What I say to Joe when he sounds like you do today is, "Would you like a hug?" He almost always says yes.
A hug goes a long way towards relieving stress. It's deep, pre-human, mammal medicine. Primates hug each other. Canids, felines and lagomorphs (rabbit family) sleep fur to fur. Our heartbeats, breathing, and muscles sense one another's presence and relax.
You articulated the grief well. I swing wildly between strategies, based on my best guess of where the world is heading, but the truth is that I really have no idea how to survive in a collapsing society. I want to be able to support and protect my family, friends and community, but am unsure what that will look like, especially as we transition into a surveillance state. Traditionally, I head to the mountains and spend time in nature when the world overwhelms, and that probably is still my best plan.
I've read a few things lately where you are loathe to speak about "making money" as if it were something terrible. Of course it is, if the only aim of making money is accumulating as much as possible.
But we're not like that. As your followers, we are at least somewhat like you. We're not out to extract maximum profit from the collapse of the world. We're just looking to protect ourselves and the ones we love. To survive.
I'm one of the unfortunates in that my home county, the USA, wants me to put my entire retirement security into the motherfucking stock market. As you've touched on in the past, how insane is that? How is that even a thing? But it is, so here I am, hopefully about 15 years away from being able to retire, trying desperately to hold onto the paltry sum I've been able to accumulate over the years. And also unfortunately, I'm not trained in finance or economics so I look to those who are for guidance.
So now I have my precious retirement funds into a Havens-style account and hoping it starts to gain again because right now it's down. And I'm looking to you for some guidance, as I'm sure a lot of us are. Not to rape the system and profit off of the death of civilization, but to protect ourselves as best as we can so we can live out our days with some sort of decency and security.
I guess I'm giving you an option to reframe what might be bothering you. Instead of looking at it like you're doing something wrong by teaching us how to make money, maybe you can say that you're helping us navigate the treacherous seas of our current economy so that we can be safe when we've joined the ranks of the vulnerable.
I value you as a teacher, Umair. We are all beings of light and dark, they define each other. We are all beings of Divine Masculine (Yang/Light)and Divine Feminine (Yin/Dark). I try to teach that light is not innately good nor dark innately bad. Another teacher tells me the world we know is disintegrating in a good way toward the balance of light and dark. She tells me the last 3000 years of overbearing toxic masculinity has led to this inflection point, has crescendoed and is coming to its end. The end of things are messy, desperate and terrible times. The next 3000 years will teach the sublime and I have never been more optimistic. Stick around, we need teachers who can balance the light and dark and teach us the Way forward.
The planet earth has been around for 5 or 6 billion years. We humans have a glimpse of what we were like 3 or 5 thousand years ago. We’re newbies on the scene, we’re scheduled to self-destruct soon enough. Get over it. Enjoy the spectacular gorgeousness of the planet and its atmosphere. Enjoy the good folks, shun the bad ones. Soon enough it will all be over for all of us. We are privileged to witness the spectacle.
A certain darkness has always pervaded my life. I was given up at birth and adopted into a family where the mother person failed me repeatedly until I reached age 40 and she died.
My family is scattered and distant, and for the first time in my aging life, I’m grateful for that distance. I’m even grateful for this aging body, as I know I won’t be present for the horrors soon to befall us. In other words, I’m somewhat disconnected from all the truly important functions that would inspire greater grief inside the darkness of humanity’s descent.
The loneliness is surely the greatest of the pain of all I feel. The longing for “what could have been.” I believe I’ve grown somewhat numb in recent years, and definitely more cynical. The diminished light is growing tentacles as power transcends compassion and divides the planet and its inhabitants. Deeper shadows have emerged and threaten complete destruction. As a result I believe we cocoon ourselves, self-medicating by any means that protects our psyches and our souls.
This resonates. Also, however, as a former professor myself, I have to point out that what Mephiphistopheles offered Faust was light: knowledge, insight, understanding. That’s what Faust believed he wanted.
It was the demon’s art to see the true desire, and to know how to use it to corrupt.
Maybe your calling to be a teacher is being realized in this forum, to a limited extent?
Also, many of us who follow you do so because we recognize your gift of prescience, if it can be called that. You are attuned to the present, and you see, you sense the future.
While you mention that you don’t write about what you see anymore, as it frightens and confuses people, I suspect there are followers who would receive that writing as a great gift. (Thanatos, demonic energy, that WAS hard until worked at removing labels )Some of us are here for precisely that reason. Hope that it matters that some followers are with you for the full range of it.
What I say to Joe when he sounds like you do today is, "Would you like a hug?" He almost always says yes.
A hug goes a long way towards relieving stress. It's deep, pre-human, mammal medicine. Primates hug each other. Canids, felines and lagomorphs (rabbit family) sleep fur to fur. Our heartbeats, breathing, and muscles sense one another's presence and relax.
You articulated the grief well. I swing wildly between strategies, based on my best guess of where the world is heading, but the truth is that I really have no idea how to survive in a collapsing society. I want to be able to support and protect my family, friends and community, but am unsure what that will look like, especially as we transition into a surveillance state. Traditionally, I head to the mountains and spend time in nature when the world overwhelms, and that probably is still my best plan.
I've read a few things lately where you are loathe to speak about "making money" as if it were something terrible. Of course it is, if the only aim of making money is accumulating as much as possible.
But we're not like that. As your followers, we are at least somewhat like you. We're not out to extract maximum profit from the collapse of the world. We're just looking to protect ourselves and the ones we love. To survive.
I'm one of the unfortunates in that my home county, the USA, wants me to put my entire retirement security into the motherfucking stock market. As you've touched on in the past, how insane is that? How is that even a thing? But it is, so here I am, hopefully about 15 years away from being able to retire, trying desperately to hold onto the paltry sum I've been able to accumulate over the years. And also unfortunately, I'm not trained in finance or economics so I look to those who are for guidance.
So now I have my precious retirement funds into a Havens-style account and hoping it starts to gain again because right now it's down. And I'm looking to you for some guidance, as I'm sure a lot of us are. Not to rape the system and profit off of the death of civilization, but to protect ourselves as best as we can so we can live out our days with some sort of decency and security.
I guess I'm giving you an option to reframe what might be bothering you. Instead of looking at it like you're doing something wrong by teaching us how to make money, maybe you can say that you're helping us navigate the treacherous seas of our current economy so that we can be safe when we've joined the ranks of the vulnerable.
I value you as a teacher, Umair. We are all beings of light and dark, they define each other. We are all beings of Divine Masculine (Yang/Light)and Divine Feminine (Yin/Dark). I try to teach that light is not innately good nor dark innately bad. Another teacher tells me the world we know is disintegrating in a good way toward the balance of light and dark. She tells me the last 3000 years of overbearing toxic masculinity has led to this inflection point, has crescendoed and is coming to its end. The end of things are messy, desperate and terrible times. The next 3000 years will teach the sublime and I have never been more optimistic. Stick around, we need teachers who can balance the light and dark and teach us the Way forward.
Thank you for posting (as I contemplate very similar questions). Resonates so much right now.
The planet earth has been around for 5 or 6 billion years. We humans have a glimpse of what we were like 3 or 5 thousand years ago. We’re newbies on the scene, we’re scheduled to self-destruct soon enough. Get over it. Enjoy the spectacular gorgeousness of the planet and its atmosphere. Enjoy the good folks, shun the bad ones. Soon enough it will all be over for all of us. We are privileged to witness the spectacle.
A certain darkness has always pervaded my life. I was given up at birth and adopted into a family where the mother person failed me repeatedly until I reached age 40 and she died.
My family is scattered and distant, and for the first time in my aging life, I’m grateful for that distance. I’m even grateful for this aging body, as I know I won’t be present for the horrors soon to befall us. In other words, I’m somewhat disconnected from all the truly important functions that would inspire greater grief inside the darkness of humanity’s descent.
The loneliness is surely the greatest of the pain of all I feel. The longing for “what could have been.” I believe I’ve grown somewhat numb in recent years, and definitely more cynical. The diminished light is growing tentacles as power transcends compassion and divides the planet and its inhabitants. Deeper shadows have emerged and threaten complete destruction. As a result I believe we cocoon ourselves, self-medicating by any means that protects our psyches and our souls.
This resonates. Also, however, as a former professor myself, I have to point out that what Mephiphistopheles offered Faust was light: knowledge, insight, understanding. That’s what Faust believed he wanted.
It was the demon’s art to see the true desire, and to know how to use it to corrupt.
Maybe your calling to be a teacher is being realized in this forum, to a limited extent?
Also, many of us who follow you do so because we recognize your gift of prescience, if it can be called that. You are attuned to the present, and you see, you sense the future.
While you mention that you don’t write about what you see anymore, as it frightens and confuses people, I suspect there are followers who would receive that writing as a great gift. (Thanatos, demonic energy, that WAS hard until worked at removing labels )Some of us are here for precisely that reason. Hope that it matters that some followers are with you for the full range of it.