Reality has another face. It is a face from which reality is reflected. Sense-perceived reality is a reflection of the object of true reality, on which, when light shines, it casts a shadow. The sharper the light and the more stable the subject of illumination, the sharper its shadow and the more concisely it shows its true nature. Life is a shadow of our dreams. What we manifest in our lives is mostly just a poor reflection of what we could be, what we dreamed of, and what we would like to bring to the stage that means the world. You don’t see a person’s character, you only see a reflection of what is hidden behind it, what defines it.
Facing our past
We cannot escape the past; we all repeat it and call it Fate. We think that the past does not concern us, that it is a conspiracy concept, that we redeem ourselves from the past or avoid it. Somewhere in the subconscious corner of the soul, we may suspect that by escaping from our fateful past, we are rather buying time at the price of the time we lose. Everything has a price, and the invoice always comes; that’s how it goes, isn’t it? The past is like a clown Pennywise who, when we knock off his grinning head with a ridiculous red nose, Pennywise immediately grows a new head, similar to the previous one. The closer we accept the past to our body, the harder it is to keep moving forward. The past is a burden that we have to carry until we find that the backpack is weighing us down, and when we take a good look at what is in it, we put away the unnecessary, like on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. We have such an option; it is the key to surrendering the unbearable. Thank goodness. However, with a new day comes the old burden; that key is only the beginning; into whatever realities it leads us, facing our past is difficult. In this world, to recognize our past faces, we will be left alone with our Spirit.
Times change, people change, but the plot remains
The human body changes, the man inside is still the same, his nature remains unchanging, and many lives last before anything in character is changed by knowledge, if at all. It remains the same for many lifetimes. If someone is a characterless jerk in this life, know that they were like that also in their previous lives. It doesn’t change; it takes a very long time for a little to change. A pig will be a pig, a thief will be a thief, and a witch will be a witch. Even though she no longer (almost) has the ability to cast spells, she tries to brush up on magic in schools and initiations, or at least searches for esoterics as a customer. She desperately tries to cast a spell because without it, she is nothing. It’s just toad moss filled with little toads. When her toad head is cut off, the toads jump out of her large belly, through her open neck, out into the cauldron of boiling water, and it’s done. All that remains is an empty sack, and when her witchcraft mission fails, the entity standing behind in her shadow temporarily wins, the true face of the witch, and then both pay a heavy price for their failures.
Character will show itself in critical situations
If we were in a time of war, people would express themselves differently. You’d be surprised how quickly they would become war criminals, murderers, and traitors. They would easily decide again to deport their neighbors to concentration camps. In today’s times, they have decided on mandatory testing and vaccinations; they have labeled you as disobedience and rebellion. In more extreme times, they would label you, classify you, and send you where their true reptilian nature wants you to have.
Their unmanifested true Self standing behind them in the Shadow will be revealed in full nakedness; what was outwardly shown until then was the manifested character of an insidious reptilian, shackled by the reins of a controlling remnant, that wants to appear better than it really is on the whole. In one life, so to speak, everyone is bad to the extent that his worst and darkest character essence is manifested. However, there is still the true face of the unspoken. It is the past that lurks in the shadows and knocks on the door, or just slams it open when a critical mass of circumstances accumulates that awakens the subconscious reptile, and it rushes into consciousness and manifests itself.
Many people are basically still the same in other incarnations. They didn’t learn and would probably do the same thing again. It will be tested in a heated emergency moment, when the true nature of a person will show its true face. A critical situation can be a minor change with great significance if someone notices it that way, or it can be a major deviation from the norm, a sum of several negative circumstances that pull back the curtain and show the actors unprepared and unkempt in costumes concealing their true nature.
An Artificial Spirit on steroids will work hard in a crisis when it senses an opportunity for consciousness control. When the circumstances pile up in such a way that more of them occur together at one moment. A reptile will remain a reptile; a chameleon that changes its color according to the environment it is in and according to its mood. They are mimics that automatically color its exterior or imitate the shape of an animal so that it is not detected.