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A Common Sense

Regarding Love

By X icantfindmylighter.com XPublished 5 years ago 11 min read
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About 10 years ago, I found myself in a depressive state. In fact, I moved out of state after a nasty breakup. I thought that moving away from the problem was going to make it somehow better. Little did I know, trying to run away from a problem when it's in your own head is kind of impossible. Upon moving down south I couldn't smoke marijuana, which I used mainly for insomnia, so I started doing obsessive research. I researched a few rabbit holes and, I found myself in a series of wormholes that connected more and more frequently. At the time, it was quite scary to find myself researching the pyramids and ending up in reading about the Emerald Tablet. Likewise, researching theoretical physics would somehow, lead me back to the pyramids, probably through some pattern I may have chosen to see. I started becoming obsessed with sacred geometry, alchemy and hermeticism. I found, that the more I looked with these three keys in mind, things started to make more sense to me. I started doing a lot more writing and reading to try and figure out what I was trying to run away from in my own mind. My perspective began to shift and the way I looked at the world did too. I then realized that, I had become comfortable with a social existence that I had also grown to be annoyed with at the same time.

After more than two years I moved back home to the good old state of Ohio. About a month later, I found myself living alone, with all my thoughts and unable to write anything I was satisfied with. I turned to psychedelics to help process two years worth of information. Without an internet connection or computer access, I wasn't really able to do a lot of research like I did down south, so I started buying books. I started reading alternative history like Howard Zinn and Graham Hancock, which started me down the rabbit hole of "catastrophic geology." I started researching psilocybin, LSD, and DMT, and began using them in various combinations. I started to see more and more of these connected dots, which I learned to call synchronicity, all around. To the point where I thought I was beginning to lose my mind. Too many dots were connecting. Too many coincidences were occurring...

Then, one day something clicked. The proverbial light switched on. I actually laughed to myself when it happened. "I moved down south to escape some painful emotions, only to hide from them by not giving my brain time to deal with them..." That moment, I put pen to paper and just let the words flow without worry for the first time in months. I include what I wrote that day in this piece, marked with (*).

Recently, looking through some of my old notebooks, I found quite a bit of what I wrote about 10 years ago very fascinating. Not because of my mental state at the time, but because everything I wrote holds very true to this day and somehow still makes sense. So I decided to try and compile some of those writings together in a way that isn't overly scatterbrained for the above-average reader. So hold onto your seats this may be a bumpy ride...

So let's jump right in shall we? It's a pretty exciting time to be conscious self aware beings. Most people don't realize what it took for us to be here to ask ourselves really big questions. First of all, we happen to live on the universe's only KNOWN incubator. It took very precise and chaotic circumstances for what we call life to exist on this planet, long enough to evolve and become self-aware creatures, intelligent enough to question their own existence and yet ignorant enough to think that they should. Some people believe that an individual entity created the entire universe and all life as we know it. Whatever the initial cause that brought us here together on this Beautiful Blue Marble is, it shouldn't cloud the fact of how special human beings really are. Elements that make up everything you've ever experienced were forged in the cores of stars billions of years ago. Those stars exploded and spread their dust throughout our galaxy. That dust of elements is what me and you are made of. We're all children of Stars. I would like to imagine that's something the ancients knew and also why they worshiped the Sun.

Keeping the Sun in mind, our planets position from the Sun and the geometry of orbiting objects in the solar system keeps the Earth in that Goldilocks range to sustain liquid water. Our relative global temperature range is what allows water to cycle through its various forms. Our moon is very large in comparison to its host planet, so it's gravitational effect on tides has slowed Earth's rotation over hundreds of millions of years allowing for a longer day which really helps that whole water cycle thing along. Other factors to take into account include, atmospheric chemical composition, the laws of thermodynamics and the Earth's tilt along its rotational axis to name but a few. Climate change is real by the way. The climate changes all the time, as do the dynamics of our motion through space. I find it truly fascinating, that with all our technology available today, that certain people have gone back in time and down in awareness to claim that the world is flat. Nothing like comparing this Beautiful Blue Marble that gives us life, to a fucking plate. Every other observable planet, Sun and moon are spherical because of gravity. I find it almost impossible to believe the world is flat. I guess "common sense" isn't so common anymore.

Speaking of "senses", let's move on shall we. Most of us were taught in school that we have five senses. You know the basics: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. We all know we use the eyes to see, our ears to hear, the nose to smell, the tongue to taste, and the skin to touch. All these senses have two very important things in common.

  1. They all depend on wavelengths of various frequencies and the central nervous systems ability to make sense of them with the brain. The Kybalion states that the universe IS vibration, everything moves, nothing is at rest.
  2. The way our Central Nervous System processes these various frequencies makes the CNS the only true sensory organ. Our nerves are the wires and our brains are the processors. This leads me to believe that limiting our senses to only five may actually be holding us back. I believe we have more senses than five. I also believe that through a positive shift of perception we will develop a new understanding of our awareness of the universe and our special place in it.

We all know that when certain people lose a sense, remaining senses can pick up the slack by becoming more sensitive and acute. Now suppose for a minute that, without losing a sense, we could fine tune and strengthen our senses. This doesn't seem very far-fetched if you believe that our senses are simply filters, that we've created to simplify the complexity and true power of our minds. If you think about it, there are many more than 5 senses that humans instinctively use without even knowing. We have a sense of direction although some of us don't know how to use it. If we have a sense of direction, then that means our CNS can detect the subtle differences in polarity of Earth's magnetic field. We also have a sense of compassion for other living things, although most of us don't know how to use that either. We "want" to treat others the way we want them to treat us because our brains and hearts inherently know how connected we truly are. Yes I said hearts. Did you know they discovered that the human heart contains neurons? It kind of makes the statement, "think with your heart" seem a little more meaningful, right? Inside your skull, right now, since you were still in a warm womb, is an organically created bio-electromagnetic super quantum computer that's fully programmable with unlimited capacity. The problem today is we forget to program our own minds. We allow outside perspectives to influence and occupy part of our memory in negative ways. Our brains work through electronic signals we call synapses. The last time I checked, bone, blood and skin are not electromagnetic insulators. In fact, we are 70 percent water, which is a conductor of electricity. So next time you think a thought, remember that those vibrations produced by the synapses literally spread throughout the world from your brain, whether they are positive or negative. We're vibrationally connected to the entire Universe and the more we become aware, the more connected we will become. Like individual thoughts in a giant brain, it makes sense that somebody's bad mood could affect your vibration and your perception of the world in a negative way. Universal vibration. Everything moves. Nothing is at rest. As above so below.

I mentioned the heart earlier and the fact that it contains its own type of neurons. Ever notice that we never say we "sense" Love? We say we "feel" Love, but we often don't act like it. Maybe, if we learn to "sense" Love with our hearts, we can start to reconnect. We've all heard the expression "Live, Laugh, and Love," but let's dig a little deeper into this statement. Living is pretty easy. We all know how to do that. Some better than others. We all know how to laugh, again, some more than others. Some of us can even make others laugh... that leaves Love. The beautiful beast. That Golden Ring made of mist that we are all reaching for, on this carousel called life, while forgetting one important thing...

"It's just a ride." (Hicks)

I asked a question to myself one day about 10 years ago. What is Love? Instead of looking for a definition in a dictionary I decided to put my pen to the paper to see what I came up with. By the time I finished and read it, I almost threw it away. Now, 10 years later, I'm glad I didn't, so I can share it with you. I'm going to put it in quotes because it is taken verbatim from the old notebook. Some of it is quite personal to me, so I've never thought of sharing this with anybody at all, especially on such a public scale...

* "I believe Love is a coalition of emotional states, moods and actions when the most comfortable parts coalesce with someone else's, that is Love. Gender has nothing to do with the mentally driven emotion of Love. We all experience Love. For music, food, people, animals, water, snakes, sight, sound, spaghetti, sunrises... etc. Everyday we spend so much energy on all these outside things yet sometimes we forget the most important thing of all. We need to Love ourselves first. once we learn to Love ourselves we can project it out into the world. I actually learned what that meant when I turned 24. I was tired of being depressed and self-loathing. I was done with putting all my emotion into the outside forces that I thought were holding me back in life. In fact, the only way those outside forces affected my life is the fact that I allow them to. I'm allowed fair weather friends take advantage of me. I let myself to get two DUIs before I was legally old enough to drink. I came to resent the only people that ever tried to help me. All this, I did because I was trying to put the blame on everyone else for my wrong doings and my mishaps. I forgot the most important fact in the entire equation. My stinking thinking! I realized that the only thing that affected my life was how I thought about it. I was lost entirely. Then I found a piece of myself. Astonishingly enough I realized that everything I've ever done points to the simple fact that we are all our own creators. Our own higher powers. As above so below. If we were made in the image of a higher power then we are born from that higher power with the same creative power. Power to create balance. Balance of the universe is evident in everything we observe. We exist in duality. You can't have motion without friction. You can't have sweet without sour either, but I do believe we can experience Love without hate. The the fact that we cannot define the dividing line of The Duality of consciousness is a further indication of the yin-yang symmetry of our universe." *

I think that if we taught ourselves to "sense" the Love that constantly surrounds us all, we would finally realize, that when we feel hate, it's because we're not "sensing" Love. I believe that Love is an undefinable, omnipresent frequency. One so powerful, that it just may hold our entire Universe together through its harmony. It could be an energy that defies our current understanding of physics. What if we have fallen out tune to Love's higher vibrational frequency? If Love could be proven to have a vibration, then in theory we could sense it. We could start learning to hone our sense of Love in our hearts and start spreading that beautifully radiant and harmonious vibration out to others. In doing so we could, as a collective consciousness, build up a positive vibration so strong, that it would outshine the dark negativity we see every day in the world. If we looked at Love as a sensory perception of harmony, instead of trying to define it as an emotion we can't understand, Love would be a little more common among us humans...

Now, that's what I call "A Common Sense."

@R.A. Stephen

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