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In my opinion, this reality is/has become a collective disease in a sense. For most participants anyway. I believe this is/has become a conscious machine that works to create pain and suffering. Anyone paying attention and not in denial will notice it. It is everywhere "out there" on the stage of reality. We see it in nature as well.
No "loving" creation would ever set up a reality where organisms feed off of other organisms. This reality was either hijacked or set up as a kind of farm. If you do a search term on loosh, you will get to what is happening here. It is what it is and with a clear mind and detachments one can begin to escape the programming of the illusion of this fragmented, parasitic "world". Many spiritual masters talk about the need to transcend this world. I think they know what is going on but don't get in to it, as not to panic people with less awareness. Even The Four Agreements discusses the distortions of "the parasite" that works to hook consciousness. This then sets up a collective co-creation that serves the need of the
parasites that work to influence it. Real shamans (not the self labeled urban ones)understand what I am speaking of here. This reality, at its core, has a parasitic nature. It is cancerous in it's current circuitry. Detachment is part of the way to transcend this however one can help other's that are deeper in the illusion by reaching out with real love and connection. What most in the spiritual community call love is actually not. Not a syrup, carrot leading a horse, false love. Real love. Not a fragmented, one up love. A real, connected, we are all in this together love. That connection is beyond the polarity of good and evil, light and dark, etc.
If you want some deeper realizations beyond all the spiritual traps set out there, sample adampants (Jonathan). Pretty aware and resonates with where I am.
Most people explain away the harshnesss that exists as part of this world. It needs to be faced to collapse the see saw of the polarity.
Things are not as they seem here in this particular reality. Things are very messy here. Distortion abounds and its being tweaked by certain forces to maximize it.
Beyond these traps lies infinite potential. It can be accessed but most have so much junk in the trunk of their minds that the filters will obscure and then sink the mind back into the circular trap of the polar dance.
Are you getting what I am suggesting? It takes honesty to admit that this reality is a bit off. The whistling in the dark must stoop. The spiritual teddy bears must be placed on the shelf. Then and only then we can look at this without any attachments and reshape it instead of be shaped by it.
From my experience, I believe we are making this up as we go along. There is nothing to aspire to, no benchmarks to reach because it is uncharted 'creational' territory. The matrix of life morphs and weaves to how we interface with it through our thoughts and actions.
You may have noticed that the "powers that be" influence us in a way that gets us to buy into a particular world view? This is why they place so much emphasis on controlling spiritual ideas through religion, educational systems, government, media, etc. This is because they realize we are creating this and they shift things in their "parasitic" favor. Let's be rational about the powers that influence control here. if they wanted to they could instantly wipe out everyone on the planet. They don't and won't because its about stimulating lower vibrational energy. Again, authentic shamans know this, they just dont talk much about it because most people are not ready to face it.
They controllers, too are being controlled from forces beyond them, to cultivate a particular energy (energy in motion = emotion) from the rest of us. They are leveraged to in turn leverage us. They do this through stimulating fear. if you look carefully you will see all the methods used to stimulate fear through a kind of disconnect. They literally code the minds of reality in particular ways, from genetics, to mass hypnosis.
Here's the clincher. It is happening on both "sides" of this reality. So even beyond our lives we are influenced to return for another go on the wheel, a contrived wheel that serves more of a purpose for others than it does us.
Is there freedom beyond this? You bet there is. First free the mind from the constructs that have been taken up through human conditioning and the rest will follow suit.
If this seems far off consider that shamans and people who have gotten pretty clear (beyond the mainstream coded trappings) have all seen this structure. Also consider that what people term is god has no agenda. it's just a playing field. Look to nature. This construct is very much at the heart of it. Struggle (survival of the fittest).
Beyond it is true freedom, not temporary freedom that just sets up more struggle (carrot before horse loop).
Monroe from the Monroe Institute talks about this as well. His term for it is loosh. There are many terms for the same thing. In this regard we see polarity as a teeter totter driving a circuit that serves a function.
The spiral of life btw, is based on a ratio that strives for perfection, but due to the nature of that spiral, will never reach it. It is a locked in geometry that drives this game onward, expanding but never reaching perfection (in math terms). It is a proverbial carrot leading a horse around. It drives the horse to fill a particular function, and most horses in this are none the wiser because they are just following their "inner instincts."
That is the structure of this reality, but because there are so many trapping in it people literally become addicted to the experience of the illusion. Can you see a common thread as to why so many spiritual traditions speak of the need for transcendence? Ask yourself why that would be. There are a lot of thoought form minefields "out there" that are intended to be installed "in here." Optimize your choices. Like Don Miguel says, choose your agreements carefully.