In contemporary Western culture, we are taught that knowledge takes no space and that we can store within our brains thousands, even millions, of data input, facts, and hard evidence about reality and life itself. So, we keep thriving for it, learning, reading, and “improving.” But we get in trouble once we reach the liminal edge of culture, the fundamental dynamic meaning of reality. In this liminal space, we are at the edge of the unknown, at the indecipherable language’s frontier. Of everything we don’t know, or ever will, nor understand.
This liminal space is not a storage area. It is a threshold of a dynamic, living flow of consciousness.
We have to unlearn to surrender to the flow in this deep space-time. Western culture is a storing construct, where everything needs to be stored and secured for fear of the unknown and the ultimate mystery of living things. So, we prefer not to vacate knowledge and open it to transformation. We feel deeply insecure about letting go. Letting go of references, margins, constraints, norms, or proven recipes. It seems safer to view reality through our accepted cultural lenses, so we let these modern eyeglasses shape what is perceived, bending what is to what is supposed to be, fitting it neatly to our individual needs, chopping its greater meanings to our unidimensional reality. In its myriad truths and paradoxical perspectives, we relinquish connection to what is. We become smaller. Alone. Insignificant. And we feel that incarceration within, constantly searching for more meaning. But we keep following the same recipe, the known and proven steps of storing and confining things to control ourselves and our immediate reality.
We are betraying life wisdom flow for the illusion of safety.
It’s like having a bowl of fruit that we eventually do not eat, and it decays. But we do everything we can to keep it forever, not letting the wisdom-fruit follow its natural cycle of renewal, attaching ourselves to beliefs we mistake for knowledge. Eventually, we never look for new wisdom-fruit. Remember that the only fruit that lasts forever is a plastic one, the same happens with fixed knowledge or perspectives. A reality built around dogmas becomes artificial and has no life force. An empty system without sacred meaning or entanglement. It doesn't co-create, for it only controls.
When we get to the edge of culture, and its accepted truths, we pass through a dense membrane of social consensus, dogmas, and beliefs. On the other side, there are a lot of ancient cosmic languages, connections, and relations. Strange wisdom-fruits we didn’t even believe could exist. We need to unlearn to embrace the mystery of this highly dynamic wisdom flow. To become humble again, to let all that is forgotten, all that seems impossible or mysterious, forging new relations to ancient rhythms. We find new possibilities for connections, embracing what is — every moment, just being present in the multilayered context of things. We learn by being present.
To surrender to a humble state is vital to let it all flow, letting go of the hierarchical mind. Wisdom is all around us, pulsating vibrantly within all living systems. We feel it in our bodies, becoming vessels through which all this rich consciousness can flow, leaving us awake like never before. More alive and participative in the reality of things.
What do you want to unlearn today?
What about beauty?
It is definitely sacred, but it also has a simplified meaning for humans in the modern western world. Beauty has been mistaken for perfection, expecting to keep its ideal permanently fixed, but like everything else in this multiverse, it shape-shifts and changes
Therapy for worth and control
Here and now, we are led to believe that we need to produce our value, and we are taught war tactics. In adapting to western human society, we need to find our place and authentic power by affirming our talents and discovering our original voice. Contemporary culture suggests that these paths are activated isolated and
Sovereignty through surrender.
It’s an old dance, but a powerful one—a sacred rhythm of the heart. Sovereignty awakens the primal agency, the position of being, and deliverance. Incorporating sovereignty, we are empowered with our freedom of choice and self-determination, having the ability to decide what is best at any given moment.
Rooting out all weeds
How does an idea make you feel? What’s the weight of your joy? Is there a path with no weeds? What is the texture of your sorrow? What is the color of your memories? Is there a way without detours? I often pass through portals of living concepts, ideas, symbols, and metaphors within my writings and teachings.