TOPIC
This week is an open topic.
What do you wish to explore with a curious group? How do you wish to utilise the intelligence of the collective?
What signal do you wish to refine?
In this session everyone is to bring a topic they wish to explore within the group.
This could be a question, a theme, an intimate inquiry, a curiosity, mystery, a scary thought, fears, and even a dangerous idea.
You are welcome to bring past topics to the table, tribalism, channeling, etc.
The group will then flow where the energy is most present and we will see what we can find.
REFLECTION
The human group collectively holds many puzzle pieces for an infinite picture. We find connections and form nodes of insight and understanding but the full picture will always remain incomplete. Each discussion is an attempt to wave the dense smoke from before our eyes to catch a multidimensional glimpse of the truth of our reality.
The open topic human group is a curious investigation of the pattern of themes presently drifting through the collective. We checked in by asking what topic you wish to explore with our collective perspective, we then followed the energy of the discussion. Each person seemed to collaborate from their intended investigation revealing connections and a collective theme.
The topics brought forward for this week’s discussions:
Online:
The inner critic - its purpose?
Mindfulness - its benefits?
Self-care - when is it appropriate?
Cross-roads - how to choose?
Busy head - How to lose your mind and come to your senses?
Efficiency - How to effectively get things done?
The noiseless tune - How to tune into the greater nervous system?
In-person:
Do I stay or do I go - Leaving place to find ourselves.
Who am I living my life for? Captured and liberated by those who influence us.
What is it to be myself? Why do I hold back my expression?
Authenticity was tuned into in both discussions. How do I break the surface tension of what is expected? What happens when I willingly break it compared to unwillingly?
One human spoke of an interaction they had with a local businessman.
Human - How you going?
Business human - busy, very busy, busy busy. You?
Human - Not busy at all.
Business human (leaning in): neither am I.
We can offer the opportunity for authentic relating by speaking a minor truth that can dispel the inauthentic conventional code. Relief results and interaction becomes a mutual benefit.
Another human spoke of feeling like they had left themselves too vulnerable when going all out when participating in a sharing circle. They said they had made themselves vulnerable to attack.
In both of these cases there is a crack in our perfected identities, our egos, leaving us vulnerable yet opening to our own authenticity. Just as ultimate freedom can feel liberating it can also feel insecure and unprotected. Is it how we hold the experience, the meaning making we attach to the feeling? One meaning can lead to breaking down the whole ceramic shell of identity and the other can lead to frantically attempting to patch it up. Is it fear or trust you wish to enact?
When we have no spiritual education teaching us how to navigate and exercise the qualitative aspects of life we are not taught the benefit of trust, truth and of walking a path of integrity.
Perhaps the increasing trend of individualism is born from our inability for authentic relating in the presence of influence, judgement, expectation and not belonging. Therefore our hunger for self expression becomes an unsatisfied craving expressed by our individual focus. It can be seen in our worshipping of fame and wealth. Two illusions acting as gateways to our authentic self.
Another human offered an abbreviated, alleged Charles Bukowski quote:
‘Love is shared truth, truth is premised by overcoming the lever of fear.’
It seems that our inability to speak our authentic selves is also what separates us from love and consequentially from each other. Fear acts as a sweet berry to which we are evolutionarily primed to feast upon. If unchecked we hold back our truth in order to please others, look good, and not rock the boat. Do this over a long period and we find ourselves in an inauthentic world in which everyone is individually focused, worshipping material gains and celebrity status. Those who achieve this desire still remain hungry to know who they are and be recognised and acknowledged for it. The irony is that their public image and story is more likely to submerge who they really are. Therefore there must be a perfect scale of people to understand our essence and maybe it becomes more concentrated the smaller the scale. All the way down to our intimate companionships.
How do we launch our authentic selves into the world? And is there a purpose for our masks, identity’s and ego?
Can we tiptoe into the pool of authenticity without drowning in mockery, fear, and scarcity?
It takes a lot of courage to be ourselves in the face of expectation, disappointment, and judgement. With persistence it grows respect and re-organises the ecosystem in an authentic way.
Contemplating the fool archetype from the Tarot can be a great way to inform our authentic path forward. Our character with an identity intact and a powerful ego is the archetype of the magician; using the tools of world to perform magic in the realm of the quantitative. This archetype that we all partially and mostly inhabitant has a function but can easily pass its used by date. This is where we find ourselves now.
The universe is asking for the death of the magician, our very useful, practical and reasonable identities in order to foolishly find our relevant functions within the world.
We can scare ourselves by jumping headlong off the cliff into the vulnerability of a fool. Just like a fizzy drink it can help to take the cap off slowly in order to not create a mess. However, we may need to simply create a mess. An authentic mess is better than the synthetic mess we have tied ourselves.
Do we just start breaking things?
Conventions of being, gender roles, expectations, traditions? Yes, but with a fools blissful ignorance and idiotic forgiveness in the face of unconscious malevolence from those who are patching up their broken masks and holding onto their magician status. This could also be thought of as ‘Tall poppy syndrome’, crabs pulling us back into the boiling pot of normality as the climate grows more and more volatile with our static systems and continual growth ideology of a cancer cell. If we are to take on this mission of authenticity we will have to become gentle warriors battling the salesmen influence to conform to synthetic society.
‘Do not collude with consensual reality.’ - Alberto Villoldo
We can easily run from society on our missions as fools and we can find ourselves deep within the crevasses of suspicious narrative that may or may not be true. The conspiracy vortex, helpful in shedding normality but dangerous in its potential of fearful separation from society. Alberto Villoldo, a medical anthropologist and best selling author says we must be on the frontlines participating in society and being the change we wish to see.
So we must be fools participating in the world, being warriors in our authenticity and listening to the authority of nature that speaks softly within us and heed its noiseless tune by nurturing our body, mind, spirit and soul. The path will make itself known along the way as momentum builds and the nature recorrects as the ripples of our authentic expression echo from one human to the next.
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