The Crutch

Humans everywhere are walking around with crutches and don't even realize it. Particularly those living in civilization, where they have become necessary in order to just get by, and even then many are not. These crutches come in many forms, but they all serve to "prop up" the person while he spends the majority of his days doing what humans must do to make it into the mysterious "tomorrow." The "will to survive," while instinctive and not a bad thing of course, is part of what attracts the crutches to oneself, as humans are mostly incapable of living in civilization with other people without external help - the crutches - even after they leave home at 16 or so, when they should have already grown their "higher faculty" (i.e., crutchless.)

The biggest crutch comes in the form of "teachings" - which are called many things, like bibles, holy books, religious works, legal systems, political systems, and too many others to name here - but here is the way it generally works. The "teaching" (of whatever type and kind) is always believed to be "true and correct" (not necessarily one hundred percent, but usually very close to ninety or ninety-five percent,) and thus the person feels much less inspired, motivated, and inclined to discover the One True Teaching on their own, by their own certain and specific efforts. Until then, they think, "Hey, why should I? I have the 'teaching' to guide me."

Fine. That's, uh, reasonable, and since nearly everyone believes it humanity is, today, at about the lowest level of sadness, anger, despair, negativity, rage, upset, and mental/emotional/bodily dis-ease in every possible way, than at any time in the past. Just look around and within. Even if another person asks, "Hey, how are you doing?" they will generally respond, "Fine, fine, juuust fine."

But they are not doing fine, they are deflecting from the greater reality that they are slipping away, day by day, closer to the grave and not liking it one damn bit. Maybe if people would just respond with their real truth - "Not so fine at all. The clock is still running down and there seems to be no end to it, until the last moment that is."

Humans could be helping each other and themselves - in Objective Ways - if only they could free themselves from the CRUTCHES that have been propping them up for so many, many years. To look and listen to most humans everywhere, their arms and legs have actually grown into wooden crutches, along with the rest of their body.

They look and sound more like stick puppets:
wooden crutches top-to-bottom, and no master-on-board.
All suited up and playing their part
till death, when they are extincted.

Most will never feel this directly, nor understand this objectively, at least until they throw off their crutches, and learn to stand erect and walk alone without the support of stories from the civilization they were born into - but their own internal being/conscience/consciousness. It is necessary to Create one's own Story - from Higher Inspiration - and then to discover how to share that Story with the rest of the world - from Higher Motivation - even as they know, deeply, that the Story is not meant to change anyone or anything out there, but...

CHANGE the puppet into a REAL PERSON.
Stop Lying with each and every breath, and Speak Your Truth.