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Posted on June 16, 2016 by Rio

Sorry to break the news to you like this, but . . . whining and complaining will get you nowhere.

Humans are trapped in two “programs” that they have to break away from. The first starts forming when we are about 2 or 3 years old and we develop a sense of separation. This is when the ego starts acting. It’s extremely hard to break away from this program because our senses mislead us, and we must look within. The second program, the mega-bank’s program that is: http://youtu.be/NzyOtl4MDC4, is a byproduct of the first program. When humankind sets itself free from the first program (egotism), and learns to see that we are just interpretations of the One, the Whole Itself, the second program will collapse. Until then we will be slaves to both programs.

Best wishes. We may still have time to get to our true Self, to get to know who we really are, to break away from our spiritual poverty and ignorance, and to do something to change the direction humanity is going. Don’t worry, if we break away from our egomania, we will know exactly what to do.

May the odds be ever in our favor; we’ll need them.

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | The Human Predicament

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Rio

The main reason that classics are classics is because they delve deep into the human soul. They expose the human predicament.

I had postponed reading Wuthering Heights because I considered it a gloomy, dark tale. It is! The only sane characters in the book are the narrators. But as a superb classic (it has plot and prose that makes the book hard to put down, and even love after death) it shows  the scourge of humanity at work, a psychotic egomania controls most of the characters. 

Let me tell you, as far as vengeance is concerned, Heathcliff can make The Count of Monte Cristo look like a toddler. And Catherine is such a selfish, spoiled bitch that she betrays Heathcliff to keep her status, but intends to keep both men. Ah! the right recipe for tragedy, the ego at work; there is not a single character (except for Nelly, the main narrator and Earnshaw, who adopts Heathcliff) who has anybody but themselves in mind. To defend the book you can say that the characters are strong―such heights of passion in them . . . and such is life, isn’t it? Precisely, such is the predicament of humankind: as long as the ego holds the baton such is life, our dream becomes a nightmare. 

And the collective ego impels the human race to follow its dictums, its program—the matrix. Once that program is implemented it is quite easy for a few to control the rest as long as they know how the program works. When we lose our virtue we are easy prey for vipers. Be aware!

Unexpectedly, the book has a happy ending, for Catherine’s daughter (Cathy), and Hareton (who had been wronged and diminished by Heathcliff) excel to restore sanity to Wuthering Heights.

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