Messengers from this (and the other) world
Lately, I have been getting interesting messages from people I have encountered. It's almost as if the universe or some higher entity is communicating with me...
After many months of writer’s block, which resulted in a total absence of new posts, I am finally back to posting.
Today, I would like to share something interesting that happened to me recently. I have came across people who had some very interesting things to say.
Their messages really “hit home”, as I felt that they told me exactly what I needed to hear at that particular moment. More interesting is that such messages came spontaneously, within perfectly normal conversations.
One such message was from a nice fella who I have recently met fr the first time and had was talking about ways to achieve “immortality”.
There are 3 ways to achieve immortality/continuity beyond one’s death. The first and more common one is through children (descendants). This is the way of continuing one’s blood line and keep one’s lineage within the gene pool. The second way is by obtaining a significant position of power. Such is the case of historical figures like Napoleon Bonaparte. Despite not having children, he is still well known up to this day. And the third one is through one’s work. By contributing with outstanding literature, art, or science, it is possible to write one’s name in history and become immortalised through the body of work. Such is the case of figures like Nikola Tesla, Julius Evola or even Ted Kaczynski, among others.
Another such message was from a good friend, who explained to me how childhood trauma contributes to one’s outlook on the world, and thus one’s propensity to get “red pilled”. And to quote him:
I've been considering how traumas, both acute and subtle (i.e. not receiving adequate love in childhood), seem to be major contributing factors in people's being 'stuck in their heads' in later life. A condition that an increasing number of humans appear to find themselves in.
My hypothesis: when a child feels that its caregivers are not dependable, they then sense that they must look out for themselves, engendering a state of threat-seeking hypervigilance. Something that imprints a pattern of relating to the world through analysis, which in turn significantly diminishes their ability to feel.
(…) Attempting to navigate through this world in such a state is extremely difficult, to the extent that it can frequently bring one to a state of despair. For to be cut off from the heart, where feelings dwell, is to be cut off from the part of us that is able to apprehend the present moment, and is hence likewise one's point of ingress to both inner and outer guidance.
Instead, one is forced to rely on conceptual structures formed out of one's past experiences, which are never able to account for the complexity of the unique contexts that each newly arising moment delivers to us.
The isolated mind strives to fit all that it perceives into existing categories, leaving little room for ambiguity, which it finds threatening, since without recourse to the scales of the heart, its binary nature is incapable of assessing finely nuanced questions. Hence its tendency is to grasp for an illusory certainty that can only be enacted through self deception.
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The good news (…) is that ingress into the heart is possible through concerted effort. The process demands continuous attention, in the manner that an alchemist must tend to their fire, and requires the purification of a great deal of dross before its effects are felt.
By this I mean the emotions that one was unable to accommodate which led to one's taking refuge in the apparent safety one's thoughts in the first place. And the accompanying self-judgement that tortures so many with such an affliction. Grief seems to be a recurring element.
When offered up on the altar of the heart, these crude accumulations can be purified in the flames of unconditional acceptance. As the process continues, more space is created for joy to manifest, and for a new perception of the world to develop. Seeing not only threats, but also opportunities.
(…) One's suffering can be the reagent that catalyses that transformation, if employed correctly. Which is itself a never ending process, and one that reveals to us ever more about how we might work to transmute the leaden aspects of this world.
To those kind messengers, and the universe, I say a heart felt “Thank you”. Thank you for the wise words that will be of a critical importance in the upcoming stage of my life.
I would also like to thank all the people who have provided me with wise adice and inspiration throughout the years.