Prime Path 73:
Quick Focus On Survivalism
We're moving through a particularly dense phase of the SkyVillage coaching. Right here, right now: this is the heart of it. Without exaggeration, this is some of the most powerful coaching that you will encounter in your life.
We need to pause and make sure that you get the significance of what we have just covered.
In detailing the nature of survivalism, we have just revealed humanity's primordial, default operating principles--and, more importantly, your primordial, default operating principles. Now, as we've said, this isn't the only way that you can show up, or that other people can show up. But the odds are extremely high that "survivalism" is your fundamental way of being, more often than not.
We're going to dig deeply into the nature and operation of survivalism at other places in this website. However, we have certain other material that we need to cover first, and so, at this time and place, regarding survivalism, I'm only going to handle a few details before we move on.
For now, let's focus on a single example. In order for you to get what's really going on when it comes to you and this survivalism thing, let's take a look at the aspect of survivalism that we've described as "avoiding humiliation."
"Avoiding humiliation" is a way of being for you. You are an "avoid humiliation" kind of being. You manifest the purpose of avoiding humiliation mindlessly, instinctively, and automatically. You just are that way. You instinctively and mindlessly fit into an "avoid humiliation" world. The mandate to avoid humiliation operates at a "pre-conscious" level. You care about avoiding humiliation. You value avoiding humiliation. You have a purpose of avoiding humiliation. You didn't choose this way of being, and you didn't not choose it. You don't believe in it, and you don't disbelieve in it. You don't agree with it, and you don't disagree with it. You don't like it, and you don't dislike it. You just "are" it. As a result, you would do almost anything to avoid being humiliated. Avoiding humiliation is a neon-flashing headline on your operating resume. Virtually every aspect of your entire life is set up so that you avoid being humiliated.
Let's take an example. Imagine if you found yourself naked in the middle of a traffic circle, with cars circling around. You'd feel humiliated, and you'd panic. But you're not going to find yourself naked in the middle of a traffic circle. In fact, in your entire adult life, the overwhelming likelihood is that you are never going to appear naked in public. Why? Because you spend your entire adult life operating in accord with a prime directive "way of being" of avoiding humiliation.
Ingrained in you at a pre-conscious level is dogma that avoiding humiliation is of absolute importance to the quality of your life. It is ingrained in you to such a degree that, in some circumstances, you will literally panic if you find yourself in a situation in which you feel as if you are being humiliated, or are likely to get humiliated. But in this pre-conscious high stakes manifestation, there is no actual conscious consideration of the quality of your life.
Learning and obeying the general rules of human conduct through the auspices of "avoiding humiliation" has profound benefits, of course. I am certainly not championing the idea of you wandering down a city street without any clothes on. But the mindless application of the "avoid humiliation" dictate ends up having severe negative consequences. Strenuously avoiding the kind of humiliation that can occur because you start up a business that might end up failing, or because you might get turned down for a job, or because you might get rejected in a relationship, is a recipe for a diminished quality of life. Avoid humiliation as a supreme dictate and you'll tend to shut down, not take any chances, and end up wearing a rut in your life by doing the same exact "safe" things over and over and over again. That's what happens for most people, that's not a life lived to the full, and that's the result of survivalism.
It's likely to take some time for you to really get the prevalence and consequences of survivalism in human life. Like other things, the prevalence of survivalism, and the nature of it's impact on the quality of life, can be something that's easier to see in other people, and out there in the world, than it can be to see in yourself. One of your jobs from this time forward is to discern the nature and application of survivalism in your life, in the lives of the people around you, and out there in the world.
The words that I used to describe survivalism in the previous page are key, but they can't, and they don't, detail the entirety of the phenomenon. Survivalism can show up in a lot of different ways, many of them covert, many of them confused and confusing. So, the job here is to use the words that I have used to describe survivalism as a springboard to having a real world experience and appreciation of the phenomenon, and, in particular, how survivalism shows up in your life, your world, and your feelings.
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