Have You Become Spiritually Numb?

Upon emerging from the womb you’re immediately slapped into life, traumatically thrust into a world with no choice in the matter.

You are then forced to embark on your illustrious formative years, in which you are trained in all manner of ignorance, prejudice and fear so that you can make better choices for a "successful" life. This is deeply reinforced through 12 years of desensitizing, social indoctrination through the local “school system,” learning how to protect the psychological self from attacks by waging your own preemptive strikes on others, since the best defense is always a good offense.

After all that, your head is finally filled with the required “knowledge” to fully engage in mind-numbing, and often back-breaking, “employment” so that you can now begin dreaming of your “retirement,” as the body slowly declines into immobile imbecility and you await the final trauma of death.

Is it any wonder why so many seek to “awaken”?

Is it any wonder so many hate "God"?

Is it any wonder why so many fail to love, but become extremely proficient at hate?

From the moment of your first breath you have literally had the 'life' sucked out of you, but you’re expected to compromise with this fact because, as you were taught, life is beautiful and thus, “precious.”

Oh shutup and be positive! Life is the way it is, so make the best of it! Why can’t you see how beautiful life is?!

Okay, but with all the compromises necessary to make life "beautiful," have you ever really felt at home here? Do you ever feel like you don't belong? And do you ever wonder that maybe they were right and this is all just a dream?

But that’s silly because, in this 'world,' only the strong survive and you have to be 'prepared,' because the world will exploit your weaknesses (how else could the strong survive, if not by exploiting the weak?).

Were you born a gentle, sensitive soul? Maybe an empath? Do you see spirits or have psychic abilities? Well, if mom and dad didn’t break you of all that, then let’s hope the school system did!

Do we turn to ‘spirituality’ merely to heal the wounds of childhood? Do we seek “enlightenment” or “spiritual awakening” simply to sedate the pain of the past?

But, of course, all that conditioning was necessary, because one day you will have the responsibility of teaching your own children (and keeping up a good “credit score”). Will you teach them how important it is to succeed in the world, even when they resist? Will you 'reward' them for good “grades”? Will you explain that you were spanked and you turned out all right? Will you tell them how hard it was when you were a kid? Will you deny that the world’s rendition of "success" is essentially inhuman?

Of course, every parent loves their children and wants them to “succeed,” but what price success, since there is always a price?

What was the price you paid? Or have you been paying for so long that you no longer see it that way? Who are you? What are you? Do you even know anymore?

Or is that the compromise you were forced to make in order to live the “beautiful” life?

Ahh….but thank God, our spirituality makes us comfortably numb.


Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what you’re sayin.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I cant explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.

I have become comfortably numb.

Ok. Just a little pinprick. [ping]
There'll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe its working. good.
That’ll keep you going for the show.
Come on its time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what you're sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.

I have become comfortably numb.