Prelude to enlightenment

Cast away your paradigms, oh mortal; get thee rid of all presumptions.

For in all knowledge assumed a priori, lie great potential for self deception. In order to gain wisdom, and understanding, you need to look at the world from a child’s eye. Ask, of anything beheld, why. Ask, of anything imagined but not beheld, why not. This is the greatest source of creativity – the gravy upon which human success and prosperity feeds. Break away from traditions and dogma – let your mind roam free. Out there, in the wilderness of thought space, lie great truths and revelations. But in order to perceive them, you need to take hold of all unmerited beliefs, examine them, and cast them away, if they prove to a falsehood.

This is the great path to enlightenment. It is a path walked by few, and completed by even fewer. But happy are they who do complete this journey – for they hold the secrets to this life. They know the what and why of life. They also know the glorious nature of this universe.

And, dispassionately, they know better than to mar this beautiful vista with human folklore.