Title: Member of the Evolution Revolution

Gender: Male

Age: Ageless

Sun Sign: Virgo

Chinese Sign: Fire Snake

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

My name is Ryan, and I am in training to become a Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman).  This is a process that never truly reaches completion, and a big part of the journey on this path (in my opinion, anyway) is making sure that you always take time to fight the battles for which you feel compelled by a higher power.  Also, you should always be actively looking for things to be compelled to do, because if you never get off the couch (or never stop doing whatever your hang-up is), you will never feel compelled to do anything but sit on the couch.

I am a big believer in affectable destiny, which basically means that the universe has a plan designed for you, but if you aren't paying attention, you can fall off that path.  The universe will then do one of two things.  It will either formulate a new plan for putting you back on that path, or, if you've strayed too far, it will design an alternate path for you.  Trust me, you want the first option.  The problem is not that the alternate path will necessarily be less fulfilling (depending upon your calling, it may actually be more fulfilling… after you recover from the event that changes your direction).  It's just that the alternate path typically involves the occurrence of something decidedly unpleasant.

If life presents you with the same or similar difficulties repeatedly (often growing in intensity), this is the universe trying desperately to say, “Wake up!!  I'm trying to tell you something!”
If you ignore the calls of the universe for too long, it will eventually shift its efforts and begin steering you down a new path.  It does this by drastically changing your course, almost always by having something very negative happen (at least it's negative according to your experience at the time) that is related to the thing or things to which you weren't paying any attention.  You lose your job.  Your significant other leaves.  You lose a friend.  You get seriously injured.  You get the idea.

Despite the fact that this is a basic concept within several Eastern religions that I had read plenty about, this was non-transferrable information.  Reading some information just isn't the same as learning it.  I understood the concepts, but I couldn't immediately identify them in action.  Learning something like this is difficult, and it is almost always done the hard way.  Luckily (I see it that way now… most of the time), I was among the ranks of the “deaf to the universe” for longer than was probably necessary, so I had the opportunity to learn my lessons well.

Why am I bothering to share this with you when, as I said, it is non-transferrable information?  That's a good question.  My answer is that this is something I feel compelled to share, and I've stopped trying to figure out why.  I'm sharing this because in order to learn anything, you first have to have to be clued in to the fact that someone or something is trying to teach you something.  It's up to you to figure out where it applies in your own life.

Currently, my major calling is to write a book concerning my theories about the relationship between mental health and evolution.  If something compels you to know more, please feel free to read my Blog entitled “My Book”, and if you like what you read, please let me know.  I'm trying to put together a Pod of people who think there may be something to this idea that is worth finding out more about (this includes me, which is why the book is unfinished).  Thanks for your time.

Namaste –
Ryan

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