The NSA, Security, Boundaries and
Neoscience
By Marlin Knecht
It is not a surprising revelation that
the NSA has developed strategies to thwart encryption codes. But the
fact that the articles across the
NYT,
The Guardian, and
Propublica
point to the fact that the government likely has agents in internet, security
and encryption companies - in Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook with
the intent of placing "backdoors" in proprietary encryption
systems is more than disturbing.
It speaks to the lack of check and
balance systems in place, and the invasiveness of these systems. It's
fair to assume that almost nothing published is private, including
personal facts, company proprietary data, and nation-states secrets
this has huge ramifications for intellectual property law, the
exploitation of trade secrets and national security in unexpected
ways. There are almost endless examples of how such a system could be
abused and history is replete with examples where even lesser
knowledge has been abused in the past. We stand in a world that in
the last 3 decades has seen numerous instances of genocide simply
because of someones race or ethnic background. The obvious problem is that even identity can be condemning in these situations which clearly fly's in the face of existential rights.
This said, to me the problem is not
specifically the lack of privacy, it is the people that have access
to the information and what they can and probably will do with it.
The fact that this information was published across three
publications, with preemptive explanation is a statement in itself.
This said, information is available in the collective consciousness
of humanity. The real issue is a lack of check and balance, due
process and protection for individual and species wide rights. But
discerning this issue is a challenge, so I am taking a few minutes to
try and put it in context and where the real issues and dangers lie.
We Already Have Access to Almost all Information ...
I have known and experienced as have
many other people, that information is not limited to the boundaries
of the silicon chip, or protected databases, or encrypted communications rather information is
available to those that have access to universal mind and the
collective unconscious as Carl Jung used to call it.
At this level of consciousness
information is not limited by space-time and in fact is predicated on
an understanding that space-time itself is a function of
consciousness not the other way around. This is a new scientific
point of view or
neoscientific viewpoint. A number of theoretical
physicists have come to this conclusion, the first that comes to mind
is the Nobel Prize winning Erwin Schrodinger, of schrodinger's cat
fame, where he outlined this idea in his little book “
What is Life? Mind and Matter” that mind is not limited to brain.
The Boundaries to Universal Access
are Human Made
In fact one of the largest
barriers people have to experiencing the reality of universal mind is
the pride – embarrassment duality or the many activities we do to
develop a false self or build the ego. The reality is, to access
universal mind one has to have worked through a number of issues to
get there in consciousness even using advanced spiritual or
neoscientific practices.
And I need to say the appropriate use of these practices is about
drawing nigh unto God as opposed to achieving access – as Lao Tzu
put it in the Tao Te Ching, “He who grasps misses.” (chapter 64)
For those that have flattened their consciousness to the point where
access is available most of the time, this is a day to day experience
and walk. The Bible talks about Moses who walked an talked with God
regularly - "Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone
else on the face of the earth." (NIV Numbers 12:3).
As people self-evolve and grow they
gain deeper access to themselves and finally non-spatial-temporal
information. Why do I bring this up? Because we live in a world where
at some levels almost all can be seen. Hebrews talks about the “great
cloud of witnesses” in chapter 12. On another level however people
are pushed and pulled by the very intents and issues that take them
out of, and block them from the natural and restful state required to
live in this place. In fact most of contemporary trade and commerce
is often conducted on what someone doesn't know about the cost of
something, access to something, how to do something in terms of
inventions and technology.
This activity is the anvil upon which
people learn and work out the issues of their soul, which if the
truth be known is the real reason most of us are here.
Access is Predicated on Intent and State of Being
Here is where the line gets interesting
and I think there is an almost too obvious natural example to explain
what we should do with privacy and access. For those that live in a
place where they are working through issues, boundaries are more than
appropriate so access is not abused. In fact from a natural
development standpoint people that are working through issues don't
generally have access to that level of consciousness and are so
isolated from it, so entwined, so indelibly inurred in it that they scarcely believe it
exists. A scene from the
movie the
Matrix alludes to this.
Imagine if someone could gain money,
wealth and power by knowing a future stock price through access to
universal mind. The reality is this access would be hard if not
impossible to gain with those intents because they are far too
invested in the spatial-temporal world and the belief that the
spatial-temporal world is the whole of reality. In relationship to this Propublica uses a very similar example presented as science fiction in why they published what they did (
read it here).
In other words a more conscious person
would not hold those intents in their heart, they don't view the
world the same way and those individuals would not violate boundaries
to gain control, access or power because they have long sense learned
that these acquisitions and attachments are soul binding - not soul freeing and provide only illusory gratifications.
The Necessity of Check and Balance
Systems
For those that would abuse the
privilege of access: check and balance systems, due process and
systems of transparency need to be in place. At this level the level
of awareness and connectedness is predicated on the degree to which
an individual self-selects their state of isolation or connectedness.
Working out of that state requires deep inter-personal work and self-intimacy; when
people begin to experience access as a natural consequence of their
state of being then check and balance systems can and do drop away, they get a little more of a view behind the veil.
Until then it is a much safer world for the individual, the
organization and the nation-state to have check and balance systems
in place.
A New Set of Check and Balance Systems is Called For
A new set of check and balance systems are required to ensure an environment on a global scale where individuals enjoy the freedoms and liberties to learn, grow and achieve a deeper level where they no longer need this system. Environments of fear, totalitarianism control and ubiquitous monitoring without due process and public awareness are extremely destructive to the creative process and the spatial temporal mechanisms that allow many of us on the journey to realize a higher level of being, one where those systems are no longer required.
