It's a little something between cynical and chronically overzealous, but, all things considered, it's a good place to be.
You see the signs everywhere if you're looking for them. As technology improves, so does its grip on your entire being, whether you like it or not.
If you're an ascetic, this doesn't matter to you since you don't use technology, but I'd be willing to bet you ALL OF MY BITCOIN that you're not...
So if you're willing to take that bet, you're welcome to send at least 0.2 BTC to this address: 3AgSvW4eGwFdHQKUzK8uCMdbwt6qPhrFnV.
You won't get anything back for doing it, but I would forever know you as a really good sport.
I was encouraged to write about something esoteric-ish by ACLcrptpnk (you should check him out because he does this way better than I do), and I thought that would be a welcome change from my more recent blog entries that are mostly about some of the dumb things I've done with my time and money.
I know what you're thinking:
"This guy isn't esoteric; he's been blogging about cryptocurrency."
And you're not completely wrong, but at one point in my life I wrote this song:
... And it's the only one that I can still reliably sing by heart. The next song I wrote is called Chaldea and that one is pretty good, too. I consider it to be one of the greatest achievements in my sorry life.
... Emphasis on one of, but yeah...
... Since I've been away from esoteric stuff for a while (having a family kind of kills the vibe), the only thing I can really do right now is a meta-analysis of the things that my brain has been digesting for all this time. It's been almost a decade since I began the Fool's journey, but a few years since I've made any real progress (in fact, getting into crypto seems like it sent me back to zero). Either way, I have had a lot of time to think about it.
It's interesting that I started a one-sentence draft entitled "The Fool" that's dated one week ago, just before I noticed some like-minded individuals emerge on this platform. Little coincidences like these are what keep me from falling all the way back down into the atheist mindset. They could totally be coincidences, but life would be way too boring that way 😉
Even so, I've gathered from many readings and musings that many to most of the 'ancient secrets' that us mystic people are endlessly searching for are actually fairly common knowledge now.
Think about it.
Even if ancient Atlanteans or whatever were riding around in airships and meditating in crystal pyramids... So are we.
Society is different now. Many students have to be familiar with what a semiconductor is in high school. We learn things in primary school that early scientists and philosophers like Plato spent much of their lives being incorrect about (referring specifically to the elements of nature). The engineers that designed the cloud-field device in your pocket are magicians. You might not know how the wireless computer works, but you don't call it magic because you know that someone else does know how it works.
If you don't know the difference between a transistor and a resistor, maybe you do know how to follow celestial objects in the sky, whether it's because you've been watching them for a long time or because someone else taught you.
The Gods of old, wherever you believe they came from, were gods because they knew things that most humans at the time did not. It wouldn't necessarily surprise me if they came from another planet or star system, but they could just as easily have learned everything they knew from trial and error over generations of life in the mountains. Either way, it just so happens that many of the things they knew were crucial to the survival of the human race.
The first part of the Book of Enoch tells us about the 'watchers'. It's really good; you should definitely read it if you're interested and you haven't yet. Unfortunately I still haven't finished this one because the time I finally got around to starting it was also around time that crypto started eating my life.
Anyway, though, I've kind of summarized a good bit of what we can take from the beginning... Humans in the past did not -- and were not expected to -- know nearly as much stuff as we are today.
One of the ancient secrets, for example, is how roots work. Naturally, if you know how to grow and care for plants, you are at a huge advantage because you can nourish and heal yourself and others. If you know how to move and propagate them, you have a livelihood... Or at least you did when you couldn't just watch a YouTube video to learn about it...
Skepticism in our age has prevailed, and, honestly, that could very well be good for us; that's the reason you haven't sent Elon Musk one bitcoin and expected to get two in return, after all... But the extent to which it has prevailed is also toxic. That is, the fact that many people automatically consider a 'psychic' a quack, but not the random person that's offering to double their ADA, is also wrong. Automatically considering both of them to be scams may end up being healthy, but for the wrong reasons... And according to some qigong theory, a chronic distrust of everything might be harming your spleen. Why is that, you ask? Well... I don't know, but whether it really works that way or not, thinking about it is mental alchemy.
So flex those neurons, friends! Question everything, but don't focus on trying to prove anyone wrong. Instead, focus on finding out what is right, and the world will be your proverbial oyster.
I can't think of anything else that would make this better right now, so I'm not going to try :]
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