The Myths and Illusions of Victimization

Today, it's difficult for some of us to even admit we have toxic beliefs, much less think of ourselves as being victims of the myths and illusions we have embodied as our realities. 

So, let's set the record straight from the outset: Victims are created. We are not born victims, we are born into a victimized world of myths and illusions.

It really doesn't matter where we are born, the world provides us with its own wisdom. We get it from society, parents, and our own life experiences. We accept this information because it's all we know at the time.

Unfortunately, this information is toxic. It causes us to become dependent on certain beliefs that define us according to race, gender, color, country, and even states or cities.

It even causes us to add victimization to the adage" Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes." In other words, it's inescapable.

Nevertheless, if we are all born into a victimized world, then how do we free ourselves from what we have been taught? How do we unlearn victimization?

After we settle in to calling the world our homes, it's difficult to imagine anything else. We don't want it to change because the change would alter our perceptions of ourselves.

We learn to feel good about ourselves. We even rationalize that even though the world seems unfair, that's just the way it is. And only the strong survive.

The idea or notion of survival itself comes from our lack of understanding about ourselves. Most of us think of survival as the opposite of dying. So we're basically afraid of dying or ceasing to exist in the world we have come to know and love.

Most of us don't know why we want to live. We are constantly asking ourselves and others about ways to determine our purposes for being in the world.

And because we seem not to know our purposes for being in the world, it follows we also don't know why we seek the things -- money, fame, power, wisdom, and so forth -- to help us define our purposes.

Life as we know it is a myth. It is nothing more than our beliefs in illusory concepts of human behavior, societal wisdom, and ignorance about our purposes.

Meanwhile, if life is a myth, then are we also myths? Well, most of us know that we are not myths. We know that we have been conditioned to think, act, and live a certain way. The problem for us is we just don't know what to do about it.

We want to change, but change to what?  What else can we become other than what the world has shown us.

We even clog our minds with semantic debates about freedom, dualism, and going to a mystical place we know even less about than the world we are in now.

Well, some of us believe the key to understanding the myths and illusions victimizing our minds is found in our minds. At least that part of our minds that has not been conditioned to think and act as victims.

This is the clarity of enlightenment that will free the mind to perceive the other limitless possibilities available for us to use to overcome our toxic beliefs.

For us, enlightenment exists only in our unconditioned consciousness -- the timeless awareness of life itself. From this consciousness we can imagine ourselves to be whatever we choose. There are no limitations placed on our being.

To imagine ourselves as free means we are free of the myths and illusions ruling the world. It's that simple.

Enlightenment, once you gain the awareness, is clear and easy to understand. And, unlike victim-laden changes; where we go from one illusion to another, it's real clarity of purpose.