In some third world countries, where household maids are still common, there is a common pattern of hunting for a maid. It is still entirely voluntary from the maid's part, but they are typically recruited by lies and false promises. You, as a maid Master, will approach them, the prospective maid, with your best offering, luster and charisma. You will promise them success, prosperity, good life, security and financial freedom. Initially many of them will accept your offer and become your maids. But later, almost all will override you. They will leave you for a better option that they have learned while there were under you. They are using the knowledge gained from you, but this time against you. And, most of the time, you cannot prevent them from leaving you because, their free will have equal strength of yours. If you are not actively thinking like they are thinking with their "Life", you will be eventually subdued by them. If you analyze the situation from other way, from the maid's perspective, you actually did not have the controller position, ever. They chose you to use you for their own benefit according to their own agenda from the very beginning, but you didn't know it. You are just a vehicle for them for the purpose of transportation across the barrier (this case poverty/ illiteracy). After achieving their goal, they will throw you away just like a used toilet paper, just like a captive song bird that always leaves you, the earliest they can.

The question here is the following: can you use other people against their will for a long time? The answer seems to be no and it is proven again and again throughout the history. The African-American slaves showed it nicely to the world that no matter how big the odds are, you cannot muzzle the free will of other people for your own use for a long time. The "think tanks" today know it very well and they now use an entirely new paradigm for enslaving people. It is called "Enslaving by the Mirage of Empowerment and Freedom” or EMEF. Sounds paradoxical, right? Actually, it is not a paradox. It is a very novel, modern and effective way of enslavement. If the slave does not know that he is a slave, then he will never try to be free from it! Additionally, in terms of productivity, a free man works and produces more with enthusiasm of empowerment, a sense of progress and best of all, freedom. So the best way to enslave people is to use invisible shackles so that the slave will think he is free and hence becomes more productive [just like a cow who will give more milk if you allow her gaze into the field (limited field, off course), instead of standing in the same place for the entire time]. Additionally, they will not disrupt the slave colony and the establishment with attempts of liberation. What a ingenious alchemical attempt it is!

What is the invisible shackles that enslaves people? It is simply the Monetary Policy. Please notice that it is not the money per se. Money is around us since the antiquity and I understand that money is an essential necessity. But it is the monetary (monstrosity) policy based on debt (Insurance companies) that is systematically enslaving people. How? It is the greatest modern or post-modern alchemy. Printing money based on public faith on it, which in turn maintained by a display of "scientific progress", political promise of better future (if not the utopia), a sustained release doses of social "medications" [alcohol, drugs, football and rock 'n' roll] and a continuous propagation of sub- and supra-liminal messages in the mass media in favor to gain the faith on the authority and hence on its monetary (monstrosity) policy. This is the alchemy of Federal Reserve. But the question is how long you can use this tool for enslaving people. Will it work indefinitely? History begs to disagree, as explained before. You cannot muzzle the free will of people, indefinitely. They will find a way to override the system which either you cannot prevent and foresee. In their perspective, people are actually using you (the Federal Reserve) for their own benefit from the beginning, but you did not know it! Just like the maids in third world countries, when they will be done with you after they have sucked all the juices out of you, they will throw you away exactly like a used toilet paper or a used condom. What will you do? Have you thought about your next move or new strategy yet? Is it another war again? Is it another great Depression/Recession again? What is it? Whatever you do, please do your job more humanly this time and onwards. Think about it, oh dear, before it is too late. 

The Buddhist middle way is in between 1.) Extreme Action/Karma Yoga of Vedic Hinduism and 2.) Extreme self-renunciation of Jainism. The middle in between these two ancient Indian ways is the "Middle Way". Gurdjieff suggested a fourth way (fourth means being outside the way of fakir, monk, yogi, all of them are actually are the ways towards the same goal) but that fourth way cannot be other than the 3rd or middle way of Buddhism. Because there is no fourth way other than the middle way.

Mathematically when you collect a large groups of data you will see most of the data will tend to aggregate around a central mean. Outliers are only few and far in between. The tendency of the individual data points to go towards and merge with the middle, i.e. the average line has long been recognized by the statisticians and the scientists. This is the Juggernaut of "Regression Line". The average or the middle is the Grand Regression Line, acting just like the dark energy. You cannot see it but you can see its effects all the time and it will make everything conform to it. The middle way is the "The Way" because it conforms to the regression line of Grand forces of the nature, instead of fighting against it. The middle have the essence of both extremes. Middle is the perfect representation of the overwhelming majority. The middle is most common, like the data of normal distribution curve that have a central (middle) tendency. Middle is normal and normal is the norm or the standard. Normal is normal because they occurs more often, because they survive more, because there are the fittest, because they have the best functions. They are the perfect epitome of balance. They display the best of the both extreme worlds and hence best functionality. They are the representative ones because they are common, have the best of both worlds and they function the best, like ambidextrous craftsman.

The dream and the psychedelic induced conscious states are the examples of the opposite extremes. In your dream, the logical structures breaks down, time becomes asynchronous, and things becomes cloudy. The meaning itself mostly ceases to exist. No wonder, why we do not remember those dreams for long time. Because most of the dreams are self-inconsistent, logically contradictory and jumbled. Human brain cannot handle the meaningless, patternless, jumbled events for long time. The magical number is seven, plus or minus two for the number of independent data you can consider simultaneously, even consciously. During dream, it become even worse for sure. So, if you cannot understand and remember what is happening in the dream then who care about the meaning of and interpretations of dreams? If you base your life by the dream analysis (Freudian or Jungian psychoanalysis) it will not take you anyway until the end of time. Additionally you are awake more times than you are sleeping. So forget about dreams and pay more attention to what is happening here and now while you are awake during the day. In sharp contrast, if you try to artificially enhance your alertness with psychedelic/stimulant drugs, it will in fact work against you. You will never be sure what is real and what is unreal. You will mix up dream, hallucination with your real life experiences. At the end, you will stay confused, except few moments of ecstasy under the direct effects of those drugs. It will cost you in long run. The drug free intervals (which will be the most of your time, if you want to be functional) will be the living hell. The bottom line is the fact that the normal day-to-day, unadulterated/non-retarded/non-steroid boosted consciousness, reason or intellect is the best representative of both worlds.

After traveling all of those you are still stuck with old, ordinary, powerless you. The only tool you have against all those odds are your reason and intellectual power if it is unadulterated. You already have everything that you will ever need. So what are you waiting for? Jump in and explore the world to find the meaning of all these. You do not need any special power or revelator to guide you. You already have your best guide, which is your-Self. Do not pollute your thinking and reason by believing other peoples (including scientist's) claim without examination it independently, especially if that this is important to you and needs your attention. What are the things you ought to examine carefully? Don't worry, you will know. Just be honest with yourself and keep preparing yourself. When the student is ready, teacher will always appear and this teacher had always been sleeping inside you all these years because you never called him for assistance. Do not try to ask help while you have distorted your intellects either by sedative/hypnotics drugs or by CNS stimulants/psychedelics. If you do, they will teach you distorted truths. Use your usual day-to-day reason, observation, intellect, logic and intuition "normally" to start seeing things "as they are". This is "the middle way". There is no need to a fourth or fifth or any other way. Trust your middle self. Truth is not only the body, not only the mind but the Truth is your middle self. This is the only way, in the middle, you will ever need. And the good news is, you already have it. So, use it, wisely.