Give Me A Purpose, Any Purpose Will Do or Won't

Here are the steps to finding a life's purpose,  according to the Greater Good Science Center

.... six ways to overcome isolation and discover your purpose in life.

1.     Read. ...

2.     Turn hurts into healing for others. ...

3.     Cultivate awe, gratitude, and altruism. ...

4.     Listen to what other people appreciate about you. ...

5.     Find and build community. ...

6.     Tell your story.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_find_your_purpose_in_life

 

Okay but as i saw the missing voice here, i responded.

Good article, but missing the shadow. This refers to relativity and the value of the chaos, the dark side, all about  pain and mortality itself. This is relativity, my dear. The new story seeks wholeness,  puts the big W into that which was called holy.

Humans made up a world based on matter and appearances, their senses and their dreams They invented useful tools like arrows and numbers. People became ever more valued for their skills and roles, ideas and talents. This went to the heads of some and that is where things got messier.  So ego built itself a great manifold on which to hang, a design that offered protection from itself and unseemly truths. Fast forward several thousands of years and this construct has remained though the faces and voices have shifted and changed. From Genghis Kahn to Wall Street, from Sumeria to Outer Space, the patterns are significant and telling.

Along the way, one invention stands out. As most of the world has succumbed to the idea that what counts, is something that is countable, usually in terms of wealth which now translates into money or monetary value. Designed as a promissory note of honor, money was a currency, a little thing designed to encourage the flow of goods and services, to support trade and barter. It was a great tool of  convenience until it became a Real Thing. This is an example of how "beliefs" are enabled and then actualized. 

However, it is still really a mere manmade symbolic device, a "legal note of exchange" meant to facilitate economic flow.  So why do humans behave as if seduced and mesmerized? I have some ideas, :-)

Suffice it to say that "we" have been groomed to revere that symbol, we has learned to accept it as a sign of success and worth. That is a problem on many levels. Seems we have enabled an empire of nonsense and apparently no one has the power or the courage to turn it around- yet.

And as institutions, media and all the king's men adapted to fit this Reality, counting wealth became a purpose unto itself.  It was a way to focus, to avert pain in the short term and it was applauded. Therefore it made sense and became its own story.

That left out a lot of seekers and healers, artists and visionaries, that tried to see past its limitations. Then as systems grew to further support this Next Reality, the "monetization of everything" was introduced and many more accepted and embraced the wealth and power twins as an unconditional and legitimate truth in Life.  Participation in feeding the Monster is hardly optional now. It is the great "what is" and though it this "what is" is getting more difficult and the sacrifices are mounting,  causing more unease, more imbalance, more trauma, we appear to be at a loss. However in truth, humans created that Monster and can therefore tame it. We have the power to deactivate the old and nurture a new way of life. Humans have been practicing long enough, we can leap past these false boundaries and beliefs.

So what if we have this collective purpose to face the Monster, to own the consequences, and move into a New Story? What if we untangled the threads of "what is" so far and reweave a better, healthier, more intelligent, wiser and lovelier construct. Simply put, the classic vision of reality needs a remake. And together, we have what it takes.