Ye though I walk through the valley of death I will HAVE NO FEAR as the Lord is my Shepard his rod and staff guide me.

And then I guess that circles back to the concept of the Hegelian Dialectic being the artificial process of “opening” the minds of individuals, making them vulnerable to then provide the nefarious/ insidious “guidance”

They are hi-jacking a natural process of growth; making an artificial version of it by utilizing narratives/ spells to advertise & broadcast this “system”

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.