Tag: unconscious

I am increasingly becoming less knowledgeable

Posted on by philipdodson

I know nothing.

I have for most of my life thought it was important to know everything and even if you didn’t really have the first fucking clue about something, pretend that you knew and have an opinion, based usually on our own prejudices or what others say, who also had no fucking clue either.

Groups of people have great debates on subjects whereby none of them has a fucking clue and they make what they think are the right decisions based on that.

The only thing we know is ourselves and the things that we actually experience and even then, when we are in our unconscious mind-obsessed state, we only see what our mind wants us to see. In this moment now is the only thing we really know, when we are awake and conscious, seeing the world without any evaluation.

We do not have to have an opinion, we do not have to know and it is better to listen than to know.

The more we listen, the more we understand.

Inner peace, joy and a conscious existence, just being our authentic soulful true essence, comes from the freedom of knowing nothing, not evaluating everything. Knowledge is a burden because what we think is knowledge is most often thought and opinion within our own heads or from the collective mind.

Knowledge creates this false righteousness, as we believe our knowledge to be the absolute truth that our egos will force us to defend at all costs.

The opposite where listening, understanding and not knowing everything creates connection, respect, freedom and the liberation from the pressure of having to know and having to defend that knowledge.

I am increasingly becoming less knowledgeable.

What would happen if I disconnected from the matrix?

Posted on by philipdodson

The collective mind comes to us via many different forms such as other people, the media both mainstream and social, the internet, and other forms of collective communication. It is a matrix of thoughts, all based on fear that is magnified from the individual minds to become one giant collective fear. 

This fear-based flow of thoughts, opinions, demands and hatred is totally invasive and leads to a complete overwhelm for most of us. However, because we are individually part of this matrix with our own mind feeding this collective and running on unconscious fear-based agendas, we actually need this collective mind. We are overwhelmed and exhausted by it, yet at the same time addicted to it.

What if we switched it off? Disconnected from it? What if we stopped watching the news and TV? Switched our phones off? Stopped reading the newspaper? Stopped listening to the radio news? Stepped away from the drama of others and their fears? What if we choose to disconnect from the collective mind? What if we left the matrix?

Well, from my experience and that of talking to others who have done that to a greater or lesser extent, the answer is you are happier, more joyful, more conscious, you are no longer overwhelmed or fearful, and you spend more time doing and just being.

Has the world ended? No. Did you miss anything that was important? No. When you do occasionally reconnect, is it the same shit just a different date? Yes.

Overwhelm and suffering within are self-inflicted by our choice to connect and stay connected to the collective mind and all its fears.