Becoming a Black Belt in the Game of Life: Grappling with God
Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval
Ready, Aim, Fire
“O descendent of the Kurus, the intellect of those who are on this path is resolute, and their aim is one-pointed. But the intellect of those who are irresolute is many-branched.”
— Bhagavad Gita 2:41
Before you fire, you need to aim.
Not just at something, but at the thing. The thing beneath all the other things. The true target, the silent bullseye at the center of the cosmos. The trouble is, most people aim at, money, power, and “success.”
This is not what the Gita means by “one-pointedness.” That’s why Jesus said don’t worry about what you’ll eat or what you’ll wear: seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s about having mind like a laser, aimed at the true target.
But what are you aiming at, exactly? Is it a Lambo, or a house in the hills? A million followers on Instagram? Trips to Dubai?
Socrates, who had zero Lamborghinis and zero Instagram followers, cuts through the nonsense like a scalpel:
“He who is not satisfied with what he has would not be satisfied with what he would like to have.”
This is not a motivational quote. This is a roundhouse wisdom-kick to the head. It means you could manifest beachfront property, and a supermodel girlfriend and still feel hollow.
Why?
Because the world can’t fill the hole in your soul.
Jim Carrey put it like this:
“I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re going to find their sense of completion”
Once you hear that, you can’t un-hear it. Because something in you knows it’s true.
That’s the soul recognizing itself.
Carl Jung, the godfather of the unconscious, had the whole package, career, prestige, family, accolades. But something essential was still missing, and he knew it. He wrote:
“He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things of the world. He becomes a fool through his endless desire, and forgets the way of his soul, never to find her again. He will run after all things, and will seize hold of them, but he will not find his soul, since he would find her only in himself.”
For most of human history, hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of years, this wasn’t considered abstract or metaphorical. In shamanic cultures, the original medical and spiritual systems of Earth, this condition had a name: soul loss. This is the diagnosis. A description of modern man’s global sickness: soul loss.
The shamans didn’t throw pills at illness. They went on visionary journeys to retrieve the missing pieces of you.
And here we are, still suffering the same symptoms but calling them “burnout” or “midlife crisis,” or “autoimmune disorders.”
So, before you try to alter reality, change your life, or bend the matrix with your mind, it’s time to find your soul.
Let her point the arrow.
She is your inner guidance system and she knows what you really want.