Dead Can't Dance

How does an organism with a robust, yet latent, capacity for growth or evolution actually have that ability catalyzed?

Stress. Hostile conditions. Just enough so that the autonomic nervous system (responsible for the "Fight or Flight" response) isn't constantly hyperactive to the point where it wreaks hormonal havoc, nor to the point where it gives up (the freeze response), and yet not so below the level of awareness as to inspire complacency or inertia.

Life is movement, it is flow; what remains still and cannot adequately react to pertinent stimuli is, for all intents and purposes, dead. 

 

Originally published on my Facebook page December 13th, 2018.

Community, Identity, Stability

The great, overwhelming desire of the bulk of humanity is not to find, experience or understand truth, but rather escape from it.

Because of this irrepressible, what can essentially be described as a "need", a dizzying amount of human industry has been put forth towards distracting, diverting, quelling, propagandizing and pampering the human "doing" (ie: as opposed to human "being"). One doesn't even need to spend much time looking in order to see that humans are becoming increasingly mechanized or robotic. The final culmination of this will be exactly what the many have been consciously or unconsciously wanting - to have absolutely no conscious sense of self; a self that worries, thinks, hurts, despairs, and in a word - exists.

To the question "To be or not to be?", humanity has answered in resounding fashion: "TO BE EFFICIENT. TO PRODUCE. TO CONSUME." Human resources, indeed.

Perhaps the technological society, akin to the one in Brave New World, can be thought of as a kind of Hermetic Seal, a vacuum, which functions as a cageless prison for the thoughtless busybody mischief makers of the world. A bizarre purgatory where the self-deceived are conditioned to think of as Heaven, but those blessed (cursed?) with the capacity or will for higher thought would view as the darkest and hottest of hells.

Originally published on my Facebook page November 5th, 2018.

Will to Truth

The lack of desire to solve complex life problems is a result of a lack of will. A powerful will takes these opportunities to grow and become even more powerful, though this transpires as an organic process, a natural unfoldment, rather than a pathological lust for power. The weakened or diminished will, will ossify or stagnate, and essentially give up. A powerful or relentless will desires to know the truth at all costs, because understanding brings liberation.

All liberation must be fought for.

Understanding brings transcendence and expanded awareness. The same problems no longer weigh on the conscious and subconscious minds, freeing up more mental and emotional resources to take on larger, more complex, increasingly universal (as opposed to egoic or personal) problems to be understood and overcome.

The diminished will "lives" life just going through the motions, constantly feeling weighted down, trudging through like a zombie, often seeking all kinds of stimulation, thrills and escapes to reduce anxiety. The greater will, embracing the ups and downs of life, eventually breaks through unencumbered―having transmuted all of life's poisons into fuel.

This process is also impossible to go through without embracing vulnerability.

Those with the facade of invulnerability learn and understand nothing of real value. Their skill is only in repetition, like a robot; something that isn't alive.

Moral of the story: Embrace pain, don't hide from it, but perhaps even more importantly, make sense of it on your own. Create your own narrative which is based on evidence, reason, experience and self-reflection while also being patient with yourself.

Don't be afraid of hell. Map that sucker out while you're there. See how far down the pit goes. Feel how hot it gets.

Originally published on my Facebook page May 23rd, 2017.