These days we are bombarded by narratives from every direction. We are told what is best fornus by many experts who sometimes have a specialization at a cost of not having an understanding of other basic elements in our world that can help them in their growth. We are continually given potent narratives that help us define our lives–greatly effecting our health, our conscious state and even our paths for spiritual awareness.
We are told bullying is bad, yet we are consistently bullied, consoled and even ridiculed because of our beliefs especially when the democratic systems seems to be catering to multinational organizations that have become exceedingly wealthy because of this exact system they continually abuse and cheat.
We are provided convenient narratives to satisfy our minds–to pacify critical ways of thinking and destroying innovation. It has happened before and it continues to happen every day. We commit to the ‘meta’ narratives because we want to keep doing the things that we believe make us…us. What about thinking hard about the truth about our collective conscious or the material world we have helped create?
It is birthed from our dreams. It is dazzling at times. To see great structures built; to see advances in our modern world in regards to technologies, travel and communications. But this can be detrimental to our critical way of thinking and instead grows our ego exponentially without any regard for our natural world and our connection with the cosmos.
However, the more important question is: can we recognize these narratives especially with the lifetime of conditioning we have received through uniformed education, religious teachings and unjust law?
So this is the challenge–to be part of our material world and at the same time without being consumed by it. We need to have a more critical approach to the narratives that are provided to us in the media through the news, websites or social media. Think for a moment: who has given us the story? If this story or narrative is continually promoted across many media–is it something that at least raises an eyebrow? Why aren’t we more critical of words, narratives and stories that steathly promote division?
And how can we break out of those long established narratives in order to critically assess newer narratives that have been carefully developed in order to steer us from our true potential of being able to push beyond good and evil and understand our oneness with the universe?
It starts with a question. To question something that has been held as an unquestioned truth in our society. And from there, more than likely, the further you go back to understand a narrative, the unclearer it will become and the clarity will come when you understand who benefits from narratives (new or established ones) even if they are rooted in elements that do not progress humanity rather in death, deception, falsity and wonton destruction of truth.
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