Hall of Mirrors

 This post is written as a thought-experiment, meant to provoke further thinking and inquiry into the matters presented. It's not claiming to be in possession of any truth bigger than what is readily available for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. How does our world look from the point of view of somebody who has not received the societal and cultural conditioning, that plays such a fundamental role in the way we ourselves perceive the world around us? Entertain the thought for a second, that you are viewing the world as if for the first time. Removed are your prejudices and judgments you've learned to accept as part of yourself. Gone are the stereotypical associations you make automatically and quite unconsciously on a daily basis. Your very identity, so dependent on the environment that created it, gone, lost in the sea of noise our society is endlessly generating. Then what's left? Who is left? Who are you, human being, when removed from the context of the prevai

Sometimes I use Tarot cards as writing prompts. Pick a few cards at random and let the mind run free. Here's one such journal entry I would like to share. The deck from which I pulled the cards is the 'Dreams of Gaia' deck, which has different Major Arcana cards than traditional decks.  The cards I pulled were 'Integrity', 'Choice' and '6 of Fire'. Here's what i wrote: "Starting with Integrity - as should everything we do - which is a card, that has an energy, when fully embodied and integrated, is the answer to all our questions, for when we act from a place of integrity, we are in fact being true to our selves, in effect our True Self. When one acts as one thinks and feels, one has integrity. When one keeps his promises and does all that he can do to succeed, one has integrity. If one carries ones self like this throughout ones life, one is the solution to the worlds problems. The diseased and mentally ill state of our world can trace the