Storyline
Authority beyond questioning
There are many potential storylines for the ‘human condition’ and ‘life on Earth’. One that’s indicated by the evidence is associated with a ‘split mind’: the idea that the metaphysical Mind that’s projected this physical version of reality onto its motion picture screen is divided against itself.
- One part answering to the nature of things that’s things happening spontaneously. For no apparent reason that can be explained.
- The other part straining mightily to will things to happen. In an effort to replace the supremacy of what it perceives to be weakness with itself, which it perceives to be strength. Thus to replace a craven morality of mindfulness — differentiation plus empathy within the limits of definition — with itself: the limitless power of bestiality. Undifferentiating and unempathetic. Wildness subject to no limits including the limits of definition. Willfulness triumphant over opposition and itself invincible. Imagining that since spontaneity can’t be explained it must be magic.
The idea of supremacy by conquest that’s intentional and unstoppable. Ich bleibe an der Wolga! The idea of movement that was originally evolution powered by attraction toward positivity — the idea of family being there for one another in life-creation — reversed into warring tribes driven by division toward negativity — self-annihilation. ‘Human’ in human-animal standing for humanitarian values versus ‘animal’ in human-animal standing against humanitarian values. ‘Strength’ against ‘weakness’. The affront to human pride not being its classification as a tribal animal, a sub-species of ape, but the perceived weakness of the creature that would presume to be better than ape.
This is the story that observation suggests is being played out in ‘life’ on Earth. And when it’s applied to our everyday experience with life and with one another, the way things appear to sort out is some of us are programmed to take one side and some the other. ‘Programmed’ or ‘manipulated’ hard to say since in either case we can’t claim to be in control. To be the author of our story either individually or collectively.
Though the wild and willful animal side does seem opposed to its supremacy being questioned. Hysterically if not fanatically, to the idea that any force — even nature itself — could be stronger than itself. Suggesting that it’s in the nature of the animal-mindless side to assume the powers and freedoms of the absolute. To ‘play god’, the one-and-only ‘creator’. The author of our story and thus legitimately, unquestionably, unstoppable and immovable. Authority beyond questioning.
Joker, magician, beast
Casting our story thus into a contest of wills between ‘god’ the supreme animal against human the inferior animal who has betrayed the absolute. By straying from the path. By wandering off irresolutely in pursuit of waffling relativity, reason and choice, accommodation and peace, caring and sharing, instead of resolutely toward eternal insensitivity, selfishness, and conflict.
Casting our story into a contest between personality types:
- One combining the faculties of human-animal mind (Sapiens) capable of differentiation and empathy, logic-order and love-spontaneity, in pursuit of movement forward — evolution. Mind-centered.
- The other combining the traits of animal-human predatory instinct directed in opposition to mind. Body-centered. Intent not on progress toward a higher order of being but on preservation of being as it is. Captivity to the tyranny of self-unawareness, to the unyielding self-regard of bodies enforced by body-brain sensing. The ruling tribal-social ethos of body idolatry. ‘God’ conceived not as a metaphysical ideal beyond the limits of material reality but as its apotheosis. Things the way they are perfect the way they are: ‘life’ on Earth demonstrably real, unchanged, unchanging, and unchangeable. ‘Strength’ unevolved and unevolving. Its manifestation in embodiments and in embodiments the animal brain. King amygdala. The seat of animal-human power. The throne of supremacy.
The other personality type a hangover from our days as apes. A cruel joker laughing at our pitiful efforts to prove ourselves better than a species of ape. A magician-illusionist keeping us continually distracted and off guard with its magic tricks and illusions. Its hallucinations of things detected ‘out there’ to keep us eternally unaware of what’s in here. A wanton beast intimidating us into abject submission with the constant threat of violence, bloodshed, and annihilation. The specter of ‘almighty god’ combining all three roles into one: joker, magician, beast. The manipulator-in-chief, to which we owe homage and tribute lest its pretense of benevolence smite us into oblivion. Lest it condemn our weakness and inferiority to eternal damnation.
We can choose again
Why go to such lengths to explain a storyline that’s beyond doing anything about even if it’s sheer lunacy? Because we as individuals, as human-persons, were gifted with mindfulness precisely so that we could choose our way out of this lunacy. And because it isn’t beyond doing anything about. That’s a lie propagated by five-sensing ‘realists’. The body-centered type, thinking it’s unquestionably right because it won’t or can’t exercise mind’s sixth sense. Because it’s maneuvered itself out of the range of insights from intuition. Without a mind’s eye to tell it differently it’s convinced itself that there can be only one reality and what its body’s eye detects is the one. A wart hog rooting around in the underbrush, aware only of what’s in front of its nose.
We have the power and ability to choose because that’s our function. And if it’s our function it’s who we are, there being no difference between being and doing in reality.
The storyline that isn’t lunacy — that makes sense — is Character ‘here’ on Earth to learn to choose freely given the opportunity to do so by opposition to choice. The playactor familiar to us as the other side of our character. Not an ‘other’. Not ‘Satan’ or any other kind of separate ‘demon’ but the part of us that completes our definition. Definition by who we aren’t as well as by who we are. Logic.
All that’s needed in our structure of inversion, where who we aren’t reigns supreme — the hallucination — is to recognize that the wrong side of our nature occupies the throne of ‘reality’ and it was our own mistaken choice that put it there. If we don’t like the usurper-king manipulating us we have no one else to blame. We did it ourselves, and if we authored this absurdity we can rewrite it. To fit the facts instead of the fiction that it is. We can choose again.
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Awareness
In Person
‘Guidance’ is Person. Who personalizes principles and values drawn from what the metaphysical Child’s Parents made of their situation at the beginning. Love-Spontaneity and Logic-Order, when they were married by the power of Attraction. Spontaneously. The original cause to have an effect, that bore the imprint of the forces that made it happen. The limits of its situation that allowed it. The blend of circumstances that established its Character, unprecedented and unique. That gave it Function and perspective in a situation that can forever be and do whatever it is — possibility that’s Creation — and never be or do what it isn’t.
Impossibility. A state of not-existence that lies outside the limits of Mind that could conceive it, and so there are no words to describe it. ‘Universal’ and ‘omniscience’ being two that approximate it. The impossibilities of there being but one view that encompasses everything and so the opposite and denial of perspective, that can be ‘known’ by a know-it-all.
The character familiar to us as infallibility or arrogance. The impossibility of character that’s one view possessed by a know-it-all above and beyond self-questioning and so inaccessible and unrelatable, having no meaning, purpose, and function. Make-believe. A magic kingdom of hierarchy and corruption, mindlessness and immobility, uselessness and waste, were it ever to be entertained by Mind that is Function. That does think and feel with the Energy and imprint of its Happening. Its unique identity or Self familiar to us as ‘Soul’ or ‘Psyche’.
The attribute familiar to us as Person that personalizes every Life with its unique function and relatability. Drawn from Definition at the beginning. The unique brand or birthmark of possibility: Life-Creation. Of Movement forward: evolution ignited by the forces of Happening within the limits of their situation. That could not be an impossibility — make-believe / arrogance. That could not be the denial / reverse of what it is and does. Its Function.
Intimately and personally
Guidance that’s Person is the function of Definition from the forces and limits of the original cause, the original Happening, that translates the principles and values of Conscience: from the generic to the specific; from the abstract to the practical; from idea to its personification whether in the Reality of metaphysics where there is an equivalent or in the material / virtual reality or un-reality of physics. The phenomenon familiar to us as personalizing. Rendering that which is generically or theoretically applicable to bespoke. The essence of relatability familiar to us as self-awareness. Our sense of Self or uniqueness, presence or agency. The attribute of Psyche that we experience as our own Psyche. Whose defining attribute / limit is drawn from the original Happening that just happened. Spontaneously, for which there is no explanation or definition that could capture it.
One approximation being the idea of limitless, though not of the kind associated with the one view of arrogance, the limitlessness of impossibility. A limitless joke or absurdity. The origin of Guidance being instead the limitlessness of Love’s Freedom enabled by its marriage with Logic’s Order. Of Love’s boundaryless vulnerability protected by Logic’s boundaries. Relationship that serves as a prototype and originator of all of Life-Creation’s relationships in Reality and a model for their re-creation in virtual reality.
With help from Guidance that personalizes the process of Creation’s relatability in the way that it originally happened. Spontaneously. By ‘just happening’. Beyond any possibility of its being owned, possessed, or controlled by the limitlessness of wildness or the arrogance of willfulness. Therefore able to be taken into the Soul or Psyche of each unique person for being a friend who can be trusted. A guide who understands and relates to each person where they are in their unique situations in the moment, intimately and personally.
Undeniable and inconceivable
It occurred to us that it was taking us somewhere. After all, that’s what we wanted. It wouldn’t have occurred to us that were being taken to this particular ‘somewhere’. Why not? Because being classified as an animal by zoology doesn’t sound to me like a promise that’s “too good to be true.” The storyline is that we were led to believe we were being escorted to a ‘paradise’ where everyone would be free to be and do as they please. To author their own reality. There would be no laws or limits or restrictions to prevent it. As though everyone would be king or queen, when ‘animal’ is a definite comedown from the being that we already were.
You’re speaking to the god of his own creation. Why can that not be too good to be true? If an embodiment of your manipulator is listening in and speaking for you it would not share my perspective. It would speak for the ineffable. The not-Mind, therefore inconceivable version of ‘somewhere’ which stands for the ‘true’ rather than for the ‘too good to be true’ promise. Its inconceivability gives it the ultimate ‘undeniability’ since how can I, speaking from Mind-conceivable, deny it? Argue with it?
It’s not-Mind mindlessness finds its expression in the thought or idea of ‘animal’, a version of life that shares a distinctly different version of ‘somewhere’ that’s nowhere. Characterized by quantum gravity — theoretical physics — as ‘relational’. Described by Einstein’s physics as ‘relativity’, because being nowhere it can only establish ‘where’ by each of its parts relating to other parts. Engineering’s foundation for ‘structure’: ‘bottom’ and ‘top’ and all points in between affixed to other moving objects affixed to them. The ‘North Star’ is only ‘North’ because a certain perspective puts it there. If we ask the North Star where it is it would answer it depends on where we are. It would have to come up with its equivalent which might, or might not be, the perspective that made it ‘north’.
Make-believe can’t be pinned down to anything definitive if it’s a reverse-reflection of something somewhere. It’s whatever something makes of it if it should confuse itself with its own reflection. ‘Realists’[ are embodiments of the version of ‘something’ that share in the confusion by accepting the reflection at face value. By not only not questioning it but by embracing it. After all, it can have the appearance of the freedom promised and the power too.
When the inescapable fact is that ‘animal’ is a comedown. The promises can be defended as delivered but only if we allow the ‘self’ being transported to the paradise of freedom and power — of anything goes — to be transformed in the process. To be demoted to a distinctly lower life form, self-unaware and benighted. At the mercy of its paradise of hierarchy where nothing goes unless at the whim of its manipulator. The know-it-all of a make-believe existence that’s mindless because inconceivable. Inconceivable because mindless, entirely beyond accessibility or relatability, guaranteed of a place in its reflection-world that’s unassailable and indestructible so long as confusion persists. So long as reflection is mistaken for the beholder and believe in fact is suspended.
Then they woke up
What are these thoughts worth? Nothing if there’s no possibility of their penetrating the barriers of unawareness that the Self transformed into ‘animal’ has erected around itself. Embodiments equipped with sensory perception. ‘Realists’ self-manipulated against characterizing ‘Self’ and its sensed material environment — its own reverse-reflection, a mask — as anything but what it appears to be. Real. Everything if these thoughts help to ignite a spark of awareness, for that’s all it would take to flip self-unawareness into Self-Awareness.
It all depends on perspective, for there are many if the way things are can’t be one big view, one big picture that’s the ‘answer’. To ignite the spark that breaks the spell can be thought of as an evolutionary process of defining and refining perspective until its achieves what it seeks — relatability with a self that’s caged itself in a form of unrelatability. Still ‘there’ but self-distracted by another ‘there’.
Think trying to connect with a person enabled by the technology of the Void to imagine they’re actually somewhere else. What would convince them that they’re not? Could it be another technology? Worth exploring, but that’s above my pay grade. Or could it be something that appeals to the self that’s still there before it was transformed into a mask. Into something it’s not, the equivalent of a machine. The pose of ‘invincibility’. A lie. Big and fat and an absurdity.
Could we break the spell by appealing to the Person behind the mask? Human, composed not of appearances and lies but of feelings and values, thoughts and principles. Not of deceptions and manipulations but of Conscience. Aware of the difference between right and wrong and still fundamentally, innately motivated to do what’s right. We can break the spell but in a hierarchical kingdom of make-believe, where every self exists in its own bubble of competitive self-interest, the doing of what’s wrong must be connected to self-interest. Must be personalized to that individual’s situation by making it immediate and concrete.
Maybe the reason why red shifted so emphatically to blue in the mid-terms? When the wrongdoing of corruption was made relevant to voters, suddenly aware that it was costing them. Was personalized to their everyday experience paying for the necessities of life — food, transportation, shelter. For virtually everything that mattered. Then they woke up.
Response to a call for Love
Why guidance is person? Yes. Its function is to personalize Conscience to the Self who’s descended into a kingdom of corruption. Into hierarchy ruled by predatory animal instinct ‘idealized’ as the ‘triumph of the will’. Whose only motivation is the propagation and preservation of its species, tribal, cruel, and self-destructive. Herd mentality that systematically disables and disempowers Person. Character, that might expose its lie with self-questioning. The defining attribute of human-animal — Sapiens.
And also Guidance, enabled and empowered by the two defining faculties of the human-animal mind: differentiation and empathy. Whose function is to enable Self in relationship with Guidance to personalize another way of looking at things. Another perspective motivated by a felt perception of the interconnectedness of things, to break free of the barriers to Self-Awareness erected by Mind in a state of self-unawareness. A manipulation whose manipulator is not and cannot ever be.
Bullies pick fights. Fight back, but first ask for help understanding how to ‘fight’. Do it right. Fight-picking motivates in ‘life’ on Earth upended to learn and grow. “Everything is a call for Love.” Provocations by neo-Nazi bullies are calls for Love that’s motivation to get it right, to learn and grow up. To mature. The mid-terms are a plea for Democrats to get it right. To fight back the right way by governing well and not to respond by arrogance. By all of us living a good life of loving kindness. Of empathy, by responding to calls for Love with Love.
What’s ‘tough’?
What is ‘tough’ actually and how can a Person achieve ‘toughness’? Can it be achieve through appearances, striking a pose of ‘tough’? Or must it reveal itself some other way since appearances often deceive?
Good actors pride themselves on appearing to be anything and audiences who judge appearances can be led to believe anything. ‘Tough’ can’t be a magic act, It has to be real. Maybe the only way to be sure an act is tough, that’s not acting, is to let it happen first. Because wearing a Bill Mauldin GI helmet, smoking a cigarette and looking grizzled, can be embarrassing if a situation comes up where a Person could be really tough and he makes like an ostrich instead. Sticks his head in the sand.
Maybe ‘tough’ has to happen and until it does a Person shouldn’t have to worry about it. Concentrate on living a good life, doing what’s right, and let appearances come after instead of before. Let Conscience be the guide. Here and now inside, instead of worrying about there and outside — what ‘other people’ think. And if the place inside where Conscience is supposed to be is vacant, don’t try to fill it with appearances. Don’t join the bad guys to look tough like Adam Skywalker did. Ask for help.
‘Ruling the galaxy’ isn’t ‘tough’. Converting whole peoples into ‘empires’ and ‘Third Reichs’ isn’t ‘tough’. It’s sick. Psychopathic. And weak besides, because they never last. They always collapse whether from the outside or the inside.
Growing up
What lasts is the spirit of Life, Learning, and Growth among the individuals tribal ’empires’ are made of. Persons. Whole Persons who each stand for something. For the Life and Energy that keeps them going. That’s tough. Our being here after all these centuries of adversity that the human spirit has endured. The spirit not of dominance or conquest but of being there for a cause greater than ourselves. For principles and values. For being there for one another with acts that earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. Like medics and chaplains ministering to the wounded under fire at Iwo Jima. Not seeking ‘glory’ but doing their duty. Thinking they were ‘tough’? ‘Fearless?’ They would have laughed at the idea, because prancing about the stage pretending to be fearless and ‘tough’ is a joke.
Der Fuhrer spent a career in the theatrics of ‘unshakable will’ and as soon as he ran out of generals to boss his ‘will’ dissolved into self-pity. Into pathos and victimhood, blaming others for his spectacular failures when Character would have acknowledged their loyalty and thanked them for it. Where all this fuss about ‘tough’ comes from: the aggrieved victim demanding other victims to ‘get even’ with. ‘Poor me’. ‘It’s my turn to be tough.’
Instead of having the courage and presence of mind to ask for help. For building the toughness of Character that’s Learning and Growing Up.