The machine can do everything

Humans have the "idea" - as un-well-formed as it is - that they are somehow "above the machine" because they are different from the animals and other so-called "lower" life forms that share this planet.

Life, from the viewpoint of planetary life forms, IS THE MACHINE, and it includes absolutely everything that any life form can experience. This may be hard to take, but all a person's so-called "higher experiences" are part of THE MACHINE; from seeing ghosts in the closet, gods in the garden, angels in the clouds, or hearing disembodied voices in the other room, commandments from dead relatives, or spiritual wisdom from entities on Beta Reticuli... etc., etc.

The machine includes everything, and the machine can DO EVERYTHING.

So - in the outside chance you can accept the premise - what could it possibly mean to Awaken, get Enlightened, enter Nirvana (or any of the other myriad terms that seem to point to Rising Above The Machine)? First of all, it would mean MASTERY over LANGUAGE, because one's present-day lack of mastery, has led and will continue to lead all of Humanity over the precipice, which includes living a sorry-ass, and sometimes even disastrous life, and of course the "Big D" at the end of their allotted days - a word most can't even hear without somewhat recoiling.

You see, humans - unlike the rest of planetary life on Earth - are MADE to rise above the machine, even at an early age, and all the "problems" one "sees" (with nearly closed eyes, and ears - due to not yet Arising) with Humanity and all the rest of it, are made up, DON'T EXIST IN REALITY, only "exist" in words, thoughts, ideas, and energies that have become so "stepped on" that they have absolutely NO NUTRITIOUS COMPONENT (being now, just "bad, or even dangerous street drugs"). Thus, humans remain exactly as they were born (or, actually, much worse) because they can't THINK for themselves.

Case in point - should you care to have a stick poked in your privates: the extremely common human tendency (simply for having an undamaged brain, plus an intact language center) to scour the world (i.e., to get "Google-ized") in order to locate "juicy tidbits" of (so-called by them) information, which only SUPPORTS their views, that they generally agree with, believe and now choose to PUSH onto their "customers", is NOT by any stretch THINKING for oneself. Remember now, it is all just "bad, or even dangerous street drugs". It is simply the lowest form of "repeating in words", parrot-like, that which someone else may or may not have THOUGHT for themselves because they are just parrots as well.

Now, there are literally hundreds of possible example cases to demonstrate how and in what way humans are more like apes and parrots, than like People and Gods - just to stretch the most extreme scale that immediately comes to mind, where humans (homo sapiens sapiens) are in the middle somewhere. Most humans only aspire to be "mo' better apes" and "mo' better parrots", acting JUST LIKE everyone else acts (so as to "fit in" and not be shunned by them), and thinking JUST LIKE everyone else thinks (for the same damn reason, don't you know?!?)