I find it amusing, both as I see it in myself and others. The pounding of the nail. The use of the great energies of Thurisaz to repeat and reinforce patterns of behavior that are desired to be changed, rather than using those energies to break out of those patterns. Unfortunately, many people don’t seem to know the difference. They pound the nail of the behavior they claim they’re changing, not realizing that they’re not only not changing the habit — they’re not, as they claim, “evolving”, but rather driving the habit deeper into their psychi with every stroke of Thorr’s great hammer, making real change, real evolution, just that much more difficult.
The cause of the repetitions, as near as I’ve been able to see, is our grand capacity for illusion. Self illusion (delusion) most of all. How many times have you caught yourself tell the same stories, slinging the spiritual lingo, or putting on the same emotional face to prove how evolved you are?
I’ve played the game. I know where it leads: Nowhere!
Unfortunately, most of us are taught from a very young age how to get on the road to nowhere and to stay there like good little citizen lemmings. All our power, i.e. all the power of the runes, is put to work trapping us inside our own private version of the social illusion.
And the only way off the lemming track that I know of is good old fashioned, dirty and ugly “elbow grease”, as my mother used to say. In other words, hard work. The hard work of first learning how to do an honest self assessment, and to keep doing them, minute by minute, day after day. Constant questioning is not only good it’s key. It helps keep the ego in check. If “everybody’s out of step but Johnny,” for example, is everybody else wrong or is Johnny? And if you’re Johnny…
One of the most fascinating things about the runes is that they teach us that nothing, nothing is beyond us. Hell, right in the middle of this recession, when I was flat broke, I created money out of thin air! Did it appear in a mundane fashion? Of course it did! It didn’t just land in a pile of bank notes on my kitchen table.
But that’s not the point: The point is, if I can can learn to put the runes to work for good, rather than self destruction, so can you.
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