When I was going through the knowledge share of The Sovereign’s Way Greg Paul was talking about desires. I thought I had the desire to know myself but I soon figured out I didn’t really, I had the desire to think that I had the desire to know myself but I had a stronger desire to block this through my addictions. I was blocking it because I did not want to feel my fear and feelings of inadequacy. If knowing myself was gong to be fun and easy then I was all for it.
Desire works like this. The mind creates the sense of separation and therefore differentiation (there is me and everything else). The unconscious motivation of everything we thus do is the desire to satisfy this mind-created separation/differentiation. But Humpty Dumpty and All the Kings Men can never-ever put Humpty back together again.
Desire is thus the fundamental driving force of everyone's motivations and actions. Even the desire to "go to heaven" and/or to be "saved" by believing in Jesus (and being goody-two-shoes good) when one dies.
The purpose of TV and advertising altogether is to stimulate ones never-satisfied desire.
Stuart Ewen wrote about this in his book Captain's of Consciousness.
Modern bright-shiny , ever-so-clean-and-sterile tightly controlled (keep the dirty-smelly-noisy- rif-raf out) shopping malls are the Temples/Cathedrals where supposedly much of the TV created desire is temporarily satisfied.
Desire works like this. The mind creates the sense of separation and therefore differentiation (there is me and everything else). The unconscious motivation of everything we thus do is the desire to satisfy this mind-created separation/differentiation. But Humpty Dumpty and All the Kings Men can never-ever put Humpty back together again.
Desire is thus the fundamental driving force of everyone's motivations and actions. Even the desire to "go to heaven" and/or to be "saved" by believing in Jesus (and being goody-two-shoes good) when one dies.
The purpose of TV and advertising altogether is to stimulate ones never-satisfied desire.
Stuart Ewen wrote about this in his book Captain's of Consciousness.
Modern bright-shiny , ever-so-clean-and-sterile tightly controlled (keep the dirty-smelly-noisy- rif-raf out) shopping malls are the Temples/Cathedrals where supposedly much of the TV created desire is temporarily satisfied.
Thanks for your explanation Jonathan. Tim