105. The third eye: Chapter 4 - Alienation

Our body, soul, and spirit only exist when we are connected to another body, soul, or spirit, or to the created sacrednesses. If only our body is in connection with another body, then it is a bodily, instinctual relationship, which can also be called sexuality or the preservation of the human species. The number of people living in such relationships is relatively small. If our soul, more precisely, our individual self is in connection with another individual self, then this is the relationship of lonely, individualistic mass people, who sinking into matter, only believe what they can see with their eyes and touch with their hands. The number of people with such relationships is the largest, as this determines, for example, the business world and the media, the realm of emotions and capital, where participants trade with everyone for the sake of profit. Today, they mainly exchange valuable information about, for instance, the instigation of wars and revolutions, the production of chemicals and drugs that harm both humans and the environment, mass manipulation, and so on. The relationships of individualistic people are built on horizontality, equality, rational thinking, and the religious power of money. 

The people with the least human connections are those, who are spiritual, universal, conscious, and meaningful. In most cases, they do not even know each other; nevertheless, they are not lonely, they do not suffer, and they are not afraid because they are able to lift their consciousness above the low-level consciousness of the great mass of individual lone people. They do not need constant contact with others, and they respect each other on the path of returning to the One and Only. Among spiritual people, there is a hierarchical order, and their relationships are vertical. They have long moved beyond equality, the pursuit of profit, linear thinking, and the exercise of power upon others. Regarding the created sacredness (e.g. water, air, light, soil), those with an individual self-exploits for business purposes, expropriate, and deplete the life sources of future generations for the sake of excessive profit. In contrast, spiritual people, keeping the measure, respectfully preserve and maintain these sacrednesses for the generations to come. 

If we classify ourselves into the most common middle group of comfortable individualists, then we defend ourselves. Yet, in our rational thinking, the algorithm of "yes" and "no," of one and zero, serves no other purpose than defence. When we are afraid and anxious, we defend ourselves. As individualists, we defend ourselves against belonging to either the universality or the instinctive, animalistic bodily existence. Due to our comfort, we do not want to step up or down. In our ignorance, we prefer defensive survival, alienation. Let us ask the question: if we choose alienation, why do we want to survive/experience life, and why do we not want to be in the fullness of life? 

Isn't living more important than surviving, experiencing, being afraid, being half-dead, being anxious, suffering, and constantly defending oneself? Why do we think that if we survive life, we will be happy? Perhaps we have a second life? Our happiness is in this life, not beyond it, and we have no second life. Thus, it can be stated that those who choose defensive survival are unhappy and insensitive to the beauties of life. Although their two eyes are open, in their blindness they do not see the sacrednesses that sustain life, and although their two ears are open, in their deafness, they do not hear the pulsating symphony of life. 

Life is when we perceive the external world around us, including other people, in a living connection, and we understand both our inner world and the other person with our intellect. If we are blind, light does not matter; if we are deaf, music does not matter; and if we are insensitive and senseless, life does not matter. We are human because in our consciousness, the duality of the world and the duality of dualities, the outside and the inside (as the horizontal relationship of life), and the up and the down (as the vertical relationship of life) the reality are present simultaneously. 

This is the fluctuation, the quantum of life. Our free will, the practice of our awareness, is necessary to awaken from our ignorance, from our alienation, to the possibility of our consciousness, to realize that life is the most wonderful thing because only in this way can we perceive and experience, only in this way can we make it fulfilled, love the sacrednesses and the other person, that is, the One and Only. When we think, speak, and act ignorantly, why do we not realize that with equal effort, we could think, speak, act, and love consciously? 

Consciousness also means that, stemming from our awareness, we know that our life is finite, that with every passing day, hour, and minute, we are closer to the day of our death. Therefore, we do not have time to waste. We must manage the time given to us because time is not money, as Western capitalists think, but sacredness, as Eastern masters teach. The ignorant person thinks they will live for a hundred years and does not need to hurry, so they create for themselves a bubble of dream-world, false reality, individual illusion. The ignorant, profit-driven, lonely individualist only has horizontal relationships. Their country is the "I" country, that is, ego-land. In contrast, the conscious person has both horizontal and vertical life, relationships. Their country is "our" country, that is, the "life" country, the "vita-land." In "our" country, the conscious people strive every day to move from the horizontal to the vertical. 

From ignorance of those living in "ego-land," the disconnection and disharmony between body-soul-spirit and thought-word-action arises, which manifests most clearly in the disorder within and around them, in the constant accumulation of problems, in fear and anxiety, in alienation, in loneliness, and so on. The ruling powers, whether material or immaterial religion, have always sought, and still seek today, to create and maintain a large base of solitary individualists to strengthen their power, to ensure that the number of people in "ego-land" grows while the number of people in the universal life, in "vita-land," decreases. The goal of power is to break the networks of connection between our external and internal worlds – what could be called memory and intellect loss – so that only an external and internal world that can be artificially maintained through manipulation exists, making humanity dependent and enslaved. 

Power tries to keep us on respirator machine, for example, through information and communication hunger, which also solves our controllability. Those who succumb to external power manipulation do not realize the great gift of their physical and mental health, that they can work, think, raise the next generation, love their spouse, children, create, and enjoy the sacrednesses they were given. 

The ignorant alienated person perceives the surrounding reality as nothing special, as natural and deserved. Why do they not realize that their life too was a grace, and that it is not fair to refuse the gift? They do not even notice that what they did not create themselves is all a gift, e.g., the water, air, light, earth, and food that sustain their life. The ignorant person may think that food is manufactured in factories, that the mobile phone is as old as they are, and that there is a difference between pork and pig meat. The material goods we need for life, such as the basic ingredients for food, come from nature (earth, water, air, soil, plants); we do not create them. The teachings has been passed down to us by our ancestors, our parents, and grandparents, and ultimately from the One, and it is up to us how we use it. 

Since we receive them for free, we must also pass them on to the next generation for free, which also means that we cannot squander or destroy the gifts. In the case of natural sacrednesses, this is officially called environmental protection. How does the person living in "ego-land", not in "vita-land", think about all these gifts? We receive grace, for example, so that we do not remain comfortably ignorant. The question is not whether we live in grace or not, but what we do with this grace – do we keep it or pass it on? The ignorant alienated cannot manage the gifts they received, nor their sacred time, so they mainly live in memories of the past and/or the anxieties of the future. Worry, fear, anxiety, alienation, suffering makes a person sick. Hospitals are full of individualistic people.