The Illusory world within the world, the world of man.

Man has had the privilege of being the most intelligent creature in the planet as far as we're aware and this has helped him increase his survival immensely compared to other animals. He has managed to evolve from a hunting and gathering culture in the wilderness where his survival was low due to many challenges including constantly being on the watch while finding something to eat and making sure he himself is not eaten.

His ability of being a time conscious animal has helped him plan for his future and invent new tools and methods to enhance his survival and well-being. He has evolved from a hunting and gathering culture to an agrarian culture ensuring food security for himself, then to an industrialised culture further making life better for him and now he's in a technological era of transformation.

This transformation has created “a world of man.” A world of advanced education systems, advanced transport and communication systems, systems of governance, advanced health care systems and unimaginable technologies. All this has improved man's quality of life, increased his life expectancy and his population has grown immensely.

This evolution of man from the wilderness to his “own created world” has come at a unimaginable cost because in the quest to improve himself and the world around him he has inflicted pain to other life forms and completely forgotten himself. He has become more disconnected from himself and his environment and the more he seems to advance himself the more he's getting disconnected from himself.

He no longer views himself as an animal, he has pedestalized himself and put himself above all other animals dominating and exploiting other animals and nature forgetting that he's interwoven with it all and the external environment is just an extension of his own physical body.

He's put himself aside and separated himself feeling like an alien in the world from elsewhere forgoting he's just like the leaves that grow out of a branch of a tree and not birds that rest on a dead old tree. The fact that he's not rooted to the planet like the trees and he's able to walk freely blinds him to the fact that he's a walking tree in the garden, the planet grows him just like the apples grow from an apple tree.

He does not seem to understand all forms of life are involved in an endless cyclical transformation of eating other life to sustain life and grow. The chicken, the wheat, the potatoes and fruit transform into Man, and the worms, the wheat and the insects transform into birds, and the painful transformation of one life form to another continues endlessly.

Despite man's improved quality of life he seems to be lost, he doesn't know himself nor does he know what he wants. Other lesser animals seem to be at peace more than him, he's always anxious and unable to enjoy the fruits of his own inventions, always living in the future that he never enjoys when it comes to be. His inability to be in the present moment, to be alone and enjoy his own company is the cause of his anxiety.

He's more interested in egoic gains of accumulating more and more material possessions not realizing he cannot own anything, even his own body is a loan from mother earth for a short time, ownership is an illusion. He's busy destroying himself through the conquest of nature and destroying the soil and the microbes in the soil that turn soil into the food he eats with chemicals, he's cutting down the trees that act as his own external lungs to just use as newspaper of all things.

The inability of man to connect back to his own spirit and the source is the root cause of his own suffering and the consequence suffering of other life forms. “God is dead and we have killed him.”~Friedrich Nietzsche's statement in the Parable of the Madman tries to portray the inadequacy of man when he's disconnected from his own Spirit.

Man will continue to feel like an alien on the planet and in existence rather than feeling his basic inseparability from existence unless he reconnects to his spirit, unless he finds his way back to himself he will continue killing himself in installments and finally commit suicide. Maybe nature will be better without him because he needs nature more than it needs him.

Man will only be at peace with himself and nature when he finds himself, when he realises that the meaning of life is life itself and not material accumulation. What man is seeking is always seeking him, he only needs to go silent on all levels in solitude and become still to find his way back to himself. Be still, and know that I am God.