This one’s for the spiritual rebels and the cosmic dropouts who are tired of being told they have to remember who they were in Atlantis in order to evolve. The New Age industrial complex sings the same tone-deaf songs on repeat: “Remember who you are!” and “Remember where you came from!” and “Remember your soul’s purpose!” Why are all these made-for-TikTok gurus so obsessed with “remembering” everything? And how many grudges do you think they carry if they’re always hyper-fixated on digging up the past? It’s exhausting to constantly “process” and “unpack" your life. You’re allowed to become something new without recovering every last version of who you’ve been. What if forgetting is how we survive the things that would otherwise shatter us?
This one’s for the spiritual rebels and the cosmic dropouts who are tired of being told they have to remember who they were in Atlantis in order to evolve. The New Age industrial complex sings the same tone-deaf songs on repeat: “Remember who you are!” and “Remember where you came from!” and “Remember your soul’s purpose!”
Why are all these made-for-TikTok gurus so obsessed with “remembering” everything? And how many grudges do you think they carry if they’re always hyper-fixated on digging up the past? It’s exhausting to constantly “process” and “unpack" your life. You’re allowed to become something new without recovering every last version of who you’ve been. What if forgetting is how we survive the things that would otherwise shatter us?
This episode is about how freaking punk-rock it is to say, “Fuck my origin story!” (Not really, but kinda.) We’re not saying your past experiences are unimportant. And we’re not saying you need to forget everything you’ve been through. We’re not even saying that forgetting is easy to do. But sometimes… it is easy? Actually, many times… forgetfulness just… happens.
Forgetting is a function of your consciousness, not a flaw. It’s a psychic technology (and a healthy neurological process!) that helps you drop your outdated scripts, abandon your self-imposed limitations, and start fresh. You can’t live a full-ass life if you’re always trying to recover some perfect past version of yourself.
In an era where everyone’s clinging to their storyline, maybe the most sacred thing you can do is lose the plot on purpose. Maybe the goal isn’t to remember who you are, but to become who you weren’t.
If you’re white-knuckle-gripping anything that’s outgrown you, this episode is your permission slip to misremember it on purpose, or forget about it all together. And if you can’t remember what any of this means tomorrow — good.
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