76. Conversations With Pessimists
I admit, the fire sign placements in me have little patience for holding others’ hands when it comes to opening them up to spirituality. Why? Well, personally, I feel that it’s everyone’s own responsibility to become comfortable with the concept of spirituality. Then, when they reach out for help, I am there for them. But I’m not interested in disproving anyone’s opinions wrong. And why is that, you ask?
I don’t feel that we operate on a basis of “truth”. I feel this is our own perception value. So when I argue with someone about believing in life after death, I don’t actually know if I’m arguing with their true feelings of life after death, or a projected insecurity that they have in regards to life after death. I don’t know if they are so misaligned, that they will never under any point acknowledge their own spirituality. And I have to be okay with that, and accept that. And I do.
I find that typically people who are non-believers are very guarded. Very defensive. They hold on very tightly to things they know. And why shouldn’t they? They are operating from a place of their environment, setting and reality. We operate reasonably on a level of class consciousness (or in other words, collective truth). This is kind of like.. the sky is blue. Not everyone sees the color blue, but generally we are aligned as a collective that the sky is blue.
However like I mentioned, we feel more than we may think. And if we “feel” that something isn’t what someone says it is, we refuse to believe it.
So if a projected fear or insecurity is leading some people to disbelieve, what’s the point? I certainly don’t have the energy to argue anyone to death.
However, I do often times get asked how to answer questions from pessimists. Here’s generally my sentiments:
There’s no proof of life after death. This is true. There’s generally little proof of anything. We have no idea what happens after we die, nor what goes on in our universe. We barely know what’s at the bottom of the ocean. It would be irrational for you or I to have such a strong opinion about it.
We can’t prove psychic ability. Kind of true, but also meh. Psychic ability is like describing a painting. Everyone sees the painting differently, and everyone processes the painting differently. It would be like asking you to say verbatim your description vs. mine of something you see. Energetic information isn’t physical, so it’s incredibly challenging to deduce it into a physical form. On top of that, it has “life” and virtually, a mind of its own. Its intention isn’t to be deduced or “boxed in”. While it’s important to have resonation, we should be looking at this from a place of value vs. a place of right or wrong. Right or wrong is menial unless we have a value backing it. And there is theoretically no value to the concept of right and wrong. It would be like asking a robot to deduce feelings and emotions precisely. While psychic information can be precise, it’s not conducive to the way that it operates. But going back to my “meh” comment, psychic and mediumship ability has over time been proven to be accurate and useful through science, government and law enforcement.
It’s impossible to life after you die. This is actually illogically false based on our current understandings of physics. Energy never dies, and is mutable. So something must happen to us after we die. It’s just a matter of what.
Class consciousness isn’t real. To me, this is also illogical, as the likelihood of us sustaining life on this planet would deem otherwise. We have what I like to call “proactive” consciousness, or in other words, we can anticipate events before they happen. We also retain the ability to think “freely” and creatively. Essentially everything which separates us from robots. If it cannot be replicated, it’s consciousness. I like to use this as a general argument. There are also lots of other interesting phenomenons which speak to class consciousness, such as “revelations” occurring at a several points and places in time. Famous creatives also indicate that creativity is “spiritual” in nature.
Nothing can exist beyond the physical world. Lots of things aren’t physical. Thoughts, feelings and emotions aren’t physical. However they exist. A thought isn’t transcribed like a picture in our brain. But it simultaneously exists. How? Likewise, an emotion cannot be captured. Yet, it’s very real. Why?
We can’t confirm if spirituality is right or wrong. Right or wrong is a fallacy based on our perception value. So is truth, generally. But why do we need to confirm if it’s right or wrong? We emphasize anything and everything which exists beyond right and wrong. Love, joy, fun, peace, family, friends, hobbies, interests, art, music and creativity. We truly live in a place which is 90% beyond right or wrong. It’s only when we choose to align ourselves to a societal expectation in which we are forced to choose between what’s “right” and “wrong”.
What’s the point if we can’t prove it? See above. The value is relative to each and every person. But we personally value much more than what we can prove. Our thought, feelings, emotions, relationships and creativity.
I don’t recommend that anyone wages a war with non-believers. There’s simply no point. The intention is to live your truth as much as possible in order to inspire and engage others. This will ultimately be the longest lasting defense.
