When You Are Triggered
Crisis Vs. Enchantment
Lately, my dreams have been so off that I am so relieved to have a dream that was fresh out of the land of enchantment. The amazing part is I am all grown up but, fortunately, not too old for a bit of enchantment. I once had a spiritual teacher who said that a crisis creates cracks that lets the soul in, but enchantment does the job far easier. Well, there are certainly many triggering events for all of us, so there are no shortage of opportunities to let more light in…hmmmmm.
A large fawn appeared in my dream recently and was just standing there. I knew in the dream that it was not a normal fawn. There was something otherworldly about it. I hugged the fawn and started to cry. She had such innocence and grace. I also felt that part of her message was “to please lighten up and let the light in. Enchantment is a better way to find harmony and joy in your life.”
I have to wonder how many opportunities am I missing for these lighter moments of enchantment because I am so triggered left and right every time I turn the computer on. I read about more people that are taking social media breaks and you can certainly understand why. I have never been that big on any of these platforms, but the little I am on still unnerves me multiple times of day depending on the platform and the subject.
The day I was feeling one of these triggering moments reading comments about millennials, generation X (my generation), generation Z, generation alpha….
I guess as a generation X person that would explain why most of the time I feel like I could say almost anything online and still feel invisible. Someone that comes from a younger generation could say exactly the same thing and probably get hundreds of likes and claps. When not invisible, there is the gas lighting. When there is not the gaslighting, there is the one upping and competition. It feels like you need to be constantly writing blogs, notes and chats every five minutes or the world would just think you were dead and forget all about you. Also, the more polarizing you are the more clicks you get, so the triggering is built into the game. There seems like no escape except to take computer holidays and hide in the woods where I just might stumble across some enchantment.
I wonder how many enchanting moments we are all missing. Someone might write a blog that is just the creative inspiration you need that day, but it is a miracle if you ever find it because that person does not live online. My goodness the note might be a year old. How would someone ever find that year old note when the main way to get likes and attention is to write multiple articles, tweets or chats per week (and to go out of your way to seek as much attention as you can with radical hashtags designed to push buttons)?
Now with AI there is even less opportunity for the kind of magic that can only come from serendipity. Why read at all if you can just let the AI gather your information and summarize for you? But what about the exceptions that are not in the summaries? What about that one fringe thought that AI would not see because of the training it receives? What if that one fringe thought is enough for the right type of person to see to catalyze the discovery of a new alternative energy technology?
Lately, writing online is starting to feel like putting a message in a bottle, hoping that whoever needs to see it will somehow.
(I took down my blogs and reposted several of them again. I originally published this one in December 11, 2023)
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