North Stoke Life

Mainstream society teaches us that if we feel guilt or shame, we must have done something wrong in our personal lives - such as is currently being exploited by race baiting. I argue that there is a deeper, existential guilt born from being in exile which spans all races equally: The Spiritual View: Said in myth and symbol, the moment the divine spark was separated from the True Source and trapped in the material world, it experienced a cosmic trauma. The soul feels an inherent, floating "shame" simply because it is trapped in a low-vibrational, flawed body and forced to live by the rules of a false creation. The Psychological View: More literally, when you cannot identify the source of your guilt, it is because it doesn't belong to your personal autobiography. It is an archetype from the collective unconscious—the deep, inherited human awareness that we are somehow fractured, incomplete, and separated from wholeness. It is this shame and guilt which is partly responsible ...

A main theme of this blog is cosmic exile. A condition all of us are equally trapped in.  Here I'm going to tell you about why you cannot tell others about it, ironically. Why teachers and gurus or amateurs like me are useless in helping you gain freedom and your way back home.  This cannot be taught; it can only be awakened. Recognising this means taking up direct, experiential knowledge. If you try to explain to someone consumed by historic slavery, climate panic or conspiracy theories that they are actually projecting cosmic exile, their ego will fiercely reject it. To them, the physical threat is completely real. By implication, if my true self is inward, only I can act, Believing what someone else tells me to believe is only telling me about they believe. Only you can trigger yourself to act. If you look outwardly to solve your world’s problems, you have already ended the opportunity for salvation. And may well be adding to the material world chaos and incoherence. You ca...

Because for some reason it is too hard to speak literally and directly about the thing in question. I will use a myth to speak about a truth, which cannot be told in any other way. I call this 'signalling'. I will be talking about a truth using this signal because all other ways of discussing it are either unknown, forbidden already or dangerous for me. Sure, try having a dialogue with someone about say, God using facts, logic and reason. We all know where it goes. It cannot be had literally, being unknowable. It can only be discussed in myth and symbol. Yes, that will not be facts. So what? The stories we tell about it together allow the sharing and the signalling of meaning. And it is meaning that we really want to know.  What reasons might cause me to signal these forbidden truths via a myth? There is no language yet available, maybe never will be available, to describe something deep we all know by intuition is happening. It is self-indicting. That is, by speaking about thi...

If you've always found yourself wrapped up in endless criticism of 'others' out there in the world yet have suddenly realised these 'others' cannot be to blame, and deserve compassion, the following may be one idea you can test on yourself. How Do I Work With My Newly Discovered Projections? There is a therapeutic framework designed to help you take back the energy you have scattered onto the outer world and direct it internally onto the shared exile we all must live with. Here is a specific, multi-step process to help you dissolve projections. It cannot be taught. This is how I will do it. You might find a a better: [1. Notice the Charge] ➔ [2. Trace the Hook] ➔ [3. Withdraw the Object] ➔ [4. Integrate the Energy] ➔ [5. Repeat as you start remembering the exile is root cause] Step 1: Notice the "Emotional Charge" You can always spot a projection because your emotional reaction to an outer event is completely disproportionate. If an issue (like climate cha...

  Summary I’m going to show you how the widespread belief in many conspiracy theories are projections of a much deeper anxiety caused by the spiritual exile we all live within. I’ll show why apparently irrational ideas such as a flat earth, climate change danger, the moon landing hoax and so on and so on, are believed intensely by such large numbers of people. This is not to say those people are crazy or stupid at all. It is to show how they are responding rationally to the condition in which they live - exile from their true home and identity. I'll show how that can cause unidentifiable shame and guilt which not only causes the anxiety to be projected onto the material world. But also leads to other similarly exiled souls exploiting that shame and guilt using their own projections, adding to the chaos and incoherence. I’ll also illustrate ‘apparent’ victims and perpetrators on all sides, not for judgement, but to reinforce a call out for more compassion - given all of us are facin...