As a living creature you need to grow, but other, being living creatures, also try to drain our energies from us. They sabotage and steal our energies and this is normal. This is natural. Living creatures employ strategies and a multitude of tactics to acquire what belongs to others. Sometimes it's more comfortable to stay where one is and give up the resources than to move. This, too, is normal. We don't want to have to move and regroup as we are energy conserving creatures. It's easier just to give up some ground than to move elsewhere.
Then, something in us cries to be released from habituated tendencies. This is painful, nearly always, but one has to shift enough to shake off all the dust and debris that have formed an outer case to one's existence.
Please note here I'm not talking about the way a narcissistic ape cuts ties with those around him because they have stopped giving him their energy. I'm referring to a shift that reclaims one's inner energies as one's own. This is not a denial, or "it isn't me" parade, but quite the opposite. As Nietzsche's ZARATHUSTRA says, one sometimes needs to reclaim what one deems worst in oneself in order to become fully whole. Shamanic regeneration means identifying what is us and ours and differentiating it from what it outside of us. External powers can be parasitical but we do not scrutinize them, commonly, so we do not identify them as such.
An ape who wants to be shamanically whole must enter his or her discomfort zone. Here there may be a lot of buried traumas and unexpected surprises. It's easier to act as if these don't exist, since it's socially unpleasant to have to deal with complexities. Our brains are not especially geared for this, which is why we prefer to maintain a pleasant social illusion of simplicity. It's by far easier to tacitly concede, "You feed off me and I will feed off you," than to engage in differentiating a self.
Not only is it emotionally difficult to draw together the parts of oneself that have been scattered afar, to make them one again, but many automatically take affront to this. They claim it's for the social good that they require you to keep holding hands with them - -but really they're inclined to suck your energy. They know they cannot do this unless they keep you in a weakened state, with a confused sense of responsibility. It's quite a trick -- to get you to believe that it's your important task in life to feed them affirming ideas and positive sensations. They call their trick "duty", "morality", or "productivity". They use such dazzling terms to lure you into sacrificing your self for their benefit and, of course, we allow ourselves to be drawn in by them because it's easier to do what others deem correct than to have to deal with one's devils.
We all have inner demons and they have to be tamed, slapped around a bit. They're actually who we are, but if we do not tame them, we don't tap them as a source of energy. Worse, others who can see them there use these energies to harm us. If we want to believe we are good, we had better understand what is lurking behind the well-formed batallion. Your enemy has often noted down the parts of you that would engage in sabotage.
Keep the war hardened warriors that belong to your self at the rear and the weaker parts of you will press on forward. Develop knowledge of what lurks in your unconscious mind and keep that part of your self on guard at all times.
I don't think it is advisable to separate the methods and goals of intellectual shamanism from the metaphor of war.
Then, something in us cries to be released from habituated tendencies. This is painful, nearly always, but one has to shift enough to shake off all the dust and debris that have formed an outer case to one's existence.
Please note here I'm not talking about the way a narcissistic ape cuts ties with those around him because they have stopped giving him their energy. I'm referring to a shift that reclaims one's inner energies as one's own. This is not a denial, or "it isn't me" parade, but quite the opposite. As Nietzsche's ZARATHUSTRA says, one sometimes needs to reclaim what one deems worst in oneself in order to become fully whole. Shamanic regeneration means identifying what is us and ours and differentiating it from what it outside of us. External powers can be parasitical but we do not scrutinize them, commonly, so we do not identify them as such.
An ape who wants to be shamanically whole must enter his or her discomfort zone. Here there may be a lot of buried traumas and unexpected surprises. It's easier to act as if these don't exist, since it's socially unpleasant to have to deal with complexities. Our brains are not especially geared for this, which is why we prefer to maintain a pleasant social illusion of simplicity. It's by far easier to tacitly concede, "You feed off me and I will feed off you," than to engage in differentiating a self.
Not only is it emotionally difficult to draw together the parts of oneself that have been scattered afar, to make them one again, but many automatically take affront to this. They claim it's for the social good that they require you to keep holding hands with them - -but really they're inclined to suck your energy. They know they cannot do this unless they keep you in a weakened state, with a confused sense of responsibility. It's quite a trick -- to get you to believe that it's your important task in life to feed them affirming ideas and positive sensations. They call their trick "duty", "morality", or "productivity". They use such dazzling terms to lure you into sacrificing your self for their benefit and, of course, we allow ourselves to be drawn in by them because it's easier to do what others deem correct than to have to deal with one's devils.
We all have inner demons and they have to be tamed, slapped around a bit. They're actually who we are, but if we do not tame them, we don't tap them as a source of energy. Worse, others who can see them there use these energies to harm us. If we want to believe we are good, we had better understand what is lurking behind the well-formed batallion. Your enemy has often noted down the parts of you that would engage in sabotage.
Keep the war hardened warriors that belong to your self at the rear and the weaker parts of you will press on forward. Develop knowledge of what lurks in your unconscious mind and keep that part of your self on guard at all times.
I don't think it is advisable to separate the methods and goals of intellectual shamanism from the metaphor of war.
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