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The Hero and the Villian

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Quick Facts

-The hero and the villain cannot exist without each other, and the show they put on is absolutely incredible!

-There are states of being that are beyond hero and villain, good and evil, and these states are very meaningful and worth living in!

Intro

Talking about the hero and villain archetypes is something so many people have done for such a long time! It can be said it’s the ultimate show, the ultimate moral question, the ultimate adventure, and one of the most meaningful dualities to watch and live out in everyday life. 

Many of us wish to be the hero and many of us secretly wish to be the villain. Many of us want the battle to go on, the struggle to continue, and we see these archetypes play out in real life and, very often, in movies and cinematic films.

So what is the hero, and what is the villain? Why are these archetypes so meaningful to watch and play out? And, of course, what’s beyond the archetype duality when it’s transcended. Let’s have a wee chat :).

What Is The Hero and What Is The Villain?

Many of us consider the hero to be the protagonist, the one who saves the village from the dragon and uses the gold to repair the damages. The hero is the alpha, the leader, the one who strikes to protect and not to lash out in anger. The hero is the one most of us subconsciously identify with, which means we subconsciously disidentify from the villain.

The villain, of course, is the one who attacks to destroy. The villain almost always has a story, a terrible series of unfortunate events that inspired fear, hatred, and rage to form inside of him and control his actions. He exists to be defeated, to lead his army against the hero, and ultimately fall, and this is the story we love to watch and live out!

The hero and the villain can sometimes be swapped, or they can develop opposite traits as the story progresses – Raskolnikov in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment started out as something of a hero until his decisions slowly made him into something of a villain. It was highly considered that Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War was a strong villain until he gave his case and made us wonder if he was the hero. This happens in real life as well, someone may think they’re a hero and wish they’re a villain or vice versa since one archetype tries their best to suppress the other!

In a sense, who the hero is and who the villain is determined by which side of the moral scale they’re on. Who has the passion, the will to protect, the regenerative warrior outlook on life? And who has the negativity, the spite, and desire for revenge? Whoever makes the first attack (usually the villain unless you’re watching/reading a sequel) is less morally developed than the one who defends the attack, and this is the biggest clue!

And of course, it’s the most meaningful story in the history of mankind. Good vs. Evil! Many people wish to identify with some kind of hero, and these archetypes are so old and so buried deep within our psyche that even just mentioning them conjures feelings and images the likes of which are extremely powerful!

Why Is “The Story” So Meaningful?

The stories are emotionally gripping! We want to see the good guy win and as soon as the bad guy gets the upper hand we feel down because we want to see regenerative power take the day! 

That’s partly why they’re meaningful but another reason is that these stories are the playing out of old, archetypal patterns that we can see and observe in our mind. Did we create them long ago, or do they exist within our collective consciousness as an objective fact? Either way, we attach so much emotional meaning to the playing out of these stories that if the entire planet were to turn into a hero vs. villain dynamic we would live very meaningful lives.

But the strongest reason why “the story” is so meaningful is that we attach our own emotion to it, consciously or subconsciously. Even though it provides archetypal meaning there is a higher sense of meaning to be found beyond the story of the hero and the villain, and you deserve to know this since it’s been so overplayed and so overused by our lovely modern-day corporations.

What’s Beyond It?

First I’d like to address the question, “how to go beyond it?”. I personally enjoyed watching heroic movies and reading heroic novels for a long time, and that was part of what led me past it – immersing myself in it and paying attention to my thoughts and feelings at the same time. I’d come across all kinds of desires and insecurities, and once I sorted out my psyche I stopped feeling the need to watch The Avengers for the 9th time in a row! I simply grabbed ahold of my personal power and ran with it instead of receiving it from outside sources!

And then of course, what’s beyond “the story?” I feel like it will be different for everyone but for me, it was straight emotional and psychological fulfillment, a series of meaningful spiritual happenings that didn’t occur while I was watching these kinds of movies, a kind of lifestyle that’s very introspective yet very extroverted at the same time, states of meditation that completely dwarfed any meaning I found from “the story…” and more, of course!

I guarantee that if you’re captured by the stories of the past that there’s more waiting for you if you choose to receive it 😉

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my article! I apologize for the short post on such a popular topic, but I want to help you transcend it (or even transcend into it) as much as I possibly can!

Thank you for reading my article! I’d greatly appreciate it if you meditate before reading the next post 🙂

The Importance of Feelings, Their Place in Our Experience

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Quick Fact

-Feelings have an important place in our existence, and if we listen to them we’ll be shown exactly what they are!

Intro

I understand that we’re evolving into a world where feelings are becoming greatly valued by many people, especially in America. This is interesting since we have a long and brutal history of war and famine, why would we evolve from that into conscious human beings? Perhaps more interestingly, how?

While these questions interest me I suspect the answers will not come freely. I will content myself with writing a post about feelings and their place in our experience. I’ll write about what they are, what they can be used for, and perhaps I’ll touch on the danger of valuing them too much and too lightly. Here we go!

What Are Feelings?

What are they, exactly? This is a question I greatly encourage you to ponder – are they sensations? If so, what are sensations? Are they light? Are they heavy? 

It seems to me as if feelings are simply feelings, although this can be construed as a cop-out answer; they can be thought of as guides towards and away from something or experiences that, when totaled up, comprise the ride we call “life.”

If you believe a feeling to be a guide you’re probably interested in the concept of intuition, and if you consider a feeling as an experience you’ll probably take them for granted in place of other things, such as usefulness and logic. Both perspectives can tilt too far in one direction, but I’ll elaborate more on that below.

In most cases, feelings are what you believe they are, and in most cases, you can control them to your choosing. In one particular case, however, looking at your feelings from an objective standpoint and not believing anything about them at all seems to bring the best and most accurate description of what they really are – at least, that’s how it works for me!

What Feelings Can Point To

Feelings are often (if not always) the result and not the cause. If you decide to walk to the kitchen the decision comes first, then the feeling of your foot as it hits the floor.

This observation is extremely useful when seen in the context of negative emotion created as a result of detrimental beliefs. When going through the individuation process it’s important to pay attention to your feelings but it’s also important to pay attention to the underlying belief (or, most likely, beliefs) that are creating the emotion. Choosing to stop believing these beliefs and even choosing to replace them with new ones is the second part of the meditative process that isn’t spoken of very often.

Feelings can point to physical ailments as well; I’ve made the mistake of believing a feeling to be caused by a negative belief structure when it was simply stress and tension. Cannabis helps with confusion like this as it can clear your mind and help you pinpoint exactly what the problem is, especially with intent (“I choose to smoke so that I may find the root(s) of my problem(s)”).

Using Your Feelings As Guides (Intuition)

It seems that if you consider feelings to be guides instead of simply experiences to be experienced you’ll experience a greater realization of yourself, also called “enlightenment.” Intuition is the word that describes this process and I’ve written about it in more detail here.

Intuition, for me, is me telling myself what I ought to know at the moment. For me it’s a spontaneous message that appears as a thought, feeling, or both about something I learned in the past but that slipped into my subconscious. I’m not sure if this is a perfectly objective explanation of intuition but it may be.

I’ve made a habit of not taking my feelings for granted and focusing on them instead. If I feel a “low” or “heavy” feeling I’ll pay attention to it and see what it has to show me, otherwise I’m ignoring them, and in the past, that’s brought me much suffering, definitely something I don’t wish to repeat. I encourage you to do the same as well, however, I also encourage you to read the next section since it’s more applicable today than ever before. 

The Potential To Be Possessed by Your Feelings and How To Overcome Them

There is a possibility that you and I can tilt too far in the direction of the feminine and value our feelings far, far too much. I call this being possessed by your feelings and this is usually dangerous and detrimental since logic has a high-vibrational place in our existence.

In fact, I just dealt with this a moment ago – I woke up from a dream where my friends and I were at a party. We were flirting and having a good time, but the meaningful part was at the end – I was in a house searching for a woman. I looked everywhere until finally, I found her! I separated from my body, she and I kissed, and we closed the bedroom door.

Except, what? I separated from myself right before the good part? What was that all about?

After I did some self-questioning I remembered that I created an “anti-sexual vibrational monster” when I was younger because of my… Less than ideal childhood. I realized that I had not only been carrying it around but that I was really possessed by it, and that the feeling separated me from my body right when I found and kissed her. I chose to disidentify with it and, in this scenario, I imagined myself destroying it – I feel much happier now! 

So how do you overcome possession by dangus feelings? Sometimes you’ll have an undesirable dream that’s a dead giveaway, but sometimes you’ll be possessed by a feeling and you won’t even know it! I recommend doing something like this:

-Sit down in a quiet room with no distractions and ask yourself, “Am I being possessed by any of my feelings?”

-Answer yourself honestly. I encourage you to write it/them down.

-Now that you’re aware of the possession you aren’t possessed anymore, so I recommend that you “disidentify” from it. This means you’re choosing to take a step back and see the feeling for what it really is instead of letting it be in control of your actions. Then you can decide whether or not you want to control it or discard it for something better.

Also, you can meditate on the daily, consciously decide to open your 3rd eye regularly, choose to participate in self-healing and self-analysis… I encourage you to do all of these when you feel you want to :).

Striking Balance Between The Masculine (Logic) and The Feminine (Feeling)

As of today, it’s an unpopular opinion with many that logic and masculinity should have a place in our life. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that logic is the way to solve irrational problems and irrationality is the way to solve problems created by logic. Since this is the case we can use logical thinking to sort out our feelings and irrationality to fulfill us when we’ve finished using our logical brain for the day. 

How do we strike such a balance? By consistently making the choice to do so every single day! Follow your intuition but also follow the logical path that’s lined up for you – if you’re missing one or both pieces of the puzzle your life will most definitely go unfulfilled, and it will be far less enjoyable.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my post! I recommend meditating before reading the next article 🙂

The Alucard Abridged Effect: What’s Great About Hellsing Ultimate Abridged

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Quick Facts

-Team FourStar made an amazing Alucard character to learn from, especially if we want to develop hilarity, charm, confidence, unstoppablness, to know exactly what to say in every situation, and be able to consciously embrace our darkness!

Intro

I occasionally enjoy writing about certain fictional characters because they really have so much to offer the world. 

First I published the post The Alucard Effect: What’s Great About Hellsing Ultimate and now I’ve decided to write a post about a completely different character, Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.

What’s that? Hellsing Ultimate Abridged is just a fan parody of Hellsing Ultimate with a few changes made here and there to make the show slightly more interesting and therefore means that the two Alucards are the same character?

Aha, but I must stop you there! Hellsing Ultimate Abridged is one of the greatest parodies ever made since it completely changes the core vibe and message of the show while making it as entertaining as the original show… If not more entertaining! The two Alucards are almost completely different from each other and both of them have qualities that are worth watching and developing in our everyday lives. 

There will be spoilers of the show in this post but I’ll minimize them as much as I can. Let’s begin! 

About Abridged

Hellsing Ultimate Abridged is a parody of Hellsing Ultimate created and produced on YouTube by TeamFourStar, which is why I recommend you read the post I’ve linked above before continuing with this one. They had an entire voicing crew, beyond amazing editing skills, and a slight touch of animation when creating this parody and they succeeded in changing the main theme of the show from seriousness and war into absolute hilarity.

While the same events happen in both shows the characters and delivery are completely different – the original show is serious, thought-provoking, and warlike whereas the Abridged version is mostly humorous with a bit of seriousness sprinkled in. This means Alucard changes as well, and since he’s the star of the show I’ll simply begin to describe his “new” qualities.

He’s Hilarious

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. 

There’s a scene in the show where Alucard’s in his basement watching TV and Luke Valentine pops in to say hello, destroying his TV in the process. The following dialogue goes like this (9:07 of Episode 2):

[Alucard] “That was a 70 inch, plasma screen TV.

*Takes a deep breath*

“So how can I help you!”

[Luke] “You must be the great Alucard.”

“Suuuuup!”

“I’ve heard quite a lot about you.”

“Oh really?”

“The nightwalker who guides through oceans of blood, beyond human, a monster whose power radiates with a darkness that casts a shadow on darkness itself!”

Alucard almost interrupts him as he says, “Oh you dirty bitch work the shaft!”

Luke is in awe that he didn’t even pay attention to his well-thought-out compliment, “…Excuse you?!”

“Oh I’m sorry, I like to dirty talk when someone is sucking my dick!

“Perhaps I should just skip to my point. My name is Luke Valentine-“

“And I’m Carmen Sandiego. Guess where I am!” 

“…I’m trying to have a serious conversation with you here.”

“Oh, so am I. And I’m failing. And I’m sorry for that. It’s just that I’m so agitated, because this blonde little shit strolled into my room, destroyed my 70-inch plasma TV, and is trying to impress me like I’m his alcoholic father!”

(Luke & Alucard aim their guns at each other)

“Be a sport and grab Daddy another beer, would you?”

…And this is only one example of his character. 

Something we can learn to do is take the humorous feeling we feel while watching something like this and be able to produce it on our own on the spot. Perhaps this is already something you can do, but I’ll be honest, humor like this usually takes effort and planning, being able to come up with it on the spot is ingenious and legendary all in one.

He’s Confident With A Gigantic Presence

I’d cite an example here but if you’ve seen the clip I linked above, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about! Just like in the original series his confidence is very present and quite unshakeable.

Out of the millions of people I’ve met and seen (yes, millions!) no one has been as confident as Alucard in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, myself included! I understand that he’s a persona that’s crafted and refined through many hours of hard work, but if TeamFourStar has done it for a fictional character then why don’t we do it for our own, personal character? Why don’t we spend the time and energy it takes to become as confident as Alucard in HUA? It makes sense to me!

He Knows Exactly What To Say

In fact, everyone does – it’s almost like TFS planned the script in advance or something!

Jokes aside it’s scary how good he is at saying the right thing at the right time. This is something I personally have trouble doing and love to see other people do, but even beyond that, I haven’t seen many people as good as Alucard in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged. And again, he’s a scripted character, but my thought is we have the potential to be that good on paper as well as on the spot, and that we should capitalize on this potential, myself included!

Right before the scene whose transcript I copied above Walter and Yon have a “word-off” that’s not necessarily funny but extremely clever on both sides. Not to mention the word-off between Alucard and Alexander Anderson near the beginning of the first episode. It’s priceless gold I tell ya! I certainly know a lot of people who could benefit from taking notes and practice this kind of speaking on a daily basis, myself included.

He Doesn’t Care About The Outcome

He’s really there just to have a good time, and honestly, that’s fine by me! If you don’t care about an outcome in real life you won’t be worried about it. If you aren’t worried about it you have no fear, and if you have no fear you are free. 

He’s Unstoppable

Classic Alucard, literally the best in the business… And he knows it.

“Oh what are you going to do, grab that guy who can stop me? What was his name… Michael McDoesn’tExist?”

The Alucard Abridged Effect

When you combine all of these things together you have The Alucard Effect, an aura of confidence, humor, sass, fearlessness, and perfect verbiage all in one! What if we watched the show and decided to develop the areas of life in which we were the weakest? I’ve been doing it and lemme tell ya – it’s been good fun! 

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my post! I’m always looking for unconventional and effective ways to inject positivity and consciousness into your life, if you have any requests (or would like to contact me about anything in particular) you can find me at iam@gabrielmohr.com. I encourage you to meditate before reading the next article 🙂

Understanding ‘You’ as ‘I’

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Quick Fact

-Sometimes we project a part of ourselves onto someone else by claiming they are a certain way. For example, I have claimed that others have an “aura of fear,” when I was the one who was in a lot of fear that day.

My Findings

This post will be relatively short because the point I wish to convey is simple yet deep! I want to convey the knowledge that, many a time, when somebody says ‘you’ it simply means ‘I.’

This is a detail that, even when known, goes unnoticed by our conscious minds but often gets noticed (and sometimes taken seriously) by our subconscious minds. For example, I can say, “you really don’t know what you’re doing when you drive around Houston” when in reality I’m the one who found trouble driving around Houston. I simply say ‘you’ because I fail to realize that my experience doesn’t necessarily translate into what your experience will be. You may be a genius at driving through cities you’ve never been to, I don’t know!

Also, I want to point out a potential danger – when influential people speak about their personal experience they should refrain from saying ‘you’ in place of ‘I’ because your following may subconsciously accept what you say and adopt your ways as their own! So if you say, “it’s really hard for you to understand Nietzsche” your audience may take this literally (which is a cute perk of the subconscious, it takes everything literally) and accept it as a truth for them. If this happens their mind will make it difficult for them to understand Nietzsche, even if they’re a genius! However, the opposite can be harnessed as well – you can speak positive things that start with ‘you’ and have them be adopted by their subconscious mind ;).

This is especially the case for people who have low self-esteem or a low sense of self. They can be easily influenced, so if you say “you” instead of “I” they’re more likely to take it personally than someone with a well-developed sense of self. 

Watch for this in advertisements! Often they’ll assert an opinion by saying something like, “you know you want to” because they understand what they’re doing. They’re attempting to get your mind to subconsciously think along those lines so that you’ll become a regular customer. 

My closing paragraph has to do with vulnerability. Sometimes the fear of vulnerability and rejection can manifest as projection, so you may mean “I don’t like flying” but simply say “you don’t want to fly if you can help it” because you don’t want to put yourself out there. If this is you I suggest disidentifying with your fears, seeing them as opinions, rationally thinking them through, and finding the next step on your journey whether it be transcending them or going further down the rabbit hole. 

Conclusion

Thank you for reading, I’m truly grateful that you are here. I’ll see you in the next article!

Entertainment: The Value and Why It’s A Double-Edged Sword

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Quick Facts

-Entertainment can be good for us when consumed in healthy doses.

-We can “entertain ourselves to death” if we watch shows/play games instead of doing what we know we should be doing. Balance is key here!

Intro

Entertainment is one of the most coveted things in America today – well, in most of the world today! Many of us can be found on our phones, watching our TVs, playing video games, going to theaters, doing entertaining things, etc, etc. 

Some have even ventured to say that we’re too entertained and that we should cut down a little on the phones. I’d say that entertainment is gaining more and more of a negative connotation as time goes on, and since this is happening I’ll make sure we understand the value of entertainment and why it can be a double-edged sword. 

Let’s do it to it!

What Is Entertainment?

Entertainment has taken various forms over the years but it’s always had one common goal – to make people laugh and feel good. Have you ever been watching a YouTube video and you just, feel amazing? Maybe there’s some awesome teamwork going on or someone just did an amazing backflip. If you ever laugh or feel good while in the presence of an entertainer you know they’re doing their job correctly!

There is some biology behind this as well – dopamine and serotonin are two “feel good” chemicals that are produced inside of our body. When we watch a video and start to feel good, it’s likely that we’re experiencing an increase of dopamine and/or serotonin, and it’s even more likely that the entertainer knows the psychology behind releasing these chemicals in their audience.

Making people think they’re at ease, that they’re loved, that they’re desired, that they deserve to laugh is part of the “job description,” if you will. Beliefs are thought patterns that are (usually) emotionally charged, so making an effort to make people laugh will get (at least some of) them to think, “wow he’s making an effort just for me! He’s so funny!” That’s when their body secretes those ever-so-pleasant chemicals we know and love making them feel comfortable, relaxed, entertained.

Sometimes things are entertaining without any effort on the other party’s part – I personally find other people’s road rage to be entertaining, for example. Or if a teacher is teaching a subject and their students feel entertained in the process (usually through enthusiasm). Maybe you’ve wondered, “why is this guy so entertaining?” Well now you know, it’s a combination of trust and a good time! 

The Greatness of Entertainment/Entertainers

Entertainment has one solid thing about it – it lifts people out of the drudgery of everyday life and temporarily places them in a kind of paradise. An expert entertainer knows this and consciously performs their act to create these positive feelings, usually by knowing their audience and acting accordingly. 

I feel like we take these people for granted sometimes, especially with how many of them are available through social media. I want to stress that proper entertainers are rare and that there are a lot of people who can entertain but aren’t true entertainers. These kinds of people make up 99% of the “entertainment side of the moon.”

The people who seem to benefit from this the most are people who are of the mind. The thinkers, the intelligent ones. Thinking can be fun and useful but a thinker doesn’t have a very stimulating life in general, so watching videos or going out to see a play is a great idea for those who are in their head all day long, it’s a great way to reward themselves.

Entertainment has been around since the beginning of our species and it won’t go away until we cease to exist! A true entertainer is a very valuable person and even being able to make people feel good will get you very far in life, which segways into my next headline.

It’s Not Fundamentally Bad

The negative connotation surrounding entertainment is mostly because of the addictive quality of dopamine. It’s funny how you can become addicted to endorphins that are produced by your own body, but it’s true! Dopamine addiction is a huge reason why porn is so addictive, primal parts of your brain are secreting large amounts of it whenever you switch pornstars because, in your mind, you’re finding new sexual partners to mate with. I encourage you to watch the video series on The Coolidge Effect, it’s really quite fascinating.

Discipline and balance are helpful when it comes to entertainment because, if you over-entertain yourself, you’ll find it difficult to do things that aren’t entertaining – such as work! If you’re used to 5+ hours of entertainment per day it’ll be all you’re thinking about while you’re at work, whereas if you’re only used to 1 or 2 hours you’ll be much less addicted and be able to go for the things you want with less struggle.

Entertainment isn’t fundamentally bad, but over-entertaining yourself is. 

The Potential To Over-Entertain Yourself

It happens all the time. I see it everywhere whether it be YouTube, Dish, Netflix, video games… It seems like most of us are addicted to entertainment in one form or another, and it’s fairly alarming to someone like me. It’s easy to sit on the couch and do nothing all day while your brain is busy producing dopamine, but I’m of the opinion that this should be a treat, not a lifestyle! 

Getting out of dopamine addiction is hard but very possible, I recommend exercising (for serotonin) and achieving goals that you set for yourself (self-esteem).

Being An Entertainer

Ironically enough, being an entertainer can be the opposite of being entertained – good entertainment often takes effort, talent, and skill, most of the work is behind the scenes whereas only a small portion of it feels good for the entertainer as well.

I like to think about it like this – if you play video games and post them on YouTube you want them to be entertaining for your audience to watch. So nowadays you should have a funny personality, make funny comments and jokes throughout the session. When the video’s done you should probably edit it so that it appears in funny ways. Then you post it on YouTube and figure out where to place advertisements along with the video.

Or, if you’re a band and you want to play a concert you have to set the stage up. If you’re like Rammstein and you want to do crazy stuff a lot of effort goes into making sure everything will go right and that nothing will go wrong. Not to mention the actual performance itself… And the takedown afterward. 

Being an entertainer can be a lot of work and even boring at times, depending on your profession! That’s why I want to put this disclaimer here so that you don’t make the same mistake I did – I figured “oh, being entertained is so much fun! Being an entertainer will be even more fun!” Maybe it’s that way for some people but I doubt it’s that way for many!

Finding Balance

A lot of thought should be put into how much entertainment we should give ourselves throughout the day because, if we don’t, it may very well take over our lives and always be at the forefront of our mind.

My thought is this – if you’re being entertained so much that you can’t do the things you know you should… It’s time for a change. If you’re trudging or half-assing your stuff because you’d rather be home watching Valley Girls S2E11 it’s time for a change.

However, if you’re being entertained and you have discipline, you’re getting your stuff done and you’re being mentally and emotionally healthy – go for it! 

Find your own balance in this area of life, know your goals, and stick to them so that you don’t fall into a trap that’s pretty difficult to climb out of!

Conclusion

Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it. I’m sure that I’ve helped sort this issue out and I hope you’ll share it around and be cool like that! I’ll see you in the next article!