On Wakefulness
“I am not unlike a prisoner who might enjoy an imaginary freedom in his sleep. When he later begins to suspect that he is sleeping, he fears being awakened and conspires slowly with these pleasant illusions. In just this way, I spontaneously fall back into my old beliefs, and dread being awakened, lest the toilsome wakefulness which follows upon a peaceful rest, have to be spent thenceforward not in the light but among the inextricable shadows of the difficulties now brought forward.”- Rene Descartes, Meditations, First Meditation, 23. What do I mean by being “sleep”? Being asleep means that one’s heart, soul, and mind-intellect has been negatively layered and covered by familial, cultural, customary, superstitious, national, political, mythological, religious, societal, civilizational, and other perspectives, that act as oppressive veils that stand in the way of one’s ability to perceive Reality and reality in its truest form. Of course, my definition of being “asleep” presupposes that the faculties of perception include the mind-intellect, the spiritual-intellectual heart, and one’s soul. By Reality, I mean the Reality of God and by reality, I mean that
Also, it should be noted that, those individuals who begin to awake from their state of slumber then have the potential ability to rouse other people to wake up. At this point, these individuals may either be eliminated by those who prefer that people remain asleep, or the awaker may succeed, thereby helping to restructure reality in order to make it easier for everyone to continually perceive Reality in their daily lives until death overtakes them. go back to the comfort of my sleep, nor be able to rise up to the light of wakefulness. 3) Divine favor which triggers a realization in the grantee that one is in a state of slumber, thus enabling one to then work against one’s own base desires. In this form, the Divine favor is the realization that the person themselves is in a state of slumber. Thereafter, the person works hard to peel off from oneself, the different layers that are plaguing one’s heart, soul, and intellect. This hard work may entail the processes of learning, meditation, self-analysis, and other methods.
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