If you do something like qi gong or taiji or even the subtler aspects of yoga but have not gone through a specific process of opening the body, soaking the mind into the tissues and fascia, followed by consilidating the yin field around your lower abdomen to gather Qi, which is a multi-year process, you are pretty much just waving your arms around and it is more it less totally pointless aside from it being a light form of physical exercise. You don’t automatically have these things, it’s like someone going to the gym and trying to bench 300 pounds. There is a long process of conditioning and preporation to find the Qi and thicken it. Then when the channels in the hands open, the arm movements drag the Qi through the body, tonifying the organ systems
People in new age scenes seem to think you can “open your chakras” using your intention. They are just like, okay, I’m going to light some incense, focus my attention on my root chakra, relax, see what emotions come up, and then voila, I’ve “opened my root chakra”. It’s like, huh? What? Does nobody know what the actual signs were that someone had literally “opened their root chakra?” Like - mastery over all the elements of nature? Lol. Like, telekinesis, moving objects with your mind? Or how about the “laghima” siddhi - the ability to make your body weightless, basically, flying. Most people will read that and think it is silly, just some fanciful wishful thinking. But it’s really not, it’s a thing and has always been a thing. It’s just that our culture has become so degenerate and confused that we have lost contact with what a human being is and what it is capable of. Therefore I don’t personally think anyone on the planet today has literally opened any chakras at all, much less become “spiritually awakened” - a state of being that is so profound it would fundamentally change how the energy and consciousness of the person connects to reality, and simply being in this persons presence would warp time and space around you, much like the accounts of encountering Jesus or Buddha were talked about. However these days, in modern times you are “awakened” because you know a bunch of conspiracy theories or because you are aware of your emotions or because you eat a certain way? 🤔. Maybe, just maybe, it’s actually about something much much deeper and profound….
The idea of a guided meditation is a bit of an oxymoron. If you’re aware of anything coming through the sense gates, whether it’s a slow speaking voice or calm music, well, I mean you’ve literally failed to enter a “medititave state”, lol.
Discernment, underrated. Humility, underrated
I’ve been working on this film for a while with
@paul keating . Check out the first trailer here…
View quoted note →If you find yourself judging others around how their behaviour is right or wrong, good or bad, natural or unnatural, etc, one way to lighten up on that is to hold the perspective that most of the time the actions people take are just the medium through which their soul moves about the lessons it wants to learn. For instance let's say you encounter a hardcore vegan. They go around telling everyone what to eat, how they are morally superior, how they're more spiritual than you because they eat fruit all day. And maybe that is annoying (it definitely is), but really, that's just the surface level expression of what their soul is learning. For instance, they could be learning about what it means to have integrity. Or, they could be cultivating certain qualities around discipline, consistency, aligning their mental fabrications around morality with their actions. All interesting and valuable things to grow on the soul level.
I just can’t take people who vape seriously. What are you doing bro.
Trying to remember
Where we came from
Before losing touch with
Everything around us
Lost in thinking
We were separate
Somehow distant from our source
Somewhat guilty
Just for living
Yearning to recall
The ancient memories
For living
Hidden somewhere
In a trauma
Where we were worthy
Just for being
Feels like crunch time in the good ole matrix. Chaos everywhere
Anyone else starting to become allergic to computers?
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emotions are mind constructions that limit your ability to feel. what i mean by this is that what we really mean by emotion is a somatic sensation happening in your body - a "feeling". the feeling is a reaction to something happening externally or internally. if you look a baby, they don't know whether they're angry or sad, they're literally just feeling things. they haven't yet labelled feelings as concepts. the trouble with labelling a feeling as a particular emotion as you get older is that emotions are ultimately intellectual concepts a collection of humans have decided more or less symbolize a particular pattern of feelings. so what happens is that your mind starts to condition each feeling with the label, and eventually, the feeling-label-emotion dynamic becomes so intertwined that any time a feeling comes along that is vaguely in the pattern of "anger", for example, your mind just makes you feel the general sensation of "angry" because you've built it into your system as a habitual reaction. it simplifies and generalizes and you miss the detail and novelty because you went to the label as apposed to the experience, and then the label hijacked the experience. here you are short-circuiting your experience of reality with your conditioned mind. because in reality every feeling is totally unique and full of creative information. however if you let the labels take over, basically that information becomes compressed, lo-fidelity, and you just feel a more general sensation you already understand. your mind is on a kind of energetic budget, it’s only got so much juice for you in this lifetime, and though it is highly programmable it will take short cuts wherever it can and labels are one of those mechanisms it employs so that it does not need to sort through new information. the skill to develop is to "listen" to sensations without getting emotional. just listen to the body and whatever is happening in the mind without habitually reacting. people might think that is suppressing or repressing but it is the opposite. if your emotional mind concepts take over as soon as you feel something, it will then project the general feeling associated with the new novel feeling onto the nervous system and you won't feel what actually wanted to come through. so by taking away emotions you actually feel your feelings as fresh information everytime if that makes any sense. this also doesn’t mean not to express your feelings. it’s saying to stop analyzing and trying to understand every little feeling and simply feel it, the understanding will come later spotaneously and the meaning will be much more colorful because you didn’t generalize it as an emotion.
The deeper I go into the esoteric side of life the clearer it becomes that I know so very little about the nature of reality or what life is. It is really the ultimate mystery. I do however see more clearly my delusions, that has been helpful. Perhaps the accumulation of knowledge in this matter is more a matter of recognizing delusions, subtracting, as apposed to “adding” or espousing grand explanatory theories and models. My experience has been that there is a threshold you pass where the truth of reality really cannot be expressed in words or symbol, only experienced. I think it is possible to store this experience in energy, and that it is possible to pass along this energy, but that is quite far away from where I am in terms of skill. “The Dao that can be named is not the eternal Dao” is starting to make a lot clearer sense to me now. You really must remain humble, don’t be so sure you “get it” or it is “just this” or that. Just when you think you get it some deeper structure becomes available to you and you must drop what you thought before almost entirely.
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embrace the boring
The presidential debate was the perfect representation of the two dominant political consciousnesses on the planet right now. On the left you have a politics that has become utterly non-sensical, lacking any internal logical coherency, weak, soft, knee-jerk emotionality fueled by resentment; basically, people living in an internal fantasy world shaped by their own mental delusions. On the right you have self-righteous childlike reactionaries, boastful ideologues lacking all humility, fighting to save a past version of the world whose ship has sailed so that they can feel emotionally safe within their own narrowminded politcal nostalgia. All the spiritual traditions understood the microcosm and the macrocosm were reflections of one another. Here it is in full resolution display!
the alchemical child at the end of time
