Iszimation - Escapism

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Spirituality

Escapism

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How do I know that the I and my body are not the same? If I am not, then why am I not permitted to freely 'roam about the cabin' where otherwise appearing seat-locked for a life-long often turbulent ride. Life would seem so much more plausible if only I could bounce between body and bodilessness at whim. If only, in testimony, I could assuredly answer I and my body are not the same. But lo! Dreaded! I seem stuck.

If I am not my body, then I perhaps I am within the possibility of having chosen it so; kind of rediculous, but maybe I've customized to the limits of both my imagination and crazy karma I spin my life around. Yet given the abundance of wickedness and suffering I experience in body, and witness in the unfolding reality of my worldly bretheren, why would I partake? I mean, why bother with it all?

I suggest a motive known as 'escapism'. Absent of form, we are naked, formless energy, yet self-aware and personality resident. I might assume likewise that every personal inadequacy to be like a sordid truth. A truth so painful that a coat of flesh becomes a rather warm and comforting alternative. An escape. Our escape.

Enter the body and use a mental toolset to envision advents of the modern day, and visualize form in social virtualization. Hollywood, theme parks, digital identities, drugs, to suggest but a few, are all escapes. The escapist manifests and perfects virtual realities so 'real' that the formless 'I' becomes effectively self-duped, wholly accepting its cooperatively contrived reality. Virtual realities offer such promise because they present an alternative to the irreconcilable agonies of truth revealing self, and inward reflection. Even amidst taking up residence in body, the escapist's legacy lives on in a deeply nested chain of avoidance patterns disconnected from its source.

It is not long now that humanity is to perfect the digital experience, making it so believable that a new, albeit temporary, refuge shall cage the ever-fleeing, escapist mind.

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