Current News | Introduction | Colloidal Silver | Chemtrails | Sylphs | Emerging Diseases | Forbidden Cures | Ozone | Immunity Boosting | Nutrition | Tone Gen [Editor's Note: Diane Harvey has a fine mind and has written many excellent articles that have been posted at Jeff Rense's web site (http://rense.com). Her 12 part series "The Golden Road to Totalitarianism" and her thoughtful commentary on chemtrails sprayings should be read by all. Diane is a perceptive and sensitive observer.] By Diane Harvey <merak@sedona.net>
Boot up, and be instantly swept away down the data stream. Poor mind,
paddling hard at the keyboard to stay afloat in the flood of fact and fiction.
A truism to say, the Internet always did present a serious test of self-control.
Forget the unintelligent usage department- the addiction to inane games
and to the far worse subhuman zones. Even the most serious information
is a highly
Truth always was a moving target, from the strictly human perspective of facts, and on the Internet it moves much faster than ever. Yet through this high-speed process of continually accepting and discarding information, we are developing new formsof perceptual survival skills. This compulsory refining of the discriminative faculty constitutes one of the greatest underlying values of the net. Naturally, there is wariness and weariness in the realization that the world of Internet information is a sea of uncertainty, and that there will be no end to the necessity for applied perception.Nevertheless, there's no need for discernment's steep learning curve to give information itself a bad name. Throughout history there has never been a substitute for developing
one's own mental acuity. This is just learning, and the process has always
called for sifting through information thoughtfully, the
The Internet is accelerating the evolution of intellectual know-how and conscious discrimination in the best sense of the word. We don't have much choice but to hone evaluative skills when the alternative is being perpetually fooled. This becomes a process that one can learn to thoroughly enjoy. Anyone who can remain in high good humor as a pet belief is challenged or unexpectedly exploded can thrive in this mental maelstrom. After all, turning raw information into wisdom has always been the grand human necessity. All that has changed is the suddenly abundant quantity and quality of the available raw material. Undigested information is obviously not wisdom, love, understanding,
revelation, realization, or the power to transform oneself or the world.
But neither is any other food of much use until the human
There are many these days that fancy they can skip right over the difficulties
of self-development in mental realms. It is a common fallacy of those who
wish to be more spiritual to imagine it is possible to live from the heart
without bothering to refine intellectual skills. But this has never really
worked in the long run: the fact that we have minds at all points to the
natural requirement to develop this apacity to its fullest extent. The
mindless heart and the heartless mind are both equally useless to
The observation that accurate information on the Internet is hard to come by is true enough from the perspective of the hard work of developing personal inner acumen. Yet it is also true that the Internet is a wondrous source of accurate and vitally important information. What we are capable of perceiving as accurate and important will certainly change, and this is the very point of the exercise. As little as we may like to keep this in mind at all times, none of us are infallible in terms of assessing data at any level. We have not in the least uncovered the last level of truth. Awareness expands as we exercise it, and the whole world- let alone mere items of information- will continue to be subject to being seen in an entirely new light. Aside from individual opportunity to sharpen and deepen perception,
the potential benefits of the Internet for larger segments of humanity
are incalculable. At this point in history it is even more critical than
many fervent advocates realize. We clearly live in extremely dangerous
times, in every imaginable way. The power to manipulate minds is becoming
so sophisticated that only the most
From George Avera:
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