The Red Pill.

Facebook archive. First published on 2024-04-28.

If you have not received the gift or curse of Viparita Raja Yoga (a combination of planets in Jyotish), then crisis is a rare phenomenon for you, something life has not prepared you for. You understand crisis from countless films, when violins begin to play at a tense moment. The beast is already watching its prey from the bushes, the buzzing of the violin orchestra, the beast leaps - and the victim falls.

In reality, there are no violins. There is no oppressive feeling that tells you today everything will go badly. Some sensitive people can foresee critical events, but most likely that is not you. And even if it is you, let us be honest: any oppressive feeling, when it is your own, is something you want to confirm somehow, and in the search for confirmation you often lose precious time.

So let us return to reality. On the most critical day of your life, the bright sun may very well be shining, birds may be singing, and the weather may be whispering about barbecue or a walk in nature. Everything bad is happening somewhere over there, not to me, not in the place where I am now. Your mood may be perfectly normal, or even very good. And all this beautiful atmosphere means exactly nothing.

We are human; we live by emotions. We go where we want to go and run from what we do not want. A life subordinated to emotions confuses us. For us, the world is what we feel it to be. The trap is hidden in this feeling of the world. We obediently follow not what We want, but we obediently follow a graha (an analogue of a planet in Jyotish). A graha creates desire for us, a graha creates an atmosphere for us, a graha governs what we want, and since we move after desires, we deprive ourselves of choice.

Choice is when you do not do what you feel like doing, but what you have decided to do.

Mental stability. It seems to us that a broken arm is worse than a broken psyche. The problem is that we do not know how to repair the psyche. Confidence in psychologists who convince you that they will help is false confidence. Neither medicines nor psychologists heal you - you heal yourself. And if your psyche is already cracked, and people around you are telling you this, you should not wait until the psyche breaks completely. The fact that you do not recognize danger from the psyche does not mean there is no danger.

At the moment when the psyche loses stability, your consciousness will remain the same, but your body will stop obeying you. After trauma, the psyche never returns to its original form. The trauma remains with you forever. Even when the body's basic functions are restored. This too must be accepted.

What is this post about the red pill for? In reality, there is a war in Ukraine. People are dying, both soldiers and civilians. When civilians die, especially children, it happens because they chose the blue pill and live in illusion. Our government is committing genocide. Humanity has long known the effect of a careless attitude toward danger; that is why forced evacuation exists. Our government does not care about people. Evacuate yourselves, evacuate your loved ones.

The horror of the situation is that the death of civilians from missiles and bombs is first and foremost the responsibility of the government, secondly the responsibility of the civilians themselves, and only thirdly the responsibility of those who aimed the weapon.

Perhaps this post should have been written at the beginning of the war. But it is not too late to read it now. There are still people for whom the war is somewhere over there, five kilometers from my house.

Take care of yourself and listen to your reason, not your emotions, in times of crisis.