Face to face with spiritual bankruptcy (part 2)

Spiritual depravity is something that is created from both the outside and the inside.

The inside
With the inability to take responsibility for one’s self and see how one plays a role in the life of opposites, spiritual depravity will be present. A deep recognition of history or real understanding of human nature is necessary to join a wholesome and healing discussion about completeness and being. Understanding the role of one’s self in the world is not so easy with ill-education or misuse of tools. Or even lack of tools. This leads to seeking, fragmented thinking, fragmented creation, lack of communication and misunderstanding. Fragmented thinking and lack of awareness of how one’s mind works never gets to completeness and never knows truth, which requires one to be completely naked in its presence to absorb what really is, which is easier said than done. Even if a person has all the tools, they are still protected by the ego layer. A person has an ego protected journey, not to be taken lightly, as the “ego” is part of surviving in this world. Without it is like stripping the body of a skin layer. So it is there for reason. But it does not mean you let dead skin build up over time and sit there. Dead needs to be shed. Old skin causes degenerative progression. So it is counterproductive to wallow in the self of devolved, unmoving, dead ego. Like wallowing in dead skin.

The outside
What environment is present is certainly an influence on us. How we interact with it, how we live in it, our understanding of it, and our knowledge of connection that connects to other beings. Maybe it should not be so tough to learn with the right education.

There is a reason the outside and inside are considered as one. One influences the other. We live here. Simple enough. The problem is blame. If you blame yourself too much, you start to deteriorate and wallow in the old skin. If you blame the outside too much, you also take in everything around you, which will do the same and deteriorate you in your old skin. The key is to find that fine balance between the two. What is your fault and what is theirs? Some actions will come naturally and become “uncontrollable” so then sometimes things need to run its course. As you plant seeds they will grow. Or not grow. Where did you plant them? What did you learn along the way? So not all can be controlled by you. There is a whole array of planted seeds out there. But it is still okay to know and find the “fine balance”.

Finding fine balance with the inner and outer requires awareness. Awareness of your naked self, what you do and then those things around you. What your interaction is with your environment. Some may have a much harder time than others to find this balance, or so it may seem, but there is always reasons for this, and some reasons do not have to be so negative.

Put aside the selfish emotions
Cherishing and communicating individuality and creative thought is one thing. Making a greedy business out of self-righteousness, ignorance or stealing is another. This is not about the inabilities of people to do great things or human innocence at a certain life frame. This is about big changes, real history or the ones that put out something of a phenomenon we can all relate to and cherish on a very real level, whether we express it or not. This kind of connection or invention is rare (and possibly perspective based) and you will know it when you see it. Some have been stolen from. Here are some examples.
Maxwell Chikumbutso
Mary Anning
Hua To
Indigenous elders
Milked shamans

Add to the list.

Greatness and creativity lends their hands to everyone. It's in the air and is there for anyone. But the question is who has the capacity to do "A"? Who has the capacity to do "B"? And who is the one that may be good at "C" but is not aware of it and feels there is only "A" and "B" in life, therefore they must be taken and used for survival? We need competition and taking another is not actual competition. Also, the real value of each part... is real. We help each other to win at any given frame of life in more than just two ways. It is more about the discipline, nature, intent and imprint of the person who does something. What kind of work did they put into what they did? How did they do it and what was their intent? Was it a part of who they were?

The business path
Fostering the idea of taking instead of sharing comes from a long line of laziness, stealing, manipulation, and greediness. In essence, the hurt and trauma of going through the hardship of life and the business structure of the system, was implemented long ago. Ignorance plays its role when one does not understand the intricacies of some true matter being displayed, all well when it does not hurt anyone else, but in most cases it does.

The progression of this path
Everyone wants to feel important. Especially if they have not healed old injuries or traumas. This is a personal perspective. Some cover up any unresolved problems and live through the ego, sometimes determined enough to get right to the center of the stage. This is not to belittle a real person, but is only a matter that can happen if people or groups have pain or unresolved injuries that need to be addressed. For humanity, this has been a progression. A progression of ignoring, of living in one’s ego, a progression of living on a stage, a progression of not being accepted, ill-education and then the progression of technology and manipulation.

What should have been a way to purely communicate and participate, turned into something of its own. The technical singularity has taken center stage and seemed to have taken over most peoples minds, at least to a point. So let us give it some attention. Is this just an extension of the self? The apple does come from the apple tree. Or is it truly foreign? If the ladder is true then it is still some part extensive of ourselves since it lives in this world. Maybe it is best then to find the fine balance between this inside and outside of this.

Want it to be different or less bleak? Shed the old skin of ignoring self in environment and face what you planted, face what they planted… no wallowing in dead skin, living on stage or living in external reputation, living as an advertisement or product character….. cut the addictions and do your due duty.

The interview
The airwaves are full of selling, buying, tech, entertainment, covering up reality and … whatever else. The idea of buying freedom with money to do what ever we want and feeling important are strong thoughts and are what carried people this far. Did it work out?

Recognize that communication and participation should be the goals to figuring out a solution. For example, interviews in the technological singularity is person A interviewing person B. We have many different kinds of talents out there and we have many different “shows” and commentators or media persons, so people “do interviews”. What about just being?

This 'A to B' has trickled down from the media age of entertainment, now that people have gone past reality tv into pure internet interaction, almost anyone can have their own shows, interviewers and personalities (and it helps when they are backed with a product placement paycheck). What matters is character or personality, as someone may say, this is what sells. This is what people are attracted to. But why does it only count if person A interviews person B? What about just being in communication with one another? Apparently two people (or maybe a single group) can figure out the world without embracing the participation from the other groups that they are so attentively talking about.

Short conclusion
Recognize humanity, the history of humanity and see we already had some of the best answers to our questions. Stop stepping on true greatness. It will not bow to you. To anyone. It is a waste of time. It will come time and again. I would suggest not following someone else’s ego, or even your own. We have not evolved much from what states were built before we were even born. Devolution seems to happen when people are trapped in this idea of business or ego or life trauma…. and do not understand the internal and external dynamic. For now, technology is the real “advancement” here. Center stage. Media should have been built to completely embrace communication and participation and it will one day. In some sense. Maybe it will evolve for the better.