Sitting with the complexity of your inner thoughts and firings. Observing your environment from the perspective of a mammal, a human being without philosophical or religious preconceptions. Resting in the wherewithal of having weeded out my brainwashing, of being able to simply trust my inherent, natural experience as a fortunate biological creature.
I don’t have to either impose my dogmas on others or on top of my own environmental observations. I can listen with a clear conscience. I don’t have to be phased by the ups and downs and machinations of my friends and family. I don’t have to live in constant fear that I can’t simply trust my natural experience.
I am fortunate to be here, to be a human, to be a mammal. I don’t have to take it further than that. Everyone has that in common, by the way. I have made a sufficient effort to weed out the other extraneous nonsense that clouds the inherent human experience. It took. Somehow it took. That also includes my sessions with Christopher. Taking that magnifying glass to my soul helped with that extraneous crap. Christopher helped hold the magnifying glass and describe what we uncovered in simple, intuitively positive terms. Now I’m out from under the magnifier and have a clearer way of proceeding in the world. He helped me develop a philosophy that I can live with. It just so happens to be fairly devoid of preconceived magical machinations. It allows me to be a fairly unfettered observer of the world. That has been one of my long term goals, I guess. I never swallowed the opinionated dogmas fed to me to much degree. I don’t really see how science can be easily pigeonholed as a put-upon dogma. It seems to me to be a simple response to our five (or more) senses. We use these senses to observe. I am no scientist. But I do need to feed my intellect one way or another. Science does that without striving to invent fairy tales or lie to me. I can rest as well as be stimulated in the extraordinary observable world.
I wouldn’t claim that I am perfect. However I feel hope in my newfound ability not to forever cloud my experience in dogma and doubts. I can tell I have an improved ability to learn and adjust to the world.
It’s the gift of life. The gift of humanness. The gift of existence. Nothing more. Nothing less.