I was surfing the web as is my usual practice of a Saturday night before I go out partying and I came across a very interesting website dealing with the topic of Memes.

Basically, a meme is the fundamental unit of idea and related to the gene. According to the site I shall mention below, memes are ideas that replicate themselves in willing hosts. An example of a meme would be "Coke adds life" or "You create your own reality". The only animals besides humans that have memes are birds of which some species will imitate each other's bird calls for a mating ritual.

Some memes are useful, like :"Drugs are bad akay?" and others can be dangerous like :"Love thy neighbour but don't get caught"

Memes are contagious.

One way of innoculating oneself against them is to develop a meta-meme. A meta meme is a meme that recognises other memes. An example of a metameme is skepticism. It innoculates one against any old meme that comes along and forces one to be verrrry careful what one is going to swallow and accept and allow to reproduce in ones mind/soul. One can be infected by a metameme which cures one of lots of "bad" memes. Sometimes being infected with a metameme is quite painful bee coz it means that all the memes that one has acquired along the way and are so much bewl shite have to be tossed overboard. A bit like having to get the phlegm up after the bronchiolitis is over - or even better having to squeeze the boil of its badness. But once the bad memes are gone, life is a lot easier.

Memes reproduce very quickly - so innoculate yourself. Be skeptical. And don't let any entity cause you to get soul-itis.

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Robert in South Africa (I think).

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2424/memetics.html
Otherwise just look up meme or memetics on a searched engine.

Bye!!

Wow, great post!

This is the kind of information that really helps those who choose to ponder the concept of how someone can be mind controlled and manipulated into a false or damaging belief system.

So many have just a knee-jerk response when presented with such a possibility, that "it could never happen to me" reaction.

The Lazaris material is chock full of memes, and they are not only implanted through repetition, but through the use of hypnotic suggestion.

Some agree, and find that to be just fine since they also have been implanted with the meme that they are so much better of for having been exposed to the materials.

Some disagree that there has been any process of suggestion, and don't even recognize how susceptible the human mind is to such a concept.

I think it serves us all very very well to carefully ponder the sources of our beliefs.

What's amazing to me is that there is not one shred of evidence that the Lazaris memes are true or beneficial, but that is covered by the "negative-ego" meme. "If I don't get it, it's because I'm in negative-ego".

The memes that keep us hooked and blinde are the "We love you forever and a day" and "you are map-makers, powerful and majestic magicians".

These memes tap into our human need to be loved and our desire to be "the best".

I notice that even here, the "love meme" is powerful medicine. Mindless, ridiculous, even foul thinking is successfully passed off
with the sign off "Love" or "Love and Peace". That's why I love Lava and Peas so much, they are too funny to function as memes.

What's sad about these hollow memes is that they serve no purpose other than to keep us hooked on something not only valueless but damaging.

I believe that nemes are powerful on a physical and unconscious level. Our human mind is susceptible to them, but our souls are not, so it's imperative to learn to communicate with our souls and allow them to evaluate the information which we receive.
Our souls will tell us the truth.

I suggest that most spiritual and religious dogma is very much geared to keep our souls bound and gagged. The truthful voice of the soul is the complete enemy of man made systems that are of their essence geared to
divert our thinking to a belief in some man made philosophy.

Dogma is control. It is a way for a group of people to feel "right", not be right. Soulful thought and experience is always a challenge to dogma, and that is why it is strategically discouraged.

I'm still pondering why it is so mind shatteringly important for most humans to have our beliefs validated by others.

I know this is an issue for me, I have to constantly review my reactions in the face of disagreement. I'm learning, and practicing shutting down that part of me that feels attacked in the face of disagreement. It's a process, but a very joyful and comforting one. I believe it will add quality years to my life, when I think of the huge amount of stress it causes to be constantly concerned with whether or not anyone agrees with me.

I think there are times when agreement is really important, such as when a society makes agreements about certain behaviors like murder, rape, or extortion being unacceptable.

Maybe it's a security issue. Our agreement on vital behaviors like this provides us with a certain sense of being protected from them, because we know that just about everyone will stick up for our right to not have them imposed on us.

Maybe our desire for security has gotten completely out of control to the point that
we can't differentiate between threatening behavior and free expression.

Possibly the very same function which serves to protect us, when ignored or overlooked also serves to ensare us.

Well, you sure sent me on a stream of consciousness, but that's a good thing!

It is all about consciousness isn't it, this spiritual quest? Ultimately, I believe that our degree of true security is relative to our degree of consciousness.

Memes are sure one little trick of consciousness that can either serve us, or enslave us.

It's very good therefore to be aware of what they are and how they function.

Thank you for providing us with one more key to our consciousness.

Now, what do we do with those little sparks of light once we have coughed them up?

Is there a nasty memes waste dump where we can get these things buried once and forever?

Interesting too, that the word "meme" can be separated to read "me me".

Katie