It's all the same, quantum, religion, spirituality, psychology - ahh so

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My path has taken me down a long road. It's cliche I know, but it's true. My conclusions are still forming as my subconscious works in the background unpicking my insatiable thirst. There has always been a niggle, a question, a sureness to a better place. What I never understood is that niggle was sat deep inside me. My problem solving, my kindness, my empathy, my people pleasing, it was all inward schism folding outwards and into the world. This is one of the concepts I struggle with most as I reflect. We reward those traits, we value those people, we elevate them. But does it all come from a place of internalised suffering that is obscured by the validation and rewards we receive? Is true humanity actually based on a pure sense of self and no need for feeling better through external measures, or is that the hearts last door being closed?

This, I think. This is the question. The underlying niggle in those seekers who have adapted in a way that doesn't nourish. It happens a lot. It happens enough to spawn movements. Theology, Spirituality, Science, Psychology. I believe they all exist to answer the same questions. How do we explain the human condition though expression of the mind. The mind expresses in so many ways. We are describing just what is. We're not discovering anything, it's already all there. Our ego, singular and collective cannot cope with the "ahhh so" acceptance of what is. It therefore seeks to find the answer. The stronger the mind, the deeper the search. The bigger the ego, the more walls the mind builds. Over and over, complexity ensues, interlocked expression of truth that is nothing more than a protective shield. 

This is why it's so hard and getting harder. Mental health. The more society reinforces our systems and movements, the more difficult it becomes to challenge them. There is a game being played with the human condition. The majority will remain with the realms of what is presented to them. Happily playing the mechanical roles that have been placed in front of them. To stand up to these conditions is to place yourself in the burning flame so focused on the self it burns away until there is nothing left other than what is.  

And so science and quantum aims to solve what we already had blind faith in. We are self-harming and saying "don't believe in what is, only believe in what the mind can understand and articulate". We congratulate our brilliance, but really it's the mind turning it's gaze directly into it's self to build a higher, thicker, stronger and more deliberately harder to understand wall. Alienating more. Including less. Control more. Power higher. Community less. A system so complex as has been created by a collective need to avoid what we are. A system so complex that only trauma, searching, pain, suffering and committent can unpick it.

 

 

 

 

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