Paradoxically for humans, fictions are an essential part of reality. For this reason, knowing how to dispel degenerative ones is essential for well-being and integrity — not only as individuals but collectively.
To influence what is real such that it might be OTHERWISE, we do two things.
These forms of enaction are related. The first has us enacting (realizing with impetus) of or for individuals. The later has us enacting in a shared way (entwined pair, group, or collective).
OTHERWISE orientation has consequences that deeply affect the perception (mirroring) of both human awareness and reality modeling by humans. A common way our awareness adapts to unintended or unpleasant modifications of reality (intention used to bring about change we didn’t approve of) - is to retrospectively shrug it off. “If it happened, then it was supposed to [say, by God’s will]” or “let the chips fall where they may [I am not personally responsible when it comes to consequences]”.
Yet outcomes are entwined with our narratives about reality. So when unpleasantness arises, we cannot help but despair since the new condition, however disapproved, is also related to as “reasonable,” though not in the way we wished or anticipated. In what is then swept under the intellectual rug, metaphorically speaking, we find the following mess.
Not inspiring. At all. In part because reason and logic seem to be the problem. It is hardly possible to conclude (consciously or unconsciously) anything other than, I have no choice but to resort to using reactive imagination or even pure fiction to my advantage. Lie, exaggerate, fabricate, corrupt, or defer to the same in others.
Step back though. To the part where the despairing parts become reasonable. The work needed to understand reality myths is to perceive distortions of reality, which are not only a product of outside manipulation. They often derive from the paradoxical situation of self-defeat via our own well-meaning, reasonable selves.
When otherwiseness is grounded in reality, there is no despair only new possibilities. When otherwiseness is ungrounded, it leads to the persist self-doubt — Can I be trusted?
At an existential level that leads to a mirrored experience of doubt in existence itself — Can existence be trusted?
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That’s where my work comes in. And yet, OKIC is not communicated in terms of facilitating individuals with personal “manifesting”, like vision boards, trauma-processing and the like. It is however a downstream effect. An adjacent way to think of OKIC is as a system that orients us to generating, defined as navigating undistorted reality and orienting through grace-centered manifesting. Reality phenomena naturally overlap among personal and collective approaches, but do not get misled that the purpose of relating meaningfully to the OKIC Reality Myths is to inform self-improvement for its own sake. The OKIC-activated way of relating to reality unlocks collective capacities. Individuals are not promised whatever it is they reactively imagine they want.
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We are capable of and do even regularly choose to hand our agency over to fictions. Many times that’s fine because there’s no harm no foul as the fiction represents something real in a meaningful way. Discerning when reasonableness is no longer a sufficient belief is the current crossroads of human awareness and agency. It is time we aim to account for outcomes, both dire and benign, from the potential follies of fictitiously informed enaction. Through communication, including modern technologies, we encounter these as misinformation and disinformation.
The structure and patterning of distortions is not random or even unpredictable. The unique position the OKIC Reality Cipher holds is that it defines them, including logically and eventually technologically.
The Reality Myths defined in OKIC are important because they promise to set humanity on its way to grasping how the patterning behind well-meaning fictions-becoming-foibles happens. At the far end of the extreme, otherwise fictions, even well intentioned ones, become beset (communication shitshow) by dispassion and lack of clarity. This is a result of enacted intentions getting so out of sync with each other that reality feels less grounding than disorienting. The otherwise charming process of imagining a better widget or a better social order takes a dark turn.