Tom, your emphasis on that v-curve and its variations, have been useful metaphors. Therapeutic in fact. I want you to know that.
On descending into chaos, the biggest mistake is to try crawling back up the cliff we fell from. To restore that old sense of comfort. Individuals and even countries can get lost in these restoration projects. We ‘refuse the call’, because we want to believe there must be some shortcut to get back up. Some quick hack that fixes everything. Ironically, we end up spending tremendous time & energy in looking for these shortcuts. Decades can fly by. All the while our present situation keeps getting worse and worse. It’s waiting for us to understand and embrace it.
Nostalgia may be useful in our evolution, but it is also a tremendous burden. There is a lot of freedom in realizing that we must ‘burn the boats’ and embrace the suffering. We can get back to the river, but never to the same river. We can go back physically, but there is no going back mentally.
Perhaps you have written on this, and I have missed it. Would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Glad to hear that PM! Thanks for the comment. Funny enough I LITERALLY DID IT. I left my job in banking, spent 3m passively on the counch waiting for "the universe" to provide. That, sadly is not how it works. So I panicked and went back into a more abstracted version of my old job. I spent 11m there and they were categorically the worst of my life. Not due to the job in isolation, due to the fact that my psyche punished me savagely.
Thanks for this amazing article. Fascinating seeing all these familiar names pulled together. I'll be reading your recommendations further. I'm a new subscriber off your Perspectiva profile.
Some are trying to move the initiation process forward in different ways. For example, the movement to increased consciousness as we have not imbued the necessary mental tools in our society to deal with uncertainty. And without these tools, we have entropy hit everyone’s minds or what we now label as mental illness.
Thanks BC. You’re hitting on a fresh idea for me. From my current learning, I understand that if you believe you have psi, you will. Which is what the myths teach us. But the psi is possibly a distraction from the end goal: how to become differentiated and integrated. Then you can tip the whole system as a series of individuals. Hence we need to believe it’s possible, to be deliberately optimistic, in order for salvation to be possible. Or something like that. I’m still fleshing it out!
Tom, your emphasis on that v-curve and its variations, have been useful metaphors. Therapeutic in fact. I want you to know that.
On descending into chaos, the biggest mistake is to try crawling back up the cliff we fell from. To restore that old sense of comfort. Individuals and even countries can get lost in these restoration projects. We ‘refuse the call’, because we want to believe there must be some shortcut to get back up. Some quick hack that fixes everything. Ironically, we end up spending tremendous time & energy in looking for these shortcuts. Decades can fly by. All the while our present situation keeps getting worse and worse. It’s waiting for us to understand and embrace it.
Nostalgia may be useful in our evolution, but it is also a tremendous burden. There is a lot of freedom in realizing that we must ‘burn the boats’ and embrace the suffering. We can get back to the river, but never to the same river. We can go back physically, but there is no going back mentally.
Perhaps you have written on this, and I have missed it. Would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Glad to hear that PM! Thanks for the comment. Funny enough I LITERALLY DID IT. I left my job in banking, spent 3m passively on the counch waiting for "the universe" to provide. That, sadly is not how it works. So I panicked and went back into a more abstracted version of my old job. I spent 11m there and they were categorically the worst of my life. Not due to the job in isolation, due to the fact that my psyche punished me savagely.
Thanks for this amazing article. Fascinating seeing all these familiar names pulled together. I'll be reading your recommendations further. I'm a new subscriber off your Perspectiva profile.
Thanks so much for reading Jasen- if you ever fancy connecting let me know!
Some are trying to move the initiation process forward in different ways. For example, the movement to increased consciousness as we have not imbued the necessary mental tools in our society to deal with uncertainty. And without these tools, we have entropy hit everyone’s minds or what we now label as mental illness.
Thanks BC. You’re hitting on a fresh idea for me. From my current learning, I understand that if you believe you have psi, you will. Which is what the myths teach us. But the psi is possibly a distraction from the end goal: how to become differentiated and integrated. Then you can tip the whole system as a series of individuals. Hence we need to believe it’s possible, to be deliberately optimistic, in order for salvation to be possible. Or something like that. I’m still fleshing it out!