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Pluribus's avatar

I think this is the truth. My simple initial reaction to it:

1. Reclaiming my soul was a process that began with my birth.

2. In retrospect, that process was in hibernation as my brain tried to figure out how I was going to survive in this life. I needed to sublimate myself into the system so that the system would look after me by providing me with the means of living.

3. My life since I took that (largely unconscious) decision became a habit. What do I mean? I resigned myself to doing whatever I needed to do to “succeed”. It became reflexive not deliberate. It was a habit of actions as well as a mental and spiritual garment.

4. Everyone around me was doing the same thing. Keeping the system happy.

5. It took a golden escalator to reawaken my quest to reclaim my soul.

6. As with all soul reclaiming activities, the journey was challenging and intellectually violent.

7. In the course of reclaiming my soul I have been shedding a lot of habits, including behaviors but also people. I learned quickly that what is blinding truth for me was not obvious to most of the people I know.

8. The system fights back. With anger, vengeful action and awarding pariah status to ITS enemy, me.

9. While I occasionally feel sadness for the loss of family and friends, I realize that I have no choice but to move forward in my life journey.

We are born alone and we die alone. If we are lucky we get to eventually choose what happens between those two events.

I feel lucky.

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Amy J Schlosser's avatar

Deeply Moving

So Beautiful

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