Deconstructing the Lie
A few years ago, I described the essays I was writing as “Field Notes from the Underground Where the Lie was Deconstructed.”
I was referring to the underground bunkers one must enter beneath the surface of the world to see how the Lie (1) is fabricated and packaged for sale to us, the unwashed masses. It arrives in a tidy box that claims to alleviate the burden of existential dread and doubt we all must face, but never does. It doesn’t go deep enough to the personal core wound and so no relief can be found.
The better questions are not about how to alleviate the pain but what is the pain signaling? What and where is the obstruction? Who put it there and who is going to remove it? When are you going to be responsible for yourself? When are you going to stop believing what the machines in your mind manufacture for you? When are you going to tell the truth?
It’s like a nagging wife …but she does have a point. The thoughts fly in like bats and birds and we welcome them. We imbibe them like mother’s milk. No questions. No resistance. When we were children they were embedded before we even got a chance to evaluate them.
Evaluate the Lie
My work is to help that evaluation process complete itself. I am living proof that this is possible, that a brainwashed, indoctrinated, mind-controlled subject can recover from his injuries, and be of service to those who may want to deconstruct their own lies.
The short story is that such evaluation is not a long process. A house of cards falls quickly when the right card is pulled. The problem is that when everything you thought was true falls through the floor, it’s confusing and in need of a much larger context than mere destruction.
Willingness, discipline and focus are required to create an entirely new vocabulary if any of us are to move through the process of destruction, death and rebirth. You may have to face the dissolution of everything you have believed your whole life. However, not to fear, the greater doesn’t mind the loss of the lesser.
Abandon the Map
No one is an expert more than you on who you are. However, you are likely to have blindspots and find yourself in unfamiliar territory.
What l offer in a conversation is the ability to help you navigate the territory without confusing it with your map. I make a sharp distinction between who you are, the territory, and what you believe or assume, which is the map. Though I deeply respect everyone’s freedom to choose their beliefs, I extend no such courtesy to the beliefs themselves. All beliefs are fair game to me, no offense intended, and please, none taken.
So I continue with a disclaimer and a warning.
Disclaimer: My services, by donation, are intended to water the seeds of life, to cultivate and integrate the neglected parts of ourselves that come back to haunt us. Every demon is a shrapnel of neglect, a reflection of what happens when we cut ourselves into pieces with the knives of belief: the inherited cultural assumptions and false dichotomies between consciousness and matter, self and God, part and whole.
You may be both surprised and challenged because you may not like what you find out about yourself.
Warning: While there is never any danger to you, your assumptions and beliefs may be at risk. Only the hungry, the deadly serious participant, will be able to make it all the way through the destruction phase and be able to stabilize quickly within the infinite field of awareness.
Fire the Experts
My intention is to make myself obsolete as soon as possible, to ignite the charge in you, and run for cover while everything false you have believed begins to turn to dust.
My method is indictment, prosecution and sentencing of the entire prison-industrial complex in which you are the unwitting prisoner. This fictional character will actually defend his guards and the warden while overlooking the crimes committed against him by others and by himself.
From there, together we find remedy and relief through the precise diagramming of the Lie unique to you. We investigate the assumptive fallacies, the very mechanisms of the trap, that binds the human heart.
Shadow work is crucial. Meeting, greeting and feeding your demons is required. Stitching up the core wound comes first. Building a life of love and trust over fear and doubt is essential.
In a nutshell, the process is to recognize the conditioning that sits on top of, and obscures, your true essence. Recognizing the essence is primary, the stories and beliefs are secondary. Only essence is essence. No thoughts, descriptions, explanations or beliefs can define who you are.
When life is lived from this absolute truth, the universe lays down its arms and becomes your playful pet, friend and mirror. Until then, the universe is a bloody tyrant who wears the skulls of those it has eaten around its neck. If you don’t stop pretending to be someone or something you are not, you’re next.
Your thoughts?
Personal Disclaimer: I am not a therapist and I cannot treat the Lie. I help uncover the already-existing whole human being. I expose the Lie for what it is, a totally understandable, innocent and childlike adaptation to life. It is not and never was the problem. The problem is remaining in the child position without cracking open to the stage of adult.
(1) the Lie: The Lie is the origin of the core wound: the assumption of separation from one’s source, their depth. It is the erroneous equation of uniqueness with separateness that creates a false dichotomy between consciousness and matter, part and whole, self and God. The Lie manifests as the core wound and fractures the heart into fragments of doubt, worthlessness and terror. It is an imaginary disease that religion and science seek to cure but cannot. An imaginary disease cannot be cured, only exposed and illuminated for what it is.
Robert Cinque Bio
In 1976 I hit the road after dropping out of a Master’s program at the Vanderbilt School of Divinity. Six years of study and a promising career as an evangelist Christian Pastor went poof, up in smoke. I had been feverishly studying the Gospels and ancient texts for the Jesus of history who lived prior to the doctrines of Christ written decades later by Church fathers. What I learned about the difference between these two teachings was both highly disturbing and liberating; it changed my life forever.
I studied organic architecture, built geodesic domes and timber frame yurts for the next 40 years. I was all about shelter and sanctuary for the human heart. I realized that I could actually build a house for my heart by doing only two things, which I did thoroughly. The first thing was to sit down and shut up. The second thing was to pay attention to what really matters and forget everything else.
I am all about first things first. Everything that follows will take care of itself, but not without the key principle, the pearl of great price, the treasure the man finds buried in his field.
This treasure is what I consider to be empirically observable fact that awareness precedes and includes all experience, perspectives and beliefs. Therefore, awareness is Reality itself: the living process of Conscious Light that becomes form and function. Freely. Playfully. Benevolently. Without concern. Radiantly Alive as all things. Brilliantly articulate as biological organisms. Miraculously present as Love Itself.
