Dr. Yeadon, I may be able to help you make further way on this one.
Imagine “the world” as Your World, not the material world.
Do this in a quiet moment, sat down and relaxed ,minimal stress factors present. I’m not being a dick by asking you to do it this way. If you don’t you will not break the spell.
So you are now in a state where Your World is everything to you.
And for some reason you feel like somehow you have been rejected from it.
Very much like being in exile to it.
But you are unable to identify how you got here. And have lost your true identity. (at least cannot find it)
This creates a deep, constant, nameless anxiety and homesickness.
And the ego finds this pain too big and abstract to face directly.
So it automatically projects the anxiety outward onto visible “hooks” in the world (climate, race, politics, money, conspiracies, etc.) - in an attempt to get rid of the horrible existential feeling
The projection makes the suffering feel manageable and gives a sense of purpose (“I’m fighting the bad thing”). Which are worth fighting for in themselves.
Result: Temporary relief, but it creates real conflict, division, and more anxiety.
This positive feedback loop repeats and strengthens the material prison.
All unconsciously. And even though you have mental relief…the problems you rightly speak of proceed at scale.
And you’re left sitting there saying “there is nothing that can be done about it, they are too powerful”.
So what is the remedy?
You **can** break the spell of Your World. Only you can break the spell.
So can all people break their own spell. Both the good and the bad can break it.
How? It will sound too sentimental to say “by using compassion” will it not?
But when all of us are suffering from the same condition - being in exile to our true selves and from our true source, judgement will avail nothing and can only increase worldly incoherence and suffering from our projections in trying to get rid of the feeling of suffering.
The first one you must stop judging and use compassion with, is yourself, in Your World. Then all follows…
Even those we feel are the most bad, are suffering in the same way as you and I. Even the very worst among us. These ones will be suffering the most of all and this is why their projections are the most harmful.
So it must be compassion, in every shape and form.