The Age of Narcissism / by Maré Hieronimus

We are living through a time where the dominant culture’s very foundation is based upon a maze of never ending smoke and mirrors, encased in pure darkness and narcissism.

Most human beings are not interested in the true experience of compassion or interdependence, dialogue, truth or justice, but rather the appearance of it. Through the projection of false virtue, one gains admission into the hierarchies of our world, and may climb the ranks if they are thrifty enough. Eventually one might even become a power broker, if the game is played well.
But is this truly what the soul desires?
The playing of such a game represents a war on the human spirit.

Nowhere is this drama more evident than in the continuous stream of virtue signals, where - desperate for love, acceptance and most of all - attention - empty and traumatized human beings parade their pronouns, their medical status, their support for illegitimate and corrupt wars, and their blind hatred of the one who does not subscribe to their “superior” world view - and in doing so - reveal their complete inability to process what is occurring on deeper and more nuanced levels.

Who’s mind is incapable of actually dialoguing with the complexities of our era, and the roots of such narcissism, horror and darkness?

Reason and Liberty, Choice and Freedom have fallen by the way side. Under the guise of righteousness, those under this narcissistic spell have plunged our world further and deeper into despair, closer to a full acceptance of artificial life and all of the agendas of the WEF and Bill Gates, and the elite perpetrators of structures of dominance and subordination in our society.
Such subservience to totalitarianism should offend the soul.

The roots of this disembodied life reside largely in a profound experience of trauma so pervasive that it is difficult to fully comprehend. Mass swaths of human beings are now conditioned to accept such violence, disharmony, incongruence, and narcissism, and are incapable of reflecting upon the inception of their own ideas. Lost in a maze of mirrors reflecting back the utterly superficial, we praise gods of emptiness and power, and chain the life of the human spirit to a culture gone mad.

This narcissism has been brewing for decades - where slowly people have strayed further and further away from what it is to live a simple human life, and into what it is to live the appearance of a human life.

People have forgotten how to tend to friendships and relationships, give love and true intimacy, and to connect with spirit in the most fundamental of ways.

People have forgotten how to protect their children and guard innocence, people have forgotten how to hold hands in a circle, and engage in meaningful conversation without condemning another. People have forgotten how to honor another world view.

People have forgotten how to plant gardens, sing songs of mystery, give selflessly, admit that they were wrong.

People have forgotten what it means to listen to the hymns carried on the wind, talk to the animals, hear the voice of the earth, commune with the trees, cultivate humility.

Our world has been hijacked, and people have largely forgotten what it means to be human.
Because, make no mistake, this is the purpose and trajectory of such a culture gone astray. The end goal is a soul-less and meaningless life.

The remedy has always been the great return, the remembrance, the recognition of all that is sacred in this world.
The remedy is the path back into our natural human experience, now condemned by society at large.
The remedy is the recognition of the great mystery, the paradox, beyond the names and forms that surround us all. This recognition catapults us back into the heart of the human soul, in all of it's humility, beauty, and profound sentience.
When such recognition is felt, this great forgetting - and along with it the age of narcissism - dissolve back into the shadows, and we dream a new world into being.