027: the lost village
Greetings fellow human
For thousands of years, we asked ourselves, ‘What is our highest expression?’ and then, pretty much every culture rested in the belief it was love/unity/oneness and realised that it was next to impossible to achieve that without subordinating the body.
This very process would be preserved in a myriad of ways across cultures, but the same rite of passage awaited each generation, and once committed to, would then be instilled in the next, and the next, and the next, until, strangely, we stopped within the last couple of generations for perhaps the first time ever.
Of course, non-affiliation with our great-grandparents' cultural pursuits is its own worldview, because we cannot avoid the questions that meet a life. Each omission and/or action builds into a new human thumb drive, which gets handed around amongst us. So is it any good? Or perhaps the first step is, what does it currently tell us? To which we would probably answer:
You are born and ride an escalator towards your best self, regardless of DNA soup, early attachment, and/or environmental exposure.
When symptoms of disturbance arise, felt as unease and perhaps later growing into a diagnosis, that is wholly yours, because remember, DNA soup, early attachment and environmental exposure are irrelevant.
As being wholly ours, we are encouraged to upgrade to better software, despite our hardware being under significant strain and (until we break the ignorance) that malfunctioning being hugely out of our control. Nevertheless, the Ferrari sticker is slapped on the Shetland pony, and we all look surprised when it fails to run faster.
What could we do instead?
What if we deeply investigated our DNA soup, deeply investigated our early attachment, and for this week's episode, at least, deeply investigated our contextual exposure. Maybe we might uncover a frog in the pot scenario cooking up our species, and maybe, just maybe, we will be able to jump out in time before it gets too hot. Time will tell.
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This week’s episode is drawn from pages 6, 49, 53-54, 90-93, 109, 115, 123, 133-137, 147, 223-225, 283, 285, 287, 291, 295, 298-299, 314, 316, 319, 334, 359, 373-375, 377, 493, 577, 581, 583, 621, 625, 646-647 of the all-in-one book, ‘Who Brought You Here?’
Should you wish to read along, country-specific Amazon links are as follows for paperback and kindle versions: Australia, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Japan, Canada, India
To your healing 💙,
Jas
