Are We Content?

There is a question that speaks to us from our soul. From the depths of our psyche with a voice that booms known as the self. We all wander through a process of individuation, to discover who we are and what we are attempting to do. This booming source resonates with us in moments of joy, suffering, humor, anger, confusion, and clarity. It is the deepest wellspring of wisdom we could ever discover, and it requires almost no search whatsoever.

It is within each individual to have all the knowledge they could ever need. There is no need to seek outside one's self for guidance. No teacher, preacher, politician, police, scientist, doctor or any supposed authority could ever guide us in any proper direction. This right is exclusively reserved for the individual. To seek out individual perspective is the duty of consciousness to form a most complete picture of the universe. Without a complete picture, we are ignorant. Within ignorance, we are in danger. In danger, we are deluded to believe we are seperate from our circumstance and therefore limited in power. The picture is very simple and massive. All is one and one is all.

My life has led me through many personal experiences of painful trauma and joyful ecstacy. I used to despise and resent the traumatic experiences forming seemingly external judgements based on these experiences. Through casting judgement from these emotions onto others, I have come to learn I was only casting judgement on myself through a delusion that anyone and anything could ever be seperate from me. Understanding that on a deeply subconscious level I required these traumas to learn from, I am beginning to view these events under a healing light.

I very much enjoy using metaphor to grasp the meaning of events I encounter, and I enjoy sharing these metaphors in the hope that others may acquire their own wisdom from them. I see forces that appear to work against us as encouragement to grow from the Universe. Gravity resists the upward growth of plants, and tells the roots where to take hold. Wind, whips the plants and makes them twist and bend. This twisting and bending tears tiny fibers in the plant which grow back in greater abundance. This greater abundance then provides a foundation for greater growth and creates a strength in the plant which helps to ensure its survival. Throughout the countless milennia, there has been our sun, providing unconditional warmth and nourishment for all life on Earth.

There are many of us who have begun to watch, with increasing fascination, the events unfolding on our planet. At first this fascination may have been fueled by an immense cloud of fear. Gradually, this fear began to fade as our spirit was bombarded with resistance, tearing the fibers of our souls and showing our roots where to find stability and take hold. Eventually, our awareness broke through the surface and discovered the unconditional illumination that shines lovingly on everything.

Are we then content to stand still, and fall before the forces that appear to work against us? Or are we instead, joyful for the apparent challenges before us that encourage and guide us to greater heights of strength and illumination?

"As below so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend."

-Lateralus, a song composed by the band Tool.