RE: PUH-LENTY! 🔶 Perceptions & Manifestations of Scarcity Thinking in the Steemniverse
Another winner, it's so easy to fall into fear based thinking, it was a huge bad habit of mine for so long. All I valued was safety and security because of it which lead to a near passionless life for most of my years. Only recently, thanks to pscilocybin breaking me out from that illusion, have I begun to truly live.
What sense do we have of our potential as creative masters?
In regards to this, almost none as a collective. We are so out of touch with ourselves and our inherent power that we are fine giving it away for slave-like jobs and products that keep taking from us.
I feel like wisdom is on the way. During some of my glimpses with psilocybin I've experienced near immediate change in myself using our creative faculties combined with faith.
Something I'm still engaged in working on understanding.
Resteemed ya
Oh this is such a lovely comment @jakeybrown...I have immediately followed you just on the strength of it!
The magic of mycelium connects us to the truth we seek, puts those who are disconnected back in touch with the reality of the intrinsic power that lies mostly latently within each soul. Yes, the system is deliberately designed to ensnare, entrap and enslave but I do feel a change is coming as more awaken to their inherent human power, as we all struggle to set ourselves free from both the internal and external dragons we must slay. And that IS a continual work in progress, for sure!
Keep the faith brother! Times...they are achanging! 😎💚🍄
Indeed, sometimes I find myself down, like I can't do it, then I remind myself how much I've been given so far and I'm grateful and renewed. Subtle changes are happening :) I checked out your blog and followed ;) nice article the other day! I'll try to find time to read more of your backlog
It's interesting how the brain retains and focuses more on the negative stuff isn't it? It's almost like it's default setting!
I resonate and relate easily to what you...it's that constant inner battle where our focus become the reality through the attention we give it (in a nutshell this is what @barge speaks of in this brilliant article). But I like and admire your approach of re-minding yourself of the journey so far and re-membering the gifts given.
And thanks muchly for checking out my blog and kind comments. I am, needless to say, gonna keep the circle of love flowing and going and do the same!
Ya, its crazy how my mind immediately turns negative on me sometimes! I always come back to truth though :)
Yep!
Looking forward to more excellent conversation, sometimes another persons perspective is just what we need to break through egoic blinds
The more perspectives the better, my friend😊
How true! Fear is a restricting and costraining force and is so demanding that we actually come to value 'safety and security' - themselves sterile entities (no expansion allowed, no learning - anything new is a threat). Much fear is experienced in early years such that it becomes deeply engrained, normal even, and can be difficult and slippery to spot. Yeah, when I took shrooms for the first time - mid 20s - I was in utter awe at the reality that opened up and I remember wondering on that trip how I could possibly ever return to previous ways of thinking :) ......
I'm drawn to the idea of complete self-acceptance. This means accepting myself as perfect as I am this moment. It may be challenging, but if considered, how could it be otherwise as you will become what you will as a result of where you are here and now...no? :D
Thanks for the resteem my friend
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I'd freeze up and not be able to make a decision because I was so afraid sometimes...
When I first did it changed the course of my life completely. I lost friends, my girlfriend, and my entire way of life... I was expecting cartoons to be popping out of the woodworks and what actually happened was closer to witnessing divinity, something that couldn't be ignored. Been "pursuing" it ever since
I relate to that completely, in every regard! I couldn't express opinions - didn't know what was right, or what felt right and didn't know my own mind. I was in awe of people who were able to express themselves and I was frustrated at my own inability to do so. This applied to interactions with others. I was better able to express myself alone, to myself and in my diaries...but even there confusion proliferated. I see it as setting up the game though - early years confusion -> then living the lie of conditioned life -> questioning it and becoming aware of it -> untangling oneself and moving towards the prospect of real freedom. It may all be a big fat work in progress (and sure looks like it), but at the same time is just what it is - a number of states/steps that flow, each representing the exact place one needs to be at that time in order to learn what is required through having these experiences! That's where the creative mastery comes in - when we become more consciously aware of what is going on and begin to direct the flow of life, rather than being a passenger!
Your shroom experiences - goodness, powerful and sound like they must have brought you to the brink of the abyss!? Good on you for not ignoring them, perhaps that's what pulled you through no? Certainly Terence McKenna takes the view that the spirit of Psilocybin is here to assist in raising consciousness, and, when we take mushrooms, we have access to the distilled energy of learning gained by the sum-total of all trips that have taken place since the beginning of this relationship between (wo)man and shroom!
I think you're right, this right here has been what I've been building to, like all my mistakes and errors in living actually showed me better how to live and allowed me the opportunity of sharing my experience to get out of those dark places where I couldn't express some part of me. Wild how it all works, seems like there are similarities of this kind of thing for some people!
It's so fascinating, I felt like I was finally truly myself, like I understood things on a level that didn't work out into words. I was with friends and I was saying things like "everything just is" and feeling like I could feel whent he weather was changing, and sprinting down sketchy mountain slopes because I understood how the physics and movement would work.
It made me feel like there is no point in spending thousands of hours learning a single skill because when you raise your consciousness enough learning is unnecessary, you just understand how things work and can fully express.
Pscilocybin has been a huge guiding force for me, like it gives me a glimpse to what could be if I opened up enough, so I just try to work on it in normal everyday life. Results have been promising
Seems to me like there is Experience (at a meta level) and then there are the details of any specific experience. To have undergone an experience (especially if this experience has been consciously processed and assimilated) is to open up the possibility of understanding the experience of another at a deep (meta?) level and without necessarily needing to know (m)any details. Thus a mother - who has experienced childbirth, will have a much deeper emotional understanding than a man, of, for example, the sight of a woman experiencing discomfort during pregnancy. I think @jakeybrown, that it may be possible that we access a level of Experience that is universal, pure and without detail (the meta level) - and as such one that has been accessed by many before. Each instance of Experience is accompanied by a unique set of details that come together in the moment and make up a particular experience. The distilled learning from this particular experience then flows back up and the pool of collective Experience expands. This process makes sense to me. Everything is intricately connected. We have played the game of isolation/alienation and still are playing it; but it is an illusion however touchy-feely and real it may appear :D
I think you've just explained to my whence comes my deep love of a series of fantasy novels that I've just read for the third time - Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The characters are pulled into The Land, a fantasy land where health sense allows one character in particular (a doctor) to experience just what you've described above. It's never really made clear whether it's a delusion, but it's a heck of a lot of pages in that land!
I've experienced this kind of thing on psychadelics and other substances, but only ever had very brief glimpses in sobriety. It's that that I'm seeking I think.
12+ years in AA have taught me a lot about myself, fear in particular, and that's a thing I deal with every day.
Same, though it's getting better for me. I've been practicing meditation and that's been really helping get back to that flow-like state where there was just no fear for me.
I almost read those books when I was younger but couldn't get into them. Might've been too young for them.
This is my view also. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to have reached my current state of being at a younger age, but acknowledge that I was where and who I had to be at that time, just as I am now. That notion helps me to worry a little less about my own children. I guess I should stop trying to make them listen to Pink Floyd! (apart from Bike, which they both love!)
Cheers @camuel - fantastic that your kids both love Bike - too good man :D