Living with Open Hands (2.0) (My Philosophical Evolution)

(2.0) version is my inner work of systematic deconstruction, deconversion, uprooting, and dredging up a lifetime of deep-seated conditioning, ingrained beliefs, and embedded dogma, much of which is unconscious; discerning trash from treasures and thoughtfully reconstructing a world and life view that reflects the shape of my heart. As I go deeper and beyond, answers fade into questions, certainty into uncertainty, knowing into unknowing.

Obsurdity > Insurgency > Meaning

Here are 7 ways you can make most of your present from the philosophy of Albert Camus

01. Have a motivation for living

02. Be yourself at all times

03. Live intensively

04. Live like a rebel

05. Focus on practical things

06. Accept the unpredictability of life

07. Find happiness in every phase of your life

We have three authentic responses to the meaningless of the universe

Suicide - physical escape - death

Faith - mental escape - philosophical suicide

Rebelion - live in freedom - in constant rebellion against absurdism; against the status quo, the established order, and all of this world's expectations of conformity.

The human tragedy: our great innate desire and drive for meaning in juxtaposition with the stark, dark, cold, silence of the universe.

I finally had to admit that the god I created and worshiped has two verifiable attributes: silence and invisibility. This very SILENCE AND INVISIBILITY screams across the universe into the collective human face as the only "answer" we will receive to the human outcry for meaning and purpose.

We must create our own meaning.

Shall I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

We must discover or create our own meaning, our motivation for living. (freedom and meaning)
Be yourself at all times. "Man is the only creature that refuses to be as he is." We must rebel against the norms and patterns of this world.
Live intensively. "Live to the point of tears." In direct rebellion against the meaningless of the universe. We must stand and fight for issues and causes that are greater than me.
Live like a rebel. "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." We must never take for granted the freedom we have. It was gained by our ancestors fighting for it. "Free people must live in a permanent state of revolution." If they are not, if they are losing sight of that revolutionary state, they'll start building up walls and prisons around them. "There is nothing more despicable than respect based on fear."
Focus on practical things. "I only have a little time left. I don't want to waste it on god."
Accept the unpredictability of life. "You can't create experience, you undergo it."
Find happiness in every phase of your life. "Autumn is the second spring when every leaf is a flower." Life does not distinguish between those who pursue a bad path and those that pursue a good path. Life is equally cruel to the innocent and to the criminal. No matter how moral we are, how worthy we are, life will carry us all toward destruction and death.

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The exhaustion and heartbreak of the innerwork of deconstruction and deconversion

The process of progress toward integrity is very difficult inner work. Each word I write is full of heartbreak and freedom, sorrow and joy.

I didn't choose this path. It chose me and would not let go. I was content being who I was and who I was raised to be. But the cognitive dissonance and dis-integrity (disintegration) would not let me just be me.

This evolution of thought and belief was a painful revolution that would not leave me be. It was a quiet insurgency of the new over the old, reality over illusion, freedom over dogma, truth over conditioning; a lifelong process.

Living with Open Hands

Going deeper, piercing the facade, discerning and letting go of dogma, assumptions, and conditioning.

Discover the truth wherever it may be found.

Refine the truth within through the fire of discernment.

Follow the truth wherever it may take you.

Remember what you already know.

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?" (Rumi)

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” (Rumi)

"I asked myself, 'What is the myth you are living?' and found that I did not know. So... I took it upon myself to get to know my myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks... I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me." (Carl Jung)

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life,
and you will call it fate.”
(Carl Jung)

Disclaimer

I have NO interest in convincing others to think in any certain way. Anything I post is simply something to think about. Everything I post is continually progressing and evolving so expect nothing to be static and all to dynamic. So don’t hold me to it. Just take it or leave it. But…

I AM interested in these three things:

1) That we all think and do what we know down deep is the right thing

2) That we all honor and respect that in others

3) That we all seek to understand more than to be understood.

Living with Open Hands (2.0) (My Philosophical Evolution)

Obsurdity > Insurgency > Meaning

Here are 7 ways you can make most of your present from the philosophy of Albert Camus

Shall I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

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