcels with names like socialism, fascism, Christianity, or New Age. We need to search for it by looking at all information and following our hearts. Yet one-way freedom is what I so often see. It is one-way freedom when Christian or Muslim fundamentalists try to stop meetings of those who disagree with their view of life and when prison and death sentences are issued on people for believing something different. I don't agree, as you may have noticed, with the Robot Radicals, but they have every right to speak their views. If freedom means anything, it means freedom for all.

This is crucial to the process of personal deprogramming. We cannot be free until in our minds and our hearts we allow others to be free. The idea that we are mentally and spiritually free because we are following what we believe to be right is an illusion. We are only truly free when we are as determined that others should be able to do the same. The suppression of one human being or animal is the suppression of all of us. When we have no desire to impose our views on others and when we celebrate diversity of thought and lifestyle that have been freely chosen, then we can begin to say that the programming of this world and the Elite machine is breaking up and falling away within us. But not until.

Getting Streetwise
When people begin to soften their inflexible thoughts and responses, the influence the daily programming has upon them is diffused also. They begin to see the subtleties of mind manipulation in a way a rigid mind cannot. This mental switch is open to everyone, no matter how unyielding their minds might be now. It can happen in an instant, once you decide you want it to happen. Scanning the information and the views available to us and picking out those aspects which we each feel good about involves taking pieces from everywhere and fitting them together to form our own evolving truth.

When we are asked to put a label on what we think and believe in these circumstances, we cannot answer. We are not 'Left', nor 'Right', nor 'Centre'. We are not a 'religion'. We just are. There are no instant labels for that. There are no labels at all. We refuse to be pigeon-holed because we are constantly seeking and evolving. If people can name an "ism" of any kind to describe what they believe, they are in some form of mental prison. The difference it makes when you let go of the labels and the off-the-peg opinions and views promoted by the "isms" is beyond words. You see the world so much more clearly. The smokescreens begin to disperse. An open mind is not a naïve one. Quite the opposite. Deprogramming demands that we are constantly selective in what we accept minute by minute through the media and other sources. For example, if people are opposing something it would seem obvious that they are against it. But is this always the case?

If you want to do something controversial, it is much easier if you also control the 'opposition' to what you are doing. You can ensure that while people have the illusion of democratic opposition and the right to protest, those leading the main opposition group or groups will lead their followers to ultimate, if 'glorious', failure. Everyone goes away thinking they all did their best and could do no more, when the whole thing was being controlled as an exercise in 'democracy' which was designed to fail in its goal of stopping whatever policy is involved. The sheep mentality is so ingrained in the human-race that it takes very few to infiltrate, direct, and control. Look at how one of the key official of the Nation of Islam was working for the FBI in the period of Malcolm X and the black civil rights movement in the 1960s. That story could be repeated a million times and more in 'radical' organisations all over the world. Some of the protest groups use violence. The Animal Liberation Front and Class War in Britain are two of them. When Class War, which claims to be 'anti-state' trigger violent clashes with the police during peaceful protest marches, who benefits? Those in authority who want to dismiss the peaceful opponents to their policies as "violent extremists" and those who wish to introduce more authoritarian laws to meet the challenge from the growth in (manufactured) "violent extremists". Put it this way. If Class War was an arm of British Intelligence, they could not do a better job of undermining the vast majority of people who wish to protest peacefully. When thousands of people gather to protest peacefully against the treatment of animals and a few idiots become violent or plant bombs, who benefits? Those in authority who wish to continue to treat animals with great cruelty while dismissing the protesters as "violent extremists". An open mind can see this, a rigid mind cannot.

Feeling and Healing
Even more important than thinking for ourselves is to feel for ourselves. In the centre of the chest we have a feeling centre called the heart chakra or heart vortex. It is from here that we express love in the fullest sense. It is from here also, and the solar plexus chakra, that we instinctively feel if something is right for us. It doesn't need words or explanations, it just feels right. This is our intuition speaking to us and our intuition is our connection to our higher consciousness. When I am faced with a choice between what my mind and my intuition is telling me, I go with the intuition every time these days. I often can't explain why I go to a certain place or embark on an area of exploration and research. It simply feels right to do so. The mind, even an open one, can be influenced by the daily programming to some extent and it can go through lists of reasons why what our intuition is suggesting is not a good idea. "What will my friends think? What about this or that consequence? Don't do it, you fool!". The feeling centre is not subject to those pressures because it is connected to a level of consciousness and knowledge that is beyond the manipulations of this physical world. As the spiritual renaissance proceeds, the feeling centre is being powerfully reactivated among those who are awakening, and intuition is going to be the guide of the future. It will not always lead us to where our rational mind wants to be, but it will always lead us to where we need to be for our own and the planet's evolution. If I had followed my rational mind since 1990, I would still be sitting in television studios presenting sports programmes. I find the thought of still doing that quite awful!

It is the intuition more than anything that can help us to weave a path through the maze of misleading messages and manipulating our eyes and minds face every day. When this feeling centre becomes more sensitive to us, we will know that something feels instinctively right or wrong. When the mind opens and becomes less influenced by dogma and trivia, the more powerfully we feel our intuition. The mind steps aside, gets out of the way. It has a part to play, of course, as part of a balance, but it is not there to dominate. A rigid mind, full of programmed perceptions, overpowers the intuition and delinks us from that flow of inspiration and guidance from our higher levels of understanding - mission control. In these circumstances, the feeling centres shut down like dormant volcanoes. Therefore I do not accept that everyone on the planet is doing precisely what they came to do, as some New Age thinking believes. We are all born into the circumstances we choose, but as we travel through life we can be diverted by other influences if we allow ourselves to accept the programming and close down the potential of the feeling centres, particularly the heart vortex, to guide us. If we do that we can become like a ship without a rudder and complete very few of the tasks we came to achieve. I am sure there must be many people who incarnated this time to play a big role in the transformation who have become so shut down by their programmed minds that they are laughing at, or condemning, those who are doing what they came to do! This situation, however, can be put right very quickly. Once we allow that flow of inspiration from higher levels to gather its power and guide us, the magnetic interaction with other energy fields - people, places, situations - will draw to us all the support, experiences, and opportunities we need to evolve both individually and collectively. This flow or inspiration and guidance is not to give our responsibility away. The guidance is not coming from some outside force. It is coming from a higher level of us. It is still the "I", the multidimensional self. When we reconnect powerfully with that, we are instantly deprogrammed.

I am asked by many people for advice on what they should do and I always reply in the same way. I don't know what is best for anyone. I only know what I feel is best for me. The only person who knows what you should do, where you should go, or what you should think and say, is….you.

What does your heart tell you? Right. ......Go for it!

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