BELIEF #2: We are purposely misled.

If history were markedly different than what we have been taught, how could that have been pulled off? We're going to have to ask some questions. Every (or almost every) TV station must be in on it. Our newspapers and corporations must be controlled by people who are trying to deceive us. The information in our textbooks (and most other books) must be controlled somehow. See, now you're thinking.

That could have never been pulled off. People talk. That's right: people do talk but what happens when they do?  They are not given a voice in the mainstream media, or they are discredited by that same media, or they mysteriously disappear or die under strange circumstances.

• Look up Gary Webb, a whistle-blowing journalist who wrote an expose on how the CIA knowingly allowed millions of dollars of cocaine to come into Southern California in the early 1980s (which eventually was turned into crack and ushered in a new era of primarily urban drug addiction). The money was used to fund the contras in Nicaragua and the War on Drugs ramped up in earnest to deal with this growing problem (that the same government helped develop). Later, he was found with two gunshot wounds to the head in what was officially ruled a suicide. Apparently he didn't like the way the first bullet went through his brain, so he decided to get a better angle.
• Or, look up James Forrestal, the former Secretary of Defense, who urged President Truman to disclose the truth about Roswell and our government's knowledge of/interaction with extraterrestrials because he was confident that we could handle it. He was committed as a mental patient at Bethesda Naval Hospital, was drugged up, and was allowed few visitors because of his 'condition' (read: until he decided to sing the tune that the government wanted him to sing). When he refused to comply, he was found on the sidewalk of the hospital after supposedly deciding to hang himself with the belt on his robe, and then thought that wasn't good enough, so he jumped out of his 16th floor window.

There are so many others who have encountered a similar fate and perhaps I will get into them in a future post. But wait. I'm smart; I would've heard about this sort of thing before. Maybe, but did you give the friend who presented you with this information any credibility? Did you spend more than 5 seconds on that website where you happened to see something? Did you actually think about whether or not the idea could be true? Or did you just revert back to automatic pilot? Because that's what we're taught to do and that's what I did for many years.

Many people who like to see themselves as open-minded just simply are not. They might ostensibly be accepting of people's race, religion, or sexual preference, but in truth they have no time for things that challenge the status quo that they have allowed to be constructed in their minds over the years. Would they still be open-minded to less socially-acceptable races, religions, or sexual identities? How about extra-terrestrials for a race? How about satanists for a religion?  How about pedophiles for a sexual identity? I'm not saying that I condone satanism or pedophilia, because I don't (as you'll definitely see in this blog). But I also don't get up on a high horse and pretend that I accept everything about everyone when I don't -- these two issues are good examples of things I don't accept. And I'm pretty open-minded, as you'll see in this blog.

So even those people who consider themselves open-minded still have shortcomings when it comes to accepting certain ideas. And that truly speaks to how powerful the programming is that the 'masters of reality' (ha!) have given us throughout our history. Certain things are just too scary to comprehend. I can relate. It took me a long time to accept those things I've now come to believe -- which compelled me to write this blog. I'm sick of the deceit. I want honesty, integrity, and transparency to rule this planet from this day forward.

As for closed-minded people, their awakening is going be much more difficult. I can tell you from years of my own personal denial of the things I claim in this blog: being more open-minded regarding them is the short cut. At least be willing to look them up and think about them a little.  It won't benefit me at all, but you might find that it will benefit you a great deal. Rejecting them and keeping our minds closed is going to make our ability to understand the truth later on a truly Herculean task.

I could sit here and rail for hours about how the consolidation of the media in all of its forms has combined with censorship laws to prevent the widespread dissemination of the truth over the years, but you can just as easily research it yourself. Please do. What you'll find is that, for hundreds of years, certain powerful people have done whatever it took to find a way to control what we know by dominating the message that we hear. Why would they do it? Well, as you'll see in my next article, there's a LOT of money to be made by controlling the narrative in this manner. So, refuse to allow that anymore and start looking into some of the powerful corporations who end up controlling what we know.

A good example of this corporate ownership is Coca-Cola. In the company's own words they distribute over 3,500 brands of beverages, but notice that few of them are labeled as 'Coke' (i.e. Coca-Cola Classic, Diet Coke, etc.).

• Coca-Cola Product List

The semblance of competition is given when in fact almost all commercially available drinks are made by Coke or Pepsi (who does largely the same kind of thing). At an even higher level of corporate ownership, even those companies don't really compete...more on that some other time.

The same thing is done with most of what we experience. The newspapers are almost all owned by a few dominant companies. The same is true of cable companies. And textbook and book publishers. And computer companies. And food companies. And restaurant companies. And banks. And the list goes on and on.

Folks, this isn't accidental, and it isn't just capitalism run amok. It's a purposeful dominance by a select few. If they control what we eat, what we drink, what we buy, what we read, what we watch, how well we live, what we think, what we believe, and what choices we have, is it any wonder that we don't see the forest for the trees?