Intellectual Dark Age in Mindset Monday

It’s just a little past my bedtime. It’s six in the morning and I figure that I might as well give up at this point. I’m not tossing and tortured, per se, I’m just unable to manage the psychological dramas in my head. It is only myself that I experience at the end of the day. I don’t see light, I see my retinas. I don’t hear sounds, I hear my eardrums. I don’t feel touch, I feel my own nervous system. I don’t feel emotions, I feel my own chemistry. I don’t suffer from my past, I suffer from my own memories and so on and so forth. I need to give myself time each day to remember that, to bring myself to the eternal now. This is the levelled-up version of personal responsibility, I suppose. I can’t control the outer world but I can control my inner one. Pleasantness is what we’re all searching for only most of us are looking in the wrong place. In Sadhguru’s book Inner Engineering, he explains how some communities in India worship food, they call it God. They do this because they are so deprived of it. When Sadhguru went to America he was baffled by how inner peace was the highest aspiration. Keeping ourselves pleasant seems to be a big challenge for us here in the wild west. He was also confused by the term stress management. Why would anybody want to manage stress? The point being, why would anybody want to hang on to stress.

There is a science to creating misery and it is one that each of us is an expert. The blame game. Personal responsibility is simply just the ability to respond. That ability to respond is not an action. It is just that endless potential. Our lives are manifestations of our choices and character. It wasn’t that long ago when I would have challenged a concept like this. Our capacity to respond is what is finite, our ability to respond is limitless. The world is not responsible for me. I am.

My tiredness is creeping in. I wanted to write more about something I am calling the intellectual dark age. That term is probably already spoken for. Sue me. I don’t mean that to sound condescending, intellectual dark age. I just think that our consciousness is stuck in this fractured reality. We have everything broken up into contrasts and polarities that will never meet. We cannot become whole and holy this way. Once you identify as something that is not you, your life becomes an unnecessary struggle. Spirituality is the world of the unknown. The world of emotion and thought. The job of mystics across history and culture was to induce enlightenment. To bring people from unawareness to awareness. It’s not an awakening it is a homecoming. Guru translates to dispeller of darkness. Gu means darkness, ru means dispeller. A Gurus job is to shed light on everything. Humanity is searching for peace and love but that is an inside job. We’ve all forgotten who we are. This matrix buried us and we forgot that we are seeds.

Also, I’m not saying that I am a guru. I’m just a product of my time and I’m making observations about the world I live in with the help of Gurus. Then I like to share. If it adds value to someone, cool. If it doesn’t, whatever lol.

Last updated September 28, 2020