Mediating Elements

There are volumes and volumes of esoteric literature, which detail the very specific means through which people have sought enlightenment; meditation, prayer, tantric sex, fasting, devotion, and living lives of service are a few. Whether it be churchgoing, astrology, numerology, dream interpretation, skydiving, psychotherapy, working a twelve-step program, or insert specific religion here, something that people all over the world seem to agree upon is the fact that pursuing interaction with some divine (or as of yet undiscovered) force gives them something. But, what? Maybe playing online games like Seafight can give you some mediating elements too.

Some people experience visions, some focus on using symbols to decipher some well-kept secret or minuscule hint that will further them along on their journey of making meaning out of life in order to feel as though one has a purpose, that one is becoming self-actualized to his or her greatest potential. Whatever means one uses, the intent is the same, to open up some sort of avenue through which the arcane can infiltrate our mundane day-to-day existences.

Channelers, tarot readers, monks, artists, writers, filmmakers infuse their actions of choice with their own brand of reverence in hopes it might enable them to access some "higher" part of themselves, a part that seems to transcend time or place, maybe even physicality.