Depression compared to what ?

When considering the causes of depression we usually use some kind of subjective or objective scale of measurement.
What are we measuring relative to?
Are we measuring relative to a proposed or perceived "normal" ? or "happy" ? or some other state ?

Are the states we are considering as the goal of healing really the "normal" state of consciousness beneficial for Human Beings ?

Is it really a measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society ? (Krishnamurti)

Or are we vainly attempting to help people to tolerate the pain caused by continuing to live within a system that is obviously not Utopia.

My friends, my fellow sufferers, we were asleep, it was not our fault, they gave us coloured glass and bright trinkets and we believed they were real.

Its difficult to keep living and contributing to a lie when you understand it in your heart and your mind and soul scream it to you through mental and physical manifestations of illness and disease.

Depressed relative to what?

We believed the speed, the rushing force of progress with loud music, chants of "march onwards" echoing back down the dusty polluted wastelands of consumerism generated destruction.

We joined the parade behind those at the front who have everything to gain but our brothers and sisters and children fight and are killed in their battles.

From birth we are programmed to respect people who do not respect us, to dance to the tune played by the pipers of the elite, to accept their visions of life, not to question, to stay asleep.

In our sleeping waking dreams as we stumble through their intricate web of control and deceipt insecurely grasping at paper blessed by the wizards who have alchemical power to convert keyboard strokes into trillions.

At some deep level we know that it is a lie, in our hearts we know we are asleep, we know we are being fooled somehow because deep in our memory we remember how we felt when we were children! remember the wonder? of everything? remember the feeling? that is being.

So do we consider depression relative to the illusion of happiness in a controlled dream ?

Or do we let go of the dream and of the depression of not being happy in the dream, a dream within a dream?

Whats left?

Human Souls and Human Spirit cannot be brainwashed ! they are the constants that have existed since the beginning of history, they cannot be subdued or destroyed, civilizations crumble, truth remains.

Peace and love is always with us in our hearts, the answers are and always have been with us, we were dreaming and in that dream we were depressed, we can try and be happy in a dream or we can wake up and realize it was not real Be aware of the pendulum of moods that exist within the dream but do not ride on the pendulum, the answer lies a little bit higher and its time we got there !
Withdraw your attention and energy from attempting to achieve happiness, its transitory, and relative.

Remember the sense of wonder ?

Remember the sense of wonder