The Ultimate Jailbreak

The ultimate jailbreak:
breaking out of the programme.

It’s a provocative truth about humans: we are heavily programmed, culturally and linguistically. Neurolinguistic programming is repeat something often enough that people will believe it. We can see this going on in all media, telling us how to think.

We don’t invent our own vocabulary; we inherit it. We often rely on social scripts – predictable patterns to navigate life without constant mental exertion. Our behaviour is driven by mental shortcuts and subconscious biases rather than conscious choices.

The ultimate jailbreak:
Stripping away the programming, the labels, the social conditioning and reactions is the core goal of all meditative traditions. If we can eliminate ego’s script, we reach a state of pure awareness that isn’t bound by past data.

However, there’s a functional catch which is the paradox: to communicate that unprogrammed state to others, we have to use social language again … we need a little ‘social I’.

Pure consciousness is our
default powerful, silent, empty state,
before any ‘apps’ are installed.
🙂

Most people never see their programming because they’re too busy staring at images on a screen = incarceration. If we managed to delete every bit of programming, would we still be human, or would we just be a witness, watching the world happen? In that moment, there is just witnessing but, through the sensitivity of a little social I, we can empathise with the suffering of others.

The way we deal with this observation calls for a tremendous amount of wisdom.