What is Spirituality?

Settle down, are the starting point for any radically genuine spiritual practice. The weather and it’s reactions in the body-mind in the form of addiction and aversion, are gradually not acted out when you stop having self-referential thoughts that causes depression, anxiety and psychosis. Experience the whole, of which all body-minds are dependent parts, is the teaching. So the invitation is to discover what you need to settle down!

The body then is itself concerned with two activites food and sex, meaning survival which are conditional on provision and protection and reproduction which consequences are being a father and a mother to the children. Meaning eating food mindfully, and being a parent to children is genuinly spiritual activities. The less you identify with your self-referental thoughts about the body-mind, the more spiritual you are. Therefore, we have the minimalist saying with less there is more.

Then the first layer of mind is that of micro-philosophy, what we could call truth as an act. For example, you take LSD and goes out in society and do crazy and wild acts, you go out and cling to a phone, you identify with your minds emotions and thoughts, and people react by calling the police, when they go close to you, as you are about too leave the place, there is someone saying they are the police, but to you they just have cloths that suggests that they are police, the aren’t actually the police.

You resist these people that are aggressive towards you, little do they realize that you are in a LSD induced psychosis and all you need is to be meet with understanding and respect. Instead you fight the police, and when they have overpowered you, you grap for the police’s gun in the backseat of the car, thankfully none got hurt expect myself. Later during severe relational stress you develop paranoid psychosis and thinks delusional thoughts about secret service tracking your movements, these delusional thoughts is a byproduct of the traumatic encounter with the police.

And the one you take LSD with, which wanted you to watch peoples suffering in Africa. Of which you avoid and goes out in society. After having traveled to Africa, had children with an African woman, one day have a psychosis goes out, and downs in the water. The conclusion then is that patterns connect in time, that emotions and thoughts have inpact on ones life’s trajectory way beyond that moment of tempoary intoxication of psychadelics.

What you learn from this is that everything is interdepending with everything else, not just physically but also mentaly in the form of truth as an act and being in the world. So then someone trained in school might think, being in the world is about the whole nation, or the whole world, but in truth your world consists of 50 people being your close family, 160 people being your close friends and 2200 people being your close tribe members. And there is always an inside and and outside of a family, a friend group, a tribal group, and knowing where you belong in the world, gives you as sense of identity not just as a body-mind but as a mind-body that is to say embedded in relations in the present.

But what happens when we seek to become the whole of our experience, then we realize that attachment and aversion are movements of waves on the ocean. OCEAN being an acronym of Openess to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. We then see that Psychology as a field (with is based on the axiom of self-referental thoughts) have made the distinction between positive emotions and negative emotions, which obviously corresponds to clinging to experience and avoiding experience, rather then be with experience, and not partal but the whole of it.

There is an name of not identifying with your self-referental reactions, emotions and thoughts. And it is called to be humble, humbleness transcends all traits within yourself and others and open you up in the service of unity. The infinate becomes the many which becomes that one, the god’s and godess’s head: your eyes are looking what you are looking for. Thus, when I ask what’s needed to settle down and open up to the whole of experience. My answer is that I need to cultivate humbleness—that’s spirituality. What you need to settle down, that’s for you and your teacher to decide.