There is another battle front, the most important battle front, the one in which we are all involved directly and the one in which each of us can directly and powerfully intervene and make the greatest individual headway. It is the battlefront I will call the false identity vs. true identity.
This is the core and central arena where the power of the dark side is most infiltrated into each of us. Its stranglehold over each one of us is so close at hand that it is here where it’s easiest for each one of us to remain unaware, even oblivious, that this infiltration, this “neural-virus” even exists. We assume we are free as individuals and that the dark influence is “out there” in the external world. We assume the most important battles to be won are the those outside of us, out there, in the big world, beyond “me”. We assume that all our attention needs to be focused out there, in the issues mentioned above in the first paragraph.
This is the GREAT LIE. Its a lie that has been perpetuated on humanity for who knows how many countless generations. This is not to say that certain amounts of attention DOES need to be paid to the efforts and support of all the above fronts. For sure they all warrant our attention and support! I am merely suggesting that we can win all those battles but if we do not remove the dark side from its root, we have not won.
This GREAT LIE is the root. Still unknowingly controlled by this lie, this con, we approach the external situations as the false self, the small self, the relatively weak and fragile self, the alone and solitary self. As such, we feel great doubts about our own power and we hope with all our hearts that we will prevail, somehow, with the unseen help from some distant, benevolent God… a God whose existence we have varying levels of faith in. Some times we feel quite certain. Sometimes we have serious doubt. That’s the normal state of the Human (false) self.
What other options do we have? From inside the false self viewpoint, it seems as though THERE ARE NONE…. that’s the best we can do. All we can do is pray hard and have faith.
THAT IS ALL PART OF THE BIG LIE. The truth is: this small, fragile, weak and uncertain self with seemingly very limited power - is A TOTAL ILLUSION. It always has been. It’s an illusion that has been so ingrained and deeply programed into our consciousness that the very challenge of its veracity right here and now will be eliciting a wide range of resistance in your own mental chatter as you read these words here and now. Anything from mild doubt to utter disdain and scoffing may be arising in your own mind at this very moment as you consider the possibility that what I am saying is true or not.
In fact every time we hear any words of self ridicule, any words of doubt, from inside our heads….THAT is the malware….that is the false-self virus activating its own self preservation mechanisms.