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When Did Admiration Become Something We Question?
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. But somewhere along the line, flattery became forbidden— and admiration was rebranded as appropriation.
When a child expresses curiosity about another culture, we see innocence. Wonder. Connection.
But when an adult does the same? The reaction shifts.
What changed?
Was it the action… or the way we were taught to see it?
At what point did appreciation start requiring permission? When did connection become something to defend against?
If admiration becomes something we fear expressing— what happens to art? To creativity? To shared human experience?
Maybe the question isn’t just about culture.
Maybe it’s about perception.
What do you think—where is the line?
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Wednesday April 22nd
A message I must share
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There is truly a shadow world existing simultaneously to this funhouse reflection version of its self. We exist in an illusion chosen for us. Everything is not what it seems. The truth is beyond comprehension for many, and even I don’t know all the details.
With my discernment I will be discussing the necessity of duality as well as being aware of imbalance of this natural universal law.
Among the world of love, light, joy, and goodness there is also its shadow of darkness, malice, and unimaginable evil.
We must remember one cannot exist without the other.
A quote I like recently is “Be more for god than you are against the devil, because in dedicating yourself against darkness the devil still consumes your life in that way.”
That being said, we deserve truth and free will outside of a wide scale constructed illusion.
This illusion is pushed aside with reasoning such as “if there was a deep state shadow government cabal of evil, so many people would have to be in on it. So it must not be true that is impossible”
This is where I ask you to think about Santa clause. This is a secret that all adults are in on and keep from the children in order to maintain the sense of Christmas magic.
In this comparison, the illusion of freedom we live in that keeps all this extreme evil beneath the veil is our metaphorical Santa.
The ones in charge are the “parents” who make sure the citizens or the “children” believe in Santa “for their own good”
Then we have some people like myself and others who are the kids who realized Santa wasn’t real without being told. Who saw through the fallacy.
Our discernment is critical at this time and to question everything is not crazy, it is a sign of your free will at hand. Trust yourself.
There are victims of this underlying darkness all around and it’s done in such a way that many victims don’t realize what has happened to them. They don’t know because it’s buried deep.
With this awareness it can be scary to see and know how much callous evil goes on in all faucets of society, much less right beneath everybody’s noses.
More so I have a theory that the most evil people in this world plan to evade death and any form of afterlife by using technology to upload their consciousness into a robot or droid vessel of sorts as a form of immortality.
Immortality as a way to evade eternal damnation, a way to forever ride the high of their power, money, and worldly “success”.
The same achievements that will mean nothing once we pass on from this life.
There is light because there is darkness, cannot have one without the other, bit of each in each (yin yang) , two sides of one coin need only flip it. glass half empty half full is an incomplete or oversimplification of the analogy.
It’s always both not one or the other. It’s divisive to see it otherwise.
With the rise of censorship and AI technology, the truth from the lies will become harder to discern and that is calculated and intentional.
I believe there will be unbelievable things happening soon, and it will be accredited to AI and to not regard it as truth.
The same way they used the term conspiracy thru the 90’s to the 2010’s just to find out — oh more than half those “conspiracies” have come to light and been revealed as truth. The cycle will repeat with different tools of manipulation.
I’m not here to tell you what’s true and what is not. Just here to present the idea of questioning what we’ve always seen and believed to be reality.
This is a perfect example of Plato’s allegory in which the cave people know nothing of the outside world only the shadows on the cave walls. And when one goes out of the cave and comes back to explain all that he’d saw, he’d be dismissed, as the others were attached to their reality, their truth, all they’ve ever known to be real.
Many people live in the cave looking at the shadows believing that’s all there is, when in reality there is an entire world of unknown right outside their means of sight.
Be open to the idea of believing the unbelievable.
Objective and Subjective
Now, don’t get me wrong, I love science, but the very fact, to me, is that science is limited. Not just because we do not know all that happens in the Universe and because of the fact that science is an observation of the Universe and not the Universe itself (it is not the Universe, it is an observation of the Universe, which is different, and don't get me started on that thought, lol), but because science deals with what it deems as facts only. It does not deal with the subjective nature of Reality that we all experience every day. It does not deal with those in between states, those liminal states and spaces of the paradoxes of something being both objective and subjective, and, even, that liminal and paradoxical state between the what is perceived to be objective and the what is perceived to be subjective natures, categories and definitions, themselves. Science only deals with what it can measure and observe with the mind.
The very fact of a subjective experience being a kind of a real thing that all people experience somehow, IS a paradox in and of itself, as that paradox goes beyond the categories and definitions of the objective and the subjective experiences themselves, in this case, it is neither an objective thing NOR a subjective thing, really, if we actually all experience both objective things and subjective things, then really, it becomes a paradox to state the subjective nature is a real thing we all experience, as that is an objective fact about a thing that is subjective by its own nature. Sometimes, Reality transcends beyond the labels of objective or subjective, it can be both, or neither, or if you only see one side, one or the other, even, it could be all of these things, or none of these things, too. It depends on how you perceive. None are wrong ways to perceive any thing when outside the bounds of the categories of objective and subjective, and really, that is where science is actually limited. I love science, but I just understand its limits. Please don't get me started on the subjective nature of the individual perceptions, perspectives and mind, itself, either, lol… but to put it in a short sentence, all we perceive is a projection of our own mind, so of course it has its limits, science is limited for the fact of not being able to see outside of our own dissecting, separating, analysing and limited minds. I don’t know if this makes any sense, but, to put it into a concept, I am just someone who sees the “grey” areas in life, instead of just what is defined as “black” and “white”.
Perspective Shift
Monday April, 20th
Foundation/stabilization
Focus: grounding, clarity, structure
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How transformation is perceived
We are constantly changing and shifting across different versions of ourselves throughout our entire lives. When we can accept this, and not only find comfort in change we can also embrace transformation.
Truth moves, It shifts through perspective, through experience, communication through awareness itself. What Feels certain in one moment may change in another. What is unseen isnt necessarily absent.
Words from a wise friends, “What will start to happen, when living truly as yourself both at home and out, and forced with the decision to go outside the house, it will become less of a burdening activity. Home will stay quiet solitude, but out and about becomes actually a good place to share and grow and let go of the things that built up at home (rather than being the time you just bury them deeper). You'll start to feel camaraderie because a lot of the things you're going through are the same your friends have gone through. And naturally with the restrictions on who you allow yourself to be around others lifted, beautiful things will start to happen inside you and those will grow and you will actually transform the more you put power into them.”
To understand anything fully, requires a willingness look beneath it.
We may not be able to change the past, but we can learn to evolve strategies from the lessons of life and apply them to future sce-narios. This process may also involve forgiveness for past failures, either of other individuals, belief systems or, more importantly, oneself. Forgiveness of oneself is a vital healing mechanism to deal with self-inflicted wounds associated with the burdens of guilt and self-recrimination. Understanding and acknowledging the motivations behind past mistakes stimulates the process of establishing a secure and heathy emotional foundation from which new beginnings can arise.
Small changes lead to transformation.
Looking into one of the universal law, the Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy; We see that energy is always moving and can be changed.
You have the power to transmute negative energy into positive energy by simply deciding to change it. Only fear and doubt can stop you from doing it.
We must surrender to change or suffer in a loop.
Every form of transformation is a form of alchemy.
In a world ruled by duality are born the three fundamental principles that live in everything that exists. Sulfur, the force that drives. Salt, the structure that holds.
Mercury, the spirit that unites and transforms.
And finally, the four elements that allow all transformation to manifest in the visible world. Fire that purifies, Air that lifts, Water that dissolves, Earth that crystallizes.
Every alchemical process, every profound change in your life, follows this same sacred sequence. From the original unity, through polarity, going through the three principles, to materializing in the four elements.
When you understand this map, every crisis becomes a laboratory. Each internal conflict reveals what stage you are in of the great work of transformation.
when internal patterns shift and attention starts to reorganize, different stimuli become salient. Interpretations adjust. Behavioral responses begin to diversify.
The change is in experience. The environment itself self has not fundamentally changed, but the way it is processed, engaged with, and responded to has.
In this sense, recognition acts as a point of intervention within an ongoing feedback system and external experience
Transmutation in alchemy is described as the refinement of what is informed into something coherent and integrated. The process unfolds through stages: dissolution, separation, and recombination.
This is applicable all the way from the inside out. As above so below.
With love,
Grimoreforthecurioussoul
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