The Deeper Destinies

Most often, when destiny is invoked, what is actually being named is a kind of mind-virus. Shallow success dressed in sacred skins. It is outcome worship disguised as meaning, outcomes that fit neatly within existing systems, shaped by social values formed through a lifetime of distorted cultural conditioning.

But deeper destinies are not concerned with success as this age defines it. They dismantle those aims entirely. They speak only the language of incarnation. They concern themselves with true arrival, with the surfacing of one’s deep being in all its world-making, spell-breaking beauty. They care less for what one accomplishes and more for the deepening quality of the ten thousand iterations of creaturehood one inhabits across the initiatory journey of life.

Beneath surface reality, beneath skin-deep identities, beneath any modern roles one claims as one’s own, deeper forms are waiting. Deeper roles, waiting to be owned and lived. Riper iterations of the myth-being that inhabits the matter-body. To embody these deeper destinies, current versions of oneself cannot remain intact. There is no gentler truth.

The inner little one may struggle with this, and rightly so. But this is the nature of the dream and of what is asked if deeper integrities are to be lived. This is initiatory dreaming in its true form, and in its deepest honesty it is ruthless and unrelenting, whichever direction we meet it from.

Identities must be laid on the altar. Futures we have defined ourselves by must be offered. Ways of seeing others, and the world itself, must ripen and mature. One must give oneself to love, wholly, and in that giving be grown over seasons into something so shaped by love that it is, at first, unrecognizable.

The surface forms that once carried us may no longer breathe at the depth now required. Deeper water asks for creature-forms that can survive and thrive there.

So no, deeper destinies do not ask us to become more successful, at least not by the dominant narratives of this age. They ask us to become more honest. More intimate with true love. More aligned with our own being. More present. More devotional to emergent life. More honourable. More willing. Riper. Richer. Realer.

The Deeper destinies ask us to become so genuine, to love so truly, and to live so fully, that we are radically transformed in the wake of our own becoming.

This is destiny.

Let no one convince you otherwise.