There’s a point along the path of inquiry where answers no longer suffice — where what we’ve been taught starts to feel insufficient, and the hunger for something real, felt, and coherent takes over. This discourse wasn’t about proving a model right or wrong — it was about daring to question the models themselves. To examine what holds them up. To test their edges. And to reclaim the sovereignty of thought, intuition, and lived experience in a world increasingly managed by consensus and compliance.
Tag: illusion
We’re not here to fix the world. Not really. The idea that we must engage endlessly with the problems handed down to us — repeating the same outrage, the same struggles, the same attempts at revolution — feels less like progress and more like participation in an elaborate, self-sustaining illusion. The trick isn’t just deception; it’s the mechanism that keeps us fighting within the game, rather than seeing beyond it.
Many curious and truth-seeking explorers, including myself, have spent the majority of their life writing about, scrutinizing, researching, analyzing, extrapolating, exposing, and attempting to make sense of the nature of our world.
When you finally come to grips with the idea that much of Western (or modern, capitalist/consumerist) society exists within a low-level mental cloud of illusory belief systems, you will realize that there is a lot that you need to unlearn, in an effort to reframe your world as you know it.
I am less a fan of the word “illusion” every time I read it, especially in the context of spiritual teaching and philosophy.