Read this a bit late in the evening yesterday.
Yeah, it’s pretty common for people to experince the “gender swap” stuff when it comes to “higher self” jazz. Honestly, it’s not a big deal, but I myself don’t see it that way. I’ve always had a bit of difficulty connecting to a human form, like my physical body to begin with, but as far as I’m aware it’s “just symbolic” of the nature of energy dynamics that occur within your spirit depending on what kind of body you are using (ie, gender).
I’m trying to understand what it is better to then better understand what it’s strengths / capacities, limitations, and framing goals are. On one hand with Jungian psychology I can listen to Steve and Pauline Richards (Jung To Live By) and they talk about anima / animus as one’s relating function, that it shouldn’t be personified as an inner male / inner female, yet what I feel like I can understand is that our own memory banks are huge, what we have in us - that we like even - but can’t be manifest or worn in the world for survival reasons exists in perhaps something like a benevolent shadow (ie. repressed / masked levels of decency that would just be smashed or taken for exploitation by apes).
I was going through a particularly traumatic part of my life from 2018 to 2021 where it really felt like the work world equivalent of Gulag, but I was being additionally tormented with my own agency - a bit like being forced to not only do tasks but learn how to do them in real time where the closest analogy I can think of would be having ‘friends’ take you out on on your 21st birthday, tell you you’re going to chug a full bottle of 151, and if you can’t hold it down that you’ve failed outright as a human being. I had that with coding, where I had to do some heavy applications for people, teach myself the front-end, took on things the company had never done before, in a couple different stretches I almost ended up in the hospital (60mg of Nexium at one point and had to go on a liquid diet for a few weeks, then had a summer where I had to work from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep - seven days a week for 40 hours pay, for survival not income, the feature that caused me said grief the client then said ‘Meh, we don’t need it afterall’, and had another time last year where I felt like everything was shutting down and I narrowly avoided having my digestive track shut down). For the first time in my life I got to see that I was genuinely just meat, that my life had absolutely no value to anyone but me, my parents, some close friends, etc., and what was so bad about it was there was no psychopath in the mix that I could locate, it was more like a big ball of group incompetence that I was being forced to either eat or fail out of programming and get forced back into the career path I had before. It had nothing to do with whether or not I could code, much more to do with whether or not I could code with a gun to my head for several years with very little reprieve.
Buuut yeah, I call 'em the God Games. New Universes are always dark at first, and there’s usually a huge rush for knowledge and thus power, but it seems there’s been a um… “misuse” of that natural cosmic phenomena, having been over-exploited by those simply looking to dominate. That’s the Moloch; the wisdom trap, it’s just the race to become God. Everyone wants to rule the fucking world.
For what our physics are it really seems much more like a feature than a bug. While it’s been about as physically safe a time to ever grow up in the West (no world wars blazing - yet), it’s still been a situation where Christianity gave way to secular humanism and when I was coming up we were on some of the last desperate puffs of John Stuart Mill where in primary school it really felt like it was almost half Scientology in terms of how strongly it was impressed on us that humans are fundamentally good, fundamentally curious, if someone’s mean to you it’s because they were down or misunderstood (ie. hurt people hurt people), and what that seemed to do was turn a lot of people who fit that description into veal, ie. telling people that they’re ‘right’ and that they have nothing to worry about, that the stupidity and crassness will go away. Truthfully it’s life-long. I’ve enjoyed listening to Aaron Clarey / Asshole Consulting recently for similar reasons that I enjoy listening to John Gray - it’s further confirmation that, at least on these metrics, I’m not crazy no matter how many people will still gaslight on this point.
It very much feels like rape, doesn’t it.
Or perhaps piracy, like that phrase from pirates of the carribean; “take what you can, give nothing back”.
I feel like I was so ill prepared that I effectively brought a philosophy book, or a guitar, or a synthesizer to a gun fight and got red-misted. I’m more enraged at just how profoundly and routinely I was lied to.
The rape equivalent would be more like realizing that I have a lot of ‘best self’ aspects that can’t be worn in public and are very limited in how they can be developed based on how much low-register activity there is and if I have any proper definitions of ‘evil’ one of them is the lesser consuming / cannibalizing the greater. That of course happens, with cold indifference, thanks to certain aspects of how our substrate works.
Another good way to ask that question might be, what’s the best way to be a slave if you can’t get out of being one? Fight to put the best slavers in power perhaps? No one likes games where you have to focus on choosing the lesser of evil lords forever, unless perhaps you’re at the top.
Another powerful realization I had in the last few years is that depression, particularly the times where it was hitting me the hardest, is best seen as times where my map of reality was much more hopeful than the territory. I noticed that when my map started getting as ugly as the territory depression decreased significantly. In that sense there are adaptations that make a lot of sense, I just want to pick and choose as carefully as I can because I like to continue evolving, at the worst be forced to move laterally, really don’t want to devolve if I can help it.
and I’m glad you brought this up, cuz although it’s very fun to say that life is nothing but a dream or a joke or a game, thats an absolute dogshit philosophy when the “aight I don wanna play anymore” just means that you die. That sounds an awful lot like “real life” to me. Lol, it is all just a matter of psychological interpretation though. Some mindsets work better for certain things tho; at the end of the day I just hope people stop relying on things like religion so much in order to have hope.
There are some people who do just get left alone, or they can spend their lives - even in minor competition with others - where they still keep most of their protective shell and remain ‘blue pilled’ on the Darwinian side of life. The trouble seems to come in when someone is ‘different’ in a way that appears to people as if it’s related to completely different neurological alignments. The way people seem to sort that out is that there’s an unspoken rule that your personality is supposed to built up by sheer copying of others (a very path-of-least-resistance Daoist sort of thing), and if you have to take any time to build it up from first principles that gets taken as a signal that you had some type of genetic malady that you had to work around - hence it’s read as a signal of mutation and hits society’s eugenics filter which is vicious and will try to stomp you out at any turn.
I can’t really comment on the NDE and Qliphoth thing; like I said before depending on a persons cosmic history, ancestry, brands, blackmails, etc, you’re gonna connect to different parts of things. I haven’t thus far recieved a ton of good stuff from, well, any magic system or old religion and whatnot. (a few exceptions but it’s unimportant). At first I thought it might be because I actually consider myself as being The Dragon in a way, and also have the “right” to claim any name as my own if I use a system. So, if I were to use qliphoth that means that I have to eat anyone who says I’m not the whole of the tree XD
Now I’m pretty sure that’s actually totally normal, idk if I keep misinterpreting what the etiquite is for using old magic systems or what, but honestly it might just be a lot of old war truama jazz from aeons of tragedy. Whoops, sorry, the universe has PTSD and is losing its shit, come back later type of dealios? Idk, im still confused about it. War timelines and things like gods or religous systems are real screwy issues for me. Not sure how much a personal thing it is; it looks and feels real but i know it sometimes isn’t.
Yeah, it sounds like you’d just be using something like that as integration work or seeing like there’s anything in yourself that you wanted to microscope in and examine with that tool kit. I feel like my work with the Qliphoth, aside from tactics and weapons training or giving myself more firmware options is akin that as well.
Farming is where shit gets weird when it comes to lower beings, and Enlightenment is where shit gets weird when it comes to higher beings, cuz then you’re aware you’re not either predator or prey in truth, more just a “godform” or whathaveyou.
Farming is where the situational imbalance of power is great enough that you can truly treat an organism as standing reserve. The factory farming of animals is the place where the treatment really shocks people - in how nakedly psychopathic it is.
It’s been my personal experience, and philosphy, that if it seems like a giant chunk of the universe is about to be eaten by monsters or perhaps transformed into a giant wall of cancer, it’s not the evil that’s the problem. Reality, aka what people can mutually agree as being a solid structure to stand on in leu of “its all just a dream bro” or “you’re the dreamer of the cosmos”, is run by PEOPLE and the natural enviornment. Tech can play roles, but if tech “governs” it inevitably will become toxic.
This is to say that a cosmic society of sorts ought to find it’s stride, because even if you are capable of doing something all by yourself it’s usually best not to when it comes to “reality” beyond yourself.
IMHO it’s Darwinian evolution, as an engine, itself. In one hand it was able to build our sensory organs and capacities from the ground up, on the other hand it only plays linear extraction games, ‘young male syndrome’ is permanent when you’re nobody until you’ve shown that you can bend reality, being able to ‘bend reality’ with resources, financial success, accrued status, has quite often a lot to do with when you’re born and whether the pickings are easy (for example the baby boomer generation - for what difficulties they did have - had a very different set of possibilities they could tap into than millennials and gen z, where the environment was largely strip mined and sure you could become an entrepreneur out of high school or dropping out of college early if you had those attributes but its comparatively fewer people).
I remember someone mentioning in an NDE that they saw, around the Ancient of Days or whatever they were seeing, universes as marbles and this as a relatively small and dark one. It’s almost like each of these has it’s own set of physics and thus these are the physics that we have and likely will have for a long time. What’s been challenging for us is that rapid progress also causes both big opportunities and big asymmetries, also good chances of making ourselves extinct through competition, but it’s clearly not what equilibrium looks like. I really find Markovian mathematics fascinating, ie. in that when inputs get run through a system enough times with set weights the results stabilize, and Markov chains seem to be of a variety that can penetrate the iterative nature of biological systems and some of the rules that perhaps govern them. Somewhat in line with the old Buddhist curse we’re perhaps living in ‘interesting times’ where its all accelerated more than usual.