Know Thyself
I saw an online article today which brought about this idea ... one of becoming "untethered from reality" ... I cannot help but to question.
What is reality? Who defines reality? What is reality defined by?
I have to remind myself this word has many, many definitions.
The ambiguous nature of language can make it very easy to get lost in the complexities of a desire to try and understand while bringing into consciousness that which cannot be understood.
What I mean by it cannot be understood is to say that it's not something you understand with your mind.
It's something you experience with your being and to try and understand it is to take you out of your experience all for the sake of trying to define and make clear.
Now, this brings me back to what I always hark on when it comes to my own psychoses and the shit storm befalling me much of the time ... awareness and self-awareness.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to develop your own awareness for what is and isn't really going on for you on the inside and is and isn't affecting you from the outside whether you're conscious of it or not.
Now, the idea I'm speaking to is all about becoming progressively more self-aware.
For me and my own inner world, this means knowing when I'm experiencing psychoses and when I'm experiencing something actually going on in the outside world and learning to tell the difference and observing myself and what happens and the feedback I get as a result of being wrong or right in my attempts to navigate using those signals.
In short, I'm not always right but when I am, the gods' couldn't keep me from taking action.
It also means for me, in a more straightforward sense, knowing when the right time for me to go out is and when the right time for me to stay in is.
Some days, I go against my inkling to stay in and I ultimately pay the price ... a price I've got to be okay with paying.
Other times, you don't go out when the opportunity presents itself and those missed opportunities the Universe will give to someone who decided to take action.
But when I'm in tune with the signal systems ongoing in my inner experience, I can tell NOW is the time for X or Y or Z and I go for it.
The Christians (of which that tribe I would say I'm NOT a member) would probably say what I'm talking about is being able to listen on the inside for G-d's voice ... as a voice which whispers when all else around it is yelling.
With that in mind, all I'm saying is something all the wise-men have kept beating away on with their thunderous hammers for time immemorial ... "Know Thyself"
And in so doing, you change what's possible for you.
