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Gaps in the Wall of Ordinary Consciousness
Every child is fond of playing. Imagine that your parents take you to a huge playground which is full of exciting toys and children playing with those toys. You are also pleased to be involved, sit on the swing, build a sandcastle, test your skills on the climbing wall etc. You make friends with other children, or you fight a tug-of-war for a toy. You spend there days, weeks, playing absent-mindedly and enjoying the company of your new friends.
Then the time comes when you have tried all the toys, and you have made friends with all the children you have found worth making friends with. So you stop playing for a while, and take a good look around the playground for the first time. So far you have been so deeply involved in playing that you have not noticed that the playground is surrounded with a high stone wall, and you can neither see nor climb through it.
Now you also realize that you are not the only one who is interested in the stone wall. Several others are also staring at it, and some even try to climb it. But nobody succeeds, because the wall is too high.
You hear other children saying that there is an even more beautiful playground, with wonderful toys, on the other side of the wall. Others say that some children have been able to get through the wall, and they have sent messages from the other side. The message is that true happiness and a carefree existence is only found over there, on the other side of the wall. You soon find yourself under the spell of the wall. You are no longer interested in your favourite toys and your old pals. You are watching them with irony as they are playing devotedly, and they do not seem to have any idea that there is a much, much better playground over there with toys that we are not even able to imagine here.
You also do your best to get through the wall. First you try to climb it, but that is impossible. You try to break through it, but that is also futile–it is too thick and solid. Then you join forces with others, you organize joint action to beat the wall, but to no avail. In your final despair you even try to learn to fly in order to get through. Naturally, that is unsuccessful, too.
Philosophers stone – selected views from the boat http://philosophers-stone.co.uk
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