The Hypocrisy of Dual or Multiple Alignment

This essay is the first in a series of articles called ‘Why Bad Things Happen to Good People’. When things begin to go wrong in your life you may search for causation, possibly never discovering a satisfactory answer. This series of essays examines why that can occur.

The hypocrisy of dual or multiple alignment is a subliminal pattern maker that goes unnoticed within daily existence. When things begin to go horribly wrong in your life you may look everywhere for a cause. Many may be found, but hidden causation lies deeply buried within self-created everyday patterns that few even consider worthy of investigation.

In daily survival mode it is easy to overlook little habits that provoke multiple responses to identical encounters with various recipients. You may have developed a telephone voice: friendly or polished to potential clients, sharp with subordinates yet courteous to your supervisor, respectful with authority figures, seductively composed to a potential partner. It is simply a form of expression to meet the circumstance. Everyone does it every day and thinks nothing of it.

You attempt to befriend or become associated with individuals or groups that are wealthier, more powerful and influential or those of universal recognizable status, basking in reflected glory to create an inflated picture of yourself. By that association you may increase your financial position or status in your surrounding social environment. At the same time, you ignore or discount those that have no apparent advantage to you. You may not treat them as rabble, but they are simply not worth knowing, for what value can they add to you? Then there are the ones that you go to extremes to avoid: those from different ethnic, religious or cultural backgrounds, those that are not up to your physical standard and those that hold inferior positions. Then there are those toward whom you create an appearance of sympathetic interest for the ‘on-looking’ benefit of others. Others you deliberately hold at-arms-length, as you do not want them to appear associated with you, or create the appearance that they are more than a passing acquaintance. Everyone does it everyday and thinks nothing of it.

There are times when you act with moral and ethical dignity and others where that same standard is logistically circumvented. You stand upon created or adopted principles when it suits you, then twist them to suit the circumstances: killing is wrong, but war may be a necessary evil. You think one way and act another: the action is seen and believed as what and who you are, but the motivation goes unnoticed. Everyone does it everyday and thinks nothing of it.

Then when things begin to go wrong you are perplexed, as you feel you are a good person, yet bad things appear to follow in your footsteps. Blame is laid everywhere, from childhood to the politics of the country. The blame-game normally follows the route of everyone or everything outside oneself. It can end there or move on to professional help, providing a new personally or socially acceptable pattern of living. Depending upon the strength of belief in the newly created pattern of living, it may withstand the storms of living with fluctuating wins and losses, or buckle under the first wisp of wind. Eventually everything begins to recycle again, and the newly created pattern of living requires updating or a total renovation. It’s a recycling system. But, no matter what you do, eventually all those bad things following in your footsteps reappear, albeit in a new form. And the newly painted house is experienced as a superficial covering, as the structure has not altered. It has only been made to look new, but below the surface it is still the same old house.

The very personal and sometimes distressing revelation that no matter what you do those ‘bad things’ continue to haunt your existence tends to follow two very distinct pathways: pattern replacement techniques with or without medication, or personal existence investigation. Various types of medication may remove or neutralize the emotional connection to the problem. But that same neutralization can equally create a barrier in realizing the causation of the original problem. Or, if the problem or problems are uncovered, the intellectual appreciation has a trying time to connect to the reality of the discovery, as the feeling-connection that makes the intellectual discovery feel real is gone or neutralized. If you have an intellectual understanding, its power remains thought contained or controlled. If the same intellectual understanding is experientially felt it gains enormous sustaining power. That is not intended to discredit the medication process, just that, for all its value, it can create an additional issue to the existing problem.

Eventually, you work through all the exterior forces that could be responsible for your emotionally centered and mind created issues and problems. Then you work out all the various internally created patterns of living that equally could be responsible. If, after all that work, you are no further along, then the existence of subliminal patterns are next. They are usually the last looked at, as they are hidden within acceptable normalcy. It is here where unbridled honesty is the only filter that can sift the mud to reveal what has been hidden in the clear water.

When the mud is gone the clear water reveals what lies at the bottom. And there the culprit is discovered, in an unassuming camouflage of normality: hypocrisy. The simple discovery that you have fragmented your existence to meet ever-changing circumstances can be a stunning revelation. Uncovering that your motivation does not match your actions, plus recognizing your manipulative ability to alter both to suit the situation, is equally revealing and onerous. Revealed, as discovering your existence inconsistency is enlightening. Onerous, as the discovery is witnessed as pure manipulative hypocrisy.

This form of subliminal manipulative hypocrisy in turn establishes a multitude of superior/inferior patterns of living. It also creates varying moral and ethical standards to suit whatever momentary desire you are locked within. And all of these patterns will always, without doubt, come back to bite you. And then we wonder why ‘bad things’ follow in our footsteps.

Subliminal manipulative hypocrisy is accepted within normal living and working conditions without one thought given to the destruction it creates. It’s normal and natural and everyone does it every day. But the action is fragmenting your existence into parts, and the momentarily active part is held and used in isolation to the other parts. The isolation supports the establishment of feelings of separateness, potentially allowing feelings of disconnected-aloneness to arise upon each separate fragmented motivation and action. This feeling of isolated-aloneness upon each fragment, even within crowds, sets the stage for bouts of despondency, opening the door to the self-containing darkness of depression. A divided house will not stand.

Subliminal manipulative hypocrisy fragments your existence into parts, providing no room for equality of expression. But it is equanimity of expression that creates feelings of centered-wholeness. This you both know and can experience, as it simply makes you feel good, for it feels subjectively honest and correct, containing no judgmental discriminations. It is not uncommon for those who respond with compassionately based equanimity of expression to be secretly, and sometimes openly, admired for what is witnessed by others as courageous honesty. But in an advancing civilization why should it take courage to be honest? Normally, the answer to that question lies within some form of fear of loss. And if fear rules one’s life how can any form of equanimity ever be discovered?

Subliminal manipulative hypocrisy creates dual or multiple alignments where the circumstance dictates the response. This establishes a fragmentation of existence that you are not even aware exists: fragmenting any feeling of wholeness, as you are this way in one situation and that way in another situation. And that is hypocrisy, which becomes an unknown subliminal pattern at the bottom of all your created or adopted patterns of living. It is building a house upon quicksand that is slowly sinking without you being aware of that submergence. The submergence is subliminal in nature, as you are unknowingly aligned with the normalcy of hypocrisy.

If you live a fragmented life you will get a fragmented response. This is the world of referencing, where you reference self-created and isolated pieces of yourself to suit the occasion. When hunting for causation each piece will have to be examined, as each is in isolation to the other, fragmenting your investigative focus from the whole to the one of the many parts. And each part is again fragmented by every variable situation it is used within. To discover anything of real value within that fragmentation is a massive effort, which can add more confusion to an already confusing situation. And yet we still wonder why ‘bad things’ appear to follow in our footsteps.

If you live a single life, you will get a single response. This is the world of alignment to equanimity of compassion, which is the expression of unconditional love, and is a single life. That you either do or do not; there is no in-between. This means that form of expression is full on all the time, with no exceptions or not at all. There is simply no in-between, as either you do or do not. The ‘do not’ encourages the development of endless states of dual and multiple alignment hypocrisy. And that form of expression always recycles. Or, somehow and somewhere, you get back what you gave. But, and this is why that form of response is difficult to trace, as it can come back to you as a mirrored resolution response, it comes back in another area of your life, mirroring what you gave. And then you wonder why ‘bad things’ appear to follow in your footsteps.

A single life will plough its way through the mud of daily existence with ease, revealing an open road for you and others to traverse. It’s honesty of compassionate insight coupled with unguarded expression, simply making you feel good and centered within that form of personal integrity. Your motivation is in perfect resonate accord with your action. If you have experienced that resonance, you will know the feeling it generates. If not, watch your back as a mirrored resolution response could be there in waiting.

Treating the president of a corporation and the homeless on the street with identical respect and unguarded honesty is equanimity of expression. It is based upon the simplicity and sincerity of compassionate insight and an experiential knowing sense of correctness. It does not fragment your existence, and prevents all dual or multiple alignment patterns of living from arising to entrap you within their destructive influences. The most difficult aspect of appreciating that form of expression is that it is always all or nothing. And each form of expression creates consequences. From your own experience you will know your motivation, not by its action but by the consequences that appear to follow in your footsteps.

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