Post No. 3,453 - Thoughts of an alleged deep thinker

Recently a friend described me as “a deep thinker”, which has never happened to me before - that I can recall. 

It is possible that others may have thought that, but wrongly decided I “knew” it - a particularly pernicious problem that afflicts many combative professions, in my opinion, and which denied me the encouragement and boost to my confidence that the actual comment did (a lot of people have slagged off at me over the years for a range of issues, which is one of the reasons I took early retirement from engineering [where the criticism included “not being a team player” - when I acted in accordance with my ethics], and is also one of the reasons I have not bothered doing things like trying to write about my specialty in engineering, or about sailing, and so on). 

One of the reasons I have considered stopping blogging or posting on Substack is the lack of feedback - I keep going out of a stubborn sense of principle, and a hope that someone in the future may find something I have done worthwhile. 

So ... if there is someone you admire for something, make sure to tell them. Assuming they “know” could be wrong - and is likely to be wrong for many women, people of colour, autists, introverts/HSPs, victims of trauma, etc. 

 

There was another comment by my friend which intrigued me and got me thinking further, which was that the deep thinkers he knew usually find a comfortable life on “the fringe” - which I interpreted as a lifestyle with low physical engagement with society (although possibly spiritual engagement, given the example of Alan Watts * that he cited).  

So ... I wonder ... does that mean they lived alternative lifestyles, or somewhat conventional lives but with minimal engagement with society (or the combative economic parts of society), or were buried in academia somewhere? 

How do I find a comfortable way to live? 

If I had no dependents I know what I would do, how I would live (writing, reading, and maybe doing a little woodwork or sailing ... and doing some artwork), but that is five years away. 

It would seem I have to find a way to make an adequate income and, despite that, survive for another five years, and hope the damage done is recoverable ...  

If I had received such a comment a few decades ago, I would have actively changed my lifestyle then - which is another reason to remember to tell the people you admire that you do. 

I would have finished all my books years ago, and people could have used them during the current series of disasters ...   

Ah well. 

Maybe I can write a book about being an unappreciated deep thinker 😂 

But no ... I will continue as I am, and hope to survive.  

 

 * For more information on Alan  Wats, see   https://alanwatts.org/ ,  https://alanwatts.com/ ,   “Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?”   https://www.thecollector.com/who-was-alan-watts-merging-eastern-western-thought/   “The legendary philosopher Alan Watts is best known for merging Eastern and Western thought, and for bringing Zen Buddhism to Western audiences” ,   “Alan Watts: The Philosopher Who Brought Eastern Wisdom to the West”   https://knowledgeisgrowth.com/alan-watts-the-philosopher-who-brought-eastern-wisdom-to-the-west/ ,   YouTube ,  Encyclopaedia Britannica ,  Wikipedia  

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balanced positive and spiritually mature) 
safe ways to counter the "bad" (out of balance, spiritually immature) 

 

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Post No. 3,452 - On particular interests, consciousness, and spirituality

I just started a chat on my Substack with this:

“Recently I found the excellent Breaking the Silence project, and that tied in very well with the trend in the UAP/UFO/ET field in recent years (in my experience) to publicly acknowledge that much of this field is really about raising/broadening/deepening humanity's consciousness.

That is all good, but I am also stumbling back into the areas that drove me away from this field for quite a while: the physical evidence based, conspiracy-suspecting people who, as pointed out by the BTS people, are, out of the pain inflicted by abuse and unfounded/unreasonable/excessive scepticism (there is a healthy form & amount of scepticism) seeking validation in the wrong way/place.

This also reminds me of the spiritual bypassing and wilful disengagement of "spiritual"/higher consciousness people/groups/movements that drove me out of the “spiritual”/higher consciousness area.

Unlike the UAP/UFO/ET field, the latter seem to me to still need to learn about applied spirituality - you cannot be spiritual/of a higher consciousness/loving if you do nothing about the homeless in your neighbourhood, or poverty and other global problems, or being anti-bigotry, including of structural/systemic bigotry (in its myriad forms and manifestations). If you don't do anything about those, you are risking doing nothing but (possibly high [over] priced) escapism (while noting that some people genuinely need recovery time/withdrawal for healing/refining/developing their skills).

I had similar concerns about most politics in these decades of neoliberalism, but many voters now understand that they were scammed, and that neoliberal capitalism and other problems such as corporate and other forms of capture of political parties is ultimately harmful of everyone and everything. In places that have been savaged the most, such as the formerly democratic USA, awareness and resistance are improving and developing apace. Even here, where the first of the two main political parties is in the final stages of destroying itself (mostly over climate denialism, but also various forms of bigotry) and the second is bouncing around between the same sort of self destructive path and some belated attempts at making life better, awareness is improving - although attempts to change things for the better are lagging.

The thing is, these things are not separate: consciousness frames our worldview, and those both shape what we do/say/think or don't do/say/think.

Consciousness frames spirituality and religion ... which, in our current poor world state, are often viewed as entirely separate or at best with a minor overlap, which is a reflection of the extent that dogma and ideology have captured religions - many, if not most or all, of which started as societal revolutions. A question I have often used - and I know others do as well, so this is not something I came up with (it predates this current life of mine by a few millennia) - is: how is the person and the world better for having a particular religious/spiritual faith/worldview? Are there fewer homeless in your neighbourhood/poor people in the world, or better inclusion of minorities & better anti-bigotry measures to protect those minorities, or better politicians in your electorates, as a result of you having your religious/spiritual faith/worldview? (Or are you trying to hold on to social status/privilege, including patriarchal lies that infantilise and limit women or lock people into being tools of the power elites?) If not, I would suggest you have missed what should be the main point of your having a particular religious/spiritual faith/worldview: agape style (spiritual) love - something which improves with improved consciousness, something the world would benefit from more politicians and others with social-political-economic-social power/coercive influence having as well (so they can dismantle patriarchy and our various current destructive hierarchies).

If your religious/spiritual faith/worldview, whether it includes UAPs/UFOs/ETs or not, does that, then great - pat yourself on the back, and please continue.

If not, please reconsider ...”

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balanced positive and spiritually mature) 
safe ways to counter the "bad" (out of balance, spiritually immature) 

 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/