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Imagine Nation

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On August 3, 2019

In Philosphing

This is a post that I keep on avoiding due to the fact that the subject is so difficult to communicate (or comprehend). I ask the reader to ignore my words and attempt to just see what they are pointing at.

Okay. Off to cloud cuckoo-land…

Everything in this reality is not the real thing. Everything you experience (see; hear; feel) is a symbol for something else. There is a higher, truer “realer” reality above the one we seem to be living in. Most people are somewhat aware of this and give voice to this intuition through art and religion.

Just as <insert your name> is not the real you, so the (apparent) world you see around you is not the true world. Your mind is aware of this beyond-world but cannot perceive it directly. It therefore places a symbolic “thing” in it’s place in an effort to make sense of it. A placeholder of sorts. As an example, we may use a sound as a symbol for something else as in the sound “dog”. We call this a “word”. The sound itself is not the animal referenced. We might also use a drawing or an image of this thing.

Woof!

Like the word, the image is not the actual dog. Now what I am saying is that the sight, sound, and feel of the dog are also not the dog itself. The true dog lies hidden from you and is unknowable. Even if you could pierce the veil and join the dog, you would only experience the combination of yourself and the dog. The you+dog is also not the actual dog.

Think about how dimensions work. The one dimensional line; the two dimensional plane; the three dimensional cube; the four dimensional hyper-cube. We can keep this going mathematically but our minds are incapable of following experientially.

The idea that there exist places (and inhabitants) in dimensions we cannot see is unsettling for people who have enough problems dealing with just the basic three-plus-time. As a result of our being so embedded in what we think is reality, when we encounter something from outside of it, our mind slaps a more believable symbol over it. This is why so many reports of the paranormal include elements of the absurd. We are puzzled by the “high strangeness” elements because they seem so silly and contrived.

This is because they are.

By us.

The Eyes to See

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On July 14, 2019

In Philosphing

When researchers test to find if there is evidence for extrasensory perception among humans or animals, they try to approach their experiments with as neutral an attitude as possible. This is not really achievable. Somewhere in their minds is a small allowance that psychic powers might be real. Otherwise, they would not be interested in the subject enough to even look into it.

They go into the subject with a small amount of belief that these powers could be there. And what do they discover?

An equally small amount of evidence that ESP is real.

In academia, it will never do to enter a scientific study with strong beliefs a priori. Your colleagues would laugh you out of your laboratory. Science after all is a very strict religion… er… sorry, I meant “belief-system”.

So what happens when a person who completely believes in their ability to read minds or remote view experiments along these lines? They will find that they have these powers. They will also soon learn to keep this information to themselves (for the most part) because of the ridicule they will face at the hands of society at large.

Disbelievers are still believers. They just believe in something else. Large numbers of people who believe in the same thing will share a common reality. They will also be unable to perceive the countless different realities unfolding all around them.

We each create the reality we believe we are in. The problems arise when we mistakenly believe that there is only one true reality. When we limit ourselves to a single inflexible set of rules to define what is real, we trap ourselves in a box that becomes a prison of our own making.

We can escape this. In my own case, I always had a burning need to know the “Truth”. As a fundamentalist Christian at the time, this presented a problem since I had been told (and believed) to never question God. I thought I might be risking my soul. Eventually my desire to know the true nature of reality outweighed my desire for self-preservation. I let go of everything I “believed” and started from scratch.

“Who am I?” I asked myself.

“Whose asking?” I replied.

Then it was off to the races! Using simple logic and concentration, I discovered who I was and what the world was. That could not have happened if I didn’t go into it without expectations. Without beliefs.

Anyone who wants to possess the Stone of the philosopher’s must first possess the innocent heart of a little child. Only then can you actually become “born again”.

” And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

Comic Consciousness

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On July 11, 2019

In Philosphing

Masochist: “Hurt me! Please hurt me!”

Sadist: “No.”

What is humor? What makes a thing funny and why does it trigger laughter? Science tells us that this is a programmed response to the release of tension. Laughing is a way to ease the stress caused by uncertainty.

That sure takes all the fun out of funny, doesn’t it?

When I first found the Stone, my reaction to it was to laugh. That laughter went on for a couple of days. There really was an element of stress relief. The realization that everything is right and perfect in the universe. That death is an illusion. And most of all, that neither I nor any one else could fuck themselves up irretrievably.

We are all safe. Forever.

So yeah… Whew! Total relief.

As more time passed, I kept on laughing at things. At people. At how stupid they were. How hilarious it was when they died or were injured unexpectedly. How seriously they took everything.

Transcending the limits of human perception had cost me my humanity. Nothing mattered in the end. Good and evil became meaningless. One required the other. I knew a really big secret that the mere humans did not. Realizing that you are God is difficult to incorporate without embarking on one hell of an ego-trip.

Over the years I got a grip on things. I turned the humor on myself and learned to choose compassion for it’s own sake. Took back my humanity and learned to be humble…

Hahahahahaha! (There I go again!)

But I digress.

At the very core of reality, at the center of everything lies a surprise.

The beating heart that is the engine which drives all things is a Paradox. The One Truth is that there is no One Truth. (Truly!)

The universe is all just a big joke but I don’t mean that in a negative way.

What emotion are you feeling when you laugh at a joke? Is it simply relief? Or is it more akin to delight? The happiness that accompanies the sudden understanding of what was previously a mystery. The triumph of solving a riddle.

The heart of God is expressed not just in Love and Light but also in a divine Laughter that permeates all things.

This has very real consequences in our lives. From the bizarre mysteries to the puzzling synchronicities. We scratch our heads and call this the “Trickster Effect” without understanding what’s really going on in this world.

Without realizing that sometimes God is just plain silly.

Question: What’s brown and sticky?

Answer: A stick!

Holey Man

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On June 8, 2019

In Philosphing

“How are you?”

That is a common informal greeting to which one might answer with, “I’m fine. How are you?”

Easy enough. Here’s another one for you.

Why are you?

Why are you here right now? How did you find yourself embedded in this “reality”? Is it a mystery to you? How and why could that be?

Is the arc of your existence merely an awakening into ignorance followed by a befuddled extinguishment?

Do you “believe” in something? Many people have a religion they follow. There are lots of different things you might believe in. Many people accept beliefs handed to them by someone else. Others might “wing” it, making up something unique.

Who is right?

Likely nobody. Besides, how would you tell?

Are you too unintelligent to figure it out? Perhaps you just don’t care enough to try? Just assume you’ll learn what it’s all about after you die?

Or is this knowledge being withheld from you? If so, by whom?

Maybe there are no answers.

How would that make you feel? Relieved? Uncertain? Filled with despair?

About a million people commit suicide each and every year. Are they the smart ones? Are they now at peace? Do they finally know what life was all about?

Despair is an important clue here. If everything was truly meaningless, you wouldn’t care either way. The very existence of the hole in your heart is proof that there is something missing.

Now what might that be?

Not Dead But Dreaming

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On May 18, 2019

In Wagging Tales

Imagine this weird situation.

You become (or perhaps always have been?) aware of yourself. Either you have no memory of existing before this or you are unable to understand what those memories are. (No language? No brain?)

Sooner or later you become aware that things can change. Things can begin and end. You experience what you will someday refer to as “time”. Your very limitlessness creates your limitedness. The existence of Nothing brings Something in.

Well, well. Isn’t this interesting? You lean in for a closer look…

Now imagine that you discover a nearby object. Later, you encounter the object again and again. It becomes familiar. You discover that it responds to your will. It becomes… yours.

Time passes. You continue to find new things to incorporate. Hands and feet. A voice. A body. Emotions and thoughts. An outlook. An understanding. Indeed, a world.

And over time, you not only identify with this world. You identify as this world. You are no longer simple awareness. You are that awareness plus the things you are aware of in a totally unique combination.

Weird, huh?

So you get used to this situation. You become involved. You may like it. You may not. Likely a little of both. Eventually, at the appointed time you get to the end of the story. You back away from the table and stop playing this game.

The experience stops. Your world dies. No more body, no more senses. No more relationships. No brain, no memories. Just…

You become (or perhaps always have been?) aware of yourself. Either you have no memory of existing before this or you are unable to understand what those memories are…

God’s Cogs

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On April 26, 2019

In Philosphing

Have you ever experienced telepathy? Direct mind to mind communication?

Of course you have! (Although you may not have recognized it at the time.)

It is important that you understand what this is and how it works. Lest you miss out on some important things that are going on around you. There are also other minds that can victimize you without your understanding or even noticing what is happening until it is too late.

The key to understanding this lies in the fact that there is only one Mind. Because this is the mechanism, thoughts originating from somewhere else will seem to arise from you own consciousness and you will misidentify them as being your own.

Groups of smaller minds can work together to create single larger minds. How many single cell creatures have combined to make up you? About 35 trillion. (Twice that if you include bacteria.)

How about the next level up? How many humans make up the clusters that we call Families? How many families make up neighborhoods? How many neighborhoods in a city? Cities in a country? Countries in a continent? Continents in a planet? Planets in a solar system? Solar systems in a galaxy?

How about going in the other direction? Molecules in a cell? Atoms in a molecule? Particles in an atom?

We are all beings cradled within and without by other beings, lesser or greater.

All of the thoughts that pass through your mind originate from elsewhere whether on purpose or by happenstance. God is doing all of the thinking.

What do you think about that?

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