This is how I currently view us as beings, the travelers within the Flux.

For many thousands of years we (the awakened souls/spirits/beings/etc) have been caught into an ever growing  mechanism that disconnects us from the True World around us, the Flux. The programming that we receive as children disconnects us from observing the True World and therefore disconnects us from our True Self.

After a new awakened soul is split from the Flux, it is unable to understand the programming from the group it is born into and thus will experience the True World. Then after a few years it can communicate with the group and receive the programming needed to enhance the groups' survival. Or so it seems.

In the beginning the programming was perhaps properly balanced to promote enough disconnect for the continuing propagation of awakened beings of the same strand.

However, this programming itself seems to evolve into a larger and larger component of our existence and seems to focus more and more on disconnecting every last fiber that connects us to the Flux.

It feels, to me, that this mechanism has been hijacked for other purposes which we are unable to perceive. Or it could be that this is a natural path for the creation of a different being, but it doesn't 'feel' right to me.

It could be that the Original Sin is this disconnect from the Flux with the trauma that it causes on the individual awakened being.

Eventually death will melt us back into the Flux, what we do during the awakened state is what can bring us joy and enlightenment. It seems to me that the Flux 'wants' us to enjoy and explore the awakened state and communicates with us and guides us to the third option, the one that isn't. We just need to 'hear' its guidance.

Stay Awake and Flux on!