The Human Experiential Way
The Human Experiential Way starts in the root pressure of the 41, moves up into 30 in the emotional system, then from gate 36, the gate of crisis, into its final manifestation in the throat of the 35, the voice of “I feel”. This is the Collective Abstract stream of feeling, of sensing, of ultimately having experiences and sharing them with others.
There is no such thing as change without crisis. Everybody wants progress and change but nobody wants to go through the emotional crisis that must come first. It is the crisis of inexperience, the crisis of being faced with the unexpected hand dealt by the fates. The energy built and released in the 36 is incredibly powerful, if not volatile. Yet, this is the necessary fuel for change.
No experience ever goes to the imagined plan or ever lives up to the fantasy built in the pressure of the 41. We know that because so much of what it means to be human is rooted in the Solar Plexus. It is rooted in motor wave, in the hope to pain and back again wave cycle. It is unstable and constantly moving. The desire and longing of gate 30 is always shifting along this emotional wave.
When we have an emotional crisis, it is easy to automatically assume that it’s “bad”. Nobody particularly wants the instability of chaos; it is uncomfortable and unknown. There are those who will always be trying to fix the emotional wave so it can stand still, so the the chaos can be avoided. And yet this is not possible. The crisis has to be had. One must go through the darkening of the light in order to gain the wisdom of experience on the other side.
It is a process. A never-ending process as one cycles through experience after experience. This is the burden of being human. This is also the joy of being human. When the plan must be abandoned and one must take another route, it leads to inventiveness, creativity, and ultimately the discovery of something new. This is where we see the diversity of experiences had on this material plane. When shared with the collective, this is immensely valuable.
And it also leads to growth. It leads to resiliency. The obstruction of the fates might seem catastrophic in the moment, only to be the best thing that’s ever happened to you in the long term. The perspective of time - because you cannot know what an experience will bring until it is over - allows you to see what was truly gained, what was learned, and what was the bigger picture in play.
We will always have to deal with the fates. Although it's easy to anthropomorphise them, there is nobody up in the sky who is punishing you; it is just the nature of life being unpredictable. Life is the fates, life controls the fates, not you. It is the blessed reminder that you must surrender, that if you don’t surrender to the order of life’s magic, you will undeniably suffer from failed expectations.
From my own perspective - and how I deal with the fates as a third line - it is the acceptance of what is which ultimately leads me to be at peace with the experience itself. To not let whatever experience which has turned out differently to weigh on me in the form of deep pessimism. But instead to recognise that everything happens perfectly as it should; what I experience along my geometry is unique to me. It brings the exact lesson I need to learn at the moment it occurs. I could not choose better timing even if it were up to me. Thank god it isn’t.