Going all Jerry McGuire and stuff

I have to start out with a disclaimer that my intention isn't to make a personal attack on anyone, and is merely an observation of certain lines of thinking and my presentation of an alternative viewpoint.

I think what is mostly overlooked is the human tendency to externalize and solidify psychology, commonly called projection, and have the tendency to define terms as "real" and "not real", or "good" and "bad", identifying and confusing their essential identity with ideals and reality.  When they refuse to acknowledge that they are the source of that solidification and perception, they blame that which had they had used to facilitate their closed mental attitude, and tend to sum up, based on their own limited interpretation, usually taught to them by others, this tool in overly-simple observations, usually in emotional terms that fall into the realm of loving or hating.  While it is much easier to scapegoat, their is little reality in most interpretations of certain ideals due to the desire to enact an emotional distancing in order to attain a sense of individuality.  To put it in more accessible terms, this same concept applies to rebelling of children from their parental application of identity, where the parent is the enemy through no intention of their own in most cases, or becomes even more of an enemy by tightening their grip on the actions of the rebellious child.  While both can be considered misguided, the point to remember that this is humanity doing something that is essential to their nature, and, ultimately, needed and beneficial, considering the limitations in which we work, limitations we will overcome by slowly integrating them into a larger reality, instead of emotionally reacting and unbalancing ourselves, which will require an eventual balancing.  It does no good to blame one's own feelings of misgivings about one's self and life on a tool that was used by that same person.  The new viewpoint always demonizes the old viewpoint.

Two views immediately come to view.  One is that it is a human psychological process of evolution or rhythmic cyclic, and things are being played out accordingly in the material realm.  Far from humanity being a bunch of unwilling suckers, perhaps we are willingly fooled.  We cannot objectively say what is good or what the rational path would be.  We can pretend, but we cannot know the truth.  Another view is that, if we are all here for a reason, or if things happen for a purpose, then why do we assume that we know unequivocally why we are here, or how things should be?  If we have achieved our own wisdom through a process of inner reflection, why do we seek to impose our way of thinking on those we deem less fortunate?  If we were incapable of inner reflection before we were ready, why do we assume those who are not ready be treated with a mild disdain?

My own view is that everything is essentially a way to understand one's self.  Is perhaps taking sides, projecting our own psychology onto external reality, not something for the common man, and if we, even as we imagine ourselves to be enlightened, do the same thing, are we not any better than the common person, different in our beliefs but the same in our methods?  What, of importance, has been accomplished?  Are we any more compassionate, any more of an ideal that would be deemed desirable?  Does anyone understand the irony of the common person to dismiss the beliefs of hyper-dimensional beings or UFOs, and the inability of those who consider themselves of a higher vibration to accept something other than their view of their world with as much if not more ridicule and vehemence?  Are we to look down on the common man without seeing our own actions that are essentially the same? 

True enlightenment, I believe, is to be more of an observer, to learn from our life without taking sides, avoiding externalization and projection.  Without these practices, we are all merely subject to our own desires, emotional desires that are hidden from ourselves and make us no better than the common man many "enlightened" tend to pity.

In the end, perhaps it is the point of enlightenment to be aware without investing in illusions to the point of compromising our own detachment, and to respect those who are in their own process.