Part II
Planet Earth. The world. Or is planet Earth “the world”?
If you are an astronaut or a jet pilot, the Earth could be your world. Depending on one’s mobility, perhaps as part of a job that requires lots of travel—one could also certainly include those wealthy jet-setters (or PTs, see two blog posts below) who love to travel all over the place—for these types of folks one might say “the planet is their world.”
But how about for the typical Earth man and woman, whether living in an urban, suburban or country setting? Most, who have jobs, are tied down to those jobs; and are also tied down to a marriage and a family, perhaps. These worker bees are part of a community made up of fellow worker bees, friends and acquaintances within whatever circles they may inhabit.
For the unemployed or disabled or just plain lazy bums, their worlds are even smaller, I suppose, limited by the reach of their activities (or lack thereof). And what of rail-riding hobos and gypsies?
This, then, is the scope of our respective world or worlds. Work-a-day routine with intermittent breaks—holidays and vacations for “play time.” But isn’t it then back to work (or back to idleness)?
For those who work or those who are in a “poverty of idleness” their worlds are fairly well circumscribed, limited to the “ant hill” each inhabits. Of course I am defining “world” here in a geo-spatial sense that contains the socio-cultural sphere within it (also known as "culture trance").
What then is “reality”? Our respective worlds constitute our realities. But is there “one reality,” as such?—that is, a so-called “consensus reality” to which most or all subscribe—and wouldn’t that reality then be a “consensual reality” for the reason that each agrees with the great majority that, yes, this is the reality which we all share, the reality to which we have consented, to which we all subscribe?
If so, consider the thesis of the following art critic:
This Masterpiece Painting Hides a Brutal Act in Plain Sight
Is consensual reality, then, comprised of brutal acts that are simply accepted as the world we mutually inhabit—that we have all “consented to”? How about a post-modern world in which humans kill their own babies in a Satanic right known as abortion? How brutal! No other animal would kill its own offspring, would it?
Staying with the stylistic representation of reality as depicted in fine art, now consider the perspective of this artist:
Hieronymus Bosch: The Devil Maker
Does this artist tend to agree with the observations of Fr. Chad Ripperger—that human beings are generally stupid, i.e., essentially herd animals (sometimes referred to by the derogatory term “sheep”)? And are they all, as Fr. Ripperger suggests, fair game for demons?
It would certainly seem so, would it not? And to think that the two examples above refer to periods in history before factories were introduced to the world by the industrial revolution, not to mention the digital revolution of computers, Photoshop, printed facsimiles, computer generated images (CGI) and artificial intelligence (AI).
Now I ask again: WHAT IS REALITY?
Each answers that question from the context of his or her world—from his or her “ant hill” or comparative “little world.”
To the degree one has traveled through the geo-spatial world and has experienced or partaken in other socio-cultural worlds, one might say the ant hill has perhaps yielded to become a whole back yard. Yet there’s a whole neighborhood out there—lots of neighborhoods.
There’s a whole planet of neighborhoods—and neighborhoods off-planet too, I might add. Add to this that each neighborhood has developed its own acculturated customs—the foundation from which law is borne. And law, once co-opted by church and government molds each "congregant” and “citizen” into the consensual reality we have today, eh?
And with demons itching to demoralize and ruin—and angels as the counterweight, with Jesus to assist with the Holy Spirit to lead us to the true Godhead, back to our Creator God—I’d say that fairly well sizes up the battlefield wherein souls slither and slog to find their way to their true identities.
The many worlds that ultimately comprise individual realities, which together compose so-called Reality (really “consensual reality” at best) is what is happening on that battlefield. It is nothing short of spiritual warfare waged by living flesh-and-blood beings who are under constant assault from a covert over-lording class. Yes, there are those who seek to control human beings, turning them into a herd humanity that does its evil bidding. Instead, we might, if we are fortunate and persevere, discover the truth, goodness, and beauty of the One God in whose image we were made; but to do so we must wheedle our way through the material world, as we learn the rules of spiritual warfare by trial and error, to hopefully triumph over mostly invisible demon adversaries.
In this sense, we are all caught in a “magical realism”—indefinable, ever-changing, over-under-sideways-down, topsy-turvy, and difficult-to-manage life ways—worlds within worlds amid clanging realities that reverberate with each other, parts of which sometimes resonate or sometimes repel one another, but seek to merge as they can and are able.
Oh what a mighty mess it is within
which we squirm! On you way out, consider this:
The Luciferian Doctrine Explained - ROBERT SEPEHR
[NOTE: Stay tuned for Part III, all those resilient readers among you!]
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