Utopia has been on my mind for several thousand years, actually since the demise of the last golden age. Unfortunately almost no one can remember when that was now. We Homo sapiens have been around for at least 100,000 years or even more as some believe. Yet collectively we remember next to nothing. Things get really, really hazy, about 15,000 thousand years ago.
We would definitely like Utopia indeed many are depending on the return of the Messiah or the Mahdi or the coming Bodhisattva. In the mean time all we seem to get is more Dystopia as this list of movies makes all too evident. We keep trying for Utopia and ending up with Dystopia, probably because humanity is deluded in the extreme.
If someone even with awesome spiritual abilities showed up right now and claimed that they knew the way forward into a better future we would probably do our best to neutralize or destroy them. Why would we do that? Obviously the visionary would want to show us a totally different way of being. It would have to be that way because nothing we have done up to now has brought us one step closer to actual Utopia. That completely different way of being would come as a very real and profound shock to the human system.
If the Utopian visionary had enough energy we would get to project all of our shit and sickness onto them. We are hung up on power? We would get to accuse them of wanting power. We are hung up on sex? We would get to project our sexual problems onto them. We are obsessed with money? We would get to accuse them of being after money. We are negative and viciously violent? We would get to project our negativity and violence onto them. And so on like that with all the psychic sickness that assails us, being projected onto the spiritual visionary.
Our heavily projected sickness and dementia could easily make the visionary sick and demented, but we would refuse to own that, because that would mean actually looking at ourselves. Once the visionary was smitten with our sickness and manifesting our hangups to us we would be able to accuse them of fraud and deception.
In the end only the visionary would take real responsibility because they would be the only one capable of actually doing that. The visionary with their spiritual abilities would regain their full health and wholeness. But we would still be sick in fact now we would be even sicker and more demented.
Still we know that we are stuck in a spiritual rut, mostly hopelessly lost in our collective delusions, but no way are we going to trust a stinking Utopian visionary or become one ourselves.
The simple truth is this: None of us are going anywhere real spiritually speaking until we start to wake up to the actual nature of our confusion and understand what spirituality really is.
This is why we need to look deeply into how spiritual awareness states really function.
