Portals into the Universe
Looking inside the innocence
Every edition is a portal into my mind. The name is so innocent and unassuming.
A bagel never offended anyone like a curry or a meatloaf did. And yet a bagel has the power to change your life.
The Sunday Scaries have the same brand of anxiety that the end of summer does.
As you get older, you will have the same feeling and wonder how much time is left to spin around in infinite space with your friends and family.
Be gone with the scarcity for it serves you nothing. The same scarcity that the news feeds on with you. The feeling that your sense of security is continually slipping away.
News flash: You never had any security to begin with. At any moment if someone wants to attack you on the street, they can.
And that’s not even addressing the Great Instability that we operate in.
A rock covered in water for which we have no idea why it was created, is spinning around Dr. Evil’s hot magma alongside other rocks.
And this pattern of a star with planets rotating around it is replicated all around the night sky. You see a star but you have no clue what’s going on in that solar system.
And the kicker: we create an identity out of the drama that we see here on this rock.
The news and the pressing issues become a part of us. At some point, they are so closely bonded you can’t even separate a person from their politics.
Try as you might with therapy and psychedelics to wash the imprints off, only when the patient understands the Great Instability will they start to detach from this mode of living.
I have shared these ideas with people before who stare at me like they’re talking to someone behind me.
And I don’t have any shame in this. I’m halfway through the predicted lifespan of an evolved ape that has access to healthcare, I’m not lowering the standards that my thoughts operate at to appease other people and fit their worldview.
What you are and what you aren’t
You are not the drama that you see on TV.
You did not start the wars that you watch all day, nor will you be the person to end them.
You are not the pain that is embedded in your cells from generational trauma.
You are merely a byproduct of all these events, and as a byproduct, all you can do is bear witness to the ridiculousness of it all.
The witness gets to choose: Will they continue the struggle, or will they learn from these mistakes and evolve?
What values will you encode in your genes and help others encode along the way?
Every day is a chance to encode new behaviours and skills that you want to live by. And every week is a chance to model those traits for others around you.
Sundays are scary but when you can tap into your inner source, the motivations that turn you on, there is nothing to be afraid about.
🎶 Show Clips: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 🎶
Wonderful outdoor show in Toronto this past week. Here are some of my clips:
Thanks for reading today, have a great week ahead 🧡🥯🧡
Elliott