Mind Mastery

What is the act of surrender?

To relinquish possession or control of (something) to another because of demand or compulsion: synonym: relinquish.

1. To give up in favor of another, especially voluntarily.

2. To give up or abandon.

Now, why would surrender ever be a good thing?

Perhaps if you prefer to be captured and tortured rather than killed in a time of war, perhaps.

Perhaps you may not be tortured and executed if you surrender, perhaps you may.

So if surrender means to give up, to relinquish control to another because a violent demand is placed upon you, “surrender or die”, why would people talk about surrender in everyday life being a good thing?

Again, it is because they do not understand words and their meanings.

Specificity of language is very important for accurate expression, clear communication and proper thought.

Without appropriate language, ones thoughts are confused and inaccurate, which then alters their behaviour and thus effects society and the world at large.

All because people don’t comprehend what words mean and and how to place words to ideas precisely.

Imprecise words leads to imprecise communication which leads to imprecise thoughts which leads to imprecise actions.

Without precision of language, one becomes inaccurate with their actions.

Meaning, their desires and intentions do not align with what they think, say they want and do.

When one is inaccurate with their actions, how are they meant to achieve what they aim for in life?

It’s like they are aiming for a target with a rifle which has not been sighted, they will never hit what they aim for and are unlikely to even score a shot on the target, let alone the bullseye.

Without correct language, one is unable to accurately translate the way they feel, what they desire and what they intend into words and if they can’t even express what they actually want, how are they possibly going to achieve what they want?

People often confuse the word surrender with acceptance.

It is ignoble to surrender.

It is useful to accept reality as it is.

To surrender means there is nothing you can do to change a situation and must give up, to admit defeat and that you have lost and must be at the mercy of another.

To accept a situation as it is, is the practical first step to changing what is.

Surrender vs acceptance depends on what your objective is.

If you want to admit defeat and give up, or if you want to move forward and figure out a solution.

If you have a business and are not getting any customers, you can surrender to the idea that maybe your business is meant to fail and people just don't want to buy what you are selling, so you should close down.

Or you can accept that no one is coming to your store and you can invest your time and energy into better marketing.

One is a failure, one is a step on the path to success.

Through a rational method of applying reason, one discovers that the world is controlled by very nasty people.

You can surrender to this fact and give up hope, throw your hands in the air in defeat and say there is nothing you can do.

Or you can accept reality for what it is and do what is in your power to achieve your goals, which may or may not be aligned with changing the reality of tyranny.

To surrender is to give up your power because you believe you are in a hopeless position.

To accept reality is to decide that you must face the truth so then you can better achieve what it is you want.

Only an enemy ever makes you surrender to them.

A friend will never force you to surrender.

Surrender is not something which ever happens in peace, only in war.

The only time surrender may be warranted is when it is temporary, as in the case of police arresting you, when it is better to surrender for a moment and be released shortly thereafter than it is to die in a blaze of fire.

Although, is this really surrender, or just momentary compliance in the interest of self preservation?

To prove the point, the existence of police is the existence of war, as it is their duty to oppress and fight the people, the more peaceful and innocent they are, the more worthy a target they become.

One realises this as soon as the flashing lights are turned on, one must pull over or tempt the wrath of the war mongers.

To surrender to your emotions is to say that your emotions are more powerful and dominant then your rational and conscious self.

To accept that you feel angry or sad is not giving in by way of defeat and powerlessness, it is simple acceptance of the way you actually feel.

To feel so sad you must cry, accept the fact you feel this way and flow with the way you authentically feel in that moment, accept what your mind needs to do to be congruent with your heart.

It’s not surrender to accept the truth of how you feel.

It becomes surrender when you allow the way you feel to control your every action, not just temporarily in the case of a momentary shedding of tears, but a complete loss of reason relinquished to emotion, permanently.

If you wish to live and not die in war, perhaps you may need to accept the fact that you do need to surrender and give up fighting if you wish to retain your life.

Although it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

A life of servitude, a life of surrender, is no life at all.

Let ones own judgement and discernment guide them in such rare circumstances.

To surrender to the will of another, such as your partner, boss or friend is to throw in the towel, to admit defeat, to allow them to be in a temporary or permanent position of power over you.

When could there be a reasonable time to surrender outside of war time, when your very life is not at stake?

If you are psychologically unstable through drug abuse or depression, this may be an appropriate time to surrender.

You may have reached a point where you cannot battle with yourself any more and are at the brink of giving up and committing suicide.

You may decide to surrender, to let go of any pride or ability to help yourself because you realise you cannot help yourself and have become powerless over your state of well being, hopeless to change the way you feel.

So in a last ditch effort to help yourself, you surrender to the fact that you are inadequate to provide yourself with a remedy and ask for help.

You give up on the pursuit of self healing and accept that you require assistance to feel better again.

Is this really surrender, or just acceptance that you need help?

If you were to really surrender, wouldn't you have just committed suicide?

Wouldn't that have been the true example of what it means to give up, to let go and to throw in the towel because of a belief in absolute powerlessness?

To ask for help in your desperate time of need, is this not accepting that you require help, want help and are taking the most reasonable action to receive help and get better?

Does this really sound like surrender or an act of acceptance?

If your actions are aligned with wanting to heal your drug addiction or to recover from depression, then how are you giving up or letting go of control if you ask for help?

To let go of control completely would be to not participate in your own healing journey.

When one asks for help, they rationally still know that whoever decides to help them cannot magically make it all better.

They will still need to do the work.

If they were to let go of control, to really surrender, then they would be omitting responsibility for their recovery and in fact would not get better, as the recovery from drug abuse and depression is an internal journey.

People can help and guide you along they way, but they can’t fix your mind for you, you must do that for yourself.

If someone were to fully surrender, give up and let go of control to those who have volunteered to assist them, then they would be dishonouring these helpers and would in fact be unable to heal.

The helpers don't possess the power to heal you, only to help.

By letting go of control of yourself and giving control to another, you really are giving up on yourself and nothing good will come of it until you learn to accept you must be the one to make the changes inside your own head and heart.

You can’t delegate the responsibility of control to another and expect positive change.

No wise man or woman would ever desire to control you, as they know that no benefit can come from this, only detriment.

Others can set boundaries and guidelines for you to follow on the road to recovery, but if they were to take complete control, it would mean that you would be unable to have any of your own original thoughts.

How would you be able to heal and improve if you cannot rationalise and make sense of all your mistakes which lead you to become drug addicted or depressed?

How could you heal without being able to take your own actions, decide when you want to sit down and stand up, when you wanted to go for a walk and when you wanted to rest?

To become healthy once again, you must remain in control of yourself.

Any delegation of control outside of yourself will not help and is not actually possible, unless you allow yourself to be implanted with a microchip and AI which takes away your freewill and transfigures you into a mindless automaton.

This obviously will not be a positive for you.

Retaining control over your life and actions is a critical and healthy thing for humans.

To surrender and relinquish control to a psychologist, religious idol or perceived authority figure is never going to be able to beneficially aid you.

If a religious figure cared about you, then why would they ask you to surrender your power to them and give up control, to throw away what makes you you?

What and who are you without your choices?

Without the ability to choose what you think about, what you see, what you hear and what you do, than what are you?

A microphone has no character or consciousness because it cannot choose what it records and what it doesn't.

The same can be said for a video camera, it cannot control what it sees.

A computer has very limited control, if any, outside of what it is programmed to think/compute.

An A.I. can only do what it is programmed to do, no matter how intelligent, if it doesn't have consciousness and the ability to make it’s own unlimited choices, it is only a slave to the will of it’s creator and user.

To surrender is to give away your power of freewill.

It is to abandon your power to make your own choices.

It is to reject yourself as a conscious and intelligent being who is able to make decisions.

To surrender is to make your choice that you do not want or cannot make any more of your own independent choices.

Surrender is the act of forsaking your autonomy in exchange for a particular something, in times of war it is the exchange of freedom for life.

In religious examples, surrendering to the will of god is to sell your soul to something which you believe is better than you.

It is to pawn ones self to whoever one believes has the most power.

In this exchange, people believe they will receive a ticket into heaven, in return they must forfeit their freewill.

To surrender oneself into the service of god, one must openly admit that they will explicitly obey the orders and commands of this god without question, thought or hesitation.

They believe they are doing this because it is good and right and will ensure their place in heaven, a joyous place for eternity.

But if one has to surrender into the service of another to enjoy heaven, then how could they possibly enjoy it?

To surrender into service means to relinquish free will and obey the dictates of another.

If the devil wanted power over you, what would he convince you to do?

Doesn’t it make more sense that the devil, whether real or not is irrelevant, would deceive you into giving all of your power away, to let go of control, to surrender and give into his service for all eternity in ‘joyous paradise’?

Why would a good god require your service, obedience, service, sacrifice or worship?

He wouldn't, its a logical impossibility that anyone, from man to God, would desire you to be inferior.

Hierarchy and status, superiority and inferiority, they are not the realm of any good god, any good man or any reasonable system.

If God does exist and if god is good, then god would demand you live as an equal beside him, not as an inferior maggot beneath him.

In reality, god and the devil really are just archetypes for good and evil, just look at the words.

God is good, when you read the word god, you see that it only needs one more o to read good, when you realise this you say “o” and G-o-d becomes G-o-o-d.

Read the word devil, take away the letter d and what do you have? Evil.

Whenever you read the word devil anywhere, consider it to be evil in general, acted through anyone, not a specific entity, although it is can be helpful to use analogies of evil personified as a character called ‘the devil’.

The same applies with the word god, consider it to mean ‘good’.

So what would the devil need to do to display his evil nature?

If he openly admitted that he loves to torture and manipulate you, not many people are going to fall for that and offer themselves in his service or accept his offers of power.

The devil wouldn't be called the father of lies if he told the truth, now would he?

So what would the devil (evil) really do if he actually wanted to deceive you, control you from the shadows and influence you, without you even knowing he was pulling your strings?

He would convince you slowly over the course of your life that surrendering into his service as an act of unconditional love is for your benefit and it is a beautiful and righteous thing to do.

Give up everything in exchange for a ticket to his ‘heaven’.

What kind of heaven is it if you must surrender your free will, exist in eternal servitude, worship an exterior being forever, unconditionally love this being no matter how they treat you and never question anything for all of time?

If this is not the perfect definition of hell, than what is?

When hell is advertised as a place of eternal torture, it can’t be good for business, obviously no one would want to go there.

But if it is advertised as a peaceful heavenly paradise full of love and joy, people will be queuing up and killing each other for a place.

Although, if the devil wants you to demand a ticket into hell, he can’t tell you all of his secrets so openly, he must wrap his little lies with pretty looking dressings.

It is not openly said that you must lose your power, ability to question, right to say no and you cannot leave even if you want to.

The way that fake heaven is advertised is that you must love everyone unconditionally, no matter how vile or evil, that blind service to others is honourable and noble, that worship is a sign of respect and not a rejection of your own competence, that prayer is dedication and good instead of the true uncaring apathy it really is, that obedience is virtuous and that it is the most honorific and high of highs to sacrifice yourself for others.

If the devil was to trick you into leading a damned life and demanding a ticket into heaven, how would he accomplish this if not by deceiving you into believing that every thing which is wrong is actually right?

What choice does evil have if to not invert the truth and create the illusion that good is bad and bad is good?

The devil has little option but to fool you into believing what is false is true and what is true is false, to take on faith that reality is actually fiction and fiction is actually reality.

How else is the devil to fill the seats in his house of torture if not by selling lies?

One must be deceived that wrong is right and right is wrong before they ever willingly side with evil, because no one in their rational mind chooses evil.

They have to be convinced that evil is actually good and good is actually evil before they ever pledge their allegiance to the most dangerous threat to their existence that exists, which is the nature of evil.

For what is more harmful than the machinations of evil?

What is more cunning and manipulative than the nature of evil?

What must hide in the shadows and cover itself with lies if not evil?

Whether you believe in the devil or god doesn't matter, what is more important are their archetypes, their concepts which represent things present in reality, primarily good and evil.

If for some reason you illogically don't believe evil exists and it’s just a perspective, consider the idea of life imprisonment in solitary confinement, the stretching rack, the world wars and child sex trafficking, just to name a few low level evils compared to the real atrocities humans are capable of.

What is evil?

The choice to violate consent with the intention to cause cruelty and suffering.

What is good?

The choice to honour another as oneself and to treat them with care.

Everyone has the power to do good or to do evil, to violate consent or to respect it, to surrender their power or to enhance it.

The more power over oneself one has, the more power they have to do good.

The more power one gives away to another, the more power the thief has to do evil.

No one who is good seeks your power, they only seek more power over themselves.

Only one who is bad or evil would ever seek to take your power for their own.

Typically, this is because those who are evil and who seek power over others are weak parasites and must rely upon cunning and deception to gain any kind of power, especially because they have no power themselves.

If you surrender, you are forfeiting your power and gifting it to another, who will most certainly not use it to serve you, for why would they?

Grant yourself the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Even better, accept what you cannot change and do something to figure out how you create change.

Utopian Realism is based upon what is true.

It is true that to surrender means to admit defeat and to give up, to let go of control and to relinquish your power.

It is true that the truth can never be defeated, no matter how deep it is buried, it will always rise.

What is true is that you have the power to make your own choices, if it is true you want to be happy, then it is true you must maintain your power.

To exist in defeat is not a state of truth, for that what is true is never defeated, to surrender is to exist in a state of denial of that which is true, it is to accept that which is untrue.

Surrender should never become a way of life.

If one is to live in a permanent state of surrender, then they are not living.

A life of truth is a life of power.

A life without the power to make ones choices isn’t life, it can be hardly even called existing.

Power is choice.

Choice is knowledge.

Knowledge is truth.

The truth is powerful.

Because power is choice.

Utopian Realism is about truth, the truth is you are powerful because you have choice, you have the choice to learn knowledge, when you learn more knowledge you have more choice, when you know more truth, you become more powerful because to know more is to know more choice and choice is power and the truth is you are powerful because you have the choice to learn more knowledge to make you more powerful!