What is real power in the consumer Matrix?

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As some of you know this week I had to move from the rented home in Sydney that I share with my partner and our cocker spaniels, ‘the kids.’   I wasn’t able to do the Q and A or the audio blog for last week.  If you have been listening are reading you will know that we completed over some weeks ago a series of audios and a series of articles about agents and agency, about estates and trusts.  I know there are still a number of unanswered questions that we do need to go through and we will be going through in coming weeks.

I’m also aware as people are trying to make sense by coming and reading that the quality and the ease of access of the material on Ucadia continues to be improved and needs to be improved.  These are the things that will be touch points in coming weeks.  I also realize that when you listen to those audios there is a great amount of technical information.  For many who come to Ucadia for the first time with possibly limited information and limited time available, there is a huge amount to absorb.  

Two weeks ago we did the audio and blog concerning 2015 as the earliest possible date that we may see when a natural cycle occurs, one that hasn’t occurred at any point in the civilized history of our species.  That is the natural shifting of the crust of the earth by a few degrees.  In that process the path of the equator and the position of the North and South Geographic Poles change.  

Tonight I wanted to share the audio about what is real power and what is real knowledge?  In the process of moving and packing boxes, and having to downsize, all those processes, it gave me a chance in my own life to reflect on what is important and really, what is real power?   We have spoken many times and people have asked me or made this point that it’s great to be talking about the different laws and history of law, but what if the clerk doesn’t follow their own laws?   What happens then?  It’s fine to talk about trusts and estates, but what if a lawyer has no idea or clue about estates.  Or the sheriff or police officer has no interest in whether you are conducting official business or not.   Or, what about the faceless computerized system that is happy to spit out endless pieces of paper to tell you that you have lost this privilege, you have lost that privilege, and they treat you as a number and as something to be discarded or to be monetized if you have no use.

Where is the enforcement and power there?   These are fair questions.  I know because people are searching for real solutions and real power.  And they are searching for what they can get their hands around as real knowledge.   There is this kind of waxing and waning of those who come to the truth movement who are trying to find out who has ‘the answer.’   Who has that magic bullet?  People are facing losing their homes and they don’t want a history lesson or a journey of the esoteric.  They want real knowledge.  They want real answers.  If someone is being disenfranchised from their rights with their children, they want to know how they can access and how they can overcome.  If someone is facing prison for some charge they want to know how they deal with that and how they find an answer for that.

What is real power?

When we do share as we have in the last few months, the history concerning estates, trusts and agents, there a fair number who say, “that is all great, but where is the practicality in this consumer, automated, unthinking world, where is the real power, Frank?”  That is the topic for tonight.   What is real power?  What is it?

There are people, and I know that listen have seen or experienced it as I have at a point in my life, where what you have in your possession is literally what you can carry.   If you have ever experienced going to prison, then you know exactly what that means.  You are reduced down to what you possess and it is literally what you can carry.  Even in America in such an incredibly wealthy country; and in Australia in an incredibly wealth nation; in Canada and all around the world, there are people living in industrialized countries that have nothing, absolutely nothing but the clothes on their backs and a few possessions.    

Then, throughout the world in India, Africa and many parts of Asia there are hundreds of millions of people that what they possess as personal possessions they can carry on their shoulders and on their backs.  It is incredible that I went through this process this last as to how much ‘stuff’ we accumulate.   There are so many things that we collect even in a couple of years.  The question is:  “How important are they, really?”  Do you really need that book?  Do you really need that phone, DVD, box, any of those things.  Do you really need 3 jackets or do you only need 2?   Or maybe 1 jacket?  

We live at the penultimate age of the superficial, the ultimate age of the micromarketing where we are all considered to be consumers, to be consumed and to consume.  Everything is for sale, everything has a price and everything is a product.  In fact that is a large part about what we have said about the system.   This is the system that treats us as products, monetizes us and moves us around their chessboards as products and sees this as no problem because everything is now part of this consumer model, this consumer world. 

The net result of living in the consumer world is that you accumulate stuff.  That is why people in first world countries throw away huge amounts of food.  Huge amounts of food get thrown away because the ‘use by date’ has passed.  Maybe they buy twice as much because it was on special.  They only need one and they buy two.   Landfills are full of once perfectly good produce that was left to rot in someone’s refrigerator because they couldn’t get around to eating it all and they couldn’t consume it all. Do we really all that food and do we really need all those things?  Do we need all that stuff?

How much of our worry and our pain isn’t because people are stabbing us, or that we have to pull out a sword and defend our homes against Viking raiders, but how much of our worry is around the threat of losing stuff?  I realize a home is a home; the home is our castle, our sanctuary.  I realize and certainly appreciate that having to have to move again.  Just for a few months of tranquility, sanctuary and safety.  I can empathize with that.

But, at the end of the day, a home is just stuff, as much as books, seats, tables, computers and everything else.   So is a car, a television.  How much of our worry is around ‘stuff’ in this consumer world as opposed to relations, our families, our friends, and those that rely on us?  When you are so connected to stuff, addicted to stuff, then the consumer world has a pressure point, a very easy pressure point.  It can threaten to take that away from you or fine you.   It can deprive you of stuff.  Isn’t that what we are talking about when we are talking about drivers’ licenses and other forms of identity, as well as other privileges?    

It’s all about threatening to take ‘stuff’ away from you because you are not following the rules of the consumer world.   It’s the Uniform Commercial Code world.  If we are addicted to “stuff,” if we cannot give it up, then that is the ultimate weakness.  There is really no cure, no peace if we find ourselves addicted.  It is an addiction.  People worry about drugs, alcohol, sugar and salt.   But the ultimate addiction of the consumer world is consumerism.  The addiction to stuff, consuming, accumulating is the ultimate addiction and far worse that cigarettes.  It is indoctrinated into us from an early age.   And, it is absolutely their most powerful weapon.  

Look how many people claim that they are stepping outside of the system, only to replicate the very worst things.  How many groups have come along to say that we are here to change but really at the end of the day they are building another bank, building another way of consuming?  I’m not saying that owning things is bad.  I’m not saying that having things is bad by any means.  But, the addiction is having to buy things twice because you save $2.  Even, with limited funds, having to keep things, and even if we are struggling to stay alive to keep things to the last vestiges of this consumer addiction.

If we are trying to find answers to our legal problems, to our emotion turmoil, those things that unsettle us in our lives, then what is the real knowledge?  Is there real power?   Does real power have to have a gun?  Does real power have to fight back?      Or, is it something else?  A number of people have said in the past and I have quoted them and in the process I have sometimes been misquoted, but the simple proposition is that if one in twenty people would close their bank accounts, if one in fifty people of a population were to close their bank accounts the entire corrupt financial system would collapse.   

Why?  The system depends on us remaining addicted to the system’s image, that we have to be in the game, we have to have that account, we have to consume and we have to be a “player.”   The glass god of consumerism is at its most fragile when we are no longer addicted to having to possess all that stuff.  If worse came to worse we would be happy with what we could carry, or what we could put into our car.  We then have to be able to accept that and survive with that.  Under that consumer apocalyptic model all these marble and glass retail stores selling junk, stuff, crap and all these stores that produce confected, hollow calorie, wasteful food and this entire edifice that is supported and promoted by the banks could not survive.  

Real power is when we have the ability to step back and we say, “You know what, I don’t need those books, and I don’t need to keep all those pieces of paper.”  I am not these pieces of paper. I don’t need 3 chairs, I am happy with 1 chair.  I don’t need 5 coats; I only need 2 or maybe 1 coat.  It’s not saying that having things is bad or that being wealthy is bad—far from it.   One of the things I picked up, talking about keeping things in perspective, an object that for all the things that I have lost and given away keeps coming back.  It is an egg cup and a spoon that was given to my mother when I was born.  It was a christening gift.  I was brought up catholic and it was a gift from my godmother to my mother.   To me it’s a symbol of how lucky I was growing up as a kid when I never had to worry about anything.   

When people struggled and had different times, I had an incredibly lucky childhood.  Sometimes, like many people, I was feeling sorry for myself in the move.  I was feeling very sorry, very sore.  But, when you can look at things and say that you don’t need all those bits and pieces and you don’t need to accumulate you find that you are no longer addicted to the system.  So, when the system says they are going to take something away from you, you don’t have the same reaction.  It’s more like, “Oh, okay.  If you break your rules to make your point, I will without conflict object.  I will make the point and have it recorded that you are in dishonor.   But, you are not going to hurt me by taking stuff away from me because I am no longer addicted to stuff.

When you are no longer an addict to consumerism you take away their greatest weapon.   It is their greatest weapon in this nihilistic world that we live in.  Sure, if you had command of some military unit with guns that would go in there and sort out all these corrupt, mindless troll-like activities that people are doing in the courts and different government agencies.   But all that would do is militarize society more.  It wouldn’t solve anything because violence begets violence.   Passive object is not longer being addicted to the consumer products and letting the tea rot on the wharves, letting the cloth sit out in the rain, letting the bank accounts be closed, letting the shops of glass and marble that produce no value remain empty.

When you step away from consumerism and say that you don’t need all that stuff, that you are not addicted to all that stuff, and what matters to me is are the relationships and the authenticity of my life.  What matters to me is knowledge and making the difference in the lives of people and that I am not a rat in a rat race.  Nor do I see myself as messiah or a guru.  I am my own messiah and my own guru.  But, I am not here to impose my views on others.  

When we can separate ourselves from that addiction, that is where we find the real power.  Are there answers to foreclosures?  Absolutely, there are.   There have been numerous examples where people have caused the courts to pause and caused the system to stop.  Has there been an absolute victory with absolute answers?    In a system that feels that it owns you, I don’t believe that there is any true relieve.  If someone says there is true, complete relief within the system, I don’t believe that they are telling the truth.  I don’t believe they are telling the truth at all.   There is temporary relief and many people have achieved temporary relief.  Some have done this through the  US codes in holding the officials to account, other have done it through the more firm view in terms of the agent’s role and the fact that you are dealing with a corporation that doesn’t do it’s own paperwork properly.  Others have done it through the claiming of land.  

There are a range of different things, such as quit claim titles.  All these are different examples.  There are many examples on the internet and many that we have put up and made available through the University of Ucadia websites.  But, keeping stuff, holding on to stuff a bit longer isn’t necessarily an ultimate win.  It may provide temporary relief.  Real power is not only being able to object, to be respectful, and to be passive without being violent, aggressive or threatening. But to know your rights and who you are and to absolutely and clearly show there is no rule of law    Real power then is when we are no longer addicted to the consumer world. 

You know that most cities now in western countries have a survival of about 3 to 5 days.  After 3 to 5 days if service breaks down there would be absolute chaos.  It used to be in the cities of 100 years ago that survival would have been from 2 to 4 weeks.  Maybe even 6 weeks.  People could survive 4 to 6 weeks in cities before chaos was unleashed and if basic things feel apart.  A couple of hundred years ago cities were still coming out of seize mentality where they could survive for a couple of months if they were under great pressure.  How fragile the world has become under the glass god of consumerism.  

So I find in the move as I am pulling things together and as I am getting back into the work, I find myself doing the same thing in terms of reflecting in what ‘stuff’ is needed.  I look at my life often with what we have been doing and writing and saying, “Is this making a difference?”  I don’t mean that necessarily as who I am or why I am doing this, but is it helping people.  Is it helping me or am I kidding and deluding myself that really what I am doing is just an extension of my own ego?  And, that this is all some great desire to be some kind of guru.  

We all have value.  We all have opinions and if your read Ucadia we say that we are all connected.  We are all part of the divine and no one stands between you and the Absolute.  Certainly not Frank O’Collins.  Your opinions and your rights are absolute.  Now I find myself as I am finishing Yapa and doing other material that I need to check myself.  If people want to go down one path, that is part of their life journey.  I cannot control anyone.  When knowledge is given, knowledge is give freely.  If people want to use it one way, I cannot stop people and it’s not my right to tell people what they can and cannot do in their own lives.  But, I do think that no matter how many times we say it, that we all sometimes need to take that rain check and say, “how much stuff do I really need in my life?   Is my problem not that the system is attacking me, but that I am addicted to the system and I am a consumer addict.  

You walk outside and everyone on different level may have the same problems.   But for my own perspective is that my weak spot when I am dealing with the courts?  You know what?  When we spoke about the Will and Testament and we spoke about the role of the General Executor, I know a number of people didn’t get that when we talk about this role of the mendicant being in the world but not ‘of the world.’  That is exactly what we are talking about.  Being able to live in this world but not to be so addicted to the imaging that the system throws at us that those desperate desires to hold things can be used against us based on what they so often do now.  When a man or woman can stand in front of tyrants without any of those addictions and when a man or woman stand in front of those tyrants and know that they are immortal, that their body is just a vessel and they are not addicted to this crazy world that they have made for us, then that man or woman has real power, particularly if they have knowledge of the law, knowledge of their system and that they have self-discipline and respect.  What a formidable adversary someone in that standing is.  

In the last week I have been reminded again in my own life not to just talk the talk, but to walk the walk.   So, how much ‘stuff’ do I need?  It’s not a very long audio tonight.  I want to thank you who continue to write, to support, to read and to discuss.  Hopefully when we talk on the Q and A this week we can answer your specific questions and learn from each other.  Thanks very much.  Thanks for all those who continue to help and support.  I look forward to speaking and listening to those of you who call on talkshoe this week.  Thank you and good night.