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What does it all mean? Why should you care about some grand board game played by demons?
To answer that, I must first pose a different question to you, dear reader.
Have you ever felt strangely tired? Not necessarily in a physical sense, but mentally and emotionally?
Perhaps it is as if you're missing some little piece of shining happiness in your soul.
You have felt it more on some days than on other days. The fatigue.
Why is that?
Can you really wake up on the "wrong side of the bed"?
Some mornings, it literally feels as if something has visited you in the night and, through your dreams, siphoned away a nice big chunk of your spiritual energy.
Does that feel at all familiar to you?
Here's another question.
Have you ever done something that makes no sense to you?
You make a choice on some strange autopilot, an action that defies logic.
Have you said or done something in a reprehensibly negative way, only to be confused and frustrated to recall it after the fact?
Have you ever done something out of character, as if someone else is pulling the strings on your puppet body?
As we move forward, dear reader, you must keep all of this in mind.
When you dream - or, really, if you do anything to alter your current state of consciousness - you can plunge down into an amazing wonderland of raw imagination and infinite possibility. Time does not exist in this place.
We call this place the subconscious mind.
In your subconscious, you may reach down and tap into many great, primal forces. Some are good. Some are bad. Some just /are/.
However...
Deep down, at the bottom of this strange dreamlike place, there are malicious entities - demons - that can wriggle up into your mind.
They come from someplace else.
In your dreams and nightmares, the demons have a fertile place to creep up and take root in your mind. Bad seeds are planted and can grow and bloom long after you wake up. No one is really aware of this terrible invasion of privacy, not even after the demons begin to alter your behavior.
And that's how it works.
This is how they play their demonic game - through you.
Demons themselves aren't necessarily evil. They can actually be good sometimes - though it is largely coincidental. They will always act selfishly and in their own best interest; if that so happens to be in line with your own interests, I suppose one would perceive that as "good". Never forget: they have zero regard for human life.
Demons certainly /do/ have the capacity for evil, though, and when they decide to be, little else in the universe comes close to the darkness and depravity of an angry demon.
They are smart and remorseless. They are chaotic, but never random. The demons have personalities and agendas unique to themselves, yet these seem utterly simple when compared with the complex inner-workings of a conscious human.
Imagine a demon as a sociopathic toddler with god-like powers. Imagine that toddler playing tug-of-war with six other deranged children. Imagine that you are the rope they are tugging on.
This is another way of looking at the cosmic board game.
So.
There are dark forces that exist in strange places, halfway between any known dimensions. These forces can enter our thoughts and subtly alter our behavior. They can exist within every man, woman and child - and they have the potential to ruin every hope and dream inside you.
This "game" that I describe is a part of your daily life - you just lack the ability to fully perceive it. You feel it in the back of your mind. It nags at you. You know that something isn't right but you are at a loss to understand why - if there even is a reason.
Well...
There /is/ a reason why - and it /is/ possible to understand it.
We'll begin to address those questions in the next chapter.
For now, just try to think about the possibility that your life isn't necessarily under your control 100% of the time. Mull it over. Really take a look at your life.
Maybe it isn't as random as you thought.
--- to be continued --
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