June 21, 2018

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Episode 11. Given all thats been in the news this week, I took some time to focus on strategies to live though the Kali Yuga.

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In A Time Like This

In the spring of last year, a friend sent me an essay. They had spent all winter writing it, refining their thoughts on how to survive in a time like this. With their permission, here’s an excerpt:

Cooking can be a solo or social activity.
Recipes are always transferable, elastic, and capable of enduring time—unlike almost everything else we commit to the page. Recipes are subjective, localized, open to interpretation and augmentation. Any good recipe begins with a set of preparatory tasks.

The opening of mine reads:

1. Spend whatever resources you have available to you in this moment.
   All forms of capital should be considered for transaction. Acquire a safe and secure platform from which to work.
2. Ensure your work environment is free from contaminants.
   Address any personal abrasions or open wounds immediately. If you share your kitchen with others, it is paramount to your well-being that they observe this rule.
3. Remove omnipresent distractions and emotional absorbance from your immediate psychological terrain.
   Disconnect from or dramatically reduce your intake of social media. Restrict your news consumption to select channels at fixed times.
4. Develop a consistent and disciplined daily practice that ensures resilient self-care and builds core strength over time.
   Examples: meditation, Krav Maga, TRE, Queria, Somatic Technique, I Ching—whatever flavor suits you best.
5. Create and find forms of information transmission that circumvent the dominant and infinitely traceable modes of communication.
   The past holds techniques worth reviving, and imagination will supply more.
   Example: the half-arc of the Ichthys drawn in the sand by persecuted Christians under the Holy Roman Empire.
6. Build a strong network of trust offline.
7. Re-examine the literature.
   Research the most contentious areas of exploration that were heavily curtailed or shut down after the 1960s.
   Re-perform experiments that yielded the best and most intriguing results.
8. Internalize a new time horizon.
   Accept that you may be dead—nothing but nutrients for earthworms—before the effects of your contributions matter.
9. Treat the appearance and act of assimilation as the most effective means to create a cloak of invisibility.
10. Find the others.

In The Chaos Protocols, Gordon White writes:

“If there is an upside to living in the Kali Yuga, it is this: according to Hindu belief, because the world has fallen so far from its original elevated state, you only need to chant Lord Krishna’s name once to eventually achieve salvation. The gap between a person and that first mantra is greater than the gap between the second and the ten-millionth mantra.”

So then, in such an emergency, it is wise to apply your oxygen mask to yourself before helping others.

Ten Ways to Build Resilience

The Post Carbon Institute suggests:

1. Maintain good, healthy relationships with close family, friends, and others.
2. Avoid seeing crises or stressful events as unbearable problems.
3. Accept circumstances that cannot be changed.
4. Develop realistic goals and move toward them.
5. Take decisive action in adverse situations.
6. Look for opportunities for self-discovery after struggles with loss.
7. Develop self-confidence.
8. Keep a long-term perspective.
   Consider the stressful event in a broader context.
9. Maintain a hopeful outlook.
   Expect good things and visualize what you wish to achieve.
10. Take care of your mind and body.
    Exercise regularly, and pay attention to your needs and feelings.

I should have called this episode Two Lists That I Really Enjoy. I’m sharing them because I think others might find them useful too.

And finally, we should remain aware that social media co-creates the world in a feedback loop with the major historical narrative. We must be mindful of that.

Is the social psychic weather outside the same as inside your friends and family circles?