Modern Life is the Ultimate Spiritual Training Ground 😈⚔️
Modern Life is the Ultimate Spiritual Training Ground 😈⚔️
Understand: The tests are everywhere.
Our modern earthly world is the ultimate training ground for consciousness.
Okay, maybe not the ultimate, as I’m sure it’s possible to dream up even-more-intense realms for the development of consciousness.
But, like, damn, this shit is serious.
We are tested from all angles.
The traps are ubiquitous:
Screens.
Internet.
Entertainment.
Netflix.
YouTube.
Twitter.
Facebook.
Instagram.
TikTok.
Porn.
Gambling.
Booze.
Engineered super-cannabis.
Hard drugs.
Massively-overprescribed pharmaceutical drugs & vaccinations with toxic side effects.
Highly-corrupted-and-compromised systems of ‘healthcare,’ ‘education,’ ‘economy,’ ‘government,’ ‘law enforcement,’ & all other major sectors of civilization.
The ‘spiritual’ marketplace.
The world of ‘New Age’ teachings & gurus.
Fake, toxic food designed to be addictive as possible.
Apps & games designed to be addictive as possible.
Systematic mass-traumatization & mass-indoctrination into soul-crushing ideologies.
Babies being circumcised and denied breastmilk and forced to sleep apart from parents and separated from mothers at a young age.
Mass-disconnection from Family & Tribe & Place-based community.
Scientism.
Transhumanism.
Seductive narratives of ‘technological progress.’
Widespread sedentary lifestyles.
Consumerism.
The normalization of abortion and hollow, disconnected sex.
Viral ideological & religious control systems.
‘Marketing’ & ‘advertising’ & ‘news’ & ‘media’ as large-scale forms of indoctrination & population control.
The cryptocurrency & NFT markets aka casinos.
Supernormal stimuli bombarding us from all angles.
Vicious & morally bankrupt political warfare.
Actual wars & other forms of widespread violence.
The cult of our hyper-individualistic global-monocultural ‘Western’ civilization.
Millions of people still dying of starvation & preventable disease.
Forests & waters & air being decimated, desecrated, & polluted on a huge scale.
Pervasive virtual reality & metaverses & AI-generated deep-fake worlds around the corner.
I don’t wanna be overly negative here, but DAMN, this shit is SCARY.
As a father, I’m concerned for my daughter.
Concerned about how to best equip her to navigate this literal labyrinth of dangers.
And don’t get me wrong: I also see plenty of MIRACULOUS STUFF about our current civilization. It’s incredible in many ways. Yet it’s also such a gauntlet of quicksand-pits for unsuspecting souls. It’s so damn easy to wind up addicted and disconnected and despairing in this present world.
It is wise to approach modern life as an obstacle course of consciousness.
I feel this deeply.
If you naively ignore the pervasive booby-traps of modern life…
If you naively tell yourself that all this stuff is ‘neutral,’ or worse, that it’s all representative of ‘progress’…
If you let yourself be swept along with the masses in the generalized maelstrom of the zeitgeist…
You’re sleepwalking your way to doom & inner death.
I hate to be the ‘bearer of bad news.’
Don’t shoot the messenger.
But…
Shit is fucking REAL out here, family.
To be alive at this time, is no joke whatsoever.
In many ways, mankind is in a very, very dark place indeed.
Most people can’t even see how utterly lost we actually are.
Because we’re so far gone that we barely even have any remaining reference points for remembering what connected, soul-nourishing, communal, Gaia-harmonized human life once felt like.
Thankfully, many of us *ARE* remembering…
Getting flashes of recollection, in bits and pieces…
Doing our best to piece it all together…
And to forge a new pathway out of the collective amnesia, toward a future-ancient world rooted in Love & Remembrance & Reunion.
“The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”
Yet this is damn tough.
Tougher than most admit to themselves.
Even the most ‘utopian,’ ‘new paradigm’ organizations & groups & movements…
Have sizable shadows and in many ways re-enact the exact patterns they believe they are transcending.
This is almost invariably the case. I have rarely seen anything truly to the contrary. And I have never met a human being or organization that did not have some kind of unacknowledged shadow or blindspot.
So we have to be honest with ourselves about what we are truly up against.
I do personally believe that on one level we are in the midst of a spiritual war.
It’s not by pure accident that we’ve stumbled our way into this dark age.
There are forces in this realm that feast on mankind’s sorrow and fear—forces that do not want mankind to Remember, Heal, and Liberate itself.
Deny this if you like. I have met these forces face to face, and they’re literally demonic and terrifying.
Yes, they are ultimately part of the Divine Plan and part of the Poetry of Being…
But on a pragmatic, down-to-earth, human level, in *this* lifetime, they are fucking evil and wicked, and it is deluded to view them otherwise.
Mankind did not just randomly murder 100,000,000 of its own species in the 20th century.
Trust me on this. We are in the grips of powers most men have not reckoned with.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
— Ephesians 6:12
Act accordingly.
So, yeah, act accordingly.
Realize you are on the Earth-plane in the midst of a war for the soul of mankind.
Realize you are surrounded by tests and traps.
Approach all vices with consciousness.
Anything that feels at all sticky to you, must be approached with great consciousness.
This requires radical honesty.
People are deeply in denial about how addicted and ensnared and hoodwinked they actually are.
Don’t be one of these people.
Look at yourself and your life with unflinching honesty.
This is the only way to untangle yourself from the web of lies and entrapments that is devouring the average human in 2023.
Cultivate samurai-level discipline.
Become a warrior of the heart.
Bring deep awareness and intention into everything you are doing.
Aspire toward Christ-level integrity and alignment.
This is the only way out of the maze.
This is the only way you will be able to not only save yourself, but to help save your family and friends as well.
You cannot lead and train others to rise to levels beyond that to which you have risen.
Your students and kids will always hide in your shadow. That is, they will embody the same blindspots that you embody.
Recognize this.
And act accordingly.
You are not as far along as you think you are.
Humans who claim to be ‘advanced’ are almost always deluded.
We are children, crawling on our hands and knees.
I am a child.
I am a cub.
I have been diligently ‘doing the work’ for 12 years with ever greater dedication…
And still I am a child.
I am utterly powerless without God who strengthens me and centers me and is the source of my very being.
I am not special or advanced or ‘ascended.’
Be suspicious of anyone claiming otherwise.
Of course it’s all relative. Of course everyone is ‘advanced’ in relation to someone.
Yet make no mistake: We are as toddlers in this Infinite Creation, and we are foolish to believe otherwise. Any human who believes he is ‘advanced’ is extremely likely to be ego-inflating to a size that is ‘too big or his britches,’ and he is likely soon due for a humble-pie-flavored karmic roundhouse kick to the face, delivered by Mother Nature.
So…
Admit to yourself that you know nothing.
Then earnestly endeavor to learn and embody whatever wisdom you can, all the days of your life.
And don’t forget to have fun with it. : )
Furrealz.
This has been a pretty grim and serious post.
Because, well, shit is actually fucking grim and serious out here in many ways, family.
And we need to get way more fucking honest about that.
Our innocent children are being fed to an Insatiable Machine that is possessed by literal demons.
Like, fuck.
FUCK.
Wake up.
And also…
At the same time…
We cannot forget to have fun and be joyful.
We cannot ever let our own inner children die.
We must always remember how to play and be merry.
Why?
BECAUSE WE CANNOT CREATE SOMETHING *NEW* BY GETTING ALL DARK AND STUFFY AND FIGHTING ALL THE ‘WRONGS’ OF THE WORLD.
That only perpetuates the very fear-based Us-VS-Them war-consciousness that we are aiming to transcend, you see.
That will only keep us locked in the same frequency-prison in which we are presently encaged.
To create the NEW, we must *BE* the NEW, you see.
We must *BE* the LOVE and JOY and PEACE and FREEDOM and BEAUTY and CREATIVITY and REUNION that characterize the emerging future-ancient paradigm.
We must *BE* the Divine Children who never let that gorgeous spark of innocence die, even as we grow to inhabit elder bodies.
Do not go to war with the Old.
Be the New.
The Being-ness is most fundamental.
It all flows from what you are Being.
Yes, we must soberly assess our present global situation with unflinching honesty and deeply recognize its bankrupt, hollow, disconnected, and ominous nature.
And then we must have the COURAGE to RISE ABOVE IT.
To *BE* and *CREATE* the New.
By bringing Awareness and Love into every nook and cranny of the old system, as we navigate its labyrinthine corridors…
Thereby beginning to transmute it from the inside out, while harnessing its own energy and momentum to ‘flip’ it, aikido-style, in new directions…
AND by *creating* Totally New Systems & Paradigms & Projects & Technologies & Architectures & Art-Works & Communities, never before seen on this planet.
And by HAVING FUN doing it.
By LOVING and ENJOYING and BEING GRATEFUL FOR the process.
Every day, a Thanksgiving.
That is our task, family.
That is our charge.
Get heartbreakingly honest about the truth of our situation.
Then have the courage to rise above it to play and dance and create and above all *be* the New, with the strength of warriors and the hearts of children.
Who’s with me?!
If you are *really ready* to do this…
True Creation Accelerator begins in 12 days.
If you feel a spark, be honest with yourself.
For many of you, this *is* your next step.
This is how we *actually* do this work together.
How we *actually* transcend the matrix…
How we BE what God put us here to be…
How we co-create the more beautiful world our souls know is possible.
Are you ready?!
Let’s fucking do this.
Who’s with me?!
Blessings,
J
Jordan Bates
Leadership & Creativity Coach
Authenticity | Integrity | Love | Power | Freedom
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Wow! The world is definitely in need of more awakened souls that share the love and mercy needed to heal. After being treated like I was lesser than but a year ago I realized that there was a reason for this all. To teach people about unconditional love, to share my faith with those who didn't have any and hope that more people will wake up and share in this healing we all need and deserve.
Powerful stuff brother. Really feeling connected to this vision of the Heart 'The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible' reading this. Thank you so much for this one, it really lit something up within me. Super excited for TCA - birthing this vision of the Heart together!