by Paula Froes
As we reach this world we are whole, one with everything, no thing, indescribable yet almost immediately the game of separation is played on us through our parents and our environments.
Step by step we learn to be individuals by absorbing behaviour patterns of our surroundings and defining ourselves through contrasts. Our life data base is thus formed and the field of infinite possibilities becomes a limited scope, which automatizes as we grow up and collect memories.
These memories, which we so proudly call experience, are the platform from where we perceive ourselves and life. The mind has a lead role in the way we sense things by making us live time and again the same stories; labelling the world, the others, the scenarios and the circumstances; choosing one thing in detriment of another. In a world of contrasts we delegate by default vital functions to the non conscious, while believing we control, decide and are masters of our lives. Truth being said we are but pawns of the unconscious which cannot discern between real and unreal! In addition we design patterns defining us, that thrive on thoughts believed in. How often have we heard “This is the way I am and there’s nothing that can be done?”
Lack of awareness that our so called experience is only a perspective we enter a second illusion. We truly presume we know who the other is, thinks and feels. It does not stop here! We are seldom present, dwell in the past and project the future. Resisting what is, makes us proud of being fighters or gives us hope for a better day, these also are no more than deceptions. Pondering why we never get there, we by- pass the joy of the Self feeling victims of destiny. No wonder the world is screaming for a change!
