Time to time you have to reflect with yourself:
Are those people around me “right” for what I want from life?
We humans are indeed a free divine expression entity. Diversity amazes our relation with the world. Be able to notice how every one of us can translate reality in a very unique perspective is (maybe) what makes my life this crazy (and intriguing) roller-coaster.
I cannot help myself in classifying my attitudes, and I think the same happens to you.
We have a specific way of interact with the currents collective stimulus of everyday and it goes in two very simple and distinct ways:
Or you are health about it or you are unhealthy about it.
Duality in its raw form… as everything in 3D reality.
We are constantly navigating between those two modus operandi.
This letter is my second insight about The Domino Effect.
We know that every person is like a Portal to our experience here, in this world.
But not every Portal available is a deep and diverse one.
Interacting with other people isn’t always about going out and being pleasing to everyone.
I believe this is one of the ways to do it.
Although you have to become very aware of who you are and who you want to connect with to discern about what you really want influencing your life.
Some parts of the Maze in your head you’re struggling with is in fact associated with the impressions and the validations of other people upon your choices or point of view.
It’s not easy to perceive this kind of comfort we often allow to rule ours lives.
The comfort of not discerning anymore with we’re acting by our will or by social pressure.
Our environment is also composed of the people we’re interacting with.
Answer me that:
Have you ever caught yourself feeling like you’re being another person instead of your true self?
Have you feel that, some moments, you act by pressure and not by will?
Have you ever leave a situation and thought with yourself: “Who was that person talking with my mouth?”
There’s no right and wrong about how you express yourself in any circumstances of your life; but many times (with you are a little like me) you feel like you should be more true to yourself.
Do you feel you should speak your mind often and be free to talk whatever you want?
That’s a unique feeling of your inner world trying to make you aware of what’s happening; trying to make you live by your means and attract people that are in sync with your world’s view.
Again, there’s nothing to do with being right on a conversation, or of having something wrong with you.
It’s just your real you making yourself acknowledge of what’s going on from inside out.
In the online world we live today, it’s easy to get yourself trap in some kind of ideology or pattern that makes you stuck in acceptable social behaviors.
Imagine you are growing on Social Media, or even that of yours or video you post gets viral.
What do you do?
As a natural reaction, you want that kind of feeling again. You want to be seen once more. You believe that that kind of post, video or content is the one you should be doing more.
You received an external validation about your production and your brain liberates a lot of dopamine from each like and interaction.
The numbers are increasing too fast and seems like it’s never gonna stop.
Suddenly, you notice:
You wants more.
The natural perspective here is starting to make more content like that one that is “working”.
You start to perceive yourself as someone who identifies only with that specific thing.
You perceive one isolated aspect of your wholeness as the whole you.
You fragment your uniqueness, keep one part to you and choose to exclude the rest. (how many time we’ve seen it in Social Media content?)
It’s like a ping-pong.
You deliver something and receive the feedback from that; most of the times, that feedback teaches you how to get that kind of attention you “deserve” and the cycle repeats itself.
You allow yourself to be the product alone of your validated environment.
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche criticized the “herd mentality” that causes people to follow societal norms without questioning.
He encouraged individuals to rise above the collective as the Übermensch (Superman), someone who creates their own values and lives independently of the herd.
I’m not saying that you are following the herd with your online presence; but it’s easier to be a “slave of the crowd” when you start to create content based on what other people are perceiving as value.
You should be aware of the feedback question:
Which one is you?
Do not be guided from feedbacks. Use it to understand you message better.
Social media, like a “pool” of Organic Portals, can trap people in repetitive, shallow interactions.
But, what’s that thing we call Organic Portals?
Often associated with the ideas of Boris Mouravieff, this concept brings to the surface the interaction that some people you met have with the reality around us.
We use to think that everyone can reflect and digest the stimulus received from outside and discern what can be useful or not. We use to think that everyone has a filter.
But, some people seems like they are not awake… yet.
This is a concept that can change how we filter information and what to do with the amount of “instructions” other are always given about our lives.
We can use this also to differentiate if people are trying to bring us closer to the herd mentality our are trying to make us reflect and really think, like… use our brains.
To be able to identify people in this mentality, we can perceive some aspects about the Organic Portal mindset. (and we’re often falling for this kind of behavior if we don’t watch our thoughts)
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— Role in Society
Organic Portals are thought to embody the collective consciousness and maintain social structures.
They follow established patterns and serve to create stability, acting as grounding forces within society.
It’s some kind of collective fear we can feel from other people and the environment.
And seems like the society itself is based on fear. Have you ever though about that?
People live with fear of losing their basic structure, like the personality, love language, habits and all they are relying on and build for years.
So, as a natural automatic behavior, we fear change.
But Organic Portals also defend the no change at all and point fingers at you with you want to explore another point of view.
— Lack of Individuality
Organic Portals are often depicted as having limited self-awareness or deeper existential questioning.
Instead of pursuing personal spiritual growth, they function as parts of a larger whole, reflecting and sometimes reinforcing societal norms or the consciousness of the group they belong to.
That’s all because with the fear mindset comes the necessity of security.
The need to be accepted can and will modulate your behavior or, even worst, your beliefs.
It’s not just a way of being together in a group or to align with everyone that have the same ideals.
It’s more like “excluding the outside*”* together and becoming the “major dominant “group”
Basically I perceive that kind of mindset as a black resin that will suppress your individual will and make you commune with some behaviors that aren’t your preferences at all.
And what’s more dangerous about that is when you stop to perceive this barriers, or “Mazekind” People, and start to lack the ability to see them as a opportunity to grow, learn and overcome…
The danger is indeed their limited (collective) point of view that will force you to consent with their general thinking.
Will make you doubt yourself and make you fear to be different or be your authentic self; convincing you that you have some obligation with those subjective rules and mind games of their own.
“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.” — Søren Kierkegaard
You don’t have to live in a bubble. But take your own bubble to wherever you go.
The label is cool, isn’t? The term “Organic Portals.”
Organic Portals is a nice way of express and define this. I really appreciate the term.
I didn’t now Boris until I met his concept of those Portals;
Although our guy Boris is not the first one to talk about that and he doesn’t lived even close to Social Media in his lifetime, I really like to talk about those concepts and bringing them to our current reality.
In this search of trying to understand better this whole Portal thing, I came across with two timeless concepts that we can relate to this and embase this reflection with more… traditionalism:
— The Buddhist Concept of Samsara
Samsara is the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that individuals are trapped in due to ignorance and attachment.
This is the concept of Organic Portals.
If we think about deaths and rebirths of Social Media Trends, it’s the same as being trap in a cycle of given away your Power of Perception to things that do not deserve your full attention.
Instead of reflecting about the “big informational waves” and how they’re formed, you believe that the little water ripples “close to the beach” is all that ever existed.
— Sufi’s Concept of the ‘Veil’
Sufi mysticism describes veils between individuals and divine reality.
In this view, Organic Portals might represent those veils, functioning as tests that prevent people from seeing truth until they gain spiritual insight and maturity.
And about that, we can make another link with the environment/people you surround yourself with.
It’s fundamental to your growth that you have people around you who wants to, at least, perceive the veil.
Theres a greater reality beyond this repetitive cycle of validation and following the herd kind of behavior that can save your sanity and even bring you back to what’s really important inside the Internet:
Interaction → Reflection → Application → Growth
And it’s not just about your influencing behavior or followers numbers.
Those aspects can be the side effect.
The real growth is to use this vast online outlaw land to see yourself better from another point of view.
And by doing so, you can integrate one of the greatest and loyal habits to this digital landscape…
The Digital Flow.
“As the rivers flowing east and west merge in the sea and become one with it, forgetting they were ever separate rivers, so do all creatures lose their separateness when they merge into pure Being.” — Chandogya Upanishad
We, as human, have this common feeling of being part of something greater. Being accepted in a community that understand and care for us.
As ancients cultures have been teaching for thousand of years, it’s a natural aim to be reconnected to the source.
The real community of ours souls, if we can say that.
The difference between Organic Portals and this Essencial Search for Home and refuge in an external (internal) entity bigger than us, is that the first one is driven by blindness and leads to fragile unconscious attitudes of following trends and blend to the crowd.
The last one is driven by reflection and awareness, leading to a real conscious lifestyle.
Here we have the Digital Flow as your tool to navigate the black seas internet of the algorithm.
Navigate the online world with purpose, creativity, and curiosity.
It’s almost simple as that.
Step out of the reactive loop of Social Media and explore beyond the mainstream, turning your digital presence into a playground for growth and authentic expression.
Stay intentional, stay curious, and let your journey become the whole path.
Social Media can be the matrix agent disguise as connection but it leads to a “pool” of Organic Portals, trapping users in repetitive, surface-level interactions.
It’s a big and large mirror of egos and thoughts without deeper essential exploration.
Don’t you drown yourself in this meaningless interactions.
Use the platforms to make the Domino Effect happen, not to be trap in even more walls of this Maze.
Act towards your hunger to know more and better, connecting deeper with other people.
“The world is my idea. This is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Attempting to the Digital Flow is essencial to understand the web in its wholeness and, as side effect, transforming yourself in an even more connected, creative and active human being.
It’s the key to live on the Internet and make the interconnections with our physical 3D based reality.
For that, the best alternative is to moving away your entire attention from mainstream big tech platforms and explore more independent spaces (which I’m doing with this blog) like Forums, VPS and Websites.
You have a diverse number of alternatives to engage in the Online Experience deepen and more effective.
Choose the best for you and start your exploration gaining a new pair of digital eyes.
So, its essencial to be putting some actions in practice;
Think of this like seasons of your evolvement in Social Media… not that you need to get out of your Profiles and forget about your engagement.
But use it as a tool to let your ideias take a breathe and to improve your ability to discern.
How?
The breaks from Social Media build the space for your New You.
Experience Social Media in a different way. Explore it with a different perspective.
You’re used to follow people and accounts that the main propose is to entertaining yourself, aren’t you?
Change it.
Try to follow accounts that will bring you more content about what you really wants to learn.
Better yet, imagine that all the people you follow are the people that your true Self would be friends with.
With that, encourage yourself to take long breaks during the day to not touch your cellphone.
And, when you do, you open the that new reality of people and accounts that are align with what you really wants for your life.
Engaging in those two strategies, everytime you feel the necessity to check your phone and social media feed, you’ll be in touch with references and inspirations about what will, in fact, improve your skills and move you forward in your learning.
Online connections and spaces are not reduced to Big Techs Platforms.
How often do you search for forums or others alternatives fonts of knowledge?
How many Newsletter had you signed (with intention) in the last couple months?
Do you navigate to another websites and open web spaces other than your Feed on Instagram or Facebook?
We all have online habits. We close our minds to associate wi-fi access with Social Media profiles.
Most of the times, we just “need” internet to see the news of those same people. Everyday. The same ones that popup on our Instagram Stories.
Make yourself more creative with your own navigation.
Take the time to “go out” and see new things that are happening day to day on the Internet.
(Do you know any site of the Web3?)
Be curious about it. It’s worth it.
Trace a new Internet map to find the Informational Gold.
Imagine this:
Now you can see yourself as a new kind of Avatar in a new kind of online quest.
You opened up your ability to see the Online Environment broader and with more details.
You’re starting to take out your focus of the Organic Portals and gaining a new perspective out of the Social Media borders.
People are building, experimenting, connecting in a very different way in the other side of the Online World.
You can enrich your Purpose just by knowing what people are doing “out there”.
Embrace your new style, your new online personality and try to find others that engage with it. (again, I’m already doing this with those Blog Posts)
The map is yours. Use it and expand the quantity and quality of your tracks inside it.
But be prepared… it’s an out sea kind of Journey. You have to keep pushing.
The meaning of that is to find people who wants to do and express more.
“Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly… suddenly he awoke, and there he was, solid and unmistakably Zhou. But he did not know if he was Zhou who had dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhou.” — Zhuangzi, Chapter 2
This mirrors the idea of moving past social media’s “dream” (the superficial digital world) to discover a deeper, genuine experience of reality.
Use more.
Explore more.
Discover more.
Your own Digital Flow is waiting to be your guide out of appearances and shallow Internet expression in the digital world.
Social Media is the key to find people easily.
But it’s not the right way to use the Internet.
Don’t aim to repeat. Get out of this hamster wheel where you have to imitate others to grow.
“Authentic yourself.”
Imagine if you could be able to connect with others because of the things that makes you different.
Things that are unusual but brings another point of view about the world. That’s Gold.
Living online without the pressure of having to be viral.
The alignment of making the right connections and express yourself out of Social Media .
At some point, your ideias will be more yours and the value you are bringing to the table will make sense with your own lifestyle.
This kind of mindset will set you free on Social (online or offline), putting your own reflections on top of the fake waves of attention reproduced to transform you into a slave.
The mindset that will take you apart of fake waves of attention which the goal is to transform you into an Organic Portal.
Opening yourself to the Digital Flow will set your mind free out of the constrains of that group validation which (today) Social Media is built on.
By overcoming it, Social Media will become your tool to find others alike you and to spread the word of your own authentic thinking.
We are all connected nowadays, there’s no news on that.
The great hackmind here is to learn how to guide your awareness to curate the right groups of people or environments that will expand your perception of the world.
Your life flourishes when you break the limitations of other people on you.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” — Jena-Paul Sartre
People usually deceive themselves by conforming to societal roles rather than embracing their freedom and individuality.
People trap themselves into “bad faith”, acting like Organic Portals, conforming to a predefined identity.
Step out of the Social Maze.
Those who seek authenticity break free from this collective conditioning.
Be your own guide and ser your own online experience.
Be a student, not a follower.
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I’ll be always reflecting and writing about our current stage as human beings and how the social structure of nowadays relates with the discussion of what’s our origin.
Some kind of mirroring behavior.
We make sure to align, even unconsciously, with the divine realm invisible at the first glance.
I hope this reflection had brought some insights for your life and relationships.
My goal is to reflect with you and create a life more fully alive from the inside out.
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