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< The Pull of Altered Reality / Sympathy for the NPC
The ennui in your "A Bored God" section reminded me of past thoughts a la knowing how a magic trick works destroys the magic.
Which reminds me... I (haha) find a similar "look mom, no hands" scenario in the vicinity of so-called "enlightenment", which I've (haha) often read is essentially the absence of a self - yet therein can I (haha) not escape the rapid onset of what I'll (haha) called "downwardly spiraling ouroboro-ishness", for how does a "self" attain self-lessness when all its (haha) acts reinforce the notion of its (haha) existence?
I (haha) guess the notion of a specific self that calls itself I/me just... disappears like the moon in a puddle upon awareness reorientation?