Here’s what you need to understand about the current state of affairs. It’s over!
The threads of our societal narrative are becoming undone, our institutions are failing us.
Our current reality matrix is dissolving and it is becoming painfully obvious to anyone willing to stop for a second, stand up straight and take a full belly deep breath in. Hold for 3, and breath out forcing all of the air out of your lungs. Rinse and repeat 3–4 times. How’s that for an economic reset?
Now, let’s jump into it. It has become impossible to ignore the big pile of steamy shit swept under the proverbial carpet. There comes a point when it needs to be spelled out loud: 2020 Vision has in retrospect endowed us with perfect clarity (see what I did there?).
Now we are given a chance to take our broom out of the closet and start cleaning up. Starting with the attic. And with the attic, I am alluding to the false narratives that have been piling up in your head for a very long time.
“You need to lose your mind to come to your senses.”
Let’s make that stick:
We find ourselves at a point in time, where given our technological capabilities and ingenious creative spirits, we are able to imagine an alternative way of being.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-BuckMinster Fuller
It may be very tempting to immediately jump on this quote and apply it to some political ideology/system as the media landscape today would have you think. But what if there’s a better idea lying around here?
It’s quite radical, bare with me. I’m going to use the cinema theater for the purpose of this analogy. Oh, yeah, cineplexes are off limits for almost a year now. Anyone still remembers those? You know, the popcorn filled dark room with unidentified sticky residue found underneath the chairs, big projector screen, good sound systems, hopefully.
So, imagine watching your favorite film, the one that gets you all wound up, swelling with excitement, be it fear, sadness, joy, berserk gut wrenching heroic action feeling. Next minute, you’re screaming at the antagonist for daring to mess with the character you found yourself rooting for (wonder what that’s all about?). Or at least imagining doing so because you’re very polite and don’t want to upset the other movie goers.
You don’t want this scenario to evolve in this direction, it’s wrong according to your moral code or whatever, perhaps you imagined the character would wind up in the sack with that other chick/hunk! Well, tough luck. You’re not going to change the unfolding of events at that level. The film was already produced, the scenes shot and editing done according to the script that was written a year ago by some dude in his pajamas typing away on his couch, scratching his crotch. If you want to change something, you’ve got to start by leveraging action at the right pulley, focusing on impacting the process at the right level with the right amount of power/force.
Now imagine that the current political shitshow that is taking place on predominantly social and other media is a reel that is being played in theaters near you. The thing that you’re paying attention to, focusing your awareness on, is the thing that you would come to call your reality. And in order for you to change your reel(ality) you need to look behind the image projections.
To understand anything is easy, the trick is not to believe things you don’t know.
I dare to suggest that you don’t have a (insert current political f(r)action) problem, you have a grasp of reality problem. Well, it’s not really a problem per say, unless you see it as one. And I’ll just assume that you see it as a problem, otherwise you wouldn’t be spending your time reading this rant.
Now, going back to the Bucky quote, you know, the change of reality thingy. If you consider fighting (against) your existing reality, shouting at the projection screen, that might seem like it merits some entertainment value indeed, it could be likened to rooting for the home team at your favorite ballgame.
The sports analogies are really not my thing, I never really got this part while drinking beer and watching a football (soccer where I grew up) game with my other adolescent friends. So I better just go ahead and steer clear of it all together.
Going back to the point, to witness change, build a new model that replaces the existing model. Yeah, and the best model to replace is your mental model. The framework of your experience of life. The real home theater system, sub-woofers, surround sound digital clarity, full HD. The virtual reality engine that you would call your self.
You know, the vehicle that allows you to experience life. And the transformation of the quality of the daily experience is what you should be truly focusing on if change is what you want.
By controlling appearance; what you think, sense, feel and believe, you control your reality.
I’ll take another wild guess and say that you’ve always been guided by emotion, reacting to whatever is happening in your zone of awareness. That’s because your heart is the main character in this script. There’s significantly larger amounts of information going from the heart to the brain than the other way around. The heart has always won because it has energy, the mind doesn’t. But they work very well in concert.
The only thing the mind can do is to rally the heart to its cause, which is the only way that the heartfelt mind balance will ever work. The true alignment comes from your clarity of thought going after the informed desires of your heart that are magically woven into existence by action from your gut. The trifecta, the true holy trinity (Sorry about that Vatican INC. but I felt like dropping it in here as a statement that would get me burned at the stake only a few centuries ago. Apologies for the frequent tangential movement, I sincerely hope it holds some entertainment value for you.
All you need is love, your rational mind and a good source of food for your micro-floral gut lining. You know, a host of billions of microorganisms that make up you.
If any of this resonates with you and you feel compelled to upgrade your reality user interface, you are invited to join The Mind Dojo, a group of no-bullshit life examination ninjas looking to help a brother and sister out!
Peace!
P.S.
I’m also putting together a mastermind group in a few weeks that will have you elevate your self to a katana wielding, surgical precision zen master sailing through life tacking against the winds rather than rowing against the stream. You can send me a DM at aleksander.brankov@heartfeltmind.com and let me know where you’re at.
