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NAN J CROSSGROVE DC's avatar

It all begins ( for me ) with what we tell ourselves about ourselves. Define yourself. It’s not a task for someone/something to define you. This opens the door for endless possibility and releases you from fear that would otherwise control you.

Thank you for your continuing illumination

Offbeat Mistic's avatar

I’m new to your Substack, and I’ve really been enjoying the posts so far.

This one hit a nerve because so much of this world feels like the same scripts on repeat, same playbooks, same loop, year after year. Even the calendar can feel like a programming layer: “It’s January 1, so it’s a new year.” But is it? For me, my “new year” starts in spring. That’s when things actually reset. However, as a sovereign being, I don’t really need an external system telling me when to start, stop, or reinvent myself.

And then there’s the “background” layer of society, people living on autopilot, feeding the machine without ever questioning it (sometimes it’s uncomfortably close to home). When I’m grocery shopping, I can’t help noticing how many people seem fully absorbed in the system: team merch as identity, junk food as routine, celebrity and political worship as comfort. It makes me wonder: if a large percentage of people stopped donating attention and emotional energy to the script, if they went “offline” psychologically (and maybe physically), like the "hosts" in Westworld, what would actually remain? What kind of reality would still hold?

On the manifestation piece, I keep coming back to a question. Why does it take so many steps? What if, way back before things were corrupted, we could manifest instantly through breath, sound, and focused thought? And I mean truly instantly, not “in a few months or years,” but within 24 hours or less. Even within seconds.

I first learned about manifestation when I fell into the New cAge space in 2006, and since then it’s felt like the same script repeating: more methods, more steps, more rules, more gatekeepers.

What I rarely see are credible examples of fast manifestation. Where are the real testimonials that include specifics? Who did it, what happened, when it happened, where they were, how they did it, and why they think it worked. That level of detail is what I’m interested in, and it’s surprisingly hard to find.

Throughout my life, I’ve felt that “awakening/aha” acceleration you describe. The last 18 months have been such a grind for me because I was laid off after several years at a company, and the job search process has felt like spiritual erosion, LinkedIn especially. A lot of career advice sounds like: perform harder, signal more, contort yourself to fit the narrative. But do we actually have to? Do we have to work the way we’ve been trained to work? Do we even have to work at all? Sometimes I think Earth should’ve been called “Work Land,” and if it were, who would’ve signed up to come here?

Curious how you think about that tension: staying sovereign and not feeding the nightmare narrative, while still dealing with practical reality and manifesting your chosen reality.

Thanks!

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