Embrace Your Shadow Through Sports - A Psychopath's Guide To Enlightenment

Human men are extremely violent…we are, it’s not like we want to be…we just didn’t have a choice. Its just how shit shook out…

We are providers and defenders of a species in a world where everything has to eat and the only thing to eat is each other. It was literally kill or be killed, either become earths apex predator or go fucking extinct…and here we are. Why is nature so cruel? That truth has not yet been revealed to me but it is…oh it is and just like Oliver Antony said you’re living in the new world, with an old soul and the fact (convenient as it may be) that some other dude hunts your food and protects your family is leaving a violence sized hole in your heart…that’s your dark side, that’s your shadow and if you want to be enlightened you need to merge that instinctual, physical side of yourself with the modern intellectual side of your self.

You need a place to let all those millions of years of pre-historic violence flow thru you, a place where you can indulge your dark side in a (relatively) safe and controlled environment, a place where we can commit the kind of physical assault our soul needs without the possibility of anyone dying or going to prison. Essentially, you need a safe space for violence, and that’s exactly what sports provides.

Testosterone and adrenaline enabled us to create the kind of rage that was necessary to defend our families and kill our way to the top of the food chain. That violence eventually brought us safety and set us free from the need to be so violent today...but what are you supposed to do with all of the testosterone and adrenaline as it just fucking builds inside of you with no release while you sit on the couch listening to violent music, watching violent movies and playing violent video games?

Violence is an instinctual drive, like your sex drive and I think we all understand that not acting on sexual desire leads to sexual frustration and the only way to relieve sexual frustration is to have sex. Not to try and suppress your sexual desire and try and crush it down into a little core because that little cores gonna go fucking supernova and explode out the other way and cause all types of problems for everybody in society.

Rather than suppress, I suggest embrace…embrace and find balance. That’s what integrating your shadow is, and that’s how you become enlightened

However, Sane philosophers, intellectuals and gurus throughout time have taught that enlightenment is a state of mind and that through some combination of breathing, chanting, education and therapy you can think your way into enlightenment. As if it were some type of riddle you could solve or code that you could break and then all of a sudden, poof, enlightened. I know they wish that was the case because it would be easier for them that way because, for the most part, intellectuals are weak. That’s why they’re intellectuals. Strong mind, weak body; they have to live in their heads because they can’t compete in the physical world. Unfortunately for them, enlightenment is not a state of mind. It’s a state of being. A balance between your mind and your body, your instincts and your intellect which is why so few people are enlightened. Some people are very smart, some people are very strong. Most are neither, and very few are both, because very few are willing to embrace their instinctual nature and push their mind *and* body to enlightenment.

And as a man the way you push your body to enlightenment is by using it for what it’s for…to fight and to flight and hunt and protect…sports are a re-enactment of our past lives and a way to let testosterone and adrenaline flow through you in a fun and possibly lucrative way...smashing the shit out of someone is like an orgasm for your pre-historic brain…which is why super violent sports have such a calming effect on men because you get to get the violence out.

You see how it goes in MMA. Two guys talk shit and train for three months to try and literally fucking knock each other unconscious for 15 minutes. Then as soon as it’s over they hug like a soldier and his wife being reunited at the airport.

Super-violent, full-contact sports like American football, rugby, MMA, boxing, Aussie rules football and the like, still exist as meritocracies and they remain spaces where you can engage in mutual combat with like-minded consenting adults and engage your dark side in a healthy and possibly lucrative way.