Trust has several meanings involving the benefit of others. In my travails, numerous in some contexts and minimal in others, I’ve come to meet people who use trust as leverage to guilt, shame, blame, twist, and other kinds of undermining psychological actions. This is a perversion of the actual meaning the word Trust still entails.
There seem to be some so seek a level of control that is not possible. In the pursuit of that control is seeded the deepening lack of something that was never there before. Empathetically, the lack of basic trust is often tied to childhood experiences. The assumption of how things go will be that person getting a permissions slip to not cultivate trust or, a increasingly taboo concept: faith.
Faith in life working out. In the absence of faith, and I do not mean blind faith, but faith that is cultivated deeply within some rooted sense of being requires the foundational Maslow hierarchy of needs met to realise the rest of the triangle. This realisation comes innately from the person him or herself. The promise of a master class or secret transforming you is often a bait for sales. This is not to diminish the usefulness of immersive learning experiences, which are full of trust and faith cultivating record-making and foundation layers.
So when people are inputing letter forms to a machine, whether that was a magnetic tug on a Ouija board or the power driven pulls on the technologically driven A.I. and Chatbots, the ghost in the machine is similar: a reflection of what people have been inputting into their devices refracted back to them. It’s no longer trust and faith in life (which may have been absent already), it’s the snake eating its tail.
As someone who does enjoy similarities and congruences a lot, these days it seems increasingly important to notice difference and the beauty of those. Scientific methods are all about that really, tesint and idea against the tolerance field of reality, instead of pushing a theory through reality to make it true. The latter reads a bit like the pale green insane asylum motives. And it’s really that spooky, our connection to the etheric realms is deepening, and I really hope people know what kind of subconscious demons, nymphs, ghouls, saints, and everything else that’s ALREADY been opening up.
I meditate daily praying the way things are now was cultivated by structures that can be amended and healed, and not destructively revolutionised, that the mental hysterics are aimed to distract and contort to control minds from presence which is always available. Your body, however, can be a needle, such as Kimsooja’s artwork, Needle Women, shows. Behind and within the divide of control versus trust, in a steady stream of belief driven media screens are real lives doing real research, obfuscated by belief and screens from the public’s mind. News in Ohio, news in Oklahoma, things happening on your street locally to tune into. All this said not to shame those who find means of making a living non--locally. The cultural guilt and shaming trip has been another means of sophistry. I continue to wonder why sophistication, or that which is rooted in sophistry was deemed wiser? Wiser if you think deceit and mind games are fun, wiser if one feels superior in those kind of tactics. So the question about knowledge, I’ve had my whole life still stands: what do you think is intelligent?