Continuing off my earlier post about consensus reality, it's time to talk a little bit about the foundations that we keep in our lives & how they affect us. Our past and how it lingers within our minds and expectations has a direct influence on this reality, and this is especially true for those of us who have experienced trauma.

It's possible for a person to become so accustomed to being in pain that they don't necessarily see even the remotest possibility of things ever getting better. When this happens, trauma becomes a part of consensus reality for the individual; if it is or becomes the most resonant experience a person has, it becomes the root of their existence and a part of reality as they experience it & expect it to be.

The implications of this are both staggering and extraordinarily wide-reaching, as this happens in all areas of life. This can affect us socially, romantically, financially & in a myriad of other ways too. It's not something you can ignore; the scars will shape you from the inside.

It's for this reason that Shadow Work is incredibly necessary. Therapy & healing too, as when we exist within a traumatized, triggered state over a long term, it changes and rewires us. It modifies the way we feel and how we respond to opportunity, so experiencing the possibility of "different" becomes a means of completely overhauling your status quo. 

This then directly and indirectly impacts consensus reality on the whole, as broken people break other people. It's simple fact, as the lore unhealed & unresolved trauma people have, the more they tend to hurt and harm other people and create new traumas. By working through these pains and difficulties we hold inside, we make a point of bettering the reality we exist in. We change the fundamental nature of the world around us and make it better while simultaneously making our own experience better too. It's a win/win situation and this capacity to change what's within makes magick an incredibly powerful tool during these internal journeys!

Blessings, folks!
-Chris

Hail & good morning folks! Its been a while since I sat down to do any writing, so today we're going to spend a bit of time in the deeper end of the pool. ;)

I've spent a substantial amount of time in what I'd term "observation mode" over the past few months. My time in this space has led me to some interesting realizations, not least among them being the apparent fragility of what we'd term to be "consensus reality".

This is as much a new perspective for me as it isn't, as the reality of the situation is that I've been pondering stuff like this since I was a wee lad. We've had plenty of time to ourselves in the past couple of years, however, and that's given each of us a great many opportunities to contemplate what we perceive as our reality at any given moment. We like to think that reality is a profound, meaningful, steady thing unto itself, but it would seem that the mundane world is as subject to our perspective as anything else in the world is.

What we feel and think about a given thing largely contributes to our experience of that experience. How we interact with a given subject matter and opportunity is almost entirely a byproduct of our internal reality, making our experience of what we believe to be reality rather substantially subjective. 

What this means, functionally, is that whatever beliefs we hold impacts what we perceive of a given situation. This directly & indirectly influences what we get out of any given interaction, since the mindset we hold within informs how we interact with environmental stimuli. Case in point, how many of y'all do the mental math around COVID infection rates each time you leave the house?

That's a simple enough example, but think about how this mental math and ongoing analysis has affected your interactions with other people? How close are you comfortable getting with someone you don't know? What about those you do know? The wider threat of a virus we can't see has fundamentally impacted the way in which we interact & engage with others, and these experiences are going to have a ripple effect which influences what the living generation does for the next 20+ years.

Now, the point of all this is to draw attention to just how much this newfound perspective has influenced consensus reality. If reality is a constantly determinable value which is affected by perspective, what happens when the general consensus around a given perspective changes? What we'd term to be "consensus reality" breaks down and social order is deeply impacted, in effect turning the world on its head to an extraordinary degree. In short, consensus reality is great until there's no consensus.

When that all breaks down and gives way, we are largely free to create whatever it is we wish provided its achievable within our current skill range. Contemplate and use this understanding, as magick has a profound capacity to impact our worldview and expectation directly influences what we feel empowered to create within our world. If you're self-limiting because of aged perspectives that no longer serve you, now's a fantastic time to tear those systems down and rebuild.

The world (and all experiences within it) is (are) what you make of it!
Blessings, folks!
​-Chris