SoulSpeak

1/9/2026

I just finished watching an older movie, “The Taking of Pelham 123”. Denzel Washington and John Travolta with a host of superstar supporting actors. Why I wanted to watch this interesting. By the end, I had other ideas.

The one that struck me first was the repeated good guy/bad guy narrative. Befitting the stars, they have portrayed both types of characters and predictably this was the case as well. The good guy was flawed and the bad guy had empathy. It is increasingly difficult to watch anything on any platform because the narratives are the same and the story lines interchangeable. The Matrix.

It was only at the end of this movie that I found the message for me.

The protagonist, Denzel Washington, Walter Garber, had always loved the subway. His whole adult life was centered on trains. At the end I began to think about conditioning. How do you decide what service, what task, what skills you are going to learn? What job or work will you do? I realized at that moment that there are so many ways to earn your living, be of service to your family. I began to wonder again, what of my parents, my families’ prejudices, had directed and influenced my decisions, my choices of work. When, if ever, have I done what is in my heart, my soul as my work.  It seems the more I live and reflect, the more this theme presents itself. What do I want to do with my life? What do I say and see as my purpose for being on the planet? If I wanted to do something simple and practical, I was met with ‘but you need to go to college’, or ‘I want you to do or be better than we(parents) did’. As a child, did I ever, ever do what I really wanted? And at this stage of living, can I uncover, recover or discover my way of being free of conditioning?

Maybe all of the ‘ascension’ symptoms people are having are just the removal of conditioned behavior? And with that, are these body symptoms and mental/emotional disturbances just the emergence of your real, original self? I’m fascinated and appalled right now, with the possibilities that this train of thought presents. If what I’m experiencing is a return to paradise, as myself and if this is happening for everyone else, what a time to be alive.

Peace