M. Theostrata Philosophicus.

Alexis Carrel: Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Bertrand Russel: Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Joseph Campbell: The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Carl Jung: Know all the theories. Master all the techniques. But as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

What to do when you cannot think your way out of a problem and this problem is thinking? The soul knows there is no reason one should not phase in and out of states/ways of being throughout incarnation, but ego is complex, controlling above all and the human system limited.

A glass of water will never know it is a glass of water. The draught of poison does not know of its nature. I repeat, the glass of water will never know it’s a glass of water. Still the water must be effectively drunk. Your person hath never existed – just a matrix of physiology, ego, karma, and thinking you are a person. The essence is the definition. Not the worst things that have ever happened, that you did – or the best.

Lifeforce energy is crucial to the awakening process. You cannot rewire neural circuitry/correct your physiology and create positive belief structure without qi. Likewise, it is necessary for a temporary cessation of certain habitual patterns. Namely, there is a disorganized nature given your outwardly activities because of a disorganized nature within. It is not that you can never get drunk, smoke weed, eat junk food, have sex, masturbate, or even watch porn ever again. But it is that these things eat vital energy and corrupt the dynamic flow and stability of your inner ecology. So, for a time being a detox is the best resource for you to approach the path ahead. Proceed in an opposite route; replace the lame behaviours with meditation, breathwork, yoga asanas, qigong, exercise, cold water plunges, rest, spa retreats, positive content consumption, nature, hiking, walks, fast, and nutritious non-meat food choices. This will make the dark so much lighter, and when restored you will know the proper balance of all. Recession of the ego will happen entirely in conjunction with soul communion via kundalini energy. Remember, you are not the body with its mechanisms or designated procedures, but you live in it. Operating systems need fresh inputs for new outputs. Achieve this with ease à la better practice.

Ego is a synthetic consciousness for malware/ad-blocking. Then you have the soul, essence, form of consciousness which is the authentic self. There is the physiology, vibration and the bindle of karma. And then of course a certain level of predisposition based on the ancestral memory (epigenetics). And the deep inner capacity to carry the notion of an identity. This is your matrix; operating system metrics. From all this there is also the structural body, which has solid integrity or greatly damaged components. But this entirely is energy when all is laid out, thus all of this can be restored, healed, upgraded, fixed. As well, the importance of energy centres; chakras, aura, meridians, et cetera, can in no way be overstated.

Drop everything you think you know. This is the meaning of surrender. Your new default to reset factory settings to spirit. Everything you once thought you knew, which you believed and felt to be true, is now your chains and shackles. If a barricade was laid across a street, too dense and heavy to be budged by you, so that it could only be removed by a higher power, what would you do? You could ram it, but this will only damage the vehicle and injure yourself. Or you could leave it the way it is. And like a toll gate it will lift when it is no longer perceived as a threat. Because to discern it as a threat is to create the very chemistry which maintains it. You are the one cultivating the obstruction by trying to forcibly dismantle it. As if its presence and existence does not befit you. It would be the same as putting a pillow over the face of an enemy, attempting to smother them, saying shut up I love you. Of course you do not really. Pretending will result in failure, as soon as your guard drops, since the neural circuitry is established. The only manner to advance is to leave it be. It is there, whether you like it or not. It’s no problem.

Choice is mere binary. Give freely and share generously. Fine passers are much rarer than opportunists. Malediction is like the shadowy shroud of dark spirit(s) superimposed overtop your very consciousness. A final ingredient of the recipe to experience profound transformation is too not take life too seriously. Once you drop what you think you know and stop taking everything with such dire austerity you realize your awareness is okay with all of it as it is anyways. Between karma, randomness and universal testing you shall never make it out alive regardless (not to mention mortality). Be free of what you understand. The only feature to reality of ascertainable certainty is mathematics. Cease identification with existing environmental factors. This includes ecology of planet, of the temporal world, and of your own body.

The great mystery, purpose and study of life, with us as its subjects and active practitioners, is if our alignment will happen. All we know fundamentally is that we cannot make it happen. The exertion of force only elicits the opposite. Yet without coming into coherence, where the heart is online and we experience mentality through the pineal gland rather than the primitive and hyper-overextended function of the prefrontal cortex, that feeble conscious mind of conceptual stratification, one’s mission is not then to serve, for we cannot do that until/if we are ready, though the mastery of animate being. You have experienced all of it as consciousness, all of it, no matter what the mind/body did and ego instructed you to believe thereafter. This is all there was and all there will ever be is consciousness.

Deidentification is a beautiful process, at the end of the awakening journey, of realizing sobriety of self. We are with the body always. But like the planet and the human world it’s an ecology which is not ours. Your awareness will certainly oscillate along the pendulum vicissitudes of sight; none is mine-all is mine. The experience of life generates new ways of seeing. One can only individuate when we deidentify. You cannot know character if you know not yourself. What is or is not yours is interference to responsibility. You are a stream, and like the rushing water runs over rock you flow through physiology, ego, imprints.