Most people are oblivious to the most fundamental truth of our shared reality, which are stories. How many of your daily walks are guided merely by stories or what society deems as an appropriate life story? Why are sales focused on telling us who we should be, how we should look, or anything else? Why do you follow laws and societal narratives? Why do you trust the news or how things are dictated?
There are many influences. Culture and family are often the biggest factors in the narrative you craft in life. It often determines the value you place on education, success, family and many others. Just step back for a moment and think about why you want certain things and where it stems from. Chances are you will find much of what you seek and what you do have nothing to do with what you truly enjoy. If I only had a dollar for every time someone discussed a job they hate, a function they didn’t want to attend, or something else that doesn’t bring them any personal value. It’s usually peer pressure or perceived societal obligations that drive much of human behavior.
Many years ago, I was led on a spiritual journey to accept all things as true and to navigate personal and universal reality. Not a journey I would suggest to the faint of heart, but it allowed me to navigate the mess we are currently in. The key to understanding lies really in two principles: consistency and universality. If you can hold onto these two principles, navigating through confusion and conflicting dialectics becomes easy. Just have to adhere to the HOW of the AA program: honesty, open mindedness, and willingness.
I understand most all belief systems now, most had to be tossed aside due to consistency. Islam, for example, gets tossed when Allah takes many times in the Sura to call himself a deceiver. How can anyone trust who is openly calling himself a deceiver? It’s the same kind of gnosis you get from climbing esoteric knowledge triangles or cult circles like Scientology. It’s a ladder where initiates are intentionally deceived to empower the enlightened few. Quite the opposite of Christ who preached to all, much like the Wesley’s. Any time an ideology is mired in consistency issues, it’s false. That’s where the pandemic reeks of bad narrative, none of the guidance actually panned out as dictated and now emails tell a story that the authors (like Fauci) knew it was bogus from the onset. If a narrative isn’t consistent, it doesn’t work.
Of equal importance is the universality of the narrative, by which I mean if all 7 billion people on Earth did the same thing, could life sustain itself? To the extent consistency knocks out bad narratives, universality knocks out most of the remaining narratives. The only universal narrative I have ever heard is love God and others, which is hard to argue since a common source of life (God) and unity (love) works. Nothing is as great as being in a close family like this, or work environments of similar makeup. When you iterate some other ideologies, you can see where they fail. If we were all homosexuals, life dies in a generation, if we adhere to BLM principles, Black people will be elevated until they become the despised class when future abuses of power occur (same with any ethnocentric pride ideology, part of why most of the World hates America). Socialism fails if a class system is present, esotericism fails on many levels.
The key to understanding is to think of infinite series analyses in Calculus. For normal people, this is if we take something to its absolute furthest limit, what is it? In esoteric knowledge, the limit is the best understanding of a certain story or image (no one can out think the author). Computer programs are limited by hardware and the programmers skill level. Humans are limited by whether they view themselves as their physical body, an eternal soul, or a user inside of a program (like Neo in the Matrix). These things are important to consider when you shape your reality and what you accept as truth. Most do not realize the effects and limitations of the choices they make because they do not consider how narratives manipulate what they can do or accept going forward.
All should understand, narratives are important to life. While our reality is boxed by our intentions and attention, narratives often drive those decisions. I urge all to step back and evaluate these types of issues, since they are important for shaping your life and what to expect in the life to come.
