Ignorance is Bliss. Pressing the ‘re-set’ button.

Posted on March 11, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Fake Culture |

What is it with ‘reversion’; this thing where people press the proverbial re-set button? We all have the potential to walk the path of self-discovery, and the realizations we find along that path can be trying and difficult. But if we can take those experiences and integrate them into our lives then a wondrous change takes root, we become something more, something balanced. We enter a different mode of reality.

But there is a constant internal battle which is waged when one attempts to develop their self-awareness. The part of us which wants to be central to reality (it’s all about you baby!) rebels - this is the doing of our ego. Naturally our ego doesn’t want to admit that we are often responsible for our own problems, just as it doesn’t want to admit that reality is far more complex than we can ever understand in intellectual terms. And so we rebel.

It seems to come down to a collectic attitude, many people - at one point or another - go in search of collecting answers. It’s a common process that often starts somewhere between the age of 20 and 30, although in some cases people are far older, or else is a source for the ‘mid-life crisis’. What then are the questions? Well the thing is the questions can’t be put into any simple terms - it is a feeling rather than a concept, a feeling that there is something more to life.

What we quickly learn is that the answer to this question can’t be found in the material world. It’s not about our jobs, or our bank balance - nor our house or our cars. It’s not even about where we are physically located, not really anyway - though traveling certainly helps many people find an answer to this question.

I remember when I started asking this question; it started with feeling this deep need to know more. And it was tinted with a degree of frustration that the circumstances of life - that society itself - didn’t fill this need. I’ve known many people since that time who have started feeling the same way, and all of them take a different approach. Some get depressed or turn to alcohol, attempting to bury the feeling. Others go off on a mad rush changing all the material aspects of their life…moving to a new town or country, changing jobs. And some blame other people for their circumstances, they start pushing people away or become increasingly despondent, make the even get a divorce. Regardless of their direction though, they all have one thing in common - they all seek answers in the material world which society has created around us.

At any rate, I have met a handful of people who take a different approach. They start questioning established ideology, slowly they start breaking with convention. They do this because deep down they know the source of their disquiet - every human innately understands that rules, beliefs and regulations are transitory that they are only a map of reality rather than reality itself. Some people are willing to face this fact - but many aren’t. For those that are willing to face it, they begin looking for the man behind the curtain. This is when all sorts of ‘hidden knowledge’ becomes apparent. That scientific theories are taught to us as facts. That beneficial knowledge, capabilities, and ideologies are suppressed. And so it goes on.

However, by itself all that new found knowledge is useless, without one additional realization; We are the creators of our own perspective on reality! This is an almighty realization, because it demands responsibility and self-change. Unfortunately this is the point where many back-out, they use false-logic and reason to retreat back to the comfort of their own ignorance.

They press their re-set button.

Change and discovery is about ourselves, it does require us to take a measure of responsibility - not necessarily for what we do but for who we are. And that awareness uncompromisingly demands that we change ourselves. Thus we learn the true reason for our sense of emptiness in life; our relationship with ourselves.

I can truly understand why people retreat from that realization, it takes strength to go on from there - and many feel powerless in the face of that strength. Yet if we search deep within that strength. After all it takes a good degree of self-realization to get even this far.