Why the triggers are the guides, the value of grit, and are we really being loosh farmed?
(This one will get a little weird in ways my esoteric friends will enjoy.)
My favorite maxim of Sean King’s fantastic collection is “The triggers are the guides. If it hurts it’s because its true or because you fear its true. Never pretend otherwise.” This, more than any other, has guided my journey to develop the quality of my consciousness. It shows me, moment by moment in my daily life, where I’m choosing fear over love and where to mine for gold in my Shadow, the unconscious stories running the automated show. Life is a choice between fear and love:
Why are these moments of intense emotion so important? In a word: loosh.
Via Grok: “From Robert Monroe's perspective, as detailed in his book Far Journeys, "loosh" is a vital emotional energy harvested from Earth's living beings—primarily humans—by higher entities. Earth functions as an experimental "garden" designed by a creator (referred to as "Someone") to produce this energy, which emerges most potently from intense experiences like suffering, conflict, love, fear, and death. Humans, as the "fourth crop," generate the highest-quality "distilled loosh" through their emotions and free will, fueling a cosmic harvest that Monroe initially found deeply disturbing.”
Thomas Campbell spent years at the Monroe Institute (yes, the same place the CIA developed their remote viewing program) studying and participating with Bob Monroe in all kinds of psi phenomena experiments and, as the engineer physicist of the group, was tasked with explaining it. His explanation became one of my favorite book series that I recommend often: My Big TOE. He explains that loosh farming isn’t as scary as it originally sounds and although we like to joke that the Matrix movie was a documentary, it wasn’t entirely accurate.
God or “Someone” is evolving. What we point to with that word, what Tom calls the LCS (Large Consciousness System) is learning about itself (the absolute unbounded oneness) through a projected holographic fractal illusion we call reality. This is why religions that survive (and their view of God) seem to evolve. With non duality meaning no object and no observer, we are how the LCS becomes to know itself. We’re not “real” in the sense of TRUTH, just free will awareness units experiencing experience.
In dimensions beyond time and space, the things we experience like fear and love are powerfully important because they show an aspect of the absolute that can’t otherwise be easily observed and can’t be experienced. If you can manifest anything and everything without limit instantly, what is longing? If you are connected to all that is, what does it mean to love? What is sacrifice? What is heartache? What is fantasy fulfilled in ecstasy and bliss through divine union? What is overcoming struggle? Just as a lower 2D being can’t experience “looking up” in 3D, higher dimensional entities (also not “real”, just another layered frame of the fractal projection) can’t experience our limitations.
This was brought home to me this Saturday as my EUC died fifteen minutes into riding a trail. As I cussed out my annoyance of the machine I just recently swapped the motor out of leaving me stranded, as I pushed the nearly ninety pound beast through the muddy twists and turns and hills of the trail, I thought also of grit. Having recently finished Angela Duckworth’s book by the same name, I realized, like fear and love, grit is also powerfully important to our loosh farming dimensional kin.
Ever notice how the simulation rewards those with grit? It’s another example of a phenomenon which can’t be experientially understood in a dimension without limit where anything can be manifested instantly. Facing resistance, requiring perseverance, that’s something we uniquely show them via our 3D limited reality.
Via Grok: Angela Duckworth, a psychologist and author of the book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, defines grit as:
"passion and perseverance for long-term goals."
She emphasizes two key components:
- Passion: A sustained, deep interest in a specific goal or endeavor (not fleeting enthusiasm, but a consistent "north star" that gives direction over years).
- Perseverance: The ability to maintain effort and interest despite failure, adversity, plateaus, or boredom.
In her research (including the widely cited "Grit Scale"), Duckworth found that grit predicts success in challenging domains—like West Point, the National Spelling Bee, or sales retention—more reliably than talent or IQ alone.
Key quote from Duckworth:
“Grit is sticking with your future—day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years—and working really hard to make that future a reality.”
She often contrasts grit with talent:
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
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So do you think we’re being farmed for our fear, our love, and our grit? Is all of this esoterica “true” and “real” or just a metaphor we’ve imagined to make sense of our experienced reality? The answer to that question is likely the point of all our journeys and the stories we tell about our conscious experience. The triggers, the moments where grit is needed, the sublime experience of love, these are the important moments that everything else is a proxy to. These are the moments we are alive and present in the Now. I currently believe, in these moments, we fulfill our destiny, teaching the Oneness from its own creation, resolving the paradox of the Creator essence that lives within us as the created.
Just went down the Loosh rabbit hole again recently, and I definitely feel there’s something to it. Of course many see it as negative, but to me it seems the most important aspect is the overcoming of negative experiences, and the growth that comes from those experiences. Anytime that happens, I feel like everything happens for a reason, and I became grateful for the challenges I faced.
Ultimately I feel there’s a shift in the world, and we’re going to be alright, but we have a lot of hard lessons to learn along the way. Hive I believe is the first glimpse we have into what a cooperative world can create, but it’s just the beginning, and we still have a long ways to grow.
Great post, and this is the realness I miss when I spend too much time in web2.
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