Part of what feeds cynicism is not just pain, but a narrowing of the arena in which pain is encountered. When suffering is held only inside the human sphere, inside social systems, histories, betrayals, injustices, and personal loss, it becomes unbearable. Not because we are actually isolated, but because suffering is held inside too small a field. No wider field to hold it. No intelligence large enough to metabolize it.

Lineage is a living current of intelligence that organizes a person from the inside. It is not genetic. It is not ideological. It is not a story you choose. It is a relational field that you belong to because something in you was formed inside it. You do not adopt a lineage. You recognize the one that has already been shaping you.

When violence erupts, it reveals something larger than the act itself. We see the event, but beneath it are currents shaping the whole of our shared life: people swept into binary outrage, voices using divisive language or failing to stand for love, cruelty disguised as righteousness, and a collapse of discernment so complete that even those dedicated to truth are caught in its undertow.

Survival strategies become roles we forget we are performing—roles that bury who we are. Your Soul Will Keep Starving Until You Face Your Own Distortions explores how facing our own chaos is the first true act of devotion. Power doesn’t begin with potency. It begins with choosing our soul over survival.