𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 .ᐟ 👁️🗨️
𝑏𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑑𝑜-𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙:
𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢(shifts) .✦ ݁˖
As Wittgenstein once said, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
As human beings existing on this earthly plane, so deeply shaped by the material conditions around us, we simply don’t have the capacity or the language to fully grasp spiritual practices that lie beyond what we consider “normal.” Practices like shifting can seem strange, even absurd, when viewed through our narrow understanding of reality.
The very development of our kind has been built on an absolutist vision: one truth, one path to that coveted thing we call knowledge. So it’s no surprise that we all feel an almost unconscious urge to categorize shifting, to pin it down to a single explanation, to shrink it into simple words, to turn it into a neat set of steps we can follow before trying again at night, once everyone else is quietly asleep in their rooms.
But shifting doesn’t aim to be a complex concept that demands years of interpretation. Shifting simply is, regardless of circumstances, beliefs, or the insecurities you might carry about it. It exists entirely independent of the illusion of identity you hold in this reality.
Let’s stop trying to understand shifting from such a limited standpoint. Let’s stop identifying so tightly with a human self shaped by a society that knows far less than it assumes. Let’s leave the ego behind. Let’s give up the illusion that there’s a single, final conclusion to reach on this subject.
Shifting isn’t difficult. It never has been, and it never will be. What’s truly difficult, sometimes, is letting go of the ego, the part of us that clings to our humanity, that fears losing the illusion of control over our ever-shifting nature as consciousness.
We already are. You don’t need to convince your brain of something it so stubbornly denies, conditioned as it is to do so.
𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐨.