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Date: September 23, 2024 at 05:14:51
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: To be an authentic person ... |
URL: https://x.com/caitoz/status/1838010321203834992 |
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you're idea of being 'spiritual' may or may not apply.
Caitlin Johnstone
"To be an authentic person is to stare deeply into the face of uncomfortable
truths.
It’s to experience all the footage of shredded bodies in Gaza with a visceral
understanding that these are real things happening to real people whose lives
mattered just as much as your own.
To come to terms with the reality that the power structure you were raised to
trust and the political party you were raised to side with are responsible for
some of the worst things that have ever happened in our world, and that their
depravity must be fought tooth and claw.
To stare unblinking into the very real possibility that the madness of our rulers
could cause total human extinction by nuclear war or environmental destruction
within your own lifetime.
To admit that your previous understanding of an issue was a misguided
perception caused by propaganda, and to be fully open to the possibility that
this is also true of your current understanding of other issues as well.
To deeply recognize the ways your own delusion and dysfunction have played a
role in the delusion and dysfunction of humanity as a whole, and to cease
viewing yourself as separate or separable from the self-destructive patterning
of our species.
To be honest with yourself about the circumstances of your birth and the ways
in which you have it better than other people in different circumstances and in
other parts of the world — often at the expense of those very populations.
To be honest with yourself about the ways in which your actions harm others,
and take any steps necessary to rectify this wherever you can.
To be honest with yourself about the ways you have been harmed — your
traumas and wounded self-beliefs and your maladaptive coping mechanisms
ensuing therefrom — and do the work necessary to heal them.
To be honest with yourself about how little you really know about this
boundless mystery called life, and to be humble in your position as a clueless
member of a young species in a universe that none of us understand.
To explore with sincere curiosity the possibility that all our assumptions about
the reality we are experiencing have been wrong this whole time, right down to
our beliefs about things as fundamental as thought, perception, and the
existence of a self or a separate outer world.
To to be an authentic person is to constantly plunge headlong into the
uncomfortable, the unfamiliar, the unknown and the unpredictable, even when
doing so feels like a kind of death, for no other reason than because that’s
where the truth is.
It’s to always welcome the truth with open arms, even when it is unpleasant,
embarrassing, inconvenient or downright terrifying, come what may."
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Date: September 23, 2024 at 06:09:52
From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: To be an authentic person ... |
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Hm... I can't say I disagree at all with most of this
person's own personal subjective interpretation and
definition of the term "authentic,"as I can personally
identify with most of its points as part of my own
process...
But where they say, "...and the political party you were
raised to side with are responsible for some of the worst
things that have ever happened in our world, and that
their depravity must be fought tooth and claw," for me
the subjectivity of Caitlin's definition causes it to
lose momentum in what is an otherwise-decent overview of
what personal authenticity and spirituality could look
like when aligned most with each other...
Although I'm not a child and obviously know there is
corruption in all political parties, in widely varying
degrees and contexts, I do not see that as an accurate
definition of the Democratic party. I see getting them
elected as literally the only hope this country has in
maintaining its Democracy and continuing to strive to
fully enact and real-ize its Constitutiona and Bill of
Rights for All Americans...
Then having said all that...I can't say I agree with the
whole attitude and stance of this piece, as it appears to
be throwing down the challenge that if your own personal
authenticity isn't described accurately by her terms,
then your spirituality is not aligned with it or, as you
put it, "your idea of being 'spiritual' may or may not
apply"...
Perhaps the definition of what judgement is might be
mentionable here. ;) Discernment is the process of
deciding/adjudging what is good and right *for you, for
oneself* and what is not. Judgement is when you imagine
you have the right to decide what is good and right *for
others,* and project your own value judgement (of what is
good for you) upon others, and call that right action.
While I'm still guilty of human egoic judgement,
especially when it comes to these hottest issues, I
strive out of it every day...and to "adjudge" the
spirituality of everyone who believes they are living an
authentic life, based on Caitlin Johnstone's criteria
here, would not be anything I'd agree with in general as
applicable to everyone... ;)
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Date: September 25, 2024 at 21:35:19
From: et, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: To be an authentic person ... |
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did try to read some of this thread but ... offer you
my best regards, and back slowly out of this
room/conversation.... hahaha sorry to such seems to
dense and rather no good or worse to get into...
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Date: September 23, 2024 at 08:36:17
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: To be an authentic person ... |
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