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17/ The insight often requires that the current frame is already burdensome—frustration, exhaustion, active denial of what we're experiencing. The scaffolding is stressed—its predictions fail, its costs compound, its contradictions press—before one more straw triggers collapse.

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Life in the cyberspatial fast-lane of planetary awakening was never going to be easy. It's maddening, hard, fraught, messy and, as characterizes the inchoate nature of such phase shifts, a necessary, natural stepping-stone upon our common path towards higher sanity and wholeness. 5/ Then again, what if the deliverance of a realm of perception and liberating activity transcending the occupying ground of secular and religious structures of consciousness and power gone mad for the illusion of separateness, is far closer to us than we had ever imagined? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) A tour de force, William. Thank you. And telling, isn't it, the transcendent political genius of a consummately planetary sanctification confirming “the rigorous unity of the prophetic Revelatory Principle in history" (Corbin) anticipating the reconciliatory ontology of Twitter? Quote tweet: "Sustaining the ambiguity preceding a new experience of meaning"? A mandate *exact* to this epochal moment as we, together, advance through "the chaos taking place in our [world] neurosis, the only home ground that we can build the mandala of [planetary] awakening on." - Trungpa and 6 others An intensification of consciousness, yes. And may we have the wisdom to appreciate its necessity as an index of our need for transformation and the fierceness of the fire required to prise us from the falsehoods which have for so long sustained our crippling self-definition. Quote tweet: 2/ After all, how cataclysmic was the dissolution & remaking honestly effected & required of an authentic, planetary paradigm shift, going to be? Stephen Bachelor: “Awakening, freedom and sanity are only intelligible in the context of confusion, constriction, violence and chaos.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Dec 2025

2/ But on any path that truly matters, we walk the very threshold where atrophied structures of self, meaning, and sanity actually break. When the Real presses in, our familiar defenses start to burn: control, self-importance, buried grief, unintegrated trauma, pictures of God.

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Copy of tweet here: An intensification of consciousness, yes. And may we have the wisdom to appreciate its necessity as an index of our need for transformation and the fierceness of the fire required to prise us from the falsehoods which have for so long sustained our crippling self-definition.

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