Spending time interacting with a variety of different people from very different groups has it’s unique medicine. Especially if you’re equipped at dealing with difficult personalities. Aside from the gift of understanding there also comes an increased capacity for compassion.
Social bonding increases oxytocin levels. This phenomenon births two theories. One is the idea that an increased feeling of love for those within your social group will cause you to circumvent forms of logic and reason when confronted with in-group ideology and dynamics.
The other is more common, it’s the understanding that an increase in oxytocin levels caused by social bonding will increase group cohesion and benefit the success of the group towards any goal or endeavour. Whether that be for simple tasks such as growing food together or for the benefits of abundance creation through networking.
I recently listened to a podcast Liber Ohio did with “The Occult Rejects”, and it became very clear earlier on in the podcast that their desire to find in-group status led them to abandon their personal intuition and logic.
It was also driven by their potential for learning about some of life’s hidden knowledge, a sense of belonging to something greater than themselves is a universal desire. What allowed them to come back into themselves was their desire to know the truth.
I came up with a saying to capture a growing need in society, “dismiss the middle man between you and truth”. The more I follow my intuition and look into things for myself the more I discover that things are most often not what they appear to be.
We are human’s aware of ourselves and with that comes lots of questions and the desire to experience something extra-ordinary. Also simply feeling understood by our peers satisfies not only our sense of belonging but it equally provides us with a sense of identity.
Can we truly gain a strong sense of identity by following the dictates of another, or group think?
Identity comes when we’re able to strip ourselves down of all the false identities we’re enmeshed in. When we can work through the layers of societal conditioning, the shadows of the anima/animus, past life archetypal energies and identities, collective archetypal energies and egregores. When we can make it past all of these without losing ourselves we can then begin to tap into that pure gold of consciousness that lay at the centre of our existence to begin creating from a place of wisdom.
Recently a client ask me about my personal views on some of life’s existential questions. Although I’ve had many mystical experiences providing various insights into the nature of reality I rarely share them with people. I think what we create with those insights to be more interesting and of greater value. How those beliefs shape our lives and how they expose themselves through our relationships more telling of what they are actually made of.
I have understood that the magic and meaning we experience in life is predominately subjective. There’s an inner freedom in following our soul’s path and unraveling all those layers of conscious and unconscious etheric energies we’re wrapped up in.
All the intuitive hints and visual stories that only we can see, get lost in, be blinded by and ultimately transcend are what allow us to nudge towards timeless truths and cosmic understandings. I’ve said it before and will say it again and again, “Truth is very simple, humans on the other hand are very complex”.
Everyone ought to know the freedom of experiencing that magic for themselves. To expect another to be able to give that to you or to imagine that you can simply study it and come to some arrival point is not realistic.
We can adopt methods of developing our vision, enhancing our experiences and ways of opening the doors to the subconscious mind. Allowing us to do the shadow work and navigate through the many grids of consciousness and mystical realms but to believe your path will look anything like another’s is to believe you are less than a unique soul.
Most of my studies of other people have guided me away from what was already present to be experienced within myself. Studying various magical systems or systems of gnosis have provided me with a deeper understanding of what was already present in my blood and bones. A form of confirmation to the energies I had already collected on my soul’s journey throughout the eons.
I eventually read about spiritual rites and initiations that I had intuitively embarked on due to my family lineage and past life experiences. Some of them subconsciously adopted from society. Some of them I was unsuspectingly thrown into due to the hidden intentions of those around me.
Honouring both our soul path and the ideologies of our tribe is sometimes not possible. When you are free, you question, you evolve, you make choices rooted in your value system, based on your continual soul growth evolution. I suppose that is why the only thing constant is change, death and rebirth the natural cycle of all living things.
Finding a tribe that you can trust requires many things. The first is knowing yourself and being firmly rooted in your values. Finding people who not only share a similar language of vision but who also share a similar consciousness. A similar way of experiencing the world. This part is very important and will eliminate many useless conflicts as the group evolves and attempts to produce something together.
You can’t just choose an identity and then find a tribe that emanates those ideologies. It’s not so easy to find a tribe to grow with when you’re in the middle of a healing crisis, an awakening or a major life transformation.
During those states you are transitioning and transitory. The path is often lonely. To trust another you have to trust yourself. To trust yourself you have to heal and come to love yourself. To heal and love yourself you have to go through the steps of peeling back all the layers of identity that were never you to begin with. This is to come to know thyself.
Finding your tribe has to be real because you are not who you think you are, you are that frequency which you are resonating at.
Truth as a path way to inner freedom means being ok with letting things fall away that don’t have firm roots, that your intuition guides you away from. When truth leads the way, freedom comes at a cost but never at the cost of your values. Unless your values are based in lies, greed, abuse, manipulation, violence and coercion. In which case let it crumble, ditch the oxytocin and keep on evolving towards inner freedom.
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