5 controversial truths that brought me High Weirdness + joy + 7 figures

These 5 controversial truths ("What is truth?" said Pilate to Christ, "is my truth the same as yours?")...

... have been the root of amazing things in my life - seriously trippy synchronicities, revelations of union with my expanded self (aka the Philosopher's Stone)... a lot of happiness, and a lot of money (7 figures in sales in my business last year)...

These truths are challenging. They're odd, they're offensive -- and they work great -- so maybe try them on for size this new year (Spring Equinox) ...

... and see where they take you?

What I'm For

1. It's possible for every human being to fully wake up from suffering in this life time, but it's not possible or even desirable to protect people from pain.

Pain is inevitable, like rainfall, it pours down on saints and sinners alike. Suffering is optional; like complaining about rain. If you try to protect people from pain, you're only "protecting" them from the information that's necessary for their evolution.

The greatest help you can give to anyone is to help them learn to help themselves.

2. All victimhood is ultimately an illusion, part of a darkly hilarious, super-kinky game that we, as God, play with Godself.

No doubt victimhood feels quite real while we're in it. And of course every person deserves immense care, love, and compassion.

I'm not saying no one suffers. Plenty of us suffer, very miserably. We have some super-dark collective shadows that create awful things like sexism, racism, war.

And. It's all a cosmic opera, in perfect balance. Being able to truly see and love this perfection is the heart of joy and power.

Why?

Because how you interpret the opera of life has a great deal to do with how your life turns out.

Decide that it's a tragedy to be endlessly mourned, and find that you spend your life in mourning.

Decide that it's a rollicking dark comedy to be applauded, and find that you spend your life in celebration.

Of course it's up to you, but just as a reminder -- Dante wrote one of the world's greatest poems and called it The Divine Comedy...

... not The Divine Virtue-Signaling Pity Fest.

Note: seeing the utter perfection and interdependent balance in the world isn't "spiritual bypass" as long as you're willing to feel and be present with all of it. Then it's just... well, spiritual, as in of the spirit.

3. Leadership, wealth, and influence come from being able to hold paradox.

You know what most humans can't do?

Grok that something can be completely true while simultaneously knowing that exactly the "opposite" thing is also completely true.

Being able to hold two polar opposite truths as equally valid without going insane is the essence of holistic intelligence, and it's a skill that's necessary to have if you want to make a vast, happy impact in this world.

Why? Because there's an essential paradox every leader needs to hold:

1) Everyone is absolutely perfect exactly as they are.

2) Everyone needs to do something different to get a better result.if you can't hold at least that paradox...

... then you won't be able to be empathic enough to connect with people, appreciative enough to truly see them, or penetrating enough to persuade them.

And that's just the beginning.

There's many more paradoxes to hold in the art of moving others to action. All of them involve being able to enjoy the highly sensational tension between poles.

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4. Magic is real.

Magic is the subjective art of actively participating in synchronicity. Synchronicities are a series of events that share the same meaning. They "rhyme."

Here's a quick example: the other day I pulled The Moon as my "Tarot card of the day" -- later that day, I got my period after not getting it for months due to nursing my baby daughter.

These events -- the pulling of The Moon card, and the arrival of the blood — rhymed at the level of meaning, they shared a resonance.

Since magic is the art of actively participating in synchronicity, it's the art of making meaning.

Most people don't think they have a right to decide what the world means, they think the "meaning" of events is somehow baked in.

It's not, though. ;)

The collective assigns meaning to stuff, sure, which you can learn about by watching the news, reading conventional history books, and paying attention to people freaking out on social media.

The essence of Jungian psychological individuation / Occult initiation involves learning how to assign events meaning on your own without relying on the collective / familial / societal babble.

Why is this important?

Because anything less is a cop out of your responsibility. There's no such thing as "objective" meaning. Also, the meanings that the collective tends to make are usually lame and boring, and will make your life lame and boring if you accept them uncritically.

So magic is real, it shapes all of our experience at every moment through the perpetual dance of synchronicity...

.... and how you determine and create meaning has everything to do with whether or your life is filled with beautiful synchronicities or heinous ones.

5. Money is you.

Of course, from a nondual perspective -- everything is you -- trees, other people, cars, etc. But I notice even the most rigorous nondualists seem to forget to mention that money is you, too.

Truly taking this fact in, however, can have beautiful life-changing implications.

It means that the more of yourself you're willing to have, the more money you can have.

Does that sound strange?

Think about it: most people are only willing to "have' (to consciously, approvingly experience) a very, very small sliver of themselves - namely, the socially acceptable, "nice" "good" parts.

But what about the parts of yourself that are violent, resentful, embarrassingly turned on by humiliation? They're you, and they deserve celebration and embrace, too.

No one ever disapproved themselves into higher consciousness and prosperity.

Money -- like the whole of Samsara, of which it is an excellent distillation -- has some very dark aspects to it. And so many people unwittingly push money away as they try to push away the very dark aspects of their own souls.

... so there you go. A rough outline of what I'm for ;)

Stay tuned for my another blog to find out what I'm against. <3

love and villainy,

Carolyn Elliott

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