Month: October 2025

In my last post, I said the following.

“Because if you can’t find the words to articulate your life experiences, how can you possible express them to others?”

That statement is not completely accurate.

I think a lot of the times, what we’re going through doesn’t feel “normal” and that’s why we don’t share it and express it to others.

In other words, we often don’t share the ambiguity and uncertainty of the process, because it feels “wrong,” when it’s the very thing we should sharing.

Why?

Because if we did so, most of us would realize that this process and experience that doesn’t feel “normal” is actually quite normal and a completely natural part of life.

That’s what I’ve realize in rereading Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life.

So many of the experiences I’ve had on my journey felt completely abnormal initially, yet they are now beginning to seem completely normal because I’m realizing they are common experiences on this journey.

Here’s is a quick example.

Today when I do something that used to provide meaning and enjoyment for me, yet it now feels hollow and empty of meaning, I no longer feel like something is “wrong” with me.

Now I realize this is an important part of the process itself, one that helps me discover newer things of meaning that I feel that I need and are of value on the next stage of my journey.

This is no different than the feeling of being stuck. It’s just a sign that you are entering a newer stage of psychological development and learning a newer level of consciousness in the process.

So again, many of the things we previously felt were “wrong” and “abnormal” from our old mindset and worldview begin to become “right” and a “normal” part of the process within our newer mindset and worldview we are exploring.

As I noted in my last post, my greatest struggle over my life has been in trying to understand what has been happening to me.

Why?

Because if you can’t find the words to articulate your life experiences, how can you possible express them to others?

In rereading the book Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life by D. Stephenson Bond though, a lot of things have coalesced together and started making sense, so much so that the quotes within the book have left me dumbstruck at how closely they mirror my own life and how closely they mirror aspects of vertical development as well.

In terms of my personal myth, this is the story of my life that reveals how I made meaning out of my life as I progressed through it.

A key element of this process, that I’ve mentioned before, is keywords that kept emerging from quotes that I was reading and they revealed synchronicities between articles and books I was reading. At first I thought I was going crazy because I didn’t know what to do with these quotes and keywords. However, over time, I realized that these keywords held a deeper meaning behind them.

What I’ve now confirmed with three different AI chatbots is that these keywords were effectively the symbols of my emerging personal myth. Normally these symbols might be dreams or images that keep popping up in a pattern but in my case they were words that kept popping up in a pattern, over and over again.

What I’ve also realized now as well is that my personal myth is revealing my personal cosmology.

Note I didn’t say it “has revealed” it fully because it is still a work in progress as it is my life’s work after all (which I’ve always said).

More later on this, as I’m still trying to process this all and make sense of the process within the book which to me both embodies liminality and creativity at the same time.

My greatest struggle has been understanding what is happening to me. 

Ironically, this is the very thing I want to help others with as well, to help them understand what is happening to them.

In effect, so many people believe they’re stuck but they’re not. 

They’re actually beginning a process of levelling up their level of consciousness but they’re just not aware of it because society itself isn’t aware of it either, since society is still at an earlier level of consciousness than what is needed today for our rapidly changing world.

In other words, they aren’t aware that there is a much larger world(view) of possibilities and potentials before them, just over the horizon of their current mindsets, because their mindset and societal beliefs have told them not to go over that horizon for fear of death and for fear of falling off the edge of the world into the unknown.

“Here be dragons.”

Yet the sad fact remains is that many people today are beginning to “fall off the edge” of our conventional world(view) and are no longer getting the support they need from society.

They are literally everywhere, often under our very noses.

Yet society still intentionally blinds itself and follows its old scripts and roles, navel-gazing as it pilots itself off the edge of the world as well.