Making the world go round


Orgone flows here, there and everywhere

I'm going to cover something else pretty fundamental today, just to get it out there.

I'll never be Neo the Ultimate Party Dude, but when I am on my game, I "spark" people. I give more than I get.

On my down cycles, I'm crotchety, cranky, and don't want to have anything to do with humanity as a species or people as individuals. At that point I take more than I give back. Energy sink, that's how I am then. I'm caustic, hard to be around, and people have to really like me to put up with some of my behavior. When I bother to interact at all.

I wouldn't mind so much except that I'm not always able to choose just which way I will be.

But even a (sometimes) semi-recluse hermit like me has to admit that it's really about how you touch other people.

No, not literally. Although that is not a bad idea. WEG.

See, humanity is a colony organism. As individuals, we're at our best when we're trying to fit in with other people. Sometimes yes, that's physically with our lovers in sex or afterwards. Sometimes it's physically with the people we love, but not sexually, our family and friends that we hug and cuddle with. Sometimes it's with the people who stretch our minds, the people we agree with and the "respected opposition" that we disagree with.

We need the human touch. We need our ideas and expectations challenged. We need to test ourselves.

We need to trust ourselves and our thinking.

Without other people, it's mental masturbation. It's one person looking in the mirror proclaiming how great everything is.

None of us can afford that.

It's easy to hang out with people who share the same ideas. But try putting your ideas where you know where every assumption will be questioned. Among Pagans, I'm in a minority because I am not a progressive. Among libertarians, I'm a minority because I am a "person of faith." Among "people of faith," I'm a minority because I follow an Earth centered modern faith system.

Unless we're willing to have our ideas examined, we'll never learn to see the weaknesses in our thinking.

Now the mystic in me will tell you it's all about the orgone exchange. The more "threads" we send out and share with others. the more orgone we send out and the more orgone we take in. That's why a good group revitalizes you. They touch your threads, you touch theirs, and those threads do a dance that borders on erotic. The more passion, the more movement.

But the key thing here is that funny word share.

If you wrap yourself in your own thoughts to keep the world at bay, that's what will happen. It could happen because you are depressed (expert speaking here). It could be because you are so convinced of the virtue and merit of your own thoughts, you aren't willing to accept the thoughts of others.

That might have happened to me a time or two.

You can't just shove your thoughts in someone else's face. You have to accept that they will test your ideas. They'll poke, they'll prod, they'll pull. The more people you share with, the better your ideas will be tested.

And if you are smart you'll listen to what other people will tell you. You'll accept what they give back.

Look around and you'll find the people who care about you enough to lie about what they think. You need to find the people who care enough to tell you the truth. Even if it's a truth you don't like. Trust them to be honest and be honest in return. Even if you don't agree.

Especially if you don't agree.

Are there people around you that respect the truth enough to share it with you? Do you return the honor?

The measure of a human is found in the lives he touches.

Posted: Tue - June 23, 2009 at 11:53 AM
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