Asymmetric Warfare

Sometimes we get into such ruts in our lives that the Universe essentially gives up on trying to pound you in the face with its blatant attempts at making you realize what you need to do, what you need to change and switches its strategy up. There’s only so long that the Universe will continue to tell you something, have people and situations tell you what you know you need to know, but refuse, before it will modify its tactics and employ asymmetric warfare against your stubbornness.

When the Universe changes tactics to asymmetric warfare against your defenses which need to be broken down it attacks certain strategic points in your psyche at strategically vulnerable times. All to get you to the point where your defenses are finally broken so that you surrender to what you should be doing.

Let yourself be tackled finally so that you can reconvene in a new formation at the line of scrimmage and try a new play. Your defenses have been broken. You have to say uncle. Then and only then can you really start over for real.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. – Alan Watts

The Universe will attempt to breach your defenses at strategic points in your psyche instead of the head on waves of messages that it had previously sent. You already know what you need to do. It will send emissaries who will explain the terms of surrender and describe more explicitly what you need to work on once you finally raise the white flag.

You need to work on yourself. You need to better yourself. You must employ the modes of self-improvement – resources for which abound plentifully in this age of the internet – that deep down you’ve known that are necessary for you to move further. The sooner you respond to these attacks and pleas, the better able you are to assuage your pain and mitigate your losses.

Experience is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, and only then provides the lesson. – Vernon Law

Vigilance is the root of resilience. You can make it through these rough spots. You’ve possibly been in worse and made it out alive, but even if not, you do indeed have the wherewithal inside of you to make it through even if you’re completely alone in doing so. There are resources both internally and external to you to draw from.

You must cool down the obsessive thoughts and give up on negativity. When you’re in a serious mood it is easy to allow obsessive thinking and whereas emotions should not be repressed, they should also not be allowed to run the whole show.

Who said, “The mind is like a puppy. If you don’t train it, it will shit everywhere”? Well, it’s a bit true in the sense that, left untethered, the mind will take the inertia of negative thoughts and run amok throughout your whole system. It will affect your emotions, your focus, your relationships with others, your view of yourself, your view of what you know yourself to be capable of, your sleep, your overall physical body, and eventually, your humanity and the inherent will to live and persevere that exists in us all.

The easiest way to reverse this descent into negativity and ultimately madness is to simply give up. Give up to the forces both inside you – which desperately yearn for your survival and thriving – and that part of the Universe that wants the best for you that are attempting to get through to you information which you don’t want to process, but you know is right.

Experience is what you get when you get what you didn’t want. – Howard Marks

It’s all up to you. Say this to yourself because it really is. Any lasting change is going to have to come from you for you. We’ll skip the Hallmark card aisle palaver about loving yourself. No one needs to have their intelligence insulted any further with that as it doesn’t target the individual challenges that need to be met head on.

This is why we need to evaluate what obstacles need to be removed, which goals need to be striven for and the challenges that need to be overcome. You will need to craft self-discipline through showing compassion for your future self.

It might not be pleasant in the near-term, but you will feel gratitude in the future to yourself and your past self for it. As is said, self-improvement is the ultimate form of prepayment. Avoid Zero Days, i.e., do not go a single day without doing something to further your own goals; no days without doing something to get you closer to your Endgame.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. – Zadie Smith

Are your desires in line with your intention and vice versa? What does your ideal day look like? Is it really sipping mimosas on a beach? Or is it coming home to a house you love filled with a family you love after spending a day working on a project you love?

What fills you with passion? What is an outlet that expresses what makes you jump out of bed in the morning before the alarm even goes off? What was it that excited you to the point where you weren’t even aware of how tired you should have been or made you forget to eat?

Neurons that fire together, wire together, [the] process of imagining the future outcomes creates new neural networks in your brain that help you form new beliefs, take new actions, and adopt new perspectives – Melody Wilding

In terms of causation, it may be not so much of your present pushing you toward your intention, but rather your future pulling you towards it. For this reason, it is imperative that you are clear about your intention.

Employ second-order thinking to mitigate unforeseen and unwanted side affects or blowback from unclear or unwise intent. Getting specific about the future you want to create will help you craft a stronger mental picture. Be specific about the future you wish to make.

Use visualization to explore this future and clarify your desires for it. This will give you a stronger concept of what you truly desire for your future Endgame.

Everything goes backwards in time to conspire in just such a way that the future you intend for occurs. – Dean Radin

Develop a campaign, an overall strategy with this subsequent Endgame. Imagine ahead to what you want as your Endgame then reason backward as to what constitutes what would have to happen to achieve that. This will give you a better strategy to employ what you need to do in order to achieve your desired results.

Make sure that your desires are in line with your intent and that your intent is in line with your true desires. The clearer you are about what you want, the easier it is for the universe to do its job for you. Visualize what that desired future outcome looks like.

Remember that on the one hand, effective visualization is grounded in reality, but on the other do not let limitations such as your own present situation – however undesirable – dictate where you want to end up.

When we are fearful, we tighten our grip, hoping for more control of the chaos. Our grip strangles reality so tightly that nothing can change. When we are calm and expectant, we loosen our grip on reality. Strangely enough, the more we loosen our grip, reality gets loose and changeable. When we stop trying to force things to happen, they happen.– Adam Blackthorne

Adjust your preferred outcomes as reality changes. Be careful not to allow clouding in your view of reality. Be mindful and intellectually honest enough with yourself to allow this to be visible. Take your ego out of your line of sight. The better you understand a problem, the better you can choose actions which would embody a proper response.

Identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly. – Susan Cain

Remember that manifestation must have a pathway. You must find what is required in order to achieve your results. You may need to expand your palette in order to paint the picture in reality that you see in your mind.

Also remember to show gratitude. Be grateful for everything that you do have. Be grateful for what remains and grateful for what you will become and achieve and acquire. Be grateful for things that are no longer in your life that could have caused even more harm.

In showing gratitude, you inherently change your mindset. Your mental picture of both the world in general, your immediate surroundings and your own self will get brighter. Your outlook will indeed change because you are focusing on the positives that exist and are going to exist as opposed to the negatives that may exist presently and that you fear will occur. Your capacity for optimism increases whilst pessimism decreases.

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. —Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Playfulness

Keeping a sort of 'playfulness' in terms of attempting imagination and creativity allows one to avoid the rigidity and closedness of mind that so often occurs in times of panic and whilst one is under stress. This allows one to possibly see solutions to problems that, otherwise, one would not consider due to previous conditioning brought on by 'cognitive conformity', which can be defined as the type of thinking that becomes the normal mode for individuals as they are taught by authority figures throughout their formative years for reasons (usually unknowingly so) of developing a conformist thought process and, hence, overall view of the world.
This includes the entirety of concepts that one is told to not bother entertaining for whatever variety of reasons and the concepts one learns to not bother entertaining later on.
In an increasingly complex world, the need for the ability to deal with new and novel issues requires creative and unique solutions.

Sometimes It Rains In San Francisco

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick.

This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

• Terrance McKenna

Integrative values allowing for a constellation of possibilities previously not available due to tunnel realities informed by consensus reality – monoculture. Breaking out of these parameters placed on certain modalities of thought allows for the possibility to shed new light on an entire array of new aspects with regards to understanding – it opens the world of revelatory insights. It opens the mind at first and further along may open the conscious mind to working purposefully with the subconscious mind further allowing for coordinating in its way with the Collective Unconscious – the Universe – which may bring forth manifestation of the Will.

Especially once one can move past Sacredness and the polarities inherent in both belonging to and desiring to be part of groups. Groups inherently drive members to polarities and work against depolarization. The feed the Ego. Also, by providing a prefabricated system of conceptualizing around a certain number of topics, it allows members to take on certain beliefs (which of course can inform behavior) without having to figure things out on their own. I.e., allowing for intellectual laziness. It thusly reinforces less thinking and lesser quality thinking at that. Additionally, groups which focus on negativity against those outside it typify behavior that engenders a culture of discord. Being disinclusive.

Recognizing how seemingly disparate concepts may actually compliment one another opens up a whole new world.

There are those of us on the path. The path that implies an incredibly strong desire for a deeper understanding of reality as it actually is. It seems inherent in this that a large amount of claims by those who mold consensus reality are dubious at best. As information regarding what may actually be the (bizarre) reality as it really is becomes more and more available (and those of us on the path are often adamant in finding it regardless of its apparent availability), the number of possibilities to explore multiplies.

Whether it be pet interests in indy music, parapolitics, pseudo/alternative history or quantum physics, the urge to delve deeper still is always there. The ideas of fringe thinkers take on new importance. The experiments of artists and alchemists alike hold heretofore overlooked import. As the research mounts, context for all of this increases and hence also does the understanding thereof. Articles, experiences, interactions, travels all hold a new, exciting, magical, pregnant meaning. An interests in the Fortean, the philosophical, the psychological, the mysterious – matters of consciousness – is at that point nigh inevitable. Terms like pseudoscience and fantastical hold meanings different to one at this juncture. They understand how certain terminology is employed to deter those who have been successfully reprogrammed on a subconscious level by those with a stake in the herd thinking in such terms, in such ways. Twilight language.

“In a sense, it’s no surprise that synchromysticism has links to conspiracy theory, psychedelics and occult traditions because all three are methods to deprogram oneself from cultural conditioning, a means to connect a diverse range of information and ideas, as well as a way to see the world from a more open perspective. It’s an alchemical technique to create meaning out of the chaos of current events and seemingly vapid commercial detritus that bombards us on a daily basis, and to add new layers of meaning to more enduring and celebrated works of art.”

• http://occulture64.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/synchromysticism/

We subconsciously react to certain words and symbols differently than our conscious mind does. It is all dependent upon our imprints and our personal narrative – how we’ve been programmed to think about and react to certain things. Our unawareness to those things makes us vulnerable to being affected in unseen, unknown ways to our encounters with them in day to day interactions.

Our subconsciouses are our way to communicate with the Universe on a direct level, but they are also what directs our thoughts and behaviors at root. Understanding this revelation is only the first step, After this, we must look at how to identify and modify what the hell exactly it is that our subconscious is doing and how it is programmed and how this programming is affecting us.

Integrative values being the depolarization of the mind and the psyche. The alchemical marriage of the left and right brain; of anima and animus. It is whole brain thinking. It is what neuroplasticity informs us of. It allows for full understanding.

…tears always have deeper roots than smiles.

• E.M. Cioran

Stoicism should be viewed as a tool to be employed to reel in your emotions before they overtake you. Not as a way of life which inevitably takes away your humanity.

Interpretations are exploratory.

Models are explanatory.

Macro-enchantment to get things going and the micro-enchantment for the specific things to go right (the way you want them to) as opportunities arise. Ride the chaos. Learn to surrender when needed, to fail better, to know how and when to collapse and also to be proactive and say yes and know when to say fuck it.

An interesting life requires fortitude and wisdom; the ability to ride the waves of chaos in the ocean that is the direction the Universe moves you. Magic is your rigging, but the Universe provides the winds and you can’t predict the direction the winds will blow from. You can adjust your sail, but your port-of-call is up to the Universe, unless you sail past into the inevitable storm.

It is difficult to tell sometimes where one should be or be headed though. It is imperative to stave off negative energy. Not only to ward it off, but to ensure it isn’t allowed to stay inside oneself. Cleansing rituals and meditation can definitely help, but mindfulness is also necessary to keep an eye on where you are.

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

• Ann Rule

Chanting as a way of reprogramming the subconscious in similar ways that sigilizing turns an intention of the Will into a symbol thus transferring it from Consciousness to Subconsciousness, so that the Subconscious can then get to work on manifesting the Intention. According to my current model/chosen interpretation, the Conscious self once it wills something (most often using intellect or desire), then has to ‘translate’ this intention into something the Subconscious can be reprogrammed to manifest, which once accomplished, can then ‘communicate’ with the Universe, the Collective Unconscious, thus changing the probability that the Universe will set a course of events to bring about this change – i.e., to manifest this change in our perceived reality (on a conscious level). This is working on the assumption that the Subconscious understands a symbol-language instead of a word-based language. Hence, the possible effectiveness of chanting something to the point where it no longer holds meaning – where the words cease to hold their original meaning, where they become mere vibrations and repetitions of intent on a conceptual level instead of being thought upon as the meanings of their words with each utterance. I believe this also plays a part into why chanting in a language which one does not know helps the Subconscious overcome this – instead it has the meaning – the symbolic meaning – of the chanted words, the sounds, the syllables transferred to it. Possibly in this way, it can ‘understand’ the true intent better than it could by means of a word-based language (implying that that would require a different set of translation). Given, word-based languages in their written form are themselves symbol sets, I’m not quite sure where I stand on this issue. Quite frankly, if it works who cares? But on a level of thinking that I find comfortable, I still find it somewhat necessary to parse and pursue such questions.

Conscious intent > Subconscious reprogramming > Universe changing the winds of chaos in accordance > greater probability of manifestation in the plane we exist on.

This explains why a means of manifestation is important. Why if your intention can only be manifested in the dreamworld or the astral plane, then that is where your intention will most likely manifest. If there is a means of manifestation in the waking world, then you still should be doing everything you consciously can to work toward this goal without relying on the admittedly absurd belief that magic will do everything for you.

It is looking like it is going to be quite an undertaking to understand all the systems I want to in order that I may understand as fully as possible the overall overlapping concepts. Ie, practical magic, alchemy, tarot, astrology, psychology, western philosophy, eastern mystic schools, kabbalah, numerology, meditation and visualization techniques. etc. There are so many overlaps between them all. Underlying, seems to be the 7 Hermetic Principles. The Conscious, Subconscious and Collective Unconscious. As above, so below. So without, so within. Macro/microcosm. The Will and intention of the conscious translating into a symbolic ‘language’ that the Subconscious can work with as it conveys this intention to the machinations of the Collective Unconscious to manifest change via manipulating the probabilities of occurrences in the chaos of the Universe.

Thus we arrive at the sobering conclusion that although this universe contains enough Chaos to allow magic it doesn’t contain enough to permit gross miracles in a hurry.

The magician will need to target events which depend on very small energy or entropy changes and the results won’t often look much like spectacular parapsychology, they will look more like a series of events going somewhat improbably in the desired direction.

• Peter J Carroll

Asymmetrical warfare insofar as the universe stopping with symmetrical warfare in terms of breaking you down with people telling you the same thing over and over even when you know they might be right. When the universe changes tactics to asymmetrical warfare against your defenses which need to be broken down and attacks certain strategic points in your psyche at strategically vulnerable times. All to get you to the point where your defenses are finally broken so that you surrender to what you should be doing. Let yourself be tackled finally so that you can line up at the line of scrimmage again and try a new play. Your defenses have to be broken. You have to say uncle. Then and only then can you really start over for real.

The idea of choosing to surrender allowing for a kind of controlled demolition.

Lust for results is pointless. Realizing that it doesn’t matter either way and just stop looking. Again. Give up the wild goose chases so that you don’t miss the pheasant…or the chicken on sale at the grocery store.

Preference falsification.

The halo and horns effect in regards to how our friends and also how we view certain cultures. Also how our experience with and immersion in certain relationships, situations and cultures affect our confirmation biases from moment to moment.

Conglomerating Concepts

Abraxis. Sublimating Sol et Luna. Yin and Yang. Full understanding / awareness of the self. This leads to the possibility of changing what you desire to change; to integrate as you see fit.

Of course, before you begin to change and integrate, the highest degree of wisdom and knowledge is preferable so that you may change and integrate in the optimal way. Information gathering is crucial for this, but so is the ability to integrate said information in a useful and lucid manner. Clarity of mind allows you to have the requisite mental resources available to apply to both the gathering and integrating of information. This 'integration' involves the analysis of information being received both in terms of itself as newly received meme and in the context of its relationships with all the other concepts which are part of your personal ideosphere. This pondering over new and old concepts will lend to some form of integration even as it may disintegrate previously extant memeplexes in your mind. To do this well, you must be intellectually honest, at least with yourself. Your ego will destroy you if you let it. Whereas I am presently unsure about the theories surrounding the 'self', I currently view it as a desired state of optimally conscious evolution, the fully transmuted alchemist of the mind, if not the body as well.

In the realm of terra mensa one may find both previously visible and occulted 'demons'; those detrimental aspects of one's psyche which if left to 'themselves' will continue to negatively affect the individual's life through their arising in given situations. In other words, the metaprograms that steer one's behavior and thought processes may be redirected for positive, preferable results as opposed to harming the individual. There are multiple mehtods to employ in the achieving / achievement of mental clarity most are successful, or more successful when exercised in tandem with one another. These may include, but are not limited to, different forms of yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy, NLP, and physical exercise.

Once one gains the ability to clear the conscious mind of the constant mental banter which keeps the mind from true, effectively focus then the task of self-analysis is made simpler, though not necessarily easier at all. The ability to clearly focus on all necessary aspects of oneself is a must if one wishes to attain anything near a fully developed self in preparation of the realization of the desired outcomes of the self as opposed to the short-term, puerile desires of the self. The previously mentioned gathering of information is so important for this.

Proper Resilience and False Equifinality

Here's something old that I thought I had posted, but apparently had not.

I define proper resilience as employing the capability to cope effectively with certain situations that individuals may be conditioned to view as being non-preferential to their individual system by understanding via reason the true severity in terms of existential risks of a situation. All 'non-preferential' situations that do not threaten the survival of a system are contextual in terms of arbitrary preferences of that system.

The only inherent purpose of a biological system, i.e. something that is living, is to survive long enough to reproduce and thus continue the survival of the genes within that biological system. All else is arbitrarily decided upon. This brings us to self-interest - all living systems have as their sole inherent purpose surviving to procreate.

Now particular situations which are not directly existentially threatening may have indirect consequences to our reproduction-purposed survival insofar as those consequences may affect our ability to reproduce with a desirable mate. This said though, we as humans have the use of reason and may hence develop our own arbitrary purposes based on memetic replication and survivability as opposed to genetic replication: we may live on in our creations by way of our minds, not just our loins.

Improper resilience I define as the ability to cope without the proper understanding of why and not using correct reasoning for / or not having the correct reasoning behind the actions and mindset allowing for the coping thereof; employing the capability to cope effectively with certain situations that individuals are faced with without the employment of reason, i.e. 'for the wrong reasons.' Merely responding correctly does not connote correct understanding of the whys and the hows.

Ludwig van Bertalanffy, the man we have to thank for General Systems Theory, termed equifinality for when you may reach the same conclusions via multiple paths. When we employ reason for coping we are taking the 'correct' (well reasoned, logical) path whereas when we do not employ reason our path does not necessarily correspond with reality or logic and so, although we have coped properly with a situation and hence achieved our desired outcome, we have done so via irrational means and thus we are in danger of applying irrational means in the future with different situations.

Principles are arbitrary. One develops principles according to a given philosophy which may or may not be based on reason. Reason is not arbitrary. It is a corrollary of an axiomatic basis.

Some of My Music

I figured I'd share some of my original music with you guys here, if you're interested. Tell me what you think!

Cheers,

Dolf

http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3571424

Present Models Affect Present Outlook

Thirteen years ago I started writing a book which I titled around the same time, "The Means to Self-Idealization". That's awfully pretentious phrasing for an 18 year old, but it got me thinking about a slew of other creatives and both mine and others' criticisms over the years of their aims and directions (specifically the changes thereof). I realized - possibly for the first time explicitly, at least - that everyone takes their direction (and, once again, changes thereof) from their current model of both reality and, hence, what they perceive it to be and the reality tunnels that are predominant in their view of reality.

The resulting effect of this insight is a necessary viewing anew the judgment I and others have of the work and everyday behavior/thinking of everyone else [poor wording - review later]. Who's to say that Van Halen didn't feel that a new direction was the way to go with the addition of Sammy Hagar after losing David Lee Roth? It also helps in understanding where people may go 'astray' when looking at their change in circumstances in this light. Sometimes people get into some shit and that eventually (sooner or later) leads to in a new reality tunnel from which they view everything else. Whether they are aware of this oftentimes (in my experience with humans) plays a large part into whether or not they attempt to get out of said shit, but the point to be made remains.

In summation, my view now is that we might all benefit from keeping this in mind when critiquing others' apparent changes in behavior/thinking.

As always, comments, suggestions, etc. are quite appreciated and encouraged.

Cheers,
Blessed be in 23