Ties
_I: If emotions are internal vibrational, electrical and chemical reactions, consequences of external causes and pulses, and feelings are reactions as a consequence of internal causes and pulses in relation to the external, and both are evolutionary developments for survival in the environment , then what we feel for others is just a mechanism for identifying what is good or bad for my life...
_AM: I am afraid to say that it is so. Feelings and emotions are an evolution of the nervous system. When you touch something soft with your hands, or smell something delicious, or see warm colors, all of this reminds you of the safety of the womb, your nerves send a signal to the brain saying: this was good for me because it created me and gave me birth, therefore So, it's good. When you smell strong or rotten odors, or your touch feels hot and burns, or your eyes see bright colors that make you uncomfortable, the brain receives a nervous signal saying that this produces insecurity and can harm us. Nature has developed these parameters so that your entire nervous system can identify what can kill us or give us security. With millions of years of evolution, especially among mammals, this nervous pulse developed as a reactionary movement to said stimuli, which is called Emotion. And in certain mammals such as cetaceans, pachyderms and hominids, Feeling was developed, the ability to not only store emotional data in the form of a constant sensation, but also turned it into an interaction mechanism that generates links between animals. individuals of the pack. This was useful to generate trust between the parties, and in this way, survive better through teamwork. Emotional and sentimental ties with others, then, are a nervous survival mechanism of the individual.
_I: Wow… It's very… Schematic. What we usually romanticize is translated into mere nervous impulses in evolutionary development to allow the transcendence of our species...
_AM: These bonds generated unity, the feeling of a group, security in the crowd, survival in a pack. And they called him Family. The family became culture, the culture became the people, and the people became civilization. The larger the group, the greater the probability of transcending time and space. The more bonds we generate, the more security. You catch more fish in the sea with a good net with many loops than with a rope and a single hook.
_I: It makes sense. But why then is talking about emotional ties a difficult topic now...? That is, why do we seek to free ourselves from ties?
_AM: Do you know the origin of the word Family?
_I: I don't…
_AM: Family comes from the Latin “famulus”, which means “servant” or “slave”.
_I: What!?
_AM: From the word “Famus”, that is: “to be hungry”, those who are hungry gather under the same roof to eat from the same plate. Family, refers to slavery to a group, forced membership in a pack where there is someone who commands, who orders, the boss: “Pater Familias.” The father of the family, in a way, the master and lord. On the other hand, you can take a Greek etymology, “Themelios” which means “foundations”, that is, the bases on which the group is based. But the key here lies in the fact that groups come together out of a need for survival, and this is why everyone has conflicts with the family, because everyone in some way feels trapped like fish in the networks of ties created by millions of years. Accepting to be part of a family means taking charge of its mandates as your own, those that are inherited by blood, as well as those that are conceptual, ideological and emotional. When you join a person's bonds, you are creating your own net to catch more fish. “Fishers of Men,” sang the first Christians and disciples, those who, from weaving nets to fish in Galilee, went on to weave networks of words to fish for people. To create a network, you have to tie the knots of the ropes and ropes, something called “binding.” If the network that unites people has been broken, the concept is “to reconnect”, which in Latin is called “religare”, origin of the word: religion.
_I: Wait... This is going off the rails... What you're trying to tell me is that each family, in its effort to stay together, generates a religion of slavery?
_AM: Exactly that.
_I: Uff… But, then, what do we do when we talk about healing bonds?
_AM: Buddha has said, if you have to feed a group of, say, 10 people, it is better to sacrifice just one heart than 10 hearts. That is to say, one yak will feed 10 people for many months, when 10 fish will only feed 10 people for a single day. The metaphor explains that weaving a network to capture many is not only a waste of energy, but a collective sacrifice. When you become enlightened, you realize that it doesn't matter the size of what you do or sacrifice in your life, what matters is the pulse it generates. An insect has a heartbeat, just like a whale. For this reason, the healing of a family does not occur retroactively, but here and now, in a single individual. In you. The more you want to cover, the more strength you will lose, and all those fish will not quench your thirst.
_I: So in everything I do, one of the things I have to learn, both in my family, friends and in the network of consciousness and people that I am generating, is that I lose energy trying to expand the group, and that the Myself will be stronger the more I focus on myself than on them. This is what I am noticing in these two months, that I have been more dedicated to myself, and the network seems stronger.
_AM: Exactly. And applied to the entire life of each individual, it is the sa_I: the more time you spend trying to get everyone else to be united, the more strength you lose to create unity from yourself. Sometimes trying to catch a lot of fish, you don't have the ability to manage it, and you and your loved ones are left hungry.
_I: “Fish Multiplication.” The miracle in which Jesus the Christ with two fish fed hundreds of people. That's what you mean when one heart feeds more people than 10 fish...
_AM: Miracle comes from the Latin “miraculum” which means “to look with admiration”, to be amazed. And what he did was amazing, an ancient technique that allows each individual to generate their own internal food instead of giving or receiving external food.
_I: How?
_AM: It's called Love. Love is the energy that satisfies and harmonizes the eternal magnetic field of a body. The easiest test to check is by doing what a baby does: lying in the fetal position and sucking on your thumb. The Love of the mother that nourishes is integrated into your central nervous system. This stimulates the brain to believe that sugars are entering the body, which encourages the production of insulin in the pancreas (which, by the way, is shaped like a fish). Insulin is a hormone that seeks out sugar in the blood and captures it, taking it to the organic tissues where it is absorbed as a nutrient, generating energy in the chemical reaction of its decomposition. Thus, without a full stomach, the body feels satiated by taking sugar reserves in lipids.
_I: So it wasn't a miracle, but organic chemistry, and tricking the brain......?
_AM: Well, it's a miracle. It's amazing, isn't it?
_I: But... What was all this about? What did you want to tell me with this?
_AM: Easy. Instead of feeding hundreds of people, what he did was teach them to nourish their own being, and create their own energy. Without dependencies, without ties. In the same way that the Pancreas creates insulin to search for the sugars that will generate energy in the body, the Solar Plexus, the energy center of the Pancreas, releases energy pulses similar to insulin that are launched into the environment like tentacles in search of the energy sugar, which we call Love, the source of energy between individuals. Thus, you can understand that all the emotional and sentimental bonds and bonds that you have created throughout your life have been in the need to nourish yourself with external foods, enslaving you. And if one day one of them disappears... You will be hungry, and more than ever you will find yourself immersed in the patterns of your family.
_I: It makes a lot of logic. So, emotional ties have all their positive and negative aspects. On the one hand, they strengthen our connection with others, creating security and vitality for survival and transcendence, helping in the evolution of the group and nourishing each other. And on the other hand, they are what keep us in constant need of others, in a bond of dependency and lack of self-management, where the group enslaves individuals under survival patterns, preventing the evolution of the individual.
_AM: For this reason, the objective is never to cut ties, but to identify them. When you are going to start a diet, the first thing the nutritionist will ask you is that you tell him your entire daily routine. Tell them what you eat, what you like most, how much you eat, how you prepare food, under what circumstances you eat, etc. Identifying the emotional ties you have with the people to whom you feel connected is the first step before starting the diet, and being able to create the miracle of multiplying loaves and fishes.
_I: So today's question, what would it be?
_AM: Write down. “What are your greatest emotional and sentimental ties?” Write down the name of the person, object or circumstance, and next to it write the emotional dependence you feel on them.
_I: Writing it I realize that I have emotional ties even with my different “selves” from other lives…
_AM: They are part of your family, because if you remember them, it is because they are still in need.
_I: Do I have to free myself from those ties?
_AM: Would you remove your pancreas because insulin injection exists?
_I: …Emmm, no…
_AM: Well, the same. It's not the ties that hurt us, it's our dependence on them. What is the fault of your teeth that you don't stop chewing? Simply learn to eat slower and be aware of what you eat.
_I: Sure, it makes more sense. You don't have to cut ties, healing is not letting go. Healing is re-signifying the bond, understanding it as a form of human evolutionary development, but something that we are not knowing how to use well.
_AM: Identify them, recognize the function of those emotional ties, what emotions and feelings flow through them towards those people, and you will discover what nourishes you in life, or what you need most in it.
_I: I had another doubt about what you said...
_AM: Tell me.
_I: You talked about how linking again, uniting and weaving networks is the same as religion. And my task at this time is to Re-Weave the Planetary Network. Does that mean I'm making a religion?
_AM: Yes.
_I: But that's exactly what I don't want... Because that creates the image of a Cult.
_AM: How many people follow you on social media?
_I: Mmmm… Miles I think. I do not know well.
_AM: Could you consider yourself “Followers”?
_I: I guess… That's what they're called: social media followers.
_AM: Sect comes from the Latin “secguire”, which means “to follow”. Sectarians, therefore, are all the Followers of a philosophy.
_I: Ugh… You just destroyed me…
_AM: Do you consider Humanity your Family?
_I: Yes…
_AM: So they are all slaves of a Network… A Network of memories, which means in Latin Return to the Sacred Heart: “re-cordis”.
_I: God… You just practically destroyed everything I do… In 3 sentences…
_AM: I'm glad. I put it in one if you prefer: “Family Religious Sect Returning to the Sacred Heart.”
_I: Why are you doing this to me? I don't understand.
_AM: So that you understand why for many what you do is murky, dark, and linked to ancient religious beliefs; and above all, so that you recognize that all your life you have sought to escape from what you built. You have sought to disengage, deny, cut the link with what you have inevitably created. For 900 years, when as Sigurd you denied religion, frustrated with Christ, and promised yourself not to do the same, instead of understanding why you did it, you have tirelessly fled from religions, from messiahs, from sects, like those who deny a part of their family, who cut ties with a partner, who fight with their parents, and then end up being like them, making the same mistakes... You have an undoubted conflict with the tie that you wanted to cut 900 years ago, and to stop your misfortune, the cosmos is an organic entity that rebuilds broken tissues. Cell regeneration.
_I: I wasn't expecting everything you're telling me at all...
_AM: Because it is easy to write on the list that your greatest ties are with your mother, with a friend, with some love... ¨But it is more difficult to see the obvious. Therefore, it was necessary for you to ask me the question.
_I: So, in the eyes of outsiders, I have become exactly what I hate and deny being... How do I stop being that?
_AM: You cannot stop being, you can only transcend it. Religions and Sects have the same origin, they are the same. Sects are currents of philosophical study, and religions are those who unite their students under the same motto. We could say that a Religion is a University, and a Sect are its students and teachers, all of them seeking education, which precisely involves returning to the heart and finding the answers to the universe within, uniting all the parts and members of the body of the religion. reality, that is: “remember”. The problem is when it is taught from the mind, from oblivion, and the University turns against its students, those who seek to know more than what is established in the annual curriculum. Thus religions begin to persecute sects, as they question institutions, and sects must hide. Religions become heartless schematic monsters, and fall into oblivion due to the lack of miracles. That is, bad and unmotivated teachers that lead to a loss of interest and student amazement. It is that crisis, religion is the one that everyone knows, as the institution that everyone fears, and it is those revolutionary students who have created the conflict that terrifies everyone. The basic concepts of philosophical education have been dirty. And that's what you fear, being confused with an oppressive institution or a troubled student. But, if Sigurd has given you something good, it is precisely the freedom of the institution, the search for the philosophy of freedom of the individual, of each being that seeks the truth. Now you know that the question is more important than the answer, and that the student is the teacher's key. There is no Christ without a message. There is no Truth without philosophy (from the Greek “filo” = love, “sofía” = wisdom). There are no philosophers without currents of followers and thinkers. There is no foundation or firmness without a Network. How did you intend to create a movement without recognizing these parts? How do you expect what you create to work if you deny what you have created?
_I: I think that this day you have given me exactly where I least expected it... And I understand and am grateful... I see it clearly. I have denied all my life just what I am doing...
_AM: Do you know when you can see the solar disk in the sky?
_I: When?
_AM: When, instead of denying its light for fear of the brightness it emanates, you dare to stare at it until the light no longer burns or bothers you, because you see beyond. What bothers you about the brightness of the sun is not the light of the sun, but its reflection on the particles of nitrogen, oxygen and argon. They are the distortions of what you fear and what hurts you... But the truth is behind it. Open your eyes, look at him, dare to go beyond your preconceptions and prejudices.
_I: …My grandfather hated religion. My grandfather died from the pancreas... I am understanding something, a link that I had not noted on my list. My denial of religion as such not only comes from Sigurd, but from wanting to honor the scientific memory of my grandfather, it is my way of wanting to give him my love, my affection... Heal a family bond, which keeps me a slave...
_AM: Ah…! Friend Sigurd… You have opened your eyes. It is now when you will not be afraid to be who you are. It is now that you begin to truly let go of the image of religion and sect. Recognizing that what you do is precisely what you deny is one of the keys to the hypocrisy of humanity. “Hiccup” (mask, hide, under) and “Krytes” (response, criterion), is the Greek word to represent that the truth is under a mask, which you hide for fear of showing the truth. The bonds you have created, both emotional and conceptual; They all remind you of your fear of recognizing that your mission is related to what you hide. All your friends are atheists or agnostics, your family is agnostic, your education was agnostic and scientific, your searches have been philosophical and biological, and yet, beneath all of this, your religious mission was hidden: to weave the web so that the family return to the heart.
_I: How do I live this in harmony?
_AM: Recognizing that both are your greatest ties. Science and Religion are mom and dad to you. United, they can generate something new and transcendental. In me, in the I AM, the polarities become the power of Unity. There are no Blacks or Whites in me. Repeat with me:
I-AM: This is my New Cross, the one that unites the Times and Spaces in an infinite circle of waves of vibration and eternal energy, reconnecting the Networks of the World in the Center of the Heart. Education is my Creative Word. I am Destiny and Lighthouse of the World. I Am the Walker who comes from North to South, from East to West, carrying Love and Consciousness, for I am, and in me I bring them. In my death the Christ is reborn. My message is Unity. I Am a Gray Man-Woman, my Faith is Wisdom and my Hope is Responsibility.”