Inspiration

What is inspiration? How can spiritual phenomena be at the heart of so many tragedies; or is it?
The tragedy of modern Western society, is a lack of true and free flowing inspiration; but let us look at what inspiration could possibly be described as; and what the inspired human being is facing today...:

H.G. Wells told a story once; about a man who on an expedition stumbled over an old society of blind people. They were born without eyes due to a genetic disorder and had over decades become used to not seeing. They moved and acted in a more secure way than the outsider did, to his surprise. He got caught and upon examination they decided he was insane. They also found the reason for the mans insanity; the strange objects in the 'holes' in the mans forehead. For his own well being they decided to remove the objects, and what the man himself had to say about it paid no attention to; after all who listens to and takes advice from a crazy person?

The story is valid as a metaphor for how bad the conditions are for true inspiration in today's society where all that matters must be measurable and tangible. The inspired mind is like a plant only having moonlight to grow in...Poor are the conditions, and worse are the consequences for those who insists on holding on to their inspired humanity.

Our modern society is made for the cold and not inspired human being. For people denying their inner with-born values who punishes those not being obedient. The extreme 'solution' will look both attractive and the only solution to many.

In the Western part of the world the suppression of our minds happens in a more subtle way, but it happens all the same. The Brave New World is long upon us. Chemical lobotomy is part of daily life and medical 'treatments' of anxiety and other natural and obvious reactions to being denied a full and inspired life and mind.

Refusal to be 'treated' and 'cured'; will in most cases lead to punishment, one way or another.