Burning Status
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September 17th, 2021
What are these journals not about?
They are not about me discovering objective truth. I am not playing that game. Here is the game I am interested in playing instead: allow the spirit of truth, or daemon, to channel through me, to see what emerges.
Sure, a prerequisite for this is being truthful, and to be truthful I need to map my words to what I believe to be true. What I believe to be true might not be true though. It’s possible I will not speak the truth when I am being truthful. That is above my paygrade to know for sure.
I am definitely not in the business of instrumentalizing the spirit of truth to arrive at truth. I cannot do that anyway, as the spirit would leave me, and I do not seem capable of being guided by anything else anymore.
Sensitivity to context, or to what is transcontextual—the confluence of contexts—is important. Speaking truth can lead to being dismissed, cancelled, scapegoated, and maybe even killed. It may be wise for me to speak truth that could bring these things about. It may also be foolish. That depends on the contexts in play.
I have some status and I will probably get more. I can burn this status. It might be wise for me to burn it. The spirit of truth does not give a fuck about my status and may want it to burn one day. Maybe it will never burn, but I must be prepared for it to burn. Those who are going to make it through the eye of the needle will need to be prepared for this. I do want it to burn at a good moment. A beautiful moment. A moment that will cause a fire that spreads through the hearts and minds within my reach.
Cultivating a sense of when to burn status is a good thing to have. In the meantime, mimicry may be needed for those who allow the spirit to speak through them. Mimicry is a valid survival strategy and there is nothing inherently cowardly about it. I do not want to be in a situation where I only want to survive though, because that will make me a coward. Living only for survival is coward-making and cowards do not experience a sense of aliveness.
I feel alive when the spirit is here. I do not think I can live without the spirit these days. I tried before and gradually shriveled up like a lifeless raisin. I was sluggish, foggy, indulgent, and yeah, cowardly. That life was not worth living.
So, what are these journals about then? They are basically self-advice, and here are three pieces of advice I would like to give my self …
Do not live to stay alive, live to come alive.
Cowards do not experience aliveness, only the courageous do.
Be courageous when the time comes to burn your status.
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