'Dissonance' Articles
When you see how life fails, you see its success more clearly. This is why I follow a left handed path spiritually. That and natural disposition.
I paraphrase a famous quote, ‘nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so’. But it is also how we see it. I dwell now. Here in the now.
“If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of” Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Dealing with Negativity
Dissonance, as in different notes or tones conflicting, is the concept. Spirituality is often compared to music metaphorically, but in many ways it’s not strictly metaphor. Many people speak of spiritual presence as being like a voice or sound, and we each of us contribute to this. We each make more of an impact on the spiritual atmosphere than many people are aware. Some people croon a soothing tone and bring people comfort. Some people are constantly generating a cacophonous screech and are often avoided though the people who shy away from them may not know why. And as they… Seek More
Being Out of Place
That sense of dissonance, of being out of place, is important now more than ever. It can serve as a motivator for change. This system we now have, how is it ok? Why should it be allowed to exist without disturbance? Maybe those of us who are out of synch, owe it to the people in the system to be that dissonant factor. There seems to be an overriding ennui. People are acclimated. Why is the Indigo phenomenon arising now, and yet it is just seen as an anomaly? Children to be nurtured by the current spiritually enlightened set? Maybe… Seek More
What can we do?
We have become very lazy expecting everything to be explained and researched for us. Science claims to have avoided metaphysical speculation and this is one of the major lies of science. It isn’t malicious, but it also isn’t true. They have put forth an irresponsible view that we can ignore the ‘why’ and focus only on the ‘what’. There are those in that community who depart from their peers in this regard, but the impact of their science without a metaphysical understanding has not been easy on us. We are all aware of the consensus. It’s supposedly ennobling to share… Seek More
