21 / Understanding


Congrats Son.  It's a great honor sharing with you this stage in your life.
Even though we agree in not believing anything that happens around, seeing that all is part of a fictitious reality, turning twenty-one brings together many of those signs that make me trust that this is a valuable time in anyone's life.

Any real transformation happens every seven years.  If you wanna play the piano, it takes seven years to dazzle, and so on.  There's even an education theory based on that concept (Waldorf Ed.); there are many mystics believes based also on the septennial myth.  Now you reach the fourth stage of this cycle (or better, the spiral).

You have reached the moment when your temper has full built it. The base of what people call the identity and personality, but I see those like convictions, and convictions are something we have to get rid of.  Convictions tend to take humans to chaos: The Family concept, Homeland, Country, Religion, Democracy, the music or the team we like...

This is also a crucial moment to appreciate that one of the Life Keys is Understanding.  ENTENDER.

Beyond rationality, one of the main factors of living is understanding.  That's something we share with all species.  Trees and lions understand seasons. To understand we have to be watchers. Good watchers.  And a good watcher is that one who listens, who feels. You are very sensitive already.  At your age, you have lived a lot.  Far of what I did at your age.  So, I took long paths to learn from mistakes.  But you are already on that top.  From where you start seeing through understanding, which is the real way to see, to WATCH.  To Understand.
For instance, understanding how in August, when you moved to live by yourself, you reached the 21.  You're walking faster than the typical human Time measure.  (Check this: you moved almost on my birthday).
Understanding simple things:  the importance of orienting oneself in a geographical space, or appreciate "the battles" that really matter. Warriors keep themselves and prepare themselves to those times or challenges.
Understanding what Life is and what all beings are, from The Sun, The Earth, ants, plants, you, your mother, Scooby and me: A network.  And that network is what people call God.  Some may say I am talking about TAO, a mystic philosophy. Or some may say that's an indigenous cosmovision.  Others may call it Consciousness. Yes. It's all that.  There's a point where all those ideas meet.  And that's part of UNDERSTANDING.
Understanding also tells you that Life is a Learning Experience.  A constant Learning Experience.  So you always have to be open and humble to do it.  If there's no humility, there's no learning.  And again, you see all that through UNDERSTANDING.
That's the hill you reach now. Understanding.  Twenty-one.
From here you will live, see and understand what's that thing about cycles. Starting from another universal concept:  As above, so below.

So you'll see how Life is plenty of those cycles, starting from the repetition of parents cycles, relationships, what we have done...  Seasons, equinoxes and beyond...

How you will be able to stop cycles and go to higher levels (the Spiral Concept) depends on how you step on those coming times and roads...

Congratulations.
I love you.

P.S.  This letter and all that I have written to you can be seen on Cartas a Salvador.

NC
NYC
October 25th, 2018


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