This entry was first posted on my Patreon on August 3, 2024 and has been reproduced here in its original form.
1. What we seek, true freedom, is older than language but not communication. Exchanging ideas through words is key for our spiritual development, but the final escape from endless cycles of suffering is a communication between you and the universal interconnectedness of all things that cannot be labeled or dissected by mental narrative. What I mean is: describing and overthinking your final steps is antithetical to taking them. Trying to talk yourself into enlightenment is like trying to drink by grabbing fistfuls of water.
2. All fears can be boiled down to the basic mortal fear of death. This fear is what traps us in cycles of suffering. As long as you are afraid to die, you will – for we all experience an eternal lifetime, it’s just punctuated by bodily deaths and rebirths. The mind is the soul and when we cultivate good karma, this karma becomes more embedded in the spiritual fabric of reality. This is what “you” are and this is what enables a more successful rebirth.
3. When you’ve accepted that you can essentially live forever, instances of pain become nothing more than “something that happens.” Your body will survive anything that does not literally kill you. Practice mindfulness so that your brain may follow suit.
4. The ego is not your enemy, or something to rid yourself of. We react strongly to negative stimuli even when our lives aren’t in danger because the ego considers all threats as death threats. This is an illusion within an illusion – a mental construct of specific thoughts and narratives, suspended inside your entire perception/sensation of reality that is experienced without words. In the end, you can choose how you feel. Everything that goes on inside your mind is under the influence of your willpower and choices.
5. Refrain from using recreational or psychedelic drugs for your spiritual development. Your interpretations of their effects will always be unreliable at best. An artful illusion is still an illusion.
6. Evil is all of the collective loveless, hateful intentions that live within people, and it is the root of all of humanity’s suffering. Defy evil by accepting the pain it causes you and its influence will pass through you, not attach to you. Resistance is what continues a fight. There is no fight between God/Good and evil. Such is the power of infallible logic and unfaltering compassion. Always do what is right. You do not have to be polite to evil, compromise with it, or ask permission to change it. The purpose of evil is to be defeated by being changed.
7. Earth is where it’s at. We are turning a hell into heaven here, and that’s why we keep coming back to it. This is what being alive is all about: alleviating suffering. Peace is a heavy responsibility that is made lighter by sharing it with others. We all share a slice of divine consciousness while maintaining individual bodies and paths to experience life itself. There is meaning in mortality and only mortality. Reality exists because there is risk, there is humbleness in our mortal form, there is ordered chaos, there is pain and suffering to overcome. Omnipotence is inherently boring. Think like a god, live like a human. Love others. Grow and change. Create things (and people). Explore the galaxy.