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News Advertiser
JUNE 7, 2017
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The ghost in the machine Joe Machney Reporter People are impressionable, like branding on a piece of steel, a mark is left and as people journey through their lives more brands are placed upon the impressionable human form. Throughout our existence here the outward environment is beckoning us and asking us to experience it. To animate an object there must be something behind it that pulls the strings, so to speak. This is the ghost in the machine and is what we are born with yet cannot express through the yet untrained body and mind. When we’re young, and this is more the case these days than it was in the past, we are shown modalities with which to model our self from and by taking lessons from adults and people whom we feel we could trust, we become citizens of society. We become machines. As we age and break into the adolescent years there is a force within us that often rejects these structures. This is where the ghost in the machine makes its presence known although the various institutions within society have given this other names and explanations which began a degree of suppression or need to conform, with consequences should they refuse to do so. All along the ghost rests and waits, hoping that its time will come again to express itself. The need to conform to fit into
society is one of the most poisonous and debilitating forms of suppression that Spirit is subjected to and with the population explosion that we have seen over the past hundred years, the pressure to conform to make an identity for oneself is at an all time high. Yet with everything, the Spirit remains, waiting for the systems to eventually break down. The ego of man, the artificial identity which was created as a false survival entity thinks in terms of survival, not understanding that the Spirit behind it is in control. Throughout the thousands of generations that have come and gone on this planet, with each generation the false machine, the ego, has evolved to become extremely intelligent, very much akin to the computers these days and the first Apple computer from 1984. Like a network the race of humanity is connected together, and so is the manipulative ego. Layers interact with layers, crossing cultures, races and all borders. Seeing the parallel with computers it is important to understand that although the computer may seem like an artificial intelligence, there was a mind that created it. So too is it with humans. There is a Spirit inside us that is not who we think we are. We do not own our Spirit, we cannot sell it, or do anything with it, except for experience it. Our ego thinks we own our soul or Spirit, but it does not and cannot, no matter what anybody says or has said. You cannot lose what you do not own. Quantum physics is beginning to understand that there is a universal Spirit that unites and binds us and everything else together, something that man and ego can never fully understand and because of that, we can never be removed from it. Separation is something that man created to hide from the truth that we are ghosts in the machine.
Correction: In the last week’s News Advertiser, the editorial Spirits express itself through animals mentioned that the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China had been cancelled. Further updates and research has indicated that the event has not been cancelled and all that can be done to stop this horrific act towards these loving and loyal animals must be done. This festival must not happen. There is still time to sign the petition to stop this festival from ever happening again.
Name: Anna Tomyn Occupation: retired school teacher Likes: family, nature Dislikes: mosquitoes, hot weather
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