Disillusionment

The path of return is disillusioned for some when not awakened, as the personality is a great masquerader, often deceptive, making one believe one has arrived spiritually. However, any sense of separation, especially pitting one against another, is a telltale sign something hasn't awoken yet. What that something is has been called conscious awareness. To work consciously, to me, means to develop one's awareness to the point of including all brothers and sisters and not just the isolated individual. This is a tough concept for some, especially when life's allurements, such as money, power, greed, and envy, make their way into the conscious knower's witnessing awareness and are identified with as if it were real. Even the most unassuming character, carefully disguised as an innocent, well-bred person, maybe an energetic vampire and not be fully aware of it.

Disillusion is a mask. The mask has many facial expressions. Each facial expression represents a seed thought from above - the more enlightened Self coming through to gain hold of its lower vehicles of expression and experience on Earth. This tiny seed, once identified as a package to be opened and examined for its contents, contains a multitude of sins. It also contains, from the perspective above, a plethora of positive, life-affirming opportunities. The people we might identify as having tapped the source of this infinite potential, from sins to Buddha-hood, include Siddhartha as he contemplated suffering and how it can be overcome. From his enlightened phase of Self-discovery, the Four Noble Truths were brought through, as is well remembered.

In subtler ways, everyone contemplates suffering and how to overcome it. As many have read or experienced, suffering is caused by personal attachments to the material, objective world. While forms lay the foundation for experiences, forms are seeds waiting to be sprouted - what grows is according to how the seed is fed by one's observation and attention to detail. An emotionally blossomed seed will tell the tale of greed and envy, such as with Persephone and Aphrodite in the fight over who is the fairest of all. Later, the mental seeds were brought to fruition through the relatively inspired writings of philosophers such as Descartes or Niche - relative to the evolving man in science and philosophy, however, limited in perspective from the standpoint of pure conscious knowing.