Falling asleep on a higher level - RU?

Have you noticed while playing in these kiddie sandboxes, that most of the kids have become so involved and engaged in what they are doing with their shovels, buckets and other toys, that they don't even notice the other kids anymore, except when one of them encroaches upon their "territory," and then things begin to escalate, sometimes out of control? Have you?

Is it possible that people start off on the their journey to adulthood and maturity, quite well, but things seem to simply go off the rails, and for the next several decades - usually, till the end of "their time here" - they only BELIEVE they have reached adulthood and maturity, but in fact, are still operating at the level of a child? Of course it is possible! People are not naturally Waking Up, becoming (esoterically-speaking) Conscious and even (dare I suggest it) Enlightened, because their beliefs about themselves and others are getting in the way.

Think about it

(when you hear something, it is being said in your head too)

(in a sense, the thought is coming out of all those within ear-shot)

(Who actually SAID that?)

[transcript for those who'd rather read the words too]

It has seemed clear the last few years that the quality of conversation on these "enlightenment oriented" yahoo, facebook and google groups demonstrates, as a friend recently remarked, that most of the active participants have simply fallen asleep on a higher level.

Now that they have read all hundred plus work books and bibles, including several recountings of their favorite teacher's life as told by friends, family, and followers, and now that they have joined several of these online pseudo-groups, they have come to believe most strongly that they have reached a higher level of development, and have learned so much that there is no where else to go, nothing else to do. They have reached a state where they are no longer interested in disrupting the status quo, and the suggestion they consider mixing things up a bit leaves a bad taste in their mouth. And like the person mentioned earlier, "joining anything gives me the heeby-jeebies." Well that's just too bad.

But consider if you will how easy it is for someone to join one of these "enlightenment oriented" pseudo-groups, and then sit for hours per day or week, quite mesmerized by the reading and reviewing of pictures, videos and the like, while believing they are advancing their knowledge and being on This Thing, that some of us are actually involved in. But, it is much harder, if not almost impossible for those same people to get into a face-to-face meeting, including on a real time video chat, and to engage in useful conversations that don't quickly fall into associative thinking, idle chit-chat, and sometimes even into hurty-hurty feelings.

If you are not participating in such a thing right now, on a regular and disciplined basis, then it is very possible you have "fallen and can't get up", which in this context means, can't see the possibility that you actually have MUCH MORE to learn and discover, than you think you do. Try it, 10 or 15 times at the minimum - without fail, no excuses why you missed the meeting - and you will most definitely discover something about your personality, your quote-unquote work personality, and your imagination about the work and the system you follow, that you never even suspected before.

Or, hey, never mind. You've always got yahoo, facebook and google pseudo-work groups to wrap around yourself, so now you can sleep all the more soundly folks. But for the few of you that have suspected this in yourself for quite some time perhaps, consider this little test you can take. It's a thought experiment. Do you believe there are higher beings walking around this planet, perhaps living in your city, who know more than you do about almost everything, who can do more than you can do in almost every area of being alive in a human body, and who are actually looking for you and the reason they have not found you, is because whenever they show up you fall asleep and miss it. Consider the possibility that you are the problem, not the world.