A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2022/03/everything-you-could-possibly-be.html

People caught up in the dance of life are... seldom objective about it. You can't step outside of something if you are totally caught up in it. It is harder to see what is going on around you or where it is headed. All of the modern-day, soap-opera routines take place in captive environments. You are going to find different conditions in a Ukrainian cabaret than you will in a Korean spa in LA or a daycare center in Phoenix. Each of them has a self-contained atmosphere. There is some kind of core reality in each of these locations... which falls away when you exit the place. Each place has a spell it casts over you. In many cases, the whole point is to suck you in.

I keep thinking of all the locations one finds on this planet as being like bubbles set up against one another and completely porous. I think of them as dream capsules. The bubble is formed by the nature of the dream, rising up out of the machine shops of the subconscious. There, you will find huge foundries, smelting operations, stamping machines, and conveyor belts rolling out to hither and yon. They send their products up and out into the mind projections of all the sleeping players, who believe The World is real, and not just an endless transforming of the same matter... refashioned and furbished each time a new passion sends its message of expression into the foundries and stamping machines. To think it is to create it.