Forming a New Perspective, Personal Responsibility, and Developing Mental Fortitude

Posted On April 8, 2020 / Written by Dr. Linda Gadbois

While many people are stressed out and engaging in the attitude of pointing fingers and blaming everyone else for what’s happening, the world situation is created as the culmination of our collective mindset as a whole. Instead of looking for someone or something else to blame, what if we take an attitude instead of being responsible for our own destiny and for what we do and how we behave within our daily life? If people are falling apart and can’t handle the shock and anxiety of what’s happening in the world right now, they won’t stand a chance if things end up getting even worse. All the deception, manipulation, and social conditioning we’re being exposed to on a daily basis, is allowing us to see parts of ourselves we can’t see otherwise. It’s easy to be a “good person” (whatever that means) when we’re not being challenged or tested in any way, but who do we become when things start falling apart and our own freedom and well-being is threatened? All of life exists for the purpose of allowing us to reap what we sow, become who we are by how we contrast or relate to everything else, and is providing us with the means to exercise our ability to create in a more intentional and meaningful way. Our earthly life is not the end goal or ultimate destination for our eternal soul, it’s more of school for us to learn the lessons our own self-created experiences have to teach us.

In times when we experience some of our greatest challenges, we’re also provided with the opportunity to develop our mental abilities to a new and higher level of competency. It’s only when spiritual forces are ‘active within us’ that we have the ability to work with them and use them as the means for transforming ourselves to new and higher levels of self-awareness and mastery. The minute we feel as if we know something in terms of higher spiritual knowledge, we’re tested through a life experience of some kind that requires us to utilize it in a practical way as a means of creating with it. It’s only through our ability to apply higher knowledge to create our experiences and how we handle ourselves in extreme situations that we truly attain knowledge, because all knowledge, in the most basic sense, comes as “knowledge of ourselves”. Real knowledge isn’t contained in the concepts and ideas used to represent it, but in the realizations and deeper awareness that come from applying it to create how we experience ourselves within our daily life.

The only “belief” higher forms of knowledge requires of you, is a belief in yourself and your ability to utilize the knowledge in a practical manner to grow and develop yourself. We only learn through experience, so you can only acquire knowledge that you apply within your daily life and use to create your experiences. All actual knowledge comes as “knowledge of yourself” born out of the realizations that arise from direct experiences. We only truly “know” what we can do and act to naturally demonstrate in how we’re being at any given moment. If extreme situations or hardships cause us to fall apart, relapse back into the patterns born out of our formative conditioning and habitual way of thinking and acting, then we haven’t learned anything at all. Talk is cheap and easy to proclaim, but it’s our actions that define us while showing us in very clear terms who we really are.

If we look at what’s going on in the world right now as a phase or stage in a much greater process, and we take our primary focus off the coronavirus and all the political and psychological agendas it revealed and acted as a springboard for, and look instead at what caused it in terms of worldly human activities, we can begin seeing all of the things that ultimately culminated to produce a global event. If we open our mind in being willing to look at different perspectives and listen to opposing viewpoints with an attitude of understanding rather than arguing against or condemning them, considering them for any merit or true solutions they may offer, it can broaden our perspective and provide us with new information on greater problems being denied by some sectors, while being passionately promoted by others. Most of our problems on both a personal and worldly level stem from constant forms of hatred and division, and the problem of division is not going to be solved by creating more division.

When we come together as a group, community, or society, and we choose to focus primarily on our differences, we set out to prove our point of view as being right by making others who disagree with us wrong, and of course that’s always a problem, because nobody likes being wrong. Whenever we focus on what we imagine makes another person bad, wrong, or deficient somehow, allowing it to shape how we talk to and treat them, we actually act to ‘bring out those traits in them’ and strengthen them through the nature of our interaction. If, however, we approach any situation by looking for what we have in common in terms of our desires, concerns, and interests, and we work to connect and build our relationship through those, we create a sense of unity and teamwork that benefits everyone involved in the best possible way. Whatever qualities we work to keep in an active and expressive state, is what determines the type of reality that’s co-created as a group experience.

One of the most basic psychological facts that people can have a great deal of difficulty understanding is that all ideas are patterns that are called into existence through complementary opposites that oppose and thereby stimulate each other. Anything you actively fight or argue against you’re acting to antagonize and give life to by keeping it in an active and progressive state. When we refuse to see another person’s point of view on an idea, and consider it in a thoughtful manner in order to relate or recognize its validity, we steadily narrow our perspective, becoming closed minded and self-absorbed. We become pigeon-holed in our attitude and world view, closing ourselves down to any new possibilities and progressive solutions that might result from it.

The only way to change a belief is to introduce new information and way of seeing it that undermines, contradicts, or disproves it. We seldom ever realize that our perception of others and the world around us is formed out of our mental model and belief-system, all of which originally stemmed from our conditioning and what type of behavioral dynamics we were trained to and played a role with as a child. Many people separate out beliefs as this belief or that one, imagining them to be independent of each other, when in fact beliefs, like the mind and reality itself, is an Eco-system that’s a part of a greater whole. Whatever our belief is about something is supported, validated, and confirmed in a congruent manner by all of our beliefs about everything. This is how they’re maintained, because they’re self-proliferating, self-sustaining, and serve to prove, support, and promote each other.

While many of us understand the idea of personal karma, at least in the most basic sense of what it is and how it operates to create in our life, we can often fail to realize that personal karma is played out as groups, and is perfectly correlated with family, society, culture, race, and worldly karma. What’s now happening at the world level of humanity is allowing us to see what our karma is as a collective whole. While many profess oneness and post what seems like profound quotes around the idea that we’re all one in the essential sense of the idea, the moment pressure is applied and things appear to fall apart, they’re often the first ones to become defensive and lash out in anger and frustration, and begin neatly dividing people into sectors of good guys and bad guys, and then mercilessly engage in the stoning process. People can resemble rats in the sense that when a rat becomes overly stressed, it’ll begin chewing off its own leg. Being able to handle whatever stress and anxiety life brings is an essential practice in developing mental strength and fortitude. The weak minded begin falling by the way side pretty early on, and will probably need to be carried the whole way by someone stronger in order to survive.

If we step outside of this opinion or that opinion, and we look at the big picture from as many different perspectives as we can in order to understand it in a more in-depth manner, we can find a common ground in the global situation that’s similar for everyone. I’m not referring to the virus itself and the debate around whether or not it was man-made and intentionally set lose as an agenda of some kind, or how it has evolved into an obvious political agenda designed to control and divide us while taking away basic rights, I’m referring to the effects it’s creating that are obvious to anyone paying attention, and how viruses originate to begin with. While many constantly argue as to whether or not humans are causing, or certainly speeding up global warming and climate change, many have completely forgotten that we developed weather control devices, laser technology, communication scrambling technology, all of which involve heating the Earth’s upper atmosphere, and behavioral modification technology, several decades ago. These technologies are a well-known fact in the scientific community and government agencies, and is not the result of a conspiracy theory or someone’s opinion. Yet those who apparently weren’t paying attention or savvy to what was going on, or perhaps forgot about it, will argue against it in favor of the new narrative being used for social conditioning. Everybody has a different perspective on what’s going on based on what they read, hear being said, watch on the news, or are being told by what seems like an authority figure of some kind.

All viruses in the most basic sense, especially flu viruses, are contracted in humans due to consumption of infected animals. The Covid virus, for example, is thought to have originated in bats, rodents, or reptiles, which are a natural part of the Chinese diet. We are currently in the process, as a worldwide practice that’s commonly accepted across the globe, of raising animals through an industrialized process. Industrialized food production mass produces animals through incredibly cruel and bizarre practices conducted in filthy diseased ridden conditions, as the means of meeting the demands of a grossly over-populated world whose primary diet is meat. Our Eco-system has been breaking down since the beginning of the industrial age, and is now on the verge of collapsing. People are currently dying in large numbers due to chronic illnesses, diseases, and multitude of cancers caused by the food we eat, consuming the flesh and blood of tortured, suffering, abused animals, while most people choose to completely ignore what’s going on. In many cases, even when they become aware of it, they’ll choose to keep doing it, because it’s makes meat cheap and convenient.

We’re all being saturated with dangerously high levels of electromagnetic fields of radiation and microwave energy, which is reshaping our neurology and molecular structure, while killing birds and insects by the millions, causing many to lose their ability to spatially navigate and migrate, yet only a few people are concerned enough about it to be actively doing something about it. We’re experiencing a worldwide surge in mass extinctions of both plants and animals while very few people seem to be paying attention, probably due to the fact that it’s not being shoved in our face by the media, or they simply don’t really care. We’ve passed the tipping point on using natural resources faster than they can replenish due to a grossly over-populated world of eager consumers, yet people are still having 3, 4, 5, or more kids while clinging to their constitutional rights to have kids. We’ve completely lost trust in our government and world leaders, and spend a great deal of time attacking, ridiculing, and belittling the very people trying to bear the burden of public gossip and hatred in order to try and remedy the problem for the very people attacking them. Our modern day heroes, the ones putting their life and livelihood on the line to try and inform us of what’s happening, who’s doing it, and how it’s being done, are imprisoned, made into criminals, and risk having their life ruined, and the very people they try to inform, are either joining in and conducting the attacks, or just sitting back watching it happen without standing up and doing anything about it.

The media has now become the greatest power in the world and has proven they can shape the reality and mindset of public opinion any way they deem necessary in order to serve political and billionaire agendas. The people we see as culprits are often only puppets on the stage of life put there to distract us from what’s really going on right in front of us. There’s no more need to conduct business behind the scenes, or hide in secrecy behind closed doors, it’s all taking place right out in the open while people are simply being trained to not see it, or, strangely enough, agree with it and willingly participate. We’re literally being taught what to see and what not to by the media. Mass media and technological devices are some of the most powerful hypnotic and psychological programming mechanisms created so far. People will usually support whatever idea circulating that allows them to maintain their beliefs and lifestyle, and will deny anything that will require them to make changes of some kind or have to give up something they considered valuable and enjoyable. The greatest control mechanism being used against people is their safety, security, livelihood, and reputation.

Honest citizens that come forth to try and make us aware of what’s really going on and the secret agendas playing out in a covert manner, are mercilessly persecuted by the very people they expose while the people they sought to free stand passively by in a dumbfound stupor watching, confused on what to believe, feeling powerless to do anything about it. All without seeming to realize it’s not about believing, it’s about waking up to what’s going on right under your nose that you’re willingly participating in. People abandon those who serve to reveal the truth because in order to stand up what’s right they’d have to give up what they’re doing that’s participating in its creation. We all know what’s going on with all the surveillance and monitoring, we know everything we’re doing is being tracked and calculated, ultimately used against us, but we don’t want to give up use of the very devices and means of entertainment they’re using to do it. People pay an absorbent amount of money for their own tracking, monitoring, and recording device. The grand scheme is to produce the devices, fill them with little perks and sell them based on all the ways you’ll benefit, charge a ridiculous amount of money for them along with an absorbent monthly fee so we can transcribe, record, and video tape ourselves, spend half our day taking selfies, and post them all over social media, which of course “owns” whatever you post. Once you post something, it becomes a permanent record on a server somewhere, and is sold for marketing purposes and to “train their AI systems” on human behavior, language, and emotions. And of course, if any government or secret agency takes an interest in you for any reason whatever, they are granted full access to anything you’ve ever done online, with a computer, or cell phone. But hey, it’s all for our own good, right?

The lesson to be learned from martyrs is that they’re never killed by the people they sought to expose, but are put on public display while being torn down, ridiculed and discredited instead so that the very people they sought to enlighten are the ones that actually persecute them. They become scapegoats. You can’t depart knowledge to someone incapable of receiving it. There’s no such thing as trying to wake someone up, because all awakening only comes through the realizations born out of experience. The only responsibility any of us have in life is waking ourselves up to what’s going on right in front of us that we’re actually participating in and promoting. No one can do our work for us. It’s not someone else’s job to try and make us see what we refuse or are incapable of seeing. The process of awakening only comes through effort. It’s up to each one of us to save ourselves within our own life, and to save the life of the planet through the same activities. We can’t sit back waiting and expecting someone else to do it for us, we have to care enough to realize the changes we need to make and then decide with a sense of commitment and dedication to make those changes even when it means losing something we have come to value or depend on.

So the question that’s really at hand right now, is what it is you’re noticing about the world situation in its current state, and in what way are you acting to support it by participating in creating and sustaining it through your daily lifestyle? One of the most basic powers each one of us has at the world level is consumerism. Whatever we buy, we finance, promote, and make possible. These massive corporations only gain control and prosper because we’re buying what they’re selling. Whatever perverted practice a company is involved in as a means of producing a commodity, we also morally engage in the same practice by buying and utilizing that commodity. They only have power over us by working through our ignorance and lack of moral willpower. Most will bend over and comply instead of standing up for what’s right. Select entities only gain control of the masses by appealing to their emotions, identifying their vulnerabilities, and working through their weaknesses to cultivate dependency. One of the strange things about humans is we tend to love the ones who seek to control and enslave us.

If we learn how to neutralize our emotions so we’re not affected by them and we work on ourselves to transform our weaknesses into strengths, we can no longer be controlled by the will of others. Sensationalizing and dramatizing ideas is a tactic that’s designed to stir emotions into activity while planting the idea you want them to continue developing in their imagination through the emotions. This is a very basic and extremely effective psychological tactic. All realities formed out of emotional states are illusions that become a neurosis of some kind. All solutions to the global delusion being orchestrated right now will only come from the rational soul of higher consciousness. A problem can’t be solved by the same mind and perception that’s acting to create it.

Whatever we do on a personal level simultaneously affects the collective level, because we all share the same subconscious mind and destiny. The answer isn’t to go out and try to change the world or recruit people to your way of thinking and perceiving, it’s to form your own realizations with a sober mind that’s based on actual awareness around things, and make the necessary corrections to your own attitude and daily lifestyle. You have to cultivate your own consciousness and awareness through personal detachment while learning how to view things in as objective and rational manner as you can and use that mindset to direct all of your activities, regardless of what others are doing.

If you truly protest oil production, then reduce your use of petroleum products in as many areas of your life as possible, including plastics and pharmaceuticals, which are also petroleum based. Learn to walk your talk and practice what you preach. If you don’t like the severe animal abuse currently going on to provide cheap food for the masses, then raise your own, buy from local people where you can see the conditions they’re being raised in, or choose to quit eating meat altogether. If you’re against GMO’s and toxic chemicals being used to raise mass crops, learn how to grow your own food, buy only organic from trusted sources, or do business with your local farmers market. If you’re aware of the damage being caused by cell-phones and electromagnetic fields, reduce or eliminate as much activity using these devices as you can. If you’re truly aware of the fact that your every move and conversation is being monitored, recorded, and tracked through the internet, go back to methods of living that don’t require or rely on these devices. Get back into actually spending time with the people around you, developing actual friendships, and going out and doing things you enjoy doing.

Whatever it is that you see as being the problem, regardless of what it is, be willing to make the changes necessary in your daily lifestyle to remedy it. Hypocrisy is a detrimental act that you’re spiritually responsible for. As a soul and spiritual being you are 100% responsible for what you create in your life through your decisions and actions. You can’t blame anyone else or think somehow that the solution to the world problem is someone else’s responsibility and not yours. You can no longer sit back scared waiting for someone else to do something about it. We have to cultivate the mindset of being the change we want to see in the world. Nothing changes until we change it. We have to start coming together as a community and work towards a common goal that serves the well-being of everyone involved.

Use this incredibly valuable wake-up call to become aware of everything that’s happening on a global level, instead of only focusing on what the media wants you to focus on. Comply as much as possible in order to deal intelligently with the virus itself, while also allowing yourself to realize what changes need to be made in terms of the bigger picture, and commit to making those changes personally. Everything in the world is only sustained through our willing participation in creating it. Every purchase you make is a statement about the kind of world you want to live in. Corporations can’t exist without faithful consumers.

Our soul’s destiny is determined by the consciousness we faithfully employ and consistently develop through our attitude and actions. What we say is meaningless if it’s not backed up in everything we do and stand for. Turn inward during this time of reduced activity and constant confusion born out of fear, and let your outer awareness correlate with your inner awareness and attitude, where new realizations become clear without being clouded over with illusions and anxiety, and become aware of what you’re acting to co-create through your thoughts, attitude, and daily activities. As you become more aware of your own part in things, commit to making the changes you deem meaningful and necessary in order to align yourself with a higher ideal and more conscious way of living.

Dr. Linda Gadbois

Transpersonal Psychologist, Coach for Personal Transformation, and Spiritual Teacher