A World in Crisis

Post Manuscript World Contemplation Intro: 11/24 -

          - A World in Crisis: The weird and the wonderful.

For me, the so-called material world with all its ever-changing anomalies and creations is still a miraculous, strange, beautiful and curious appearance and event.

It is still strange and puzzling to me to think and quietly contemplate that one day this temporary self-aware embodied form and construct with all its ever-changing, impersonal and fleeting thoughts, feelings, perceptions, views, ideas and sensory experiences will be no more, and yet I fully accept and know this is simply the way things are in this dual material and conceptual world and realm of constant change. 

Attachment to this world of change can only cause us suffering.

As with all spiritual and philosophical teachings, both past and present, they continuously remind and tell us that there is no real permanence to be had and found in the worldly things, forms, phenomena, dramas and creations of this ever-changing conditioned and conceptual material world. All things, forms and creations are marked and bound by impermanence. However much we might try to attach and hold on to things, all this will come to pass. Impermanence is the very conditioned nature of all things, forms and creations.

Even now today with all that I enthusiastically and confidently present and share here, both spiritually and philosophically, on this so-called esoteric blog on the true nature and truth of reality, identity and experience, I am still slightly mystified and over-shadowed by the world's seeming meaningless, randomness, chaos and questionable profound and miraculous existence, spontaneity, order and beauty. Maybe it is all simply a beautiful and strange spontaneous miraculous mystery and happening that is truly beyond any of us to really and fully unravel and solve in any genuine conclusive, agreeable and satisfactory way. However much we might acquire, gain and have in this world of change and creations it will not prevent or stop the passing and ending of all things, forms and events. This is its unsatisfactory nature.

For me, all moments are a unique one time expression of Reality. Unique and yet transitory.

Only Reality endures. Only Reality is real. For me, all is this ever-present awake and known Reality.

As I see and experience it, it is very easy to become and be very mentally and emotionally attached, identified and invested in this impersonal and imperfect physical appearance and mental construct that we call mind and body, and all the ever-changing sensory worldly experiences, urges, desires and sensations that come with having them, despite being aware and knowing it will all be cast aside eventually. Death awaits us all. For me, this is an ever-present worldly and material puzzle that has always stayed with me; wanting, waiting and needing to be solved. What is real? What is it to exist and not exist?

           - Understanding the Mystery

For me, as a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory worldly construct and form, it has always been somewhat puzzling and challenging to always observe, experience and accept an ever-changing and ageing material and conceptual world that is consistently plagued and impacted by hatred, cruelty, greed, hardship, poverty, sickness, loss, authoritarianism, conflict, superiority and inequality. This is not to say there are not beautiful things and rewarding phenomena and unique moments to experience, love, acquire, share and have in this temporary worldly and material fleeting miraculous experience and existence of living, ageing and dying, but as with all conditioned, created and conceptual things, creations, forms and phenomena, this too will all come to pass. As a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory construct and form we all have to let it all go in the end. Impermanence is the very conditioned and unsatisfactory nature of all things, phenomena, forms and creations.

Attachment to this world of change and all its creations can only result in suffering.

To simply and freely love, celebrate, share and accept who we are and what life is, in and of itself, can be a day-to-day challenge for many of us, as well as dealing with the constant impersonal ebb and flow of worldly changes, dramas, expectations, demands, needs and challenges we will all have to face in one way or another as we navigate, live and play out this ever-changing realm and world of constant change. 

Worldly existence, by its very own nature, can make it challenging and hard for us to be consistently and fully content and satisfied in all that it offers, presents, delivers, gives and is. It can at times be challenging and frustrating to consistently and fully understand, accept and make peace with the way things are in this ever-changing impersonal dual sensory material and conceptual world and universe. And yet, for me, all moments of experience and experiencing can be seen and known as a unique never to be lived again expression of Reality. It is really only Reality that truly endures and exists. Reality is the truth, identity and essence and origin of all things, phenomena, forms and creations.

            - To be Awake!

Here we all are in all our diverse, miraculous and shared exposed and vulnerable humanity temporarily and uniquely living and playing out a self-aware embodied experience and existence of awareness knowingly knowing with all certainty it will sooner or later end and we have no real certainty and assurance as to when and how. Certainly for me, it has always raised and presented the contemplative question of who am I before I am and what am I when I no longer exist as a self-aware physical conscious sensory construct and form? Who am I? What is this?

                    What is real? What is happiness?

And yet as a fully embodied self-aware mind/body construct and form I am still baffled and puzzled by the reality of fully acknowledging, accepting and knowing the ever-present and harsh fact that, as I know my present self-aware embodied sensory existence to be, I will in some near or distant future and uncertain time not be present as this particular and unique self-aware embodied conscious form in this ever-changing impersonal physical construct, realm and reality of space, time and form. All these worldly, material and sensory experiences, perceptions and dramas are limited, fleeting and temporary. All this will come to cease and end. All things, dramas, phenomena, forms and creations are bound and marked by impermanence. And yet, for me, all moments of sensory experience and having experience can be viewed and seen as unique and ever-changing impersonal and cognitive expressions of Reality.

Reality is what endures. Reality is the Truth.

For me, when silently considering and contemplating the truth of impermanence and the unsatisfactory nature of all things and creations it still completely amazes and baffles me that this ever-changing impersonal sensory dual material, diverse and complex world of change is still so largely driven, shaped, dominated and impacted by inequality, intolerance, hatred, greed, prejudice, misery, conflict, war, violence, self-importance and authoritarianism. It is crazy to me to think that such a small minority of individuals have and own so much of the world's material wealth and such a large volume of the world population still have so little of it. Let me be clear, who actually needs £100 billion dollars or even £1 billion dollars to live and play out such a short, temporary and fleeting existence? And so too with power. No individual in these present times should be trusted, let alone allowed, to have such extreme and unnecessary levels of wealth, status, authority, control or power? I think world events, both past and present, show us all that it puts all our precious, worthy and fleeting lives at risk. Knowing the Truth and being awake is what matters.

I do ask myself as a physical embodied self-aware construct, how is it that we as an on-going shared and global community still allow such a small minority of individuals or group of individuals to have so much authority, power, wealth, status and control over all our fragile, miraculous and vulnerable lives even when so many of these elected or non-elected individuals do little or nothing to improve, protect or better our day-to-day experience and ease of living, well-being, ageing, existing, happiness, peace, security, safety and dying? For me, this is certainly another unwelcome perplexing part of this world and universal puzzle. The unsatisfactory nature of this ever-changing world of change and creations.

Why do we as a shared intelligent and self-aware evolved species continue to allow, follow and accept a mostly out-dated consumerism and hierarchy world model that still only serves and benefits a very tiny minority of people in simply increasing, securing and protecting their already ridiculous and unnecessary gross levels of wealth, status, self-importance, control, self-gratification, authority, dominance and power? Maybe this is simply the imperfect and unsatisfactory nature of all creation and phenomena? Only Reality will endure all this. Reality is Truth. Only Reality is not tainted, touched or altered by any of this.

Attachment to this world of change can only result in suffering.

            - Knowing Truth

Of course with the spiritual and philosophical revelations presented and offered here on this esoteric blog I do see and accept the transcendental beauty and perfection in and of it all beyond what is material, physical, sensory, impersonal and conceptual. With the mystery of it all I do still silently marvel and celebrate at the very existence of what this perplexing life, world and vast universe actually is and all the challenges, dramas, forms, creations and changes it delivers, offers and presents. Be it the on-going joys and sorrows, the gains and the losses, the successes and the failures. The pleasures and pain. The highs and the lows. The mundane and the miraculous. The worldly beauty and all its cruelty and indifference.

As I see it, we all exist now as a unique and worthy temporary self-aware sensory embodied construct and form of all that has come to pass and we exist now as all that is yet to come. As I see it we are all the past, present and future as a unique and worthy temporary embodied self-aware sensory moment and construct of eternity and Reality. This is absolutely something I believe and feel we can all come to fully recognize, know, respect and celebrate in all the beauty and harshness of living, playing, ageing and dying. The on-going complexity and diversity of it all and its endless impersonal multiplicity of creations, forms, dramas and phenomena is its real eternal and sacred beauty - its real transcendental, questionable and alluring  mystery. It is Reality recognizing and knowing Reality. What some reference as God-Consciousness. Reality becoming and being fully conscious of its own immaculate existence.

As I see and know it, we all momentarily exist as a unique and worthy temporary sensory embodied conscious expression of Reality in a space-time continuum that has unlimited potential and endless on-going possibilities, both creative and destructive. Both loving and harmful. Both unique and similar. Both small and great. Both many and one. Both beautiful and dark. Both joyous and sad. Both pleasing and unsatisfactory. Both mundane and miraculous. Both rewarding and disappointing.

Wrongly or rightly, personally I do not think the past and present day world politics and organised religions have all the answers to what our future humanity should look like, become and be. 

            - A New Paradigm

We all share and live in an ever-changing impersonal world of change that is still largely impacted and plagued by war, conflict, authoritarianism, greed, control, separation, hatred, prejudice, intolerance, violence, consumerism, self-gratification, ignorance and self-importance. With all the present day global environmental challenges and climate changes facing the future of our on-going precious, miraculous and shared humanity we all urgently need a fully united, enlightened and agreeable world leadership and collected consciousness and certainly not the present day divided and volatile one. World leaders or hierarchy individuals pursuing their own self-centred self-interests and personal desires to have more and more power, wealth, ownership, control, status, self-importance, superiority and authority will not bring a much needed united world consciousness and intention that will act in the best interests and needs of the present day and future environmental challenges and climate changes that we all have to face going forward. 

I'd certainly like to think in the very near future that a new, enlightened and shared paradigm or world consciousness will reveal and show itself in all the unrest and conflict that plagues, harms and impacts this present day material and physical world. I would like to think, perhaps foolishly, that what is freely and lovingly offered and presented here on this esoteric blog might potentially influence and contribute in some positive, constructive, awakened and enlightened way. An invitation to be awake!

                Who knows?

All I know is we all deserve better than what most of us are still managing and facing today. For me, we are a world in crisis and it is urgently in need of an enlightened, united , intelligent and loving world shift in consciousness and leadership, certainly if humanity is to unite and survive. Obviously, these are only my present day worldly views, opinions and thoughts on the volatile and vulnerable state of the world. I am not saying any of this for us to get down on life. I am not trying to incite guilt, shame, worry, aversion or blame. For me, it is a calling to liberation and higher consciousness and thought in the face of it all. It is an attempt to reveal and establish Truth as the potential building blocks of life and the on-going future of humanity. 

        It is not nihilism. It is a genuine love for all that is. 

My genuine love and prayers to you all. Please if you can help support and share this esoteric blog it would be deeply appreciated. A sincere thank you to all. To all embodied souls and self-aware constructs who remain fully committed to love, freedom, unity, longevity, wisdom, equality and peace, I salute you all. We all deserve and need a united, enlightened, awake and loving world, not a divided and toxic one. All one.

    Blessed be. 

This esoteric blog is dedicated to my earthly mother 'Rita' who transitioned on the 12th December 2021. A truly selfless, kind, beautiful, spiritual and loving embodied soul, friend and mother. 

All these things will come to pass.