My Suggestion for a New Kind of Activism

Mystical, by Kevin Miles and Wendy Schaefer-Miles

We are slaves to the modern culture, we are the modern culture. I have suggested that this culture is characterized by a new mythology, which I have called, The Mythology of Authenticity. This mythology has two specific pedagogic methods: psychotherapy and coaching. These two methods are again rooted in the counterculture, which are inspired by philosophers such as Nietzsche, and occultists, such as Aleister Crowley. Quite central are concepts such as will and choice.

Not to accumulate, but to die every day, minutely, is timeless being

Action as we know it, is in reality a reaction, it is an incessantly effort with the purpose of becoming something; that is to say: a denial of, an effort of avoiding what you are.

When you try to avoid what you are, then this is because you confuse the Now´s fact with that problem, which the thinking´s past and future thinks the fact is. This is an unreal condition, a feeling of loss and emptiness, of insufficiency. And that is precisely what you are, the lived despair.

But when you are the emptiness present without choosing, without condemning or justifying, then the understanding of what you are will imply action, and this action is the creative being.

To stop becoming something is to stop accumulating in philosophical sense. Not to accumulate, but to die every day, minutely, is timeless being. The mystics call it a kind of death. The Stoics trained themselves in being present in the Now by philosophizing over the meaning of death in their lives. To philosophize became in that way, in the Stoics, a way of learning how to die. An example of this is the Stoic Horace, the man behind the expression ”Carpe diem!” (Seize the day!).

The consciousness can´t be separated from a human´s actions

The consciousness can´t be separated from a human´s actions.

But often the consciousness keeps itself outside them, so that it can achieve a feeling of continuation and endurance.

And it is especially this isolating process - the Ego - which the Life Artist is seeking to understand.

Self-knowledge is the virtue of art of life.

Is it possible to act without that there is formed conceptions?

Is it possible to act without that there is formed conceptions; that is to say: so that there is seen, and acted, at the same time?

That is: an action where you have your being with you in your experience, where you are what you are in progress with, where there are no dreamer, spectator, doubter, within you - where you are your activity?

Because when we are facing a big physical danger, a crisis, then we actually are doing it: acting immediately.

Is it possible to live in such a way?

It is the thinking´s self-production which creates the separation of the observer and the observed

How is the individuality of Man formed, the Ego?

We all originate from life itself, from a special original energy, the source of life, the source from where all life-power and joy of life originate.

This energy creates, through its self-production, its own substance, namely sensation, observance and thinking.

It was this substance Descartes called the thinking substance (res cogitans), which is standing as opposed to the outstretched substance (res extensa).

The thinking substance you could call the abstract side of Man (logos).

The action and conduct of life is the practical, or concrete side (bios).

There exists of course not such an absolute division. Nonetheless it is the thinking´s self-production which creates the separation of the observer and the observed, the split in the thinker, who is standing outside his own actions and conduct of life, who distances himself from them, and relates thinking to them.

You can only act in the Now, but the action is so insecure, that we arrange ourselves after ideas

Time is the displacement between idea and action, the disproportion, which is created by emptiness and loss.

The purpose with an idea is of course that you want to protect yourself; it is an idea about safety and secureness.

But the action is always immediately; it doesn't originate from the past or the future.

You can only act in the Now, but the action is so dangerous, so insecure, that we arrange ourselves after an idea, which we hope will give us a certain secureness.

An idea is a manifestation of the past, which uses the present as a means to the future

Time is the displacement between idea and action, the disproportion, which is created by emptiness and loss.

The purpose with an idea is of course that you want to protect yourself; it is an idea about safety and secureness.

But the action is always immediately; it doesn't originate from the past or the future. You can only act in the Now, but the action is so dangerous, so insecure, that we arrange ourselves after an idea, which we hope will give us a certain secureness.

The idea is the manifestation of the past, which uses the present as a means to the future. You are therefore absent either in the past time or in the coming time. The past sucks life out of the present. Memories and hopes are transformed into reality, while reality becomes emptiness.

The unreality in this consists in, that you only really exist in the hope about a richer future, or in the dream about a lost past.

If you have the full understanding of one human problem, then you understand all human problems

The Life Artist seeks to enter a problem without waiting for a result, a definition of what is the right to do.

The right action will emerge, naturally and completely, as the problem becomes unveiled.

The discovery of the problems´ importance and consequences is the central, and not the final result.

Any answer will only be a new conclusion, a new opinion, another good advice, which not at all will solve the problem.

It is the problem itself, which must be understood, and not how you shall react to the problem, or what you shall do in order to solve it.

The right understanding of the problem is of importance, because the right action is lying in the problem itself.

If you see one movement completely - that is to say: where you are one with the movement, and there is no displacement or distortions between the realizer and the realized – then all other movements are included in this wholeness.

If you have the full understanding of one human problem, then you understand all human problems, because they are all mutual related.