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"True renunciation is not giving up worldly things. It is giving up ideas. They are the bars
 
"True renunciation is not giving up worldly things. It is giving up ideas. They are the bars
on your prison." <ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume Two'', Chapter 13: Religion as Mystery</ref>
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on your prison." <ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 2, Chapter 13: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-2/religion-as-mystery Religion as Mystery]</ref>
  
 
[[File:Eagle-soars.jpg|right|WV2: Honesty]]
 
[[File:Eagle-soars.jpg|right|WV2: Honesty]]
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==Bondage==
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“What is worth protecting if it denies you your freedom? What is worth having if it binds you and bonds you to the past? Who is worth being with if all that they can do is remind you that you are weak and pathetic and unable to follow what you know? These are all valid questions. The impediments to freedom are still greatly valued, and freedom is looked at with anxiety and uncertainty. Your prison cell door is open and has been all along. But are you willing to venture out of the seeming security of your bondage?” <ref>''Steps To Knowledge Continuation Training'', Step 46</ref>
  
 
==The Body as Prison==
 
==The Body as Prison==
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vehicle because it will seem to trap you and you will feel imprisoned,
 
vehicle because it will seem to trap you and you will feel imprisoned,
 
bound and limited by it."
 
bound and limited by it."
<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 31: Healing</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 31: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/healing Healing]</ref>
  
 
"People only love their bodies when they serve a higher purpose.To
 
"People only love their bodies when they serve a higher purpose.To
 
love your body for any other reason is simply to use it for selfish reasons,
 
love your body for any other reason is simply to use it for selfish reasons,
 
which will breed resentment.Your body must enable you to extend your
 
which will breed resentment.Your body must enable you to extend your
sense of relationship in life. If it does not do this, it is a prison."<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 6: Health</ref>
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sense of relationship in life. If it does not do this, it is a prison."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 6: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/health Health] </ref>
  
 
"If you do not know your purpose or your greater reality, then you will think of your body as a prison and you will exercise your self-abuse by misusing your body. It will then become an image of your self-neglect or self-abuse." <ref>''[[Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training]]'', Step 50</ref>
 
"If you do not know your purpose or your greater reality, then you will think of your body as a prison and you will exercise your self-abuse by misusing your body. It will then become an image of your self-neglect or self-abuse." <ref>''[[Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training]]'', Step 50</ref>
 
==The Prison of the Mind==
 
 
"What keeps people from being free is not their external circumstances. It is their
 
own mind and their own thoughts.They are prisoners to their thoughts."<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 20: Inner Listening</ref>
 
 
"When people are dominated by their thoughts, beliefs and attitudes, when these represent the prison bars that
 
prevent their free access to life, they often want to do away with it all. They do not want to think of the future, and they do
 
not want to think of the past. They say, 'Well, the past is over and the future doesn’t exist. There is only now.'" <ref name="ltw11">''[[Living The Way of Knowledge]]'', Chapter 11: Preparing for the Future</ref>
 
 
"Without a greater
 
authority in your life, this is what the mind will do. It will calcify and become hard and brittle. It will
 
become impenetrable and impermeable, something that defends its point of view without any regard to
 
reality or to changes in circumstances. This imperils you and imprisons you. This denies you and
 
isolates you. This prevents you from having access to others and learning from them. This denies your
 
gift and your ability to receive the gifts of others." <ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 13: What must be unlearned? </ref>
 
 
"Most of the miseries
 
that confound and imprison the human mind are escaped as one advances in The Way of Knowledge,
 
but not all suffering is escaped. Life continues to be difficult and problematic. Your body has its aches
 
and pains. Your mind has its problems and troubling thoughts, feelings and experience, but they do not
 
dominate your attention now, and as you advance they cannot hold you back or limit your experience." <ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 19: What is Religion?</ref>
 
 
"If you attempt to make others conform to your ideas, you will attempt to
 
imprison them, and you will be a prisoner along with them."<ref>''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship</ref>
 
  
 
==Imprisoned in Individuality==
 
==Imprisoned in Individuality==
  
 
"You are taking
 
"You are taking
a great journey from being imprisoned in your individuality to using it to express a Greater Reality."<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume Two'', Chapter 33: Perseverance</ref>
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a great journey from being imprisoned in your individuality to using it to express a Greater Reality."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 2, Chapter 33: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-2/perseverance-give-yourself Perseverance]</ref>
  
 
"For what value is there in individuality except in the fact that you have individual gifts to give? Beyond this,
 
"For what value is there in individuality except in the fact that you have individual gifts to give? Beyond this,
individuality becomes your personal prison cell, a place where you can live but cannot escape." <ref name="ltw11"/>
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individuality becomes your personal prison cell, a place where you can live but cannot escape."<ref name="ltw11">''Living The Way of Knowledge'', Chapter 11: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-3/living-way-knowledge/preparing-for-the-future Preparing for the Future]</ref>
  
 
==The Doorway Out==
 
==The Doorway Out==
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"You cannot stay in the room of unforgiveness and make it better, but you can leave the room."<ref name="wbi23">''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 23: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/forgiveness Forgiveness]</ref>
  
 
"People ask,'How can I rid myself of these terrible
 
"People ask,'How can I rid myself of these terrible
judgments? I see I have these judgments.They are binding me, imprisoning
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judgments? I see I have these judgments. They are binding me, imprisoning
me, weighing upon me.They torment me. How can I get rid of
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me, weighing upon me. They torment me. How can I get rid of
 
them?' Well, you cannot get rid of them where you are, but you can do
 
them?' Well, you cannot get rid of them where you are, but you can do
 
something else in life where they are not necessary, and then they begin to
 
something else in life where they are not necessary, and then they begin to
 
evaporate. God has a Plan and how the Plan works is that it gives you
 
evaporate. God has a Plan and how the Plan works is that it gives you
something meaningful to do in life."<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 23: Forgiveness</ref>
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something meaningful to do in life."<ref name="wbi23"/>
 
 
[[File:Prison cell.jpg|right]]
 
  
 
"The door to your prison cell is open. You can push it open at any time. You
 
"The door to your prison cell is open. You can push it open at any time. You
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greater life—a life that is not in keeping with your past and that will bring you out of the confinement
 
greater life—a life that is not in keeping with your past and that will bring you out of the confinement
 
of living within your personal mind. As a result of this escape, even your personal mind will be
 
of living within your personal mind. As a result of this escape, even your personal mind will be
refreshed, renewed and restored, for your personal mind’s greater purpose is to serve Knowledge."<ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 25: What is Grace?</ref>
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refreshed, renewed and restored, for your personal mind’s greater purpose is to serve Knowledge."<ref>''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 25: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/what-is-grace What is Grace?]</ref>
  
 
"In the state of interdependence, you are able to give and receive in a truly
 
"In the state of interdependence, you are able to give and receive in a truly
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of independence. Without this, your independence will only isolate you further and further within your
 
of independence. Without this, your independence will only isolate you further and further within your
 
own mind and your own thoughts. It will become a great prison house from which the possibility of
 
own mind and your own thoughts. It will become a great prison house from which the possibility of
escape will seem increasingly difficult and remote." <ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 22: Where can Knowledge be found?</ref>
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escape will seem increasingly difficult and remote." <ref>''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 22: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/where-can-knowledge-be-found Where can Knowledge be found?]</ref>
  
 
"The answer to your prayers is a preparation, a way out, a ladder with steps. Your Spiritual Family must get you out
 
"The answer to your prayers is a preparation, a way out, a ladder with steps. Your Spiritual Family must get you out
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the communication can come in. They must bring you out of the prison of your own thoughts and conditioning and back
 
the communication can come in. They must bring you out of the prison of your own thoughts and conditioning and back
 
into life as it is. Then the mind reorients itself and becomes reassociated with life. It then re-establishes a genuine hierarchy
 
into life as it is. Then the mind reorients itself and becomes reassociated with life. It then re-establishes a genuine hierarchy
in its relationship with the Spirit and with the body."<ref>''[[Living The Way of Knowledge]]'', Chapter 5: The Pillar of Work</ref>
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in its relationship with the Spirit and with the body."<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-3/living-way-knowledge ''Living The Way of Knowledge''], Chapter 5: The Pillar of Work</ref>
  
 
"Because you were meant to serve the world, the world calls it out of you. But you must be in a
 
"Because you were meant to serve the world, the world calls it out of you. But you must be in a
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do it. You do not have the self-trust to do it. You may feel it and it may shake you to the soul,
 
do it. You do not have the self-trust to do it. You may feel it and it may shake you to the soul,
 
but you are imprisoned in a life that you have allowed to be built up around you or that you have
 
but you are imprisoned in a life that you have allowed to be built up around you or that you have
actively established yourself."<ref>The New Message on Fulfillment (August 24, 2007)</ref>
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actively established yourself."<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/fulfillment-purpose-mission-god New Message on Fulfillment] (August 24, 2007)</ref>
  
 
[[File:Prison bars.jpg|left]]
 
[[File:Prison bars.jpg|left]]
  
=="Prison Planet" Deception==
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== The Risk of Imprisonment ==
 
 
"Being in the world is not simply being in a prison from which you must find an escape. You
 
will not be in the world very long, so your escape is guaranteed. You are not sent here forever. You
 
have come from someplace and are returning to someplace very different from the world. So, your
 
escape is guaranteed. But can you have a sense of your Ancient Home while you are here?" <ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume Two'', Chapter 22: Money</ref>
 
 
 
"When you are with Knowledge, you are here to
 
serve the world. The world, then, is not a prison anymore. It
 
is not a continual source of discomfort and disappointment. It
 
provides for you an opportunity to give and an opportunity
 
to re-establish your true understanding. Do not seek refuge in
 
spiritual things, for your purpose is to give to the world. Allow
 
the world to be as it is, and your condemnation of it will not
 
come back to haunt you." <ref>''[[Steps to Knowledge]]'', Step 118: I will not avoid the world today.</ref>
 
 
 
"Do not resist the world, for you are from beyond the
 
world. The world is no longer a prison for you but the place for
 
you to contribute. To whatever extent you have not been able
 
to adjust to the world in the past and to whatever extent being
 
in the world has been difficult for you, you are now looking at
 
the world in a new way. You have sought the world to replace
 
Knowledge, and now you are realizing Knowledge is being
 
given to you from your Source. Thus, the world is no longer
 
being used as a substitute for Knowledge and the world can now
 
become a canvas upon which you can express the potency of
 
Knowledge. Thus, the world becomes what it rightfully is in
 
your life. For this reason you do not need to resist the world
 
today."<ref>''[[Steps to Knowledge]]'', Step 302: I will not resist the world today.</ref>
 
 
 
''see'' [[Intervention deceptions]]
 
 
 
==The Risk of Imprisonment==
 
  
 
"For once you lose your integrity and your
 
"For once you lose your integrity and your
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prisoner in your own world. You do not want to become a prisoner
 
prisoner in your own world. You do not want to become a prisoner
 
in your own mind. You do not want to become a prisoner
 
in your own mind. You do not want to become a prisoner
to anyone or anything else."<ref>''[[The Allies of Humanity]] Book Two'', Second Commentary: The Effects of the Pacification Program</ref>
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to anyone or anything else."<ref>''The Allies of Humanity'' Book Two, Second Commentary: [https://www.alliesofhumanity.org/the-briefings/book-two/effects-of-the-pacification-program-second-commentary/ Effects of the Pacification Program]</ref>
  
 
"Do you wish to give over the authority of
 
"Do you wish to give over the authority of
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peace and equanimity in the world? There is peace in the prison
 
peace and equanimity in the world? There is peace in the prison
 
because everyone is controlled. But is this really peace? Or is
 
because everyone is controlled. But is this really peace? Or is
this simply the restraint of war?"<ref>''[[The Allies of Humanity]] Book Two'', Third Commentary: Understanding the Intervention</ref>
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this simply the restraint of war?"<ref>''The Allies of Humanity'' Book Two, Third Commentary: [https://www.alliesofhumanity.org/the-briefings/book-two/understanding-the-intervention-third-commentary/ Understanding the Intervention]</ref>
  
==Further Study==
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==References==
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<references/>
  
[http://www.newmessage.org/greater-community-spirituality-chapter-13-must-unlearned-2 What Must Be Unlearned?]
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==See also==
  
Healing Relationships, [http://newknowledgelibrary.org/products/Healing-Relationships.html  available on CD from New Knowledge Library]
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[[Metaphors for the mind]]
  
==References==
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[["Prison planet"]]
<references/>
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==Further study==
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*''The Journey to a New Life'', Chapter 3:  [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/journey-new-life/prison-escape-your-mind The Prison]
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*''Greater Community Spirituality'',  Chapter 13: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/what-must-be-unlearned What Must Be Unlearned?]
  
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*''Love and Relationships'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/healing-relationships-past Healing Relationships]
 
[[category:mental environment]]
 
[[category:mental environment]]
 
[[category:the Greater Community]]
 

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"True renunciation is not giving up worldly things. It is giving up ideas. They are the bars on your prison." [1]

WV2: Honesty

Bondage

“What is worth protecting if it denies you your freedom? What is worth having if it binds you and bonds you to the past? Who is worth being with if all that they can do is remind you that you are weak and pathetic and unable to follow what you know? These are all valid questions. The impediments to freedom are still greatly valued, and freedom is looked at with anxiety and uncertainty. Your prison cell door is open and has been all along. But are you willing to venture out of the seeming security of your bondage?” [2]

The Body as Prison

"If you think that your vehicle is your self, you will hate the vehicle because it will seem to trap you and you will feel imprisoned, bound and limited by it." [3]

"People only love their bodies when they serve a higher purpose.To love your body for any other reason is simply to use it for selfish reasons, which will breed resentment.Your body must enable you to extend your sense of relationship in life. If it does not do this, it is a prison."[4]

"If you do not know your purpose or your greater reality, then you will think of your body as a prison and you will exercise your self-abuse by misusing your body. It will then become an image of your self-neglect or self-abuse." [5]

Imprisoned in Individuality

"You are taking a great journey from being imprisoned in your individuality to using it to express a Greater Reality."[6]

"For what value is there in individuality except in the fact that you have individual gifts to give? Beyond this, individuality becomes your personal prison cell, a place where you can live but cannot escape."[7]

The Doorway Out

"You cannot stay in the room of unforgiveness and make it better, but you can leave the room."[8]

"People ask,'How can I rid myself of these terrible judgments? I see I have these judgments. They are binding me, imprisoning me, weighing upon me. They torment me. How can I get rid of them?' Well, you cannot get rid of them where you are, but you can do something else in life where they are not necessary, and then they begin to evaporate. God has a Plan and how the Plan works is that it gives you something meaningful to do in life."[8]

"The door to your prison cell is open. You can push it open at any time. You can walk out into the light of day. For this to happen, however, you must be willing to have a different experience of yourself and a different determination within you. You must be open and desiring of a greater life—a life that is not in keeping with your past and that will bring you out of the confinement of living within your personal mind. As a result of this escape, even your personal mind will be refreshed, renewed and restored, for your personal mind’s greater purpose is to serve Knowledge."[9]

"In the state of interdependence, you are able to give and receive in a truly meaningful way. Here devotion is possible because from a position of responsible decision making, you can give your life to something. Gaining the ability to do this represents the real value and purpose of independence. Without this, your independence will only isolate you further and further within your own mind and your own thoughts. It will become a great prison house from which the possibility of escape will seem increasingly difficult and remote." [10]

"The answer to your prayers is a preparation, a way out, a ladder with steps. Your Spiritual Family must get you out of the hole of your own thinking. They must open the doors to your mind and open the windows so you can see out and so the communication can come in. They must bring you out of the prison of your own thoughts and conditioning and back into life as it is. Then the mind reorients itself and becomes reassociated with life. It then re-establishes a genuine hierarchy in its relationship with the Spirit and with the body."[11]

"Because you were meant to serve the world, the world calls it out of you. But you must be in a position to respond. If your life is completely caught up in what you have created for yourself, you are bound by circumstances and obligations and expectations and relationships. If your life is in disarray. If the Four Pillars of your life have never been built or established, you cannot respond to a greater calling. You do not have the power to do it. You do not have the freedom to do it. You do not have the self-trust to do it. You may feel it and it may shake you to the soul, but you are imprisoned in a life that you have allowed to be built up around you or that you have actively established yourself."[12]

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The Risk of Imprisonment

"For once you lose your integrity and your freedom, it is very difficult to regain them. Very difficult. Even when people have sacrificed their integrity for relationships or for money or for advantage, even under these more normal circumstances, it is very difficult to regain it. You have to mount tremendous effort and take risks. It is easier, then, to stay out of trouble than it is to get out. You do not want to become a prisoner in your own world. You do not want to become a prisoner in your own mind. You do not want to become a prisoner to anyone or anything else."[13]

"Do you wish to give over the authority of your life and have your life and circumstances completely controlled for a mere promise of greater technology or a promise of peace and equanimity in the world? There is peace in the prison because everyone is controlled. But is this really peace? Or is this simply the restraint of war?"[14]

References

  1. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 13: Religion as Mystery
  2. Steps To Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 46
  3. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 31: Healing
  4. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 6: Health
  5. Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 50
  6. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 33: Perseverance
  7. Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 11: Preparing for the Future
  8. 8.0 8.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 23: Forgiveness
  9. Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 25: What is Grace?
  10. Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 22: Where can Knowledge be found?
  11. Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 5: The Pillar of Work
  12. New Message on Fulfillment (August 24, 2007)
  13. The Allies of Humanity Book Two, Second Commentary: Effects of the Pacification Program
  14. The Allies of Humanity Book Two, Third Commentary: Understanding the Intervention

See also

Metaphors for the mind

"Prison planet"

Further study