Posts Tagged ‘enlightment’

That was the last time I ever saw S. For some reason I never bothered to check how she was faring after that. I had destroyed her worldview in 10 minutes and sent her out tripping. The event taught me that beliefs and other sorts of fake mental constructs serve as some sort of stabilizer for these kind of people and that if you destroy their ideas of the world they quickly turn into hallucinating, imbalanced idiots. For this reason alone getting rid of religions is probably not a very good idea. Frankly, I do not understand this need of having to live in self-constructed mental houses – its as if reality is not good enough for them, somehow – but its clear that most religious, dogmatic, dull, forgettable or otherwise mentally impaired people would change into raving lunatics if you chopped the basis of their stability away. I have a better view now on the mechanics behind the process being older now and more experienced: in my view these people are people who have never managed to beat the first enemy on the path of enlightment: fear.

They need these mental constructs because it is a protection against that monster of chaos lurking outside of it, whose real name is of course Fear. Thus, the god or ideology or other bullshit they believe in serves, they think, as a protection but in reality of course these mental houses are rather mental institutions they have locked themselves in, fearing the boogeyman outside and burning candles to him inside to worship his name.

In the end these sort of people are really dangerous, since whatever they do and whatever they believe in is ultimately a product of fear.

There are in fact very few people who manage to beat the first enemy. It is not an easy task at all. Whoever beats it can be recognized by a great mental clarity and a freedom from having to live in mental/dogmatic constructs. These sort of people rather see reality in a direct and transcient sort of way. I have been fortunate enough to meet a number of them but they are pretty rare. People who advance further than that are even more rare: the next enemy is clarity, and I have met maybe 2 or 3 people who seemed to have beat that one.