Why and how I am battling myself: Transcendence for dummies?
For me this battle started with depression
And I've seen many more fall down similar spirals. There seems to be something missing in our day to day lives of being individuals. Not knowing what is missing, I think we commonly try to fill that hole with more ego boosts. This however just makes the next turn of the spiral worse, as our minds collapse into themselves. This story will try to explain why I started to challenge my ego and why I think it could be beneficial to study the concept of transcending it and other obstacles in our heads more.
For me this is where the art of ‘transcending’ everything that doesn’t really satisfy has been very helpful.
“Wait a minute! Hasn’t the concept of transcendence already been studied heavily by like.. Can’t find his name.. Waldo something the father of transcendentalism and others? Like, isn’t that literary a literary movement?” - Imaginary friend
“I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles"
To me this has been a great mindset for transcending mental barriers and to some extent my ego when that has proven to be useful. I started to use this framework for my own thoughts, trying to make guidelines that are as easy as possible to use for me in my life.
- The word: To begin with, let’s not forget that ‘transcend’ simply is a word with synonyms such as exceed, surpass or overstep meaning basically the same as to rise above something. Could be used when clearing any hinder.
- Implies mental hinders: When I use the word transcendence, for simplicity and influenced by the transcendetalism movement, I most likely refer to transcending mental hinders as opposed to physical.
- Putting the scientific method to work on my own mind instead of just the environment: Minimize the amount of non-relevant information. Find the core of the problem and attack it with as little expectations as possible. Question everything. When finding truths about myself I must, much like a scientist needs to be objective about the world, try to put my ego aside. This has ultimately led to what at least I would call transcendence of consciousness. There’s probably other ways to achieve this and more consciousness but for me this got myself a long way so far.
The third eye is an esoteric concept of an invisible eye which provides perception beyond ordinary sight. Often referred to as mind’s eye or inner eye. This metaphor fits perfectly for me when I imagine using every tool I have as a conscious being to look critically at my own, at points, very human brain/impulses/feelings.
Trancending ones ego is a personal journey and it might not be easy. I might be able to formulate some more concrete tips on this in a later story. But for now, and what I believe is the most important part, I just hope to inspire someone to look into this and themselves more.
Remember this is just my way of seeing these things right now and what has helped me, if you have other methods to overcome mental blocks and grow your consciousness please comment! I will probably write my next story about the most important things I’ve learned about myself so far. Maybe including a small ‘Spirituality for dummies’ section?
Follow me if you’re interested in my perspective on that or other philosophical or science related topics in the future. But remember, only if you want to. Thank you for reading!
References:
- http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transcend
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye
Image sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy#/media/File:M101_hires_STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg
- My picture
- http://clipart-library.com/clipart/34002.htm
- https://sites.google.com/site/mpjh8thgradesocialstudies/unit-8-1/transcendentalism
- https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/59165342/For-Dummies
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y9SHOBIyRAw/hqdefault.jpg
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I would like to see a few more posts, but looks interesting so far. Signups don't expire, so you can do so immediately and I will check your blog again in the future.
Dear @Privat,
I have no idea why you followed me, since i just arrived on the scene and do not have any blogs, but first of all i would really like to thank you for that!
Now here comes the 'weird' stuff (but lets call it synchronicity)
I red your blogs, and the first thing that came to mind was: this is someone on a similar path. But, to be honest that happend a lot lately since there seems to be an epidemic of lost souls in this particular part of space/time, and we're all clearly on our way to find ourselves, the proces which you called: transcendence.. So i kept reading and found out that your journey also has begon through the process which we recognize as, depression. Check that one..
So far just some synchronicity, not to crazy at all, but then i stumbled upon the avatar you're using, the inverted triangle..
I was only about 15 years old when i (consciously) started my journey, i had many friends and a well established identity (lots of ego so to speak, but ey, thats what count in the 3D world). By the time i was 18 i had rejected/lost all of that and felt completely lost in this world. I knew i was growing towards something, had some clues about what was going on, but still didn't see the bigger picture. Gladly i was supported by one person, which was my best friend at that time, and together we found out all this crazy new information and a lot of shit that we had to uncover. Since we felt completely lost in a world that was becoming more alien and stranger by the day, we decided to create a symbol, and with this symbol we wanted to create a movement of like minded people. The movement never really came from the ground but the symbol, which my friend designed, is embedded in my consciousness forever. It represents who i am, what i am, what i am doing and why i am doing it. It essentially stands for every piece of knowledge i have retrieved in my journey, and all has still to come..
It ment/means so much to me that i even have it tattooed on my arm..
Now you make one guess what i look likes :)
Coincidence?? Nahh, Synchronicity!!
Wow, not sure where to begin! First of all thank you so much for taking your time to write time to write this comment. I’m going to have to read up on synchronicity a bit more now because this actually gave me a really strange feeling. :D
Just like you I’ve noticed a trend of likeminded people, that’s kind of the reason I felt initiated to look for somewhere to connect with these people and progress together. And so far, just from reading new stories a couple of day, this truly seems to be a great place for this. I just stumbled upon one of your first comments somewhere where you described that you just got started but had a lot of content coming on interesting topics. Not really enough to explain why I followed you maybe, just had a feel I guess..
And then the triangle.. Do I even need to explain or can I just say I had basically the same story. I didn’t actually draw the triangle in its current form until a couple of years ago. But I also share it with a friend who has been going through a lot of the same stuff it seems with me. Learning about the world and kind of separated from it as a result. I think we choose to write under the pseudonym Privat to kind of choose not to choose a name or a brand. We wanted to grow a movement that wasn’t a movement of people but of ideas good enough to replicate by themselves. Not completely sure if that’s the best way to go anymore but anyways. Definitely feels like some synchronicity is going on! Who knows, maybe we’ll steem under the same triangle soon. Got to sleep now. But thanks again and best of luck here until next time!
Amazing! You should definitely look into synchronicity when you got some time,. I'm aware off it since my wake up 10+ years ago, and looking back experienced it all my life, but i recently found out what the meaning/structure behind it is. I will write a full blog on this in the future but i can give you a little sneak preview because it is truly fascinating to me.
Synchronicity means to be 'in sync', but with what actually? To understand that we first have to grasp the meaning of 'oneness'. (note i say grasp cause from a human perspective we can't hardly judge or understand it but for as much as we can, we'll do :)) (Plus i'll try to be as less woo-woo as i can but these are concept that (for now still) lie outside of the domain of sience, so keep in mind from a scientific point its just speculations but when you encounter authentic truth knowledge you get 'that feeling' from within, thats the part of you 'that knows' and is telling you to pay attention :)) When you understand (or have at least an idea) that everything is connected energetically at some higher level, you begin to see that from this level there is no separation between us (the ones who experience) and the experience itself (our surrounding). We are only separated by our unique experience which we call our unique personal awareness or consciousness, and if we keep in mind that the transcendence process is all about getting more aligned with these higher aspects of ourself then we can understand that we are not only getting aligned with ourself as we grow, but also with our surrounding, since they are actually the same thing!
So the more synchronicity you experience, the more you are aligned with, yourself, your journey, your higher self whatever we would like to call it. In essence synchronicities are little reminders that tell us we're on the right track, and the more you are aware of them, and follow your true path, the more they will appear in your life!
Wow.. another massive comment haha. I hope you can give me some feedback if this made any sense to you since i sometime have a bit trouble going a bit deep into knowledge and then loosing people for not understanding it i guess, not to blame them offcoure so im working on my telling/writing style since i have literally tons of this info in my head that need to be shared!
Getting back to the movement and the triangle.. We wanted to grow a movement that wasn’t a movement of people but of ideas good enough to replicate by themselves. Thats truly the best definition i've ever heard of what we had in mind but never where able to do so! I got to start this day, working on yet another project, so i'll save the story why the movement didn't happen for later. But what i can tell you now is that you're doing a good thing writing under a pseudonym, especially if the two of you are planning to make this big! Keep in touch, peace!
Haha thank you for another massive comment! This makes so much sense to me. And if you’re right many more should connect to this content. At some level it’s impossible to deny that we’re all connected. Physically to earth, biologically to our common ancestors and socially. The last I feel being given too little credit often. The simple fact of us being able to share ideas with each other now but also recorded through time makes us from a larger perspective, no matter what we feel like we are, one big consciousness. Sure we have a slower processing speed for most tasks than our individual brains, but we’re working on that by making better use of the internet. And for the future Neuralink and brain-machine interfaces could revolutionize this. On the other hand we as one already have a lot better more reliable memory, although not perfect. Definably better at multi-tasking!
This is just excluding the fact that so many of us already experience this feeling of oneness. That’s just my attempt to find objective truths. I respect that you point out the barriers of what could really be called scientific at this point but also really agree that this feeling still seems important. Aren’t we, in a way, what we think we are? It seems almost more like a case of definition than science.
Again, everything you wrote makes so much sense to me, I know I have stumbled on the word synchronicity and I feel like it probably made some impact even though the word didn’t stick as well for me as it did for you. But thanks to this I’ll never forget what fascinating concept it describes. It’s really what I’ve been chasing for since I realized my ego couldn’t satisfy me. Best of luck on your stories I’m looking forward to read all of your ideas! - ▼
Hello Privat, this is a nice post. Not gonna overcomplicate things so just gonna say, LOVE only :) ego is a creation based on fake reality and fake values, it has nothing to do with our real selves. We are love fueled beings brotha. Love you!
Thank you I like your perspective! Love is so much more than what this fake reality makes it seem like. As portraid in movies for example, our culture sometimes stops us from seeing these simple truths! :) Love you too!
Sorry for ugly thumbnail. If anyone see this anyways and know how to set for example my spirituality for dummies picture as thumbnail it would be much appreciated!
So dear privat, to me that is no ugly thumbnail, but a representation of something that is closer to my heart then anything else. Guess you didn't but that 'ugly thumbnail' up by accident after al :) :) :)
P.S. The only other persons i have ever seen use an inverted triangle in combination with an Ankh to symbolize our journey as well as our battle, are The Underachievers, two awakened hiphop artist and i was already kinda shocked when they did but this is next level, you connected with me without knowing!
Hey again!
First off, I was referring to the thumbnail of the story as it shows up in the feed. It became the first image of the post instead of the more relevant one. And even that one wasn’t ugly.. Just more plain and poorly formatted. The triangle represents something similar to me and I love that one. Although some might think differently.
Secondly, I’ll defiantly look up the underachievers. Guess what me and my friend do as well under this symbol? Yep, we write rap music.
Anyways I think I have to come back to all of this tomorrow to see what I’ll make of it then. Really happy you opened up about your story. Good night!
Ahh ok so i guess we're on the same line, or should i say, triangle :)
Yet another synchronicity, i write (mostly rap) songs since i can remember, got a whole shoebox full of them haha, and so is my friend who designed the logo.
But for me its more like therapy, don't like the idea of being a rapper that much since it comes with a lot off crap (believe me, this friend of my had his own record company with studio, recording rooms, green screens and everything but that went under together with the movement and the business that was build around it.
Damn really got to get this day started, as i mentioned 15 minutes earlier :D
Keep in touch!
Yep haha another synchronisity! I describe it exactly the same if someone asks. It's more like therapy. We've just put up some content on youtube because it seemed fun after doing it for ouselves for so long. Never shared a linked or tried to get seen for that side really. Just a few friends that has heard some depressing songs haha..
Curious to hear what happened for you two. Keep in touch!
Interesting post! :)
Happy that you find it interesting and thank you so much for the tip! This site and really even more the feedback in nice words and interessting perspectives truly encourages me to keep sharing what I've got as well :D