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What about delusions? Now, grounded and realistic self-awareness is obviously useful across the board, but today we are specifically looking at delusions born of the spiritual journey in wake of, well, your awakening. Now, there are different grades and spectrums of awakening. Each shipping with their own set of temptations, challenges, and potential for internal distortion. One genre of delusions stems from pattern recognition. Unpacking of symbols, perception of parallels between apparently disconnected phenomena. The recognition of patterns and parallel dynamics in itself is fine. But when the planes of your reality begin to blur, when the spheres are fusing together, where this-and-this means this-and-this, and this means this, it becomes very delusional. You become unrooted from your baseline reality, and depending on your framings, you enter into conspiracy narratives or other mythic frames, from aliens to religious legends. When all of this fuels your sense of specialty, gives you a role that you never had before, you fall into delusion. No longer in a neutral frame of awareness, simply recognizing patterns. You go chasing after them, you see them where they are not, or where loose connections can be made, because your story, your picture, needs to hold together, be scaffolded. So every once in a while, reality checks on your mythic weavings.