Religion is a Prison for the Mind.
I have recently been working my way through The Prisoner. Co-written, directed by and starring Patrick McGoohan the Prisoner is a seminal tv series that was broadcast between 1967 and 1968.
Just 17 episodes in total, it stands as a fine work of art on the simple basis that its thematic content is of a timeless quality that means it has a prescience that is as relevant now as it has ever been.
No. 6, the character played by McGoohan, is being held in the Village, a gilded prison in which the inmates are former employees of the State. When no. 6 goes rogue and, without reason, quits his job as an agent of the Deep State’s secret services, he is kidnapped and imprisoned in order that the state’s agents can find out the why and wherefore of his resignation.
In short, his idiosyncratic, eccentric behaviour is so unusual to his State employers that they cannot let go of him without interrogation. No. 6 resists this.
Each episode concerns the prisoner’s absolute non-compliance and the heavy-handed attempts of his controllers to force his submission to their diktats.
Mind-control, constant one-way surveillance, enforcement of psychotic drugs, compliance, psychological manipulation of all kinds, individualism, collectivisation, faux democracy, the nature of the hive mind and the power of the individual are themes which loom large throughout the series.
The Prisoner, in my view, is essentially about the religion we know as Statism and it was the inspiration behind this week’s Rogue Cast in which I once again tackle the all-enveloping subject of religion.
The word religion’s etymology lies in the Latin Religare which means to bind. Religion is thus a bind for the mind. However, it usage is not limited to organised religions like those of the Talmudists, the Mohammedans, the Christians, the Scientologists etc. Each follower is in a prison for his mind; only rarely will a prisoner perceive the bars and when he attempts to inform the others, they will decry him to the point of violence.
Anything which imprisons the mind in a false set of notions and beliefs that are encased in a false paradigm can be regarded as a religion. For instance, television is a form of religion: the evening news may be likened to an evening service at a church. The alter is the desk, the minister (newscaster) sits behind it, clad in the garb of his ilk ~ a tie, collar and dark suit. He feigns knowledge but all he is doing is reading from an autocue and casting out his net of propaganda.
As a lad in the boy scouts, I was regularly exposed to the binds of the organised religion of Churchianty (as opposed to Christianity which, ulimtately, is the christ-consciousness that one should treat others as you would like to be treated). I was an enthusiastic scout and the troop had a commitment once a month to attend a Church service at St Philip’s Parish Church, on Halifax Road in the district of Lindley, 2 miles North-West of the town of Huddersfield.
The vicar was an old chap called Charlesworth and it was he who had baptised me. He was a bespectacled and drooling old man with little, if any, charisma and even at the young age of 13, it was clear to me that he was lacking in the wisdom which I perceived in others of his generation ~ he had nothing to impart to his audience; every utterance was from a book, be it bible or hymn, and thus he was operating as a mere drone, repeating the lies, distorting the frequencies and filling my young self’s mind with the kind of sound-bites that form the basis for the evening song of all television broadcast ‘news’. It is candy floss for the brain, an attempted hypnosis of the soul and a sop to the conscience of the viewer/listener/congregation who switch off their critical thinking to bathe in the fake blue light of the religion of television.
Of course, Money is perhaps the most egregious and mind-bending of all the religions. Its stranglehold over people knows no bounds. Nobody knows where it comes from, who its creator is and how it operates as a bind but everyone believes in its godlike qualities.
As I have opined on many a happy occasion, the religion of money holds sway over the world and its high priests, the false god’s representatives are those who sit on the sordid throne of the House of Rothschild.
By way of illustration, let us, once again, consider the notion of ‘debt’.
As previously written, there is no National Debt and each and every fake loan could easily be discharged by any President or Prime Minister who had the cognisance of how the financial system is one huge swindle:
When a licenced broker deposits a mortgage deed and streams a line of credit with which to purchase the house from the seller, the deal is done. The balance owed has been satisfied in full. From that point on, all that exists is a swindle that is predicated on the monetary mechanics and, of course, on the ignorance of the poor dupe who has fallen victim to a bait and switch which leaves him as ‘debtor’ to a false loan, when the incontrovertible truth is that he was, via his signature on the promise to pay, the creditor who funded the entire purchase.
Thus he finds himself in a prison, the bars of which are formed by the illusion of a debt.
Equally significantly, there is no lawful money with which to ‘pay’ the alleged loan.
In such a state of bankruptcy and without a lawful currency, in reality, all he can do is settle and discharge the balance claimed by way of an administrative process in which he tenders a promissory note, payable on demand to the fake lender. The non-acceptance of which discharges the alleged debt in accord with the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882.
All he has is his signature which comprises his promise to pay – the autograph which, in this false system of financial servitude, is, in the final analysis, the only way of honourably discharging and settling the balance. After all, when he tenders credits and/or bank notes, he is but using IOUs which, as the BoE has confirmed on numerous occasions, are only backed by the “faith” people place in them.
Note that word – “faith”
noun
1 complete trust or confidence in someone or something: this restores one’s faith in politicians.2 strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof: bereaved people who have shown supreme faith.
a system of religious belief: the Christian faith.
a strongly held belief or theory: the faith that life will expand until it fills the universe.
Such ‘faith’ is, thus, wholly of a religious quality. Therefore, it is reasonable to assert that the unlawful money (IOUs and debt) requires the ‘congregation’ who use it to exercise belief in it when, in fact, it does not really exist in any meaningful sense.
It is no different from the usage of the notes in a game of Monopoly, or the faith one might have in Allah, Jahweh, God, Krishna, the Buddha, National Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, Jah-Bul-On or the King.
As such, this ‘faith’ is blind to the realities of the matter and thus the ‘money-system’ may quite correctly be regarded as another religion, which binds the mind,
The priests of television and radio news are of no more significance than the Reverand Charlesworth was: they are merely repeaters of scripts that are but segments of greater wholes, fragmented into fragmenting chunks which leave the brain and the perception of the viewer/listener scattered asunder to the point where he is incapable of (and disinterested in) anything approaching true cognisance of that which is expressed.
Divide and rule is the modus operandi at play. The medium so effectively divides the mind of the victim into so many parts that is becomes easy to rule it. This tried-and-tested technique is beloved of Govern-mental-ists the world over because it works. Mental means of the mind and when one can step back from the hubub and take stock, then it is clear that all around us is a prison that exists without bars. The bars are not truly there, it is simply that the mind has become shackled to a false religion. As Jason Breshears of Archaix‘s mantra goes,
Break Free, or Die Trying
The only antidote to religion and the mind that sits captured in prison is critical thinking and that does not lie in any form of collectivisation, or hive mind.
The first step is to realise that you are in a prison and that it is a mental prison. Free you mind from the prison and the shackles will fall away.
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