The constant that causes every shift (the inevitability paradox?)
Dedicated to: you who’ve shifted before, or almost did, or mini-shifted, felt symptoms, or been in any state you could’ve shifted from such as sp, the void, a ld, etc— and have tried to retrace every step to replicate what happened. This post is for you lol
Imagine you have a friend you really want to catch up to But they’re running really fast in circles around the block. So you start running in the hope you’ll reach their pace. Because you’re not as fast a runner, you try everything; you buy the fancy running shoes, you train your legs, you push yourself to keep up, thinking if you just run fast enough, you’ll finally catch them.
But the more you chase them, the more they’ll be out of reach. Fortunately, they’re running in circles. Which means, no matter what, they’re going to come back around. Inevitably. Not eventually, inevitably.
Now instead of running after them endlessly, you just stop and stand still. Because if they’re looping the same path, it’s only a matter of time before they come back around again. And then something strange happens— it almost feels like the moment you stop, they start running toward you. Because the one who’s standing still is now the object of the chase.
So why are you chasing something that’s already on its way back? Why are you chasing the shift, when the shift is already chasing you? You might think it’s not, but it has no reason not to when the universe itself runs on inevitability.
Newton’s third law states every action demands an equal and opposite reaction, meaning what’s been set in motion must come back. Gravity insists that what rises must fall; what goes up must come down. The conservation of energy says energy cannot be created or destroyed, it only changes form, cycling through states until it returns. Newton’s first law says an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed, so once the momentum (of shifting) began, it couldn’t simply vanish,, it had to continue toward its destination. Inevitability even proves that everything repeats in cycles: seasons, heartbeats, orbits, lives. So if it’s happened once, it’s already part of the pattern, already encoded into your reality, and it has to happen again.
And yeah, you might think that means you have to just stand there waiting, terrified it’ll never come. But that’s the paradox, because if “your friend” is looping around the block either way, they have to come back. So everything from your reaction, doubt, confusion, and attempts are all….futile, in the grand scheme of things.
Bottom line: at first, the “constant” in every success seems obvious: the thing you did that made you shift. The mindset, the letting go, the lucid dream, the position, the affirmations, the sleep paralysis, the method, all the little rituals you try to bottle lightning with. You convince yourself the constant is you. Your level of focus. Your surrender. Your altered state. Your assumptions.
But the more you try to replicate it, the more it slips away. Because none of that is the constant. Not the method, not the mood, not the timing, not the state,, because if they were, you would’ve figured this out by now. So the constant is inevitability, the guarantee that it was going to happen no matter what you did.
Think about it. Maybe the first time you felt symptoms or internally knew you were in your DR, it was because you were counting between affirmations. Maybe your first mini-shift happened because you woke up at dawn and slipped into a trance. Maybe the second almost-shift happened during something like the raven method, before you went to sleep. Two entirely different approaches, two entirely different mindsets, and yet both worked?? What’s the connection, if it wasn’t the process or state? The inevitability.
That’s why no one’s method truly “causes” the shift. Because the method is only ever the stage dressing for what was going to happen anyway. The trigger isn’t the act, it’s the inevitability woven into the act. Because the inevitability is tied to the intention.
And this is where it gets strange. Because if intention and inevitability are one and the same, then the moment you intend to shift, you’ve already set the outcome in motion, right? Hence, why if you intend to have something, you can’t NOT have the thing. You can’t intend without the effect existing somewhere already. You can’t reach for something that isn’t, at some level, already yours.
So the real constant hidden behind every method, mindset, failure and success isn’t you making the shift happen. It’s that the shift was inevitable the moment you chose it.
And this kind of makes me uncomfortable, because realizing it means everything you’ve done up until now (the trying, the waiting, the cycles of attempting and failing) were never relevant to begin with. Sure, maybe some techniques and mindsets you’ve developed may have skyrocketed your progress. That’s definitely undeniable. But in the grand scheme of things being inevitable…..what if their main purpose was keeping you on the path....and not building the path itself?
Because it was always coming. And it still is, no matter what method, ritual, subliminal, or mindset you’ll chalk it up to at the time it happens.
OH MY GOD “THE BRIDGE OF INCIDENTS BUILDS ITSELF.” I just realized the connection as I was typing this.
A while ago, I was using a coin toss to play around with probability and shifting. I wanted to test if observation, assumptions, expectations, or whatever affected how often tails (shifting) showed up, if I can control it, or how to heighten the probability of it happening.
Then I realized something: I was so focused on probability, on controlling outcomes, that I completely missed the bigger picture— which is inevitability. You can try to predict the next outcome (maybe it’s tails because the last three flips were tails, or maybe it has to be heads because you assume so, or whatever pattern you think exists). But probability aside, whatever outcome you want— it’s inevitable. And the inevitability is the only thing you can be certain of.
If you want tails, even if the next four, five, or a hundred flips land heads, it has to be tails at one point. Even if you did a technique to make tails appear faster, it landed on tails because it was inevitable. So if it was inevitable and would’ve landed on tails even without the technique—what good did it do?
Do you see what I’m getting at? You can have as many techniques as you want, all the hacks, all the rituals, all the forceful attempts to get tails. But none of that is the cause. The cause is intention. Because you wanted tails, the outcome was guaranteed no matter how many times heads landed, or if the coin rolled under the couch. Unless you quit and discard the intention to shift entirely, your desired outcome is guaranteed to happen.
Attempts may be the outlet intention manifests through, but inevitability is the mechanism that ENSURES IT HAPPENS.
Taking this into account: certainty collapses probability. That’s the only “method” that is literally infallible, the only one that is self-executing.
What’s funny about this is that most conversations about shifting always swing between: either you rely on the method (“this is the way that’ll make me shift”) or you rely on yourself (“I’m the one who does the shifting”). But this introduces a third— relying on the guarantee itself, the inevitability, the outcome that’s bound to happen no matter what.
And the moment you lean into the certainty that it’s coming either way, everything else loses its weight. The obsession with the perfect method dissolves. The fixation on whether you’re a “good shifter” or “doing it right” disappears. Because now, it’s not about the method or the self, it’s about the fact that it has to happen. It’s built into the structure of inevitability itself.
Sooo I have a theory. A theory.
What does it actually mean when you try to shift and “fail,” waking up in your CR again? It means you’ve funneled all your faith, effort, and expectation into a single night. When you condense the entire possibility of shifting into one single night, you unintentionally make it evitable (something that can or cannot happen) because you’ve narrowed the timeframe to a single hit-or-miss event. But inevitability exists in broadness where it doesn’t matter when it happens, because it will. The more you stretch your window of allowance, the more inevitable the shift becomes.
….Hence letting go/not trying ... I hate it here.
You can’t doubt inevitability. You can doubt a technique, a mindset, a process,, but you can’t doubt something that’s literally fated to happen. Reality has to show you what you want inevitably, because your awareness is attuned to that outcome. Every thought, intention, every action produces ripples, but inevitability ensures that those ripples converge toward the inevitable. (Kinda creepy! Super creepy, actually! I hate this)
And here’s where it gets even creepier. You can quit and walk away, tell yourself it’s not real, decide you’re done. (I did that). But the thing about shifting is that even if you quit, you still know it’s possible, you still want it. And because you still want it, inevitably, you’ll circle back to it. Because inevitability closes the loop, bringing you right back to where you were always headed.
Methods and techniques don’t make you shift— you make yourself shift. But not by forcing or manhandling your awareness into submission. You do it through the intention to shift and by letting inevitability guarantee it for you. Why do you think so many people shift when they weren’t trying, forcing, or betting their lives on it?
Of course, I don’t mean methods, attempts, or analyses don’t help. But at the end of it all, you shift because it was inevitable. That’s the constant through and through. Maybe that’s why every success or notable case has been different,, because no matter if you shift through the raven method, lucid dreaming, or without even trying, it was inevitable either way.
Do whatever you want. Think whatever you want. Try, cry, and jump through as many hoops as you want. Because at the end of the day, it’s still inevitable, no matter how long it takes for the next opportunity to swing back around. When the moment comes, what will shift you won’t be a method, a perfect technique, a mindset, or something you “did right.” It will happen simply because it was inevitable the moment you intended it. No matter what you did, it would have occurred anyway. Knowing this, you can finally rest easy, I guess, because wtf else is there to do if it’s inevitable??
Maybe simply acknowledging it’s coming inevitably makes you observe a reality where it comes faster. Which, in itself, is a self‑fulfilling paradox you can’t escape.
