"Fantasy World-views" the long version

Human beings are doomed from the start of life. They are deposited into a foreign womb (trapped for what must seem like an eternity, or an instant, in fetal time), then born onto this planet and immediately placed in another state of total confinement (or crib, or mangy old manger) for the next 2 to 3 earth years. These hapless humans - having been wrapped for the remainder of their entrapment here in a straight-jacket/human-suit - are forever crippled by their five ordinary senses that enable only the thinnest sliver of perception of their surrounding "realities" (yes, there are many). They are, thus, totally constrained from that point forward. For DECADES. With no real hope of things improving... except... in their "minds".

Because all "minds" are weak minds, 
and therein lies the Aim and Direction:
"Strengthen and Escape".

The Land of a Thousand World-views

These weak minds have a clever capacity for creating fantasy world-views - represented above as pages and those world-views are self-maintaining. That is, they repair the "roads", "bridges", "buildings", "objects" that fill those buildings, and all the surrounding environments. But, as in DNA, these repairs are far from being perfect, and errors do creep into them over time. With regard to genetic activity, it usually takes years or more to produce any significant alterations, but with regard to neural activity, seconds, minutes perhaps, are all that are necessary to cause alterations and modifications. These fantasy world-views are merely parts of each human brain, that are never "perfect constructions". They are slightly fragmented neural nets or webs, of thoughts and images and sensations, that interact by themselves, and every human has several thousand or more of these partial world-views. They are always in competition with each other, but the conflicts rarely if ever occur in consciousness, but usually subconsciously, often in day- and night-dreams and reveries of imagination. That is, even as you are reading this, your own fantasy world-views are being sparked, tweaked, tickled - first this one, then another, then one over there, then the one just below that other one, etc., etc. - and you are not even aware of any of it. Every word - noun, verb, pronoun, etc. - is capable of this, and with practice you can become somewhat aware of it when it's happening.

IF you are looking in the right place, that is.

So what could possibly be going on with our human brains (the source of mind? the container of mind? the transceiver of global Mind transmissions?) that they can NOT discern Fact from Fiction, Real from Fake, Truth from Lie? Might there not be some evolutionary purpose to a life lived in virtually absolute confusion and mental/emotional/spiritual chaos?

The "weird" thing about these fantasy world-views - these fairly coherent structures all competing one with the other behind the scenes (i.e., your conscious awareness) - is that there is a "you" in each and every one (called "me", and "I" by the host humans, with a fairly small handful of favorite "personal pronouns") and if there was NOT such a "you" in there, the entire fantasy world would... you know... collapse, dissolve into nothingness! Put another way, the "you" is the center of each and every one of your fantasy world-views. And, in another way, if there is no "you" in a world-view then it also doesn't exist beyond just sensory impressions. Like reading about Marxism, Fascism, Objectivism, Trumpism, Gurdjieffism, JanCoxism, Globalism, LRonHubbardism, Islamism or Nondualism (just to mention a few of the millions available these days)... but not yet having become understanding, personally, experientially, physically, but only theoretically or philosophically, or mystically. But, and this is a big one... once that has occurred to some necessary, though variable degree, it too can become one of your many, nearly uncountable fantasy world-views!  

We all know "certain humans" who are identified (perhaps overly, even to their ultimate detriment) with their religious thought-system, or their political thought-system, or their pseudo-scientific thought-system, etc. So, who ARE they... really? Just a nullity? A ghostly mouth-piece of another's mind?

One must be vigilant, and always beware 

of being sucked into a fantasy world-view.

Okay so far? Or has one or another or your own fantasy world-views gotten so tweaked that you've already bolted - mentally, even emotionally if not actually physically? Anyway, get this. Reading (and viewing and listening of couse) activates in everyone a particular fantasy world-view of that moment, whether or not they stay for the duration or simply drift off into another daydream. The other fantasy world-views lay dormant, usually, but are always more than ready, able and willing to spring instantly into action the moment an impression - be it a word, a sound, an image, a movement, or any one or more of many other things caught by our extremely LIMITED sensory apparatus - causes the initial fantasy world-view to recede into the background, while a new fantasy world-view springs into the foreground of consciousness.  

However - and this is the weirder part - sometimes this "springing into and out of action" creates a collision, a merging of the pre-existing fantasy world-view and a NEW "YOU" from the outside. That is, Gurdjieff, or Siddhartha, or L.R. Hubbard gets in there too, or maybe it's Bubba Smith, or Silly Sally, because it could be anyone! Thus, some of these thousands of fantasy world-views are populated by multiple "entities" who are themselves fighting for control of the fantasy world-view! This is how CULTS operate on the willing and unwilling masses who get caught up into them (and do know, there are millions of small and larger cults on this prison planet). All that little Johnny, or Joanie believed about, say, "salvation" - their peculiar fantasy world-view that, at that point in time, had a dominant "you" (their "me") in there - is immediately confronted by L.R.H., or Buddha, or G.I.G., who takes over their once fairly well-established fantasy world-view so now there's two in there. This conflict-of-two leads some weaker humans into willingly giving-in to the more powerful dialog going on, thereby losing their Independence entirely.

This is, just to name one small example, how you can meet someone for the first time, and really like them for a while (due to the temporary arising of a fantasy world-view: "they're blond, slim, sporty, short, white, and cute") and then suddenly you can't stand them anymore (oops, another arising - "they're bigoted, racist, homophobic"), which can sometimes move quickly into repulsion and even hatred (oops, there it is... "run away, clobber them, express some extreme negativity"), and just as quickly a few minutes or hours or days later, due to some other set of impressions, be pulled back into enjoying their company again (again? "What was I thinking?") Goofy enough for ya?  

Fantasy world-views are fighting in there 
for their own survival, at any cost.

Each human of the moment (and right this moment, "I AM" that one being referenced) can evoke, or activate, separate and distinct fantasy world-views in each and every other human within sensory proximity, including, but not limited to reading. It may sound bizarre, but it's easily observable under a large variety of circumstances, INCLUDING reading this piece. (Did YOU notice?) "I like that..., no wait... I don't like that... no wait, I can agree there... no wait, that sentence is just bullshit!" (Remember, "Based upon WHAT are you making these sweeping statements? Be precise!") And so it goes for an entire lifetime. This oscillating dynamic of separate and distinct fantasy world-views - conflicting beliefs and opinions that formed over long periods of time, and congealed into fairly coherent structures - swing without any conscious control, from a zero state of inactivity, to a maxi-sum state of excitation, contributing in large part to ordinary humans becoming, not SMARTER over time, but in fact DUMBER by multiple IQ points. Look at your OWN nation-state without particular personal bias, and be honest with yourself... if that is possible.

The Key to unlocking any "fantasy world-view" 
is the following Question, rightly answered: 

"How many OTHER human-like entities 
live in that fantasy world-view?"
And then, properly Deal With It.

The key to dissolving any "fantasy world-view" 
is to get out of there, now.

The preferred condition of Man, state of Mind, 

is having NO fantasy world-views, period. 

Only Reality, through and through. One Real I. 

Alive, Conscious, and operating at Peak Efficiency.