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Friday 11 October 2019

Twenty-seventh week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 11:15-26

Deceptive deception

We have been so deeply and continuously deceived about everything and anything that we have not only lost the capacity to discern who is  deceiving us, but we prefer to listen to and to believe those same persons who are deceiving us and to consider reality and truth as deceptive. Why? A mind which has been induced, trained, and is used to being deceived asks the brain for neural connections - which in time will become a neural network - that will produce a certain kind of electrochemical substances, which the brain will recognize by their electrochemical "taste". In fact the brain gets used to the "taste" of the electrochemical substances produced by our deceived mental orientation and it becomes addicted to it.  Subsequently when that particular substance is suddenly withdrawn, it goes into a withdrawal crisis. Deception thus generates withdrawal, and therefore addiction. Once someone has become familiar with and learned how to tamper with this cerebral mechanism it is easy to seduce people to generate induced, ready-made "tastes" creating withdrawal and therefore addiction. People call this electrochemical addiction "tastes", and, as the saying goes, tastes are untouchable: de gustibus non disputandum est, no quarelling in matter of tastes. It is like saying: yes, we are slaves, completely enslaved and dependent, but at least let us be free to choose our slavery. That is why those who are used to being deceived are more easily deceived and recognize deception as being truer and more his/her than reality and truth. This explains why millions of people, according to their age, their social and cultural level, produce a certain kind of music, and listen to a certain kind of music, and why those who listen and dance to that music have to be dressed in a certain way, and walk, eat, drink, think about life in a certain way.
When, instead, the mind gets used to being perceptive to reality, it asks the brain for neural connections - which in time will become a neural network - which produce electrochemical substances of a different kind, which are recognized by the brain by their own electrochemical " taste". But here, because of a mysterious behaviour of the cerebral neurons, something unforeseen happens: this substance, called DMT (dimethyltryptamine), produces wellbeing to the whole person, without causing any addiction. It generates wellbeing but allows freedom. This is the substance that the pineal gland produces when the mind is connected with the spirit and enters in loving meditation, in intimate prayer with God.
Those who accused Jesus - By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons - not only demonstrated the utter stupidity of their cerebral system, which Jesus easily disclosed, but also something much sadder: the absolute lack in their life of the most elemental form of meditation and loving relationship with God in prayer. This lack of intimacy with God makes those people discard God's news  a priori with fierce prejudice and stupid, proud, overbearing ignorance. No matter how new, incomprehensible, unpredictable, unforeseen, uncontrollable can show itself to be, those who pray the Lord in their innermost heart will certainly find a loving, spiritual, humble, intelligent, welcoming, perceptive, clear gaze of the Spirit. Prayer and meditation are what lovingly unite men to reality and life. It is the lack of deep community prayer - and true prayer is not just merely repeating words - that makes possible all the deceptions in which we are living and the inquisition towards everything the novelties of the Spirit.