Becoming part of the solution

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If you’re feeling lost and directionless in life, you’re not alone. Many people struggle with confusion and unproductivity, and there are often two main reasons for this. In the following passage, we’ll explore these reasons and what you can do to overcome them. By understanding the importance of personal growth and taking responsibility for your actions, you can progress and evolve towards your goals. Remember, even when facing setbacks and negative coping strategies, there are nonphysical sources of support that can help guide you towards a fulfilling life. So keep reading to learn more.

The first reason people can become confused and unproductive in life is because they don’t understand the big picture of life, and don’t realise that their choices and actions are important for their personal growth and evolution. This can leave them feeling lost and directionless.

The second reason is because their thoughts and beliefs are so twisted and self-centered that they can’t tell the difference between what’s good for them and what’s bad for them. This can cause them to make bad choices and lose their sense of direction in life.

When people are in this state, they may turn to negative coping strategies like cynicism, self-pity, and escapism. However, the process of evolution doesn’t care about their excuses or reasons for not succeeding. In order to progress and evolve, they must make the right choices and take responsibility for their actions.

While evolution is patient and allows for mistakes and setbacks, it’s ultimately up to the individual to choose whether they will sink or swim. However, they can also receive help and support from nonphysical sources who understand the importance of personal growth.

In his passage below Tom Campbell uses rats in a maze as a metaphor to describe how individuals can become lost, confused, and unproductive in life if they fail to understand the game and their reality, or if their ego and fears prevent them from distinguishing between positive and negative experiences.

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”You can be confused and non productive (perhaps fail) if: (1) you do not understand the game and therefore do not know that your reality is actually an amazing maze of many choices that is driving the evolution of your consciousness – therefore remaining purposeless, pointless and without focus – not even trying.

You can be confused and non productive (perhaps fail) if: (1) you do not understand the game and therefore do not know that your reality is actually an amazing maze of many choices that is driving the evolution of your consciousness – therefore remaining purposeless, pointless and without focus – not even trying. (2) your ‘taste buds’ are so twisted and confused because of beliefs, self-absorption, attachments, needs, and fears (ego) that you cannot, or will not, taste the difference between miserable, arrogant, unproductive pudding, and loving, growth inducing, delicious and satisfying pudding. In other words, you cannot differentiate between electric shocks and fine white-cheddar cheese. You therefore lose your sense of direction and have no means to distinguish up from down, dark from light, or progress from regression. 

To a collection of such (metaphoric) rats (in a maze), cynicism, self-pity, anger, victim-hood, resignation, escapism, recreational drug use, as well as a fascination and obsession with sex and the symbols of power (including vicarious violence and domination through entertainment, competition and sport; conspicuous consumption; macho-vehicles and aggressive driving; and the ownership of weapons) become common personal strategies to deal with the anxiety (inadequacy, insecurity, and powerlessness) generated by fear. Value, purpose, objectives, and goals of being are lost in a confusing whirl of fine shades of relative, meaningless gray, while the original concepts of black and white are lost. 

These hapless rats will be driven and animated by their ego – their immediate needs, wants, desires, fears, and beliefs. Does this description (driven and animated by immediate needs, wants, desires, fears, and beliefs) remind you of anyone you know – a distant acquaintance, a least favorite relative, or perhaps your evil twin? You might be tempted to surmise that these rats are obviously too dumb to play the game and that it is cruel and unusual punishment to put these stupid, lost, and confused creatures in such a complex maze in the first place. Unfortunately, evolution shows little compassion and weeps no tears for its failures or slow learners. Goodbye dodo birds, adios dinosaurs, so long trilobites. Your concept of “fair” is a function of your ego and belief systems and mostly irrelevant. 

Reasons and excuses for not making it or getting it fall on the deaf ears of the Fundamental Process of evolution. Making it and getting it, within your given set of possible interactions, are the non-negotiable requirements of evolutionary progress. An evolving system is either unprofitable (say goodbye if that condition is not turned around in time), profitable (progress is being made), or neither (an astable condition that is hanging around waiting to see which way it will go). 

Cruel and unusual? Too difficult? Do you sometimes feel that unreasonable conditions for growth are forced upon you? Sure, like bad weather at a picnic is forced upon you by mean old Mother Nature. The Fundamental Process, as it applies itself to an individuated consciousness, is not personal regardless of how helpless resignation, ego, anger, paranoia, cynicism, or self-pity might construe it. 

If you think it is personal, you are probably placing yourself” too high up on the consciousness chain. Bacteria are extremely important to us, our life depends on them, but what we do that affects bacteria is usually not intended to be a personal affront or reward to any individual bacterium. I am describing the general case – there are always exceptions, but they are much, much fewer than a poll would indicate. 

Nevertheless, evolution is patient. Patient enough to let that rat suffer in confused discomfort until it eventually progresses its awareness and ambition to the point it can evolve a solution. The rat has free will and some basic intelligence, while evolution has all the time in the world. This rat is on its own to sink or swim by its choices. It does have one advantage, however: It gets (as most rats do) all the help it can profitably use from its nonphysical friends who do care and understand the significance of individual progress. ”

Tom Campbell