Ian Moone
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Have you ever felt the thrill of, at least in hindsight, "doing the right thing"? Sometimes it can cost you a reputation, maybe a hospital visit or a blow to your purse. Sometimes it can cost you a relationship or an investment. The pain or loss usually ends up being formative, right? Where do you think continued idealized pursuit like this leads, what kind of person would perform the role and what inspirations would they need to realize this line of work?
What is "Right"? Synchronicities, deja vu and Telepathy
Moments of conjunction, of resonance, typically lead us to deeper insights regarding what drives us. Upon following these in a more focused manner (which is the nature of Meditation and why you train it) we can track such a resonance and unfurl the tangles of life's Purpose. Feelings like deja vu or a rush of adrenaline occur in accordance with these experiences and it's the body and mind's way of receiving these sorts of downloads from our bigger self upstairs. "Right", then, is alignment with your personal synchronicities. It's understandable that this circumvents or at least suspends Morality, but it's important to realize humans have levels of communication (or glorified Telepathy if you want to reduce it) which autonomously interact in the background. In other words, "treat your neighbor as yourself" or "treat others how you want to be treated", to use common idioms, are important to conceptualize. We're much more alike than most people realize, especially outside of the body. These synchronicities align us to Purpose and you might be surprised where it can lead you.
Karmic Forces working in concert
Maybe you known a person that seems to be very successful in life in a variety of ways; their spouse is effortlessly attractive and charming, their children are well-ordered, they have what seems like little stress and have visibly earned the respect of those they surround themselves with. These sorts of people are typically content and easy to get along with. We can experience this life, but it's important to follow those clues, like described previously, which can lead us to a resonance channel where we can ride the wave of resonance, so to speak. Have you ever had a day where everything seemed to work smoothly for you? It's sort of like that, just on a wider scale.
While I'm not keen on the usual descriptions of Karma, the overall layout of the function seems to describe what's useful well enough: those who align themselves with said resonance channel can easily experience a sort of flow where forces around you conspire to concoct your vision or your goal. The idea of punishment often invoked is misunderstood. It's more like the most accessible pathway for what you put in is dispensed accordingly. The scales of Karma are balanced by Virtue and its lack. You don't put a coin in and get a prize. You put a coin in and everyone splits it evenly (just not physically).
Virtue, its role and your goal
With a dedicated focus on Virtue in our lives, we can easily cultivate and exert the efforts. This loosely means genuine meditation on Wisdom, Justice, Courage and Temperance. In regular meditation on these Virtues, we can ourselves cultivate them. The cultivation will grant us other boons, boons which we can exert. Pursing Wisdom and leading a Courageous life can aid us in seeking Justice and Justice cannot be dolled out without Wisdom. Likewise, it takes Courage to be Temperate and our Temperance can lead us to Wisdom. In experiencing Justice, we can cultivate Wisdom and in facing Justice, we can exert Courage. The alignment of these Virtues in ourselves, especially if exerted towards others, is how we will achieve our goals.
Dunbar Slots, who you surround yourself with and the 100th Monkey
Dunbar posits humans can only support so many meaningful relationships at a mean. But there's a wider social-genetic comprehension of our actions that feel and acknowledge the impression of our actions. This is how some people (like a Cayce or a Blavatsky, for example) can just pull incredibly insights or feats out of nothing like they carry around some portal in their pocket, hiding all the world's secrets. If we can find ways to manage our Dunbar Slots effectively, it can have wider implications on the social-genetic mind of the species, revealing us access to the 100th Monkey (event horizon of human experience, where once a critical mass of objectivity is reached, it's absorbed by the social-genetic mind, to really distil things). Saturation of Dunbar Slots with Virtue is the (a) pathway to the 100th Monkey. You know, wagging the dog.
The necessity of Revenge
Human concepts like Revenge should be understood as a balancing of the Karmic Scales. While I again am not crazy about the overall concept of Karma, it helps us to conceptualize karmic scales as a ubiquity measure whereby harmony is restored via certain events witnessed by our social-genetic mind-entity. Think about the aftermath of a transgression, particularly a non-righteous (as in inspired by Virtue) one, which has no response. Think about the sort of thing that does to a person - how it festers and gyrates. Through exertion of cultivated Virtue, we can balance these scales and ease the peripheral consequences of such a transgression. Most of us have a poor and dichotomized view of Revenge, where it can't possibly be a virtuous endeavor. This is a deeply flawed perspective, one that robs us of agency. Humans cannot live like this and it's a very large reason society is so out of Harmony. As the ledger of karmic transgressions reaches its zenith, we will unfortunately experience the consequences of our current condition. Being so out of touch with metaphysical aspects of ourselves and humanity at large, how can we possibly contain the tangential ramifications of such a karmic imbalance? If no one knows they're carrying around astral shotguns blasting each other all the time because they never kicked their step dad's ass for touching their little sister the wrong ways, we're all going to repeat this cycle of unglued, public displays of insanity.
How you enact Revenge matters, however. Balancing scales can be performed in a variety of ways and properly directing energies alongside Virtue confers genuine Harmony, which is the goal of said Revenge. In the end, Revenge isn't punitive, but Harmonious (ie. Justice). As such, it is Right.
Think about the last five or so years. Escalations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East are surely being felt by most of the civilized world. How the hell do we reverse this trend if it's such an increasing problem?
Might
So what is Might, what role does it play in this equation and how can we properly exert the Might needed to fix this predicament? Is Might just words and guns? Is it riches and muscle? Or are there other genres of Might we should consider?
Are the Virtuous Mighty? Who can sunder them if they can't be exploited, if they have Courage and Wisdom, if they act with Temperance and seek Justice?
The answer is simple. In seeking what's Right, Might will follow us in our path, amplifying our presence, our awareness and what we exert. Woe to any who stand in our way.
What is "Right"? Synchronicities, deja vu and Telepathy
Moments of conjunction, of resonance, typically lead us to deeper insights regarding what drives us. Upon following these in a more focused manner (which is the nature of Meditation and why you train it) we can track such a resonance and unfurl the tangles of life's Purpose. Feelings like deja vu or a rush of adrenaline occur in accordance with these experiences and it's the body and mind's way of receiving these sorts of downloads from our bigger self upstairs. "Right", then, is alignment with your personal synchronicities. It's understandable that this circumvents or at least suspends Morality, but it's important to realize humans have levels of communication (or glorified Telepathy if you want to reduce it) which autonomously interact in the background. In other words, "treat your neighbor as yourself" or "treat others how you want to be treated", to use common idioms, are important to conceptualize. We're much more alike than most people realize, especially outside of the body. These synchronicities align us to Purpose and you might be surprised where it can lead you.
Karmic Forces working in concert
Maybe you known a person that seems to be very successful in life in a variety of ways; their spouse is effortlessly attractive and charming, their children are well-ordered, they have what seems like little stress and have visibly earned the respect of those they surround themselves with. These sorts of people are typically content and easy to get along with. We can experience this life, but it's important to follow those clues, like described previously, which can lead us to a resonance channel where we can ride the wave of resonance, so to speak. Have you ever had a day where everything seemed to work smoothly for you? It's sort of like that, just on a wider scale.
While I'm not keen on the usual descriptions of Karma, the overall layout of the function seems to describe what's useful well enough: those who align themselves with said resonance channel can easily experience a sort of flow where forces around you conspire to concoct your vision or your goal. The idea of punishment often invoked is misunderstood. It's more like the most accessible pathway for what you put in is dispensed accordingly. The scales of Karma are balanced by Virtue and its lack. You don't put a coin in and get a prize. You put a coin in and everyone splits it evenly (just not physically).
Virtue, its role and your goal
With a dedicated focus on Virtue in our lives, we can easily cultivate and exert the efforts. This loosely means genuine meditation on Wisdom, Justice, Courage and Temperance. In regular meditation on these Virtues, we can ourselves cultivate them. The cultivation will grant us other boons, boons which we can exert. Pursing Wisdom and leading a Courageous life can aid us in seeking Justice and Justice cannot be dolled out without Wisdom. Likewise, it takes Courage to be Temperate and our Temperance can lead us to Wisdom. In experiencing Justice, we can cultivate Wisdom and in facing Justice, we can exert Courage. The alignment of these Virtues in ourselves, especially if exerted towards others, is how we will achieve our goals.
Dunbar Slots, who you surround yourself with and the 100th Monkey
Dunbar posits humans can only support so many meaningful relationships at a mean. But there's a wider social-genetic comprehension of our actions that feel and acknowledge the impression of our actions. This is how some people (like a Cayce or a Blavatsky, for example) can just pull incredibly insights or feats out of nothing like they carry around some portal in their pocket, hiding all the world's secrets. If we can find ways to manage our Dunbar Slots effectively, it can have wider implications on the social-genetic mind of the species, revealing us access to the 100th Monkey (event horizon of human experience, where once a critical mass of objectivity is reached, it's absorbed by the social-genetic mind, to really distil things). Saturation of Dunbar Slots with Virtue is the (a) pathway to the 100th Monkey. You know, wagging the dog.
The necessity of Revenge
Human concepts like Revenge should be understood as a balancing of the Karmic Scales. While I again am not crazy about the overall concept of Karma, it helps us to conceptualize karmic scales as a ubiquity measure whereby harmony is restored via certain events witnessed by our social-genetic mind-entity. Think about the aftermath of a transgression, particularly a non-righteous (as in inspired by Virtue) one, which has no response. Think about the sort of thing that does to a person - how it festers and gyrates. Through exertion of cultivated Virtue, we can balance these scales and ease the peripheral consequences of such a transgression. Most of us have a poor and dichotomized view of Revenge, where it can't possibly be a virtuous endeavor. This is a deeply flawed perspective, one that robs us of agency. Humans cannot live like this and it's a very large reason society is so out of Harmony. As the ledger of karmic transgressions reaches its zenith, we will unfortunately experience the consequences of our current condition. Being so out of touch with metaphysical aspects of ourselves and humanity at large, how can we possibly contain the tangential ramifications of such a karmic imbalance? If no one knows they're carrying around astral shotguns blasting each other all the time because they never kicked their step dad's ass for touching their little sister the wrong ways, we're all going to repeat this cycle of unglued, public displays of insanity.
How you enact Revenge matters, however. Balancing scales can be performed in a variety of ways and properly directing energies alongside Virtue confers genuine Harmony, which is the goal of said Revenge. In the end, Revenge isn't punitive, but Harmonious (ie. Justice). As such, it is Right.
Think about the last five or so years. Escalations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East are surely being felt by most of the civilized world. How the hell do we reverse this trend if it's such an increasing problem?
Might
So what is Might, what role does it play in this equation and how can we properly exert the Might needed to fix this predicament? Is Might just words and guns? Is it riches and muscle? Or are there other genres of Might we should consider?
Are the Virtuous Mighty? Who can sunder them if they can't be exploited, if they have Courage and Wisdom, if they act with Temperance and seek Justice?
The answer is simple. In seeking what's Right, Might will follow us in our path, amplifying our presence, our awareness and what we exert. Woe to any who stand in our way.
