There are moments that spring up in life as ones of great lucidity. If they show up in unexpected circumstances, at unexpected times, – and they usually tend to do so – our comfortable peace is gone. That is when we feel we are not what we are ought to be. That is when many of us ask major questions. That is when existential reality reveals itself in glimpses. The restlessness it leaves behind is uneasy to bear. But is easy to get rid of it.
Posts tagged ‘comparative reality’
First payments for the free lunch
Shift your perspective on time
Even if we perceive time as a continuous flow of events, originating in the past and unfolding in the future, there is another perspective, a different one, worth considering. A dual perspective delimiting just present and non-present moments. When we talk in terms of time as a flow of unfolding and concealing events, we have the triad of past-present-future. This sequential delimiting is pertaining to our relative existence, thus to our comparative reality. However, if we reorganize our attitude in the context of the existential perspective, herein considering our self developmental potential, the triad can be reduced to the duality of present and non-present. This leads to reorganization of our experience in the self-developmental context, which is the subject of today’s Vertegram post.
Remembering yourself causes awakening
“Realizing that you know less as you are on the way towards spiritual development.” This thought can be often heard as a proof of some sort of awakening. Although hearing it too often from the same person is – for me at least – a certain sign of standing in front of a parrot. Even if it resembles a human. Just listen more carefully for a moment and you will hear again about the extraordinary realization of not knowing. Awakening (to this) then brings conclusions on how the extraordinarily wonderful spiritual path needs to be followed from now on. “Now I see the light!” [irony]Can you see here the immanent humility and piety? The modesty of not knowing![/irony] Still, we are witnessing the birth of a new knowledge. The knowledge of where to from here. The first steps towards insanity.
Is Self-Definition Easier Today?
In straight accordance with your age, you are now in a distinct phase of your life where you are redefining yourself. Self-definition is an ongoing process, for as long as you live. Our lives are subdued to a historical presence and an existential reality. The historical presence is also subdued to live in a comparative reality. In every time sequence of our lives, the comparative approach is remodeling our identity. And comparative approach is dependent on the cultural, social and historical context. This dependency is what creates the frames for us, mostly in how we can manage to define ourselves. This self-definition needs to be ever reassuring in order to keep our balance. We live now, so is the actual context in favour of this need for self-definition? With all the progress of the modern world, is it easier today to define ourselves?
Obsession of Identity
It seems to me that the concept of ‘reaching the soul’ stirred up the biggest questions here on Vertegram. Contrary to how it is in the common knowledge, I choose to define soul as a possibility. Something that is available only as a potentiality. Something that needs to be actualized, needs to be brought forward. Let’s dwell into it some more.
