Wisdom Blog Series 4: Freedom and Bondage

[Wisdom from Channeler Rana of Year 2150 AD:  Chapter Four: FREEDOM AND BONDAGE: Booklet “The Prophetess, Conversations With Rana (and Jon Lake, Ph.D. Student, who went to sleep in 1976 and awoke 174 years into the future in a culture known as the Macro Society),” Published 1976] [EXCERPT from a larger collection of conversations compiled by Thea Alexander]

There are many kinds of freedom, Jon, and many kinds of bondage. We can be in bondage by physical imprisonment if we define the physical body as our “self”. We can be the prisoner of a social relationship or a business relationship if we want to be more than we want not to be. We can be the prisoner of our own micro self. We can be in willing bondage—addicted to—any number of things including our material possessions.

From a Macro view freedom and bondage are states of mind created by the size of one’s life perspective one’s life philosophy.

The smaller and more limited one’s life perspective, the smaller and more limited one’s self-concept and one ‘s life philosophy.

It is your self-concept (as the center of your life philosophy) that sets the limits on what you are, what you are capable of, what you are responsible for, and whether you are free or in bondage.

People who suffer the bondage of illness, poverty, and neurotic dependency on others often feel that they are the victims of circumstances, powerless to control their lives.

This is the result of a micro philosophy of life, which sees others/universe/God, as separate from self, alien, and potentially dangerous to one’s happiness.

From a Macro life philosophy, which sees all—all that is, was, or ever will be—as one, it is clear that each soul ‘suffers’ only the bondage it has chosen for his soul to grow from.

All problems (e.g., loneliness, poverty, illness) are then seen as challenges to conquer—lessons chosen by ourselves through which we learn the universal truths.

If, then, these are bondage, they are also freedom—Macro freedom to experience and grow from all possible life situations.

From a micro view freedom is usually seen as license to indulge destructive, selfish desires, such as the sensuous desire for too much food, drink, or sex; the ruthless, predatory desires for gathering more and better possessions than one’s neighbors; the proud vainglorious desires for power and control over others; and the desires to look or be better than anyone else.

This micro interpretation of freedom as license to indulge destructive selfish desires is always coupled with a desire for freedom (escape) from its consequences, which are considered limitations or bondage.

Fortunately, the micro law of karma (“What you sow you must reap,” or “For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction.”) pays no favors, so we see that what is interpreted as freedom from a micro view is really, from the larger Macro view, the most severe sort of bondage—puppet-like bondage to the micro self!

Man’s (and woman’s—for remember one does not always incarnate as the same sex!) micro self has many facets, selves, or personalities, which keep him in bondage.

Six of our most basic selves are:

1) The Savage—Warrior, hunter, athlete, worships competition and conflict.

2) The Priest—Fanatic, ascetic, superstitious, worships micro God of wrath.

3) The Sensualist —Glutton, orgiast, worships sensual pleasure.

4) The Controller —King, pope, government official, businessman, worships power & possessions.

5) The Philosopher—Intellectual, pseudo wise person, worships ideas.

6) The Artist—Musician, actor, painter, writer, sculptor, worships art.

These micro selves are all unbalanced, Jon, and each would like to have complete control of your life—pulling strings to see that you do its will.

However, while these micro selves exist in every person, they are never all dominant at the same time, though they often keep man in bondage by asserting their control in powerful combinations.

The combination of savage, priest, and controller produced religious persecution such as crucifixion, the Catholic Inquisition, and New England’s witch trials.

Another combination of savage, philosopher, and controller produced political and economic persecution and torture such as the French and Russian Revolutions as well as your own revolutions.

Another combination of savage and controller produced the pollution and ecological imbalance which was an important factor contributing to the self-destruction of most micro beings.

Of course, the combination of sensualist and artist contributed to pollution, revolution, and social injustice through its indifference or its various escapes from unpleasant realities.

While these six basic micro selves seem, at times, to have us in complete bondage, they are, in the long run, no match for the one balanced and balancing Macro self for it is a perfectly balanced blend of all our selves which knows that our bondage is always a self-imposed learning experience and that we have complete freedom to choose which of these selves hold us in bondage and for how long.

When man is able to stretch his life perspective until he sees himself from a Macro view—as a multidimensional soul experiencing life’s glories and vicissitudes in order to grow more fully aware of its oneness with all—then, and only then, will he be living a Macro philosophy of life with its complete freedom from bondage.