Then, several minutes after tossing around various topics, the group decided to talk about freedom. Samuel asked individual participants to define their ideas of freedom. It is sad, but true, most structured organizations do everything that they can to suppress, depress, control and manipulate the company, group or individual. It depends upon the degree to which the ego is working. We discussed how one has to be conscious of one's own actions.
Humans can distort reality.
It is easy to twist, shape and form ideas into the way we want to believe. Honesty is a rare commodity now days. The mass majority of people don't have a clue as to what total honesty is. So, we continue to wear masks, play the game, speak half-truths, ignore the situation for what it really is, and find ways to distract our selves from knowing anything about real self honesty or our own self truths. Samuel commented on how throughout history, kings and people of the high courts would call upon the false prophets for information.