Deception Theater

Most religious practices and beliefs are in reality the fruit of the mind that unfolds elements and makes them enter into relationships.

The mind draws arabesques, refined ornamentation and designs then comments on them and positions itself in relation to its productions.
It embraces them, rejects them, and dialogues with its superficial layers where the resurgences of its buried layers are reflected.

It is not a healthy or unhealthy process in itself, nevertheless, as long as this process is not struck by consciousness, it is over-invested with energies incapable of untangling it, incapable of offering circular impulses a salutary exit door.

As long as this process is not bathed in expanded consciousness, it can only feign the solution. The mind will then emulate the breath of salvation in an artificial way (for example, by substituting one conceptual environment for another, it changes the scenery, but never really leaves the costumes, nor the stage, the language, the text….)

Thus, he who has not learned to observe the mind has not begun any authentic practice.
The problem is not that a play is being performed in the theater of the mind.
The problem is that it attracts so much light, spectators, attention,
The Theater of Deception must be gradually dis-invested.
In the end, a few useless actors will perhaps start shouting a desperate cue,
then, faced with the lack of impact, will leave.

©FJ  Nov 2024
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