Disengaging

…upon discovering the extent of my incapacity to effect significant positive change in the world, I retreated into my own dreams and polychromatic fantasies of multidimensional oscillation, entangled wormholes and intergalactic expanses. The world will continue unravelling, with or without me, I decided. I felt I should just close my eyes and imagine the actual wilderness and vastness of things and, failing to acknowledge the imposition of that (inevitable, problematic) shared hypnosis in which the human illusion assumes primacy and is mistaken as the necessary source of truth, I chose to embrace that other Truth which always pre-empts and overshadows our ever-so-little words and brains…