more than a theater of sorts in which we play out varying roles and learn from our mistakes and transgressions so that we can become more loving and advance spiritually. And this brings us directly back to Shakespeare’s famous quote, which can now be seen for the truly perceptive and fundamentally truth-revealing statement it is: “All the world’s a stage… and all the men and women merely players.” Indeed, far from being metaphor, as many have believed it to be, in light of the empirical evidence from thousands upon thousands of people, it seems to be an accurate depiction of reality.
