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On Wakefulness “I am not unlike a prisoner who might enjoy an imaginary freedom in his sleep. When he later begins to suspect that he is sleeping, he fears being awakened and conspires slowly with these pleasant illusions. In just this way, I spontaneously fall back into my old beliefs, and dread being awakened, lest the toilsome wakefulness which follows upon a peaceful rest, have to be spent thenceforward not in the light but among the inextricable shadows of the difficulties now brought forward.” - Rene Descartes, Meditations, First Meditation, 23. What is this “sleep”? What do I mean by being “sleep”? Being asleep means that one’s heart, soul, and mind-intellect has been negatively layered and covered by familial, cultural, customary, superstitious, national, political, mythological, religious, societal, civilizational, and other perspectives, that act as oppressive veils that stand in the way of one’s ability to perceive Reality and reality in its truest form. Of course, my definition of being “asleep” presupposes that the faculties of perception include the mind-intellect, the spiritual-intellectual heart, and one’s soul. By Reality, I mean the Reality of God and by reality, I mean that