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Spiritless Humans
montalk.net » 27 April 09
(This article replaces Matrix Agents: Profiles and Analysis)
Empty
people. Puppet people. Cardboard cutouts. Drones. Organic Portals.
Background characters. Why do these terms even exist? Because out of
necessity they had to be invented by those who independently noticed the
same puzzling phenomenon, one for which there is no official name: some
people seem to be missing something very important inside. While they
are not necessarily any less intelligent, successful, or physically
healthy as anyone else, they nevertheless show no indication of having
any higher components to their consciousness.
Over
the years I have received emails from readers who came to this same
conclusion. They noticed that some people were strangely one dimensional
and hollow inside. This observation is not hard to miss, but it is easy
to rationalize away, especially with modern society being so heavily
brainwashed with the politically correct but unrealistic concept that
everyone is completely equal in every way, which ignores functional
differences due to environmental, genetic, and most importantly,
metaphysical factors.
Background
The
idea of empty people first dawned on me in 1999 after having done much
research into sociopaths and psychopaths, their condition being
medically known as APD or “Antisocial Personality Disorder.” My interest
in the subject grew out of having been forced for many years to suffer
under someone whom I later learned had all the signs of being a
sociopath. Heartless and soulless were descriptive terms, but little did
I know just how literally true they were. I had noticed in this person
an emptiness behind the eyes and a very shallow conscious essence, which
seemed to be at the root of the behaviors I observed.
Eventually
I realized that this same root condition was present in some others who
were not outwardly sociopathic, but whose lack of heart was masked by a
well-adapted social exterior. In other words, what psychiatry would
diagnose as APD was only the more extreme, criminal, sloppy
manifestation of a condition that otherwise expressed itself more widely
in a socially acceptable and less incriminating manner. The latter is
what may account for the body of empty people present in the population.
But what exactly is missing in them? The answer is clear if we look at their common behaviors and qualities of consciousness.
Behavioral and Psychic Characteristics
Their
behavior tends toward being glib, shallow, egotistical, narcissistic,
mundane, predatory, and materialistic. Sometimes these traits are
camouflaged by a polished social exterior, but anyone with a discerning
eye can see through the disguise. They lack individuality, independent
thinking, and are strongly biased toward holding a herd mentality. They
lack comprehension of anything beyond the material sphere of the five
senses, and have no interest in such metaphysical matters except as
flashy accessories to boost their social image. They also appear
entirely incapable of empathy, soul-searching, and willful
self-sacrifice. Nevertheless, in the presence of others they can put on a
flashy show of concern, distress, or altruism for purposes of social
manipulation; for example, crocodile tears to elicit sympathy, or doing
something nice for another solely to guilt trip them later and extort a
favor.
Psychically
scanning their consciousness reveals something interesting. There is a
certain simplicity, flatness, and inertness to their essence, even if
their intellects are highly developed. Unlike other people, their
conscious energy is more diffuse, dull, impermanent, and amorphous
rather than solid, sparkling, crystallized, and concentrated. Put
another way, their minds are like sand castles instead of real castles.
There is something animalistic and rudimentary piloting their bodies. It
seems they have conscious awareness just as plants and animals do, but
not conscious self-awareness as humans are supposed to have. There is an
important difference between awareness and self-awareness.
Spirit: The Missing Component
The
missing factor must be something that endows a being with
self-awareness, volition, and the capacity to value transcendental
ideals. This goes beyond mere physical factors like missing portions of
the brain, defective genetics, or a poor upbringing, because the latter
are just defects in the hardware and programming of the biological
machine, whereas the problem here involves the consciousness operating
the machine. What intuitive or clairvoyant perception picks up about
their consciousness involves metaphysical factors instead.
What
to call this higher component of consciousness absent in some people?
Usually it would be called the soul, but that has caused too much
confusion in the past. For example, casual readers unfamiliar with the
proper definition of “soulless” thought it meant “completely devoid of
consciousness” when in reality it meant “devoid of individualized
consciousness.” No, they do have some kind of soul energy by virtue of
being alive, but the soul is not imbued with a higher spark of true
sentience and self-awareness.
Therefore
I will call this higher spark “spirit” and define it as follows: spirit
is the core of individualized consciousness, that permanent aspect of
one’s being representing the true Self, which accumulates experiences
and spiritual wisdom throughout life, survives physical death, and
remains intact upon reincarnating to continue growing toward the
fulfillment of its potential. It is the divine god-spark, the seat of
freewill, the holographic fragment of the Creator residing at the very
center of your being, the “I” that is you, the inner conscious observer
capable of observing even its own self-observation.
It
seems not all humans have spirit. Therefore they have no self-awareness,
individuality, wisdom, empathy, creative intelligence, or conscience.
What further confirms this hypothesis is that, as will be discussed
below, one may observe a total absence of destiny, synchronicity,
symbolic dreams, spiritual lessons, soul growth, and karma in their
lives. This is to be expected if they have nothing permanent in them
that survives death and reincarnates, because only spirit can gain from
such things. Without spirit, they are temporary beings whose awareness
forms shortly before birth and dissolves shortly after death. And if so,
then for them, spiritual life lessons serve no purpose, karma from past
lives does not exist, there is no higher Self acting as chaperone, nor
would they have genuine interest in anything that serves a purpose
beyond their current mortal existence. Therefore it is to be expected
that they be particularly materialistic, worldly, and mundane in their
ambitions; observation confirms this as well.
Other Components
How
can we better understand all this? By understanding the various
components and how they combine to make the whole of a being, we can
grasp the numerous differences and similarities between spirited and
spiritless humans1.
Aside
from spirit, the other components are body and soul. Soul is the
nonphysical energetic interface between body and spirit. Occultists
divide the soul into the etheric and astral bodies. The aforementioned
“empty” people have bodies and souls, but not spirits. In this way it is
clear that they have some kind of conscious energy, but not the
permanent core that retains continuity through incarnations.
The
soul consists of two components, the etheric and astral. The etheric
component is a quantum biasing field that keeps the physical body from
entropic disintegration. Or to put it more simply, it is life-force
energy that keeps the body from decaying. The astral component is more
abstract and intangible. It functions as the seat of consciously
experienced feelings and passions. Feelings are not just chemical
reactions in the brain, nor are they abstract thoughts in the mind.
Rather they are vivid energies residing somewhere in between, and that
buffer zone between the completely physical and completely metaphysical
is the astral component of the soul.
Body and Ego
The
body is the biological instrument through which we interact with our
physical environment. The body comes with its own hereditary
dispositions, biological drives and instincts, and behavioral algorithms
stamped into it through social programming. These deterministic
influences converge to create an artificial intelligence in a person
that, by default, runs the body like an autopilot computer running an
airplane.
This
artificial intelligence is hereby termed “ego.” Its fundamental purpose
is to ensure survival of the body by optimizing its behavior for the
surrounding physical and social environment. In other words, external
conditioning programs the ego to achieve survival in the environment
from which that conditioning originates.
But
the ego has no true consciousness of its own. It is just a computer
running on neural (and by proxy, etheric) hardware that simulates a
living identity. Its main advantage is that, being just a computer, it
only has to mechanically calculate and react to situations instead of
deeply and consciously reflecting, therefore it can respond much quicker
to external situations.
For
the spirit, the ego functions as a software device that automates
interactions with other humans and provides a mask of identity,
programmed from birth, appropriate to the local environment. Somewhat
like a player’s avatar in the Sims game, which looks and acts like a
person and seems to do its own thing when not directed by the player.
The
problem is that the ego is entirely a product of the past, and spirit
entirely outside linear time. The first is completely deterministic, the
second is completely nondeterministic. The first is an emergent
property of matter, the second a permanent condensation of
consciousness. The two have impulses that are often diametrically
opposed, one pulling toward materiality, the other toward spirituality.
Our daily consciousness, also known as the lower self, is a blending of
both, namely the portion of spirit that shines through the mask of ego
and identifies with it, analogous to a driver so absorbed in the act of
driving that for him the car has become an extension of his body2.
Physical or Spiritual Influences Upon the Soul
Now
the soul, in residing between body and spirit and mediating between
them, is influenced by both. It takes on its organization and function
according to impulses from both spirit and the body. For instance, the
astral body would respond both to a chemical drug inducing a feeling of
euphoria through the body, and the spirit volitionally invoking a lofty
feeling of spiritual joy, although the effects on the astral are not
identical.
Likewise,
the etheric body could have its structure altered by some injury to the
physical body, or from some blockage or abnormality in the astral body
percolating its influence down to the etheric level. Whatever influences
are exerted upon the soul by body and spirit, their effects continue to
linger in the soul, like tea continuing to circulate after having been
stirred. This is why I said the ego runs on both neural and etheric
hardware. Despite originating in the physical, the ego imparts the
momentum of its conditioning upon the etheric3.
Consequences of Lacking a Spirit
With
the preceding in mind, consider what happens when someone has body, ego,
and soul, but lacks spirit. First and foremost, their entire makeup
would be the result of material influences like genetics and
environment. The seat of their apparent intelligence would be the ego.
And without the counterweight of spirit, their ego would reign king.
Thus, in accordance with the function of ego, such people would be
completely dedicated to material and social survival.
Notice
that people with spirit who are awake to their spiritual impulses often
make willful choices that serve no financial, social, or egotistic
gains, that go against the expectations of Darwinian evolutionary
principles, and that serve only spiritual ends. Such impulses are absent
in spiritless people, thus they are truly optimized for survival in the
physical world. Without conscience, empathy, or inner battle between
ego and spirit holding them back, they can more quickly and easily
succeed in their worldly environments regardless of the cost to others.
To
better understand their metaphysical differences, consider what happens
to spirited and spiritless people upon physical death.
Spirit
and soul nested one inside the other, together leave the physical body.
After a while, the etheric component of the soul disintegrates, leaving
only spirit nested inside the astral body. The astral body then also
disintegrates. The disintegration of etheric and astral bodies, meaning
the dissolution or casting away of the soul, is known in Christian
Esotericism as the second death4. The liberated spirit then advances
into the afterlife before reincarnating.
Reincarnation
involves the spirit forming around itself a new soul and then slipping
into a new physical body. In sequential reincarnations, what talents,
predispositions, and imbalances it has acquired from previous lifetimes
influences the new incarnation.
In the
case of spiritless people, life begins as follows. As the fetal body
gestates in the womb, the soul forms for the first time, like beach sand
being gathered into the shape of a castle, and joins to the body. This
combination produces rudimentary awareness. After being born, such a
person becomes nothing more than a product of genetics and environment
due to absence of spirit. Without a spiritual counterweight, biological
drives and social programming become their primary impulses in life.
Upon
physical death their soul evacuates the body, perhaps containing a
lingering imprint of the ego, and after some time it disintegrates and
is reabsorbed into the lake of energies from which it originally formed.
Nothing of their identity survives. For people without spirit, this
life is their only one. They form upon entering and dissolve upon
leaving. It cannot be otherwise if they lack a core of individualized
consciousness.
Thus
everything that a spirited person has due to the continuity of his or
her incarnations, is missing in the life of a spiritless person. For
example, the spiritless would have no need for life lessons or spiritual
learning experiences. What would be the purpose if whatever is gained
disappears after death? Therefore spiritless people are ones who cannot
learn spiritual lessons, who cannot profit spiritually from the trials
of life, who cannot pass what is gained onto their successive
incarnations. And so they have no concern for lessons of humility,
empathy, compassion, understanding, or forgiveness. Instead of changing
as people through spiritual maturation in life, they only change in the
sense of better adapting to life through conditioning. For instance,
whereas a spirited person may see the error of his ways and grow humble,
a spiritless person would simply learn to not get caught next time.
Karma
is another metaphysical factor absent in the life of spiritless people.
There are many misconceptions about karma, so I will first explain my
understanding of it, before showing how its absence affects the life of a
spiritless person.
Karma
(the negative type) is simply a spiritual debt or imbalance acquired
upon violating the freewill of oneself or another. Violating your own
freewill happens when you make a choice during an ignorant state, like
when identifying with the ego and acting upon its impulses, that
violates a choice made during a more spiritually sober state.
Upon
committing a freewill violation, the higher spirit-associated aspect of
consciousness regrets the error and makes a commitment to redress it,
even if the lower ego-associated aspect tries to ignore this. The karmic
imbalance then attracts experiences that teach a lesson correcting that
ignorance, whether in this life or the next. The lesson learned is
universal and does not require memory of the original choice that
provoked it, just understanding of the lesson. The karmic experience
itself is not what is fated, rather the lesson learned, therefore karma
can sometimes be mitigated through pre-emptive understanding and
forgiveness without necessarily needing to learn it the hard way through
experience.
But
without spirit, there is no true freewill and no true lessons that can
be learned. Therefore the spiritless have no karma and instead live
completely under the laws of chance and the law of the jungle. Whereas a
spirited individual might be born with karmic handicaps, for the
spiritless these handicaps would strictly be a matter of chance or
heredity and serve no higher metaphysical purpose. Same with the timing
and manner of their death; whereas spirited people may have loosely
planned out their life before incarnating, including the way they will
die, spiritless people die according to random circumstances without
purpose or meaning, unless their death somehow plays an important part
in the pre-incarnation script of a spirited individual.
Other
missing factors include meaningful symbolic dreams, synchronicities,
higher intuitive guidance, and their personal hand of destiny.
Spiritless people experience none of these because they neither can nor
need to. This should be obvious from understanding the role of spirit,
but I will elaborate for the sake of clarity.
Meaningful
dreams primarily serve to alert a person to spiritual imbalances that
need to be corrected, but a spiritless person has no need for such
messages. They also have nothing higher to send such messages. Without a
permanent core of individuality, they have no “Higher Self”, which is
the perfected future manifestation of spirit reaching back through time
to help out extensions of itself still in the linear past. And without a
Higher Self, they have no inner intuitive guidance to provide certain
nudges and protection in life. Thus, whereas a spirited person might
experience freak synchronicities and bending of the laws of reality to
save them from untimely death, a spiritless person lacking such
direction and protection would perish according to chance.
Chakra Differences between Spirited and the Spiritless
There
is also a difference between spirited and spiritless in what chakras
they have. Chakras are vortical energy centers linking soul with body,
and linking spirit and body through the soul. Each center coincides
positionally with the major glands of the physical body, and each serves
a different behavioral function.
The
lower chakras are associated with such behavioral facets as physical
instinct, sexual impulses, base emotions, personal power, and
intellectual activity. Everyone possesses these. The spiritless,
however, have no need for the higher chakras, namely the heart, crown,
and third eye chakras because these are the ones that exclusively link
to spirit.
The
heart chakra, the center of higher emotions like compassion, empathy,
spiritual jubilance, is missing in the spiritless because there is no
spirit present to associate with these emotions. The crown chakra,
through which higher intuitive understanding, originality and
creativity, and a connection with objective truth manifests, is likewise
missing. The third eye chakra, located between the brows, is normally
used for the perception of phenomena and concepts beyond the material
realm, and spiritless people confined to the world of the five senses
have no need for it either.
Consequently,
another difference between the spirited and spiritless is that the
first have all seven chakras while the latter are missing the three
higher ones, the heart, crown, and third eye chakras5. This further
contributes to the intuitive or clairvoyant perception that spiritless
people are flat and inert inside regardless of how animated they are on
the outside, because the spectrum of their etheric or auric vibrations
are missing certain colors and are therefore of a lower overall
resolution.
All
the above follows from one simple postulate: that some people lack
spirit, and that they therefore also lack the higher chakras. If you
deeply contemplate what this entails, you will understand how this
postulate explains the full gamut of observations we have concerning
so-called “empty” people.
Difference between Spiritless and Spiritually Asleep People
At
this point you might be wondering what is the difference between
spiritless people, and spirited ones who are spiritually asleep in life
or simply immature. After all, both may be worldly in their goals and
thoroughly caught up in the illusion of the “Matrix.” Both may not be
cognizant of dreams or synchronicities, nor display much empathy. For
example, there are negative people who are completely under the
influence of their egos and external negative forces, who can commit
violent crimes and even mass murder without blinking an eye. Not all of
them are spiritless. But all of them are indeed void of the influence of
spirit when it comes to engaging in such inhuman behaviors. Some lack
spirit, others are asleep to spirit.
The
difference is that a spirited but infantile/asleep person still has
latent spiritual potential. So they still have, even in small amounts,
the presence of those spiritual factors and dynamics mentioned above.
They may still suffer the consequences of karmic debt brought on by dumb
choices, they may still receive symbolic dreams attempting to alert
them to spiritual imbalances in life even if they ignore it, they may
still experience synchronistic help in shaping their lives against the
odds even if they cannot see it.
Spiritless
people lack that potential completely. They cannot grow spiritually.
This is not a theoretical declaration, but a painful lesson learned from
having dealt with too many such persons who never showed any signs of
growth or evolution no matter how much help and opportunity for
improvement was given to them. At best they adapt, but more out of
conditioning and calculation than actual understanding.
There
is another important difference. The spirited have lives appropriate to
their spiritual needs. So there is a correspondence between their
spiritual maturity and type of life. Infant spirits will lead crude
lives, because a basic existence is all they need, and anything more
would be too much for them to handle or gain from. Meanwhile, the
spiritless live whatever life they are driven into by circumstance and
their own cunning, which can mean being a beggar, corporate executive,
or famous author all the same. Without constraints established by
spiritual needs, the spiritless have no spiritual limits or curriculums
structuring their lives. And this is why “empty” people are not all just
spiritually asleep or infantile, because there exists a class of people
who share the same inertness behind their eyes regardless of their type
of life, their social standing, their intellectual prowess, and their
physical appearance.
Psychopaths, Sociopaths, and Narcissists
The
more extreme manifestations of an absence of spirit is known in
psychology as psychopathic, sociopathic, or narcissistic personality
disorders. Spirited people who fit this condition are misguided and held
hostage by their egos, but they can be rehabilitated. Instead of
lacking empathy, their empathy is either suppressed or displaced. These
are not true psychopaths, but spirited people with personality
disorders.
True
psychopathy and sociopathy, however, cannot be cured because something
is fundamentally flawed at the core of such persons. They lack empathy
and remorse altogether, and these qualities cannot be recovered because
they were never there to begin with. The incurable nature of psychopathy
is an accepted fact in psychology. The cause is believed to be an
abnormality in the pain and fear centers of the brain. Even so, without
the balancing influence of spirit, such abnormalities would introduce
unchecked errors into the programming of the ego, which then runs
rampant to the point of coming to the attention of the legal and medical
systems. What the medical system can diagnose is only the extreme and
sloppy manifestation of a condition that is more widespread throughout
the population. Other spiritless people with properly functioning egos
are better at keeping their lack of empathy and remorse camouflaged
under more refined social programming.
Why Spiritless? What Others Say
Theories
abound about why some people lack a higher component to their
consciousness and what purpose they serve in the bigger scheme of
things. Since I am not the first to make this observation, I will now
briefly discuss what others have said so that you can weigh the
available options.
John
Baines writes in his book The Stellar Man that humans, like all animal
species, have a collective soul unique to their species. This collective
unconscious exerts a de-individualizing influence on humans, nudging
them toward mob mentality, herd mentality, and following the crowd.
Rupert Sheldrake would call this the human morphogenetic field. People
who have not developed their own conscious individuality are mere
automatons following the soporific influence of the collective
unconscious, as though they were extensions of a hive mind. The goal of
esoteric training is to split away from the herd, to develop one’s own
volition and thereby become a free being.
Rudolf
Steiner voiced similar sentiments. His foundational work, The
Philosophy of Freedom addressed this problem. Steiner said that as long
as humans obey external authority, their own biological instincts, or
the animalistic parts of themselves in common with the rest of humanity,
they are not free beings. Freedom comes from choosing based on
intuitive understanding of what each option entails and what it means.
This act of freewill requires introspection and spiritual acumen to act
from a place of true understanding. Steiner acknowledged that not
everyone introspects to the degree necessary to make intelligent
freewill choices. In private discussions, Steiner went even further:
Dr.
Steiner: That little girl L.K. in the first grade must have something
really very wrong inside. There is not much we can do. Such cases are
increasing in which children are born with a human form, but are not
really human beings in relation to their highest I; instead, they are
filled with beings that do not belong to the human class. Quite a number
of people have been born since the nineties without an I, that is, they
are not reincarnated, but are human forms filled with a sort of natural
demon. There are quite a large number of older people going around who
are actually not human beings, but are only natural; they are human
beings only in regard to their form. We cannot, however, create a school
for demons.
A teacher: How is that possible?
Dr.
Steiner: Cosmic error is certainly not impossible. The relationships of
individuals coming into earthly existence have long been determined.
There are also generations in which individuals have no desire to come
into earthly existence and be connected with physicality, or immediately
leave at the very beginning. In such cases, other beings that are not
quite suited step in. This is something that is now quite common, that
human beings go around without an I; they are actually not human beings,
but have only a human form. They are beings like nature spirits, which
we do not recognize as such because they go around in a human form. They
are also quite different from human beings in regard to everything
spiritual. They can, for example, never remember such things as
sentences; they have a memory only for words, not for sentences.
The
riddle of life is not so simple. When such a being dies, it returns to
nature from which it came. The corpse decays, but there is no real
dissolution of the etheric body, and the natural being returns to
nature. It is also possible that something like an automaton could
occur. The entire human organism exists, and it might be possible to
automate the brain and develop a kind of pseudomorality.
I do
not like to talk about such things since we have often been attacked
even without them. Imagine what people would say if they heard that we
say there are people who are not human beings. Nevertheless, these are
facts. Our culture would not be in such a decline if people felt more
strongly that a number of people are going around who, because they are
completely ruthless, have become something that is not human, but
instead are demons in human form.
(Faculty Meetings With Rudolf Steiner Vol. 2, 3 July 1923, p. 649-650)
G. I.
Gurdjieff spoke along the same lines. His lectures in Views from the
Real World summarize his position. Humans are born as blank slates, as
biological machines without self-awareness. At some point in life, a
person either develops an “I” or branches onto the opposite path toward
further mechanization and decay. So according to Gurdjieff, “empty”
people are those who have never developed their self-awareness as they
should have, but we all start out on equal footing. I don’t believe this
to be true because there are infants and children who clearly have high
sentience behind their eyes and expected behaviors of self-awareness,
while other infants and children lack it, which suggests the factor of
reincarnation in some people and complete absence of spirit including
the potential for spirit in other people.
Boris
Mouravieff has written on the subject of spiritless people most
extensively. See his three volumes of the Gnosis series, particularly
the second and third volumes. His approach is based on Esoteric
Christianity, and thus it quotes heavily from scripture while bearing
much in common with the Fourth Way tradition of Gurdjieff, which itself
seems to trace back to Sufistic teachings. According to Mouravieff’s
interpretation of the Book of Genesis, there existed humans before Adam
and Eve, but that only Adam and by proxy Eve and her descendants
received the breath of spirit from God. Thus nowadays there exists two
mingling sub-races of humans, the pre-Adamics without spirit, and the
Adamics who have it. Mouravieff explains that pre-Adamics serve the
purpose of harvesting energy from Adamics as part of the cosmic food
chain. He also explores the metaphysical differences between the two, in
regards to pre-Adamics missing certain “centers”, which are analogous
to chakras. Mouravieff believes the pre-Adamics have a group soul unique
to their collective, and that only after further aeons of evolution
will their collective soul differentiate into individual spirits like
what the Adamics already have.
The
Corpus Hermeticum, a famous hermetic and gnostic text written almost two
thousand years ago, likewise states that not all humans have the spark
of divine reason (termed Nous) active within them, and that without Nous
a human is more like an “irrational creature” (animal) in his
motivations, limited perception, and way of life. One would have to read
the entire text to understand this in proper context. See the english
translation titled The Way of Hermes: New Translations of the Corpus
Hermeticum (Inner Traditions, 2000).
Lastly,
the Cassiopaean Transcripts addresses the works of Mouravieff and
provides some key insights on the matter at hand. The channelling source
claims that some people are empty portals for other intelligences to
work through, that they have uniform auras among them, lack the higher
chakras, can be very skilled at mimicking “souled” (spirited) people by
reflecting back their own soul energy, and that ultimately they serve as
conduits from which our energy can be siphoned for collection by
negative hyper-dimensional beings. All this is in line with my
observations and the writings of Mouravieff and Gurdjieff, except a bit
more realistic than the viewpoints of those two traditionalists. Whereas
John Baines says some humans are extensions of the human collective
soul, the Cassiopaeans say they are instead extensions of particular
animal group souls. They say such so-called “organic portals” serve as a
bridge between the human and animal kingdom, helping to transfer higher
human energies to these animal group souls to accelerate their
evolution, but that their function has been hijacked by higher negative
forces for their own energy harvesting use.
So
what I am saying in this article is not without precedent. I merely made
the observation of “empty” people independently in 1999-2001 and then
cycled through various personal speculations and existing theories
before settling on the current one explained in this article.
I
believe there are several ways in which people end up spiritless. Some
are born that way because no spirit ever took root, just like theater
seats that remain empty because no one bought tickets for them. Others
may have started out with spirit but had it depart at some point in
life. It could have evacuated through abuse or sudden extreme trauma, or
evaporated gradually from decades of soul-killing routine. Not everyone
who dies necessarily drops dead. People can go on existing as hollow
shells, as echoes of their former selves, now void of the spirit that
once gave them spark. There are other darker phenomena like dead people
getting reanimated by aliens with advanced technology, human clones, and
other types of artificial humanoids that would lack spirit, but these
are relatively rare and therefore not worth discussing in this article
(see instead my article on Human Simulacra).
Here I
speak mainly of a larger sector of the population who naturally lack
spirit, who always have throughout history, and who by virtue of their
predatory and worldly natures have gravitated toward the top of the
social, economic, and political hierarchies and made the world
antagonistic toward spiritual impulses.
The Benefits of Understanding
As you
can see, this idea that some people lack spirit explains much about the
robotic, animalistic, predatory side of humanity. So many of us are
under the false assumption that we are all the same inside, that if we
walked in another’s shoes we would fully understand their motivations.
But not all inhuman acts trace back to mere environmental variables.
There are cases where, even if we put ourselves in their place, we would
not act the same. That is because the cause of their motivations is not
environmental, but metaphysical: the absence of spirit, and the supreme
reign of ego.
Those
who ignore the possibility of spiritless people will continue to shake
their heads in frustration at behaviors they simply cannot compute and
must either ignore or rationalize away. When dealing with a spiritless
psychopath, for instance, such individuals are easily deceived and
manipulated.
Only
after getting burned again and again do they realize some humans are a
different kind of animal, that some humans are not remediable because
they are acting fully and healthily in accordance with their spiritless
predatory nature. This is especially true of the psychopathic elite who
run this prison planet; they cannot be rehabilitated, made to see the
error of their ways, or convinced through appeals to empathy.
Caution and Conclusion
It
would be unwise, however, to look down upon the spiritless with
contempt. They are what they are, living their lives in accordance with
their makeup. They should be handled no differently from how one handles
a wild animal that acts according to its feral nature. It is only by
trying to hold the spiritless up to higher spiritual standards that
frustration sets in. Without expecting too much of them, and by
understanding why they behave as they do, frustration gives way to calm
insight.
Nor is
it worth going out of your way to try and spot who is spiritless,
because in ambiguous cases you will likely err on the side of paranoia.
Since spiritless behaviors form a subset of the behaviors of spirited
people, only the behaviors unique to spirited people can allow quick and
certain identification, and then only of who is definitely spirited.
Spotting only works for picking out who is truly spirited, which happens
most easily with a spirited individual on your wavelength. You will
sense the life in their eyes, the clear and unique energy behind their
words, and the originality and independence behind their thought
processes.
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Appendix I: Common Questions
How do
I know I’m not a spiritless person? – If you have experienced even one
trait unique to spirit, then you are not spiritless. The very fact that
you have wondered this, that you are uncertain and wish to know for
sure, shows self-awareness and introspection, which is another trait of
having spirit. Regardless, it is better to assume that you do have
spirit and work on developing its qualities like intuition, empathy, and
lucidity, all the while being aware of your lower egotistical impulses
and keeping from acting on them.
I
suspect that my (friend, spouse, parent) is a spiritless person, what do
I do? – Set aside for a moment the question of whether they are
spirited or not, and focus solely on whether you can continue being with
them. Are they so manipulative, draining, abusive, or otherwise harmful
to your well-being that you have to get away? If so, then it doesn’t
matter whether they have spirit or not. Are they so friendly and easy
going that you are doing quite fine having them in your life? If so,
then it doesn’t matter whether they have spirit or not. So from a
practical perspective, you only have to be concerned with whether you
can deal with having them in your life. Where the distinction between
spirited and spiritless does come into play is in dealing with
psychopathic people, where even after promising to change they keep
returning to their abusive ways; then at some point, instead of
rationalizing that they are just misguided and need even more time and
attention, it is better to conclude that maybe they are acting perfectly
in line with who they really are. Naive people who think everyone is
equally good inside will keep rationalizing and taking the abuse, but
those with higher understanding will recognize the warning signs of
futility sooner and save themselves the trouble.
How is
this concept of spiritless people not somehow divisive, racist,
persecutory, and antithetical to the idea of human equality, unity,
harmony, and brotherhood? – If the theory is true, that some people do
in fact lack spirit, then the truth of the matter should not be ignored
for the sake of political correctness. When properly applied, knowledge
can lead to greater stability and harmony in the long run. For example,
every attempted utopian society has failed because it was founded on
naive assumptions about the makeup of its citizenry; selfish,
psychopathic, predatory individuals end up corrupting the utopia. If the
utopia were founded on full understanding of such types, then measures
could have been put into place to prevent corruption. Also, a theory
should not be blamed for the consequences of its misapplication; those
who misapply it use it as a vehicle for the satisfaction of their own
egos rather than applying it from a spiritual perspective. Instead of
throwing out the theory because of its misapplication, better effort
should be made to prevent its misapplication. Lastly, the unity of all
life can be recognized without sacrificing awareness of the functional
diversity comprising it; and only by properly understanding each part of
that unity can the whole be recognized in full clarity instead of mere
ignorant bliss.
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Appendix II: Correlating Sources
John Baines – The Stellar Man
Rudolf Steiner – Theosophy
Rudolf Steiner – The Philosophy of Freedom
Rudolf Steiner – Outline of Occult Science
G. I. Gurdjieff – Views from the Real World
P. D. Ouspensky – In Search of the Miraculous
Clement Salaman, et al… – The Way of Hermes (Corpus Hermeticum)
Dion Fortune – Psychic Self-Defense
Boris Mouravieff – Gnosis, Volumes I-III
LKJ, et al… – The Cassiopaean Transcripts
Amit Goswami – The Self-Aware Universe
For excerpts from some of these sources, see this PDF.
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Appendix III: Permutations of Metaphysical Components
To
show the necessity of concepts like spirit, body, etheric, and astral,
here is a list of how these components combine to form different kinds
of entities. As you will see, the difference between these entities
cannot be explained with fewer than those components.
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Notes
1 In
case anyone wonders why we even need terms like spirit, soul, astral,
and etheric, it is because these constitute the simplest model that
explains large body of known observations, in accordance with Occam’s
Razor. People who ridicule the necessity of such metaphysical
distinctions and believe only in the body, or only in body and soul, are
leaving out certain crucial observations, thus their over-simplistic
model suffices for their smaller set of givens. However, the model must
be expanded to include observations by clairvoyants, the astutely
perceptive, and anyone who has experienced the paranormal. In doing so,
the additional concepts of spirit, soul, astral, and etheric enter the
picture. I believe these are the minimal components necessary to explain
spiritless people. But it explains a lot more, just see Appendix III.
These terms are also not just ad hoc explanations, however. Instead of
just being theoretical, the etheric and astral bodies are directly
experienceable through astral projection and viewable by clairvoyants.
2 Amit
Goswami explains with great insight how nondeterministic consciousness
acquires deterministic traits through conditioning in the physical body,
how quantum systems can acquire classical characteristics. See chapters
13 and 14 of his book The Self-Aware Universe.
3 What
does it mean that the ego imprints itself upon the etheric component of
the soul? For one, it ties into a lot of what Rudolf Steiner wrote
concerning the etheric double, the doppelganger, that mysterious shadow
side of ourselves that is antagonistic toward our spiritual well-being.
It also ties into Steiner mentioning that in Asia where ancestor worship
is common, demonic entities can wear the cast-off etheric shells of
deceased persons and thereby receive unto themselves all the psychic
energy given to that identity during worship. Further, the ego
continuing after death in etheric form may explain certain types of
ghosts, as well as the problem of astral/etheric impostors in channeling
whereby a negative entity can closely mimic a deceased relative. All
these phenomena suggest that some portion of a person’s worldly identity
(ego) survives death, and since it cannot be via the physical body, it
must be the next closest thing: the etheric component of the soul. And
lastly, when it comes to true artificial intelligence in quantum
computers and cybernetic beings, it should be expected that these will
be accompanied by an etheric field, just as plants have an etheric
field, which would assist in the artificial intelligence having some
level of “life” and not be just a deterministic machine with
pseudo-random output.
4 The
term “second death” is Biblical. “He that overcometh shall not be hurt
of the second death.” Revelation 2:11. “And death and hell were cast
into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not
found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Revelation 20:14-15. Boris Mouravieff and the Cassiopaeans would have
interpreted this approximately as follows: ‘overcometh’ means having
developed spirit, ‘second death’ is the dissolution of the etheric and
astral components of the soul, and ‘lake of fire’ represents the
undifferentiated group soul into which the soul dissolves. What does a
fire do other than melt and turn to ashes, removing all trace of former
identifiability? Second death happens after the first death. If the
first death is death of the physical, then the second has to be death of
the nonphysical. I believe this interpretation because it makes sense.
5
“Higher” means higher in function, not positionally higher on the body,
so the throat chakra is not a higher chakra since it is associated
merely with speech and intellectual functions. In the Fourth Way system
it correlates with the “lower intellectual center”. It probably
developed or evolved along with human capacity for speech and abstract
thinking, something most animals lack. That is why spiritless humans
have a throat chakra as well, and why they can be intellectually sharp
and have no limits to their speaking abilities. So it’s one of the lower
chakras in terms of function.
Miguel Martinek with Michael Di Paola at New York Sports Clubs (Astoria, NY).
Just who are the Annunaki?
The Top 5 Regrets Of The DyingThe Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying
Joe Martino Collective Evolution
•
This post originally appeared in Collective Evolution.
A
palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and put
her findings into a book called “The Top Five Regrets of The Dying.”
It’s not surprising to see what made the list as they are all things
that touch each of our lives as we struggle to pay attention to and make
time for things that we truly love. Below is the list of each regret
along with an excerpt from the book. At the bottom is also a link to the
book for anyone interested in checking it out.
One
thing on regret before we get to the list. It’s important to remember
that whatever stage we are at in life, there is no need for regret. The
process of regret is one that provides nothing but suffering for
ourselves as we begin to allow the past to dictate how we should feel
now. Instead, we can use the past as a reference point to understand
what adjustments we would like to make moving forward. The adjustments
do not have to come out of pain, sorrow, regret or judgment, but simply a
choice to do things in a different way. We are learning all the time,
we can very quickly slow that learning process down by getting stuck in
the idea of regret. When it comes to making changes, be at peace with
the past and remember that each moment is a new choice.
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
“This
was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life
is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many
dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honored even a half of
their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had
made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realize, until they
no longer have it.”
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
“This
came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s
youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this
regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female
patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply
regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work
existence.”
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
“Many
people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a
result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they
were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to
the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.”
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
“Often
they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until
their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down.
Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden
friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about
not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone
misses their friends when they are dying.”
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
”This
is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that
happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits.
The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions,
as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to
others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within,
they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.”
40 Regrets You Don’t Want to Have in 40 Years
Stop
wasting time regretting what you did a year ago. Start doing what you
have to do now, so that in a year’s time you won’t regret what you did
today.
This
morning, like he has every morning for the last decade, my 86-year-old
grandfather picked a fresh wild flower on his morning walk and took it
to my grandmother. This morning I decided to go with him to see her. And
as he placed the flower on her gravestone, he looked at me and said, “I
just wish I had picked her a fresh flower every morning when she was
alive. She would have loved that.”
As you
can imagine, his words touched a nerve in me. I almost immediately
started thinking about everything and everyone I care about, and what I
don’t want to regret in 40 years when I’m on the cusp of my 80’s. It
almost felt like every aspect of my life was flashing before my eyes.
And as soon as I got home, I started jotting down everything that had
come to mind. When I was done, I read the list to Angel. She nodded her
head all the way through to the end, and then said, “I couldn’t agree
more. I don’t think anyone wants to regret any of those things when
they’re older.” Perhaps you will also agree…
1.
Spending too little time with the right people. – Sooner or later, you
just want to be around the people who make you smile. So today, spend
time with those who help you love yourself more. And remember, the
people you take for granted today may be the only ones you need
tomorrow. Never be too busy to make time for those who matter most.
2. Not
making your loved ones smile more often. – The most beautiful thing is
to see a person you love smile, and even more beautiful is knowing that
you are the reason behind it.
3. Not
saying what you need to say. – Speak up. Don’t hide your thoughts and
feelings, especially when you can make a difference. Be brave. Say what
needs to be said. If you care about someone, tell them. Hearts are
sometimes broken by the words we leave unspoken.
4.
Constantly comparing yourself to everyone else. – Don’t compare your
progress in life with that of others. We all need our own time to travel
our own distance. It’s perfectly OK to be different. Today, the only
person you should try to be better than, is the person you were
yesterday. Prove yourself to yourself, not others.
5.
Ignoring your intuition for too long. – Sometimes your mind needs more
time to accept what your heart already knows. Breathe. Be a witness, not
a judge. Listen to your intuition.
6. Not
taking action on meaningful goals. – Instead of complaining about your
circumstances, get busy creating new ones. You either suffer the pain of
discipline or the pain of regret. Most of the time, the only difference
between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do. (Read
Getting Things Done.)
7.
Letting others talk you out of your dreams. – Can you remember who you
were before the world told you who you should be? Stop living for other
people and their opinions. Be true to YOU.
8.
Vivid memories of wasted time. – There is good reason why you should
wake each morning and mindfully consider what and who you will give your
day to. Because unlike other things in life – love, money, respect,
good health, hope, opportunities, and many more – time is the one thing
you can never get back once it’s gone.
9.
Collecting more excuses than you can count. – If you really want to do
something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
10.
Waiting, and waiting, and waiting until you’re ready. – Sometimes life
seems hard, but we often make it harder than it is. All you ever have to
decide is what to do next. It really is this simple. You don’t have to
have it all figured out to move forward. Just do the best you can until
you know better. Once you know better, do better.
11.
Not putting in enough effort. – In life you are either a passenger or a
pilot, it’s your choice. If you want something, work for it. Do what it
takes, not what is easy. It will hurt. It will take time. It will
require dedication. It will require willpower. You will need to make
healthy decisions. It requires sacrifice. You will need to push your
body to its max. There will be temptation. But, I promise you, when you
reach your goal, it will be worth it.
12.
Letting solvable problems stop you. – Not everything that’s faced can be
changed, but nothing can be changed until it’s faced. Problems are not
stop signs, they’re guidelines. If you want it, work for it. It’s that
simple. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from
overcoming the things you couldn’t.
13.
Not taking on enough risk. – Wouldn’t you rather have a life of “OH
WELLs” than a life of “WHAT IFs”? Do what you can while you can. Don’t
be afraid to move out of your comfort zone. Some of my best life
experiences and opportunities came to me only after I dared to lose.
14.
Settling for less than you are capable of. – Remember, growth and change
may be painful sometimes, but nothing in life is as painful as staying
stuck where you don’t belong.
15.
Putting your own needs and happiness on the back burner. – All jokes
aside, your life only comes around once. This is IT. So do what makes
you happy and be with whoever makes you laugh, often.
16.
Letting impatience govern your decisions and actions. – Patience is not
about waiting; it’s the ability to keep a good attitude while working
hard for what you believe in.
17.
Giving up too soon. – Forget how many times you’ve broken down. It’s
about how you stand up and move on. You may have to go through the
worst, to get to the best. Good things take time. Stay patient and stay
positive. Everything is going to come together; maybe not immediately,
but eventually.
18.
Letting someone walk all over you, ad infinitum. – Never allow someone
to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. And walk
away from anyone who continually robs you of peace and joy. Life is too
short to waste your time with people who abuse and bully you.
19.
Not helping others when you were able. – If you have a lot, give your
wealth. If you have a little, give your heart. Just give what you can.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
20.
Ignoring your roots and those who have supported you. – Never forget
where you’ve been. Never lose sight of where you’re going. And never
take for granted the people who travel the journey with you.
21.
Not appreciating what you have when you have it. – We often forget that
happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have,
but of deeply appreciating what we do have. No, you won’t always get
exactly what you want. But remember this: There are lots of people who
will never have what you have right now. (Read The Happiness Project.)
22.
Letting your health go. – Your body is the only place you will truly
ever live. If you’re lucky enough to have a body that’s in good health,
be wise enough to keep it that way.
23.
Years of struggling to find happiness outside yourself. – Happiness is
not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s
happening inside you. Too many people depend on others, or outside
sources, to gain happiness, but the truth is it always comes from
within.
24.
Letting too many plans blind you from the beauty of now. – When life is
good, enjoy it. Don’t go looking for something better. Happiness never
comes to those who don’t appreciate what they have. You must be willing
to loosen your grip on the life you have planned so you can enjoy the
life that is waiting for you now.
25.
Being too narrow-minded to see the opportunities given to you. –
Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you WANT because you NEED something
else. And what you need often comes when you’re not looking for it.
26.
The limitations you put on yourself. – It’s often our own thinking that
hurts us. There’s no reason to imprison yourself. Don’t think outside
the box. Think like there is no box.
27.
Letting negativity get the best of you. – Remember, true strength is
when you have so much to cry and complain about, but you prefer to smile
and appreciate your life instead.
28.
Never admitting and growing beyond your mistakes. – You can learn great
things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
29.
Not accepting responsibility for life changes you need to make. – If
you’ve been asking the same questions for a long time, yet are still
stuck, it’s probably not that you haven’t been given the answers, but
that you don’t like the answers you were given. Remember, it takes a
great deal of courage to admit that something needs to change, and a lot
more courage still, to accept the responsibility for making the change
happen.
30.
Seeking too much validation from others. – You are GOOD enough, SMART
enough, FINE enough, and STRONG enough. You don’t need other people to
validate you; you’re already valuable. You are YOU and that’s the
beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
31.
Impressing the wrong people. – Not everyone will appreciate what you do
for them. You have to figure out who’s worth your attention and who’s
just taking advantage of you. Spend more time with those who make you
smile and less time with those who you constantly feel pressured to
impress.
32.
Time spent on drama and needless arguments. – Life is too short to argue
and fight. Count your blessings, value the people who matter and move
on from the drama with your head held high.
33.
Letting a grudge hurt your happiness. – Let it go. Grudges are a waste
of perfect happiness. Holding one is like letting unwanted company live
rent free in your head.
34.
Endlessly worrying about things. – Move on. Stop letting it bother you.
If a problem can be solved, there’s nothing to worry about. If it can’t
be solved, worrying is useless.
35.
Forcing what’s not meant to be. – Never force anything. Do your best,
then let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will be. Don’t hold yourself
down with things you can’t control. Sometimes you have to stop worrying,
wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe
not how you planned, but just how it’s meant to be.
36.
Getting stuck in the trap of consumerism. – Too many people spend money
they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t need, to impress folks
they don’t even know. Don’t be one of them. (Read The Total Money
Makeover.)
37. Never traveling when you had the chance. – Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.
38.
Not choosing to laugh at life more often. – Life is way better when
you’re laughing. Being positive in a negative situation is not naive,
it’s a sign of leadership and strength.
39.
Resisting change instead of rolling with it. – You’re not the same
person you were a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago. You’re always
growing. Experiences don’t stop. That’s life.
40.
Talking the talk, but never walking the walk. – When it’s all said and
done, be sure you haven’t said more than you’ve done. In the end,
actions always speak louder than words. So work hard in silence, and let
your success be your noise.
Afterthoughts
If
you’re struggling with any of these points, know that you are not alone.
Many of us are right there with you, working hard to feel better, think
more clearly, and live a life free of regrets. This is precisely why
Angel and I wrote our book, “1,000 Little Things Happy Successful People
Do Differently.” It’s filled with short, concise tips on how to do just
that. And believe it or not, Angel and I review a lot of our own
material on a regular basis too, just to center our minds on these
positive principles.
The
bottom line is that it’s never too late to take a step in the right
direction. It’s never too late to become the person you are capable of
being. Things can change if you want them to, at any age. Right now you
have an opportunity to write yourself a future full of peace and free of
regret.
Your turn…
Let’s
flip the concept of this article around. Instead of sharing something
you don’t want to regret down the road, tell me this:
What have you done lately that you know you will NOT regret down the road?
30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself
WRITTEN BY MARC CHERNOFF // 180 COMMENTS
Remember today, for it is the beginning.
Today marks the start of a brave new future.
Our
previous article, 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself, was well received
by most of our readers, but several of you suggested that we follow it
up with a list of things to start doing. In one reader’s words, “I would
love to see you revisit each of these 30 principles, but instead of
presenting us with a ‘to-don’t’ list, present us with a ‘to-do’ list
that we all can start working on today, together.” Some folks, such as
readers Danny Head and Satori Agape, actually took it one step further
and emailed us their own revised ‘to-do’ versions of the list.
So I
sat down last night with our original article and the two reader’s
revisions as a guide, and a couple hours later finalized a new list of
30 things; which ended up being, I think, a perfect complement to the
original.
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1.
Start spending time with the right people. – These are the people you
enjoy, who love and appreciate you, and who encourage you to improve in
healthy and exciting ways. They are the ones who make you feel more
alive, and not only embrace who you are now, but also embrace and embody
who you want to be, unconditionally.
2.
Start facing your problems head on. – It isn’t your problems that define
you, but how you react to them and recover from them. Problems will not
disappear unless you take action. Do what you can, when you can, and
acknowledge what you’ve done. It’s all about taking baby steps in the
right direction, inch by inch. These inches count, they add up to yards
and miles in the long run.
3.
Start being honest with yourself about everything. – Be honest about
what’s right, as well as what needs to be changed. Be honest about what
you want to achieve and who you want to become. Be honest with every
aspect of your life, always. Because you are the one person you can
forever count on. Search your soul, for the truth, so that you truly
know who you are. Once you do, you’ll have a better understanding of
where you are now and how you got here, and you’ll be better equipped to
identify where you want to go and how to get there.
4.
Start making your own happiness a priority. – Your needs matter. If you
don’t value yourself, look out for yourself, and stick up for yourself,
you’re sabotaging yourself. Remember, it IS possible to take care of
your own needs while simultaneously caring for those around you. And
once your needs are met, you will likely be far more capable of helping
those who need you most. (Angel and I discuss this in detail in the
“Self-Love” chapter of 1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do
Differently.)
5.
Start being yourself, genuinely and proudly. – Trying to be anyone else
is a waste of the person you are. Be yourself. Embrace that individual
inside you that has ideas, strengths and beauty like no one else. Be the
person you know yourself to be – the best version of you – on your
terms. Above all, be true to YOU, and if you cannot put your heart in
it, take yourself out of it.
6.
Start noticing and living in the present. – Right now is a miracle.
Right now is the only moment guaranteed to you. Right now is life. So
stop thinking about how great things will be in the future. Stop
dwelling on what did or didn’t happen in the past. Learn to be in the
‘here and now’ and experience life as it’s happening. Appreciate the
world for the beauty that it holds, right now.
7.
Start valuing the lessons your mistakes teach you. – Mistakes are okay;
they’re the stepping stones of progress. If you’re not failing from time
to time, you’re not trying hard enough and you’re not learning. Take
risks, stumble, fall, and then get up and try again. Appreciate that you
are pushing yourself, learning, growing and improving. Significant
achievements are almost invariably realized at the end of a long road of
failures. One of the ‘mistakes’ you fear might just be the link to your
greatest achievement yet.
8.
Start being more polite to yourself. – If you had a friend who spoke to
you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would
you allow that person to be your friend? The way you treat yourself
sets the standard for others. You must love who you are or no one else
will.
9.
Start enjoying the things you already have. – The problem with many of
us is that we think we’ll be happy when we reach a certain level in life
– a level we see others operating at – your boss with her corner
office, that friend of a friend who owns a mansion on the beach, etc.
Unfortunately, it takes awhile before you get there, and when you get
there you’ll likely have a new destination in mind. You’ll end up
spending your whole life working toward something new without ever
stopping to enjoy the things you have now. So take a quiet moment every
morning when you first awake to appreciate where you are and what you
already have.
10.
Start creating your own happiness. – If you are waiting for someone else
to make you happy, you’re missing out. Smile because you can. Choose
happiness. Be the change you want to see in the world. Be happy with who
you are now, and let your positivity inspire your journey into
tomorrow. Happiness is often found when and where you decide to seek it.
If you look for happiness within the opportunities you have, you will
eventually find it. But if you constantly look for something else,
unfortunately, you’ll find that too. (Read Stumbling on Happiness.)
11.
Start giving your ideas and dreams a chance. – In life, it’s rarely
about getting a chance; it’s about taking a chance. You’ll never be 100%
sure it will work, but you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won’t
work. Most of the time you just have to go for it! And no matter how it
turns out, it always ends up just the way it should be. Either you
succeed or you learn something. Win-Win.
12.
Start believing that you’re ready for the next step. – You are ready!
Think about it. You have everything you need right now to take the next
small, realistic step forward. So embrace the opportunities that come
your way, and accept the challenges – they’re gifts that will help you
to grow.
13.
Start entering new relationships for the right reasons. – Enter new
relationships with dependable, honest people who reflect the person you
are and the person you want to be. Choose friends you are proud to know,
people you admire, who show you love and respect – people who
reciprocate your kindness and commitment. And pay attention to what
people do, because a person’s actions are much more important than their
words or how others represent them.
14.
Start giving new people you meet a chance. – It sounds harsh, but you
cannot keep every friend you’ve ever made. People and priorities change.
As some relationships fade others will grow. Appreciate the possibility
of new relationships as you naturally let go of old ones that no longer
work. Trust your judgment. Embrace new relationships, knowing that you
are entering into unfamiliar territory. Be ready to learn, be ready for a
challenge, and be ready to meet someone that might just change your
life forever.
15.
Start competing against an earlier version of yourself. – Be inspired by
others, appreciate others, learn from others, but know that competing
against them is a waste of time. You are in competition with one person
and one person only – yourself. You are competing to be the best you can
be. Aim to break your own personal records. (Read The Road Less
Traveled.)
16.
Start cheering for other people’s victories. – Start noticing what you
like about others and tell them. Having an appreciation for how amazing
the people around you are leads to good places – productive, fulfilling,
peaceful places. So be happy for those who are making progress. Cheer
for their victories. Be thankful for their blessings, openly. What goes
around comes around, and sooner or later the people you’re cheering for
will start cheering for you.
17.
Start looking for the silver lining in tough situations. – When things
are hard, and you feel down, take a few deep breaths and look for the
silver lining – the small glimmers of hope. Remind yourself that you can
and will grow stronger from these hard times. And remain conscious of
your blessings and victories – all the things in your life that are
right. Focus on what you have, not on what you haven’t.
18.
Start forgiving yourself and others. – We’ve all been hurt by our own
decisions and by others. And while the pain of these experiences is
normal, sometimes it lingers for too long. We relive the pain over and
over and have a hard time letting go. Forgiveness is the remedy. It
doesn’t mean you’re erasing the past, or forgetting what happened. It
means you’re letting go of the resentment and pain, and instead choosing
to learn from the incident and move on with your life.
19.
Start helping those around you. – Care about people. Guide them if you
know a better way. The more you help others, the more they will want to
help you. Love and kindness begets love and kindness. And so on and so
forth.
20.
Start listening to your own inner voice. – If it helps, discuss your
ideas with those closest to you, but give yourself enough room to follow
your own intuition. Be true to yourself. Say what you need to say. Do
what you know in your heart is right.
21.
Start being attentive to your stress level and take short breaks. – Slow
down. Breathe. Give yourself permission to pause, regroup and move
forward with clarity and purpose. When you’re at your busiest, a brief
recess can rejuvenate your mind and increase your productivity. These
short breaks will help you regain your sanity and reflect on your recent
actions so you can be sure they’re in line with your goals.
22.
Start noticing the beauty of small moments. – Instead of waiting for the
big things to happen – marriage, kids, big promotion, winning the
lottery – find happiness in the small things that happen every day.
Little things like having a quiet cup of coffee in the early morning, or
the delicious taste and smell of a homemade meal, or the pleasure of
sharing something you enjoy with someone else, or holding hands with
your partner. Noticing these small pleasures on a daily basis makes a
big difference in the quality of your life.
23.
Start accepting things when they are less than perfect. – Remember,
‘perfect’ is the enemy of ‘good.’ One of the biggest challenges for
people who want to improve themselves and improve the world is learning
to accept things as they are. Sometimes it’s better to accept and
appreciate the world as it is, and people as they are, rather than to
trying to make everything and everyone conform to an impossible ideal.
No, you shouldn’t accept a life of mediocrity, but learn to love and
value things when they are less than perfect.
24.
Start working toward your goals every single day. – Remember, the
journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Whatever it is you
dream about, start taking small, logical steps every day to make it
happen. Get out there and DO something! The harder you work the luckier
you will become. While many of us decide at some point during the course
of our lives that we want to answer our calling, only an astute few of
us actually work on it. By ‘working on it,’ I mean consistently devoting
oneself to the end result. (Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People.)
25.
Start being more open about how you feel. – If you’re hurting, give
yourself the necessary space and time to hurt, but be open about it.
Talk to those closest to you. Tell them the truth about how you feel.
Let them listen. The simple act of getting things off your chest and
into the open is your first step toward feeling good again.
26.
Start taking full accountability for your own life. – Own your choices
and mistakes, and be willing to take the necessary steps to improve upon
them. Either you take accountability for your life or someone else
will. And when they do, you’ll become a slave to their ideas and dreams
instead of a pioneer of your own. You are the only one who can directly
control the outcome of your life. And no, it won’t always be easy. Every
person has a stack of obstacles in front of them. But you must take
accountability for your situation and overcome these obstacles. Choosing
not to is choosing a lifetime of mere existence.
27.
Start actively nurturing your most important relationships. – Bring
real, honest joy into your life and the lives of those you love by
simply telling them how much they mean to you on a regular basis. You
can’t be everything to everyone, but you can be everything to a few
people. Decide who these people are in your life and treat them like
royalty. Remember, you don’t need a certain number of friends, just a
number of friends you can be certain of.
28.
Start concentrating on the things you can control. – You can’t change
everything, but you can always change something. Wasting your time,
talent and emotional energy on things that are beyond your control is a
recipe for frustration, misery and stagnation. Invest your energy in the
things you can control, and act on them now.
29.
Start focusing on the possibility of positive outcomes. – The mind must
believe it CAN do something before it is capable of actually doing it.
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to
develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
Listen to your self-talk and replace negative thoughts with positive
ones. Regardless of how a situation seems, focus on what you DO WANT to
happen, and then take the next positive step forward. No, you can’t
control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you
react to things. Everyone’s life has positive and negative aspects –
whether or not you’re happy and successful in the long run depends
greatly on which aspects you focus on. (Read The How of Happiness.)
30.
Start noticing how wealthy you are right now. – Henry David Thoreau once
said, “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” Even when times
are tough, it’s always important to keep things in perspective. You
didn’t go to sleep hungry last night. You didn’t go to sleep outside.
You had a choice of what clothes to wear this morning. You hardly broke a
sweat today. You didn’t spend a minute in fear. You have access to
clean drinking water. You have access to medical care. You have access
to the Internet. You can read. Some might say you are incredibly
wealthy, so remember to be grateful for all the things you do have.
50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind
These questions have no right or wrong answers.
Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.
1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11.
You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all
start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your
friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
50.
Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them
for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?
Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.
And check out these books for more thought-provoking questions:
• The Book of Questions
• If… (Questions For The Game of Life)
• The Complete Book of Questions: 1001 Conversation Starters for Any Occasion
25 Things You Need to Stop Wasting Time On
WRITTEN BY MARC CHERNOFF // 92 COMMENTS
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
―Benjamin Franklin
This
morning I received a thank you email from a reader named Hope. She said
our blog and book helped motivate her through an arduous recovery
process following a serious car accident last year. Although her entire
story was both heartbreaking and inspiring, this one line made me pause
and think:
“The
happiest moment of my life is still that split-second a year ago when,
as I laid crushed under a 2000 pound car, I realized my husband and
9-year-old boy were out of the vehicle and absolutely OK.”
Dire
moments like this force us to acknowledge what’s truly important to us.
In Hope’s case, it was her husband and son. And in the remainder of her
email, she talks about how her family spends significantly more time
together now, simply sharing stories, telling jokes, and appreciating
each other’s company. “The accident made us realize how much time we had
been wasting every day on things that weren’t important, which
prevented us from spending quality time with each other,” she said.
It’s hard to think about a story like Hope’s and not ask yourself: “What do I need to stop wasting time on?”
Here are some things to consider, that I’ve been examining in my own life:
1.
Distractions that keep you from special moments with special people. –
Pay attention to the little things, because when you really miss someone
you miss the little things the most, like just laughing together. Go
for long walks. Indulge in great conversations. Count your mutual
blessings. Let go for a little while and just BE together.
2.
Compulsive busyness. – Schedule time every day to not be busy. Have
dedicated downtime – clear points in the day to reflect, rest, and
recharge. Don’t fool yourself; you’re not so busy that you can’t afford a
few minutes of sanity.
3.
Negative thinking about your current situation. – Life is like a mirror;
we get the best results when we smile. So talk about your blessings
more than you talk about your problems. Just because you’re struggling
doesn’t mean you’re failing. Every great success requires some type of
worthy struggle to get there.
4. The
needless drama around you. – Be wise enough to walk away from the
nonsense around you. Focus on the positives, and soon the negatives will
be harder to see.
5. The
desire for everything you don’t have. – No, you won’t always get
exactly what you want, but remember this: There are lots of people who
will never have what you have right now. The things you take for
granted, someone else is praying for. Happiness never comes to those who
don’t appreciate what they already have.
6.
Comparing yourself to everyone else. – Social comparison is the thief of
happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have,
but it wouldn’t get you anything. (Read The How of Happiness.)
7.
Thinking about who you were or what you had in the past. – You’re not
the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago. You’re
always growing. Experiences don’t stop. That’s life.
8.
Worrying about the mistakes you’ve made. – It’s OK if you mess up;
that’s how you get wiser. Give yourself a break. Don’t give up. Great
things take time, and you’re getting there. Let your mistakes be your
motivation, not your excuses. Decide right now that negative experiences
from your past won’t predict your future.
9.
Worrying about what everyone thinks and says about you. – Don’t take
things too personally, even if it seems personal. Rarely do people do
things because of you; they do things because of them. You honestly
can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you
can do is change how you react and who you choose to be around.
10.
Self-deception. – Your life will improve only when you take small
chances. And the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be
honest with yourself.
11. A
life path that doesn’t feel right. – Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
When you truly believe in what you’re doing, it shows, and it pays.
Success in life is for those who are excited about where they are going.
It’s about walking comfortably in your own shoes, in the direction of
YOUR dreams.
12.
Everyone else’s definition of success and happiness. – You simply can’t
base your idea of success and happiness on other people’s opinions and
expectations.
13.
Those who insist on using and manipulating you. – What you allow is what
will continue. Give as much as you can, but don’t allow yourself to be
used. Listen to others closely, but don’t lose your own voice in the
process. (Read Codependent No More.)
14.
Trying to impress everyone. – One of the most freeing things we learn in
life is that we don’t have to like everyone, everyone doesn’t have to
like us, and that’s perfectly OK. No matter how you live, someone will
be disappointed. So just live your truth and be sure YOU aren’t the one
who is disappointed in the end.
15.
All the fears holding you back. – Fear is a feeling, not a fact. The
best way to gain strength and self-confidence is to do what you’re
afraid to do. Dare to change and grow. In the end, there is only one
thing that makes a dream completely impossible to achieve: Lack of
action based on the fear of failure.
16.
Doubting and second-guessing yourself. – When in doubt just take the
next small step. Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends
up being the biggest step of your life.
17.
People who continuously dump on your dreams. – It’s better to be lonely
than allow negative people and their opinions derail you from your
destiny. Don’t let others crush your dreams. Do just once what they say
you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their negativity
again.
18.
Thinking the perfect time will come. – You can’t always wait for the
perfect moment. Sometimes you must dare to do it because life is too
short to wonder what could have been.
19.
Band-Aids and temporary fixes. – You can’t change what you refuse to
confront. You can’t find peace by avoiding things. Deal with problems
directly before they deal with your happiness. (Angel and I discuss this
in detail in the “Adversity” chapter of 1,000 Little Things Happy,
Successful People Do Differently.)
20.
Close-minded judgments. – Open your mind before you open your mouth.
Don’t hate what you don’t know. The mind is like a parachute; it doesn’t
work when it’s closed.
21.
Other people’s mistakes and oversights. – Today, be tolerant of people’s
mistakes and oversights. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It
doesn’t mean they’re bad; it simply means they are human.
22.
Resentment. – Kindness is not to be mistaken for weakness, nor
forgiveness for acceptance. It’s about knowing that resentment is not on
the path to happiness. Remember, you don’t forgive people because
you’re weak. You forgive them because you’re strong enough to know that
people make mistakes.
23.
Any hateful thoughts at all. – Set an example. Treat everyone with
kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you – not because they
are nice, but because you are. Make kindness a daily ritual; it’s what
makes life happier and more fulfilling in the long run.
24.
Regrets of any kind. – You don’t have to be defined by the things you
once did or didn’t do. Don’t let yourself be controlled by regret. Maybe
there’s something you could have done differently, or maybe not. Either
way, it’s merely something that has already happened. Leave the
unchangeable past behind you as you give yourself to the present moment.
25.
Every point in time other than right now. – Don’t cry over the past,
it’s gone. Don’t stress too much about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Do
your best to live NOW and make this moment worth living.
4 Things I Learned by Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone 850 Times in a Row
You
hope to meet incredible people, but you’d rather bite your lip than make
small talk with strangers. You want to build that side business you’ve
been daydreaming about, but the complexities of actually starting it
make the palms of your hands sweaty. Speaking up and adding value in
corporate meetings could improve your reputation in the eyes of your
boss, but you’re scared of saying the wrong thing. Circumstances like
these – the ones that are fundamentally important in the long-term, but
downright terrifying in the near-term – are incredibly common. And of
course, the easiest reaction to these circumstances is avoidance. But
that would be a huge mistake!
In fact, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from completing over 850 self-assigned comfort zone challenges, it’s this:
We
don’t stumble accidentally into a wildly fulfilling, deeply satisfying,
jaw-dropping life… we create it. And the journey always leads us outside
our comfort zone.
Before
starting The Year of Fear Project, I was the least likely person on
planet Earth to be interesting, adventurous, or successful (more on my
story here).
Even
after a decade spent studying the psychology of success and how to
procrastination-proof my goals, I found tackling something outside of my
comfort zone every day was the one decision that transformed every area
of my life nearly overnight.
I have
now gone on to speak, write, and teach students across seven continents
how to get comfortable with the circumstances that make them
uncomfortable.
Here’s
the good news: you don’t have to invest all the hard work and hustle I
did over the past several years to learn a few of the most powerful
lessons from venturing outside your comfort zone.
Here’s the bad news: you can’t “unlearn” what you’re about to read…
After
getting a sneak peek into just a few (of the many) life changing lessons
I’ve learned, you may have no choice but to join me on this journey.
When
you discover the real “secret” to getting everything you want out of
life starts with one simple action – facing your fears in small ways
every day – it becomes the healthiest addiction one can form.
A Comfort Zone Is The Most Dangerous Place To Live
A
comfort zone is like wallpaper in most people’s lives – operating in the
background, ever-present, something we never even think about.
But as
much as we seemingly enjoy comfort and routine, we as human beings are
often happiest when challenged and making progress. And when we commit
to finding small ways to grow daily, we discover four things rather
quickly:
1. Even when you are on the right track, you will still doubt yourself.
Before you practice expanding your comfort zone, you may think fear is a sign that you are on the wrong track.
I vividly remember preparing for my first cross-country move to Los Angeles from the Midwest.
Even
though I dreamt about it daily, I struggled to slash it off my bucket
list for four years. Every time I convinced myself to finally put my
sleepy hometown in the rearview mirror, fear would overwhelm me…
• “Am I really strong enough to do this alone?”
• “Will I ever make friends as great as the ones I have here?”
• “What if I’m not cool enough to hang with the hipsters in LA?”
• “Wait… how much is rent?!?”
• etc.
What I
discovered after starting The Year of Fear Project is perfectly summed
up by one of my favorite writers, Jon Acuff: “We will never be brave
enough to do what we need to do next.”
The
problem wasn’t that I was losing sleep at night and sweating through my
sheets at the rate of Niagara Falls. The problem was I thought I
shouldn’t be.
Even when you are on the right track, you will still be afraid and doubt yourself.
Half
the battle is already won when you expect that fear will show up. It
does not matter the size of the leap – little or large. From walking up
to compliment a beautiful stranger, to bravely asking your boss for a
raise, doubt and fear are always near when you are on the right track.
I’ll say that again…
Doubt and fear are always near, especially when you are on the right track.
And it takes practice to embrace this reality…
Instead
of a stoplight, I now see doubt and fear as a spotlight – illuminating
where I should go next. I realize all of the good decisions (and
necessary growth decisions) that change our lives often cause us to lose
a little sleep, and that’s perfectly OK.
How
would your life change if you saw doubt and fear as a sign that you are
on the right track? What goal or project would you bravely stick with or
start up again?
2. You can love others without listening to them.
I’ll
kick this off with a disclaimer: having a few people you can lean on and
trust to give it to you straight when you are being a wackadoodle is
important. However, what may surprise you is that those whose advice
helps you the least can sometimes be those who love you the most.
So, trust me now and believe me later: you can love someone without listening to them every step of the way.
When
you start taking risks – especially the kind of risks your loved ones
don’t agree with – you become a red hot bullseye for feedback. Even when
they mean well, it’s rare that they’ll just toss their hats in the air
and enthusiastically shout:
“Go for it!”
“Do what makes you happy!”
“Quit that crappy sales job that is slowly suffocating your soul and go teach yoga!”
Why?
In short: they care and want to protect you from failure.
But
they may also subconsciously fear that if your life changes too much,
there may not be space left for them. And that’s OK too.
Spiritless Humans
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Many
skeptics dismiss Christianity as a pagan fable. Although
pseudo-Christianity has borrowed ideas from the pagan world; the truth
is paganism ori…ginated in primitive Judaism. At Babel, Noah was deified
as the creative artisan of the world. After God confused the languages,
every culture would retain a similar set of beliefs.
Early
paganism was ancestral worship. All the gods and goddess of antiquity
are based upon real people. Even the twelve houses of the Zodiac are
built upon biblical stories. For instance, Leo the Lion, Taurus the
Bull, Scorpio with an eagle, and Aquarius the divine Man, represent the
four-living creatures – who guarded the Tree of Life at Eden.
In
ancient Egypt, Osiris was the Patriarch Noah. According to legends,
Osiris was nailed inside a coffin and thrown into the Nile River by
Typhon. This is an illusion to the Great Deluge and Noah’s journey on
the ark. The ark is symbolic of Noah’s casket; but also represents the
moon and womb of Isis. The mysteries teach Osiris is killed in the
antediluvian world; but exits the ark – as the risen Horus!
In
ancient Rome, the hero of the ship was Saturn. Saturn builds a grotto in
the midst of the ocean to protect his family from impending doom. Some
versions have Saturn sailing a ship. At any event, Saturn is an adaption
of the biblical Noah. Like Noah, Saturn’s family consists of three
sons; and eight people in totality. And similar to the Genesis account
of Noah, Saturn becomes drunk and his naked body is exposed. In the
classical myths, Saturn becomes intoxicated – and his youngest son
castrates his naked father – and throws his phallus into the sea.
Saturn
is not exclusively Noah, but is Father Time and thus the Christ of all
ages. Noah is the god between worlds; he is the Father of the Post Flood
epoch. He is one of many heavenly luminaries; who soul migrated into
the stars. In the Eden Epoch, Saturn is the androgynous Adam Kadmon. He
is believed to have ruled over the Golden Ages of the antediluvian
world.
In
Hinduism, the Earth goes through four cycles – the Golden Age, the
Silver Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. After the four cycles
finish, a new world emerges with a new savior. This is similar to
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of four successive empires. In the dream, he sees
a giant statue with a head of gold, arms and chest of silver, belly and
thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of iron mingled with clay.
Ultimately, the statue is destroyed; and the Final Empire is replaced
with an everlasting Kingdom of God.
Saturn’s
symbol is the triangle. The triangle represents Mount Ararat where the
ark rested. The triangle also symbolizes the Tower of Babel, pyramids of
Egypt, pagados of Hindus, and ziggurats of the Aztecs.
Another
sigil of Saturn is the hexagram – or double triangle, which teaches the
occult maxim “as above, so below”. The hexagram is the national symbol
of Israel – placed on every Jewish flag. Besides the Star of David, the
Jews wear the tefillin – a Black Cube of Saturn. Also the Jewish Sabbath
day – Saturday – is named after god Saturn.
Despite
the mythos of Saturn being an allegory of Noah; many connect Saturn to
Satan. This makes sense, because Saturn is associated with the death,
black, and evil. However, this is also misleading because Satan is a
created being – and not Father Time. Ultimately, Saturn is based upon a
dualistic universe. In this false paradigm Satan is depicted as a god.
Thus, Saturn is a blend of Yahweh and Satan; he is Yahweh vilified and
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