spoilers: Dear reader, although you might be interested in reading more about karma, reincarnation, soul issues, and how we can help ourselves become better individuals, instead of just getting older, it is quite possible that the content of my articles will help you. alien. more particularly if you feel that, within the cultural and social framework, as it exists today, your life is fulfilling, more filled with genuine satisfaction than with stress, anxiety and upset.
In truth, my writing is addressed to those of us who feel that no matter how ‘normal and reasonable’ our response to life’s challenges, big and small, and regardless of how ‘normal and reasonable’ we seem to others, there is another way of DOING life.
Basically, my approach to genuine spirituality could be said to be one that accepts the status quo dictated by social mores, but also encourages us to do more than complain about our luck, more than read about how to improve our lot, more than pray, sing and dance, rather than meditate, too, since all of these activities can only alleviate the symptoms, not the root causes.
Intertwined with years of daily dialogue with my mentor, Moriya, I became familiar with the philosophy of JD Krishnamurti, Paul Brunton, Alan Watts, and Idries Shah. I explored the writings of Maurice Nicoll, John Blofeld, Reshad Feild, and Alan Keightley. I have also read various texts on Zen Buddhism, too many to name individually, but including some by DT Suzuki, and have become familiar with more recently published books by Eckhart Tolle and Alain de Botton.
I quoted and mentioned most of these writers in my early articles as, in those days of emerging understanding, I was mainly writing a kind of analysis of their thought in the context of Moriya’s teachings. The overlapping discourses of all these wise thinkers now digested, I have come to form my own combined philosophy on matters of Karma and its integral, cosmic relevance to our heart and soul. The bottom line is that very little, if anything, we set out to do that doesn’t get to the core of our emotions will produce lasting personal growth.
Although activities such as taking a walk and enjoying the sunset, solving a crossword puzzle, cooking and enjoying the process are healthy distractions and sharing moments of love with our partner, playing with our child and helping an elderly neighbor with the purchase can provide us with delightful moments. and nice ones where we think la vie est belle, life is great, I honestly don’t think such moments anymore help us rethink our basic set of responses every time one of our many buttons is pressed. ‘far enough’.
I honestly believe that nothing short of a genuine assessment of our automated response patterns, followed by diligent awareness combined with the hard work of committed practice will, over time, make a tangible and stable difference in the way we feel about ourselves. of our lives.
Only when we try to distance ourselves from our patterned response to dissatisfaction, our inability to truly forgive and truly love unconditionally, can we begin to make obsolete some of the ‘natural’ but highly impractical actions and reactions that trigger hot spots. and it flares up on strangers, in our homes, at work, and most importantly, within our psyches.
So, dear reader, unless the above words resonate with you, or at least pique your curiosity, instead of reading on, I wholeheartedly suggest you take a walk and enjoy the sunset, do a crossword puzzle, cook some eating and enjoying the process, sharing moments of love with your partner, playing with your child and helping your elderly neighbor with the shopping because, in truth, even a momentary moment of well-being a day is better than nothing, if our level drops of stress and creates an opportunity for small doses of selfless kindness to creep in.
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Who are these people?
When it comes to our reading preferences in the 21st century, it’s clearly not books about the triumph of the human spirit or biographies or books of poetry that keep the printing industry in print and bolster online publishing. A glance at the fiction bestseller list suggests that the reading of ‘thrillers’, crimes alias murders, imagined, committed or solved, has become an international fascination. It seems to be on a par with Romance as the best-selling genre of fiction.
Another look at the endless release of blockbuster movies and series on the same themes suggests that watching the process of dying brutally, often slowly, often gripped by fear and horror, holds just as much fascination. A quick search online using general keywords like Horrifying Death will yield a trove of real deaths, very gruesome deaths on our streets and homes loaded, no doubt, for our viewing pleasure.
In our culture, death is feared. It is said to be horrible and oppressive. It is a topic of conversation to be avoided at all costs, even in hospitals, except hospice wards. There it is mentioned in a low voice. Yet from cold cases to real-time murders, autopsy chests and gaping skull cavities on morgue slabs, and murder deconstruction/reconstruction, each copyrighted scene is carefully crafted to make an impact. This suggests that the very graphic interpretation of fear, death and suffering somehow provides us with endless hours of popular entertainment. Whether these murders may be committed out of love, revenge, profit, or stupidity makes no difference to either the reader or the viewer.
Our collective attraction to criminal and murderous energy as a form of ‘escape’ means that we ingest extreme doses of that dark energy, while watching ‘fear, death and violent suffering’ graphically depicted night after night on television, DVD and on the Internet. big screen, not to mention the ‘real’ human fear, suffering and death that our favorite news shows broadcast to our living rooms and computer screens. The sum total of global interest in this genre of entertainment and escape clearly explains that collectively we must have become immune to the emotional terror felt by others and the manner of their death. We must be suffering from empathy and/or compassion fatigue, just like our teenagers and our twenties/thirties. In general, they also seem to be interested in scenes depicting violent and often “sick” death scenes, like those in “shooter” and horror movies.
To top it off, some of us also take the dark energy of crime fiction to bed with us inside our Kindles and the pages of our paperbacks. Some of us prefer to take biographies and autobiographies of actual killers to bed with us. Either way, sweet dreams! Or sweet pill-induced sleep!
Absolutely everything in the universe is made up of atoms and molecules, therefore matter and energy, including the human body. It is an accepted scientific fact that it is energy that allows us to move and think. Beyond that, as thoughts carry intention, they generate energy. Words carry intention and also generate energy. Mind is matter and matter produces energy. It is another accepted fact that any compressed energy will eventually explode.
In terms of mental health, when one’s energy is upbeat, it helps comfort others. The same applies to pure energy emanating from an open connection to the Soul: it heals others. If one’s energy is charged with, among other things, macabre thoughts and graphic images of sadistic torture drawn from regular doses of crime fiction and murder scenes, it seems self-evident that this energy is not likely to uplift the mind, not for others. oneself, not for others.
Although having a collection of lurid bits and violent images accompanied by the crying, retching and harsh sounds made by dying men whose minds are filled with terror playing out in our thoughts is not the only reason there is so much anguish and violence. in our society, somehow contributes to it.
The Law of Attraction acts on the human psyche. Thoughts that are allowed to settle in the mind and are cultivated over a period of time nurture a core that, if allowed to grow, draws to itself the conditions that will bring about concrete results of its own creation.
Birds of the same plumage fly together. Tarred with the same brush. Like attracts like and several similar sayings acknowledge a similar thing, that dark energy attracts dark energy and nowhere is that more obvious than in clans and groups inflicting gratuitous violence. Perpetrators run in packs. The idea that dark energy attracts dark energy is also evident among other groups that gather in herds. Black may be your color of choice, zombie worship in one form or another may be your thing. Secret religious societies also “group,” held together by rituals, smoke, mirrors, and incantations. Could it be that, as unsettling as it is, even terrifying, dark energy needs groups of individuals to gain and maintain momentum?
Secret societies, even those unconcerned with the afterlife, protect their darkness with secret handshakes, but it is not uncommon for members of elitist societies to indulge in illicit impulses. The Code of Silence included in the oath of the initiation ceremony binds these individuals together and keeps debauchery, when it occurs, hidden from outsiders. The members share each other’s dark secrets. They feed that energy as much as they feed off of it, and bring it home to ‘the wife and children’.
The energy of light, the energy of the Soul, the energy that results from genuine, non-ritualized spirituality and religion might well be stronger than the energy of violence, anguish and morbidity, as truly spiritual people prefer to move away from the groups to exist alone with the Soul as their only support, even while they live a productive life among us. Such people are humble. They prefer to wear pale colors. Black is not in his palette. You don’t need to walk around with a sign on your forehead proclaiming that I am a spiritually evolved being. These people seek light and fresh air. They breathe prana. These, along with a strong connection to your soul, replenish your energy. Such people walk softly and are silently healed as they go, always for free, for how could they exchange coins for the gift that Soul gives them freely? Escaping to an ashram, escaping into trances for an hour, or escaping to a cave protected by the fearsome respect of superstitious villagers and depending on them for food is not necessarily the sign of the highest spirituality.
