Crowdsourcing the universe

There is a critical difference, and quite a gulf, between identifying something and processing something. The former is utterly useless unless followed up by the latter.

Identification is something we all do, to varying degrees, in every single little aspect of our lives. One of the first things we learn to do as a child is to identify people, objects, places, actions. As we grow, our understanding deepens and we learn to identify the unseen; emotions, the intangible, types of objects, sequences of actions, relationships between people. Personal development takes it further; we learn to identify our ego, our shadow, our embodied archetypes, our chakras, our blockages, our issues, our personality types, our agreements. We immerse ourselves in information; ways to identify what is happening in us, around us.

Information on what to do with our vast knowledge of the plethora of information available? That is a little thin. Infuriatingly, what little information exists around processing our information and taking meaningful action is invariably vague. (Can you hear that little frustrated growl in the back of my throat?) My pet hate, my most detested state, is the overwhelm of finding myself in the middle of a veritable pile of information and lables with nothing to go on other than my heart, my instinct, or my gut. Don’t get me wrong – my intuition is invaluable – but ladies, please tell me you don’t live on intuition alone?

I need mentors, processes, experts, a nudge in the right direction, suggestions (even if I immediately disregard them). I don’t need the answer, because I will invariably buck the trend and go my own way anyhow. What I need to know is how others experience it, what they did (and do now) and how it went. I need to know what the research said, what the sages propose, what history shows. My intuition will tell me, which path is the best one for me. I just need to create her a map of sorts, to crowdsource the universal consciousness and give her some options. What a waste of human potential if we recreate the wheel every single time. My intuition is a pilot, she flies this damn thing, she isn’t the engineer that builds it.

So a call out to all the philosophers, practitioners, experts, researchers; we know the experience is different for everybody and we promise not to ‘hang you’ if your method doesn’t suit us. But please, please, please have the balls to publish the process as well as the label. The world will be a better place for it, if only because I will rant less.