OPTIMYSTICISM.

On Saturday, September 13, 2014, Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com> wrote:

'Optimysticism', i launch an interesting new word, complete with 13 letters, it's bound for fortuitous futurity.

 

I bless this viral vessel full of seed syllables and synthesis and all who sail in her.

The genesis of the word was planted some years ago in conversation with a late friend who founded and established our local wholefood store and restaurant/art venue.

He said to me appropos of nothing in particular

(i think we were discussing hope), "if you can't be optimistic just be mystic." Of course, that made itself at home in my 'anagram brain', as another friend once addressed me as.

Well it's a nice looking word. Has an interesting shape to it, so it's probably sea-worthy and hopefully hear-worthy as well.

Being a synthesis of most positive ingredients,

complete unto itself.

Beginning with an O and ending with M, 'OM.'

The ultimate positive vibration. Universally giving rise to the known multiverse and infinitely more we don't know.

But 'optimysticism', what might it mean ? In a world of opposite poles, seemingly perpetually competing for 'full spectrum dominance'.

Well here's the first lesson in non-duality, if i may be so bold... 'Poles don't compete.'

Though contrarily, certain continents still seem to think they should. As if you could have a west without an east, especially on a sphere, and one good pole is nothing without another.

'Opposites arise mutually.' In plain language, obviously you can't have one of anything without another. Unless it's the infinite oneness without boundaries which includes everything, known and unknowable.

But you can't call that, 'one', either, because, being everything, there's nothing else to differentiate it from.

In case you didn't catch that, contemplate the Yin/Yang symbol. Two opposites that so define each other that they are not two, but one process. You know, like male and female, so formed in every way as to compliment and give rise to one another.

Forget dominance. Its day is over. Though some are slow to realize. It never works, only seems to, till it doesn't. Opposites (so called) are indivisible and can only ever compliment one another, literally.

The last people to realize such a self evident truth are, politicians, military, and a variety of over zealous sports enthusiasts. Samurai are a different matter, and you can't win at ping-pong without the assistance of a friend.

Everything is an infinite synthesis anyway. Now there's a thought ! 'I give thanks for everything without which nothing would be. Amen.'

Everything, is so much part of everything else that everything IS everything else. There's nothing greater than everything, and if you call it 'God', then you've made a separate something where there isn't one. That which is all things is everywhere without beginning or end.

The beginning of all this was the word, 'optimysticism', OM, which is a good vibe to start with. 'Opti', the root syllable of 'optimum', is as good as it gets. Way better than your current best.

Optimism is when that's what you fully expect it to be, despite doubt or apparent evidence to the contrary. A healthy antidote to bad vibing your existence.

Hope and fear go together. You just 'hope' for the best because you really fear the worst, so that's what you attract. Like attracts like, because it's an energy match, you only attract what something in you resonates with.

'Mystic', might sound mysterious but can hardly be other than what IS or it wouldn't be possible.

To the extent that we think it's 'out of the ordinary' we render its presence that much less self evident. Those fake opposites again, ordinary/extaordinary.

When we say, and believe, that the ordinary is not extaordinary we've collectively made it seem to be so, by chopping it in two and giving it two opposing names.

Better not use such divisively sharp words. Our word-thoughts chop everything in half, then we forget which part 'goeswith' which.

Mystic, is when we learn to no longer do that so nobody gets cut up about it.

Besides, what we resist, remains what we are focused on, for just as long as we focus on it as being something to be avoided. Like complaining that your shadow is always following you, when you can always walk in a different direction.

Optimysticism could mean the art of no longer denying that the outcome may equally be beyond all previous expectations. Thereby making such an energy match all the more likely.

Imagine being a powerful magnet. If your habitual focus is fearful it's a form of praying for what you actually least want. Whereas optimysticism is a focusing on what you most love, without any place left for doubt and fear.

 

So i simply launch this small wordcraft. With no hairsplitting or bottles broken on the bow.

It's pointed enough to not encounter resistance, light enough to encourage buoyancy, and it's not the stern that leaves witnessers awake.

I know it's been a choppy voyage but we're in similar vessels if not the same boat. Something in the wind tells me we are heading out of the storm, despite the look of the clouds. Not just metaphorically either.

May you never get totally wrecked, or linger long in languish in the doldrums. May a steady breeze blow, and billowing, fill your sails.

 

Stay aimed and on course for those calm waters and unimaginably unprecedented and welcoming pleasant shores out beyond the wildest storm when the blast is forever past.

Speaking as an optimysticist.~

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