Paving the Way
Right Now to
the Perception
of Eternal Time
Carlos Cardoso
Aveline
The idea of interruption means a break in continuity. One’s actions and perceptions are supposed to
be stable along the line of time and to suffer occasional interruptions.
What can we say of the numerous situations where interruption is continuous?
A thoughtless mind results from permanent interruption. Whenever thought and emotion are subject to
a constant change of substance or direction, they remain dependent on
meaningless superficialities and obey to the lower instinctive mind.
One basic characteristic of the culture dominated by
electronic devices is the ceaseless automatic interference with the minds and
actions of millions of individuals.
Propaganda strategies and the mass media controlled by
commercial interests try to keep the citizen limited to his role as a consumer.
They “guide” him by stimulating various kinds of blind automatic impulses in
his emotional mind. From the point of view of commercial activities and mind
manipulation, a constant interruption is most important. Due to it the minds of
citizens get to be weak, fragmented, having no clear direction and becoming an
easy prey to electronic hypnotism.
Theosophy teaches self-control. It tells us how to abandon
emotional anxiety, avoid mental dispersion and hear the voice of inner
conscience. A theosophist leaves aside the superficial habits associated with
haste and transcends the illusion which induces many to think that “time is
scarce”.
A citizen of good-will can learn to be the director of
his own life. He is invited to stop the process of constant interruption. He
learns to create his own rhythms. He listens to himself and directly cooperates
with the long-term project of his
spiritual soul.
Every self-responsible citizen has the right to form his
own thoughts; to hear his feelings and calmly evaluate his actions and the
actions of others. It is up to him to preserve the time necessary to take practical
lessons from everything he sees and observes.
Being independent implies a degree of humbleness and
of voluntary simplicity. Detachment is necessary regarding secondary issues. The
task ahead is to reduce one’s own waste of time. The mystery of efficiency in
the use of vital energies is not easy to solve, and tackling it demands an undivided
attention until one gradually attains an invisible bliss.
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An initial
version of the above article was published at the July 2016 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, pp. 14-15,
under the title of “Interrupting the Culture of Interruption”. It had no
indication as to the name of the author.
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