Day 544: Flipping the Coin of Fate
Day 544: 27 October 2022, Thursday
One thinks: ‘Should I do this or that?’
And the answer — from the perspective of the soul — is that what it is really doesn’t matter. As a matter of fact, what happens happens, so it seems. From a different, more common perspective, that is, from the perspective of the ego, this whole process of deliberating and deciding is terribly messy and often difficult.
‘What happens happens’ means that the conditioning has been laid and the experiment is already in motion. What science has taught us (and the ancients knew) is that the experiment is itself always and already a part of the experimental process. You cannot experiment without also being a part of the experiment. In other words, the structure and form of a thing must contain within itself the very possibility and appearance (i.e., representation) of the thing itself. Contradiction, as in this case, lends itself to a sense of nonsense. It is by way of nonsense that we create any sense.
And so we still ask: ‘Should I do this or that?’ But we already know the answer.
You may as well flip a coin — ‘truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing’ — while the ego self seeks to know, the spirit of our being acts directly. It shows its face at the moment, it is identical to the moment as it unfolds. Acceptance and commitment are key.
‘This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.’
Terence McKenna
Become-nomadic. Affirm difference. Embrace change. Experiment, leap from points of departure, relearn the ability to rekindle the embers of our spirit. A novel process — wonder, awe, bewilderment — this is life, and there is more. Psychological death is a vehicle for actual (r)evolution. Transition, transmute, metamorphosize.
Ask always: How might one live?
