Substitution for Love's Wholeness
in response to the themes in:
No Human Contact – OffGuardian
https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/22/no-human-contact/
Substitution for reality is the 'mind' of dissociation. So yes - lots in your article worthy of pondering - if the mind permits time out from 'War on...whatever'.
Though A Course in Miracles is a primary resource for me, I am au fait with diverse ways to sketch the 'terrain' of what cannot be said - because we ARE THAT - and cannot really but substitute illusions given power by 'sharing' or rather mutual reinforcement - because only love can truly BE shared, and no arrangement of bodies acting out fantasy 'solutions' can Be in truth.
But can hold all the truth we give them - or indeed sacrifice to them as our guide, protector or self.
Withdrawing from a 'game' or group-habit' is not war on 'gaming habits'.
"Thanks, but no thanks" is a release to a greater Life - yet the 'mind' so habituated to darkness and 'chains' set in fear and pain of loss, can ONLY recoil from true light as 'loss of face, of control, of self'.
The idea of wrong and right mindedness is a temporary expedient to acceptance of wholeness. Whenever we are 'phished' by ego of self-imaged substitution we will run 'wrongminded' or contra to our essential being. Recognising by their fruits that this does not and cannot work, enables release of doubling down in self-illusion to the questioning of our otherwise internalise belief, assumptions and masking strategies of adaptation within the 'human world' that says not what it does'. The split mind.
Losing love must first possess it, but love is not a thing, a person or a place that can be fenced off and defended. THAT is a 'fragmented' attempt to make the image and form operate as substitution for reality lived. A cargo cult!
Yet the breakdown of social masking illusions reveal lovelessness, as the underlying fear or sense of lack that drives the search (and market) for substitutions. There Is no substitute for love.
Recognising true need as truth of desire is a basis to let or allow realignment with the Living. But judgements (always operating selective praise and blame, rejection or guilt) immediately block the flow of truly felt connected Life. The 'mind' that blocks is set in emotional 'meanings' drawn from Separation trauma - loss of (awareness) of the love that you Are at the root and truth of being - regardless the machinations of mind set in defences or 'self-righteous' offence.
The eye of the needle here may be the willingness to accept love regardless of packaging, while disregarding the 'Call to attack' (judge over the Living - as a personal filter for reality substitution). What we thus 'make' is dead - no matter how ingeniously we manipulate the masquerade.
"I WANT IT THUS!" may run intensely as 'fair in love and war' but only with the life we give it.
"This is not what you wanted" runs 'Bad Kingdom' -a song from Dark's soundtrack - a cover by May and Robert Koch.
'Bottoming out' - running out of wiggle room. Painted into a corner. No where else to hide.
But if the game of hide+seek was 'won' by never being Found - would you Want to be the winner?
Better I be wrong but found in true joy of being than be right, isolated and misery. Convictions that seem irrevocable can be overturned by a 'Higher Court'.