Reignite Your Inner Wisdom
Nourishing the Intrinsic Powers of Your Soul
Do not lose hope in times of collective pain
The light will always win.
Because ultimately, holistically, physically, metaphysically, energetically, there is no game, no competition, no race, no fight, no battle, no war to be won or to be lost… There is only the infinite consciousness-field of divinity, dancing and playing around in the gardens of Eden as well as tremoring in the gardens of earthly delights and tragedies…
Despite the pain, try to observe and focus on using loving, kind, wholesomeness-propagating words; render your deeds and actions in a way, so that you can look upon them through a lens of gratitude and humbleness. Say no to the life-diminishing perversions of the mind — this doesn’t mean to suppress the shadow aspect of the self. It means to integrate it in a way that doesn’t affect others in a negative way. Integration of the shadow is subtle and I’m sure I still need a lot of awareness in the coming months to do so.
Remember that the contemplation-, integration- and transformation-process is not something you do once and then it’s done and you don’t have to deal with it anymore till the end of your life (unless you are super-zen or enlightened). These are processes that need to be fostered and revisited repeatedly — again and again and again, throughout life and all its evolutionary shifts.
You can combine this with kindness and attentive listening to others. Additionally, it can be beneficial to look at your actions as complete in themselves. They do not need to generate any specific material or personal results (like money, status, fame etc.), they can stand for themselves. And they can reverberate with energetic signatures — letting you feel more fulfilled or uplifted, because it helped or inspired someone else, or because it actually touched someone on a profound, positive level.
Maybe then we can look back and say, ‘At least I did the right thing…’
It is not always easy.
Or rather, it is profoundly difficult to uphold the torch of hope and light the path in front of your weary eyes, that perceive the bleakness of earthly matters with dense gravity… especially in times like these.
Observe the heavy floods, gaze at the tides with soulful conviction and don’t try to wrap your head around it — it won’t make any sense on a linear-logical-mind-only-level anyway.
There is a need for coming back to your essence time and time again — it is good advice to try to put one’s focus on the big picture, without losing sense of the more detailed, close-up-view, that embeds us in the physicality of the human experience.
Do not run from the pain
The seemingly all-encompassing, all-devouring, all-demolishing evil — which manifests in all kinds of energetic vortexes, material objects, and especially individuals and their actions — can only be diminished by the illuminating, infinite powers of love. Like a large shadow that is afraid to be exposed to the sun, as it would become part of the bathing light, the darkness, aka the evil in this world, will not merely be diminished or removed, but it will be transformed.
Transformed to become part of the whole and the whole itself.
Meandering between a lost cause and the symptoms of paradigms that are nihilistic by nature won’t help uplift humanity’s level of consciousness.
Go inside, is a dictum often proclaimed with serious, unfaltering conviction — it will set you free… But is this all there is? Go inside and everything will be buttery roses and unicorn-scented candlelight gracing the fairy garden of eternal bliss? Is there not something missing in the equation of uplifting the human spirit while not taking on the suffering of others, rendering their baggage lighter, but yours heavier…?
Ponder: Is there something in my environment, something external (like an app or certain products), that triggers me and that can easily be removed from my life? How is this relating to my internal world/mood/bodily symptoms and emotive sensations?
Do not bow down to nihilism
As mentioned above, the paradigms of the society/societies we are living in or are surrounded by, are inherently bound to life-denying, purpose and meaning-denying energies — nihilism basically.
You may very well be aware of the quote that many attribute to Krishnamurti (I’m not sure if he really said it in these exact words):
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
And, unfortunately, the society of the world is just that — profoundly sick. And this sickness can be led back to the ego’s forceful dynamic with everything outside itself. The ego wants to be right, always.
It is not evil per se, but it creates evil.
How?
Ultimately, by protecting itself and its opinions, beliefs etc. The ego thinks it ceases to exist, if it doesn’t find legitimation. It wants to justify everything it spits out, no matter how life-diminishing.
What can stop the ego, and in most humans does, at least at after a certain threshold is passed?
- Awareness
- The willingness to be loving without expectations (to gain something from sending out love) and…
- The capacity to hold multiple seemingly contradictory viewpoints, opinions or ‘facts’ in your mental space, without jumping in to immediately dismiss them, sabotage/bend them (to fit your individual philosophy) or to negate them through impulsive, often arbitrary, incoherent arguments…
It’s good advice to try to suspend the urge to react immediately in a conversation to propose a solution to seemingly contradicting elements. Sometimes, after closer inspection the urge can subside and a more neutral ground, converging into a more harmonious position, can emerge.
Coming back to the aspect of nihilism in society.
The pale cynicism and the self-imposed blindness to true, intrinsic beauty as well as the unfathomable shallowness of societal systems is, based on my observation, particularly prevalent in cities.
There is a direct link between a civilization’s infrastructural magnitude and the decrease in empathy-related humanness. Ergo: the bigger the frame to house people — the greater the anonymity. The greater the (perceived) anonymity — the more intense the potential for selfish aspects in the individual. The more intense the selfish aspects of the individual — the shallower one becomes.
This shallowness occurs on a human-physical-membrane, not on the membranes of the soul, which is always still, present, unwavering, and full of love and compassion.
Ponder: Am I trying to adapt to or fit into a system just for the sake of fitting in? Am I following my intuition or is my essence being clouded by societal parameters that are not life-affirming anyway? Am I well-adjusted to this society or am I an outcast? In what way am I an outsider? And what role do I take on, when it comes to compassion, empathy and base values, without which the human experience and society cannot withstand?
I feel that art plays a tremendously important part in the evolution of consciousness and the reignition of our inner wisdom.
Modern art has a tendency to proclaim the dictum everything is art — which is a statement not grounded in truth. Rarely, something is true art. And true, in this context, means true to one’s core, true to source.
The paradigmatic shift in modern times, especially occurring in the past twenty to thirty years, has brought forth the element of virtue signaling, which aims to enhance one’s own self-image, signaling the exterior world (other individuals), that what one does is of a higher order.
While the opposite is true: You don’t have to be David R. Hawkins to be able to see virtue signaling as the epitome of modern hypocrisy and a gigantic life-destructing force that proclaims to enhance life and cherish equality and the like, while doing the polar opposite.
It is eponymous for the times we live in and all it does is increase separation:
- In individual terms this separation occurs as a divergence from the soul, from one’s essence & therefore one’s innate gifts, compassion, and life-affirming energies.
- In collective terms this separation occurs as a divergence between each other, an incremental distancing of individuals, who could actually come together to create for one, higher unifying purpose.
- Holistically (or universally), this separation manifests as cultural, paradigmatically complex, life-denying phenomena, i.e. the creation of elements, whose singular purpose is to negate others & to enhance the ego.
Academia plays a huge role in increasing hubris, creating a distance between felt truth and statistical truth, aka an approximation to singularly physical phenomena — often leaving out the world of invisible quanta-phenomena.
Thus, the perceived truths of society are often only half-truths, as the whole picture is not regarded as valid — because the whole picture is not taken into account in the first place.
The systematization of knowledge has, amongst others, led to the tragic conviction of gifted individuals that they are not meant to occupy more than one field or even more tragically, that they are not capable to pursue their dreams, because they do not fit in…
The increase of systematization and separation between subjects and fields might have led to a compartmentalization of the mind: While, yes, the human brain contains different areas with different operative specializations, the mind, which emerges out of the brain-structure as a non-graspable phenomenon, doesn’t have to be compartmentalized.
This probably led to a separation from the whole, both in terms of creating a divergence between individuals, and in terms of creating a gap between the individual and the creational powers of the universe’s source, to which the individual is connected.
Ironically, we could say: The convergence of the individual mind’s patterns has resulted in specialization. And this specialized convergence has led to a divergence of the individual and the capacities/interests for generalization.
Generalization produces the infamous ‘jack of all trades’, whose view on the world allows for interconnected creativity and holistic planning, which in turn can bring forth multilayered solutions to complex as well as simple problems.
There is a need to come back to that generalization.
When we tap into our innate powers for creation, we might very soon see that the Gates of Dawn can be opened with inspiring works of art, not with modern recapitulations of personal, individual pains and mean-spirited creations that overflow with pretense and the artist’s (conscious or unconscious) desire to fuel his ego. This latter type of ‘art’ only serves to elevate personal complexes and to feed into the dark, perverted spheres of anti-life-stances that some of the modern ‘creators’ propagate with screaming, unfounded pride.
Their creations are fueled by the hate against the divine, not by the love for humanity.
If you want to reconnect with your essence — your soul — you must disentangle yourself from the mind-patterns, habitual convictions and viewpoints/opinions that are not really your own, but are merely internalized from other people and society at large.
Ponder: Who am I really? What do I believe, truly, deeply? Am I sure that the opinions and internal patterns that I follow are really mine and not someone else’s — inherited from parents, peers, friends, or even governmental institutions or movies, books, media? What does my intuition, my feelings say? Am I true to myself? Or am I just replicating what other people are doing, believing that it is my voice? How do I navigate the complex dynamics of interactions in a system? Am I somehow contributing to the collective shallowness? Or am I actually going my way, as much as I can, within the confines of the system, and creating something that enhances awareness?