What if free will is just an illusion, and the life we live is a game within a game? Across centuries, sacred texts and mystics promise enlightenment, yet the contradictions of existence remain. This essay confronts those tensions, questioning the narratives we inherit and what it truly means to be free.
Tag: enlightenment
We arrive at every moment already complete, though the world would have us believe otherwise. This reflection is an invitation to release the illusions of control, to see beyond the masks, and to remember the essence that has always been within.
There are seasons when the path bends back on itself, when the call is not forward but inward. Retrograde and recapitulation are not regressions but invitations — to slow, to re-trace, to gather what was scattered and left behind. The journey is less about discovery than about remembering, less about adding than about releasing. It is here, in the pauses and reversals, that essence begins to shine through the layers of illusion.
It’s easy to get lost in the labyrinth of ideas — past lives, reincarnation, karma, hypnosis, and the nature of reality itself. We’ve been told that we are bound by cycles, debts, and lessons, yet the more one examines these frameworks, the more they start to resemble the same old control mechanisms dressed up in spiritual language. If we are fragments of an infinite source, why would that source impose rigid, Earth-centric laws of punishment and reward? Perhaps the deeper truth lies beyond the narratives we’ve inherited — beyond the neatly packaged stories that keep us tethered to a cycle we never agreed to. Maybe the real journey isn’t about atoning for imagined past sins, but about breaking free from the illusion that we were ever bound at all.
For thousands of years, humanity has sought to understand its place in the cosmos, attempting to define the intangible aspects of existence — what animates us, what transcends us, and what ultimately connects us to something greater. Among these explorations, the distinction between soul and spirit has been one of the most enduring, yet remains deeply misunderstood.