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deepthoughts) wrote2024-09-12 12:35 pm
deepthoughts) wrote2024-09-12 12:35 pm
Pushing Our Limits
Let's think about the trends in Western culture: Coca-Cola, alcohol, beer, vodka, Mcdonald's. It's the cheapest, fastest food that you money can buy.
Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi. It's an image thing, it's status, it's money, it's possession, it's being someone because of the car you drive.
Nike, Adidas. It's companies that produce mass clothing in an unethical way and to become billionaires and to perpetuate the brand.
Tiktok. This is tapping into our animal-like needs. It's our need for this instant gratification. It's the masking of our pain, the hits of dopamine that we get which are wired into nature. Tiktok is a perfectly oiled machine for that.
You can sit for hours and hours and watch hundreds of videos on people doing all sorts of crazy things. It's all animated, it's all bright and shiny and fun. Billions of people use this. This trend shows where we are as a species.
Notice all of this is very lowbrow and unhealthy, yet it's the most popular stuff in society. Of course, you can come up with examples of popular trends and popular companies that really do promote healthy causes and positive causes. But these are very typical examples, and they show us what's going on.
With all of this mainstream programming that you receive, you become like a rat in a maze or a hamster in a wheel or a fish in water. You're limited but you don't realize that you're limited. Often our limitations as human beings aren't physical, assuming that you're physically well, but psychological.
We're highly cognitive creatures and our psychological limits define our limits, our ideas of life define our life, our ideas of what is healthy defines our health in many cases. Our mental cage is one of the huge barriers that we need to overcome if we want to self-transform.
Our education system is another component that you need to gain awareness around. Again you're not educated to be this person that I'm describing.
You're educated to be a cog in the machine, you're educated to do certain professions such as an accountant, a lawyer, a doctor. Notice that these are the ideals of the education system, a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, a finance guy or girl.
It's all very intellectually driven, it's about becoming white-collar workers because these are the best paid jobs in the economy. That's how you best survive.
When you're growing up that's the ideas you're given about your career is that you need to be an engineer, or be an architect, or be a lawyer.
And that's not the issue necessarily. The issue is the mindset you're programmed with, which is that you're doing this for personal gain, you're doing it because it's well paid, you're doing it because it gives you status in the society. It's really not done with benevolence or self-transformation in mind.
So what can we do about this? That's where deepthoughts comes in. I've got the solution for you. To go beyond this situation you need to do something extraordinary. You're not going to become this person just by following the crowd, by following the rest of the sheep, you have to do something extraordinary,
You need tools, you need some sort of extra willpower, you need to have an epiphany or a life crisis where you realise there's more than this, there's something beyond this in human evolution, and that you crave it.
This isn't handed to you like a uni degree Iit's not a paint by numbers process. You can't just tick all these boxes and all of a sudden you're self-transformed. No, it's an ongoing process there's no rigid way. There's a direction but there's no rigid formula or recipe involved.
I often think of deepthoughts as teaching people what they didn't learn in school. We need extra tools, we need to go beyond, we need to do something special to do this.
Let's look at the tools I offer at deepthoughts.
So I talk a lot about psychology in my resources, particularly I talk a lot about developmental psychology. Developmental psychology ties into what I've been talking about here, but the levels of human existence and the development of human beings and the cosmos at large.
We also study society and culture and how they've evolved over time. One argument I make over and over again is that we actually have an amazing modern culture compared to the middle ages, for example, and compared to tribal levels of human existence. Our modern culture is incredible.
That doesn't mean it doesn't have limitations, but when you study society and culture and how things are evolving there's a clear direction involved. In going beyond the mainstream, we're actually pushing it forward, we're pushing everyone forward in doing that. That's where society and culture sort of ties into the psychological tools part.
We also look at what stops you from becoming exceptional, both externally and internally as well. I've not been talking about the internal so much here but that's certainly a huge part of work.
A huge component of the work at deepthoughts is spirituality, and I look at it from an advanced point of view. This is not mythic level spirituality. This is contemplative practice and modern/postmodern spirituality.
So if you're looking to live a life that's fuller and greater than 90 to 95 percent of people right now then the deep thoughts is for you.
Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi. It's an image thing, it's status, it's money, it's possession, it's being someone because of the car you drive.
Nike, Adidas. It's companies that produce mass clothing in an unethical way and to become billionaires and to perpetuate the brand.
Tiktok. This is tapping into our animal-like needs. It's our need for this instant gratification. It's the masking of our pain, the hits of dopamine that we get which are wired into nature. Tiktok is a perfectly oiled machine for that.
You can sit for hours and hours and watch hundreds of videos on people doing all sorts of crazy things. It's all animated, it's all bright and shiny and fun. Billions of people use this. This trend shows where we are as a species.
Notice all of this is very lowbrow and unhealthy, yet it's the most popular stuff in society. Of course, you can come up with examples of popular trends and popular companies that really do promote healthy causes and positive causes. But these are very typical examples, and they show us what's going on.
With all of this mainstream programming that you receive, you become like a rat in a maze or a hamster in a wheel or a fish in water. You're limited but you don't realize that you're limited. Often our limitations as human beings aren't physical, assuming that you're physically well, but psychological.
We're highly cognitive creatures and our psychological limits define our limits, our ideas of life define our life, our ideas of what is healthy defines our health in many cases. Our mental cage is one of the huge barriers that we need to overcome if we want to self-transform.
Our education system is another component that you need to gain awareness around. Again you're not educated to be this person that I'm describing.
You're educated to be a cog in the machine, you're educated to do certain professions such as an accountant, a lawyer, a doctor. Notice that these are the ideals of the education system, a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, a finance guy or girl.
It's all very intellectually driven, it's about becoming white-collar workers because these are the best paid jobs in the economy. That's how you best survive.
When you're growing up that's the ideas you're given about your career is that you need to be an engineer, or be an architect, or be a lawyer.
And that's not the issue necessarily. The issue is the mindset you're programmed with, which is that you're doing this for personal gain, you're doing it because it's well paid, you're doing it because it gives you status in the society. It's really not done with benevolence or self-transformation in mind.
So what can we do about this? That's where deepthoughts comes in. I've got the solution for you. To go beyond this situation you need to do something extraordinary. You're not going to become this person just by following the crowd, by following the rest of the sheep, you have to do something extraordinary,
You need tools, you need some sort of extra willpower, you need to have an epiphany or a life crisis where you realise there's more than this, there's something beyond this in human evolution, and that you crave it.
This isn't handed to you like a uni degree Iit's not a paint by numbers process. You can't just tick all these boxes and all of a sudden you're self-transformed. No, it's an ongoing process there's no rigid way. There's a direction but there's no rigid formula or recipe involved.
I often think of deepthoughts as teaching people what they didn't learn in school. We need extra tools, we need to go beyond, we need to do something special to do this.
Let's look at the tools I offer at deepthoughts.
So I talk a lot about psychology in my resources, particularly I talk a lot about developmental psychology. Developmental psychology ties into what I've been talking about here, but the levels of human existence and the development of human beings and the cosmos at large.
We also study society and culture and how they've evolved over time. One argument I make over and over again is that we actually have an amazing modern culture compared to the middle ages, for example, and compared to tribal levels of human existence. Our modern culture is incredible.
That doesn't mean it doesn't have limitations, but when you study society and culture and how things are evolving there's a clear direction involved. In going beyond the mainstream, we're actually pushing it forward, we're pushing everyone forward in doing that. That's where society and culture sort of ties into the psychological tools part.
We also look at what stops you from becoming exceptional, both externally and internally as well. I've not been talking about the internal so much here but that's certainly a huge part of work.
A huge component of the work at deepthoughts is spirituality, and I look at it from an advanced point of view. This is not mythic level spirituality. This is contemplative practice and modern/postmodern spirituality.
So if you're looking to live a life that's fuller and greater than 90 to 95 percent of people right now then the deep thoughts is for you.