Human beings are funny creatures, in the way we've habitually sought truth and guidance from external sources. It's rather mind-boggling just how much chaos we repeatedly get ourselves into by turning people of status over our authority. How far astray we've led ourselves from Truth, integrity, and consciousness by looking to "professionals" and "experts" as figures whose biased opinions hold more weight than our own innate capabilities to discern truth from falsehoods and make decisions based on an inner compass guiding us towards what is best for us.
So goes the human game.
To our defense, such strategies are understandable. Our bodies and brains are ill-equipped to process the immense amount of detailed information composing this entire universal matrix in which we play this game. There's alot we don't know, and even more that we don't know we don't know. Navigating the mazes of three dimensions - and those leading to the higher dimensions - gets overwhelmingly confusing at times. And there are those ahead of ourselves on the path who do have priceless information & guidance to share.
However, it's getting into dangerous territory when we give too much priority to others' perspectives - forgetting that they may be influenced by their own cognitive biases, faulty belief systems, and not particularly relevant or empowering for our own placement in our individual path.
Example:
Jordan Peterson is an intelligent man, looked up to by many as an "expert" and "authority" of sorts.
Yet upon discovering this quote, I felt there is perhaps no better example of complete and utter bullshit.
Here, Peterson - like many of us, "experts" or not - speaks as though his words are truth - oblivious to the fact they are in actuality merely an opinion/belief. And a drastically debilitating one at that.
Why?
- Who are ANY of us to dictate what the purpose of anyone else's life is?
- What kind of twisted masochistic bullshit is it that'd force the purpose of martyrism/slavery onto every single other human being?
Yes, martyrism.
Yes, slavery.
Care to interpret "carrying the heaviest burden you can bear" differently? Be my guest.
The "purpose of life" has always been one of those big existential questions and focus of philosophical ponderings. Though to attempt summing up the purpose of 7 billion people into a one-word sentence glorifying martyristic slavery? Fuck that shit.
All those legendary musicians and artists who pursued their passions to leave work that has inspired the planet? All those people who've focused into first filling their cups with wellbeing so that they could serve from a place of love & light? All the healers of various modalities who've dedicated themselves to helping other remove the burdens of trauma, debilitating beliefs, and conditioned ways of being so they may truly step into their own empowerment and follow their own unique Strategy & Authority to fulfill the specific individualized mission their soul came here and body was designed for?
I guess according to Peterson's soundbyte-sized logic, all those were some dumb motherfuckers who never fulfilled their purpose. Duh.
And all those people who preached "following your bliss," "doing what you love," "pursuing your passions," etc... yeah, those folk must just be straight wrong too.
The revered spiritual teachers who spoke of human life as a school in which to learn lessons of love, ascending an evolutionary ladder to higher consciousness... yeah, they had no idea what they were talking about either, surely.
Cuz after all, Peterson has fancy degrees, tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, is viewed as an "expert," and speaks with authority.
So have you been seeking the purpose of your life? Well, now you know it.
How about slaving yourself away at some job you absolutely hate? Nah, that's not heavy a burden enough. Let's spice it up. How about adopting a dozen extremely autistic kids to raise alone? Now we're talking. But surely, we could up the weight of that burden somehow. How about doing something absolutely horrific to traumatize those kids even further. Now, you'll have the moral burden hanging over your head - not just sabotaging all your own dreams and aspirations, but weighing your conscience down with guilt & shame too. Yes. Peterson would be proud.
Extreme example? Yes.
Probably not what Peterson meant? Of course.
Though it provides some good context, doesn't it?
"What IS the purpose of life?"
We'd be wise to take any answer to that question with a grain of salt.
Cuz who the fuck really knows.
Sure, there are millions of opinions that might be offered in response to that question. Though as they say, 'opinions are like assholes - everyone has one.' And they're full of shit.
The wiser among us might reply with a simple, humble, honest, "I don't know." Many more would open their mouths and regurgitate some ideas from some belief system they have no idea where or how it originated, oblivious to the fact they know practically nothing and the perspective coming out of their mouth is more likely the byproduct of conditioning thoughtforms rather than direct consciousness.
And so it is, part of the human game, that some of these ignorant monkeys rise to a slightly elevated position in our social hierarchy, speaking such bullshit with even greater conviction fuelled by the authority their followers delegate to them.
The blind leading the blind.
Yet not all have undergone the ego death necessary to admit such blindness. It is a byproduct of human psychology to fill in the gaps of our ignorance with beliefs which form the illusion of a world we can easily understand & explain. Uncertainty - especially when it comes to bigger existential issues grazing our deep senses of insecurity and matters self-worth - is a hell of an uncomfortable space to sit in; one which the immature human mind will make up all kinds of stories to avoid. So rather than tribally confess we're fucking clueless, we've agreed to share belief systems explaining what we lack the capacity to perceive & understand, delegating authority to "experts" who validate the collective hallucination created through the definition of reality according to the programming of the cultural operating system.
Go back and read that paragraph again a few times if you need to until it sinks in.
Yes folks, we were born into The Matrix.
Was the purpose of our lives to remain contained within walls of a collective hallucination of how life is "supposed to" look like and function, delegating authority to those who've appeared to know more than ourselves or be held in high regard for their intellect, charisma, and social clout?
Perhaps ultimately, that is a choice for each of us as individuals.
And there comes the breakthrough moment: is it that coming from the external which we shall allow to dictate the direction of our soul journeys and fate in the physical realm, or shall we return inwards to discover our own truths through the extraction of our differentiated genetic blueprint?
Shall we continue follow the strategies dictated to us by "experts" with their own agendas & cognitive biases, or realign ourselves to the Strategy & Authority of our individualized genetic vehicles?
These questions are the red/blue pill moment.
The degree of our freedom is directly proportionate to the degree we revoke our soul energy from the belief systems and cultural programming that is in dissonance with our core selves.
The degree of our sovereignty is dependent entirely upon the degree to which we trust in and follow our own Strategy & Authority versus delegating responsibility to external people, institutions, and belief systems.
The degree to which we are living our purpose... well, that's one may be up for you to discover and/or decide. Unless you trust in Jordan Peterson's authority and are working diligently to increase your pain threshold to slave away carrying burdens martyristically.
None of that bullshit for me, thank you very much.
