The Knowing
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This may be the most spiritual, metaphysical or holistic post yet. But, it’s what I was thinking so it’ll be what I’m writing. Something that I can’t quite explain to most people is how I have a great hunch, insight or feeling about things. When people think I am planning something out the reason I went with it because it felt right. Now this feeling is not based on anything I read in books or even from any life experiences it’s more of me matching a picture in my mind with a actual place. It’s like I know when I show up if it was right and that’s the reason why I travel to places before I might move there. All I need is a vision match that WASN”T brought on by a fine woman, some alcohol or a business I see and I’ll decide it can be done here.
What others may see from the outside is a plan taking too long is actually me accepting that I am in the right place and it will happen in due time. And, no I don’t meditate but I am usually calm and in reflection everyday for one reason or another. Now this way of going about life hasn’t gained me a lot of respect amongst potential friends but it’s alright I’ve been down this road plenty of times and it always worked. Only my friends who are spiritual for one reason or another tell me it’s faith or some other special insight. For me I just know. The only way I can describe it is when some people fall in love at first sight and it just works. For me it’s similar as I can have a very vivid vision or dream of places I have never been. All of a sudden I am in that place and I know I am supposed to be here. It’s like deja vu but that’s just a vision alone but what about that I am having the same conversation that I had in the vision.
Now I know you think I’m talking crazy but who gives a fvck as you don’t really know me anyway. But, this knowing of things before I get there has always been very helpful. When I was a kid I used to have it a lot but as I got older it disappeared but it has returned ever since I stopped worrying about how I am going to make it. This is why I can change directions, careers, places to live and even give away damn near all my possessions. I know I’ll have them again in a slightly different way so I can let go.
Didn’t want to make this post this long but let me give you the basics of this post. We all know what we should be doing and it’s easy to recognize because you realize your life isn’t going the way you want. There was a time when you saw something great, someone special or a great opportunity that would be 180 from where you look like you were headed. I think that choice to go with the intuition you have is what separates most people from the slaves. I didn’t do anything that special in my head when I got up and left LA but it happened to change my life. I pretty much took every whim of a opportunity that came to me based on a feeling that everything would work out for me eventually. Shit, to make it sound more weird.. When I was in Manhattan I worked downtown and I used to eat Subway on 80th and Broadway because I liked the way that neighborhood looked and would always say I’m going to live here. When the business made money I ended up living on 80th and Amsterdam and I promise you I didn’t even know it til one day I walked the neighborhood and noticed I was one block in from that subway.
Once you stop worrying about how and start going the way you know in some weird way is right I think it’s automatic that you will succeed. I can’t explain how my life has worked for me this far but I always knew it would. Even to this day I continue to know and I don’t let the world or any other person deter me from my vision!
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This some heavy sh!t you droppin FreeMan. Taking us down the rabbit hole a bit I see, lol.
Hope folks can keep up wit it.
That intuition, 6th sense, instinct, gut feeling…etc you speak of is some real sh!t. When I look back, I can see many times when it spoke to Me in the subtlest of ways but I either failed to pick it up or was stuck in My head “thinking’ rather than “feeling”. Hell let ME fall back before I go too far down the dayum rabbit hole…lol.
But as I got older and began to recognize it’s voice and trust in it *boom* shit began to flip. The easiest way to recognize it is when dealing with people. Sometimes you just get “vibes” or a “feeling” bout folks …that’s it talking.
I like what you said in the last paragraph about “I cant explain how my life has worked for me this far but i always KNEW it would”
For Me personally, when I got out the “hope, prayer,wish,faith…etc” thinking and got into KNOWING… *boom*, My sh!t flipped again. I started to pick up haters because like Kanye said “…can’t tell me NOTHING” and sad to say when you got your mind firm and fixed & KNOWING how your life is gonna Be and are unshakable in your conviction…for some fag-a*s-reason, folks don’t like it.
oh well phuc em!
Hella good post.
btw, next time you getz to felling all Magnanimous and sh!t and wanna give away all your personal items….Get @ Me Homie
Almost forgot to add this…
As Afrikan, Black…etc folks we gots to understand that this ‘thing” you speaking about is a gift We have as a birthright. Anybody who looks at our history ( and aint talking no civil rights, slavery sh!t) Im talking about our Empires in Afrika, the Dogon people, ancient Kemit will see that We as a group have always posses the ability to operate at a HIGH level when compared to other races.
We’ve done/do wonders that TO THIS DAY people still cannot explain. Unfortunately most of this history has INTENTIONALLY not been taught to us. But its out there to be found by the inquisitive mind. It’s worth the research.
“Man, Know Thyself”
Someone mentioned in a post the otha day about a third eye and this post is talking about the same thing along with intuition and gut instinct. You obviously trust yours which is a great thing. I have long ago stopped trusting mine for whatever reason but it’s still there nagging me to stop the bullshit. LOL All I can say is I’m working on it.
@Supreme – I like the example of the feeling you get with people as I use that a lot too. People think I’m prejudging but it’s something about their energy that you can pick up. It’s the same way kids are attracted to some and repelled by others. Nothing but a feeling when it comes to that.
I was always willing to go where I wanted to go. I am still a loner to this day because I will just not participate or go with the flow. Not because I am a asshole but truthfully because I didn’t feel good about certain things. I think that was the beginning of the Hate primarily because I am strong enough not to follow.
Either way it’s not like I accumulate a kingdom of things. I take only what I can carry and most of the time that’s everything essential. If you want a bomber jacket from 88 with the fox fur on the hood I’ll leave that for you.
@Keish – Whenever I don’t trust mine I end up in some weird places. So it’s good most of the time but it makes you look like something is wrong with you. So I try to keep it on the low overall.
I feel you on being a loner. I have NEVER understood the concept of peer pressure. Wait, so I’m supposed to do something that “everyone else” is doing just because they’re doing it??? Without even any real thought to if it is a good or bad decision for me??? Just never made anay sense to me.
My intuition was proved right when I found that a friend that I sensed had been resenting me for a while had actually been resenting me! She never told me and was always super-nice to me but I always had a feeling that it was a front.
And I am probably the most materialist (in the philosophical, not the consumerist sense), non-religious, non-spiritual black woman ever, lol. There’s something to that ‘other sense’
A lot of people don’t think period. And, I mean that in the sense of they just go with the flow and never really stop and think about where they are going in life. They just get on the conveyor belt and get dumped out at the end like luggage at the airport. So when anyone stops and says where the hell are we going or why are we doing this he/she is bound to be a loner only because they are awake.
Well it’ll bring you more problems than you think when you really apply it to everything. Not problems in the sense of things you can’t handle but insight into the real way people are. Once you know who you are dealing with it takes another level of confidence to proceed to work and be around them.
It’s a internal thing not a external thing. So to me this is why it can’t be explained as how do you quantify a feeling? Either way everyone has it but most people don’t listen. There might just be a 6th sense but since the books don’t tell you it exists most slaves don’t believe.
Its weird that everyone has that little voice inside but most fail to listen to it. My voice came to me while i was young and it helped me and continues to help me to this day. It has risen me from the bottom to where i’m at today. The reason is that i listened to the voice and the feelings it may send me when faced with a decision. If it feels right then go for it, if it doesn’t feel right then don’t. I’m able to figure out a person just by the way they come across. If the voice tells me that this person is bad news then i will avoid you like the plague. My gut instinct is my survival mechanism if it doesn’t feel right then i will not follow. I think that most people are afraid of listening and rather follow the herd and not take responsibility for themselves. Just like i said before when i was going to buy a house during the RE boom. My gut instinct was telling me that the situation i was getting into was not right and that the agent gave me a bad vibe. Once i got that feeling i just backed off completely and decided that it was not the right time for me and my family to get into this and sure enough a few months later the bubble burst.
Now my voice is telling me to get a RE license and start selling and renting houses! Who knows where this might take me now!
Lol @ FreeMan…aye, I’m seeing young katz bring the gumby step-up fade back so its just a matter of time on the bomber jacket. lol
@G71 – I have those feelings too where something inside of me tells me to prepare for what’s coming up next. The Real Estate license is a must have for anyone building a empire. You can’t have cats taking cuts of your money for simple things like filling out paperwork. Plus you get to know all the players involved from the bank, title company, home inspector, lawyers and everyone else related. That’s a valuable spot to be in for the right person who understands how to build.
Now I’m a big thinker I hope! Usually I am forecasting all kinds of stuff from when to buy oil stocks and when to think about importing my own items. Now I have no formal training on any of that stuff but something sparks a gut interest in certain things and I usually run with it. I don’t know when it will be useful but sooner or later it usually is. I think that little voice is what keeps me ahead of the game. Most people are searching outside theirselves for the answer and I am looking within!
@Supreme – They are already making dance crews and wearing tight as Calvin Kleins. It’s just a matter of time before they throw on the bomber. If Kanye wears one it’ll take off and it’s winter coming up so everyone will be wearing them soon enough. The trends just repeat as there are hardly any original folk anymore. I was watching TV the other day and they said Snake Skin is coming back! Damn Snake Skin! LMBAO
It works. Sometimes it can come from spiritual confirmation of others too. Yesterday I’m chillin..then the voice says..”Stop, relax, and all the answers will come.” Then 3 people yesterday kept saying “Relax”. So what am I doing now…relaxing and letting God give me the answers. This week, brother Freeman..you have been on point. And yes…all of us are connected by this list too. Its good to know that there are others willing to share knowledge and motivate each other. God brings great people together for His purpose.
I think it’s just accepting whatever-however-whenever the communication comes to us. Sometimes you have to stop and be quiet because you’ll never hear anything with all the commotion going on. I think that’s why a lot of cats meditate daily but I’m to hyper so I have to lift weights or go running to let everything go.
I’m just doing my job…