Spiritual assaults / episodes

From time to time I experience spiritual assaults. There is no cure for it; they just occur and the only option is to let them fade away by themselves. Actually, I do not feel the need to make them go away, but that is a mindset that is becoming increasingly rare these days. Commonly people ignore them or even try to suppress such instants with all sorts of means, mostly medicinal brews. I, on the other hand, tend to patiently endure such episodes to the end. Maybe because I entered and grew up in this dimension in a time and place in which mostly everyone was of such opinion. People there lived close to nature and told stories about ghosts that they met in unusual circumstances while they acted in unusual ways, the spirits that is. They usually were semi-transparent, flew about like birds or walked through walls. That sort of stuff.

Ghost

I can't recall ever having seen a spirit or ghost, but the spiritual episodes that befall me leave no reason to think that they're (drug induced - I don't use any) hallucinations or psychoses. At best hairs stands up in my neck or on my forearms. Those are the physical symptoms of the spiritual sequences, but the mental aspects are more interesting, although they usually are difficult to describe with the tools that human language offers. But since I am in the process of writing this blog, I will give it a try anyway, because there would be no point in writing this blog entry, without attempting to do so. Therefore you may want to prepare for some involuntary incoherent and / or puzzling words in the remainder of this article.

The instants in which I experience the presence of spirits usually are characterized by an elevated awareness in which I become capable of understanding matters in a more precise and profound way, that has never before happened to me. It differs from moments in which I for instance discover solutions in creating technical constructions. Those I rather see as aha-moments. It has more to do with intangible matters that offer a more profound understanding of aspects closely related to the essence of life. We can do without most technical constructions, but life has a number of unavoidable requirements, even if many are totally clueless to what I write about here concerning such matters.

Dunning-Kruger syndrome

That sad observation merely means that society has drifted far away from what was once common and normal, thereby losing a lot of valuable things. But if people have no idea what these things are, they do not miss them, eventhough they in fact are missing in their lives. Modern life has become poorer as a result, less profound and more shallow, which is not a good thing. It resembles the Dunning-Kruger syndrome, that states that a lack of certain type of knowledge causes people not to be aware of the fact that they miss things that they have no knowledge of. This creates an unfortunate downward spiral that plunges people in increasing ignorance, even those that are highly educated in this extremely compartmentalized world of abundant knowledge. Having plenty of knowledge isn't a guarantee to become wise, those are two entirely separate matters.

So spiritual impulses are probably directly related to wisdom, while wisdom is not necessarily related to knowledge. It just depends on the nature of the knowledge if it is able to contribute to gaining wisdom. Having the knowledge to build a nuclear bomb does not automatically make the person that can build an atom bomb or hydrogen bomb a wise (wo)man. What's more, inventing destructive means has nothing to do with matters of life - it is associated to inflicting pain or illness or even to causing death, which is the exact opposite of life's features. Thus spirituality is directly connected to life, to existence. People that do not understand that are in fact dead, but just haven't stopped breathing yet. Therefore I would like to wish everyone spiritual episodes every now and then, reminders that life without an occasional spiritual experience, is not really living. It somehow offers life before death, which is more than just cluttering up this planet without a proper excuse.


Hasta luego online virtual folks.