The walls of distraction

[deviadah]

I have been thinking a lot lately, or for the last ten years actually, but more now than ever about the walls of distraction that surrounds us.

All this stuff on this site; mutational alchemy, body of light, abrahadabra, ng, numbers (and even more numbers), Iching and more are all deeply interesting and useful. There are other sites with even more information of great interest, and there are books, and there are lodges, and there are clubs and there are communities, friends, soulmates, schools, classes and even programs on TV!

All of it is there, and many use the information... many do transform, but I sense there is very few, if any, that achieve complete transmutation (please prove me wrong)!

Yes, many have travelled far, grown wiser, expanded ones mind, journeyed into the astral plane etc, but always, though, returned. Even when a great meditational session is over we all return. Even if we see the world with different eyes we are still here!

I think this is an important point, to me anyway, and I see it as a problem. Not that this means it is a problem, but for me, and what I dream of, it is.

There are walls of distraction that clouds us, distracts us, force obligation on us, chains (but invisible). There are obvious ones like money, relationships and such things and then there are more deeply rooted ones like food, air, beliefs...

I see the world as a false reality, not an evil one (although it is pretty nasty - but there is beauty too). It is false because it is incomplete, because there is more there than we can see with the naked, or untrained, eye.

It is the old image of are we waking up from sleep, or are we falling asleep when we wake up?

I am rambling...

Conclusion (if there is one):
All this esoteric stuff is good for nothing in the end unless there is a radical change in lifestyle. There needs to be a complete divorce from this reality... and that can be a daunting task!

Comments/thoughts?

[m1thr0s]

there's so many takes on this one hardly knows where to begin. hell, even reflecting on distraction can be a distraction for that matter...

I'm not going to invest any time into analyzing the problem itself right now...things are what they are and it doesn't much matter why. rather I want to suggest something in the way of a pragmatic solution...

there is a lot to be learned from the yogas...and I am not necessarily any grand slam proponent of classical yogic practices ...there are strengths and weaknesses with anything. But one of the principles that has impressed me the most with the yogas is the notion of maintaining a daily practice of some kind.

I think that this is where the battle really goes down...this whole business of a daily practice because there is simply no way to ever be sure of anything...of where we are in the process or how far we have yet to go...all these kinds of reflections just lend themselves to withdrawing from the process itself.

So whatever it is that you decide to do...I think you need to think about doing it every single day and even blow off that stuff that cannot be brought into some kind of daily regiment. You can change direction as many times as you like so long as you are doing something every day...it really doesn't matter...it's only the stopping that kills...

m1thr0s

[deviadah]

Yes, that was a very clever reply...

I find singular thinking difficult though, since I have different interests different days - or different motvies - but yeah you are indeed correct I think. Choose one thing, one method, and stick to it on a regular basis.

Another thing that is important is to make this priority; before washing the dishes or eating food. Before it is done normal life is paused. At least for me this would be a mental aid in directing my attention.

There is another side to this coin and that is Ego. Although I am an egoist, I am also not. I am too aware of others around me, people on the street... I want to go up to them and just blurt out stuff (gnosis or anger or pity or love). I don't want to see people walk around with unimportant priorities and questions like what's on TV. But fuck 'em!

I have a heavy Messiah/Psycopath condition... :sunny::angry: and I need to part with it. Hermetitude is really what's called for, and I do think Hermeticism coined the term Hermit for a reason!

On a sidenote I discovered math after leaving school, and although I can read theories and understand concepts it still gets me :confused:

:laugh:

[m1thr0s]

leaders must lead. this is a difficult thing to get used to. for myself, I don't like the idea much at all but it doesn't really matter...you have to take responsibility for your advantages or you'll just exacerbate the problem. People generally are completely full of shit but they don't necessarily want to be full of shit. Some do of course and others really quite bask in it but the clear majority mostly just don't know how not to be full of shit.

Sooner or later those who may command some little edge on all of that will have to come off of their high fucking horse about it and take up the mantle of leadership itself...there's all kinds of options this way...it's not all the same damn game at all...but you find that the people who are really aggressively building something or doing something important don't generally spend all that much time on how full of shit people are...

That's sort of a given really...the question is...what business is it of yours? Why do you have your nose buried up all these people's assholes? Was there something you were maybe intending to accomplish regarding this?

some tricky shit really...it's important to call a spade a spade but even more important to play your hand correctly.

m1thr0s

[deviadah]

Oh I don't ever talk to these assholes, only in my mind... it is not really that big of a problem... only a tic! :cool:

I see what you are saying about leadership... well I prefer not to have that role. I don't want a leader, so how can I be one?

Mentor, on the other hand, I could enjoy - and have been. But I enjoy it even more to have a mentor myself... then again you learn more teaching than studying!

:yes:

[m1thr0s]

I don't think leadership has anything to do with followings exactly...I mean it can under certain circumstances...but mainly it has more to do with sorting out what you need to get done and doing it...

I know that sounds pretty vague...it's sort of a vague thing really. But if we use being *full of shit* as the litmus test for what is wrong with people then what we are really saying is that the trouble boils down to inauthenticity...with people being something significantly other than they ought to be by design etc...

By default, that makes personal authenticity its polar opposite and those who successfully attack and master those issues are then , by default again, the natural leaders among their own particular pools...

maybe others will follow your lead and maybe they won't...it all depends on what your area of mastery is and whether or not it might accommodate other people participating in it directly...sometimes this is the case and sometimes it isn't...

I know a guy who got sick and tired of the whole corporate scene and decided what he really wanted to do was make flutes. He had never made any flutes and didn't even play the flute at the beginning...he just liked flutes. He was way too old to get into it by all ordinary accounts but he blew that off and just started making flutes. Some pretty lameass flutes at first but they soon got better. within a decade this guys flutes had attained international renown and today he has a very busy little company of helpers cranking out world class hand-made flutes...

to my way of thinking...that's leadership.

m1thr0s

[deviadah]

Ah ok I see what you mean. Yes I agree; that is leadership... but more it is only an inspirational individual that one might be inspired to follow, or mimic his actions. He doesn't intentionally lead. Which is the best form of leading!

[MythMath]

Humans have essentially been the same
sublime and ridiculous creatures for (at least)
the past 30K terratrips around the sun...

Just imagine when the only thing to do at night
was to build a big, roaring predator-repellent
then lie on your back and watch the realbigscreen...

After a few generations, you'd have a pretty
good idea about the true nature of things... :yes:

[deviadah]

I feel like I am in limbo... I have been going forward in my mental re-evolution trying to tear down these walls of distraction that right now... right when I am about to make a breakthrough - I crash into them!

Society somehow got the better of me... for the moment...

When one is in the process of change, before the actual change occurs, there needs to be a short period of regression... or?

But it does give some interesting perspectives!

One side-effect of this mental fatigue that I am feeling is that I can't be asked to READ. I haven't really read anything from cover to cover in a long time... I'm not sure why that is...

Same with my esoteric interests... they have shrunk...

It is as if I am normal!

I do know that this is temporary, and I can already sense that this period is coming close to ending with the arrival of fall/winter - yet it is freaky to be in this state. Not to be interested in reading is like not being interested in breathing (for me)!

The distractions of society have really penetrated my whole being just when I thought I had killed them all...

Just rambling... even writing is difficult...

:eek:

[m1thr0s]

"defeat is always temporary" - anonymous

so is victory for that matter but it's probably more important to acknowledge this with respect to defeat for most of us...

reading just to read doesn't suit everybody's nature...i only really read a lot when I'm on some sort of mission. It happens that I've been on a fair number of these but there have also been long periods where I was just sort of cross-referencing my environment on a more intuitive level...

during these times I am a lot more likely to scribble or "play" in various ways...

I think it's all valid really...too much of anything becomes corrosive and *stiff*...

m1

[fr.novumorganum]

a lot of us on this board went through something similiar this year...

but yes i do think its part pf the process of growth...

IAO...everybody likes the isis and osiris parts of the formula, but we also go through typhoon...

[frater luciferi]

set a schedule. i do that for my art. i have a list of things for me to do that day..and a goal for how much i do. at the end of the day before i go to sleep i read for at least two hours. although lately i have been distracted by documentarys. you always have to make time for your art though...thats why a lot of artists and intellectual types have spells of hemitness, it frees up a bit of our free time to focus a bit more.