Colin Wilson, author and philosopher of the weird and occult, used to say that we live on a “ladder of selves”.
Most of the time, human beings operate on a level of consciousness not unlike that of lesser animals or even plants. We’re barely awake, going through the motions.
Unlike those creatures, humans have the singular power to step up to higher levels of awareness.
Each rung on the ladder of selves brings us up to a new level of consciousness, showing us the world from a different point of view.
The way most of us go through life, concerned with manufactured drama, gossip, celebrity fetishes, the news, social media, jobs, paying the bills, and consuming more junk, is like the point of view of a worm crawling through mud.
Low level of consciousness begets a low quality of world.
Contrast the lowly worm with the soaring eagle. The same world, seen from a higher elevation, is an exhilarating, breathtaking experience.
Occult traditions reaching back to ancient Egypt and Greece tell that the material world, which we know through the five senses, is but one of multiple planes of reality.
Above the material lies the astral, the realm of images and feelings.
We’re told that matter and energy are the only real things, that our thoughts and feelings a private, and that they’re coughed up by the chemical workings inside our brains.
Believe what you will. I’m not here to convince you of anything.
But ask yourself why ideas are so contagious.
Why is it that thought-forms seem to spread from mind to mind, sometimes without direct communication?
Why can an idea be “in the air”, such that Newton and Leibniz could discover calculus, independently and at the same time?
Ask yourself this:
If it the materialists are wrong and the occultists were right…
What would it mean if you surrounded yourself by negative, hostile, demoralizing images and feelings and ideas all day long?
If you spent your time around them, placed your attention on them, thought about them all day, organized your life around them, and based all your hopes, dreams, goals, fears, and doubts on those ideas?
Better yet:
What would change for you if you cut out the mind-poison, and took the initiative to think your own thoughts and live in the world you want to live in?
While you’re vibrating on that question, give this a listen.
Matt Perryman
https://matts.email