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Ghostly Hunger

This is a book about separateness, which is the central underlying human issue behind so many of our social, economic, environmental and political issues. By separateness I'm referring to any belief in the false illusion of separateness between self and environment and self and other.

Just to bring to mind what this book is about, I'm going to make a series of statements.

I'm going to ask you to set aside judgment, assumption and preconceived notions.

You see, at the centre of this predicament most of us have some kind of notion or believe about how we think the world is. We have our own personal cosmology and a model of the universe. Everything we experience or what comes into our field of perception we ask ourselves a basic question - does this fit in with my personal cosmology and how the world or life is supposed to be?

If it does, then we accept it. But if we come across something which doesn't fit into our personal cosmology or perspective of how the world works, the universe, or how life should be, we label it and define it as 'other'. Then we seek to justify our assumption that it is 'other' and doesn't fit:

  • "That's weird."
  • "That's wrong."
  • "I'll study it later."
  • "That's interesting, but it's not my thing."
  • "That's crazy."
  • "That's a cult/conspiracy theory."
  • "That's mystical nonsense. It's not real."
  • "Sorry I can't believe that."

The predicament is that if you keep doing this you can never change. You also fall into separateness and create an illusion out of your environmental reality. You also divorce yourself from your immediate reality and create unnecessary division not just between yourself and your immediate environment, but also between you and other people. You close off your mind. When you close off your mind you reject everything which you feel doesn't fit in with who you think you are, who you believe yourself to be, and your notion of Self and your identity.

Whoever you think you are, you are not

This is true. This is a hard truth. If I ask you "Who are you?" whatever you tell me in response will invariably turn out to be an illusion. Forget it. Which brings us to the next part of the predicament. If you don't know who you really are, and all you have is a belief, a concept, an assumption, and you're going on that premise alone (and it is a premise), then how are you going to know who anyone else is? How are you going to understand the reality of your environment at all? How can you even begin to figure out what is really real and what's only relatively real? How can you determine what is truth and what is illusion or belief?

You see you are a human being who is being that what you claim to be, and it could be a role, an identity, a persona, a character, a Ego, but it's not who you really are and it's also - on this basic, superficial level - not who anyone else is either. It's just Mickey Mouse, role play, a concept, an illusion. Think about this. Are you nothing more than a concept or an illusion? Or are you really real?

Please don't think I'm judging you here. I'm not. I'm doing the same thing as you. The only difference is that I know when I'm putting on an act and just doing role play. We all have to start somewhere when it comes to learning about and understanding who we are and figuring out reality and truth. Some kind of identity or assumption is just as good a starting point as any.

What I'm asking you to do is to join me on a mystical journey through all the different levels of reality and planes of consciousness as I share with you my mystical insights into the nature of our shared predicament and together we will deconstruct this false illusion of separateness. I'm going to give you a set of mystical principles which define our reality and how our environment works. I'm going to be writing about reincarnation and karma, some mystical symbolism through the Tarot and astrological symbolism with some Roman mythology.

Hopefully, in reading this book you will gain a much deeper insight into who you really are, who I am, and who everybody else is to the degree that you should be able to figure out what is real, what is illusion, what is truth and what is belief.

You're more than welcome to keep hold of your judgments, your assumptions, your role playing and identity and also your Ego. I'm not here to tell you that you're wrong, I'm not here to tell you what to think, what to believe, nor am I going to claim any authority over you. All I ask is that you read my book with an open mind and then, fingers crossed, once you've finished the book you can go back to all your beliefs, judgments and assumptions with them in context and enough mystical insight to gain a deeper understanding about your life and what you're doing with it.

For those who are curious or interested 'Ghostly Hunger' is 159 pages long in PDF format and is accessible to you completely free of charge.

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