We Are A Scam, Santosh Jha [the reading strategies book .txt] 📗

our frontopolar cortex refuses to admit defeat and draws on all our computational abilities to search for patterns in random data already available. In the absence of real patterns (factual basis), it detects illusory ones. And it prompts us to act on them. Scientific assertion maintains, our mind is a belief-seeking, rather than a fact-seeking mechanism. This scam is our design and science has just begun to unravel it in details.

This instinctive mechanism for mysticism and abstractions in turn creates a series of denial and deception within human cognition. It is all scammed consciousness and its scamming cognitions. This needs to be understood. This alone can de-scam our consciousness and life-living.

Let us take an example about how the knowledge-process of decoding fear and anxiety helps us retain sanity in worse of situations. It is all about how an individual believes in holism of knowledge; sees, understands and accepts the genetics of a causality that confronts him or her in life-living. Most people react with uncontrollable fear and anxiety when they see a venomous snake. However, a trained snake catcher does not fear the same snake and rather, catches the snake with utter ease and confidence. What makes the single causality play out differently for two different persons?

It is how the two persons decode and decipher the seeds or genetics of the causality of fear and anxiety. It is only natural reaction of an average person to feel fear and anxiety with snakes. It is wired in our subconscious brain states. However, the person who does not fear and is not in any perceptible anxiety handling the same venomous snake because, he or she knows all possible details of the behavior and actions of snakes he or she handles. He or she also has impeccable support system in case of any accident. The snake catcher is trained about different snakes, how they move and how they behave towards their enemies. The snake catcher is in advance knowledge of any possible move the snake may make to endanger him or her. Also, when he or she is out catching, he or she has the medical box full with all preventive devices and medications, in case of a mishap. The nearby hospital has also been put on alert in case there is a mishap in handling the snake. The idea is – it is the holistic knowledge of the entire probabilities of the possibility of the causality and readiness for any eventuality, which makes fear and anxiety go away and rather be replaced by confidence and courage. The knowledge allows the snake catcher to ‘unlearn’ his innate and instinctive subconscious fear and anxiety. This is artistry of higher consciousness, which wins over the wired and auto-learned behavior and action.

So, what we are talking about is that there are fixed, objective and inescapable realities. They are what they are and cannot change for you and me; however desperately we wish. What is not fixed, subjective and escapable is a person’s response to the realities and their acceptance. Like, death is fixed, objective and inescapable reality for all living being. Mortality happens; the moment life happens. This is predetermined singular reality for all. However, different people have diverse reaction to this reality and therefore variegated acceptance of the same. There are similar realities and dissimilar acceptances. This is scam of consciousness.

Why should different consciousnesses react and accept a reality differently? It largely depends on what is the content of the information and extent of the knowledge a person has about the holism of the reality. More the knowledge less shall be the element of mysticism and fear in the acceptance of the reality. Less knowledge would unleash more fear and loads of mystical and abstract elements in perception and acceptance of the reality. Naturally, people with less knowledge about the holism of reality shall be more in denial or manufacture mystical acceptances to minimize the fear and discomfiture associated with the reality. This is scam of consciousness.

Knowledge has a fixed trajectory and it has set, objective and singular outcome. Ignorance and part knowledge shall create outcomes of fear, anger, denial, abstract diversions and mystical beliefs and perceptions. Like in the above mentioned case about the reality of death. Trying to attain something big and great in one hand and freaking it out to optimize pleasure and indulgence on the other are both scams of consciousness. It is scammed cognition, emanating out of partial knowledge of the reality of life and death. Similar scam shall happen with other realities too. We don’t have to elaborate on that as we all know how different people have different take on a single reality and how these diversities dump in loads of 3Cs – conflicts, confusion and chaos in human world.

History, as we said, is full of sordid sagas of those uncountable humans who either opted for this scammed option of becoming great; at the cost of dignity of fellow humans, or those who indulged in personal pleasures, without ever caring for pains of others. History however also has a few examples of some real evolved and arrived people, who could understand Reality in its entirety and holism. It is for everyone to check the annals of past thousands of years of human civilization and realize how all true and really knowledgeable persons had common and singular message of Compassion. All these arrived people, who lived compassion, feared nothing and never showed any anger, attitude and deception.

It is common knowledge how Buddha left his kingdom and palatial home to become a recluse. This happened as he encountered the inevitable Realities of pain, disease and death early in his youth. He internalized Death and Reality. This filled him with intense grief and finally it evolved to compassion. He renounced everything and left home in search of solution of the grief of humanity. Very soon, as he embarked on the journey of internalization of Reality and holism of knowledge, he could understand the mechanism and processes of Reality. He then became silent. However, people around him forced him to sermon and preach, which he finally did out of the compassion, his highly evolved consciousness was filled with.

All true and right people have the same journey. Buddha never opted for greatness or indulgence. He was born as prince and had been made to enjoy finest of indulgences of life because he had the wealth. He however rejected everything and opted for knowledge, which evolved him to a pure consciousness. This pure consciousness, this de-scammed consciousness gets filled up with compassion, fraternity with fellow humans and a life sans fear, anger, attitude, denial and deception.

Tragically, as it happens with most such people, a handful of scammed consciousnesses, long years after his death, created a faith structure in his name and teachings. Buddhism has now attained the status of a religion. There are millions of people, who say they follow Buddhism and thousands of them claim they have attained Nirvana or Bodhisattva. However, only a handful has actually attained what is there to be attained – Knowledge of Holism of Reality and a compassionate higher consciousness. Like all faith structures, modern day Buddhism has also become one of the many tools of scam and a happy resort for scammed consciousnesses…

Since thousands of years, the scammed consciousnesses of mass majority of humans have failed to understand and accept that you do not arrive by following the path of others, however big or arrived someone is; even Buddha. One has to follow the inner potential of internalization of Reality through a long personal journey to holism of knowledge. No one can become like Buddha by following Buddha. Buddha too didn’t follow anyone. He didn’t even follow himself. He just embarked on his personal journey to internalization of Reality and evolution of compassionate higher consciousness on the road to holism of knowledge.

Every single human has only his or her personal journey to knowledge. Other’s knowledge cannot help you attain what someone else has attained. This process is about internalization and anything external in this process is worthless. This our worthy forefathers have said 3000 years back. Following someone is a scammed consciousness. That is why most humans following a religion or person of attainments are scammed and scamming others. As someone said, ‘All religions are scams of the people, by the people and for the people…’

As we said; true, right and perfect knowledge has a fixed trajectory and it has set objective and singular outcome. This outcome is – Compassion. As we have mentioned earlier, true knowledge has only one element in all the consciousnesses, who successfully internalize the holism of Reality. This element is pure compassion. This compassion has dual face – compassion for self as well as for others. Death as a fixed, objective and inescapable reality; should also have only one outcome, reaction and acceptance. This is – Compassion. This is the test of knowledge and a common universal identity of consciousness free of scammed cognition. This alone is the eligibility of being a human. Rest is animal.

The sad and calamitous reality of contemporary human world is that only a handful men and women have compassionate higher consciousness towards all realities. It is not untrue to say; probably 99.9 percent of contemporary humanity is scammed consciousnesses; animal in a body of human. That is probably why; the animalistic elements of fear, phobia, denial and deceptions rule the contemporary human world.

Tragically, we live in a world where knowledge is the most relegated and forgotten aspect of humanity. Most people are happy scamming the self and others to live successfully in a mystical and self-manufactured world of denial and deception. Acceptance of reality is no more the idealism of humanity. The sole benchmark of success is how ingeniously one succeeds in scamming himself or herself and others to build up an empire of attainments and possessions for greatness and indulgence. People are either trying to be great and big in life, so that they could be remembered even after their deaths or they are neck deep into indulgences to manufacture as much pleasure and thrill in life as possible, before death knocks at the door.

It is the scam, which rules the human world. Reality has no place for humans. It is calamitous situation for humanity that greatness, success and attainment are nothing but scams. They cannot happen if they do not scam their own self and others. The world is the mega theatre of scammed consciousness, staging the dramas of scammed cognitions, displaying the brilliance of the artistry of scamster intelligence.

The growing quotient of fear, anger, denial etc have been delegated to commerce and business to manufacture sellable solutions, which then become part of the chain of wish-list of life-living attainments. So, we have multi-billion dollar industry of drugs and therapy for depression and so many mental and psychological situations. There is multi-billion dollar industry of spiritualism, where peace of mind and poise of consciousness is sold as product. The Yoga is now an industry with multiple brand and specialization genres doing brisk commerce. Even Yoga mats and Yoga pants are multi-billion dollar commerce.

Then there is the global bazaar of multi-billion dollar porn industry and sex commerce to delusion the mind consciousness of Reality and get invested in virtual world of mystical abstractions. The scam commerce is a universe unto itself and ever blooming. Interestingly, within this scammed universe, top academic institutions and people are educating millions of young people how to be genius of these scam enterprises and build up a mega brand of scam. However, no definitive data is available on whether overall quantum of global fear, anger, denial and deception is diminishing or not because of these scam commerce of ‘successes’.

It is not easy to understand how and why fear, anger, denial and attitudes are elements and embedded expressions of scammed consciousnesses. You can say fragrance and imagine it but no way can it match the exuberance and exquisiteness of actual scent of a real flower. We are talking about intangibles. We are