Systems
_I: Every day I go to the pyramid, the guards greet me the same way, make the same jokes, and check my same ticket. In July, my guide here in Egypt, Ahmed, got me something unusual for a tourist: an annual pass. This means that with the same ticket I can access the pyramids for 360 days. Everyone knows me in the Pyramids area, from the sweeper to the general director of Giza, Mr. Ashraf, and yet, every day they ask me for the same ticket, and they check the expiration date while they all repeat or shout: “ “Matius, emberah enta fyn?” Or “Enta kolyum!”, “My friend!” (“Matías, where were you yesterday?”, or “You come every day!”, “My friend!”). To which I reply: “Marhaba, ana fyn Fondok. “Kolu tamam?” (Hello! Me, at the hotel. Is everything okay?) And after the same old song, sometimes with more intensity, sometimes with less, they welcome me. And the same thing is repeated in the entry of Cheops. The same conversations, the same mechanism... But in my daily life, in the monotony, I do the same... I wake up, I read something, I walk, I have breakfast, I go to the pyramid, I come back, I write, I paint, I watch something on Netflix, I do the chat and alignment, I talk to friends, and sleep… Over and over again. The strange thing is that I'm getting used to it, and it even bothers me a little when they change my routine, as if I don't have time, even though I have all the time available that I want. But I always set something to do, to manifest. I'm starting to be like clockwork... Like those who receive me every day. Know? Before, I traveled so much that I didn't have the chance to understand what routine meant, it wasn't on my mind. Perhaps the last time I had a routine was when I was 18, during the last months of high school in Barcelona. Since I was 18 years old I haven't lived the routine. Until now... And I see how people live, doing the same thing, going to the same places, seeing the same people, doing the same things, saying the same words... It's like a clock, like a schematic pattern...
_AM: It's a system.
_I: Yes. The Systems. We usually say that when something is repetitive it becomes systematic, like mechanics, in which all the pieces behave in the same way to always obtain the same expected result. There are no surprises in a system…
_AM: And therefore it provides security...
_I: That's why the systems seem based on patterns, which mean protection.
_AM: In survival, systems are developed as a way to ensure perpetuity. Plants have a system, each animal species has a system, and humans create systems, with the aim of transcending, of sustaining themselves over time.
_I: That is why people repeat their actions daily, because it gives them stability… Security.
_AM: A system takes away the responsibility of constantly thinking about basic needs. You know that you have systemic ways of accessing food, you know that you have systems of transportation, security, government, justice, and even for many they feel calm with their religious systems, because an individual without systems spends more time thinking than to live.
_I: How so?
_AM: Think about what happens to people who begin to realize that systems oppress, and decide to get out of the system... They spend most of their time designing ideas of something different, philosophizing, investigating, searching within themselves. Not all humans can do this, at least not at the same time, or there would be hunger, everything would stop, there would be chaos. For this reason, the systems ensure continuity without the effort of having to constantly adapt. The systems provide stability and energy savings. Thanks to them, you can dedicate yourself to living instead of surviving.
_I: What is a system?
_AM: System comes from the Greek “syn isteh ma” which means “means by which things come together in an organized way.” Inorganic System (chemical, subatomic and atomic elements, the order of particles and molecules), Organic System (combination of compounds that together generate life), Biological Systems (Nervous, Bone, Lymphatic, Circulatory, Respiratory, Excretory, Digestive, Integumentary, Immune, Endocrine, Reproductive, Muscular). Ecological Systems (Forests, Seas, Deserts...). Spiritual Systems (Dogmas, Doctrines, Sects, Religions...). Solar System (Sun and its planets). Social System (civilization, economy, education, politics...). And all its subsystems such as the Economic one with its protectionist, liberal, neoliberal, communist vision... As well as the Political one, from the right, the left, the center... As you will see, the systems emerge as methods of order.
_I: If Order in Greek is called “cosmos” then the Universe also has its systems…
_AM: Exactly. Like the System of the 7 Laws, or the System of Trinities, or the Geometric Systems. Universal Systems are those that make the Universe a Cosmos, a being that lives in order and harmony. Understand the system as a huge mandala…
_I: Like the rose window in the photo…
_AM: Yes, where in its parts a story is told through color and shape. A mandala is a system, emotions are a system... And they arise from the harmonious union of patterns.
_I: So, if I'm not mistaken, according to what we talked about yesterday, a Law is a choice that, when repeated over and over again, becomes a Pattern, because it gives the individual security that it is repeated to the point of not even having to Thinking about it goes to the subconscious and becomes a mechanical reaction. Thus, the union of many laws together is called “Constitution”, that is, following this parallelism, many patterns together make up a “System”.
_AM: Because a system is a constitution of different things, the assimilation and ordered unity of different aspects...
_I: I understand. So the systems are very useful...
_AM: Well… Better said: nothing would exist if it weren't for the systems. The system is not a tool, it is a way of organizing tools, the system is like the method for locating books in a library, or organizing tools in a workshop. A system gives order to the mind, soul and body. The Routine is a system that gives security to the body. The systems become repetitive the more security the individual needs to live.
_I: And why do people hate systems so much?
_AM: Because, like the laws, he sees them as traps. A system is like a cage. Imagine that inside the cage there is a canary that was born in captivity. And you say: I'm going to free him! You open the cage and let it fly out. How long will he live?
_I: If when you left you didn't hit the first window pane, you'll probably live a week at most...
_AM: Why?
_I: Because he doesn't know what it means to be free. She was born in a cage. He doesn't know how to defend himself, he doesn't know how to get food, he doesn't know how to protect himself from the cold. He knows no natural enemies. And even though there is data in his genetic information, this information is very far away, since his ancestors were also born in cages.
_AM: Here you have three options, then. Open the cage and let him feel freedom for a few hours, or he will crash against a glass or die within a week of hunger and cold... Or you can teach him little by little what it means to be free, making him feel that the cage is a house and He can leave it whenever he wants in a small space, where you put camouflaged food for him to find, giving him experience and awakening his inner wisdom in the exercise. Or you can lock him up, making him believe that everything that happens outside could kill him, scare him, and then he will never leave the cage. Is the cage the problem?
_I: No... The cage is a system... But not who nourishes this system.
_AM: So we go back to blaming food for being fat. A system is configured by an enormous number of laws, which are joint elections. Systems are not to blame for existing, in fact no system is really bad, the big and only conflict is the way you use the system. And it is normally used from distortion.
_I: This reminds me of the Matrix.
_AM: The Matrix is the name that incorporates all possible systems. But the Matrix is not here to control you... Remember... What really controls you?
_I: Lack of self-power.
_AM: And how did you lose power?
_I: Eliminating my Will, that is, my ability to respond, known as Responsibility.
_AM: Why have you eliminated the Will?
_I: Because I don't find balance in my energy, in my Love.
_AM: Why don't you know how to love?
_I: Because I live from the impulses of unconsciousness, and the way to Love in balance is from Consciousness… Wisdom.
_AM: So by losing your ability to discern you have lost control of your emotion, which has led to a lack of energy that prevents you from responding to the world, and you prefer to adhere to a system to feel safe since it gives you order in the midst of your own chaos...
_I: Wow…
_AM: And on top of that you criticize him…
_I: I understand…
_AM: It is your choices that have shaped the system you live in, and you will never be able to eliminate the systems you complain about if you do not transform the choices you make in your life.
_I: It's like criticizing right-wing liberal capitalism from a Facebook account using an iPhone.
_AM: That's right. Criticizing outdated systems is like judging a dog for not knowing how to speak. If what you are looking for is to talk, relate to other humans...
_I: Or get a parrot…
_AM: Well... This would be a direct reflection and without real evolution, since it would only repeat without its own consciousness...
_I: Like some people…
_AM: Systematic…
_I: So it is clear to me that a system is just a method of ordering things that were separated in a harmonious way, useful for quickly resolving issues at a general level. But if what I seek is to change the system, I must transform the bases that support it, which are precisely those parts that it orders, and all of them have to do with our elections. So the most important thing is to learn to choose better.
_AM: And you can only choose better from Action Coherence, not from Reactionary Incoherence.
_I: More Evolution, less Revolution.
_AM: Well, we are all a system, and in our evolution we generate new ones.
_I: I am a System, because I am willing to unify from consciousness everything that was previously chaotic in me.
_AM: I Am the Axis on which the System is supported.
_I: The coherence of my own Being.