'... Yes, there is something invincible inside me - It is my will. Silently it strides through the ages... Hail my will! You will always break out of tombs, shattering gravestones... And only where there are graves are there ressurections.' - F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
We are told that Achilles became invincible after being dipped in the Styx as a child. The Styx is the middle passage between life and death. Sun Tzu says: 'Throw soldiers where they will face death and they will rather die than yield... Men who have faced death can face anything.'
From this we may perhaps infer that Homer is hinting that Achilles had a near-death experience during his youth. This is what gave him his invincibility - He had faced death; it didn't scare him. He wasn't invincible like Superman, but possessed indomitable courage. He considered himself invincible, and this belief lent his spirit a kind of quasi-immortality.
When it comes down to it, the worst anyone can do is kill you. Which means what? That you have been returned to the source, albeit prematurely. Freed from the life of suffering and struggle, you return to the point of universal inception; to the singularity which flows through and maintains all life.
There the grass is truly greener! No amount of hasheesh will furnish you with the kind of serenity one finds there. The Buddhists are the happiest religious sect on earth, scientifically speaking - They have the highest serotonin/dopamine count among humans. Why is that? Because their entire system of belief revolves around emptiness! The great prophets in man's history are depicted with halos, symbolic of radiance. 'Why is the master radiant? Because he lets himself be.' Buddha has a third eye. We do too. The only difference is that his was open; we have yet to open ours. There are powers in this world who would prevent man from attaining enlightenment through the chemical crap they're pushing via material values and the 'pleasure principle'. Sodium fluoride calcifies the pineal gland, which has traditionally been seen as the 'third eye' in mystery-cults. It's in toothpaste, water, non-stick frying pans, Coca Cola, etc etc. The pineal gland is disproportionately larger in children than in adults, which may say something about your 'maturity'. Remember when you were a child and nothing bothered you? If pain was your lot then you would accept it and be at one with it. Contentment, happiness - You were happy gathering sticks, piling up stones, stroking a rabbit etc. Anything could make you happy, because you could always find something in any situation to engage your interest. You didn't need BMW's, gossip, facebook, iPhones. The first recorded use of sodium flouride was by Nazis on Jews in concentration camps. Bit weird. But as I say: Know your enemy.
The power of mind is absolute. Sub-atomic particles interact with consciousness in ways which quantum mechanists don't even understand. 'Mind over matter' is not the principle here: Matter is mind. Various philosophical sects throughout the ages have argued that a chair is nothing without being consciously experienced by an observer. One of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics no less - And people think that modern civilisation is the pinnacle of evolution? Have a bubble. Without a conscious observer, any situation is just a cloud of infinite possibilities - This is the very nature of existence, chaos. Observation makes it lawlike. If you are a determinist then the world will be deterministic, because your expectations coupled with subsequent observation make it so. If you believe the world is magical, then the world will be magical for the very same reason. The world is anything, everything, and nothing all at the same time. Live in a rut and the rut will be your lot. But fundamentally, as the old folk wisdom goes: 'The world is what you make of it.' Very profound, and a testament to the profundity of peasant folk!
Were you born into existence simply to be a cog in a machine? To perform the same mundane tasks day after day, with the only hope in sight is the prospect of rest at the weekend? That is what is expected of you - Does that therefore mean you must behave so? Who makes the rules? The world in herself knows no rules - She is chaos, through and through. Embody this chaos, this emptiness and completeness, endless possibility - And you will be born anew.
You cannot have the source, but you can be it - Therefore its value is above all reckoning. Do not strive after material possessions when you have no idea of what they actually are. If you knew what they were [and hopefully now you will have at least some idea of their ontology] then you wouldn't seek them with such ardour. They are nothing, nothing, in comparison to the gifts you are born with. Do not neglect them, I beg you from the heart.
'If you want to be given everything, then give everything up' - Lao Tzu
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