hey y'all!
the following post was originally written, illustrated and published on x.com on august 29, 2024 by @AdamArchetype and is being shared here now with his permission
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"In March 2022 I had an experience that completely knocked me out of my normal sensory experience of life, and for a week I walked around as if I was totally stoned and also completely clear and alert.
I moved slower. My inner monologue almost entirely disappeared. My sensitivity to energy from people and places was dialed way up. My desire to drink left and never returned. Fiction and video games stopped being interesting to me.
And then, on the 7th day, it ended - “I came down from the mountain” - and the longer work of integration and exploration began. My mind simply could not grasp what had happened. All of me yearned to know and experience more.
I was cracked open, and it was beautiful, but load-bearing beliefs were knocked down without new support. And so this yearning turned into “research” and with it came new copes, misguided theories, ungrounded “insights,” and a general lack of discernment in a new reality.
And there’s certainly no shortage of pithy aphorisms on “spiritual social media” and surface-level teachings to make you feel like you have decent heuristics/tools of discernment. (side note: the aphorism may be one of the most dangerous isms!)
So how do we discern whether we are experiencing the desires of the soul and “messages” from spirit from the desires of the ego and chatter from mental noise, past wounds, or conditioned behavior? The signal from the noise?
This is a question I continuously bumped up against in my integration work and in my exploration of brand-new vistas that came into view after the experience, which was previously occluded by conditioned programming and Christian doctrine.
And it’s a question I recently discussed with @intrepidbodies and @nobohojimichaan-- two modern mystics I’ve learned a lot from in #thebroom. What strikes me about those conversations is just how subtle the subtle realm is.
When we talk about these things we are speaking especially of inner, felt realities; their outward, externalized manifestations may not be ones that others can easily “see” or comprehend, let alone believe or validate. Often our logical aspects of mind cannot either.
Because of this, I appreciate how Nobu and Hoda in those discussions (and others), stay rooted in speaking of their own experiences, and how these experiences feel in their bodies. It’s a powerful way to show what it can look like without universalizing these experiences.
Secondly, I appreciate how they spoke of the ways their attunement to soul desires and spirit messages didn’t always lead to so-called “positive” material outcomes - but had always led them to release karma and shed programming.
Thirdly, I appreciate the way they speak of the body as our medium for these soul and spirit channels of information. Learning how the body says yes and no, and how these processes feel in our bodies, is the gateway to greater awareness and intuitive faculty."
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take care,
@_mothersofthenight