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I haven’t seen people this stressed since last fall.
It’s a five-alarm fire in the Relationship World—that’s largely why.
And relationships are certainly important to us, especially in this interdependent world we live in today.
But have we overextended ourselves? Are there relationships or patterns of relating (even with ourselves), that we need to let go of?
Perhaps we adopted these patterns because we thought they would bring us security. And maybe they did—for awhile. But the world has changed, and thus many patterns in our lives have outlived their original purpose.
It’s time to rewrite these contracts or cancel them completely. The lesson of this autumn is letting go to gain.
Of course, this confronts us again with a fluid crazy disruptive world. We still want that security. So instead of gaining vulnerability, we throw up walls.
People stand ready to twist any bit of data into the narrative that suits them best.
But twisting everything to paint our picture of an imagined future just brings us back to the same problem as accepting certain terms and conditions right out of the gates, no matter how much they shortchange us, simply because we like the security!
All of us have seen romantic relationships that are brittle as thin ice but never break due to co-dependency. This is the definition of “devil energy”—an enchainment that I will refer to frequently here over the coming months.
We are just as co-dependent now on our imagined futures, as we shout the reasons why we will be proved right! A scroll through social media these days immediately confronts you with these devilish intellectual chains.
“Hey, it’s prison, but at least I can count on that. It is secure.”
Asking how our relationships might change is at base the same as questioning which of our expectations can change.
You see people running away from both activities. Fear is quite high now. We choose the chains of righteous moralizing.
Through relationships we peer deeper into ourselves, and in that solitude we don’t like what we see there: greed and fear and scarcity. So we call it something else, like ambition or hustling or “living your best life.”
How much do we really need in order to move into a New World?
Change often asks us to unchain and unburden ourselves, because it is evolutionary in nature. Change isn’t merely a shift in scenery—it is a shift in state.
These united states of consciousness which intertwine us and yet leaving us feeling the gaping hole of social alienation must be brought to balance, and that is the evolutionary process we will journey through up until March, when (if we pass the test) we will see more glimmers of the New World being born.
Balance now is dependent on surrendering to a loss of what we expected to transpire in our lives.
Narratives are crumbling. We see every crack in the foundations of our society, our relationships, our very selves.
October’s theme is about cutting away what is unnecessary.
But it’s also about learning that we can still come out on top, and in first place, through loss.
We may be losing a piece of the Old World but this fall and winter buys us time to shed unneccessary chains.
The idea that it’s 2014 and you just have to hustle and try to minimize risk while climbing Mount Shitmore is over. . .that whole “enjoy the decline” narrative is about to hit anti-gravity.
People are out here expecting cause-and-effect results and getting snafus. They are expecting that the narrative will fall into place simply because they showed up to class.
What we’re hiding from is a reckoning with our expectations: we want guaranteed security, because that’s how Old Society used to work (or it so claimed) and in the crushing contradiction of oversocialization plus loneliness, we become manic preachers espousing what all of society needs to do so that it can get back on track.
What actually needs to be done is for the individual to confront the devil chains they adopt: we can’t carry every expectation with us into the New. Multiply those chains by everyone in society and of course it feels like a prison planet right now.
Which is another way of saying, as individuals we must become more charitable and less Scroogelike in our souls.
Is loss occurring because you feel something is being ripped from you? Or is it more like a charitable letting go?
Or yet again, is greed masked as surrender, like when we see Casey and Nemo giving up on core principles?
Backsliding
What we see in this week’s episode of Zeitville is the theme of shortcuts.
Both Casey and Nemo are hard workers. As they encounter impasses in their respective careers—which mirrors impasses in their romantic intimacy—they let principles slide in order to get ahead, only to find themselves backsliding.
Yet, there is a mercy in play, too, despite this choice: Nemo finds that his crypto losses entice new speculators (who might become potential longer-term patrons) and Casey’s conscience is awakened in the very act of entertaining greed.
Through these acts of backsliding and mercy we have a chance to become more compassionate towards our partners—and towards ourselves.
“People have run with a shred of truth and made a wholesale judgement, a leap of logic,” Nemo laments in this week’s episode. But, ironically, he’s made assumptions too about what Casey has actually done, based on hearsay and scant data.
Likewise, he’s made assumptions about his self-worth, by not believing in it enough and stealing OriginalSyn’s intellectual property.
Irony asserts itself: due to Nemo’s ingrained belief about his product’s worth, a chain reaction is set off, tanking his crypto assets.
You may notice instances of delayed karma in romance and business, where the thing sought to be avoided through a shortcut ends up occurring due to that very action.
Now, I want to highlight again that this is not doomerism: there is a merciful method to justice, which is the reason that Nemo’s asset doesn’t totally crater—that would be out of proportion with his intent.
Because while questionable, his intent still comes from a place of wanting to put out a loving creation in the world.
Sure, he’s tempted by OriginalSyn’s ability to surrender their conscience, and this prompts a misguided strategy on his part.
But the scales of justice understand that, while misguided, he’s not operating from a place of careless relativism.
In fact, he cares deeply about serving others. “I am not who they claim me to be,” he also groans in the story.
But again couldn’t Casey say the same thing to him, if she knew the paranoia running through his head—the doubts he harbors about her?
When we are caught on these rising and falling scales of justice, it should inspire a suspension of judgement about what happens next.
We can see the blessing that occurs when a predetermined and expected outcome is lost, destroyed, alchemized, transformed.
The here and now asks for us to dance in the falling leaves, and sink deeper into this merciful process of shedding.
There is strange comfort in that—more than in visions of the spring to come.
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