The Euphoric Illusion of the Divine

It is always interesting how people get caught up in their own "path" to the unexplainable, that belief in the otherness of some divine presence. There is a plethora of books by numerous authors proclaiming some secret or little known path to the divine. AND IT ALL SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE! At least it seems to conform to ones conditioned mind. Many will believe any "New Age" fantasmic logic that comes down the pipeline. It has appeal because it has a perceived relationship to what has been, with the wisdom of the ancients and in many cases with the ancient texts. How can the mind which is conditioned find "truth" in that which is a product of that very conditioning? To this person it is very simple. In order for one to find the "true self" one must first realize freedom. Freedom that is the outcome of a mind that is unfettered by the conflict and confusion of all these systems and paths that are the result of conditioned thought. All thought is conditioned, there is no such thing as free thought or a free thinker. Thought is the movement of self as the defined and therefore the illusion of the known.

Why this strong attachment to spirituality? Is there a psychological relationship that exist between ones desire to "know God" and the desire to "be God". It is thoughts equation, to know the face of God as the projected image of self. But the known is always the illusion of the self absorbed. So you need to ask this question in all earnestness, what is the state of a mind that is seeking? and What is the true reality of that which is sought? Is there an end to it? Does one arrive? Or is there always another level of "attainment"?

If one is to ever have a realization that sets one free it cannot be an attainment, accomplishment or an experience of gratification. Whatever is found or discovered is also lost in the same moment. Can you as an entity that exist in the freedom of the unknown be tethered to a belief of any kind or be identified with a conceptual ideal? Of course if one is truly free then there can be no illusion, no mind that is seeking and nothing to be sought. So one realizes that all these books that have been written on spirituality have no meaning what so ever, because they are all the illusion of the self absorbed. They are the projected image of thoughts desire to know. And what is known is always the continuity of the conflict and confusion of the past. To be free is to discover the originality of the moment and the true self, that which has no beginning or end. It is the beauty, simplicity and passion of living the unconditioned.