UNM : Wasted Wishes?

It’s difficult to know where to begin…
From an early age I sensed there was something wrong...
but for the longest time I presumed it must be something wrong with me - when in fact it was with the world.

It was quite a long time after I first met Mystic that he finally decided to tell me about the coming tribulations. I’ve always liked science and it was difficult for me to accept what I took to be Mystic’s theory concerning what was wrong with the world and how much worse it would get.

I think Mystic must already have been in contact with the Buddhi but, being Mystic, hadn’t got around to mentioning it.
Anyway, the gist of it, as I remember, went something like this…

The Earth was filled with billions of people who all had varied beliefs about why the existed and how they fitted into the scheme of things. Many were religious, many were not, but slowly, yet surely, they were being insidiously indoctrinated into the cult of pseudo scientific materialism.

As the cult spread around the world it inevitably brought corruption with it because it preached that there was no God, no creator, no absolute morality, no reason to be good beyond the persuasion of the individual’s conscience and the penalties for being caught breaking the laws of the land.

Those people who were naturally acquisitive and short on conscience quickly found ways around the laws by concentrating on the letter rather than the spirit of the law - after all there was no spirit now; if you couldn’t touch it then it didn’t exist!

Naturally there was quite a determined resistance at first, many people argued that you couldn’t touch love yet it existed - but such arguments were countered with the assertion that love was at best an extension of the legacy survival instinct from pre-civilised man of protecting those on who you depended and at worst a romantic delusion propagated by purveyors of poor quality literature.

Unexpectedly, even for those who were spreading the new paradigm, there was a growing sense of alienation amongst the masses. Karl Marx had predicted this alienation but he had not understood its true roots - it came not really from the fact that Capitalism turns life into a competition but rather from the feeling of the many that the Brave New World of materialism had no dreams - but those of more.

Religion which Marx had called the ‘opium of the people’ had at least helped to ease the pain of being a wage slave with only retirement to look forward to, or mitigated the gnawing pain of an empty stomach with the belief that a reward awaited in heaven.
As people began to lose their belief in a ‘hereafter’ they also began to lose their belief in all the things which were built on its promise.

So as the world slowly transformed from a magical place where fairy tale endings were waiting around the next bend into a mechanical, machine like, construction of complex choices that only the young and the clever could hope to navigate with confidence; the dreams of the rest slowly darkened and hope sank into dispair.

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If you’ve read the Buddhi Magic chapter you might have realised just how important dreams are because wishes spring from dreams.
Now since few people are strong wishers and even fewer can control their wishing then the result is a bit like a democracy of the Collective Unconscious… only a few lucky people get what they want!

Once the wishing changed inevitably the planet changed too.
Without realising it many were working for the ’Unseen Opponent’ and so they thrived and their dreams were profitable - but far more were still trying to carry on as they had before the paradigm shift and their dreams were disturbed.

Naturally this caused a schism in the ‘Great Wish’ - the way forward - and created a tension which in turn caused a local instability in the planet and its immediate vicinity affecting its probability density.

Laws are simply rules with an extremely high probability but once that probability starts to fall then the probability of an exception increases and, as you know once there is an exception that a law becomes a rule -
it’s the exceptions that make the rule!

So with the change in probability many things which had seemed fairly well behaved became unpredictable...
Weather, climate and earthquakes were the first really obvious signs.

to be continued...