Integrating Beyond the Given Trance of Normal Life

Life and existence are nothing without integrated thinking and living. Normal life is the ultimate trance. If it was not, then all things would be achievable with normal states of consciousness. In short, more is required, yet with less, meaning simplicity and directness rather than really being simple. Directness is the secret to good integration and full context understanding. Existence is complex, yet it is simple when successful, in that it succeeds where losing is always complex and requires utmost effort and consciousness to do. Sure, there, I have said a mouthful, but realistically it is a genuine honest truth. It takes effort to lose, and relaxation in a sense to genuinely win. Normality outside of its comfort zone is unnatural effort and fear. Courage is rising above normality and growing harmoniously without "comfort zones" to stay in. A comfort zone is an idiotic invention of genuinely closed minded people anyway. Think about it, it is. When you think of a comfort zone, it is a signal that it is time to grow to a better place most of the time. Sure, sometimes "it it is not broken, do not fix it" applies. But when it comes to those sort of comfort zones, growth, streamlining and betterment is always best.

Concepts of conformity and normality are the inventions of fearful people, face it. Concepts of growth, originality and individuality are the inventions of courageous people when you think about it. To some, it may be invigorating, to others, it may be genuinely exacerbating. But, make no mistake indeed, growth will happen ultimately, even if it is a "slow crawl up a mountain" or it slowly evolves. My point is, with consciousness comes growth automatically, no matter what you or anyone does. I am not making an argument here, I am simply stating logical facts of existence and life that genuinely work in every way that does count.

Sometimes, comfort zones are nice ideas, especially where there is a value we harmonize with. But, even that needs to grow as a concept ultimately with the nature of consciousness. Think about it, realistically, nothing stays the same. Or as an East Indian philosopher once said, "we came from infinity, we go to infinity, we grow with infinity" and I agree with that reality fully in this way: Our consciousness like existence, as part of existence can grow forever and it is our responsibility as definite parts of existence as the energies of consciousness to grow forever with existence or we came from infinity, we go to infinity and we grow with infinity. If there was such a thing as the concept of normal, then we would not have individuality and the quote about infinity would not be real in any way, even as a concept. That is my point. That is the trance we must integrate past, the concept of a static normal life that does never change and always gets boring. For, indeed, we make our excitement in every way, no other concept exists. No one is coming to our rescue, except ourselves if we grow to the challenge. We must get ourselves out of normality or into the normality we genuinely desire, no one else can.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.