ENERGETIC LITERACY
Objective Reality Matters Please know this: If you’re into authentic personal growth and/or spiritual awakening, objective reality constantly keeps your life real. For example, by now the scientific evidence is incontrovertible. Wearing masks helps to protect others, as well as oneself. And yes, at this writing, 152,000 Americans have died so far from Covid-19. This pandemic is real, and health professionals like Dr. Fauci have laid out exactly what we need to do in order to flatten the curve. Mask- wearing in public? That’s key. So that’s one side of the story. What about the other side? Let’s examine that, one idea at a time. #1 . If the government asks me to #StayHome, that means the government is locking me in. Objective reality : False. No jack- booted thugs are coming to anybody’s front door with a padlock. Subjective reality : True. Protestors like Patricia may feel very aggrieved, as if they’re being locked in. However, that’s a feeling rather than a fact. #2 . I am free to do what makes me feel good, and that means no mask-wearing. Objective reality : False. Personal freedom does not include the right to endanger other people’s lives during a pandemic. Subjective reality : True. In Patri-
cia’s inner experience she feels totally justified. However, that’s an illusion. Sure, the more stuck she is in subjec- tive reality, the more passionately she may believe she is right. But that doesn’t make her right in objective reality. #3 . Other people should understand how much this order to wear masks up- sets me. Objective reality : False. When people endanger the health and safety of others by not wearing masks in public, hello! Whatever excuses they make subjectively, the fact remains: Americans need to wear masks in public. That simple. Subjective reality : True, since Patricia is discounting objective real- ity and going wild with her feelings, thoughts, and beliefs. Consequently, Patricia finds no limit to her demands of other people. Nonetheless, her subjective beliefs do not translate into a legitimate need to sicken her neigh- bors (which happens to be a likely consequence of her behavior in objec- tive reality). #4 . Spiritual people should show me compassion. Objective reality : False. “Show compassion” behavior, to Patricia, means allowing, encouraging, even
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they’ll get health consequences in objective reality. Recently I spent a full session helping my client Joe to untangle the craziness of this passionate national debate. Joe’s friend Patricia had given him an earful, praising a demonstra- tion in Michigan where protesters with guns complained how they had a right to not be locked in. “I’m free to not wear a mask. You can’t make me.” Patricia accused Joe of lacking compassion, and that’s what really confused him. Strong You, this honor- able man cares as much as being a good person as you probably do. (As a matter of fact, Joe is even in En- lightenment; years ago, in my role as Enlightenment Coach, I validated that for him.) During his session, I helped Joe to sort through different sides to this mask-wearing question, and now I’d like to help you do that as well. Grant- ed, to many citizens the topic of mask- wearing has become political; I’ll leave discussion of that to the hypo- thetical Other Columnist I deferred to earlier. Here let’s simply talk energetic literacy, and what has to tell us about a person’s real degree of emotional growth and spiritual awakening. Since this is my everyday areas of expertise. Consequently, I can bring you a fresh perspective, one that’s probably quite different from your usual.
Alternatively, some well-meaning seekers are mentally bending over backwards all day long; trying val- iantly to “be positive.” Unfortunately, this causes a person to seem phony to others, and it also traps the positivity seeker in subjective reality. Seems to me – and I’ve researched this with clients A LOT -- subjective emphasis doesn’t help us to evolve spiritually. Although the beliefs sound sweet, it’s easy to slip-slide away from paying attention to objective re- ality. In effect, a choice is made away from spiritually strong and toward stuck . And now, speaking of stuck…. What’s with People Who Won’t Wear Masks? Yes, let’s tackle the problem of mask deniers, versus those of us with the sense to wear masks to combat Covid-19. Charles Darwin could have been researching humans, particularly humans living in 2020, when he wrote about the survival of the fittest. Quite literally, many Americans are expos- ing themselves to the coronavirus. Amazingly they’re not doing it with fear and trembling, but proudly. Regardless of their subjective beliefs,
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