The World Teeter-Totter is Broken

Life on an abandoned playground

I’ve said it a thousand times, we live in an upside-down world, everything is inverted, everything is insane, and while this does seem to be true, I wonder, do we really want to just flip it back the way it was? I think we might want to consider another solution, or better yet, a SOULution.

Extremes take us out of a natural state of being, of flow, listen to the word: Ex-Stream, to exit the stream, to step out of rhythm.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about going against the tide and encourage making waves, sometimes taking something too far is where it needs to go in order for the opposites to pendulum back closer to center.

And here we are in 2024 where it’s all gone ten steps beyond too far. Some men think they can give birth. And then there are the savior types that think they are special starseeds here to save the planet with grandiose wishful thinking, while waiting on rapture by spaceship. Electric cars are touted as the savior of energy while actually doing more harm, creating more issues and all inside a grid that can’t seemingly handle the electrical capacity from which it’s already operating. Poison inoculations are going to save you from an invisible enemy. Politicians are going to save you from freedom, just give them more of your time, attention, energy, money – then they will actually do something to help, but only then. Chat-GPT is going to save you from yourself and your ability to construct any thought at all, much less critically think. I could keep going…

The ridiculousness of so many things being highlighted right now as good, or normal, is truly insane. Everyone gets misguided sometimes trying to make sense of many things about life that can never be fully understood, but it’s become the wild-west out there, a cartoon like existence.

I think truths hide inside of things that often become diluted and warped. Concepts that don't often actually mean what they morph into and become gospel inside smaller groups, often blowing up out of proportion and eluding the rational mind completely.  People with good intentions and loving hearts get scooped up inside beliefs that leave out the other side, that limit other possibilities, that are not balanced, not able to play devil’s advocate nor see the deeper intention behind something becoming held as a popular belief and way of life.

Being certain about who you are, knowing yourself, and being able to understand there are things that are morally right and wrong that you can, or can’t, support is often placed in the same camp as being extreme, yet this is not always the case. Being true to your values is necessary for living the path you are meant to walk upon. It is when we deny this from within and get caught up in caring too much of what other’s think, in going along to get along, that we lose ourselves and collapse into a lesser version of being. When this happens on a mass scale, the world melts into a puddle of weak humans encased inside a dulled spirit, sparks barely lit.

Someone grounded with an unwavering capacity to live with a sovereign mind that desires the freedom for all to live from this place, the place to choose for themselves, may be deemed extreme by the actual extremists that denounced their sense of self, lost control of their emotions, mind, and spirit inside the system of control that has them trapped inside invisible chains. Indoctrination and brainwashing is not always caused by a “they” in a tower somewhere, but the collective cowering into corners avoiding the fullness of the human experience.

Thus, whether it’s the apathy of corporations driven only by profit, the grandiosity of the New Age, pedestalizing positivity and the ethereal at the cost of physical reality, or the collectivism of the hive mind, there are many belief systems that go too far out of bounds and into, either a superficial superiority, or an escapist mechanistic psychosis. 

The mass formation psychosis that began in 2020 created an observable reality highlighting both the fragility of human nature and its potential for greatness.

Individuals were given a gift to see what they are made of and what they would choose in a situation of extreme pressure, delusion and chaos, where many were simply not thinking clearly, overtaken by the narrative of fear.

In a world of inversion, balance itself is in its opposite and the harmonious ebb and flow in the seasons of life has become title waves of destructive fallacies born from manipulation. Manipulations in science tainted the truth and good it can bring, imbalanced without soul. Dissociation in spirituality tainted the truth and good it can bring, imbalanced without sensibility and logic. 

No one wants confrontation, friction, or responsibilities and everyone wants someone or something to save them.

The world teeter totter is broken, the playground of joy, hope and love has been abandoned. The balance of opposites needs restoration and the mind-virus has people spinning out of control in a world gone mad.

Finding harmony within ourselves, laughing at the ridiculous things we believe, or believed, is one way to start to recognize the cracks in the armor, the fragmented perspectives we all are part of, and an opportunity to see the bigger picture(s) playing out.

Recognizing our tendencies and extremes softens the rigidity and resistance to allowing for more balance. It gives rise to the deeper understanding that we’re all here to have our own unique human experience, yet to do that we must also recognize what we contract with, consent with or comply.

Time, energy and attention are the new currency and it can be easily harvested by the egregore of propaganda inside black screens. The discipline to, instead, turn it off sometimes and take back your own power is more important now than ever, to go outside, to re-charge and get clear so that you don’t suffer the “cost.” Choices have consequences and without freedom the teeter totter cannot ever find its equilibrium.

I write because pushing ourselves to find new perspectives is important for a balanced, healthy life.

I write because I know first hand how easy it is to be swayed into things you don’t really, deep down, believe to be true.

I write because the world is insane and distractions swarm at every turn.

We need contrast, it helps us find the center, to see where we’re out of balance, to recognize what doesn’t work…but when the extremes go too far, when the pain of an unconscious collective is made manifest in grotesque displays of absurdity, it’s time to find more accountability and less tolerance, more compassion and less apathy, more truth and less deception, to call out the manipulation, to stop masking authenticity and to know that every choice we make rings out into the collective helping to restore the humanness living dormant inside the masses or digs us deeper into division, despair and despondency.

We have to stop lying to ourselves and each other.
We have to stop normalizing mental illness.
We have to start looking at reality for what it is.

This is where change begins, this is where beauty is born, this is where silver linings can alchemize into gold, not in form, but in the substance of a meaningful existence.

The world teeter-totter has not just been abandoned on an old playground, but broken. In order for it to work again, we have to pick up the pieces and put them back together individually. We have to stop being so afraid of being triggered that we are always running away from life in fear. We must remember the feeling of freedom waiting on us to play the game of life in its back-and-forth nature like children on a teeter-totter.  It only works if there are two, one impacting the other, each playing a part in the grand scheme. Two to balance the duality, magnetism and electricity, the yin/yang of inner and outer realms, the desire to be alone and yet connect, the paradox in "play."

It’s easy to forget how much your life matters, especially when isolation is the norm in this ever digitally connected, yet more disconnected than ever, world.

The SOULution is to recognize that sometimes things need to break and be re-built. Sometimes the solution comes from re-connecting to the soul, the sol, the inner light.

Like the scales of justice, the teeter-totter is a symbol of the dance we are here to learn, the cause and effect, the up and down, the reaping and sowing, the consequences and rewards. Hold your frame, step back, step forward, turn, feel the rhythm, give, take, sway, and always remember to keep your core strong and centered, keep your mind focused, and lead with your heart.

With Love and irrational wisdom,

~ Angela