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Having Attained Enlightenment, I Invite You to Join Me. Please Enter the Handbasket on the Right.

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LOL! For reals, though, I’m still just as fucked up as y’all are.

 

I like to read conspiracy sites. Not because they contain some wealth of insight, though there is the occasional, sincere poster searching for truth and fact. No, I read them for

1) shiggles, and

2) to remember what it feels like to think independently and make up my own mind. I didn’t get to do that for most of my life and it’s nice to examine an argument and parse it without being tugged hither and yon by other people’s passions and not know where I stand.

On these sites, some of the most sincere posters are the ones who claim to have attained Enlightenment (note the ‘E’) and are happy to take questions, which they will answer from their now-bottomless well of knowledge and wisdom.

Did I mention the shiggles?

Listen…

If someone is offering the answers – Wait – THE ANSWERS to your deepest questions, the offer can be loosely interpreted as, “Oh, hello! Welcome to my most currently fashionable delusion. Let me give you the grand tour of the latest features of this particular handbasket to hell.”

Look…

I can only tell you what I’ve experienced myself. For me, the wonderfully expansive feeling I once labeled “Enlightenment” was usually given to that amazing experience of opening a new door to an heretofore undiscovered room in my head. There were spaces and ideas and stuff to explore that I didn’t even know were there. But, before starting to sell tickets to admission to the latest hotspot in my mind, I stopped to take a look around. Hrmmm… there were numerous cobwebs, dust bunnies and random, unseemly critters which had taken up residence in this place. As happens, it belatedly occurred to me to start cleaning up the mess that caused the door to be sealed shut in the first place and, just maybe, to address all the randomness that had accumulated from these unacknowledged energies.

Then, inevitably, I noticed that the walls to this room held another door to another room… wait – many doors to many rooms. Perhaps, just perhaps, this new place wasn’t the one-stop mini-mart to Enlightenment I thought it would be.

I like the succinctness of “I don’t know, and you don’t either”, but, really – if I don’t know, then maybe you do know. Maybe I know but don’t know that I know because I’ve repressed it or forgotten it or have been too stupid or lazy to retain whatever it is. Maybe I know and you do, too and, in the end, there is nowhere to go, no “Enlightenment” to reach for.

I wonder if we’re not supposed to “Become Enlightened” so much as we’re trying to develop enough to grok the complexity of reality. What if the “point” (for lack of a better word) that the Big Bang expanded from never really went anywhere? What if the beginning of the universe wasn’t really an expansion out of density and heat as much as it was a slight shift in focus, a new way of relating to “What Is”? What if this universe is one “relationship” out of many that we’ve had/have/will have with “What Is”? What is this “What Is” that I keep putting in quotes?

Who the hell knows?

Don’t look at me.



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