FROM A SITE VISITOR: Why realize if "none of this is real" and if “no consciousness of anything” will exist in the Absolute?
F.: Persons—those not Fully Realized—live out their relative existence in varying states of boredom or misery or strife, depending on the personality (or personalities) that they have adopted. Most persons will eventually experience some modest element of sadness when a crack in the corrupted consciousness allows an awareness to surface, specifically, an awareness of the fact that they are "missing something" but haven’t a clue as to what that “something” is. Sometimes, that modest element of sadness comes after having sat in morning traffic for five days a week for over forty years. Sometimes it comes with an awareness of the true degree of boredom that is being experienced after years of performing the same monotonous and repetitious tasks involved with one’s employment in her or his assembly-line culture.
Sometimes it comes after a person looks across a room and finally realizes after decades that he has internalized a spouse—has taken on the beliefs and behaviors of another persona in order to sustain his own false roles and in order to try, co-dependently, to make another person “happy” in order to be happy as well. Sometimes that modest element of sadness comes when a person finds that she has never been “true to herself” but has “sold out” and lived in a manner that was prescribed by her culture rather than by any natural tendencies.
Many persons will never awaken enough to even know how bored or miserable or depressed they are. Such is the power of denial among those who are out of touch with reality. Other persons will become “uncomfortable in their own skin” as a result of not knowing Who/What They Truly Are. Some of those will eventually develop disgust for themselves—for the phony self or selves that they are playing—yet they will never find a way out of the trap. Most will play their phony roles to the end, will spend the entire manifestation on stage in The Drama of the Lie, and will play their fake but debilitating roles to the end.
As persons, accepting their dualistic beliefs as real, the huge majority will become trapped in their perceived fears and unmet desires. Some will develop a fear of worthlessness and a desire to be seen as being valuable. Many will become image-conscious. Most will lose touch with their feelings while becoming trapped in their emotions (and the subsequent emotional intoxication that always accompanies the assumption of false roles as identities). More and more phoniness will evolve from that state as well as more and more (relative) harm.
Some will eventually withdraw and behave passively while others will become narcissistic and aggressive. Many will become capable of the most outrageous behaviors imaginable if they deem such conduct to be necessary to sustain their illusions or their false identities. Some will abuse substances in order to suppress the misery that they are feeling or to escape the boredom or the pressure that is plaguing their relative existence. Others will dissociate and not feel at all. Some will moralize or judge, projecting the liabilities of their adopted personas onto others. If they do not find the True Self, then their phoniness will eventually cause them to suffer depression or even mental collapse (not knowing who you are being one of the signs of insanity).
Being out of touch with Self, their adoption of false selves as identities can lead to a sense of being tormented by their delusions. A desire to escape their phoniness can lead to a sensation of despair. Some will become reclusive as they isolate more and more from reality while other persons will remain active in their cultures while mentally breaking with reality. Most persons by that point will become obsessive or compulsive as they are driven by their illusions and distortions and fears and desires, all of which evolve from the illusions of body-mind-personality identification. Are you beginning to detect on your own an answer to your question? Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
F.: Persons—those not Fully Realized—live out their relative existence in varying states of boredom or misery or strife, depending on the personality (or personalities) that they have adopted. Most persons will eventually experience some modest element of sadness when a crack in the corrupted consciousness allows an awareness to surface, specifically, an awareness of the fact that they are "missing something" but haven’t a clue as to what that “something” is. Sometimes, that modest element of sadness comes after having sat in morning traffic for five days a week for over forty years. Sometimes it comes with an awareness of the true degree of boredom that is being experienced after years of performing the same monotonous and repetitious tasks involved with one’s employment in her or his assembly-line culture.
Sometimes it comes after a person looks across a room and finally realizes after decades that he has internalized a spouse—has taken on the beliefs and behaviors of another persona in order to sustain his own false roles and in order to try, co-dependently, to make another person “happy” in order to be happy as well. Sometimes that modest element of sadness comes when a person finds that she has never been “true to herself” but has “sold out” and lived in a manner that was prescribed by her culture rather than by any natural tendencies.
Many persons will never awaken enough to even know how bored or miserable or depressed they are. Such is the power of denial among those who are out of touch with reality. Other persons will become “uncomfortable in their own skin” as a result of not knowing Who/What They Truly Are. Some of those will eventually develop disgust for themselves—for the phony self or selves that they are playing—yet they will never find a way out of the trap. Most will play their phony roles to the end, will spend the entire manifestation on stage in The Drama of the Lie, and will play their fake but debilitating roles to the end.
As persons, accepting their dualistic beliefs as real, the huge majority will become trapped in their perceived fears and unmet desires. Some will develop a fear of worthlessness and a desire to be seen as being valuable. Many will become image-conscious. Most will lose touch with their feelings while becoming trapped in their emotions (and the subsequent emotional intoxication that always accompanies the assumption of false roles as identities). More and more phoniness will evolve from that state as well as more and more (relative) harm.
Some will eventually withdraw and behave passively while others will become narcissistic and aggressive. Many will become capable of the most outrageous behaviors imaginable if they deem such conduct to be necessary to sustain their illusions or their false identities. Some will abuse substances in order to suppress the misery that they are feeling or to escape the boredom or the pressure that is plaguing their relative existence. Others will dissociate and not feel at all. Some will moralize or judge, projecting the liabilities of their adopted personas onto others. If they do not find the True Self, then their phoniness will eventually cause them to suffer depression or even mental collapse (not knowing who you are being one of the signs of insanity).
Being out of touch with Self, their adoption of false selves as identities can lead to a sense of being tormented by their delusions. A desire to escape their phoniness can lead to a sensation of despair. Some will become reclusive as they isolate more and more from reality while other persons will remain active in their cultures while mentally breaking with reality. Most persons by that point will become obsessive or compulsive as they are driven by their illusions and distortions and fears and desires, all of which evolve from the illusions of body-mind-personality identification. Are you beginning to detect on your own an answer to your question? Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
