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We Are Not Fucked!
I feel compelled to relate to you all a message I received yesterday morning in a hypnopompic state (in between sleeping and waking up). Before I do so, I want to say that I have been worrying about my the direction my life is taking a whole lot lately. And not just my life, but the whole world along with it. But I will freely admit that I’m more concerned with myself than with the world as a whole, as much as I’d like to train myself otherwise.
And so, I’ve been stressing out lately, wondering if I am living right, if I am making the right decisions and trying desperately to see forward down the road to what is coming next. But my vision has been clouded. I am unable to penetrate the darkness of whatever lies ahead. And now I think I know why.
Laying in bed in the darkness, in the hypnopompic state, I heard a voice tell me not to worry, and that my life was about to take an unexpected turn and that it was coming just around the bend. I have no idea what this means (although I have some ideas about who or what the voice was), but receiving that message flooded me with a renewed sense of hope and purpose in what has been a very difficult time for me.
All I can say to anyone else out there struggling is that help is on the way. We can’t see it coming because the road ahead branches off around the bend. That’s all. We just have to stay strong, stay the course and keep our hands on the wheel.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
I struggle too. I though I threw most of my internal garbage away. But all these fears have swamped me, illusions, death, constant change. I have been reduced to taking two anti-depressants.
I found this site in the summer of 2005, and it was a really positive experience for me. Your creative worldview influenced me and made me open to possibilities I did not consider.
But now, I have to say I kind of wish I never found this site or the sites this site lead me to. Which is too bad for I was weak. Seeing life beyond the narrow borders of the ego is a good thing, until too much energy starts creeping in and you become too sensitive to all the stimuli. Before I suffered because I thought the world was meaningless, but now too much meaning has made me feel anxious.
In the end, mentally I was not strong enough to handle the topics of the occult. I think the occult takes away one’s floor, because you begin to see things as too large. Anyways, I suppose everybody has a dark night of the soul. Kind of odd how life works!
Good ol’ Tolkien. I think I am going to go back to a mythical view of the world.
“It’s like things are in the world. Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now”
November 4th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
we`re all going to die, but in the meantime……let`s make the best of things. hopes do fail. so go get some more, they don`t cost a lot. look how many people have them……………
myths are metaphors. they symbolise something inside of us that is concrete in it`s ability to make us feel a certain way.
richard bandler calls them propulsion systems.
to take on the myth of a wizard or sorcerer or witch gives one power to be effective where you wouldn`t necessarily be motivated otherwise.
all of what we do is a mythological anyway. we are making this shit up as we go along. i`d hate to think what the world would look like if we weren`t.
November 4th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
yeah, i have a feeling, deep in my heart, or maybe in my stomach, that the worlds gonnah get a bit less fucked up. at least, for a little while
November 4th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
… and i just found out why…. this movie look sa-weet:
November 4th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
November 4th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300/trailer1/
November 4th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
srry ’bout that….
the downside is that i get just a leeetle vibe of white supremacy, not exactly intensional, but you could definetly interpret it like that…
November 6th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Interesting to read this post. I read your post here Tim, then I surfed along to another site I check:
http://www.pisces-chronicles.blogspot.com/
And wouldn’t you know, there’s the SAME sort of “hypnopompic” message, again from another person in Seattle.
Interesting.
For grins, I want to mention: I’ve been drawing a yearly tarot card at Samhain for the past three years now. This time around, I drew the 10 of cups, which, in The Cosmic Tribe Tarot has the moniker “Fulfillment.” On some level, I think it’s my own version of your good-feeling message…
November 6th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Thanks Tim - While aware of hyponogogia I wasn’t familiar with the events of hypnopompia! I crave that stuff!
For Gnomely - I appreciate your state, but encourage you to find some hope in what you’ve discovered about life. Wisdom comes in tiny steps, and it’s good to chew it all over before moving ahead sometimes. But you’ve taken the “red pill” and seen the depth or life and partly your involvement with it. Understand you still contribute alot to the greater whole, no matter how you feel about it.
An appropriate passage from the Bible says how sometimes we look in the mirror and go away forgetting what we look like. Jesus also said, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
which I take to mean that we require some measure of courage and determination to follow the path of truth. We make not all be great saints, but even a disciple has worth. Keep looking up!