| Copyright (c) 2010 Dave Smart | | | | apartment or whatever he lived in, and probably a |
| Many centuries ago, two or more persons trying to | | | | description of it. It is unlikely that he or she would say "I |
| grapple with the frightening prospect of facing the peril | | | | believe I.....". If asked why he did not, he would likely say |
| of liability that their partnership would face in the | | | | something like "I don't have to believe, I can remember". |
| business they were creating, decided to create an | | | | This all goes to show that, for us material yet sentient |
| imaginary person to hold the liability of the partnership; | | | | beings, BELIEVING is a crutch we use only when |
| and the concept of a corporation was born. As an | | | | necessary. Yet it is this crutch we must use to believe |
| imaginary concept it was incredibly successful. | | | | that a corporation is real. Yes, they pay real money |
| Corporations were not only an alternative to | | | | and sell real products and services. Yet it itself is not |
| partnerships, they came to hold the ESSENCE of the | | | | real; even as the ether pervading all space that 19th |
| partnership. They became very skilled in fooling people | | | | Century scientists believed was real, is not. |
| of their existence and of their right to exist; especially, | | | | Little clues of this environment of unreality come to |
| the legal profession. Today, in a world where even | | | | those who work in a corporation day in and day out. |
| entire nations are challenged to their right to exist, | | | | The incompleteness and insincerity of memos passing |
| seldom is a corporation duly incorporated in the laws | | | | back and forth can be a clue. The knowing that all the |
| of some country ever challenged to its right to exist. | | | | buildings and facilities, down to the coffee pots and |
| Patents are awarded to corporations in lieu of | | | | copy machines, can be sold overnight, adds to this |
| individuals, even if such individual is the actual inventor; | | | | energy of non-genuineness. There is a pattern of |
| and corporations routinely require employees to agree | | | | people in a corporation having no name other than the |
| to cede their inventions, if any, to the corporation. | | | | corporation or the department they are working in. In |
| Corporations today claim to be "corporate citizens". | | | | this atmosphere it is easy to come to question the |
| Yet unlike individuals they owe no allegiance to the | | | | essence of our own existence. |
| United States or any other country, and they can | | | | But how do I maintain a sense of my own |
| change what country and state they are incorporated | | | | authenticity? |
| in overnight. And, unlike individuals, they can be | | | | In Jungian psychology and philosophy all we know of |
| world-wide, operating in many countries simultaneously, | | | | another person is our perception of him or her, and |
| claiming to be corporate citizens in all countries that | | | | that perception is a part of ourselves. Similar can be |
| they operate in. They pay taxes, as corporations, in | | | | said of corporations that we perceive. When another |
| these various countries; as they manipulate their | | | | person dies, he or she lives on as a part of ourselves |
| products, services, personnel and assets to take | | | | in our memory of him or her. Similar is true of |
| advantage of the different tax law loopholes in the | | | | corporations; but with them, as they merge, divide, |
| different countries. | | | | change their name, become something else, or possibly |
| And now the United States Supreme Court has ruled | | | | pass to the hands of receivers; that memory |
| that, as citizens, they have First and Fourteenth | | | | becomes lost in a sea of confusion. It is here that their |
| Amendment rights of free speech that allow them to | | | | unreality is truly unmasked; which is only fitting, since |
| advertise in behalf of political candidates, or in behalf of | | | | they were not real in the first place. |
| their opponents. We are only a Supreme Court | | | | And yet, even as there is group consciousness, there |
| decision away from corporations being allowed to fund | | | | is corporate consciousness, for they are indeed a |
| candidates directly; and only a Supreme Court decision | | | | group and so have a group consciousness. In that |
| away from corporations having, as citizens, voting | | | | group consciousness is their essence, and that IS real. |
| rights; at which point they would require employees to | | | | But that is all, plus of course their assets and inventory. |
| give up their voting rights as they presently do their | | | | Real persons they are not, and never were. And in |
| patent rights, and vote in their place as they choose. | | | | that truth even a corporate worker can find his or her |
| Most of us individuals accept our own existence. But | | | | true authenticity. For his perception of the corporation |
| corporations, whose real existence is based on a | | | | is but one part of himself; and all the other parts, that |
| falsehood, exist only because we BELIEVE they exist. | | | | have been resident in himself throughout his life, can be |
| If someone asks a person where he or she lived | | | | witnessed nonjudgmentally along with the corporation |
| when ten years old, he or she would likely give a | | | | by his aware ego, anytime, even in the short walk |
| detailed answer, down to the address of the house or | | | | between his desk and the coffeepot. |