Beyond the noise, beyond the expectations, beyond what others have conditioned you to be? Maybe you're the pretty boy or girl whose been told, your entire life, that your looks will be enough to get you the attention you deserve? Maybe you're the adult who was once a kid, struggling for attention and care, and now you're pretty and to some extent successful, but nobody really knows who you are? Do you? Do those closest to you?
Do they see you? Do YOU see you?
That's both the perennial struggle and the struggle of conditioning, which you, me and everyone both reading and not reading this article are dealing with. You see, being aware that your world is fucked doesn't mean that you can internalize the perspective shift that this actually becomes. When you realize that all of the normative narratives are actually cages, you become less and less interested in playing by their rules & more and more interested in doing what feels right to and for you.
There's power in living in accordance with yourself being the person setting narratives & creating change in accordance with will. You are allowed to do that, and magick + culivated awareness inside yourself will help you to achieve that. When you're no longer living by scripts that others choose, you're aware of your patterns and responses, and thus choose your own adventure as it works for you. This is why we do therapy and shadow work, and why I use magick to affirm and empower my own healing.
It makes a difference, and I highly, HIGHLY recommend it.
-Chris/SE
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