Ghosts Born of Your Reactions · When We Freeze Our Reality
⁘ “Your ghosts of past are born from the states of present. In this ever-changing flux, you react, you establish a state. Positive side: I like this. Lock it in. On the negative side: Deeply unpleasant. Avoid that. Another state of perpetuity. Another ghost born. To haunt you through your life – from the past into your future. We snapshot the present to lock it in place, into our haunted engrams. Liberate the ghosts you've created. Let the present be free.”
Your ghosts of past are born from the states of present.
All of this, an ever-changing flux,
but at a particular point you take reaction,
you establish a state.
Positive side:
The environment now supports my preference.
Lock that in, hold that.
On the negative side:
This is deeply unpleasant.
Avoid that.
Another state of perpetuity.
Another ghost born.
To haunt you through your life –
from the past into your future.
But must you truly establish
these ghost cycles into your existence
by reactivity, by preferential states?
Can you simply not let the environment be in its flux,
unfold as necessary over a gradient of evolution, development?
Whatever that comes, that is the present state.
Whatever the present,
it need not be snapshot and locked in place,
into an engram you identify with,
that keeps on haunting you,
that keeps on pitting you against
the flow of perpetual change.