If You Don’t Create Your Own Life Purpose, You Will be Assigned One
Reality is Not Made of Atoms
Allow me to blow your mind.
Reality is not made of atoms.
You’re probably wondering: “Wyeth, what the hell are you talking about? Of course reality is made of atoms.”
And to that I would respond: “I am not denying the existence of atoms nor their role in being a building block of matter. However, saying reality is composed of atoms is looking at it through just one lens, a physical lens.”
On a metaphysical level, reality is composed of holons.
Now, what is a holon?
First coined by author Arthur Koestler and further articulated by philosopher Ken Wilber, a holon is an entity that is simultaneously a whole but also a part of something else.
A whole atom is part of a whole molecule, which is part of a whole cell, which eventually goes on to make up a whole organism, species, ecosystem, planet, and so on.
Literally everything in reality is a holon. And don’t think the process stops at atoms. The process never stops. There are smaller holons that make up atoms (protons, neutrons, electrons), and even smaller entities that make up these parts (quarks).
You can zoom in and zoom out for infinity.
Holons and Life Purpose
You’re probably wondering how any of this relates to life purpose.
Well, you, as a whole human being, are right smack in the middle of this grand cosmic orgy, and thus are also part of higher holons.
Humans, naive and selfish as they are, often neglect this aspect of being part of something higher.
This is exactly why our ecosystem is crumbling. We have selfishly used nature to meet our own ends and now scientists are telling us if we do not do something about this, then Earth will eventually become uninhabitable for life.
If that happened, our role would be just like that of a cancer cell replicating to kill an entire organism but a ring higher on the holarchy.
We would be a cancerous species working together to destroy an entire planetary ecosystem.
That sounds fucking terrible doesn’t it?
I don’t want to be a cancer, and neither do you.
Whether you want to be or not, you are a whole/part. You are a whole human being, but simultaneously a part of something higher than yourself.
My point is that becoming conscious of your position in the greater holarchy is of utmost importance.
How you define your role in relation to these higher holons is essentially your Life Purpose.
For example, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made it his life mission to achieve equal rights for Black Americans. His work had an enormous impact on the world, and we remember him precisely by the function he served to heal the human collective.
Buddha made it his life mission to solve the problem of suffering. And as a result, he has influenced millions of humans to live a more harmonious, mindful, and peaceful life.
It is up to you how you define yourself in relation to the greater holarchy that is the universe (tribe-centric → nation-centric → world-centric → cosmo-centric, etc.), but know that whether you spend your entire life playing video games and smoking weed in your mom’s basement or whether you become the next MLK, you serve a function towards these higher holons.
Wake Your Ass Up and Question the Conventional Path
I provide you with this information with the hope of waking you up and to get you to stop taking life for granted.
We are at an incredibly unique time in history where one’s life path does not have to be one of mere biological drives and cultural indoctrination.
With the globalization of humanity and the access of infinite knowledge at our fingertips, we can make life something more – a conscious, personal project.
With this Life Purpose, you honor both yourself as a whole human but are also deeply in tune with your partness, that is the impact you have on the collective.
With a consciously created life purpose, the goal is to create a life that is enjoyable for yourself, while utilizing your unique skill set to help the world in some way.
The alternative to making your life a conscious project is to be assigned the conventional path.
The conventional path will vary from culture to culture, but it represents the path of no questioning, and that should deeply frighten you.
In my privileged, first-world experience, the conventional path goes something like:
Get good grades in school
Obtain a college degree
Find a well-paying job
Get married
Buy a house
Start a family
Retire at age 65
And this is only the conventional path if played to perfection. Anything less than this and you will wind up living paycheck to paycheck and never have enough money to buy a home or retire.
I’m not saying that following this blue-print is inherently bad. Profound and impactful life purposes can be created in this system.
What’s bad is following this system without questioning it.
What’s bad is allowing your entire sense of self and self-worth to be defined by your cultural programming which leads you to being none other than a mere cog in the societal machine.
The First Steps
If I could say only one sentence in this newsletter it would be this:
Stop thinking about how you can fit into the system and start thinking about how you can make the system fit you.
Taking on this mindset is the first step towards creating your conscious life project.
By holding this perspective, you own your sovereignty as an individual. You come from a place of accepting who you are, honoring your deepest values, and knowing what value you can provide.
With this perspective, you go from a scarcity mindset (I must fit in to be accepted) to an abundance mindset (I am whole, how can I help?).
It’s easier said than done to make this shift in mindset, especially when you are not entirely sure who you are, what kind of life you want to live, and what your unique skills are.
But when you lack direction, you will default to the conventional path.
For this reason, the beginning stages of forming your life purpose involve gaining direction and clarity.
This is a time of learning, soaking up experience, and doing a whole lot of questioning.
Ask Powerful Questions
And I want to place emphasis on the questioning part.
Asking questions (aka contemplation) is a highly underrated method when it comes to developing yourself.
My life purpose was completely catalyzed by this method. I would not be where I am today without my decision to start a stream of consciousness journal and to make it a regular habit to go on contemplative walks.
If I even begin to go into how profound asking yourself questions is, this newsletter would go much too long.
But luckily, next week’s newsletter is all about how to ask yourself deep, powerful questions that can lead to soul-penetrating insights.
It will also include my personal list of the top 100 questions you can ask yourself to accelerate the self-actualization process within you.
But for now, allow the thought of your life being a consciously created, personal project to sink in.
Question if the conventional path is right for you.
Contemplate the concept of holons.
Given that you are a whole/part, how can you design your life so that you are happy and fulfilled (a healthy whole), while simultaneously living in a way that is beneficial for the higher holarchical order (a healthy part)?
With love,
Wyeth
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