2006-05-14
King of dreams
When man walks upon earth, he should think of two things:
one is the meaninglessness of death, that whatever happens, he might like it or hate it, or - as we all seem to think - that nothing at all happens, but being dead, destroyed, gone, and there is nothing to do about it.
The other thing to have in mind (to be in the right place of life) ,is that when man is asleep, he is living the life he was aimed to live. There is no denial, only the truth of one's senses and one's mind. This law, that I once described as
Wollins formula,
that we are awaken when we sleep and unawaken when we are awake, is a fact of life that actually can save mankind from it's foolish behaviours, such as mysticism, or the denial of the soul with it's childish behaviours like eating to much, drinking to much, having sex without love, or making oneself busy by indulging in to much work, or similar expressions of a deep denial of what one truly is, all these things can be erased when he grasp these two things.
In other words, no one can fight death, one can only try to enjoy living.
And to enjoy living, one have to understand that all our obsessive impulses to either try to leave this world and make up fantasies of another place (like apathetic children can do), or simply indulge in indifferent matters with a planless denial of one's greater soul, or the broad scale of man as a person with a unique mind, will not work. Forget religion and at the same time, try not to focus so much on superficial stuff in this world, but rather understand that one's true identity is a mixture of these two dimensions, the abstact and the concrete, the world of the mind and the world of actions, and that the dreamlike state of mind that one is opened up to in sleep is the way to live your whole life. Not taking to much seriously and not wasting time on things that is not in one's sphere of dreams.
Many things in our existence seem to be upside-down, inverted, and even though most people never take time to think things through, more than to eat, sleep, and eventually die, I find the passage that our dreams give us very essential to the understanding of our whole lives. Especially in a state of culture, where religion has failed but at the same time is rising with massive plans to climb up the ladder of society again, and where materialism and the evasive ways of media are in control, I think we should think the opposite way in terms of how life should be lived. The formula I mentioned could be a step in the right way for the true rise and resurrection of man's life on earth.