I don’t know if it’s the astrology of the moment with Saturn and Uranus trining or also just the astrology of my chart (my Saturn and Uranus are in mutual reception) but a lot of what I currently think about in a day are the holograms of social conditioning and the ways that we can invent new holograms, and switch between holograms at any time. I have fun just thinking and learning about it and then making discoveries based on the practice of it.
I had an experience recently where i was learning about the concept of infinite self-worth from Bentinho Massaro’s work, and he also had a teaching about never be in the vibration of waiting: that instead of waiting, one can just do something that is planting a seed for the future. So I found myself waiting in line for a print job at Office Depot, and I was like, oh this is a moment not to wait! And instead of being bored, I was suddenly really excited. So I focused on planting my feet on the ground and meditating on infinite self-worth. When I got to the front, what I had printed out came out to $30 and I was surprised because I thought it would be around 7 or 8. I reacted to it out loud without thinking and then felt kind of bad about myself for a second, like I was complaining. Then the guy behind me asked me, “Would you like it to cost less?” “Yeah!” I said, and he took out a coupon on his phone, mumbled something I couldn’t quite decipher about “executive benefits”, and then my price came down to 6 dollars. I thanked him, paid, and thanked him again. When I was walking away, and already half way across the store, he yelled out across the expanse, “WORK HARD!”
I then paused where I was at, and smiled at him, and in that moment, time and space may as well have collapsed. It was the threshold of social conditioning and magic/phenomenal reality which is becoming more and more accessible to everyone as more people talk about it. Did he want me to work hard so that I earned or deserved that coupon? Is that the social conditioning? Is reality really so set in stone that magical things can’t happen and you have to follow a specific prescribed track of actions in which you suffer and toil and are at the end of your long suffering, rewarded with grace? Or can you hack it, plant your feet into the ground, and think about infinite self-worth, infinite abundance and love of the entire planet and insta-manifest a coupon & bizarre transitional experience?
So in the memory at least, I think about this multi-faceted diamond of every possible meaning of his “WORK HARD!”; was it meant as gentle encouragement, a nod of recognition in the land of Office Depot, etc. etc. and I do not know the answer; but he throws the diamond up with his “WORK HARD!” and it shatters on the floor, sending shards of iridescent crystal all over the scene.