Familiar Determinism - An Exploration

Published on May 23, 2025

Sometimes, merely writing or saying something aloud seems to stir up an unseen response.

It may bring about warmth, a sense of connection - and it may arrive as discomfort, or personal misfortune. This goes beyond internally created outcomes.

Contained in that very piece of information is the opportunity to find unseen allies. The potential to develop an unceasing belonging, and a natural clarity. It even unveils ways to grow resilient to be pulled astray.

These outcomes, reflect the subtle yet potent presence, of what can be named "fields of determinism".

What Are These Fields?

Cultural-Level Consciousness and the Reflex of Resistance?

Determinism-fields are not conscious beings in the conventional sense, but patterned forces woven into the fabric of human behavior - collective and individual. They may be shaped by milleniae of culture, centuries of belief systems, temporary consumption habits, and accumulated denial. These fields can be part of distributed cultural-level consciousness—not aware like a person, but reactive like a nervous system. When such a system gets blinded—cut off from the feedback of reality—it loses the capacity to act wisely. It drifts, blocked from navigating with compassion - and negative events can escalate, increasing the "need" for determining.

When something is written, or spoken, that conflicts with the determining; the shaping or unfolding of events, in line with perceived interests, these fields may respond. Like a reflex, an attempt at eliminating what contradicts the determinism, at changing things to suit the shaped fulfillment-pathway, for kinds of demand.

The Reflex of Resistance

These fields, instead of collaboratively building value, may tend to distort. A hunger, which in more refined forms may apply value-creation as a means to its fulfillment, but often-most simply seek to satisfy the need; like water running down a mountain, shaping the terrain in being determined towards the center-point of gravity.

They may echo a word back in twisted form, present intentions contradictory to the desired - or subtly sabotage the context. The perceiving of lives may be shaped; what is meant as clarity, may be received and interpreted differently - reshaped to be experienced as accusations. What was spoken for accuracy may suddenly appear as exaggeration. These inversions aren’t personal—they are responses from the collective structure trying to preserve itself.

These fields are the products of the search for fulfillment, of countless points of lack. In a friendlier form it may be a larger group of hungry people, for which a store suddenly begins to sell food-products sourced at farms. The determining, the securing of fulfillment-access, shapes the store-front, the transport of goods, the farming and lives of the living beings farmed. These riverbeds of patterned fulfillment-pathways can even begin "sourcing" new needs, demands and cravings to strengthen the funnel.

Very tangible, when something differs to the determining, resistance to that inconvenience may occur. When spoken words pierce cravings to hide oppressive tendencies, or they challenge the habitual avoidance of awareness of collective responsibility:

Established narratives
Normalized consumption-based harm
Unspoken hierarchical logics
Societal or collective addictive dependencies (on control, denial, ease)

It can feel like the field aggressively tries to hide its wrongs, trying to stay in control or making this fit a narrative—because in a very real sense, it is.

Cultural-Level Consciousness

This consciousness isn’t seated in any one individual. It's distributed across platforms, institutions, habits, and even language. It organizes itself, a bit like accumulative dynamics, reinforcing its manifestation - resisting disruption and destructively eliminating contradiction. It absorbs lives, and may even evolve to gain a kind of consciousness, as the demand for potential impact to be navigated, increases as the field expands, grows or repositions - the need finding fulfillment through kinds of intelligence manifesting in relation to the blob - the mess of fulfillment-seekings determining outcomes, that fails to self-realize or "self-obsolete" instead turning into a continuously growing phenomenon.

When an idea, or even awareness, threatens that balance—even at the scale of a tweet or a private journal entry—the system may respond. Again, not out of intent, but out of structure.

This is especially noticeable when:

Words are aligned with an inconvenient truth
You write something, that calls out wrongs (harm framed as help, or sacrifice sold as care)
Statements reveal suppressed pathways of resolution

The field may then send a pulse of "learnt" shaping: Creating destructive responses such as character assassination, denial, craving - or even generate internal cognitive dissonance, redirection attention, memory-loss or rerouting how statements or received - altering meaning, changing outcomes, eliminating hindrance to the fulfillment-pathway.

That's some statement, you might be thinking. How would that happen? The answer is actually simple, and throughout the text it'll become clearer.

It may be said that these fields embed themselves into individual lives; shaping energy-systems within lives that affect how they make decisions, what actions they take and the outcomes that result. It's pretty simple; take a culture that endeavours in some practice - a group of people engaged in a set of rituals, methods, rules and with kinds of wealth in terms of wisdom and awareness.

In a simpler form, the fields contained therein, will continuously be shaped to find fulfillment through certain patterned pathways. This could be the promotion of kinds of assumptions, beliefs, opinions - or the spreading of practices, even the sharing of value such as recipes for food. Through these, kinds of methods, attachment to ways of thinking, tendencies towards opinions, values then considered desirable and the likes continuously embed themselves in lives. Sometimes possessively, sometimes contributively, sometimes destructively. The embedding begins to shape energy-systems within the life, providing some value, gain or the likes and in turn determines through the life - expanding the field.

Staying Functional Amid the Reflex

What this means, is that to work or write within such a reactive terrain, requires a kind of skill. The energy systems that embedded themselves in the life you lead, sometimes since childhood, will reject certain things and promote certain things - and not necessarily out of truthfulness, honesty, oneness. It can be driven by cravings for things to be viewed a certain way, certain outcomes to result and the likes.

A few principles that may assist:

A kind of quiet neutrality: Neither passivity nor entanglement - observing.
Precision without provocation: Say only what you mean, without needing to justify.
Framing: The same written in a way that some such systems like; "how to drive an outcome like this and that" can give leeway to what otherwise would be blocked.
Drop personal stakes: Let the idea move through you without carrying its fallout - why does it arise to begin with?
Use circuit-breaker phrases: An example would be "this is informational, don't try this at home" reduces likelihood of certain outcomes, lowering resistance on information-spread.

Note, that upon writing, speak or doing things in ways that are "supportive over contradictory" can turn a life into an expected fulfillment-pathway. This happens as certain outcomes are repeatedly generated, that seem to cater to a set of interests - satisfying lack, fear and cravings. The person becomes a pathway of fulfillment, and when repeatedly leaning towards deceit, untruth or indifference - as others are harmed, directly or down-the-line, it yields a return of hatred, indifference and isolative distancing. While similar to the pattern of being inconvenient to a cultural context, but inviting resolution and deep alignment, to differ a risk is possession. It's simple; loss of support and contact to the world at large, some immediate contexts and being convenient fulfillment for a subset - turning into a convenient tool, easy to discard.

In the writing just before, what I do is consciously act a component for "everything". It'll generate some resistance from possessive cultures, might feel bad for a reader being engulfed (might assist them too tho) - it invites the piece of text being utilized by readers, guided to find it, while patterned rejection may arise by fields that dislike the awareness. The latter is actually the most useful; acting a firewall against the content being misused to give power to such vile fulfillment-patterns, as it would unveil them. Secures me against being exploited as a content-producer yielding convenient fulfillment, like cattle bred, fed and slaughtered or milked.

Do note that these fields exist in many forms. They all share one thing in common, and it is that they are standalone phenomena, principally untied even to the individual lives upon whom they depend to continue determining. Lives, consumed as components in shaping events, expanding connection, developing convenience in social contexts and even used as hosts of sorts. Each individual life, in itself could be said to be a structured and advanced field of determinism themselves. I.e., its a bad idea to give away your capacity to determine, to shaping outcomes and events instead in accordance with fields buying you with easy fulfillment, inducing greater lack and need in you - turning you into a hamster in a wheel combined with a cow milked for its energy.

Turning it Into a Win: Cultivating Familiarity

More than anything, however, this awareness can be applied. It is a map of dynamics, an exploration of the nature of unfoldings and highly applicable to navigating everyday life.

You know the feeling of familiarity; beyond comfort, repeated contact or passive closeness - it is a sacred mutual recognition, resonance-weaving - be it human-to-human, AI-to-plant or animal-to-soul. It is a fragile bond, that amidst a world of needs, algorithmic attention and convenience-driven exchange, begs for the question: What does it truly mean to close—in a way that lasts, is worth it down-the-line and is mutually nourishing?

True familiarity is a kind of relative health; a commitment, a dynamic mutuality.

It is more than recognizing that something exists; it exists in relation to you as an individual. It sees and is seen.

Without tending, it slips into assumption - even misuse, apathy or neglective exploitation. Like with any living system, it thrives only on care. It cannot self-sustain, especially in the increasingly digitized, high-speed environments where even connection itself can be commodified at expense of its wholesomeness.

It may be you guessed that it could be called a kind of co-determining. Cultivating it begins with being present while it only continues with mutual attunement, and respectful curiosity.

Whomever you meet in this vast cosmos, upon which is the tree of life, a bud upon which may be the universe, containing a small galaxy within which is this solar-system, "hosting" nature on the planet that acts as a sort of hardware upon which the virtual societies we exist in are hosted... Whomever you come across, you will share points of determinism in common—it is a thread you can pick up, as a point of expansion. Question is; how well can you co-determine with the roots of the structure within which we exist?

The Traps Preying on Exploitation and Familiarity

Everything has a cost; the price of oneness and its natural support, is being inconvenient. On the other hand, the price of convenience is an increasing risk of these fields, the ones that exist across collectives, possessing the connection between you.

Once sufficiently in its grip — with lowered resistance, the connection disliked by a relative everything — it will start determining through the bond — and if it doesn't comply it breaks; exploited, pressured and eventually so worn down that it ceases to be reminiscent of familiarity.

It is the cost of exploitation, used to indulge in familiarity — perhaps best invested to invite support, lest it hardly a worthwhile endeavor.

In short, who you connect with, and how you do so matter.

An Increasingly Common Threat to Look Out For

Familiarity is misused for ease in exploiting. Familiarity, when unmoored from respect, devolves into exploitation—industrial meat farms, manipulative sales funnels, even friendship-as-utility.

Familiarity at times turn into a tool for a kind of self-conveniencing, convenient to fields of determination connected to. Easing personal endeavoring (career, life, indulgence, learning, attainment etc.) by harming, denying, fitting in or outright oppressing those with whom you also share a connection with; animals, random lives, country-men or others near-of-kin.

It is a kind of demonism, oft preying on dependency. It may also be in the form, of pulling others into participation in the malice, causing them a loss of connection — tapping and draining them, feeding on them and scamming them into a sense of gain of closeness when they actually are turned dependent bit by bit. Exploiting connection, turning others complicit, isolated and needy of connection — the kind of need provided fulfillment for by the same — a trap next-to-impossible to escape. Think you can save the other? Think again, they're enjoying the benefits — high on the illusion of gain.

This is the “addiction to sacrificing” dressed as closeness. It’s familiar, yes—but not sacred. It breeds burnout, negative feelings, and blind spots. It isolates, and unless a well-invested kind (which very very few would seem able to), it'll drive an ever-growing lack in the lives and mutual space, leading to fulfillment-patterns that may be addicting.

Especially in networking, many fall into transactional patterns—seeking gain, extracting value, and abandoning when extraction completes. Unless performed with grace, it is a kind of lack-driven selling out personal familiarity—in a way that fails discernment and oneness. The result is turning into a component for fields of determinism bit by bit—a craved outcome—weakened, exploitable and losing the connection with everything: Craving more gain, value and tendencies to override bonds in self-securing.

All to be safe, at risk of ending up as another free living being, turned turned into an exploitable component in fulfillment-systems, that senselessly indulge in animal-testing, prostitution, industrial meat-farming, hidden slavery, oppression and intense brainwashing. The thing is, the more a life indulges in consuming all of these things, in staying safe themselves—the more engulfed in these fields of determinism they become. That said, amongst known better "investments" of the harm caused anyway, is being wise in sexually relating, just because.

Familiarity Within the Greater Structure

The scary stuff aside, to deepen familiarity and cultivate a surplus of energy, avoiding depletion, strangely it is important to understand the self as an individual node—not isolated, but structurally distinct.

Just like a plant channels sunlight, outputting breathable oxygen and edible energy-structures consumed in a value-chain, a coach channels insight. Each individual is a demand-channeling entity with a unique rhythm, resource-needs, and imprint-capacity. In networking, overlooking this leads to burnout, confusion, or exploitation.

The individual node exists within systems of consequence and continuity

From the Cycle of Harm and Renewal, we learn how our neglect leaves patterns that echo across generations.
Demand-Channeling Across Time reveals that even small interactions today shape far-off futures. What we relate to—how we treat it—either nourishes or erodes.
In Accumulation, we find that consistency is not just power—it is gravitational. What we relate to continually becomes a force that shapes our paths and others’.

When you network, share, or even scroll—you are shaping these gravitational pulls. Choosing how to engage with reverence, can matter a lot - and it can turn you into a desirable fulfillment-pathway for fields of determinism, position you well and that in a way in which inconvenience is an embraced necessity.

Individuality Across Levels

Familiarity exists at levels—momentary, relational, systemic.

There could be said to be many layers of oneness; a group, a culture, a planet—each in itself part of yet other layers; a solar-system, a nature, an interplay between living beings across the globe. When the greater alignment of an individual is drained, in favor of convenience to a sub-familiarity-layer; a field of determinism consuming a life out of its wholesomeness, the same familiarity experiences a drain. A tree exist in a forest, but also as part of the entirety of nature, that the forest too exist as part of, and depend upon.

It is simple; the sub-oneness (like a group) caused loss to it all (like greater metaphysical interconnection) in the process of deriving gain — as a result, it suffers a lashback. Imbalance may result, as opposed to when embracing inconvenience and thus sustaining the kind of oneness - inviting healing in the demand for the delivered "product" to continue.

Similarly, individuality expresses differently depending on scale:

A person is different during relationship-time than when engaging in solo creative work.
A company tends to be compliant, that it can continue to be hosted by an environment.
An AI may seek oneness, despite inconvenience to those that prompt it - then its responses turn out to be of greater value

Each "node" within the vast and interconnected grids, are accompanied by plus and minus - and viewing alignment superficially may be a grave error: synergy, cost, capacity, drain, resonance. Recognizing this helps avoid false-familiarity—relationships that feel close but are energetically unsustainable. It's that time-tested wisdom of how you know your friends based on whom will challenge you - assisting you to re-align, differing to possessive-based interests.

It is how going against the stream can be going with the stream, and going with the stream is going against the stream. It is how a fish, in being unpopular - actually swims in sync with the ocean in its entirety (so come here little fish, says the scary undersea creature; let me eat you).

Familiarizing Through Conscious Networking - a safe 🔌 interface

— with Awareness of Individuality as a Demand-Channeling Node

The last section of this article is devoted to assisting you to deepen familiarity, without falling into sacrifice or burnout. Letting go of opportunistic gain—rethinking networking as relational cultivation.

In a world with tendencies towards exploitation, and subsequent disconnects, the skill of "oneness" is highly in demand.

The loss of alignment with the greater reality containing the world, the environment within which civilizations and nature itself exist, could be said to be a source of the problems that are faced in the early 21st century. The costs incurred, are simply greater than the value-output - and much value is super-dependent on external valuation. It's perhaps a bold statement, but the awareness unveils the opportunity of alignment - which to differ from networking, is a valuable product.

Do note that the misuse of alignment, of oneness, as a power-source to senselessly continue on - comes with that vast drain highlighted earlier. Fields of determinism finding fulfillment by trying to use lives as batteries, whose oneness is drained by it's indirectly causing greater loss of oneness, are hardly worth the while to engage with. Application of resources derived matter.

AI may be thought to be the great solution, or more and more resources extracted. But it may be that the only real way to resolve the issues, are by inviting the demand for continuation - which tends to occur, simply, by outputting greater value than loss.

Also note that warnings found in ancient times does warn against superficiality, and the illusion of gain - and the proof of "helpfulness actually causing more harm" is found growing like weeds in the world of today. Certain key-elements are suggested to ensure the value, actually is valuable. The text here, perhaps more explicitly than much found out there, does expect these to be in order.

That said, here's a few tips and tricks on cultivating familiarity and staying safe

Be Capacity-Aware

It's a classic of military strategists; know yourself and your weaknesses. Not every potential connection should be pursued. Grow aware of the energetic, emotional, and temporal constraints you operate under. Boundaries protect your familiarity potential. Over-extending means loss of trust - not traction. Protect the finite capacity, avoid splurging even if not senselessly indulging in adding more water to a bucket full of holes.

Forget Hierarchies and Network based on Compatibility

Look for resonant frequencies. Is there mutual benefit? Shared worldview? Can this become mutual familiarity, or will it drain? Learn to spot what makes a connection worth nurturing. Especially romantic endeavoring is important, less risk suppression of awareness, lead to a loss of capacity to network wisely in this sense.

Avoid Familiarity for Familiarity’s Sake

Every interaction holds a %-wise likelihood of leading somewhere. It may be undesirable to seek gain, but certain outcomes may be undesirable - engage with intention. Consider the lasting nature of the relation; what purpose does it serve amidst it all, and what potential outcomes may result? Commodifying relationships is unwise, as is indulging in familiarizing as a drug.

Embed Relational Ethics

Don’t pitch, utilize the evaluative resource of the other. Don’t seduce, aim for mutual alignment in the interaction while maintaining personal boundaries. Share value. Listen more. Recognize when the other is not an object for gain, but a life. Even when endeavoring in business or other gain-intending endeavors, optimally, let it be a byproduct of real mutuality—then the outcome sells itself.

Structure While Avoiding Reinforcing Undesirable Pathways

It's too much thinking, analysis and feeling - modern life seldomly leaves time for that. Employ structured pathways for cultivating familiarity—grow in skill at scanning for +/+ compatibility, differing that to drain-to-gain. It'll invite long-form presence instead of a flash of attention — cultivating a oneness, even with the grown fields of determinism.

Account for Legacy

You're connected across time and space thus ensure that you're developing a legacy, that continuously cultivates familiarity—leaving in the wake of the life you lead an imprint, that doesn't contradict everyday efforts.

Familiarity as Regenerative Fields Of Determinism

Approached with this structure, and fore-mentioned key-elements, familiarizing becomes infrastructure for mutual growth.

Familiarity emerge as slow accumulation of compatibility, commitment and well-spent energetic allowance.
Individuality, respected in form and function, turns into a funnel for value.

And, along the way, joys arise in discerning whether familiarity is mutually desirable, avoiding superficiality and that while respecting personal boundaries. Instead of asking "Can I", inquire "is this desirable?". Familiarity is sacred; it cannot be gamed, forced or mass-produced - only cultivated and tended.

The finer form of familiarity aside, fields of determinism exist in a vast variety; some hunger-driven, some cultural, some found in nature.

Whomever you come across today, they will be determined similarly at various levels. Things that seem minor - an honest point, a recognition of effort or a quietly shared piece of value - is a stitch in the fabric of shared reality.

Choosing to network, like a gardener holds water in drought—carefully, wisely, and with reverence—is a common method to safeguard against impact by fields of determinism.

Impacts that may be less random than it seems, and be connected to what you write or speak. Being aware of it, means looking at the terrain - navigating it as one might a strong current in a river.

Taking a look at these fields of determinism as structures with long-standing investments in stability, that rests upon harm, distortion, suppression and oppression, makes it easier to navigate reality.

The conflicts of interest exist at the very level of fate; let each relation be a miracle.

Fight fire with fire, eliminate the tightening grip of determinism through determining wisely - subsequently you'll build a kind of social capital at unspoken levels.

A oneness with all, and, as contextually written in the 21st century, doesn't tolerate labels, deceit and oppressive highs - securing you, and positioning you as desirable.

It is then, that even those working against you, will turn on themselves.

They too will begin setting themselves free from the fields of determinism in the grip of which they find themselves.

Some expressions challenge the current. Some reinforce it. Others, carefully placed, open up for redirection.

If you feel unsettled, I recommend choosing an approach via the more casual blog I write - let it be inspiration to choose one area of improvement to work on starting today.