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CHAPTER TWELVE

Escaping Wetiko

Life is simply a vacation from the infinite

Dean Cavanagh

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enegade Minds weave the web of life and events and see

common themes in the apparently random. They are always

there if you look for them and their pursuit is aided by incredible

synchronicity that comes when your mind is open rather than

mesmerised by what it thinks it can see.

Infinite awareness is infinite possibility and the more of infinite

possibility that we access the more becomes infinitely possible. That

may be stating the apparently obvious, but it is a devastatinglypowerful

fact that can set us free. We are a point of a ention within

an infinity of consciousness. The question is how much of that

infinity do we choose to access? How much knowledge, insight,

awareness, wisdom, do we want to connect with and explore? If

your focus is only in the five senses you will be influenced by a

fraction of infinite awareness. I mean a range so tiny that it gives

new meaning to infinitesimal. Limitation of self-identity and a sense

of the possible limit accordingly your range of consciousness. We are

what we think we are. Life is what we think it is. The dream is the

dreamer and the dreamer is the dream. Buddhist philosophy puts it

this way: ‘As a thing is viewed, so it appears.’ Most humans live in

the realm of touch, taste, see, hear, and smell and that’s the limit of

their sense of the possible and sense of self. Many will follow a

religion and speak of a God in his heaven, but their lives are still

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