Don’t get me wrong, I see many things that raise red flags, but just because I consider myself ‘awake’ does not mean I suddenly only believe fringe views, extreme ideas, and minority beliefs just to belong in the spiritual and enlightened community.
Trading one closed mindset and blind unawareness for another closed mindset blind unawareness is not the goal. In fact rarely should you meet, or build relationships with people have the EXACT same beliefs across all areas of life. Being molded into a perfect human by a specific community or idols standards is simply another form of being ‘asleep’.
I always wonder what makes people who over time become more ‘conscious/woke/enlightened’ to then again suddenly fall into the path of thinking like others within a different community.
As people start opening their eyes and minds to the world around them and how they have been following along with the greater society without any actual thought, to simply following along a new ‘society’ without any thought. It’s like they leave one place of blindly following to a new more ‘spiritual’ place of blindly following.
As soon as people start seeing things in a new light they go from one extreme to another. It’s incredible the amount of people I see on social media who through the process of ‘ascension’ (the path of those who are choosing to consciously step into a higher level of light) they start to fall in a place of extreme mistrust and looking for evidence of conspiracy and treachery.
So many people want to believe they are critical thinkers, 'individuals', and evolved, yet so many have completely missed the point of the entire reason for spiritual development. It was never about fitting in, which we as humans must acknowledge as we are primed to want to be a part of community.
I completely agree that there is often things going on in society, the world, governments, and industries etc that are underground, sneaky, MSM (main steam media) and not in good standing at all, yet just because we start to learn more about what’s really going on doesn’t mean we should land in a place of fear, panic and worry that everyone is out to get us. It's become common place these days through social media, that once you start questioning things that suddenly you must from that point on only believe in fridge views and those held by the minority.
Be careful and watch out for cognitive bias! What happens when we find something or someone mainstream that we don’t believe fits our moral or ethical code, the goal shouldn’t be to go down a path of only seeking as much information as possible to prove everyone has ulterior motives, the government is out to destroy is, the medical industry is out to kill us, of the media is out to manipulate us. There are truths in all sides.
The world is not full of evil.
The world is not full of lies.
The world is not full of deception.
The world is not full of evil plots.
Of course, there are bad things that happen in the world, but don’t be pulled into a place of helplessness and despair and a life of overwhelming sadness by believing that we are doomed and the world is dominated by evil.
The world is full of so much goodness.
But to appreciate how good it feel to be healthy, at some point you gave to experience illness, pain, or injury.
To appreciate joy and how good it feels to laugh, we must feel sadness.
To appreciate relationships we must experience loneliness and loss.
Life is full of contrast so that we are able to fully embrace what it is to be human, and what it is to feel alive.