Borrowed feelings
Entertainment is an integral part of the plan of numbing our consciousness. We get excited by the heroic deeds of the main characters of the TV series, we rejoice in their love affairs and are saddened by their traumas. We make our senses numb through the useless chatter heard like a rosary of some reality show. One perceives the usual propaganda drivel unleashed by the fake debates of the cultural/political television containers as their own opinions and ideas.
On the other hand, we mistake social media "friends" for real friends and relationships with them for something authentic. The entertainment industry is one of the main levers in the production of chronically unhappy mediomans always ready to raise their voices to enunciate the miserable banal. They are also easily recognizable by the envy and resentment they nurture towards all those who show even the slightest flame of vitality.
How to get out of all this? I need to clarify. The solution is not to avoid watching TV, or get out of FB or anything like that. To believe this is to confuse the means with the purpose. The solution is in the direction of using without being used, communicating with social media to meet and get to know people out of virtuality, watching movies or series to be inspired by fantasy stories to improve the reality of our inner and outer world.
What we do here in Hari-Om and Cascina Bellaria has to do with all this. We create means and situations to offer a supporting hand to all those who feel lost and inadequate in this fading world. Reaching out does not mean saving others but it is about saving each other. We want to enjoy and not suffer the decline that we are experiencing today.
We want to prepare all together to eventually be the basis for a rebirth that will happen with or without us. If it is not possible our laughter, our love, our terror, our excitement, our tears will be authentic and felt to the end and in that last moment, before dusk, we will be able to leave the fear of oblivion because at least for the time of a wing stroke we will have experienced something authentic.
m.m.