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Philosophia de Roberto
Philosophia de Roberto
I wrote a letter to my sister where I tried to express to her what I thought was meaningful about life and what was just noise and junk that amounted to drama and strife. I shared that letter with my niece, and it opened some interesting dialog. I continued to write and I continued to talk to my family. The more I wrote, the better I could articulate my ontological ideas. I decided to edit these journaling entries into more cohesion and post them here so that my friends and family can read and share them in the hopes of having a wider conversation.
This whole thing starts with the book How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. I didn't even need to take psilocybin activated mushrooms in order to realize what all the journeyers in that book were saying. I quickly understood intuitively that there is much more going on with having a human life than we realize.
Then I began asking the questions, what are we and how do we operate this vehicle that we find ourselves contained within? This starts my second-act journey in life, and I am immensely grateful to recognize such a challenging adventure. One that we all have if we choose to contemplate it deeply. It is a passion that costs nothing, expands the mind, is easily transportable to any location and situation, and has a never-ending depth of field that allows for unlimited growth and experience. It is truly amazing that a person can write something down that sends another person onto a lifetime of discovery. That path of discovery was always right in front of my face, as it is in front of everyone's. But as Aldus Huxley postulated, the human brain is a reducing valve. I believe that it is up to you to accept the challenge of opening that valve as wide as you are capable or interested to open it.
I intend to do just that. Open the valve. And, I intend to write about it. I am going to organize my thoughts here so that they are easily accessible and sharable, which is the best way to open a dialog on these topics, and to get input and feedback. Hopefully along the way someone will read my thoughts and help me to expand them even further.
Your life is a story of perception and belief.
Your life is a story of perception and belief.
Below are three monographs that talk about how each one of us lives a life that is molded by perception and belief. The challenge is to remold your perception and your beliefs in order to live the life that you want, or at minimum stop living life that was shaped by others during your childhood. The only "how to" information suggested below, is how to activate from your own core authentic self, in order to live the one unique life that you are here to live.
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Play Your Life Like A Game
Play Your Life Like A Game
The Game
The Game
As Albert Einstein once said, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”
Life has a purpose: you are here to engage in a virtual reality adventure, a game with infinite levels. This journey is designed to provide experiences that foster emotional growth. The meaning you assign to life is yours to uncover, develop, and immerse yourself in.
The game begins at your birth, but you don't truly start playing until you master the avatar body you've been given. You don't enter the game as a blank slate; instead, you step into a drama shaped by your ancestors, family, and community. In childhood, while you are learning to operate your avatar, you are also being programmed with the core challenges you'll face throughout your life journey.
You might view your life as a series of complications, such as difficult bosses, unfaithful partners, financial setbacks, and unsatisfactory job options. In reality, we are all playing on the same field, but our perspectives differ. The core beliefs instilled during your childhood programming are what make a boss seem difficult to you but acceptable to a coworker, lead you to choose unsuitable partners, prevent you from feeling financially successful, and make work seem like an unhappy chore.
Your perception and beliefs are crucial because they shape your experiences in the material world, influencing your feelings, emotions, and thoughts. Keep in mind that your beliefs are not fixed, but changing them is at the core of the game.
Your life experience would be elevated if you start to view consciousness as fundamental, with matter being a construct of consciousness, and a stage to act out the play that is your life. You can influence your body-avatar to the extent that you can affect your relationship with your perception of consciousness by altering your beliefs.
Our reality is a singular collective consciousness experiencing something akin to a dream. Each of us exists within this dream, which originates from our own higher mind. Though we are essentially the same, we navigate through different avatars shaped by countless micro-moments of our unique experiences. When we meet face-to-face, we fail to realize that we are one consciousness traversing different journeys. We are playing on the same field, but bound and limited by our unique avatar-mind.
The game challenges conventional notions of success by making death a fundamental part of gameplay. Your avatar's mortality is not a setback, but an opportunity for growth. While longevity may seem desirable, a life mired in fear and pain isn't the ultimate goal. True success is measured by the richness and variety of your experiences, not merely the length of your avatar's existence.
Even though the Avatar must die, you should not see yourself as the body-avatar. You should align with the conscious nature of your authentic self, and see it as not bound by the game's rules of mortality. It exists beyond the confines of time and space.
We transformed from a far more powerful entity—the universal force of life, which we see as consciousness—into a human form. We lowered our vibration to align with a dense avatar-body on a dense planet, which can feel heavy and exhausting. However, a key part of the game is to elevate your vibration by finding ways to thrive and transform.
It is monumentally challenging and requires significant effort, involving active work on your mind, beliefs, and perceptions. As you make these changes, you begin to vibrate at a higher frequency. You feel gratitude, and life opens up. You become curious, accepting, loving, and connected, despite the low-vibrating patterns around you. You experience compassion, empathy, and understanding. You feel most connected when helping others or discovering the depths of your authentic true self.
The game of play revolves around emotions and the trials and tribulations of earthly existence. You play to expand your consciousness. You cannot fail, but the journey comes with serious struggles and equally magical moments. It's up to you to activate your immense hidden powers and connect with the higher realm from which you originate. These powers have been with you since birth. We all long to return to the beginning. We enter life like a seed, containing all the information needed to survive and thrive, though we may not realize it. As social creatures, the key to unlocking this knowledge lies with others. The collective consciousness, of which you are a part, must help you access this understanding.
This is why we are drawn to fantasy. Fantastical stories resonate at a frequency that we can feel. Our true nature is far more fantastical than what our low vibrational avatar is accustomed to experiencing. Each time you feel euphoria, it offers a tiny glimpse into the immense capabilities of your original authentic self.
If you disagree or resist taking this perspective, it means that you are experiencing a deep connection with the survival portion of the game. Keep in mind that there is no wrong way to play this game, but there are consequences to what you decide to do with it.
Your survival self is afraid that you will give up your fear to survive and waste valuable energy resources leveling up emotionally and authentically. The survival-self is not concerned with happiness, and it is perfectly fine binding you to basic needs like procreation, sustenance, and simple pleasures. This is how biology keeps on moving. Your avatar is an Earthbound biological entity that is programmed for survival. If you align with the body’s programming you will only experience the first levels of the game and miss out on the potential for greater fulfillment and growth beyond mere survival.
Future games will keep replaying from the point where the previous game ended. You cannot advance to the next level until all your needs from the previous level are met. If you stagnate, you will repeatedly experience the same pain, suffering, and heartache you've faced thus far in life. This cycle will continue as many times as necessary to motivate and prompt you to level up.
If you are experiencing pain, suffering, struggle, or stagnation now, it means you did not advance beyond this point in your previous gameplay. Suffering is not a punishment; it is a perspective meant to teach you that you are clinging to rigid and controlling thoughts and beliefs that are holding you back. The hurt is meant to motivate you towards the action of change.
By working to align your perspective with this concept, you can significantly transform the course of your life. Now is a good time to dig deep and activate.
The Game Field
The Game Field
Science presents a fascinating perspective on this concept, one that is both supportive and seemingly incredible. Everything in the three-dimensional material universe is composed of the same fundamental elements: 17 elementary particle-waves. At the sub-atomic level, everything you see—your hand, a dog, a car, and a mountain—is made of the exact same components. The only difference lies in the vibration of these particles, causing the objects to appear distinct and serve different purposes for us. They function as props in a grand play. All of this exists as an invisible cloud pervading every corner of the universe, only coalescing into a three-dimensional hologram when we focus our attention on it. At that moment, it materializes for us to see, touch, smell, hear, or taste.
This is essentially the scientific explanation, that these 17 elementary particle-waves move through the universe in wave form until consciousness is applied. At that point, they collapse their wave function into particle behavior.
In other words, nothing around you is truly real; it only appears that way. Everything consists of waves flowing through the universe, which seem to us like solid and formed objects only when consciousness is applied. This consciousness then triggers the material world to manifest. These waves hold potentiality, meaning they can form into anything. When consciousness is applied, they coagulate and collapse into particles that appear as a table, water, or the hair on your head. Imagine the final scene of The Avengers when everything turned to dust and ceased to exist, but in reverse. This is what quantum physics discovered 100 years ago, and it remains valid science today. This revelation has seriously baffled the scientific community. It's so perplexing that scientists have largely shelved the discovery, waiting for new scientific advancements to provide alternative explanations for what currently seems impossible.
Quantum physics explains the origin story of the game you're playing, much like we can envision a virtual reality video game driven by a cosmic supercomputer.
Playing the Game
Playing the Game
Your avatar-body is crucial for interfacing with the game. You are neurally linked to it in such a way that it feels like it is you, and you are it.
In the initial levels of the game, one encounters and addresses the first set of challenges: the relationship with the body and the perceived relationship and standing within your family and community. These levels are highly complex and set the foundation for how all subsequent levels get programmed.
As you transition into young adulthood, your belief programming is now firmly established. The upcoming levels will challenge you to navigate the world with this belief system in place.
Remember, there is no wrong way to play. You cannot fail at the game because your very presence in it is a success. Being born is a monumental achievement, and simply surviving birth means you have already activated the main goal of the game, which is to have an earthly experience.
If you are unhappy, unsatisfied, or feeling a desire for more, then it means that you have not reached your personal goal that you set for yourself prior to entering the game. Reaching your full potential in this game-life is what your higher self aims to accomplish.
Exploration and discovery are fundamental components of the game. The primary goal is self-actualization.
Ultimately, all you truly possess are your emotions and experiences. In this production of the game, the enhancement of your emotional well-being and exploration of their interplay with thoughts, feelings, and actions is what we universally seek. It's where everything converges.
Version-1 of this game was played by our ancestors, who grew legs and walked out of the sea. They had to figure out how to build the avatar and become human. Now, in Version-2 of the game, our challenge is to understand how this avatar functions and tap into its vast resources and powers. It's filled with all sorts of abilities and knowledge waiting for us to unlock, enabling us to progress through the levels of the game and access even greater potential.
For most of us, our parents provided everything we needed for the Red-Level part of the game, represented in the pyramid represented here, where we also developed our initial belief systems. As young adults, we work on developing our avatar in the Orange-Level part of the game. Many of us remain in these first two levels, seeking safety and security.
As mentioned, not everyone will level up. The hierarchy of needs pyramid is shaped this way because its founder observed that fewer people reach the higher levels. It's crucial to remember that most people in your world won't progress beyond these initial survival levels. They may actively try to keep you anchored in these zones. This is the nature of the game. Your task is to elevate yourself and find ways to sustain that elevation in a consistently challenging environment.
Perhaps we've put our hearts out there and been hurt, or we've neglected our avatar bodies and lack the health needed to progress. Many feel they can't "catch a break" and remain stuck in lower levels, grappling with debt and social status, always yearning for love and belonging but never finding the right connection. The hidden truth of this game is that none of this originates from external sources. You'll never advance by seeking it elsewhere; it's time to turn inward and discover the meaning of your life within yourself.
Game Purpose
Game Purpose
Your thoughts, feelings, and emotions are sparked by interactions with the material world—a chain reaction that moves from external events to chemical reactions within your body, leading to psychological experiences. Your experiences are not material; they are emotional, arising from the intersection of the universal forces of consciousness and the material world.
They connect to enable you to have an experience. You have the freedom to decide how you respond. Your free will in this exchange is demonstrated by how you choose to align. Each micro-decision shapes your perspective and beliefs, forming cycles of thought that condition and influence your future reactions. Over time, these accumulate to shape how you perceive and experience the world.
Your role is to engage in the convergence of these two fundamental forces in the universe and to undergo the experience that emerges from their interaction. You entered this 3-dimensional virtual reality game for a purpose, in this particular time and body. The game functions effectively because you don't remember your origin—knowing it would hinder your ability to learn and grow.
The hero's journey involves venturing into the unknown abyss, which is precisely where you find yourself now. You are the hero of your own story's game.
Take the perspective that this world is akin to a virtual reality game in which you actively participate. Your consciousness has merged with the quantum field, and you are the manifestation of this union.
Consider your avatar as having an expiration date because it is part of the quantum field, but you are not. Eventually, you will return to the universal field of consciousness. Adopt the perspective that you are an infinite entity having a finite experience.
You are consciousness that merged with your avatar to explore the human experience, and this is where the game originates. Consider that you willingly signed up for this journey. The real essence of you is your conscious experience, amidst the backdrop of your material existence. Even if your body fails you and you lose a leg or become completely paralyzed, you would remain within the same perceptual field of consciousness that defines your being.
We often deeply identify with both our bodies and the material world that surrounds us. Chains of fear, particularly fear of material loss, are imposed on us by those who raised us. Over time, we may add more of these chains ourselves, impacting not only our own lives but also the lives of those around us.
It's your responsibility to recognize those chains and break free from them, to discover your authentic self and understand that your true conscious force is eternal. Every action and experience in this game world leaves an imprint on your authentic self that endures indefinitely.
The objective of the game is to nurture your emotional growth, using the material world as a backdrop of props. This growth occurs primarily through your relationships with others, with the natural world, and most crucially, with yourself. We have protectors and guides around us; we just need to open our minds and hearts to recognize them. When we make these connections, we often call it coincidence, yet there are signs along the path to guide us if we remain willing and open to receive them.
The higher you elevate emotionally, the more energy, drive, and creativity you can bring to the game. This leads to a higher vibration that propels you to another level—one where others perceive you as having luck, courage, and success.
We entered this game to undergo a metamorphosis and ascend to higher levels of experience. While we continue to live our human lives here, we do so with the understanding that nothing can truly harm us. We realize that failure is merely a low vibrational judgment and is impossible. As we progress to higher levels, we perceive everything as wondrous and develop deep gratitude for the privilege of experiencing this journey. We recognize the wonder, beauty, and magic that this world allows us to feel and experience.
Those living in a higher vibration would never dismiss any part of your authentic self. Any ridicule directed at you originates from individuals vibrating at lower frequencies, deeply immersed in their fears and insecurities. Distance yourself from them, at least until you've solidified a new belief system about your internal power. Limit interactions with these people to times when you feel grounded enough to maintain your high vibrational state. You will have friends and family who may not progress in their own life experiences, but as long as you remain mindful and connected to your authentic self, you can interact with them without being pulled into their fear-based frequency. In fact, by staying balanced and objective, your presence alone can potentially uplift them, as high-frequency energy is powerfully influential and radiant.
First and foremost, you must believe. You and the belief system within you are the only limitations you must confront. Progressing to a higher vibration requires recognizing your true nature. You are both the lock and the key; learning to trust yourself is essential to moving forward. It's not easy, but you can reshape your mind by consistently reinforcing a new and supportive belief system, even if it feels uncomfortable initially.
Find something that resonates and latch on to that, then start to believe deeply in yourself. Not the id that you struggle with, but the authentic self at the core of your being; you as the child that arrived here, naked and afraid, needing your love, compassion and support. The one who was chained down by family and community with limiting belief systems. Help that person out of the box you have them locked in because of your alignment with the low energy vibration of fear, rejection, ridicule, embarrassment and loneliness. None of these fears are true except that your association with low vibration emotions and experiences are making them true for you at this time in this space.
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
The second law of thermodynamics says that we all die and everything decomposes through an increase in entropy. This law does not explain why life evolves from non-life. The law that explains how there is an increase in order is missing. How information organizes is not known to us.
Information gathering is a fundamental mechanism through which complex order manifests. Examples such as the muscles in the body, the eyes of mammals, and the human brain illustrate how functional information organizes to create structures that facilitate conscious experiences.
You are actively involved in generating and gathering information. Through your conscious connection with your avatar, you play a role in this unknown missing law of physics. The information that you generate includes observations and experiences that result in memories, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensory inputs.
There is something in the universe that is increasing order and complexity, by selecting for function in an apparently purposeful way. Play your game with intention from this perspective, and know that it has meaning.
Ancient Sanskrit Rules for Being Human
Ancient Sanskrit Rules for Being Human
You will receive a body.
You will learn lessons.
There are no mistakes, only lessons.
A lesson will be repeated until it is learned.
Learning lessons does not end.
‘There’ is not better than ‘here.’
Others are merely mirrors of you.
What you make of your life is up to you.
Life is exactly what you think it is.
Your answers lie inside you.
You will forget all of this guidance, but
You can remember it whenever you want.
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The Authentic You
The Authentic You
Your view of yourself is probably not true nor realistic. Recognizing this disconnect is the first step toward healing and crafting your belief system. Every aspect of your life is profoundly influenced by how you perceive and treat yourself. Your mood, motivational drive, and energy levels are intimately linked to your self-perception. It's vital to actively embark on the journey of self-discovery. Along the way you will gain momentum and feel driven to continually nurture and maintain a deep connection with your authentic self.
Your Avatar
Your Avatar
Biologically speaking, you are not a single being. You are 50 trillion beings that got together in an alliance to increase their collective experience by working together. Yes, each of your 50 trillion cells have their own knowledge, awareness, and memory. Each one of them can survive on their own outside of your body under the right conditions. They are impacted by “you” equally as much as they impact “you.” Once you fully grasp what it means to be human, you can begin to evolve your self-perception.
For nearly 3 billion years, Earth was only inhabited by single-celled organisms; then around 700 million years ago some of them figured out how to increase both their survivability and life experience by making connections with other cells. You are that multicellular organism that resulted from that cooperative agreement. You are collaborating with these 50 trillion beings, and your life is as much theirs. Who and what is the real you? Do not discount the magic going on here. How does your self-aware human consciousness emerge from the amalgamation of these cells? Consider the notion that the human body offers an environment conducive to engaging with consciousness at a heightened self-reflective level.
Your consciousness wields immense power over your vast community of cells. Your thoughts and actions directly impact the environment of each cell. Consequently, each cell responds to its environment based on the biochemical signals you unleash upon it. This is where the magic occurs, for better or for worse. Although your thoughts are not made of matter, they prompt matter to activate through your emotions. Your mind triggers your brain to release chemicals and electricity as it translates your thoughts into action. Subsequently, the cells of your body become immersed in the newly created electrochemical environment. This process unfolds with every micro-decision your mind makes, whether consciously or subconsciously. It encompasses the food you choose to consume, the level of physical activity or sedentary lifestyle you adopt, and the quality of rest you prioritize. Above all, how you align and think shapes the environment in which your 50 trillion cell community resides. Every story you consciously or subconsciously construct for yourself has the potential to become your reality. This is a vital point to constantly keep in mind in order to impact and elevate your life experience.
With time, a feedback loop is established. These cells store your memories, occasionally echoing fragments of them back to your consciousness. Continuously, day and night, they transmit signals to your mind. This ongoing communication spawns new thoughts, thus more emotions that trigger fresh electrochemical responses. You therefore inadvertently condition yourself and your body to a mental and emotional cycle from where your thoughts initially originated. Ninety-eight percent of physical and psychological health issues stem from this intricate interplay.
Your consciousness transcends the mere sum of your bodily parts. The intricate electrochemical processes within your body create the conditions for your conscious self-awareness. Rather than subscribing to the illusion that science presents, consider an alternative perspective. You are an expansive energy field of consciousness, harmoniously aligned with a colony of 50 trillion cells that graciously host you on your earthly journey.
Your Network
Your Network
Your mind extends beyond the confines of your physical brain. While science posits that consciousness arises from the neurons within the human brain, this notion is as speculative as the belief in a divine being. It lacks empirical evidence and remains a theory derived from deductive reasoning. Throughout its existence, science has endeavored to validate the idea that consciousness is a product of the body's material substance.
As discussed previously, our thoughts manifest as biological electrochemical signals that course throughout our entire body. These signals are not solely confined to the neurons in our brain; rather, they extend to other neural networks distributed throughout our body. While the majority of the body's approximately 100 billion neurons reside in the brain, significant numbers are also present in other regions such as the gut (500 million), spinal column (69 million), and heart (40,000).
The array of responses you encounter, whether in the form of thoughts, emotions, or feelings, is profoundly influenced by your neural activity. Your whole body is engaged in the field of “mind.” Many of us rely on "gut feelings" when making decisions, recognizing an intuitive sense that often proves accurate. Yet, we often find ourselves overthinking situations, attempting to analyze past experiences and predict future outcomes instead of trusting our intuition. Similarly, we may err by prioritizing logical reasoning over heartfelt responses, leading to poor decisions or unnecessary conflicts. Where is your mind really? Are you the logical brain? The creative brain? The heartfelt person or the one going with your gut? With all these “minds” who is the real you and where do you choose to align?
When watching a school of fish or a flock of birds moving seamlessly in tight formation, one is observing a phenomenon that continues to perplex most scientists regarding the intricate interactions between individuals. The rapid movements of these creatures occur at speeds surpassing the transmission of electrochemical signals necessary for reflexive muscle action, suggesting an alternative mode of communication among them. This hints at the existence of a collective consciousness—a shared energetic field of mind—wherein their focused intensity and entranced state within the school or flock are amplified and linked to a communal mindset. Such phenomena are species-specific, and humans too reside within their own collective mental realm. This concept, also referred to as morphic resonance, is currently under investigation by biologists exploring the notion of an unconscious awareness shared among humanity on a global scale. This collective unconscious, like one's subconscious, exerts influences on one’s mind that contributes to your reactions to life’s challenges.
It's a far more enriching perspective to view your consciousness as interacting with your body, rather than emerging solely from it. This viewpoint considers consciousness as a form of energy intricately linked to the frequency of your body. By solely adhering to the scientific belief that consciousness arises from matter, one is taking a leap of faith into magic. And if one is going to be taking a leap of faith into magic, why not take one that has a far more exciting and interesting storyline? That consciousness may very well be fundamental, in which case your material world is a perception in which to experience, learn and grow. That you are an energy field that some call “soul” having a material experience, rather than a material being trying to find a soulful life.
Your Microbiome
Your Microbiome
Are you even human? Your body contains about 100 trillion cells. The 50 trillion mentioned above that are human cells is an estimate that ranges between 30-50 trillion. The other 50-70 trillion cells that are inside of your body are not even human. They include bacteria, fungi, and much more, and they are collectively known as the microbiota. The most amazing thing about this symbiotic relationship that you have with this vast community of bacterial and fungal cells, is that you cannot survive without them. This collaboration of human, fungal, and bacterial cells harmonized long before human consciousness arrived on the scene. Some may find this disgusting, but if you are to truly get to know who you really are, you absolutely need to have everything in context. Without this perspective, embarking on a journey to discover your authentic self would be incomplete.
Everything from the type of food you consume to the environment you inhabit, the level of physical activity you engage in, and even the substances you ingest or expose yourself to—all of these factors directly influence this intricate ecosystem. Your microbiota, in turn, plays a pivotal role in shaping your overall life experience, influencing aspects such as mood, energy levels, and mental clarity. This illustrates both the consequences of your actions and the complex nature of what you really are: an energy field of consciousness interacting with the earthly realm.
Your Mind
Your Mind
Exploring the inner workings of your mind-body connection delves into the origins of your thoughts and reactions. Where do your thoughts originate? What prompts your reactions? To what extent are your bodily responses driven by your conscious self, and how much stems from your body's innate drive for survival?
At its core, your body is hardwired for survival. This fundamental drive encompasses not only the need to sustain itself but also to perpetuate its genetic lineage through procreation. To ensure its survival and continuation, your body is equipped with an army of chemical signals that it readily sends to your mind, influencing your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Many of your desires and impulses can be traced back to this primal urge for survivability. Key among these are the basic instincts for food, sex, and comfort. These desires are deeply rooted in your body's evolutionary history, serving as essential mechanisms for the perpetuation of life and the propagation of genetic material.
The human brain comprises three distinct layers, each reflecting different stages of evolutionary development. At the most primitive level lies the reptilian brain, represented by your brainstem, responsible for basic survival functions. Next in line is your mammalian brain, the cerebral neocortex, which governs your emotions and instinctual responses, such as fight or flight reactions. Finally, the pinnacle of human brain evolution are your frontal lobes, responsible for your higher-order thinking, reasoning, and decision-making.
The human part of the brain is not instinctual like the reptilian and mammalian brain sections, and it requires learning in order to function. Each of us is limited to what we have observed and learned from others in our past. When you are faced with a difficult situation, which of these parts of your brain are driving your response? All of them, and at the same time. Your brain's default control network attempts to integrate and filter these various responses, influencing your overall reaction. Since your default control network is part of the human brain, it means that it is mostly operating on programming that you received from other people. Parents, peers, and community all shape how your brain functions, which means that you are living out someone else’s belief system and incorporating it as your own. Many people do not take control and live only as they were programmed.
Our brains are divided into left and right hemispheres, and each side has a different personality profile. The two sides are connected but filter through the default control network, and they create a battle over how you might respond to any given situation. You are literally “of two minds” when it comes to all decision making. Your creative and intuitive half, often the right hemisphere, would tend toward an intuitive and instinctual response. The dominant side, typically the left hemisphere for most individuals, controls speech and tends to acquire the most attention since most people think in words. You may “feel” one way, but then “talk yourself into” the opposite decision as your two lobes send conflicting responses. Every thought that you have is influenced by the desires of your reptilian brain, instincts from your mammalian brain, and two different reflective thoughts each from left and right sides of your human cerebrum, all at the same time.
Your Clan: Genes, Epigenetics, and The Collective Unconscious
Your Clan: Genes, Epigenetics, and The Collective Unconscious
You are not merely a product of mechanistic hardware and software, as conventional medical and scientific understanding might suggest. Following the completion of the human genome project, researchers anticipated uncovering around 120,000 genes encoded within human DNA to account for the number of combinations of genetic traits. Surprisingly, they found only 25,000 genes, a number comparable to that of mice and roundworms. This discovery shows that both your physical attributes and personality traits are only moderately influenced by genetic coding. The majority of your characteristics stem from environmental stimuli, which activate a series of genetic response strings. Your self-perception is crucial. Genes are activated and deactivated in various sequences based on your mind-body's response to various inputs, both macro and micro. Your mind possesses the remarkable ability to alter these sequences in ways that might seem magical, particularly from a personal perspective. You might start to think of this from that magical perspective, for that is the only way to fully activate and engage with it.
Your personal hero’s journey starts out at the age of six. This is when the core of the belief programming is active within your mind-body configuration. This includes your family, peers, teachers, and community beliefs and inputs. It also includes the genetic triggering happening at conception and gestation, as well as the epigenetics passed along to you by all the generations that came before you.
It begins with epigenetics, the intricate programming of memory carried through inherited genetic imprints. Scientific studies have demonstrated that descendants of Holocaust survivors bear genetic markers reflective of the trauma endured by their ancestors, almost as if they themselves had lived through those events. Consequently, every unresolved personal issue of your direct ancestors is etched within your body's biological makeup. This includes your parents, grandparents, and up the chain until you get just five generations back amounting to a full 62 direct ascendents of yours whose unresolved psychological "baggage" resides within your DNA.
Genes, like cells, are dynamically regulated by the environment they inhabit within the mind-body ecosystem. Each thought triggers an emotion, and every emotion sets off a cascade of body chemistry that envelops your cells, influencing the activation and deactivation of various genetic mechanisms encoded within DNA. During the days leading up to and including the moment of conception, the collective mindset of your parents impacts which genes are activated or suppressed as they merge to form your genetic blueprint. Throughout the nine months of gestation, your development in the womb is further shaped by the mental and physical well-being of your mother. Her experiences during this crucial period transmit a spectrum of emotional and personality traits, as genes are modulated into unique on-off configurations in response to the perceived environment awaiting your birth.
Your Parts: Shadow Self and Subconscious
Your Parts: Shadow Self and Subconscious
All of the above is to explain that you are a complex amalgamation of memories, experiences, thoughts, and emotions that originate from various parts of your body. You are consciously aware of feelings and sensations but lack clarity on their origins or significance.
For instance, you might walk into a room and suddenly feel flushed and uncomfortable. Unknown to your conscious mind, your body's cellular memory may be reacting to a past experience or trigger, causing physiological responses such as increased heart rate and expanded capillaries, resulting in a flushed state. This example illustrates how your body's subconscious processes can influence your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations long before you consciously recognize them. In fact, such occurrences are happening constantly, every millisecond of your life. When these processes operate beneath the threshold of conscious awareness, they are deemed subconscious. The subconscious mind is a million times more powerful than your conscious mind. While you may perceive yourself as exercising free will through conscious thought, the reality is that only a small fraction—approximately 5%—of your mental processes are under conscious control. The remaining 95% of your preferences, desires, concerns, and decision-making are driven by the subconscious mind, influenced by all of the irrational life events that shaped it.
Much of what we do for survival happens subconsciously—breathing, blood circulation, digestion, and more. Our physical and intellectual responses to various stimuli mostly operate on a subconscious level. Consider when something flies at your head and your hand instinctively rises to protect you, milliseconds before conscious awareness kicks in. Our bodies function and respond without needing our conscious direction. While we often perceive ourselves as in control, we're more like passengers with significant influence. Throughout the day, we rely on patterned responses for tasks like driving, school, work, chores, and exercise, operating on semi-autopilot. This streamlined functioning conserves energy and enhances performance. However, it's crucial to recognize that we're not always as engaged or in charge as we believe. Much of our behavior is driven by subconscious programming, shaped by external influences rather than conscious intention.
Developing an intentional belief system is one important key. Equally important is unraveling the layers of subconscious programming that shape our behaviors and perceptions today. This programming begins in infancy, as we absorb and internalize our parents' responses to our actions. It continues to evolve as we navigate school, interacting with teachers and peers whose feedback shapes our self-image. Every interaction leaves an imprint—whether we are praised, criticized, ridiculed, or validated. These experiences, coupled with the dynamics of our familial relationships, shape our coping mechanisms and behavioral patterns.
Your shadow is the place where you put all of these things, and for most of us we have anywhere from 30-50 substantial unresolved challenges parked there. Some are huge and extreme, and most are just habitual behaviors that need to be forgiven and unlearned. Operating beneath conscious awareness, your subconscious dictates many of your responses, rendering you unaware of their origins. This is your shadow. It builds over a lifetime, but mostly during the first 30-40 years of life. The shadow stays with you your entire life until you shine a light on each bit. Each bit that remains unaddressed grows and morphs over time until it controls one’s life.
All of the various sources within the body that generate thoughts, feelings, and emotions—such as cellular memory, heart or gut neurons, and different brain regions—create internal factions within us. One part of us may lean towards action A, while another part favors action B. These parts are an important path into our own personal psyche, and they provide a means for finding your authentic self. Each one of us has at our core an authentic self: a part of us that is indestructible, grounded, unconditionally loving, sensible, trustworthy, and full of deep meaning. It is heavily covered under deep layers of whatever life has been throwing at you over time.
The only way to live from the perspective of the authentic self is to take off each layer, one at a time with loving and kind intention. The lighter you get, the higher you become. Living your life close to your authentic self in the higher state of emotions is the same high that one experiences when using their substance of choice (alcohol, food, drug, sex, thrill-seeking, excitement, shopping). The substance is having the effect of disassociating you from your shadow and your lower survival-self emotions. This is temporary and fleeting and always carries side effects. When you align with your authentic self and learn to drop associations with survival emotions, you are able to live in a higher state of mind. A high that is sustainable, lasting, meaningful, and aligned with the higher state of emotions, such as compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, hope, optimism, and peace.
You
You
Your body undergoes cell replacements approximately every seven years, meaning that over a lifespan of ninety years, you experience nearly thirteen cycles of near full body replacement. Despite this physical turnover, the field of your consciousness remains consistent. Your consciousness is not confined within your physical form, and science is unable to prove that it is. There is no harm in taking a broader view of what you are. In fact, taking an alternate view is liberating! You are the passenger in your body, riding around absorbing all of the sensory experiences that the world has to offer while you are on this voyage.
Science has demonstrated that at the atomic level, we are essentially pure energy moving at a speed slowly enough for us to experience things at a certain rate that we call time. Each atom contains 99.99% space, revealing that our physical bodies, despite their apparent solidity, are predominantly emptiness with an illusion of density. As we are already living in an illusory world, there is no harm in taking charge of your perception and modifying it in a way that allows for a much more expansive view.
You are not born a blank slate awaiting knowledge and growth; rather, you are a continuation, woven from the threads of souls preceding you, facing a series of challenges meant for you to confront, overcome, survive, and thrive. Recognizing this reality is the first step. Opening up to the idea that this journey unfolds within the intricate framework of your mind and body is the second step. Blame nobody and blame nothing and consider that you are here for a purpose is the third step. Accepting the challenge and summoning the immense effort and courage necessary to overcome your unique life’s difficulties is the fourth step.
Walking through your life journey and traversing the abyss that each one of us faces in our own specific and unique way is the main purpose of a human life. This must be followed by a collection of practices, habits, and new belief systems that become essential for maintaining a sustained connection with one's authentic self. Alignment with your authentic self and compassion with your survival self will increase and enhance your personal life experiences with ever-increasing meaning. There is no limit to the various levels that one can achieve in this part of the journey.
The Human Journey
The Human Journey
to Find the Authentic Self
to Find the Authentic Self
We are each on a Hero’s Journey, from the moment that we are born to the moment that we die. The purpose of life is for you to walk your path of personal discovery while facing challenges to see if and how you can overcome them. All the while struggling with the never-ending thought-emotion-feeling cycle that our survival-self keeps our minds preoccupied with.
A Hero’s Journey is the basic structure behind all major mythologies, including many of our modern day movies, such as Star Wars. It involves a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed. This storyline is easy for each of us to associate with for a very good reason. We are each individually on our own journey. One that has a definitive beginning point and ending point. A life journey that is filled with temptations and challenges, where we are influenced by guides and mentors. The journey challenge is the same for each one of us: Find your authentic self and establish a deeply meaningful and lasting relationship with yourself. Unfortunately, failure to achieve this is an option and for a large number of people that remain in survival mode throughout life is common. It is not an easy journey, but it is monumentally fulfilling as you make your personal self-discoveries.
Call to Adventure and Crossing the Threshold
Call to Adventure and Crossing the Threshold
How we got here is one of the biggest mysteries we carry within. As you read, please keep an open mind to the possibility of a story that we may want to tell ourselves in order to provide a framework that can find consistency with a broad spectrum of belief systems. While at the same time giving us personal meaning toward finding our inner true nature. You live your entire life within your own mind, and the only thing that you can really do in life is to develop a deep relationship with who you truly are. This idea is tossed about without explanation and sounds nice for “others.” The reality is that you must find it for yourself. Nobody can explain your own path to you, but you can open your mind to guides, mentors, and helpers along the way. Connect your dots and your path will start to emerge. Lean in to the uncomfortable, let go of your fears, and realize that you arrived here with nothing, and you will leave here with nothing other than your interpersonal experience. This is your journey. Put some effort into figuring out what that means. Part of this story includes the hard-to-believe idea that you actually chose this on another plain of consciousness. Something motivated you to want life and something motivates you to want to live. Even if you think that this storyline is untrue, it is far better to accept it and lean into it hard, because the harder you lean into it, the more magical you will find your life unfolding.
We start our journey from the supernatural event of the creation-of-life through birth. We step foot into this world at the threshold level with guardians that tend to our infant needs. We grow over time with helpers and mentors that may or may not be able to arm us with the tools we need to face out personal challenges down the road as we mature into our body and mind.
Challenges and Temptations
Challenges and Temptations
The first half of life is developmental. One fades into existence in the first three years of life when we realize individualization and discover the self. The next few childhood years of life are filled with challenges that are handed to us by family, peers, and community. As we mature into adolescence, we reach mastery of our own experiences to ever increasing degrees. Still heavily influenced by the characteristics that we took on from others during our upbringing, we are now faced with “finding ourselves.” This all happens amongst a flood of growth hormones in the first half of adolescence and sex hormones that roll along until middle age. Eventually all of this biology subsides to a more manageable level, but by this time we have habits and beliefs that are hardening and impacting life.
Temptations are offered along the way in the form of all of the obvious “vices” of money, drugs, sex, entertainment, and other mind-numbing activities. Choices in how one engages in mind development and group association will highly impact one’s life as they mature into middle age. This all adds to the shadow-self and for many people will become a lifelong habit for how they think and how they live their lives. It is at this stage that one faces their most monumental challenge: Will you jump into the abyss of your own mind and bring light to all that ails mentally and physically? Will you seek to die to your old patterned-way-self and become reborn to a lighter and more accepting individual that experiences life in the higher emotions? The path into Revelation is difficult and painful, and it only gets harder the older you become and the longer you put off making progress on your journey.
The Abyss
The Abyss
The abyss is where the shadow-self resides. Each one of us has a subconscious where we put our shadow’s hidden elements. These are experiences that we cannot deal with, so we “shut them out.” Each of those unwanted personality elements is actually placed into our subconscious and once there they become our shadow-self. Most people are not even aware that they have a shadow-self, let alone what they have been putting there. This all starts at about the age of six.
We all face challenges and temptations during our youth as we formulate “who we are.” As we socialize, we test certain behaviors that we may eventually find deplorable, and we park away those parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable. For many people these may be traits like sadness, rage, laziness, and cruelty. Things that you may deem uncivilized and unacceptable. For others it may actually include personal power, independence, or emotional sensitivity. This may become a feedback loop, and as people experience even more severe challenges and temptations, the shadow-self gets more complicated and solidified to the point that one’s behavior becomes driven by the subconscious.
This only gets worse with age. Neural pathways have physically formed in the brain that keep these thought patterns consistent. A fully packed shadow results in a person that has difficult relationships because they cannot accept someone’s behavior which reflects elements within their own shadow. This adds further layers to one’s journey with even more challenges in life. A large percentage of people live their lives in this state, never having realized their true potential. They often die confused and unhappy, which is a sure sign that they missed their mark on this life of theirs.
Leveling up starts at the moment of revelation. When one realizes that they are the master of their own journey…that there is something that they can actively do to shape it. It starts with shadow work. This is the fundamental abyss. They must be the light that illuminates each element of their shadow-self. Only when each element is faced head-on can they begin to transform.
As one actively addresses the heaviest shadow elements, they begin to reveal what was previously unknown in their conscious awareness. Revelation is often a surprising and dramatic self-realization of the root cause of some of the most damaging afflictions, such as fear, anxiety, depression, apathy, and many other root challenges that people face during a lifetime.
Transformation and Atonement
Transformation and Atonement
Initiating shadow work is a major hurdle that often takes the help of mentors and guides to put into motion. Our cultural view of mental health has not traditionally been supportive of doing this type of work, as it is seen as weak and admitting to being flawed in some way. In addition the depth that one lives with their shadow without realizing the monumental impact is hard to explain. Most people just think that everyone is living under similar internal conditions, but for some reason they are uniquely struggling and unable to process in ways that others appear to be managing life “successfully.” Transformation occurs after taking the leap into the abyss and eventually finding the authentic self. At a certain point this becomes self-propelling. Eventually self-motivation kicks in and a snowballing effect takes place where one can continue a life of transformation as they level up and follow the meaning that they create for themselves in this life.
Atonement is self-actualization. The phase of discovery where one has a deep and meaningful relationship with themselves. One realizes their all-powerful beingness. That they are fully connected to everyone and everything. Helping others becomes second nature, because helping others is akin to helping oneself. Self-love and compassion are available for projection to others.
At the end of the journey there is always the return. This return is a fading back to the spirit from whence we started. Having achieved transformation and atonement, we have leveled up our soul. We are able to join back to spirit having achieved the goals for taking the journey in the first place.
The journey that you are on will only take you into the abyss, if you choose to take that leap. Shine a light into the dark corners of your soul and foster compassionate self-reverence. Only then can you know who you truly are.
How We Engage With The Journey
How We Engage With The Journey
The Subconscious and the Unconscious
The Subconscious and the Unconscious
Each of us actively engages with a small fraction of our mind, maybe about five percent, which is the part that we label as self. This is our personality, character, sense perception, accessible memory, thought, feeling, emotion, decision making, and all that goes along with what we think comprises the active part of our mind. We will call this our survival-self because its main function is to provide us with a framework in which to operate, to keep us safe and alive.
The other 95 percent of the mind is made up of the subconscious and the unconscious. The best way to think of these two elements within the framework of our storyline is subconscious as one’s soul and unconscious as one’s connection to spirit. We are each also connected to our one-human tribe by way of the collective unconscious where we influence each other in ways that are far from obvious.
Your subconscious and unconscious are controlling you, and you have no idea how significantly. Most of your thoughts well up like bubbles in a bubble bath, constantly flowing despite any desire to have them. Sometimes you do intentionally engage in thought in order to work something out. But there is no easy way to put it to rest when done, as one might do with an arm or a leg. It just keeps flowing, and oftentimes from the level of low-survival emotions that include fear and frustration. All from the subconscious, and as mentioned, from your shadow-self. Your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and emotions are completely colored by your subconscious and shadow-self.
In keeping with our storyline previously suggested, your unconscious (and the collective unconscious) can be seen as your connection to spirit. It is important to understand that spirit does not judge. There is no good or evil from its perspective. Everything is always a shade of love from its view, because our small soulful part is an extension of spirit and can never be damaged in any way. It learns a lot by observing horrors like the holocaust or the triumphs of freedom. It has no concern for how we play our parts. It was our spirit-self that took on this role in this world in order to take the challenge of piling on a thick layer of survival emotions to see if we could dig our way out and grow emotionally from the challenges faced. The labyrinth of finding our own way back to unconditional pure love. All the struggles that humanity experiences along the way, such as abuse, rape, and one’s response to loss are part of the game that we signed up for. The number of souls playing the game alongside us that fail along the way become a part of our own personal challenges.
Shadow Work
Shadow Work
Shadow work comes in many forms. This is also part of your journey by figuring out what works for you. How your efforts to self-improve pay off toward the end goal of transformation and atonement. For many people this may result in baby steps in this life, followed by baby steps in the next life. For some, they may achieve insight and understanding that they can carry forward.
Doing basic things like exercise, healthy eating, and keeping normal and fulfilling sleep patterns is monumental. Without these, one cannot really progress. But not “wanting” to do these things is directly tied to elements within the shadow-self that relate to self-worth and self-respect. Daily mindfulness and meditation practices are another basic, but fundamental, factor that provides a direct connection to one’s inner authentic self. Journaling is a window into the subconscious and allows one to unpack elements of one’s own shadow-self. Writing down challenges allows one to express all the words and thoughts that relate to their situation. This begins to tap communication with the subconscious. There is no direct way to communicate with the subconscious, but journaling makes a connection with thought patterns and beliefs that will give the subconscious a voice. Be sure not to “try to write” but practice auto-writing. Record everything that comes to mind, even if it doesn’t seem thought through or represent your normal thoughts. Beyond this point, the steps toward shadow work generally involve mentors and guides. Therapists, friends that don’t drag you down, shamans, yoga instructors, hypnotherapists, breathwork, and healing centers all provide options for further healing and leveling up.
Mind, body and soul work together to form life and your personal reality…a life that is solely made up of nothing but experiences, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. It is of supreme importance that these be balanced and that one lives a life that supports that balance. As mundane and cliché as a healthy lifestyle may sound, imbalance in this area is a significant part of the abyss that you must traverse in order to authentically transform.
Beliefs
Beliefs
Your beliefs mostly come from your subconscious. They are then translated by your survival-self. Most people start out with beliefs from family, peers, and culture. Those beliefs are shaped further by the unresolved elements of the shadow-self where they are molded into protective shields to keep you from having to encounter the things that you fear. Also to combat the characteristics in others that you dislike because of what they represent within your own subconscious. Are your beliefs serving you? Are they intentional and meaningful? Or are they random and disconnected? Are they conflicting? Are you even consciously aware of them? One should analyze their beliefs and craft them in a way that helps achieve goals, wishes, and purpose. Then plan to evolve them as you evolve. Doing shadow work will cause these beliefs to change over time and may draw attention to some beliefs unrealized or unmanageable. Beliefs are everything. You really only have your experience, and it is directly impacted by your belief system.
Beliefs are also extremely destructive. In our lifetime we have experienced two main forces: religion and science. Whether we like it or not, those two things have clouded and colored our belief systems. Science knows far less than people realize, likely less than 1% of the visible universe. It is mostly focused on the measurement of the material world, which is incredibly useful, but does not provide a comprehensive story. Our personal experiences and journeys are not material objects, and they cannot be measured by science. We will live and die with only our experiences. The discussion thus far has included some loaded words like spirit and soul with intention. Human beings are storytellers, and we must tell ourselves a story at all times. We do this on micro and macro scales. Our stories are directly tied to our belief systems. In the end, we must have a story and we must have a belief system. How are we going to craft those from our extremely limited perspective? We as individuals do not understand enough science to come up with our own theory of everything. Religion has been tasked over time with helping us come to terms with existence and death. There are actually a number of incredibly useful philosophies underpinning every world religion, but they have become twisted in a number of ways. They are full of rules and judgment, politics, and control, and have become weapons of the unconscious collective of man. These fundamental philosophies of existence are not the main message of organized religions any longer.
I propose that formulating a belief system along this storyline that includes the depth psychology theories of survival-self, subconscious, shadow work, unconscious, and collective unconscious, as it relates to The Hero’s Journey, to make a connection with the authentic self and live out the remainder of life aligned with the higher emotions, soul, and spirit, is a far better paradigm than the one that is available to most of us today. A belief in science alone suggests that we are random accidents and that somehow consciousness comes out of matter. That life and death have no meaning except as found in the material goods that we secure and protect. A belief in modern organized religion provides a fear system. One that requires you to believe and behave in a particular way, else you will end up spending eternity in pain and suffering. And that one must make a sacrifice of their authenticity in order to fulfill this obligation. In the end, it doesn’t matter if science, or a particular religion is correct in these views. Nor does it matter that this storyline that I propose has unprovable elements. The only thing that matters is for you to develop belief systems for yourself. For you to find meaning and purpose in your journey that will elevate your experiences and relationships. There is no limit to the height of your becoming. It is non-invasive. It is healing. It is vastly more enjoyable. There is literally no downside to this storyline.
The interesting thing about both science and religion is that they are each actually in support of this depth psychology paradigm and a Hero’s Journey. Quantum mechanics has discovered that the “building blocks” of the universe are actually subatomic particles that are of themselves unrealized potential waiting to become. As previously mentioned, the underlying philosophy of all religions has enormous supportive and meaningful mythology that just needs to be parsed out to realize.
Using your intuition to formulate a belief system is a very good place to start. Keep in mind that your intuition is often depressed by the survival-self. Doing shadow work in order to form a deeper relationship with your intuition is necessary. One may need to take a leap of faith to undertake shadow work in order to develop a meaningful belief system. One may even need to hit rock bottom and glimpse an open door to commence shadow work, just to refrain from wanting to check out of life prematurely.
Authentic Self
Authentic Self
All of this requires an enormous amount of effort. Especially since we start out under a layer of muck before we even start to have a self-realized set of thoughts about who we are.
When you re-discover your authentic self, you are reborn. Shadow work results in compassion for your shadow elements, brings light into your experience and supports self-reflective love and confidence. You will transform because you will have a direct line to a wider scope of your subconscious by establishing a relationship where you can trust yourself fully and completely. You will recognize your innate knowledge. You will accept your intuitions as second nature and not question them. You will find inspiration that will flow on a steady and regular basis. Creativity will flow in both problem solving and artistic ways. You will be energized and motivated organically to do things, have experiences, and try new things. You will have courage to let go of the things that weren’t meant to be. You will experience all of the higher emotions more frequently. It will become surprising when you find yourself momentarily falling into an old survival-self low emotional thought pattern. You will catch yourself, realize your self-love and respect, and gently flow back to equilibrium. The high that one temporarily feels with substances is the same high that is available to us at all times using our own natural brain chemistry. We must first put ourselves onto a path where we disassociate from the low survival emotions. The higher emotions will seep into that space as the default mode.
One’s authentic self already exists, but it is buried under all the layers discussed. The journey is to find it, engage with it, let it transform you, and atone. Become self-actualized and remember. Remember that you are just the soulful tip of an iceberg of spirit that permeates everything that we see, touch, and experience in this world.
Why go on the Journey?
Why go on the Journey?
In your current state of mind and body, you are responding emotionally to your experience. As you elevate and transform to your authentic self and shed the association with shadow and survival emotions, you will get high. The buzzing feeling that you get when you are getting ready to depart on a vacation with friends and you know that there is going to be a very good time to be had just around the corner…that is a natural high. In this state of mind, you are in a great mood. Creativity, acceptance, and flexibility are abundant. This feeling is both emotional and physical. You have energy that spontaneously erupts that is lasting and genuine. This high is available to you far more frequently than the one time that you get to depart on this vacation. It is available to you weekly and daily, but only if you do the work to find the authentic self and trust that everything will work in a direction that will continue your interpersonal growth. Even things that seem “bad” that may come along only seem that way because you associate with old patterned thinking you have from the immense power of survival emotions. Life is a rollercoaster for a reason. One cannot learn anything without having an equal number of “bad” things that happen as “good” things that happen. Spiritual growth comes in the form of how you react to these things…good and bad. People that appear to be successful only appear that way because they have figured out how to navigate both the good and the bad and make it all work for them without tearing them down along the way.
Your emotional life experience is always going to be about your perception, never anything else. No external event, person, or thing can drag you down or lift you up. Your internal perspective is the only source of your power, and it is also the only thing that you can “control,” once you put effort into discovering authentic-self source powers from within.
Meaning
Meaning
Life has no intrinsic meaning. You are here in order to give it meaning.
We live in the shadow of reality. A shadow of our own making. We fear the world and what it might do to us, so we create a shadow of our own world, and we hide inside of it. We do not realize that the world is far more accepting if we live true to ourselves.
The world only wants for us to live out loud. Our own individually unique selves. For if you live true, you will make the world a whole and beautiful place. We don’t trust the world. We don’t trust ourselves. We don’t realize that we are the world, and it needs for us to live true.
If you live in the depth of yourself, you feel meaning and connection. If you remain in the shallows, you feel lost and apathetic. One must find the depth of the inner core to feel the connection with everything. The shallows have no connection, only emptiness. Meaning is felt in the richness of music, senses, taste, feelings, art, and the depth of authenticity. Shape your meaning by putting heart and soul into crafting and experiencing. Do things for the sake of intentional focus, artistic compassion, and internal loving creativity. The only meaning that the material world provides is that it acts as a stage on which to grow your emotional experience and intelligence.
Quote from a Cosmic Sage - All that you ever need to know
Quote from a Cosmic Sage - All that you ever need to know
Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the one that contains more excitement than any other…act on it to the best of your ability… Do this with integrity. Do this with absolutely no assumption, no insistence on what the outcome ought to be or how it should look, or how you should get there. When you do that three-part formula…you open up and activate the toolkit of excitement. The toolkit contains everything that you need to be supported in life…the driving engine that moves you through life, the organizing principle of synchronicity that allows you to do what you need to do when you need to do it in perfect timing in perfect order. It becomes the path of least resistance that allows you to flow through your life effortlessly. It becomes the path that connects you to all other expressions of your excitement even if they don’t look like they are connected on the surface. It’s the excitement that tells you that they are, and it becomes the reflective mirror that reveals to you anything within your consciousness that might be out of alignment with that excitement so that you can identify those definitions that don’t work for you and let them go…and continue to expand. And then any circumstance…that arises from those actions, no matter how it looks, if you give it a positive meaning you will only get a positive and beneficial effect…
What you believe to be true…is how you experience your reality…your beliefs generate your feelings, your thoughts, and your behavior. So, any time that you have a behavior you don’t prefer, a thought you don’t prefer, a feeling you don’t prefer, you can always trace it back down the line to something you must believe to be true that you are not aware of. Find out what that belief…is, when you identify it and if it is out of alignment with your true self, you will find that it will suddenly be nonsensical and illogical, and you will drop it and let it go. If you don’t drop it and if you still behave the same way, then you haven’t found the deeper belief yet, keep digging.
As you do this, as you move through life this way, acting on your highest excitement, you will start living more in the present, living more in the moment, and because of that, you will know what you need to know and when you need to know it.
Books
Books
Books are organized by subject, and ranked within the subject by level of impact with the most impactful, to me, at the top.
Videos
Videos
Most of these videos can be listened to, and don't need to be viewed.
Videos are grouped as follows:
Three books fundamentally changed my view of my interpersonal life. Each of them hit me at a moment in time when I was ready to receive that information. It is difficult to suggest to others that they will get the same thing out of them as I did, for it is clear that a journey of self discovery is very personal. One receives the information that they are ready for at the time that they are ready. I place them each here in honor of the impact that they had on me personally.
This book is what started my current journey, so it gets top billing here.
The concepts in this book are so obvious. Everyone should digest these principles. Priceless information.
This book really turned my self-perception upside down in a very good way. The information was already innate but I needed this articulation for clarity.
Mind Manifesting
Mind Manifesting
It is truly amazing that one can use fungal, and plant based medicinals to help us heal psychologically. The origin of disease is a mind-body imbalance, hence the word dis-ease. The mind and body must be healed in unison for true deep and lasting healing to take place. Links are provided below to some very good discussions on the use of medicinals.
How To Change the Brain
How To Change the Brain
Below are some good video productions that explain what is going on. Mostly physiologically with an introduction to some of the experts and sources of research.
https://youtu.be/pKR-jvGlkNg?si=l02xirzaoV14fsm6
Safety
Safety
Note the presentation of the chart of drugs that create risk with alcohol at the top and mushrooms at the very bottom. The reason for “bad trips” is based on the lack of proper set, setting and guiding.
https://youtu.be/ISM9OeWs7yw?si=0DHibYe7aeHHkRua
Deeper Information
Deeper Information
These go deeper into the history and research on the topic without being too technical.
https://youtu.be/HGqFxjQI3is?si=02cyib0i8IsL2vxM
https://youtu.be/HGqFxjQI3is?si=vy0xOUjaJxERpVNv
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