One of the many invaluable things I've learned from tripping was that freedom is submissive. I think of it like a Chinese finger trap - to force yourself out of the toy is to reinforce the prison, while to release all tension and force allows you a means of escape, of freedom.
To further elaborate, I wrote this on my last acid trip:
When you’re stuck in the mundanities of quotidian life, it’s sometimes like you’re stuck in a whirlpool, an infinite circle that you can’t control, maybe in a more positive light, the universe around you. This consciousness that is always circling. Something uncontrollable, not necessary destiny or fate but maybe related. In a negative light, it’s the trivial things that can hinder you from a direct path, from going where you want to go and follow your dreams because you’re stuck following everyone else, you can’t break this cycle. It depends on how you look at it. The whirlpool can be a vicious cycle, destruction. Or, it can be a positive cycle, creation.
So many humans are in a vicious cycle. A pre-programmed routine and what feels like pre-programmed process of thought. Sometimes when you’re in this cycle, you question it, but you don’t feel you can escape it. Or you try to escape it by going against the grain of humanity, trying to swim backwards, not with the flow. Is trying to reverse a vicious cycle going to make it easier? No, of course not, you struggle more. Swimming against the flow of the whirlpool is like forcing your way out of a Chinese fingers trap. In order to escape one of those little traps, you have to let go. In order to escape the whirlpool, you have to find your way to the center spiritually. You have to submissively be free.
When you do spiritual activities, like meditate, practice some sort of theology perhaps, maybe using entheogens intelligently, you enter the circle. This happens for me every time I drop acid. I enter the middle of the whirlpool.
When your ego begins to die and you have learned to let go, you can re-enter the whirlpool. This time, the whirlpool IS in the other direction, naturally. If the vicious cycle had been counter-clockwise, the positive cycle is clockwise. It naturally reversed. The cycle of humanity, you can see it in a positive light. Hate and fear are counter-clockwise; unconditional love, gratitude, and appreciation is clockwise. When you’re in the negative cycle, it’s difficult to find love, that’s against the grain, you focus on the trivial things and judgments; when you’re in the positive cycle, it is difficult to hate, to place judgments without feeling terrible, without being self-reflective. In the former cycle, you saw only yourself subjectively and your peers objectively, with judgments, stereotypes, and pre-conceived notions. In the latter, you are able to see yourself objectively and others subjectively, are able to naturally place yourself in others’ shoes and realize, there might be something going on that you don’t know about.
Now you can trade in the negative perspective of the whirlpool for the positive one. The whirlpool is the universe and all consciousness, not a mundane life of work, buy, consume, die.
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Any other theories on freedom or opinions on this one?
To further elaborate, I wrote this on my last acid trip:
When you’re stuck in the mundanities of quotidian life, it’s sometimes like you’re stuck in a whirlpool, an infinite circle that you can’t control, maybe in a more positive light, the universe around you. This consciousness that is always circling. Something uncontrollable, not necessary destiny or fate but maybe related. In a negative light, it’s the trivial things that can hinder you from a direct path, from going where you want to go and follow your dreams because you’re stuck following everyone else, you can’t break this cycle. It depends on how you look at it. The whirlpool can be a vicious cycle, destruction. Or, it can be a positive cycle, creation.
So many humans are in a vicious cycle. A pre-programmed routine and what feels like pre-programmed process of thought. Sometimes when you’re in this cycle, you question it, but you don’t feel you can escape it. Or you try to escape it by going against the grain of humanity, trying to swim backwards, not with the flow. Is trying to reverse a vicious cycle going to make it easier? No, of course not, you struggle more. Swimming against the flow of the whirlpool is like forcing your way out of a Chinese fingers trap. In order to escape one of those little traps, you have to let go. In order to escape the whirlpool, you have to find your way to the center spiritually. You have to submissively be free.
When you do spiritual activities, like meditate, practice some sort of theology perhaps, maybe using entheogens intelligently, you enter the circle. This happens for me every time I drop acid. I enter the middle of the whirlpool.
When your ego begins to die and you have learned to let go, you can re-enter the whirlpool. This time, the whirlpool IS in the other direction, naturally. If the vicious cycle had been counter-clockwise, the positive cycle is clockwise. It naturally reversed. The cycle of humanity, you can see it in a positive light. Hate and fear are counter-clockwise; unconditional love, gratitude, and appreciation is clockwise. When you’re in the negative cycle, it’s difficult to find love, that’s against the grain, you focus on the trivial things and judgments; when you’re in the positive cycle, it is difficult to hate, to place judgments without feeling terrible, without being self-reflective. In the former cycle, you saw only yourself subjectively and your peers objectively, with judgments, stereotypes, and pre-conceived notions. In the latter, you are able to see yourself objectively and others subjectively, are able to naturally place yourself in others’ shoes and realize, there might be something going on that you don’t know about.
Now you can trade in the negative perspective of the whirlpool for the positive one. The whirlpool is the universe and all consciousness, not a mundane life of work, buy, consume, die.
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Any other theories on freedom or opinions on this one?