This is a quote from fight club.
A movie so prophetic that I get concerned every time I watch it.
Concerned because I don’t know if a movie can predict future events, or if the movie
itself can become the catalyst for the emergence of those events.
Modern societies seem unable to offer the level of meaning demanded by our complicated nature.
We seek and we find and we seek again and we find again.
In the end, we rarely discover answers that can truly satisfy our curiosity.
The next question is bigger than the last one and the lack of proper explanations creates
an intellectual and spiritual void.
This void becomes an extension of our persona and manifests itself in behaviors that connote
moral relativism and a deep anger towards our creator.
The more dissatisfaction we experience, the more the void grows bigger. It grows bigger
until it transforms into a merciless pit that will swallow us all.
The dawn of consciousness was either a mistake or a gift.
No one can really tell.
It was a gift because we are now able to be in absolute control of our world.
It was a mistake because we have no idea why we do what we do.
The aimless pursuit of goals, dreams, and visions can keep one alive, but it doesn’t
necessarily make this life pleasurable.
At the end of the day, every self-aware person realizes that our war is spiritual
and that our depression is our lives.
Through spiritual practices we can reframe the context of the lives we decide to lead
and eventually ameliorate our experience.
All the maladies infringed upon us exist more in our heads than in reality.
Erroneous thinking and erratic behaviors that are constantly showcased in mainstream media
and are consequently adopted by social agents, are nothing more than a distraction.
Heterodox approaches can act as a life jacket within a spiritually dry landscape.
Whilst in a spiritual mode, you can more closely examine the melody of the cosmos, the sparkling
allegories of nature, the big-ass truths of the human condition wrapped in the hard shell
of nonsensical abstraction – themes that flow through the air with the greatest of ease.
Outside of that state you are just deaf and lost in the ubiquitous noise of everyday drivel.
When you succeed in silencing the noise and allowing the signal to pass through, the cosmos
can reveal all its secrets.
All the nuances of every element that might seem insignificant throughout the conventional
narrative ceases its insignificance and it morphs into pure cosmic energy.
You close your eyes and you just listen and feel.
The darkness starts to take shape and weird patterns slowly emerge.
What you experience doesn’t make sense.
Your capacity to understand is based solely on intuition.
This is how you connect with the unknown.
The chaotic nature of the cosmos seems so seductive and inviting that you can’t resist.
It is this state that you have been seeking for so long.
Its essence sounds like poetry to your callow ears.
You lack knowledge but your intuition seems enough.
You try to understand.
Where are you?
What’s your purpose?
What is this?
To which the cosmos replies “it is you.”
It is a response so simple yet so profound that it has completely painted over the canvas
of your mental imagery.
You are the anthropomorphic manifestation of the cosmos expressing itself in a poetic way.