Looks like I have some fellow travellers on this forum. That's a relief. I am in the habit of making data DVD's for any interested parties containing: The Zeitgeist movies, Money as Debt, Caesar's Messiah and Loose Change. There are a variety of what I call 'mind snares' permeating our consciousness that need to be overcome before you can see reality as it really is..........and not the product of 'fairy tales' we have been told from birth that form the cage within which we are enslaved............as in Plato's allegory, The Cave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DRdTsnbr0By the way anything by the Great Joseph Campbell (mythologist) is fascinating reading/viewing. I have a view of the unknown/unknowable facets of reality that he sums up beautifully in the following quote:
"God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. So it depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's doing you any good. Whether it is putting you in touch with the mystery that's the ground of your own being. If it isn't, well, it's a lie. So half the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts. Those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts. And so, they're lies. Those are the atheists."
If you take the time to tear down the paradigms that sustain a person's psychological/spiritual equilibrium you should be honest regarding your position.....and if
that position sustains you it is only fair to impart that information to others. Therefore I always follow up the DVD's with information that helped me after I 'woke up'. The works of Psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and Psychologist Michael Newton. I found that this information helped me to understand the way my mind operates, it's sub-conscious predilections and it's infinite potential.