My life is not about me, your life is not about you...I was never in control...I am in the hands of nature, nature is never in my hands...
I listened to an amazing podcast this morning after watching this same speaker be interviewed on Mayim Bailik's Breakdown the day before. Bernado Katsrup spoke on both the Breakdown and The Weekend University about his book, "Daimon and the Soul of the West" which I will, of course, have to add to my library and the already overcrowded recesses of my limited intellectual mind. :)
I get this guy! I love it when I "get it" with people who seem to think like I do or be on the same wave length. (That is a subjective interpretation.... of course...my intellectual ego is assuming it is on par with someone who just happens to be brilliant...Am I more than a little arrogant, maybe? In actuality, I could have a conversation with this man and all that would come to be in the thought bubble above my head is a big foggy, "duh!"lol) What I mean by wave length is that we have similar self explored ideation. He speaks to things I just happen to share here. It is cool to realize that first of all, I am not the only crazy person in the world who thinks like this, and secondly, that what I have to say is validated as possibly having the ability of making sense to others. He is hinting to the same idea of Truth I seek and share here.
There was a bit of a blanket warning for people, like me, who delve into Eastern wisdom thinking they understand it, "get it" despite all their western conditioning. I will never understand the wisdom of the East in the way someone from the East does because I lack that cultural conditioining that is the context of these beliefs. I cannot understand the Vedas like a Hindu can, for example, because they were written and shared and taught in and around the context of Indian culture which I was never a part of. And my English thinking brain can not digest the sankrit without losing much in translation. I miss the subtle but very important nuances wrapped in the culture and language that surround these belief patterns...therefore I can not "get it" completely.
And my western conditioning gets in the way of the true spiritual goal of these teachings...the ultimate truth! Yes, I want truth now...I want to understand why I am here and what this is all for...and I say that more than anything...but ...if I am completely honest...there is and always has been an ulterior motive to my seeking. Like many westerns who delve into these wisdom traditions for understanding, my main goal, was and is "to end this suffering that I, as the human I call "me", experiences now."
This truth expressed in the ancient wisdom traditions of the East are not personal but my western conditioning personalizes everything. Sigh.
Katsrup speaks of something called the daimon. It is the impersonal essence or force of nature that exists in all of us and if we are not mindful it can "capture"us and make us do unconscious things we would not normally do if we were conscious and aware . Though some may see "demon" in that word, it is neither good or bad...it just is, just as the tornado that tears down cities just is, or the tsunami that wipes away an entire village just it, or the rains that come after a drought to save a population, just is. Neither good or bad...just is. Not out to reward or punish...just is. This is nature doing what nature does and we can't personalize the daimon. It is similar to what jung would call the collective unconscious or what Tolle would call the "collective pain body"...come from so many different vraiables that played with nature over the years. It is nature expressing itself through these variables in us.
The collective unconscious is impersonal...within this impersonal collective unconscious (nature) there can be parts of it that are more individuated and personal..."semi autonomous complexities in collective unconscious"as Jung would say...if we are in the cognitve neighborhood when one of these complexiies pass by...it may seize us as a means to express itself. somewhat paraphrased.
It is good to know that and keep that in mind as I proceed. I mean I am leaps and bounds ahead now than I was when I first started looking into this wisdom from the East, in terms of depersonalizing it, but I have a way to go. I don't yet get it!
I do feel this daimon in me though when I come here to write. The daimon, he goes on to say, wanting through us is also these inexplicable callings we have to do things (like writing this blog) that do not serve the personal self...that are meant for the collective. I feel the transcendence, creativity, expressing nature the way nature wants to express itself through us Hmm!
Nature, he goes on to say, is who we are and how we are made. Nature gives us life and it expresses itself through us. There really is nothing personal about it.
Life is something nature is doing through us.
As I often write, we need to surrender to nature, allow it to express itself through us. Unlike Singer and others, however, this author says that surrender is not something we choose to do,
Surrender is not something you choose to do...it is something that is beaten into you [through life circumsatnce and challenge].
You open up to surrender [when you have had enough and have no other choice]
He reminds us that Life is our greatest teacher. We will encounter many happy accidents from Life that lead us to transformation. These struggles are something we will later be grateful for. We just have to trust that nature knows best. We as human minds know so little in comparison.
Whatever can happen in my skull is nothing compared to the wisdom of nature.
We are all microcosms in the macrocosm.
Every life is an entire universe.
He also speaks a great deal about 'evil" in regards to this daimon, but I will wait until I read the book before I speak to that.
So glad I discovered another like minded human on this planet :)
All is well!
The Weekend University ( October 2, 2025) Bernardo Katsrup:Aligning with Nature's Will...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGbZXMQLYss&t=4481s
Mayam Bialik's Breakdown (October, 2025) Is Reality a Dream? Consciousness, Intuition, and Life After Death./ Dr. Bernardo Katsrup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB0PtR0wMow&t=2s
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