((human up))? podcast by Näthan Gangadean
(( Humanity is in a self-imposed pressure cooker of epic proportions! And we know it. And the signs of it are everywhere. It is all driven by the profound sense of insecurity, which hides behind all the arrogance and escapism mechanisms of our culture, and it is born of a kind of narcissistic self-enveloping consciousness that is the result of forgetting the ((Infinite)) is holding us and ((Sourcing)) us at all times. For all of our "Glorification" of our normalized, self-abuse habits, it really is nothing more than a desperate attempt to run from the terror we feel inside at faci...
In recent decades, with the rise of "Pop Wisdom," "Self-Help," "Mindfulness," "Yoga," "Meditation," and "Spirituality," there has also been introduced seemingly innocuous ear-worms that go something like, "stop your thinking," or "get out of your head and into the heart," or "quiet your mind," and the like. But these "thought-forms" are crippling when then go unchecked... and they have been backed by the kind of zeal and fervor that could only be driven by something deeper... I call it "((Mind))-/phobia/." And while the new-age, meditation, and spirituality movements have their particular obvious brand of it... the issue is...
You know, it strikes me that the word "happiness" has almost taken on a kind of naive, unrealistic, even lightweight and ineffective sound. But real ((Happiness)) just might be the most ((Badass Reality)) of all. Nay, it IS the most ((Badass Reality)) of all. ((Feeling Good)) is just something that would be nice... It is our ((Duty)). And to write it of is nothing short of a dereliction of duty as a ((Human Being)). Check it out.
When I first heard the word used to describe someone I had been living with, it was new to me. Since that time it has become one of the most popular buzz words that people throw around to describe everyone and their grandma. But do we really understand the foundations of Narcissism? Or more accurately, the lack thereof? It's easy to point it out in another. But can we have the courage to face it in ourselves? It's not a matter of simply changing your behaviors to SEEM less egoistic. You can't fake this Liberation. You gotta get the ((Source...
I don't care who you are... you know what FOMO is. And if you literally haven't heard that term... it comes from "Fear Of Missing Out." Missing out on what? Doesn't matter... just the shear terror of missing out, on whatever it may be is plenty to work with. We all have our versions of it... And you literally cannot say no to it. It's akin to the power of fight-or-flight, when instinct takes over. But what you do have control of... is why you are prone to FOMO to begin with. And THAT's where there ((Power)) to overcome it is bo...
It's not a virus that eats the flesh... But it is a Virus... that has us captive. Living our lives as if driven by a force we don't even understand. It has us doing things to/with ourselves and each other, that if we had the ((Eyes to See)), and the ability to ((de-normalize)) the mass depression of Humanity, we would be horrified (blood and gore optional).
Anxiety... Stress... And the tension that comes with it... Compounded with years of practice... You may not realize it, but thanks to the human ability to normalize damn near anything, we can get used to "hyperdrive," where even our most relaxed moment today far exceeds your most exasperated moment from childhood. Like layer upon layer of clothing, the mere thought of authentically ((relaxing)) could be like stripping all those layers of armor, pretense, and reaction to reveal the softy underneath it all... naked... and insecure. Now who in their right mind would want to REALLY ((Relax))?! This isn't a day a...
I get it, I get it. You're taking a concept that was originally designated for a criminal act and adopting it for a positive purpose in order to increase wow factor with whatever you're selling. But it is grossly misleading. And for this one main reason. It COMPLETELY disregards what is ((Sacred)). When you speak of "hacking into the zone"... or sharing a "life hack" you are dissing them. You are licentiously barging into what is not yours to unilaterally impose upon. There is accountability to something ((Higher)) when it comes to ((Life)). Yes, even your own. So whaddya say? Rea...
You have to ((Brave)) to ((Stop)). There is an unbelievable demand to /keep going/ or you will fall behind. It's drilled into us. So much so that even when we technically have the option to ((chill))... we can't. We just can't ((Stop)) even when we stop moving. So where are the ((breaks)) located anyway? And ((Stopping)) is just the first step. ((Dropping)) is how we actually ((Land)) in who we really are when we are off the /treadmill/. And ((Rolling))? That's what ((Life)) is when we've mastered the first two steps. Maybe I should spell that: ((Rollin'))... ahhhh. that's better. :)
Externally focused we all are! We are masters of pointing at stuff and naming things. We are masters of projection. We are generally arrogant, thanks to our ignorance of our own participation in interpreting reality around us. And we have been hopelessly flailing for a long time because of it. We have been prisoners of our own minds. And many "mystic" types enticingly invite us to get out of our minds, when the Real path of ((Wisdom)) is to Upgrade our ((Minding)). This is where we find our ((True Home))... And overcome the /prison/ of mentation malpractice.
The red pill? The Blue pill? The choice... The choice to wake up to ((Reality)) is way more intimidating than the Matrix movie portrays... But in the best possible way! I don't suggest that we are actually a literal computer generated avatar living in a computer generated world while in "reality" we are a battery for a machine run world... no. Not at all! But we are in fact using a kind of artificial intelligence that prevents us from experience ((Reality)) as it is. What would it mean for us to learn how to wake up to THAT ((Reality))?! This...
Like Ptolemy, brilliant as he was, considering the Earth to be at the center of the universe, he was sorely mistaken. And as he attempted to map/understand the movements of the heavenly bodies... it got more and more difficult past observing the sun and the moon. Why? Because he was not putting what is first, first. It wasn't until Copernicus came along and put the Sun at the center that things became more simple, and made more sense. Similarly, we humans have a Ptolemaic default orientation to reality by virtue of putting /self/ first instead of what is actu...
