One of the features of withdrawing from the world as it is generally perceived is the opportunity to investigate what's going on from new perspectives.
Whether or not that is a good thing rather depends on how the perceiver receives, processes and experiences the new perspectives .... best set aside concepts of good and bad if possible perhaps, though pain may be a clue that a world view is best discarded for now ... which does not mean it's not valid, just that suffering is optional ... caused by clinging on to pain producing thoughts and actions ...
Humans being social creatures, withdrawal may be tempered with occasional discussion ... sharing of views ... the trap here being the tendency to seek out those who share one's current delusions ... and the opposite may apply ... those with information relevant to the new consciousness being drawn into relationship ... for the time being ... the beauty of this process being mutuality, which removes the solipsism from the story ...
It is understood that thought is limited and transcending it necessary to reveal the Truth ... though that's easier said than done and many have glimpsed it and slipped back to thought, albeit at a new and exciting level of delusion ... the trap tempting Gurus throughout time ...
So, the spark for this esoteric essay? ... a narrative which suggests the 3D world as a series of interconnected dramas ... all the world being a stage ... the dramas developed to educate and entertain ... and the players, as actors, directors, script writers, audience and so on all co-creating in this great game ... not to dismiss the pain of the tragedies we write and act out, or the joy of the love stories .... just that from this small corner of Spain in this brief moment in time, television mostly absent, "news"papers too ... it appears unreal that humanitarian crises on epic scale can be created callously and the focus of attention put on the symptoms and not the causes ... blame allocated to the victims and not the perpetrators ... a spurious referendum generated to divide the gullible population around irrelevant issues ... the outcome already decided ... football tournaments where entertainment is secondary to encouraging identification with a section of humanity called "nation", with amusing sub-plots like the "United" Kingdom having three different teams (and two from Ireland) plus another left behind, possibly as punishment for wanting to separate politically as well soccerly ... humans around the world offered at least the illusion of choice - to eat simple food or processed concoctions of corpses and chemicals, to look for the beauty in Nature and co-create with Her or destroy Her work and seek to dominate each other, to be happy or miserable .... and making the wrong choices in huge numbers, deceived to believe we are freely choosing ...
Sometimes it seems there is a script of scripts, a meta-script from which all these dramas evolve, unfold ... maybe many from which to pluck from a field of possibilities ... which opens up the question as to who is writing these scripts ... the "they" of conspiracy theorists ...
At this current level of delusion, seeing all this, seeking to do better, aware of the dramas but not engaged in them ... what to do?
It's work in progress and helping who we can where we are is a start ... in an infinite universe no act of kindness is too small to make a difference ... and whether or not we have free will to choose, it goes better if we act as if we do ... perhaps once all the layers of delusion have been stripped away, what's left is "choiceless awareness" ... words borrowed from J. Krishnamurti, though he has no responsibility for the rest of the ramblings ...
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