Blood & Ink: Tuesday

Your external world is a reflection of your internal world…

An insight that often arises deep in the psychedelic headspace, and a go-to catchphrase of the new-age spiritual community.

The world out there is just a reflection of the world in here.

I agree with this completely. I believe it to be true.

But it has some challenging implications that I don’t think the spiritual community has fully wrestled with…

• If you’re so strong, why is your body weak and out of shape?
• If you’re so abundant, why are you broke?
• If you’re so loving, why all the self-sabotage and criticism?
• If you’re so beautiful, why do you look dishevelled?

Something hasn’t clicked.

I think the natural conclusions are too challenging or frustrating for most of us.

• Maybe I’m not as strong as I believe…
• Maybe I’m not abundant…
• Maybe I’m not acting from a place of love…
• Maybe I don’t value beauty…
• Maybe I’m not as great as I thought…

… YET!

Your external world IS a total reflection of your internal world. If you’re broke, out of shape, isolated, or self-sabotaging, it means you have work to do!

This is cause for celebration, not degradation.

The game is still afoot! 

Use your external world as a barometer for internal development. It’s not about specific X, Y, Z accomplishments and attaching too much worth to the externals, but they are great temperature checks to how things are going inside.

The external is a reflection of the internal.

Be honest, and act accordingly,
Eric Brown.