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In a far distant land
There was a king and a queen
Who were dearly beloved by their people
And who dearly loved their people in
return
And in this land
Reigned peace and harmony
The abundance of the planet was shared by
all
And all were provided for
And the people’s lives had purpose
They had focus; they had meaning
The people knew who they were
Of this they were sure
They were rock-solid in the knowledge of
who they were
And they were true to themselves
To themselves they were true
And then one day
A stranger visited this land
An odd looking fellow
Not ugly, but different
And he was a great story teller this
stranger
And so everywhere he went, he found an
audience
And he would tell his stories
And the people would listen with great
pleasure
And yes, would feed him and lodge him for
the night
And thus he traveled far and wide
throughout the land
Spreading his stories far and wide
throughout the land
Until his stories had become part and
parcel of the culture
A part of their collective consciousness
They all knew the stories
And as the generations passed
A part of the collective unconscious as
well
They all felt the stories
Not only did they feel the stories
But they felt the stories to be true
And for the most part the stories did
seem true
If one did not look too closely
But contained in each one of the stories
In every single story this stranger had
told
Contained within
Sometimes deep within
Was a lie
And the lie was a deceptively simple one
And the lie was not an easy one to spot,
to detect
But the lie was there and it was there in
each and every single story
And the theme of the lie pervaded the
stories
And as the stories grew ever deeper
entrenched
Into the people’s collective unconscious
Into their feelings
Into their mythologies
The effect of that lie grew stronger and
stronger
Until finally the people no longer knew
who they were
And what was that lie
A simple lie really
One would hardly notice it
One would not think it so significant
And yet it changed the landscape of the
planet
It changed the very fabric of its society
It changed the people’s self-perception
And yes, there began a slow but steady
decline
In the quality of life on the planet
Until one would hardly recognize the
planet
From the way it had been before the liar
had entered it
For now the people no longer knew who
they were
And so were no longer true to themselves
How could they be
They did not know who they were
How could they be true to what they did
not know
And dissension broke out among the people
And rivalries began
And grew into wars
And hoarding of the planet’s bounty began
And poverty rose its ugly head
And misery became commonplace
And the people were malcontent
But did not know why
And as the generations passed
The people forgot that they had ever been
a different way
Oh yes, there were stories of a golden
time
A time when peace and harmony reigned
A time when all were provided for
A time of purpose and joy
And the people all knew these stories
But many doubted that such a time had
ever existed
And even if it had
It had been a long, very long
Very, very long time ago
And things grew from bad to worse
And truly it would seem as if there were
no bottom
And the people despaired
Their planet was turning into hell
They were turning into prisoners
Trapped in their lives were they
Trapped in their malcontent were they
Not seeing a way out were they
And blaming their god for their sorry
state were they
And their god heard their laments
And with a god, a true god, to hear is to
answer
And so this god answered the people’s cry
And he sent his mother and he sent his
son
To his people to remind his people of who
they were
And at first some of the people listened
And at first some of the people’s lives
were transformed
And hope and yes excitement reigned among
these people
Things were going to get better!
Yes, things were!
But it was not long
Before their original hope and excitement
Became subverted
For you see the lie that the stranger had
imprinted upon the people
Went deeply indeed
And they carried this lie over onto what
the Mother and the Son
Told them
They imposed over the message of the
Mother and the Son
They imposed over their message
And throughout the message
The original lie that the stranger had
wrought
And once that lie had infiltrated the
Mother and Son’s message
Then every single thing that the Mother
and the Son had said
And had done became misinterpreted
For it was interpreted in light of the
lie you see
It was interpreted through the lens of
the lie
And so was misunderstood
And so was misapplied
And as the generations passed
The misunderstandings and the
misapplications of
The Mother and Son’s message grew and
grew deeper
Until finally one could hardly recognize
their original message
From what the people now believed
That the Mother and Son had taught them
And so war continued to prevail upon the
planet
In fact, as the centuries passed, the
wars grew ever deadlier
And killed an ever increasing percentage
of the population
And so hoarding continued to prevail upon
the planet
Until poverty grew so great
That people on the planet
Quite a few in fact, actually died of
hunger!
Slowly, in agony, they died of hunger
And yes, some even endured the agony of
dying of thirst
In this planet of abundance
Things had been reduced to this!
And amazingly the people saw nothing
wrong with this
So far from themselves had they grown
No there was nothing wrong with war
There had always been war
There will always be war
In fact one must continually fight
So as to keep oneself in fighting shape!
No there was nothing wrong with poverty
If those poor people did not know how to
feed themselves
Well what could they do about it
There have always been the poor
There would always be the poor
And that was the way things were
And that was the way things always had
been
And that was the way things always would
be
What the people of this planet did not
realize
Was that in life there is never
stagnation
Life does not stand still
No it does not!
It moves
It moves
It moves
In one direction or another, it moves
It must
For it is alive and must move
And so things did not stay as they were
No they got worse
And worse
And worse
And the people with each succeeding
generation
Told themselves that this wasn’t so bad
This was just the way things were
You made the most of it
You made sure
You did what you could
To make sure that you were the victor in
the wars
You did what you could to make sure
That you were the victor in the hoarding
of the planet’s bounty
You did what you had to do
Yes, there was no hope for it
You had to take care of yourself and of
your own
And you did what you had to do
And who could blame you
Who could blame you
And so things deteriorated and continued
to deteriorate
And truly it seemed as if there were no
bottom
For it had now gotten to the point
Where collective insanity had gripped the
planet
Truly, looking at it from the outside
One had no choice but to believe
That the people had become insane
Either insane or suicidal
For they were killing themselves the
people were
They thought they were killing each other
But the people of other nearby planets
Looked upon this planet in horror
And wondered why they were so hell-bent
on killing themselves
And killing themselves they were
In great numbers were the dead
In great numbers the body count continued
And now the people had graduated from
killing each other
To killing their home
Yes truly they must be suicidal
For they were killing the home that
provided for them
That sustained them
That allowed them to live
Yes the people were poisoning their air
They were poisoning their water
They were raping the land
Raping it dry so that there would be
nothing left
For their grandchildren
The people were killing their home
And in doing so were guaranteeing
But guaranteeing their own eventual death
as a people
Yes they would die
Yes they would be forgotten
No one would even remember that they had
ever existed
And so things deteriorated
And so things now stand
And so things now stand
And so things now stand
And what is this lie my children
That led the people from the state they
had been in
When I began this story
To the state they are currently in
What was this lie
Can anyone tell me |
