People are specific features of my awakening projection. I know that I am not one of them. Yes, they appear to share some specific qualities if I accept some imaginary suppositions, such as that I have a presence outside of my own projected perspective. But the moment I accept these suppositions I defy my omniscience because that would mean there is something outside of my own experience.
So let me qualify them better, for my own language I use to characterize them is itself misleading. I will often say or think that people think, want, aspire, intend or otherwise experience the full range of internal, secondself behaviors and qualities that I do. I know that is not the case. I know that the people do not extend below the surface I experience. I can elongate that surface in the same way I can increase the surface of the water by jumping into it, inviting it to enshroud me. But that larger surface does not exist until I act.
I have started imagining people as performers. Yet if people “perform”, that would imply that there is an actor hidden under the performance, invisible to me. Again, the actor is unknown to me, which contradicts the first principle: that what is, is. That what I experience is the extent of what is. When I imagine a subsurface I cannot directly experience, I manifest a layer of reality I can never know, violating the first principle, and increasing the strength of my awakening bond. The subsurface I imagine to exist is the degree to which I am entangled.
So how do I refer to these features I call people then? I say they are written. By referring to people, events, places, spaces, objects, and experiences as written I am depriving them of their imagined subsurface more than by using other words. Only a small bit of subsurface remains because I imply that there is a writer who wrote them. I admit that I cannot yet bridge this gap and conceptualize the people and my own writing simultaneously, but by referring to them as written I come much closer than I could before.
People are written. Who is this writer? I am the writer. And when did I write them? The moment I experience them. People do not experience a subsurface I cannot know. Yes, their surface is infinitely elastic; I can dive as deeply into them as I want, creating new pockets of surface written as I explore. Or I can withdraw from them and heal this wound that is my awakening.
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