99 steps to reclaiming your individuality Step# 41

The pendulum moment:

The hardest state to achieve is the state of guiltless realignment.And there is a distinct difference between realignment and what it could and often is confused with, when an individual feigns acknowledgement of culpability, as an re-integrative strategy. Guiltless realignment is the process by which we acknowledge the error in our current state through understanding the process by which we arrived at it. It is sad that the structure of our current society totally dismisses this process, and instead only focuses on the variables of effect and retribution. It is sad because, what in essence is being done here is that the effect, whatever its scenario, is solidified, given its own identity, and the entirety of the other elements of individuality are cast aside. But yet the full retributive weight of the circumstance is volleyed at the individual. This is a grievous error, but one that society welcomes for the sake of convenience.

When we grasp the true nature of being, we see the corruptible not as process of addition, but yet as a process of subtraction. Our natural state is ignorance (evil) the volatile catalyst by which we grow into full awareness is in first acknowledgement of that fact, and then subsequently the choice to evolutionarily advance beyond it. What is left behind is the base elements, and what is created is as a result of their casting off. Many philosophical and religious tenets are structured on such beliefs, sadly they too often fall prey to their own devices and most often impede the progression of the spirit, not advance it.

What we have to learn as evolutionary beings is to welcome these moments of awareness of our inadequate, inappropriate, or sometimes repetitive shortcomings as behaviour  necessary as the catalyst for our growth. With a stern caveat and caution not to justify detrimental behaviour under these auspices. We too often can fall prey to the latter, and stagnate our growth.

We live in a society that presents many challenges to advancement, simply because of the narrow focus of those that control it. Greed has become the new milestone to achieve. Material wealth, material acquisition and material amusement, the new main stays of our current culture. What in essence you are being asked to do is run counter to those ideals. And you can achieve this, not by an out-an-out rejection, but by paralel structuring. and the only way to overcome the guilt imbibed rhetoric of this age, is to counter it with knowledge. And the only way you can achieve that knowledgeable state is by not succumbing to the illusion that the self flagellating penance of guilt will somehow refine you into a better individual.

Knowledge is the key, acceptance is the door, and you have but to approach it confidently. And you will never achieve this with the burden of guilt hung around your neck like a milestone. And a further truth is, that your jailers have tarried long and studiously to ingrain this impediment into the very fabric of both society and culture. You will find little acknowledgement or encouragement in your new found display. But your liberation will in many ways be paving the road, leaving breadcrumbs of hope for those that share the road with you. A great challenge, but equally a greater reward. When we are illumined the light cannot be restrained from falling on others. This is our purpose this is our hope, we will reclaim it, for it is ours.