Yep that is what I was getting at on Friday that the newly awake want there to be a nefarious all powerful foe and the market place provides the impression of one

Really need to watch Virtual Nightmare lays it out well
https://youtu.be/WVZgPPYACy0

Yes and that imaginary all-powerful foe allows the individual to skirt around the concept of taking responsibility for one’s own perception and resulting decisions and actions.

The reason for why "HOW COULD I BE SO DUMB"

And then at that step in the process of growth, the individual must find Forgiveness

The ability to Forgive One’s Self

Not to make excuses for one’s self but to to truly Forgive from a state of newfound awareness

To look back at what you were and allow that to “die” in sense… so that you can be renewed and exist without the weight of the past. Not ignoring…. Not ignorance… but acceptance and integration

Lest team up and fight that dragon or the dragon is so powerful you need me as a champion but in reality it is just a bunny and all you need is a Holy hand grenade
https://youtu.be/QM9Bynjh2Lk

NO it is the art of incorporating the dumbass the monster teh saint and the hero into the Human we actually are

Yes, not to “die” but to allow the sense of possession by that singular aspect to die or fade. To truly take back Self-Control

And so Self-Control requires a “Wholistic” View

To no longer be passionately driven/ possessed and instead, integrated with an encompassing “compassionate” perspective

And that may be a common misinterpretation of Buddhist/ Pali concept of being “dispassionate” but perhaps more accurate would be to say “compassionate”

The words “indifference” and “dispassion” sort of paint a sociopathic picture and so in philosophical circles the Buddhist Philosophy is humorously criticized as being the practice of becoming a “sociopath” but even that word is a recent invention and convolution of translation and definition

In my comprehension of buddhism the concept of elevating your perspective over the mundane seems to be the goal it is the deprivation and solitude that is to bring a discovery of awareness there are many paths to this awareness even technological ones. But once aware looking at the mundane that was abandoned you can see the truly remarkable facets of our existence incorporating that extraordinary viewed into your being allows you without effort to be a beacon for others. The key to all of it is the expression of love , not physical or proclaimitory but actionable simply helping that guy loading plywood at the home depot reaching up to get that elders needed purchase from the shelf, telling a struggling young tween she is beautiful. All these things are an out poring of love that unlocks the reason for existence.

I would like to comment about how evil descends on places of good faith and oppresses faithful people. It is sacrament of evil sometimes called supreme duplicity where an actor of evil assumes a priestly or saintly role. All faiths and traditions ave suffered these attacks and injury, injury of the congregation as well as the individual harmed. It is often that a worker of evil will blame his crime on God saying why did God not stop me form doing these things this again is another act of evil. To blame their free will on God as a curse rather than blessing , individuals who do evil turn their back on God and besmirch his love as venom. For the individuals who suffered under these actors may their hearts , minds and spirit be lifted and made renewed may they find glory in the hands of our loving creator. As for all of us who allowed through delegation or by ignorance for these things to occur we must take charge of our worldly affairs so that these individuals not the congregation can never act again, we must be ever vigilant never relinquishing our authority and responsibility as there monsters who feed on our delegation of sovereign authority. May GOD bless the harmed and take mercy on us who did not act give all of us what is required to sustain us and lead us through these valleys of darkness.