Culture as a Cultivator for Consciousness

Rise above the surface of illusion. You are suffering (however that may manifest, such as states knows as stress, anxiety or depression) because you see the illusion as real. You see the job you work at and the myriad of tasks you have to complete as bigger than you, as something that overpowers you. But remember that the job is a small piece of a larger cultural structure, and it all began from the mind of a human, and human minds tend to cast a kind of psychological trap over other minds. The strongest, most convincing net is the trap that wins, but culture does not call them traps, rather they are considered ideologies, and when a certain ideology persists through generations, we come to beleive the frail ideology as a concrete, fundamental structure of reality. You must see the job and its tasks as smaller than you, you overpower them. No man made mental construct can overpower you unless you allow it, for you are from a much more ancient lineage. The mind is of a temporal land while your consciousness is an extension of eternity. Do not despise the temporal realm, simply see it for what it is: an illusion appearing as reality. When you can go beyond the veil of illusion, the veil of believing the man made world is dominant over you, then you are set free and experience a peace more still than the furthest depths of the sea. A job is but one example, one shard of the illusion. There are shards all around us as we tip toe our way through the illusion, but break even just the tip of one, and you’re off on a lifelong adventure. By recognizing the material world as illusion, one is able to live more fully in it, becoming re-born as a consciousness that chooses to play the game rather than a prisoner forced to serve his self-imposed sentence.