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Chapter 9 : YOUR CHOICE
You, therefore, have a choice to make. You can either continue on the path of self-betrayal and enslavement, which results in the diseased death-in-life reality experienced by the vast majority of our species, or you can choose life and health. The first option is inevitably already well known to you while the second is likely totally unfamiliar.
It is not the purpose of this book to help you learn to cope with caged life but instead to get out of the cage. To do so you will have to change - tremendously. The caged creature that you are today is both a negative and a limited version of the remarkable animal that you can become - one that you have never yet experienced being.
One of the greatest challenges that you will face in this transformation that you have the opportunity to pursue is that you have no personal reference for the objective of the untamed being. You are a slave and the descendent of slaves. Furthermore, being surrounded by slaves just like you, it will be extremely difficult for you to find human animal role models to study or emulate. In order to address this very real issue, I have four suggestions.
First of all, learn about other wild animals and how they live. These cousins of ours are our best resource to understand both how nature and natural selection operate. It is understood that each species has evolved to adapt to its unique environment and so no other species is a direct model for our own. However, by observing and studying enough other animals you will be able to recognize certain life-affirming patterns among them which our own species has lost along the road to its domestication. If you want to become a wild animal, those that are still living in the wild will be your best role models.
Second, as much as you can, disconnect from the world of civilization. Stop watching television, reading the newspaper listening to the radio, going to church and to traditional school, being with large groups of people, and all else that encourages conformity to the values and rules of the cage. You will be surprised how, when you are not bombarded repeatedly with the empty anti-life messages coming from these sources, you will gradually be able to develop the capacity to observe and think for yourself. You will also notice how more and more insane the world that is being sold to you through these indoctrinary sources will begin to appear and how you will gradually want less and less of what civilization has to offer.
Third, as you begin to study the untamed world and tune out the noise of civilization, listen to yourself. Your genetic program is there operating within you. You have been blocking and ignoring it until now which has been your biggest mistake of all. Even though the wolf that you were is presently in the form of a poodle or a Chihuahua, somewhere deep inside something of the wolf still remains. All that you really need to do is to let it be expressed and developed again. You have been programmed for ten thousand years not to do this and are living in a reality which violently opposes you to do so. But when it comes down to it, the most important guide and information that you need to attend to exist already within you. If you truly intend to become alive and healthy, you have no choice but to listen to and to follow your internal guide.
Fourth, develop a concept of who it is that you are going to transform into. By filtering out that which alienates you from yourself and focusing on that which helps you self-actualize, you will be able to more and more clearly develop a concept of who it is that you are striving to become, this uncaged version of yourself. This goal to strive for will begin with a concept, one that differs significantly from the concept of what one must become in order to fit within the structure of civilized society. Therefore you will have to change how you think both about yourself and the world around you.
Realizing that most of what you have been taught until now has been intended to have you affirm the cage and your role within it, almost everything that you think now will have to be examined and altered to enable you to create and adapt to an uncaged form of reality. In order to change your thinking, it is essential that you question what you believe to be true and discard that which does not make sense. Make logic and reason the keys to your acceptance of information.
Learn that realizing that you do not know or understand something can be a valid appraisal of your situation at any time which should not result in illogical leaps of faith, but instead the quest for better understanding. When you do question something, recognize that if it is commonly accepted it likely is so because of its utility in keeping our species caged, and so be suspicious of those ideas which are seldom, if ever, challenged.
With regard to the concept of whom to aspire to transform oneself into, I propose a model of what I understand a healthy alive human animal to be. I call this optimal creature the True Positive Individual. It is my position that the transformation of a human animal from its limited negative caged form to assume its wild nature as a True Positive Individual is the prescription for life and health.
While it is understood that each genetic program is unique in its nature and therefore in its expression, the basic objective of becoming a True Positive Individual is relevant for any human animal. This form of individual is one with a number of characteristics, each of which is integral to the whole and its ultimate well-being. I will address each of these characteristics in order to clarify who the True Positive Individual is. The possession of each of these characteristics to the highest degree possible is in the healthy best interest of any human that wants to maximize its quality of life and well-being.
As one transforms from the limited negative caged version of oneself to the True Positive self, the symptoms of the disease of caged existence gradually diminish and ultimately disappear.
Given the reality of ten thousand years of domestication, there is much to be done. Individuals will have the opportunity to begin the process of transformation and pursue it on an ongoing basis until their death. How far they go will vary from one to another, but to a caged animal the focus of existence becomes getting out of that cage.
By redirecting toward the goal of animality and health, the possibility of one's descendants continuing in the same direction is enhanced. Furthermore, by one generation removing some of the bars, the next will not have as far to go to get out of the cages. To truly deconstruct the labyrinth of cages is an enormous agenda that is certainly not assured, at least in terms of our species deliberately accomplishing such an objective. It is, of course, understood that one way or another this zoo that has been created by us will end. What remains to be seen is if our species will be there when it ends, and more particularly if your genetic information will see that day.
At some point, if your descendants outlast domesticated reality and return to an untamed form of existence, they will have to continue in the struggle of life and their future will not be assured. The difference between that situation and the current is that continuing on the present path guarantees your genetic material's demise. The choice is yours to make.
Whether you like it or not, whether you realize it or not, you control your own destiny. You cannot be guaranteed a happy ending but, by aiming to return to the life path, you can obtain the best outcome possible. Rather than trying to control and restructure the universe, you can regain the maximum healthy control of your own life and genetic material and take a ride on the wave of time to see where it will take you.
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