Spiritual Counterintelligence Series Pt. 1: Who is your actual enemy?
"Your friends are close, but your enemy is closer"
Oftentimes, we look outside of ourselves for everything: resources, happiness, love, a good time, etc.
This is understandable. We live in a world, individuals connected through infinite webs, some of which we are aware, others hidden beneath the surface.
However, this principle applies to the mind.
The default programming of the mind, the ego, is to help you survive. To keep you safe. To keep you comfortable.
Anything beyond that resembles the fight-or-flight response, that of danger being nearby.
In the mental realm, this comes with worrisome thoughts, anxious perceptions, which then influence the emotional realm.
Your heart rate increases, chest tightens, shoulder blades get tight, etc.
This vicious cycle impact your spirituality, which is invisible by nature. However, since it is the higher from of the material, it is connected nonetheless.
The Universe is Mental, which means your thoughts are where everything starts. Your deep seated beliefs, grouped according to vibration, projected automatically into your reality by your subconscious mind all influence your perception in your day-to-day life.
These beliefs hold the answers to the questions we ponder: Am I enough? Why do I keep falling into the same cycles? Did she just say what I think she said? Why did I not say this to her face? What is life truly about? What is my purpose? Why am I here?
From the existential to the mundane, these questions have answers. However, there are foreign agents whose number one job is to interrupt this process of self-inquiry.
The ancients had a timeless adage that permeates every aspect: “Know thyself.”
Which leads to the obvious conclusion: Anything or anyone that seeks to uphold your ignorance of self is your enemy. Even if it is you.
Ignorance of yourself is your enemy
Yes you, reading these very letters on the screen.
There is no enemy closer to you that knows all of who and what you are more than you.
At the nexus point of all of your experiences, you were there.
In the midst of trials, tribulations, heartaches, and sleepless nights, you were there feeling every emotion.
However, everybody knows that on the other side of fear is the realization that it is not so bad.
Well, when did the fear start? When did you start not believing in yourself? When did your dependence, or even blame, on the external become your first and automatic response?
As a child, you were free to do, speak, and think as you pleased. Until, your parents stepped in. Prepping your mind, based on their perceptions of the world, with a good heart or not, they set you up as a combination of their unresolved questions of reality. There is your first enemy, parental programming, if you want to talk about this life. But we must delve deeper…
To do this, we must systematically assess the mind and how it works. What are its strengths but also its weaknesses? What is it susceptible to mold itself into, if not assessed and manned at the helm? With enough self-knowledge, or rather the programmed automatic yearn “to know”, can one’s mind be the freest nation in the universe?
Speaking of nation, your first allegiance is to that of yourself, specifically that part that was snatched away when you were a child: your imagination, your image-nation.
The Infiltration of Your Imagination
There are plenty of definitions of the imagination, but we will use this one:
the ability to form new ideas, images, and concepts in the mind, even when those things are not physically present or experienced directly
Now, definitions by default seek to place a mental finger on a concept or an idea. Making it digestible and ultimately a platform for subsequent understanding. A thread in a web through which one can perceive the world.
Well, the imagination is exactly that: a web. It is an ever-changing, ever-evolving and ever-growing web of intricate shapes, sizes, and colors like the Universe itself. However, if the spider weaving the web is not aware of its abilities to spin a web, nor itself as a a spider, it will have no home. No food. No reason to exist. Get the picture?
Too often, people get to a mid-life crisis because the arrested development of their imagination started when they became obedient. Overly dependent on validation and approval. Hooked on being a good boy and good girl to the point where this translated right into the workforce. A system which values innovation within the box, a defined imagination. A spider that makes webs, not of its own creativity, but out of fear of the deprivation of resources.
Your imagination is that which you create your world with. Your story. Your hero’s journey. If you are not using your imagination on a daily basis, guess what? It is still there. The muscle is still being used but for worry, anxiety, and negative thinking. Negative feedback loops based on personal trauma, societal propaganda, moral dogma, and just overall ignorance to your environment and reality. If you do not use your mind, someone and something else will.
You can see the use of the imagination in stories that you love to read. No one told your favorite author to write their book. It came out of their mind. Their ability to weave relationships, dialogue, developing plots with twists, keeping in time a sequence of causes and effects that keep the attention of millions of readers…this all came from the imagination of one person put into material form.
Now if we take this approach, we approach an even deeper conclusion: your imagination, your ability to create your desired reality as you see fit, was infiltrated as a child and currently as an adult.
Remember, images are the root of imagination. Images are pictures and what are pictures worth? A thousand words.
Yes reader, I am speaking to you once again. There comes a time in one’s adulthood where enough is enough. That process leads to an unburdening of mental gunk, spiritual waste, outdated programs that no longer serve your purpose.
Along with this process comes the next steps: Life is a continuum. Which means there is no one-time fix. Which also means that tools must be attained and automated to align with a higher timeline of thinking, doing, and being.
Most importantly, I must deal with the brutal truth of this place: ignorance is the enemy and there are foreign and domestic enemies that feed on my self-ignorance, thereby being foreign entities embedded in imagination.
Your imagination is the most efficient language there is, which is why images must be fed to you uninterrupted, in short and long-form “content”. Your subconscious mind has no morals and is impersonal, which means it downloads these images regardless. Hence why, the life of someone can flash before their eyes before death because it is all recorded. It just does not show in your everyday memory or else your brain would be overloaded. However, it can be overloaded if you are dependent on the images someone else created, consuming versus creating your own images within.
This is where counter-intelligence comes in.
So why enact counter-intelligence on yourself? What is the point?
One can look at the world today and understand there are countless distractions. Social media, sports, reality television, awards shows, news channels, music, etc. Etc. Etc.
These are all conversations. Streams of information that are aimed at the receiver, whether they are aware of it or not.
Once your attention is grabbed, if you are not equipped with the proper intel where you can assess the situation objectively, you will be automatically pulled emotionally. Emotions are energy in motion, making your emotional investiture a vampiric act, one where your neck shows no resistance.
Foreign intelligence services, in the physical, use variegated tactics, strategies, and resources to extract information, by any means necessary. Their job is to do this without being detected. Hence, why when you become aware of what you have “accepted” in the past, there comes a time where you have to have compassion with yourself. This normally comes after being angry for having let it happen.
That “what took you so long” is the innocent question we all ask ourselves when we are unaware. When dealing with yourself spiritually, you know that the process of ignorance is that of darkness into light. Not knowing at one point in time, awareness, then using that knowledge in future situation, thereby attaining spiritual wisdom in the process. However, this does not equate to just letting things unfold.
There must be an active process of gathering intelligence and counterintelligence. Assessing foreign, as well as, domestic enemies. Within yourself, as well as those external agents who seek to perpetuate your ignorance.
This is where the process is no longer spiritual healing. Love and light and all that bullshit. No, it is protection of home base. Not out of fear, no. Intelligence gathering because that is your responsibility to yourself. That is what your soul came to do: to know itself. Any shred of ignorance of your natural talents, skills, abilities, and your very potential and essence in action is your enemy. It must be uprooted and and made an example of to the rest of your mind.
This is the purpose of spiritual counter-intelligence. To uphold your spiritual birthright, to protect against enemies, foreign and domestic, and safeguard the process of self-knowledge. In doing so, the imagination, the image-nation, the nation of images is allowed to develop free from traitors. Free from mutinous citizens within that are only present due to the state when your imagination was vulnerable, in that state of ignorance.
Moving forward…
We will assess the spiritual process of counter-intelligence in great detail. As with the Law of Correspondence, there are foundational principles that intelligence agencies are built upon that can be applied spiritually.
Each week, we will apply counterintelligence commandments, actual case studies that occurred globally and within the United States, and assess different stages of the counterintelligence (CI) process.
In doing so, one will be better equipped to not only understanding oneself in the grand scheme of the Universe, but how to safeguard knowing that you are a walking Universe yourself, owing allegiance to your soul.