[doodah]

Burgundia -- I remember my own resistance to awakening. Several years ago when I asked a more-awakened friend why it was so difficult to get our government to tell us what pesticides were used on our food, she said to me: "It's the Illuminati. They're trying to kill us all."

I remember completely backing away from that statement, not knowing how to respond to her. She sounded so sure and it sounded so improbable.

I realized later that there are many such statements that people will back away from. For instance, that petroleum is the most poisonous substance on this planet. Or that millions of dollars in illegal drug money supports black ops projects in the US.

When people back away, they have hit a wall in their own minds. I now believe that that wall is "conditioning" or "brainwashing." We find it very difficult to think beyond that wall. Using my two examples above, to believe that petroleum is poisonous requires that you believe you have been lied to; to believe that drug money supports black ops requires that you believe that you have been lied to. And then you have to do a ton of research to "prove" it to yourself.

People do not want to believe that they have been lied to. Suddenly realizing you have been lied to makes most people furious -- and then there is no outlet for that fury.

Awakening can in some ways be very discouraging until people realize that they have personal power. They can fight their own individual fight against the big system in as many ways as they can find to do that. In some cases it's as simple as a refusal to cooperate -- growing your own food, for instance, or only buying local organic food; or buying a bicycle, or changing jobs.

As Metamike said, it's a tiresome job to pull a third density consciousness out of the matrix. Really it's like de-programming.