The Beautifully Rational Philosophy of Astrology by Vic DiCara & Vraja Kishor

Author:Vic DiCara & Vraja Kishor [DiCara, Vic]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

I’m Not Selfish!

“What!? I’m not selfish! Certainly not selfish enough to warrant the types of distress I've been put through!”

Though some of us suffer far more extreme distress than others, we all feel this way at least at one point or another in our lives. It is a reflexive self-defense mechanism of the selfish ego. It’s our inner armor against humiliation.

For most all of us, it’s pretty humiliating to think that we deserve the life we often lead. That’s why there is a psychological gatekeeper in the mind who locks away nearly all our memories and puts a soft “me-favorable” focus on our perception of the present. Our mind stores limitless memories from this life and previous lifetimes, but the gatekeeper blocks access to memories that contradict our ego’s cherished image of itself, memories that would disable our self-absolving notion that we don’t deserve any bad things. The gatekeeper even works on present perceptions as a monumental information filter rapidly reinterpreting reality in such a way that we are never really the one to blame for anything.

The gatekeeper is our ego’s best friend, and the main reason why it can take eons and eons to “grow up.”

It would be terrifying to remove the information filter on our past and present, and see in Technicolor just how awful and selfish we really are. Even the most trivial daily affairs would suddenly reveal their bloodstains. For example, most of us cause an enormous amount of needless pain and death just by eating lunch! If we open our minds and hearts with the key of humility we suddenly become aware of many, many extremely selfish things we do. Suddenly it doesn’t seem so preposterous that what happens to us is meant to happen to us, even the serious difficulties in our life.

There are no malfunctions in the gears of destiny. It is exact and perfect, and even our distress is a beneficial, intentional experience, a necessary catalyst of evolution out of a selfish state of being that robs us of the true bliss of existence. The pleasant things in our lives are also meaningful, not just for “fun,” but because they can help us more regularly gravitate towards less selfish deeds.

Thus, fate is friendly, in both its smiling and scowling mask.

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