Your Only Purpose: The Real "Hero's Journey"

So what are you 'here' for? What is the purpose of your existence?

This is a very basic question that should be easy to answer, since obviously you conduct your life based on some purpose or goal. What goal do you conduct your daily existence toward achieving? 

Most people rarely even consider this idea but, nonetheless, perform the tasks of living based on achieving some sense of personal satisfaction. Others tend to unconsciously glide through life, rarely considering any ultimate purpose or reason for being. We often do what we think we must, without considering why. 

Therefore, We often do what we are told

Most define purpose based on a conditioned egocentric perspective. That conditioned perspective is “ME” and the more you can magnify, and press “me” into your world, the more “you” believe you will experience a greater sense of 'self.' Yet, most tend to miss or skip over one important factor.

Without “them” you are nothing.

So let me get right to the point, your only purpose in the world is RELATIONSHIP. You are ‘here’ for that and that only. You have no other purpose and there is NO OTHER reason for your Being and that is "The Heroes Journey." Deep engagement with the others of your world actualizes the 'self' in ways the ego cannot anticipate or prepare for and this makes it beyond your egocentric calculations and schemes.

Believe it or not, your egoic endeavors to become "rich" are intricately connected to a belief that wealth will bring others to you. However, this aspect has been abnegated and denied by the ego-self in the pursuit of wealth for wealth’s sake. Make no mistake, wealthy people who recognize wealth as the means of extension and engagement with a world of others, are fulfilled people. They have discovered the meaning and purpose of existence and wealth makes no difference to that purpose (unfortunately, there are very few who realize this).

Seeking experiences of pleasure and enjoyment are useless unless shared. Could life be enjoyed if you were the only one enjoying it? Living 'life' together is what makes life worth living. 

The problem is that you have failed to recognize this basic purpose of life and your egoic self-construct (belief in a “you”) pursues a separate " happiness," autonomous from others. That purpose has relegated sharing and relationship to the bottom of the barrel. There is no need to seek depth in relating if relationship is of limited importance. Thus, we have finite relationships conditioned on individual egocentric rules that cause us to remain disengaged and empty.

However, we've got tons of 'stuff,' most of it useless in producing a sustainable "happiness" of any substance. We go off in search of our individual "enlightenment" oblivious to the fact that absolute truth has nothing to do with an 'individual.'

Is it any wonder you are so unhappy and unfulfilled? Is it any wonder you suffer through constant conflict with those around you? Is it any wonder you often find solitude or individual pursuits more satisfying than engagement with others? Is it any wonder you turn to alcohol, cigarettes and drugs/medications to "lubricate" (reduce fear) your engagement with the world?

Addictions are NOT anomalies or abnormalities... but COPING SKILLS, because all you seek to do is alleviate your FEAR of 'them.'

Is it any wonder the world in general seems hell bent on mutual destruction. It’s not because you don’t know how to relate to others, since that is as natural as breathing, it’s because you fear deeply relating, as that might jeopardize your own personal happiness, which you have evaluated based on so many other things besides relationship.

This is not to say that making money to live comfortably is NOT important or that having pleasurable solitary experiences should be denied. But these goals should be placed in the proper perspective. We feel stifled and disengaged from one another and find little pleasure in knowing each other and that's primarily because we no longer DO know each other. Did we ever?

Some work 60 to 80 hours a week and have the best of what money can buy. Yet, what they are missing makes it all seem trivial, because they have become complete strangers to each other.

But it's so much easier to 'love' things than people.

We have become "strangers in a strange world."

From the moment of birth you began inventing a ‘self’ based on relationship with others. You are “you” because of your interdependence on "them." These constructs are rich with possibility, simply because we make up “reality” and define it together, not in solitude or through models of individual success. The world is a 'dream,' but it is a collective dream and we make it "real."

To relate deeply to others, we must know each other deeply and that is your "heroes journey," because through it you may finally overcome your fear of engagement. Otherwise, we remain surface strangers and the world becomes a reflection of nothing more than ripples on the surface, since we fear the depths. To swim in the depths literally changes everything.

What about those you have chosen to love and cherish? Do you exist in a “continuum-of-knowing” in which you experience others, and they experience you, in a new way everyday? Or has everything become predictably tedious?

Your old enough now, to swim in the deep end of the pool. Love ("enlightenment") is discovered within the depths, because it exists nowhere else.This is the real "Hero's Journey," but few are fearless enough to take the first step.

Any fool can go off in search of their "non-dual" experience. But what good is that? Best you go back to your higher states of consciousness, your OM chant's and your meditation cushion. You're NOT ready yet.

But when your ready to fully engage the "Hero's Journey"...

they'll be waiting...

...because no one journeys alone...

Artwork by Mark Henson - "Spirit Flight"