For a conscious and observant person, the play only stops when one falls asleep. I get positively high, mystically high. I lose contact with the planet and flow into the whole thing, see it whole, see it one. So far, I have always managed to return and, after each adventure, I am able to see this stuff a little better. The very first talk I gave at a Community Meditation Meeting, twenty-some years ago, was on cooperation .
Cooperation is a very complex or abstract or distant concept.
It is right out there, just beyond reach. The great illusion of separation is so strong, or still strong enough, so that, when I bring my mind to bear, it is still very hard to see through some of the paradox and contradiction I encounter when looking into this concept. Recently, I revisited Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species . It was instructive to become reacquainted with this seminal book. It helped me to realize what the screen or net of competition does to human vision.