The Nature Of Glamour And Its Hold On Us

Glamour, alluring, illusory charm. Some quality or feature exerting a fascinating influence. A mentally conditioning characteristic of the emotional astral plane.
An incorrect interpretation and response to that which is perceived .Anything that is distorted is glamour .The  basic  cause of illusion, glamour, and maya  is Duality! A  sense of separation from the higher energies and consciousness of the soul,which forces one to identify oneself exclusively with the material world, the physical form ,and  outer appearance ,and  to focus ones awareness on their engulfing phenomena to the point of delusion!One sees oneself as an ongoing helpless victim of forces and energies of which one has no real understanding ,and   over which one has no real control.
Duality is a state of being dual, consisting of two parts as in body and soul, matter and spirit. It is brought about by an act of separation ,of dividing,of disconnecting ,of  disunity from an inter grated whole! We need to dispel the mists  and fog of glamour by re-cognising that we are all interconnected
and as one.
Of all the many glamour's that surround and engulf us,one in particular I find most amusing and also disturbing that of "designer labels" and  I have been in many heated exchanges over this one!
If I got hold of an empty "coal sack" cut a few holes in it and put my name right across the front of it. would you  pay a thousand dollars for it! Of course not ,but  instead  put the name of some other chap who is well known and famous! Then you would pay plenty for that "designer coal sack?"
The wanabee generation instant fame just like that! From a nobody to a somebody in 24 hour.
It is truly amazing that some will pay many times over the "true price" of a bit of cloth, sunglasses, shoes,simply because it has the "NAME" of some one they will never meet in their life time! What next one wonders, designer condoms that spell out this famous moron when the wearer gets an erection!!
the designers and their marketing chums must be laughing all the way to the bank at so many buying crap and paying way over the odds because this moron has his name on it,one wonders if perhaps if glamour here is too fine a word and perhaps bullshit would be more appropriate!
warm regards Michael.
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