"Using relevance purposefully to find and detect resonance in us can help us become better learners and ultimately give us a much different perspective on life. 'Cause in the end, pretty much anything can be relevant through finding and establishing the right context. The 'relevant' context that is different for each of us."
I like your explanation here. I could say it resonates with me. You are right that this can be used as a tool for good but I fear that it has a dark side as well. I suppose it depends who is trying to make what resonate with whom. That is to say, where an individual could use this as to direct oneself or we, as outside actors could lead other to a better place so to could a bad actor use relevance to misdirect a person or groups resonance.
I could be misunderstanding the point but I think of the media, for example, adding a cultural relevance to create a message that resonates with a group but leads them in the wrong direction. Like when they blow up a questionable police shooting, knowing that it will lead to riots and civil unrest because they will profit on reporting on the civil unrest that they helped to create.
I guess to put it in more mystical terms, if we can say using relevance to conjure resonance is a spiritual or even magical action, then the is also the black magic side of the coin.
I have been taking a lot of mushrooms lately so it is fully possible that I am reading too much into this lol.
Yes, every thing has several sides. Relevance can be artificially created by a constant and ever-repeating message, which, because it is suddenly in the field of repetition, acquires an importance that it basically does not need to have. We humans can be like monkeys, examining everything that happens to come into our view and trying to snatch it out of each other's hands so that it becomes our mission. But the very next moment something else catches our attention and what seemed heavily significant yesterday is no longer so today. And so we plod from one branch to the other, but without the quality of true monkeyness. While the monkey has already forgotten what lies behind it, we humans additionally burden ourselves with guilt, shame and duty.
Insofar as I experience unadulterated resonance, it is always something that I cannot describe, cannot put into words very well. Trying to explain the inexplicable can only ever be weaker than the actual experience. Where it succeeds, at least to a certain extent, it expresses itself in art.
What you read in another ones words, cannot be too much, no? You determine the meaning of them, don't you?
you feel you may not accurately describe "unadulterated resonance" but you nailed the adulterated one.
even using that adjective is a mindblower ahahaha.
thank you for that massive insight to the already massive comment. you people are just such a breath of fresh air after I have been away for months.
Thank you for that!
HaHa, I enjoy finding unusual expressions. As a non native English speaker I may find them more often. LOL
massive comments are s speciality of mine. Happy, to serve you as a fresh air bringer.
I would miss being here, too. It's good though to take a break once in a while. This happens naturally for some and must be taken by others. I am curious about what you will have to report what happened during your absent time.
nope, that is a magnificent point you are making and you are right.
Resonance can be steered when consciousness is low in people. and i suppose we all have our topics where we can be easily misdirected by third parties or "bad actors".
so doesn't this all point to finding a new paradigm that does not utilize middlemen? they always seem to be the catch in anything human beings undertake, and it's something i have been thinking about a lot these past weeks.
"The middleman paradigm" (Working title...) I think if we could overcome THAT and if we could all find our own way to that insight as to why that is desireable, we could find relevances for ourselves once more and be more certain they spring from our own inner world rather than from the outer superimposed.
hope you are doing great man, have a blessed 2022 with many insights and lots of shroomy conversations!
blessings to ya