Transmutation in a World at War
How to embody the fire of a burning world and let it transform you into a Dragon
Dragons Breath!
Are you imagining an epic stream of fire that’s engulfing a granite slabbed floor, leaving a trail of soot in its wake, while the majestic wings of a dragon form the backdrop? Or are you imagining a breath that smells like a combination of sulfur, garlic, onions, blood, and that slightly darkened corner in a street alley? Yeah… you’re welcome for that sensation! Who says words aren’t powerful… trickery of the imagination! Using your own powers against you…
Current events in our world are keeping many a mind busy with exerting energy into fruitless endeavors. And if you’re wondering why you’re not more active about stopping the third world war from commencing. Then that’s an amazing question to investigate!
First, let’s start by addressing your doom and gloom attitude here. You might be right in your beliefs, but lets make it even worse! What if it’s already occurring? What if it’s worse than an upcoming world war? What if it’s an already warring world? A planet inhabited by a species that wants to destroy each other and destroyed a lot of the planet in that process already?
Oh I know, you want to hear positive affirmations and fairy tales, that’s cool, but there’s a time and place. Can’t have fairy tales without ‘evil’ after all. If you’re too afraid to read about reality, you have the option to leave after all. Or, you can be brave and weather a dragon’s fury. Who knows, it might just be the very thing you were craving. It all depends on how you use it. You could also expel the unfiltered thoughts from your broken heart in the comments and waste both of our time. Either way, the choice is always yours.
This isn’t TikTok, this is what uncensored communication looks like. It’s potentially painful and potentially strengthening, and potentially enlightening. You won’t find out unless you try it out. Who knows, maybe I’ll weave all of these ideas together. Maybe I’ll be able to show you how to hold that dark perspective or an even darker one… and transform it into the fuel that drives you. Not in a terrifying destructive way. Not as a sad little victim. But as a responsible fun loving dragon.
Triggers are just activating phrases that let you know how to grow. That’s it. You owe no reply, response, explanation, or any other form of countering energy to the source from which you received a trigger. It’s free real estate for you to work with as you please. In martial arts, self defense techniques apply the energy of an attack in such a way, that the received energy is used against the source of aggression. While barely using their own energy.
In the abstract realms of the mind and beyond, we go a step further. We absorb the energy and process it into power for our own motives. That’s one of the arts of transmutation. It’s as though you can take a punch and apply that same punch to a structure that you want to see fall. But it gets better, because in the abstract realms, you can amplify the punch with your own energy and you can also store punches you have received over a long time, to release it all in one dedicated flurry of fury!
Meanwhile… energy can never be destroyed; only transformed. Just imagine all the juicy energy that you still have ready from that one time when A did B to you! Let them wait and C… as you rise from the rubble they left you in.
Imagine it this way, an army of people holding candles won’t burn a dragon. But if the dragon eats all the candle flames, it can blast a ferocious stream of fire with barely any effort. It only needs to use the element of air to take in all the fire and redirect it towards a (precise) area – that is the process of wind. Perhaps humans are dragons if you think about it… expelling spicy aromas through air…
Anyway...
A dragon is an expert of the elements of earth, air, and fire – some may even command the element of water too. What does that mean? It means that by learning (air element) you grow your inner flame (fire element) by yourself, but the true show of your power comes from what you metaphorically eat (earth element). Your food is the accumulation of your daily experiences in the material world. Each dish of experiences that you were served, requires a different method of cooking before you can take it into your body as a source of power.
Meanwhile learning isn’t just done with the mind. Sometimes it’s done by tripping over a rock and falling on your face first. Only afterwards do you apply the mind. You will also need the motivation to consistently choose with your conscious mind, to continue tripping over that rock until you have learned. Without motivation you’ll just run into the rock unconsciously; like when you slam your toe into the corner of the coffee table. Personally, I’d rather kick the coffee table on purpose - but with breaks in between - until I figure out that I need to move the damn thing. If I don’t do it that way, I’ll most likely just curse the coffee table and have it occur again and again, blaming it on anything but myself in the process.
That doesn’t mean it’s easy to choose to kick the coffee table. It still hurts. And the motivation to take that action lies within your heart. A dragon’s heart isn’t feeble, it’s forged in the center of the furnace that drives your being. You are on the way to discovering yours, but before we do, we must address your breath: your outward expression!
Which brings us back to our warring world, which isn’t a warring planet. Distinctions matter. Separation matters. If we try to unify with all, we lose our selves in the process. Even though we are one with all, the first one we need to unify is our self. Only then can we address a world at war.
You may wonder why; which is valid. Ask your-self:
Are they at peace?
Do me and I say the same thing?
Does your heart speak on equal terms to your mind?
Are you comfortable with and in you body?
If so, great! Go and express your beauty, you don’t need this article as you will gladly frolic with the rest of us on this beautiful planet. If you did hesitate or recognize a conflict, great! That means you’re reading this for a reason (No surprise right?).
It also means that you’re at war within your-self. As such, we must address first what’s happening there, before you combust because of the building pressure in your internal furnace. You hold power that nobody else can temper: you are the one that must face it. You must place your face into a furnace.
Which can be terrifying if you wield a fury that is intended to lead others. You’re not special in that regard: we are al intended to guide and lead others… hence, it’s scary for all of us and was scary for all who came before us. Meaning that you are not alone! The structures on the islands in the sky were built by those who came before you. Now is the time to grow your wings so you may contribute to their legacy and expand on it with your own.
Cool, so we have established that everything you see occur outside, is also held within you right? No…? Ah, well you’ll just have to accept that perspective for the time being then. You don’t need to believe it. Just… hold it gently in your talons. The bite marks will fade over time. You’ll manage.
Where were we? Oh yes: you have the capacity to be a serial killer, psychopath, president, or any other role that embraces the ego too much. No I won’t be more nuanced about presidents, CEOs or any other veiled dictatorship. It’s time that you learn that there are other methods of organization which don’t require the glorification of a single person as a superior being to you. Which also means… that maybe your concept of God needs to be revisited.
Don’t shoot the messenger! I’m trying to bring this as gently as I can, but come on… you see the pattern right? God, emperor, judge… they all have their courts and minions. Meanwhile, God is supposedly all powerful. Yet ‘he’ requires a specific representation on this planet? Why? Can’t he speak for himself? Is that why this God need to specify as well that he is ‘the only deity’ in existence?
Strange thing to say for a being that created us and could supposedly edit us at any moment. ‘He’ could even stop me from writing this now right? So… Why didn’t he? Because he works in mysterious ways? Because he gave us free will… which he can’t take away, but is angry about? If we’re made in his image, does that make us gods then as well?
Let’s continue and see what kind of mystery he/she/it/they have in store for us. There’s probably a multifarious purpose right? Also, whatever this being is, I doubt it identifies as male. That would be really strange, why would it take on only one gender? Why not both or all? Like a hermaphrodite. Or neither?
Either way, if I would create a planet and feel the need to be worshipped because of my ego complex, I would probably choose a form that would appeal to all beings and not approximately half of the human population. I mean… let’s not forget that there’s more out there than just our planet. Who knows what genders other planets have after all… Overall I would just do some introspection and see why I’m too insecure about my own power and believe I need the power of the creations that I placed on a single planet…
Does that mean that I have the answer about what, who, or if “God” is? Of course not! I’m not here to argue with you. I’m here to show you that you can express yourself and your own beliefs, like I just did. How you manage another perspective is up to you. In fact, you could say that I’m gifting you something here. You’re welcome!
Infuriating isn’t it? Confidence. The gall to claim that you have a truth that nobody else can verify and still proclaim it. Who do I think I am? What kind of authority do I have to share this with the world? I should be cancelled…. Or glorified! Perhaps you thought it was amazing to read that and think we need more of that in the world. Both are right and neither are wrong. It just is.
Anything that you were sensing or thinking or feeling just reflects on you. It’s impossible for me to do anything wrong. I just am.
*runs away to his treehouse*
You coming?