I’ve met them! The ones, who believe, that every anime figure and every fantasty figure overall, that someone imagined or created, exists somewhere, or can be created and more even so, could serve them in some way.
And you know what? It was surreal! These people started becoming further and further from reality, as they, as a group, went deeper into this stuff every day. And they thought, they are spiritual, in that matter.
Well, unfortunately, these aren’t spiritual people at all, even if they are calling themselves like this and think highly of themselves as practicing something of the likes. Spiritual means, to focus on the spirit, on it’s growth, on it’s abilities and capabilities, to learn, to gain knowledge, to understand… all this stuff. However, what these people would do, was to fuel their imaginations and phantasies, to slowly and more increasingly start declining reality, start thinking… just crazy stuff, which simply anyone with a healthy mind AND spirit would say “this is insane”. Yes, they, as a group, collectively became more insane every day, started creating phantasy worlds and speak of them, as if they were absolutely real and more and more as if their own lives would rather be there, than on earth.
This is no different at all, from those trying to escape reality and what’s around them. It’s a psychological phenomenon taking part in the mind, and a sickness of the spirit, so to say. This isn’t spiritual growth, spiritual “participation” or anything of the likes.
Our lives are on earth, not in the worlds we see on TV. Those are not real, no matter, if one likes what they see there so much, that they would love to be part of something like this, their heroes to be real and so on.
It’s a sickness, when someone can no longer distinguish reality and non-reality. One should try to understand, why they are seeking such things, as long they still can do so, before they get so deeply into this, that they can no longer be able of thoughts distinguishing these matters.
This is, when being delusional, becomes a self-purpose.