Card #57 – Chaotic Social Conditioning

Make time for meditation and inner contemplation. Find the inner light.

Recognize the conditioned, chaotic patterns of the adolescent, socialized side of your personality. The positive aspect is that this is an auspicious time to work on that.

Who are you when away from the maddening world of the he said/ she said soap opera? In my experience, few people ever recover from high school. What is People magazine, for example, but high-school gossip on a national scale? This culture would like to keep you a fragmented adolescent all your life, forever buying stuff to be cool, endlessly working on the impossible task of perfecting your appearance, and ever on the prowl for the Hottie. It’s up to you whether you want to keep spinning the treadmill of that endless program or metamorphose into an adult form, rediscover your original essence, and accomplish your unique mission in the world.

see: Stop the Hottie!
No Tristans Allowed Beyond this Point — Debunking the Western Myth of Romantic Love
Confessions of a Self-Aware starship