Ghost Story
Originally published on 5/18/2016. Revision published on 10/31/2025
“We are the ghost in the machine.”
Something Wicked This Way Comes…
Society is a dark world in which billions of human beings fall prey to their own shadows. Our collective fear has become so encompassing, we have anesthetized ourselves with our anxiety, conditions, drama, indoctrination, oblivion and uncertainty. Our interpretation of reality is so confronting, intense and threatening, we enact a self-induced slumber, within which we simply survive. In our illusory lives, we are haunted with the nightmare of what is and the dream of what may have been. It is excruciating for us to accept, identify or even be with the insidiously wicked nature of the virtuality in which we engage.
The Nightmare of a Dream
Our nightmares are filled with the horrors of our broken commitments, destiny, potential and purpose. These are the virtues that allow us to create a thriving life for ourselves and our families. Our experiences are littered with the shards of our unfulfilled dreams to manifest a better tomorrow for ourselves and future generations. Our actions, intentions and visions have been thwarted by a globalized and propagandized vortex of social media. A matrix proliferated for the sole intention of enabling our assimilation, deception, dependence, disempowerment, enslavement and oppression.
The Darkness Without
It lurks within the shadows, just beyond our hyperactive sensibilities, taunting us with the mere possibility of its arrival and impact. The impending doom of its presence and the suspense of its approach preys upon our nerves as an archaic violin down a darkened alley. The gravity of its dread imposes a trepidation, provoking us to run for our lives. Our hearts race, as the intensity of our fear heightens to a fever pitch. It renders us paralyzed within the agonizing buzz of our endorphins, to supplement our waning confidence, courage, reason and strength.
The Darkness Within
Evil is not what, or how it is so commonly interpreted in our contemporary era. It is not an ancient and malevolent entity that defiles, haunts, hunts or stalks us. It is not a presence that eternally defies and opposes our every endeavor and intention. Evil is a subjective figment of our darkest conjuring. We give our power over to our own shadows when we allow our perceptions to become more powerful than our vision. The nature of our personal observation most often is erroneous and does not serve our optimal benefit. We favor our selective narrative, much as we may cling to our dying breath.
A Knife to the Throat
We grow accustomed to the insanity around us, attempting to deceive ourselves into denying that what occurs in social reality is not a part of us, or even beneath us. We conform, desensitize and integrate ourselves into the virtual role the societal matrix provides. We adopt a conviction that success and survival will be found in competing with others to become something we were never destined. Eventually, we succumb to authority, institutionalization and propaganda. We are pushed and pulled from one circumstance to another, until we are assimilated into the persona we have always feared.
Shadow of a Demon
As smart rats, we are so clever with our existence. We devise personal rackets, to which we are unaware and by which we are ruled. We invent our own demons to avoid our soul expressions of our authenticity, integrity, purpose and transcendence. This justifies and sanctions our cruelty, destruction, errancy and inhumanity. We desperately seek to distance ourselves from the monsters we become in our selfish quest to advance and survive in an artificial and violent society. The greatest darkness we will ever encounter is not the one that shadows us from without. It is the evil we enable within.
“All left unseen and untended is what enslaves us with our very own fear.”
Creature Feature
We indoctrinate ourselves with instinct and intellect for conformity into society. This pales in comparison to the cunning prowess of our egocentricity and its insatiable desire for dominance over our soul. Conflict rages within us all, a timeless battle between the transcendent expressions of our heart and soul and the terrestrial professions of our mind and body. We are conditioned into creatures of habit, existing in vicious cycles of emulation. Our predatory ancestry enslaves us within a virtual duality, diminishing our instincts, thoughts, emotions, intuition and relativity.
The Walking Dead
We view our existence through selectively interpretive filters, fabricating our lives and performing our fantasies within the superficiality of our social reality. We enact our apathy, fear, indifference and unwillingness to evade our destiny. We believe we cannot survive under the gravity of our accountability, authenticity and integrity to embody our possibility, purpose and power. We allow ourselves to become a projection of the social norm, bred for accumulation, amusement, diversion, narrative and oblivion. We become the antithesis of life, condemned to exist en masse with the walking dead.
Ghosts of our Lives
We rarely live as cause in our lives. We settle on surviving the outcomes of our seemingly random circumstances via our reactivity to ordinary occurrence. As we become habituated to a coincidental lifestyle, we engage deeper into a dualistic existence within the three-dimensional hologram-projection we interpret as reality. With every unconscious breath, we acquiesce our personal power. Our obedience to authoritarian entities and organizations is our evasion, excusing us from the choices we all must make. We sever our relativity with our heart and soul, as we become ghosts of our lives.
Egocentric Evil
The perceptions we adopt and impose in our desperation to be accepted and adopted into a virtual simulation segregates us from relativity with our soul. We are driven to seek our worth in others, instead of establishing our own through our being, expression, and universality. We have existed outside of ourselves for so long, we mistake our delusion, ideology, narrative and propaganda as truth. We are mere shadows of our younger selves, who once inspired and empowered us. We are seduced by the egocentric evils of our desire, entitlement, fear, intelligence, self-righteousness and vanity.
Ghost Story
We are all ghosts of our lives. We haunt the empty halls of our oblivion in a futile attempt to find a forbidden treasure that has always been within us. We live a ghost story when we conduct our consciousness away from being an expression of our soul. It is our universal destiny to transform, transcend, express and embody universality. We are an expression of empowerment, relativity, transformation and transcendence. It is our collective destiny to be an extraordinary difference in our life, for others and the world. The universal expression of our being is the embodiment of our soul.
“Our unfulfilled destiny is our ghost story.”
