How do we fight back | Simple tactics for changing the world

Hey, what is up, everybody? It is ross; this is episode seven; this is how to back the last episode, we had talked about meeting the baddies, and we had discussed all sorts of the nefarious cabal and institutions out to get us. But I want to start this episode off with a little bit of hope.

Today let's start by paraphrasing a concept of Terence Mckenna's. Effectively he said what's scarier than thinking that all of those people and all these nefarious organizations and alphabet agencies and all of this are in control is understanding that no one's in control. There is no actual control out there.

Everything is organized chaos at best.

My little ad-lib is thinking of how unpleasant it must be trying to sleep at night for some people with the way things are shaking out right now. If people are trying to do some nefarious shit, not a good time anyhow, let's get into the episode, see how we can fight back, and get onto an upbeat track of things. Not that I'm very positive vibes only, but I think looking at situations constructively is important.

So episode seven, we're going to talk about self-empowerment, the benefit of being kind, art; I changed local movements around a little bit because it wasn't authentic to my experience and then create culture, which is the end piece of all of this. This episode is the last introductory episode of the podcast.

I think that we've covered enough ground where we can talk about some skills and different approaches to stuff and then maybe move into guests within the next couple of months.

So anyhow, let's get on with this episode; self-empowerment. Finding your passion is one of the biggest things that can help with self-empowerment, and in my experience and from other people that I've talked to, their passion often lies buried behind a lot of their fears. It was in some of the darkest experiences that I've had.

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Everything that has propelled me forward was a direct result of my spirit and sees awakenings and things of that nature because getting like knocked off your square for me, like me getting knocked off my square, let me keep it on me, made me have to look at life differently. It goes into the next thing, find your passion, and then once you burn the boats, and that's the tony robbins expression that I heard. It comes from an earlier expression, but don't count on me for like having notations and everything perfectly sorted. This ain't that type of show.

Burn the boats is effectively saying, don't give yourself a way to back out, and I was talking to my therapist about that today; I was like, dude, in terms of backing out of where I'm at, I physically cannot but self-empowerment.

The reason that's empowering is when you find your passion and you burn the boats; you are now in a position where, how do I want to say this? You have a lot of power behind you because there is no other way forward beyond going for what you want. And then when you take ownership more than anything.

So when you find your passion, you burn the boats, and you take ownership of what's going on in your life, like radical self-acceptance and radical acceptance of reality, which is not an easy pill. One of the things that one of my mentors taught me is that acceptance is a lifelong process, and I talked to somebody last night, and they're like, yeah, but it's is.

And that's the thing. Like you'll have acceptance one minute, one moment in time, and then the next moment you won't, and once you that, it can be hard to get it back sometimes. When you take ownership of everything, though, you're saying my life is 100% my responsibility and what's happening and going on, I have to educate myself. I have to take action; I have to do all of these things that lift you up and allow you to move into the next point, creating your vibe.

This stuff is what I have to look at because I've been slacking off on self-empowerment. I've been self-shitting on myself but creating your vibe is so important and not in a sense again of positive vibes only, but enchanting for optimism. I talked about that on Facebook and Instagram. But enchanting for optimism is super important because the world will kick you in the dick and punch you in the gut, not paying attention, and you need to have a little bit of hope in there.

So that's why you've got to create your vibe. I'm just realizing now that I got to bring the lesser banishing ritual hand sigils that one of my friends told me about because the thought process of protecting myself is incredibly important. Not that I believe in protection so much of negative entities, I think that there's a benefit to how it impacts my day.

How do we fight back? Small actions, big ripples, and by this, I'm talking about like holding the door open for somebody, I'm talking about letting somebody cut in front of you in the grocery line.

One of my mentors taught me a lesson in patience. He told me to let two people cut him in the grocery line, and I was like, why the hell would I do that? And he's like, just do it. I found when I consistently do these tiny little actions and keep them to myself, I feel good. There's medicine in being kind.

Like if you get to stop sign at the same time waving the other person on or giving a delivery driver a fat tip. These things make big differences.

The benefit of the doubt can be tricky because many of us have been burned so many times, it's hard to have it, but the doubt can be incredibly important.

Allow people to show up and let their actions dictate who they are without bringing previous baggage onto the situation next one, let others be wrong.

This wisdom is some of the stuff that I learned from 12 step things, and I'm incredibly humbled by looking at it right now.

Letting others be wrong is one of the ones that I struggle with at times because I always want to be right. I can be a know it all at times, and learning to curb that makes a big difference. But sometimes, the medicine of shutting up and just holding your tongue and not needing to prove a point, especially in trivial matters, is super important.

Sometimes it's not even letting others be wrong; it's about us not needing to be right; we do not need to like flex that, which is hard for me at times.

We also need to learn to focus on similarities; this is incredibly important right now.

I am not going to bring any political stuff into this. Still, I will say it from the outside that our political system is structured to keep people oppressed and opposed by fighting these two things that are largely controlled by the same corporate interests. That's how I'm going to say it.

When we focus on the similarities that we have with people, which is, most of us generally want our families to be taken care of and these things, it hits different. And it's not that simple, obviously and it's a lot of nuances and sticky bits there. I have some of them going on in my own life; I get it; there's still a matter of how you want to show up and what's best for you and focusing on similarities in certain situations where it's not putting yourself out there too far, it can make a big difference.

And I'm going to add this last caption on being kind because it's something my therapist told me today, and being a very visual person, hearing, really helped me. She said that you have to view your relationships in terms of like puddles, lakes, puddles, ponds, lakes, and then oceans. You can try to bring a puddle relationship into a pond relationship. But you really can't go from puddle the ocean and have it work because those relationships function vastly differently.

What's the next way we fight back? Art.

Art is a powerful social catalyst first off, and if you look, if you're listening to this as the podcast and you're not watching it on youtube, it's a supposed Banksy, and it says we're all in the same boat, and it shows somebody bailing out the water because it looks like the boat sinking.

Art is an excellent way to communicate intricate concepts. A picture is worth 1000 words. And with art, you're able to layer lots of different images, so you can craft complex messages in astounding ways. Especially when you look at how colors and things impact you.

Knowledge of these tools is effectively learning to utilize some of the same things that corporations like elite bloodlines, things of that nature have used against people. It's learning to use that for the benefit of other people, okay? And then we get into the layered meaning thing, it impacts the subconscious.

So if there were people creating art that was intended to make well, good, and inspire growth and compassion, that would make a difference because of how it would impact things. And then there's this inherently psychedelic aspect of art, because art, for me is about, I'm sorry psychedelics, for me about transcending boundaries, and it is about this of, you know, transcending boundaries, I think is the best way to put it.

And art is very transcending boundaries, right? Art is like the psychedelic expression of the human experience, and I don't know what else to say on that point. Like, art is a psychedelic.

If there is already a community of things you are interested in and think would be supportive, integrate the community and participate. Or create a community that supports what you want if it's not there locally because it's likely that other people there would benefit from it. Then expand that concept out, like, get more people involved with it once you have the core concept down like that's how you built and why this is important. It also goes into building community with people that might have different values than you and different beliefs than you because that's actually how you change things.

You're not going to change things from having a shouting match with somebody on Twitter or Facebook; you're not going to change things by lots of other ways that people approach this stuff. Commonality is there, and most of the time, when people aren't behind a screen and if they're getting together face to face, they'll find that commonality, especially if the pressure points are being hit and increasingly, that's what we need to work towards.

So I'm going to get off my little soapbox there and what this is all leaning towards is creating culture rather than consuming it or being consumed by it. And what I mean by that is each of us has a unique story and instead of experiences, right? And those experiences can literally help other people if we share them all of us have unique gifts and talents that we're able to utilize, and if we don't have any, it's because we haven't given ourselves the time to explore them.

Now look, I'm not going to be one of those fucking people makes it seem like everybody is able to do that because realistically there is a lot of financial shit going on in the world with the pandemic going on, people are hurting for money, people are trying to just survive, so not everybody has the ability to be massively creative and do things like that, but by creating, I just mean participate in things more than actively like than passively sitting back, even if it's just going to a community that is interested in the same things as you, you're still creating culture, you don't have to be an artist or a musician, you just have to get involved in the things that matter to you and show up and share your enthusiasm and excitement for life because that is what we need more of and the more that people show up happy and enjoyed and enthralled with what they're doing, the more people the happier people are going to be and that stuff will vibe out and I know that this is like really, really not how i, I usually am on things, but I do have hope for this to work. I don't think it's going to change the world overnight.

I don't think that the world will ever be perfect. I believe that some of the ideas I shared can make things a lot better; that's the gist of it and with all of that said, I don't have an end slide because this is the end of the introduction episodes like I had said.

Um we were laying out a basic framework of everything and now I can get into more of praxis and we'll explore that in two weeks. Thanks for tuning in.