Forged Into Men

There was a pivotal moment in my life that opened my mind up to everything.

I was lying down with my eyes closed, practicing breath work. My mind was concentrating on my breath, and I silenced myself to all of the noise of life. No thoughts of stress, guilt, anxiety, future worries, nothing.

When I reached this state, my mind was flooded with thoughts that came from a place of great wisdom. I had either tapped into my subconscious, or God was talking to me, or it’s all interrelated and one and the same thing. I still don’t know.

Before I tell you how the thoughts played out in my head, just know that I had had no reflective insight whatsoever, and that these thoughts were the last thing I was ever expecting to think.

This explanation won’t do it any justice, but here goes.

I was guided to a very specific trauma in my life and it was shown to me in depth. It then took me from that point in time where the trauma had taken place, and how it had affected my life going forward. I put two and two together and burst out crying because I had realised that this trauma had completely altered my personality and character from a version of myself that I love and miss.

After calming down only slightly, this wisdom popped in another thought that completely set me off. It was that everyone around you in this world has traumas, and you are only seeing a small version of them because of the walls they have built up around themselves.

This shift in consciousness opened my entire way of thinking.

This is a major mechanism of action of how life works.

My take on this is that we as humanity are in fact not individual beings but one divine entity. The reason for this is that although we may seem to have our own body, I think our minds belong to something else, perhaps a divine consciousness. If I can have my personality altered, or my way of thinking altered, is it really my mind? If my mind is altered and I move forward through this world, am I altering other people’s minds with my mind, or with my mind that has been through life alterations?

When one looks at spirituality from an outside lens, one may see a hippy dancing around a fire playing a flute with cacao stains down his T-shirt. In reality, it’s so much more straightforward than that.

Try not to inflict trauma on others, and try not to let their trauma affect you.

Also face the trauma you currently have; it only affects you.

The Bible, Bhagavad Gita and many more spiritual books have so many answers to life’s confusing questions.

Oh, but “you’re too cool to read that, right?”

Maybe if you picked it up, you’d find some answers.

Here’s an easy one for ya:

“God made trees that bear fruit, with seeds inside them, so that they could reproduce after their own kind.”

The fruit are the interactions you have; they can be good or bad. Once you have eaten this fruit, you have planted its seed in your mind for the tree to grow. The tree is a trait or way of thinking. Once the tree has grown inside of you, the fruit will appear, and others will eat the fruit you have grown, good or bad.

Fruit = interactions
Seed = imprint
Tree = personality formed
Others eat the fruit you grow

Eat good fruit!

“We are born pure. It is the world that teaches us otherwise.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“At the center of your being you have the answer.”
— Lao Tzu

“Become like little children.”
— Jesus

“When the mind is still, the universe surrenders.”
— Lao Tzu

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace within ourselves.”
— Dalai Lama

“As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, so love shines.”
— The Bhagavad Gita

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