Where do we turn when we find ourselves unable to deal with serious challenges in life? Most of life’s daily troubles are of our own making. Everybody has unpleasant tasks to complete in life. Life and death decisions must be made.
The human condition isn’t fair. We each must face serious disappointments and hardships in some form. Sickness, Poverty, Death of a loved one?
Most of humanity has come to perceive themselves as playing a role (or identified with our ego) and behave as though one’s consciousness exists in alternate realities.
Each of us devise our own ways of coping with loss and suffering. Many of us fall prey to substances. Drugs, alcohol, food; others of us find ourselves involved in codependent relationships, fetishes and sexual perversions, acting out publicly, extreme politics, social justice and on and on.
But trauma, attachments, displacement, unrequited love, preoccupations, ruminations. All of these negative emotions affect us psychologically, neurologically, and spiritually. They cause us to separate ourselves from our fellow man.
Some of us have chosen to withdraw into the unconscious chaos of substances. When we withdraw into isolation we are choosing a limited reality. We will just have to go on suffering until these lessons have been learned and actually put into practice. Theoretical psychology cannot heal addiction. If we want to explore the mechanics of recovery, we must explore and truly understand the mechanics of addiction itself.
At a certain point, the so called solution in which we have sought solace (the addictive behavior or substance) overtakes the psyche and renders it ‘unconscious’ to the True-Self. Just who is your True-Self?
And the False-Self is merely an illusory perspective; a shadow.on the mind. Self-Imposed dysfunctionality. Once we have self identified with the ego et al; it takes many hours on the psychological operating table.
We expect far too much from ourselves and others. We often forget that In an entire lifetime, a razor thin slice is all we can ever expect to comprehend of this world. A mere cross section of consciousness in an ever evolving continuum is all we can hope to glimpse of the wisdom of the ages.
Each of us suffers from egoic tendencies from time to time; in 21st century layman’s terms, we’ve got a security app stuck in reverse. The ego is really just a composite of random thoughts that have become out of order or “out of date”. Apps we used as children are no longer necessary to us. We’ve outgrown ourselves.
So why struggle to understand what we cannot ever presume to comprehend? Why continue to struggle with life’s petty problems?
Why continue to search far and wide for solutions, answers?
Who is the True Self? False Self?
(Stay Tuned for Part 2)
