Magick, the esoteric, and the occult
05-28-2018, 12:16 AM
You are constantly self-casting your own reality. Most people are severely limited in this way. By perpetually self-medicating, self-numbing and self-reinforcing we end up in the same spot for years on end, making only illusory growth, while in reality only simply reaching exactly but no more than the (unspoken) standards we have set for ourselves in this life. Everything you believe is, in this sense, a partial lie, for not covering the whole of all possible perspectives, yet a practical truth, in the sense of being the sole driver for all of your behaviors.
It's almost, once you get trained at this, that you can clearly delineate people based on the utilization of their own consciousness. Not a personality typology... but a consciousness typology.
At the lowest rung is the hyper-rationalist or the autist. Incapable of cognitive empathy or perspective taking, all they are ever able to experience is their own awareness, which self-affirms at all times and is never wrong and always right. These people are stubborn, pigheaded, foolish, but most of all they just don't get ahead as their stunted perspective of reality only gets in their own way.
On the next rung, the dormant normie. Trained expertly from birth through to education, the dormant normie is chained by a sea of obligations and expectations: Church, family values, cultural trends, media trends, career narratives... They have the potential for cognitive empathy, but are stifled in superficiality. Since their programming is to mirror their surroundings, a superficial culture produces superficial dormant normies.
One rung above, we find the sociopaths. They are born from pain, shutting off their heart, weakness and vulnerabilities, they are taken hostage by a tyrant ego. Brilliantly nihilistic, they see through the chaining narratives of society, but in stifling the heart, they are void of identity or life. Robotically chasing one fleeting pleasure after another, all other are NPC's and only their One True Consciousness is the perspectives that outsmarts them all ("the other").
On the fourth tier, we find the insightful. On the one hand the psychonaut, who in taking ketamine or magic mushrooms is violently broken free of his previous rational, enclosed and entrenched consciousness. By seeing how easily his perspective, and therefore his experience, can be changed, the immediate inferences is that his entire previous reality stack, was relative. On the other hand, those who are struck by tragedies of life, with great loss demanding introspection, in turn deepening consciousness.
Often this leads to the next rung, the "Realized Normie". Tragedy and tripping has brought humility, a deepened consciousness and a wider empathy, with the ability to truly see from another's perspective. Balanced in their flaws and their willingness to commit to overcoming them, the realized normie calls the spiritual journey quits and seeks parenthood.
Some however, are called towards the spiritual path. These are the Buddhists seeking enlightenment through meditative self-examination. Or those practicing occult magick with the aim of internal alchemy. By examining the "meta-programming", the unspoken pillars of their consciousness, they are able to break their imagination free from all impositions - though often at the cost of a Dark Night of the Soul or worse.
Even still, the passive self-discovery junkie is still chained by selfish aims. The final evolution is the transforming empathy, wisdom and perspective taking into action. Knowing of the stages in the development of consciousness and knowing of the hundreds of possible perspectives and emotional drives, in the final stage, this knowledge is used for healing and the growth of others. It is here that the cliche of love is all that matters becomes understood. Ultimately, all that one consciousness can give to another, is love: attention, acceptance, constructive judgment, understanding, goodwill, wisdom, care.
No longer, is the question how do I get what I want, how do I get what I need. Rather, the focus is outwards. How do I find out what the other needs and how do I give it to them. All consciousnesses have the potential to become healing. But there must be wisdom, experience and desire.