What's up with "ISIL", "ISIS", "Daesh"?

...(and all the other named & unnamed "groups" of clowns, misfits, and misanthropes everywhere)?

Over the centuries, decades, years, and now months - moving very quickly into days and hours, thanks to the Internet and Smartphones! - there has always been the need in the human species for such loosely structured so-called "terrorist" groups to stir up the populace, because without such in-everyone's-face threats of death, terror, war, rape, pillage, plunder and downright destruction of one sort or another (variously called by the populace : evil, wicked, bad, wrong, immoral, sinful, foul, vile, corrupt, depraved, villainous, nefarious, vicious, malicious, etc.) what would mankind think about?

Prior to mass communications a couple hundred years ago - from Pony Express, to Telegraph, Phones, Computers, and now Smartphones - staying alive until you were 30 or 40, gathering enough food to feed yourself and family, reproducing lots of little ones, and very little else, practically all "information" was literally handed down to you word of mouth... no more thinking required, given the way human brains are so easily programmed by whatever voice is blaring in their ears at the time. And that was it, what's left? Sure, Okay, Obviously - Life is tough for everyone but the rich and powerful and privileged (and even they have issues), but in general, all concerns WERE LOCAL, in one's immediate neighborhood, and could be dealt with locally. But today, everything is several orders of magnitude more difficult than they ever were before. There was THEN nothing like what we have TODAY with INSTANT WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATION broadcasting fear around the globe, including imminent destruction of civilizations, species, environments and damn near everything else... you know, like The Sixth Extinction, which for us today is actually looming large on the near horizon! Hell, this continual drum-beat is now dominating most nationwide media outlets, if not elsewhere, 24 hours a day, giving many millions around the world... here it comes, ready or not... MORE TO THINK ABOUT.

Good on ya' Life.

Think About It. Imagine a world without any such supposedly negative influences of any kind? People have tried, of course - hence their "heaven", "paradise", "nirvana", "shamballa", blah, blah, blah, and etc. - but these do NOT, and can NOT, exist on this plane, on this planet, probably even in this Solar System. In other words, they are made up terms, fantasy ideas, by ordinary humans who simply wanted release from the ongoing, never-ending fears involved with being alive in a human body - primarily the Big D.

Most of this reactionary "thinking" is no different from all other kinds of ordinary thinking, but in a few - a very few it seems - these usually external negative threats to life and limb serve to ignite parts of their brains where "higher level Thinking" occurs. Such as, but not limited to: "What to do, What to do!?!?" There is such a place (skill, talent, art, function, ability or whatever you want to call it) in everyone, but very few ever experience it. Why? Because ordinary human thought is always reactionary - reacting to stimuli of some kind, both internal and external. And as Albert E. suggested paraphrased here: "We cannot solve our problems (including ordinary reactionary thinking) with the same (ordinary reactionary) thinking we use all the time." Back in the day when parents, siblings and other similarly ordinary people pushed language, ideas and concepts into our brains, there was NO ONE AVAILABLE to teach "higher level Thinking".

That "PLACE" referred to above, is a mythical, even mystical - for most - suggestion of  "higher level Thinking" but few there be who have ANYTHING useful to say about it, and so, therein lies the opening premise: the need for negative external influences that serve to ignite parts of the brain where this "higher level Thinking" takes place... sometimes referred to by the fanciful term: Epiphanic mind music... or maybe I read that in a comic book, or maybe I made it up.

It is extremely rare to come up with, to create, to generate, Epiphanic mind music without some stimulus, even if it's just a thought - like riding on a light beam, or a bathtub overflowing, or a fire crackling in one's face sending sparks spiraling up the flue, or an apple falling on one's head. So, how does Life handle this situation, given that the Primary Aim of Life is not suicidal (killing off parts of itself indiscriminately to the overall detriment of the Being) but evolutionary (Growth, and Expansion, of Self and Being): It continually riles up the human species in every way possible, SO THAT a few here and there rise to the higher call of the species, and start producing Thoughts which benefit self and species, one's own and all others.

There have been many examples of this, in all walks of life. 

Go look for them, you will find them.

Maybe one day, "oh frabjous day", you will BE such an example.

Man's inhumanity to man - #3 of n

Periodically, life stirs the pot with a big stick and this time - just to pick one in the last few hours, in the days of the lives of those living in "the (not so) good ol' U.S.of A." - Los Angeles,CA. gets whacked, although the stick wasn't so big that it KILLED anyone... this time... but this may be a precursor to what is to come in the near future... count on it! Namely, The LA Idiots (you know who you are) have just given "An Easy Plan" to all terrorists out there (that anyone can implement) who want to create fear and trepidation to what is fast becoming, a silly, silly country (even sillier than before - if you can believe THAT):

Threaten schools, using email, even, and 

cities will shutdown immediately! Pathetic!

Now, what has begun in a big way, is finger-pointing, starting with the first news conference in the morning announcing the shutdown, and quickly followed by another city - New York, who received the nearly identical email! - saying Los Angeles all but "wimped out", saying that they realized quickly this was nothing but a childish HOAX, and they didn't agree with LA's decision. Good Grief, now we have shown ourselves to be totally subject to the New Meme: "Out of an abundance of caution (read: "fear, and lack of good intel on the matter at hand")." This may be the beginning of a coordinated The Boy who cried Wolf  Scenario.

Imagine if you dare, 50 coordinated hackers, commandeer their robot computers - yes, they all have 'em, all around the globe - and distribute emails routed through foreign servers, around this country and others, directed to the Powers-that-be in those 50 cities, carefully worded THREATS of their coordinated attacks, that actually sound serious in many if not all respects, and using children as the intended victims. Voila!

The countries, and their media outlets - as well as most of the others on the globe - are instantly hijacked for a whole day or longer, while millions of people suffer the consequences that never even happened. And then, after the inevitable "All Clear, People!" is issued, the hackers DO IT AGAIN! Talk about bringing down a country without even firing a shot! And then... wait for it... The next email attack is REAL, but nobody knows where or when, and all of them are driven MAD!

This kind of sounds like a bad-dream scenario, though not quite a nightmare scenario, which plays itself out on that part of the brain that lies in wait, 24-7-365, for SOMETHING, ANYTHING qualifying, to those neural patches, as a THREAT. (You know who you are, neural patches, and if you don't, isn't it about time you start finding OUT?) That is the delicious, scrumptious time Life on Earth is always waiting for, lying in wait (just like those neural patches do) when millions and millions of people all around the planet are vibrating, resonating, harmonizing IN SYNC, their brains linked by the same news reports circulating the globe, and thousands of other nearby neural patches spring into ACTION... (you know, just like this post here, and the many millions of others today, and in the near future.)

"WTF you say?"

You know what is being suggested here, don't you? Well, if you have been, even minimally, paying attention, you should know. But I won't ruin the fun if you don't get it, even though I have been discussing it for years now.

These are the times of our Lives, get used to 'em.

Everyone Lives in "America"

(Just some seemingly random, but interconnected thoughts)

And their name is Erica, which in Old Norse means "eternal ruler", "one ruler", "ever powerful". Make of that what you will, but as far as you "know yourself", don't you agree?

"Qui moi?" says the Frenchman,

"Wer mich?" says the German,
"Que me?" says the Mexican, 

etc., etc., etc. (according to google)

Yes, even You Live in "America", and your personality is proof of that - at least to anyone who can understand what is going on with human genetics, neuroscience, personal self-interest and preference, fear of not being liked or well thought of, etc., etc., etc. The inner life of these "Americans", amounts to nothing more than monologues by a tyrant, or worse, the dialogues of a tyrant and a strawman. EVERYBODY is in this condition if they are not presently conscious without thought, or if not "without thought", then, at least not within thought.

Another view: If you picture the brain as a planet, like the earth, then the gray matter is the dry land mental system, the white matter is the watery oceanic limbic system; the core structures of the old reptilian brain, beneath and supporting all of that, is everything else, the cerebellum and brainstem. Now, the more conscious part of the brain - the gray matter - could be viewed as the western hemisphere, especially America. The red and blue areas of America - which are the central states and the coastal states - could be seen as the tyrant and the strawman.

From the center outward does the tyrant extend his power. The tyrant does this by establishing loyal oppositional outposts, created with intentional inexactitudes built-into their charter. The strawmen, setup as mirror images of the seat of power - the tyrant - have a reflective/refractive index greater than 0 but less than 1, i.e., they are not perfect mirrors, more like "fun-house mirrors." (at 0, no visible refraction occurs.)

Operationally, you can think of your self, your consciousness, as a tennis ball, totally battered around by forces unknown to you - but nevertheless known - from one side of the court to the other side, endlessly. With a certain kind of effort, you can triangulate your attention, such that you become the official courtside referee, thereby no longer participating directly with the ping pong game on the court. Becoming proficient at this, you can move your attention even further and higher into the audience in the round, and with another extraordinary shift of effort into Mr. Blimpie in the sky; each shift removes you further from the play on the court.

Operationally, Life demands/requires of your ordinary routine consciousness a minimum participation in life, that is you are minimally interested in everything existing in life, until you are not so, and consciousness will find something else, you don't have to go looking for it, you never do.

Being asleep, confused, distracted, and talking about things ad nauseum, is the most natural thing in the world, for a human, especially a living human - the dead don't do much of that anymore. The mystics knew this, that's why they said, waking up is going against life.

Whether you know or appreciate this or not, the body is there to keep the brain alive, NOT the other way around, and all the forces of medicine and science will be brought to bear to do what is necessary to keep some one individual - his brain - alive, perhaps to complete some work or task that he might have been working on for decades, even if it means being literally hooked up to machines for the rest of his life, just to keep the brain alive. (Note: if the brain were "like dead", no neural activity at all, and body parts started failing one by one, there would be absolutely NO effort given to restore those failed parts.)

Everything that can be said about the quantum world of "quantum things" can be said about the people world of "people things", like electrons are really probability patterns of interconnected relationships... and so are people, persons, you, me, she, he, and the other one over there in the corner half-asleep and ready to nod off (going WITH life).

People think there is a tower of babel here on earth, even amongst those all speaking the same native language, that everybody is talking, talking, talking, but nobody is understanding anybody else. But there is no such tower. It's only the ordinary, walking around, routine consciousnesses that are confused by what other people say and mean, and are confused by the fact that they are continually misunderstood by everybody else.

Those with a non-ordinary consciousness are not confused by what others say at all, they know perfectly well what they are saying, why they are saying it, where they are coming from, and they have absolutely no reason to argue with them, to try to fix their presentation, or anything like that. In fact, the tower of babel, only exists for the babble-on-ians.

Thus it is, that "Americans" become 

true and genuine 

Citizens of the World
(yeah, I know: "Free to be you and me" wink wink.)

Less religion, More science

In reply to, "The next 25 to 50 years."

What the world needs now is less religion, more science.
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

Religion - believing in fantasy stories, believing in heavens and hells and paradises... All of that is easy as hell. But Science - scientific thinking, critical disciplined thinking... now that's hard, and why so many people simply cannot do it. But this crazy world would be much better off, if all people everywhere, from a young age and onward had access to all things scientific, and no things religious. Religions are only necessary for those with weak minds who need to be put in their place, and told what to think and how to act by the powers that be. Like sheeple: go forth and grow loads of wool... and stay in your pens.

Look into it… removing religions from the planet, say a couple thousand years ago, and strengthening scientific inquiry and viewpoints would most likely have resulted in not less love and compassion for all living things, but much more of all of that, and much more, that we can't even imagine yet. The idea of no or many fewer wars will never be realized in a world where the majority of people identify themselves as religious, while only a small, small minority identify themselves as scientific. Look into it

The next 25-50 years...

May be the most important years in the life of Humanity on this planet. Runaway climate change is nearing the tipping point, and so is runaway economic turmoil where many countries are going broke or bankrupt, and so are runaway wars and terrorist attacks where millions of people are dying or becoming homeless refugees, and so is runaway income disparity where the Rich are getting Richer and the less so are rapidly becoming the much less so, and so is the runaway extinction of species where in just the next seventy-five to one hundred years we could lose 50% of all species on earth.

The time is now for the most intelligent among us - wherever they are - to dedicate their lives to solutions, rather than what the rest of the world is doing - who are quite content looking the other way, or into the holes in which they have inserted their own dimly lit heads. And by the most intelligent among us, is meant the Millennials, whose world will be that which is being pointed to herein - 25-50+ years into the future. THAT is the world they will be forced to contend with if they don't Stand Up and Be Counted, because it is as obvious as the nose on your faces, people, the ones who MADE THIS WORLD as it is today, are already in their retirement years... and really don't care about the world that far into the future, because... you know... they will be dead by then.

And what does all of this have to do with the events of just the last 30 days? "Well, harrumph! EV-RY-THING!!" What is going on in the world, today and for most of the last two thousand years of course, but especially today, are HUMAN BRAINS interacting with other human brains, in ways virtually none of them have the faintest idea about (and this is a Big Idea, whether or not you care to admit it). HUMAN BRAINS have CAUSED - by their lack of knowledge, foresight, intelligence, alertness, attentiveness, and many other features of ordinary human brains - absolutely all the problems on Earth that now confront all humans and non-humans alive today... except perhaps for some cockroaches and a few other hearty insects that can survive nuclear holocausts and worse.

"What to do, what to do?"

Well, how's "looking the other way, or 

staring into holes" working out for ya?

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking
we used when we created them." Albert E.

Man's inhumanity to man - #2 of n

Periodically, life stirs the pot with a big stick and this time - just to pick one in the last few hours, in the days of the lives of those living in "the (not so) good ol' U.S.of A." - San Bernardino, CA. gets whacked. These mass shootings usually come from out of nowhere - that is, nobody realizes what's about to happen until it's too late to do anything about it, but hide, cower in fear, run away, or submit to the inevitable. "What a shame", says everyone after the fact, and "Our hearts go out to their families", and still nothing is ever done to change the situation in a meaningful way. In fact, it's getting worse, here and in most other places.

This is a comment on the BRAINS of human beings, because - and of this you can be quite certain - such things are not happening in the animal kingdom, even if someone tries to stand up and make an utter fool of themselves by suggesting otherwise. Only human BRAINS feel the necessity to GO TO WAR with other beings, and in the case of humans, that even includes NON-humans in some notable cases which they quickly rationalize and justify by pointing to a need for their land, or the food of their flesh, or many other things. To call this an issue of "radical Islamic terrorists" won't work, because those who are, can't stop it and won't stop it. To call this an issue of gun ownership, or gun legislation, is too simplistic because 99% of those who own guns would never consider declaring WAR on other beings. Damaged human BRAINS are on the increase, not the decrease, and this is easy to discern, and understanding the Whys and the Wherefores of this condition is everyone's responsibility before we reach the tipping point.

People everywhere are heard saying "There is nothing we can do about any of this!" and from one point of view, they are correct. But THAT point of view is tantamount to "All it will take for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing."  Not only is Intelligence catching, so is Stupidity, and when a person "hangs around" the Stupids, they themselves become one of the Stupids. But then, just look at most TV, radio, Internet chat rooms, and Social media venues, and see if you can perceive this tendency bubbling up from the bottom. But... not only there... it is bubbling up IN YOU, in your human BRAIN, and although you are not quite aware of this moment-by-moment, it is, nevertheless, occurring. (Just look right now. See it?) Amidst all that noise, it is really any wonder that some people can so easily fall into a descending spiral of bad thoughts, sour emotions, and hateful rhetoric that actually SEEMS to make sense. This is the Land of the Stupids, and your only salvation is to rise above it and achieve the World of the Intelligents.
  

Man's inhumanity to man.

Periodically, life stirs the pot with a big stick and this time - just to pick one in the last few hours - France gets whacked. All over the world millions of people will be glued to their TVs, radios, Internets, in order to jack-in to the thought-stream that life demands from all of us, continually. Most likely, this will include you and damn near everyone you know. The more you know about this jacking-in process, the whys and wherefores, the better it will be for you, because each and every time you get hooked you are drained like the victim of a vampiric attack. Over the course of a few years, you become like the walking dead. And unfortunately for most, it happens a lot sooner than that. Since the last 20 years or so, with the growth and expansion of the Internet, it has been happening in as little as a few months, and starts as soon as a person reaches seven or eight years old or whenever their parents put a smart phone in their grubby little hands. The global thought-stream requires brains to transmit and receive the energy, which is like a higher-order blood stream of Life itself. Life, and the human species, is getting smarter, as individuals everywhere are getting dumber. Doubt this? Just look around.

Consider: Hundreds of thousands of times in the very near future you'll read something like, "Our hearts go out to the people of France." And every single one of them will believe that was a meaningful statement. Well, excuse me! It changes nothing for the better, not only in the brain of the speaker but in the rest of the planet. What people should be thinking and talking about is: What gives? How is it that life is so arranged that these things must continue, will continue, and increase yearly, if not monthly, if not daily?

Don't bother looking out there for answers to these kinds of questions. There is only one place to look, and if you don't know where that is, you are already part of the problem. And, even if you do, you are still part of the problem! The "solutions" require something else. It has to do with the way your brain operates in the face of these global and local pot-stirrings.

Some background

(Much of this is widely believed today, just like much of "climate change" is, except for, what is now, the fringe-element who usually don't know what they are even talking about, basing their misinformation on religious ideas found in century old books, and scientific knowledge in widely available books they somehow never found. There are always deniers, and naysayers, of course, but they are rapidly falling away as science supersedes fantasy. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!)

There is no self, there is no me. There is no bob, there is no praybob. There is just neural firings along the wires, along synapses - signals are carried across these gaps by chemicals called neurotransmitters and there are many of them - and all these firings vibrate coherently, heating up the surrounding areas along the line of their travel. After a time, theses threads coalesce with other surrounding threads and together they form "brain activity" which eventually - presumably, since it happened in humans, of that we can be quite certain - becomes the "consciousness of brain activity", creating more "consciousness of brain activity", and on and on to eternity or death of the brain which ever comes first. At some point along the way, the members of the affected species invent language, writing, technology, sciences, religions, philosophies, fantasy stories, political parties, and all the rest of what, today, goes by Human Civilizations - for good or ill.

The part of the brain that stores and manages past memories is the same part of the brain that concocts future plans, hopes, dreams, and simulates what's coming next. Both the past and the future are creations in the brain. Who we are at any moment in time is an ongoing narrative. We are caught in limbo between these two parts of the brain in an eternal/transitory now moment and it is there that we live, breathe and have our being... such as it is at any specific time (also a function of these same parts).

The greatest teachers are those who could dwell in the now, unencumbered by past and future musings, and speak from the moment, the eternal now moment, filling the void in their audiences that could never be filled otherwise, so that later, they themselves might continue this internal process for themselves, with a Real Aim and Desire for the Higher.

Being versus Facts

People everywhere on Earth need to start learning that the accumulation of Being is more important than the accumulation of Facts. They already sense that fact of life at a superficial level, and you can see many who have actually accumulated what seems to be substantial Being, even without Higher School. You know, like what's written in "If - by Rudyard Kipling." That's a good start, but certainly not the "end of the story!" Of course, WITH Higher School Knowledge, this becomes slightly if not greatly more efficient in every way - depending on the person, and "where they have come from, and where they have been" (so to speak) - and not so hit-and-miss as it is out there in Crazy Town.

This is how "good people" turn bad, and "bad people" turn worse, and it's very hard to get a leg up on this situation. No Aim. No Direction. No Discipline. Certainly NOT for their budding "Desire for the Higher", although many do express such things for their poorly-formed-by-circumstances-and-genetics desire for riches, fame, popularity, greed, lust, and many other low-life things such as those.

It is certainly possible to quote chapter-and-verse from some "Good Book" by whatever name it happens to currently go, but it is better to learn the One Big Idea first, and everything follows from there. You don't need exercises, rules, methods, meditations, or anything else. Just the One Big Idea regarding the Higher Concept "BEING." People are always thoroughly tripped up by that concept because the species has been somehow given the unfortunately confusing scientific description, "Human Being", and then they instantly believe they already HAVE Being, unlike the non-human animals that didn't get that terminology stamped on their heads. This is similar to people's belief that they are AWAKE the instant their eyes open in the morning, till their eyes close at night while horizontal, and asleep. NOPE! People, as they are born, do NOT have Being, nor Higher Being, but have only the intimation, the smell, the taste, the sensation of something they can't comprehend or "English", just like they are NOT Awake, nor Enlightened, just because they are walking around and not comatose like utter Walking Zombies. Enter, Higher Schools and the subtle distinctions they can and successfully do make to those people who pay attention, and don't get distracted by silly beliefs, religious notions, fantasy stories and other such stuff.

Being, Awakened Being, Being Enlightened, is not about giving away your money to the poor, or being kind to animals, or even treating others "as yourself." Things like that are simply about being Human! The list is endless, and ALL Humans should already be doing all of that right now. But, try to write down a list of examples of Being, or Higher Being. People, as they are, don't even know where to start, and if they do start, they don't know where to stop.

(Hint, rolling up and out into Clue: Being, or Higher Being is much more about STOPPING than about STARTING. And of course, knowing what needs to STOP is crucial here, and the KEY to everything under the stars.)

What IS "Human Life"?

...in the 21st century Internet-based world, that is...
since it is always changing (inevitably),
generally improving (hopefully), and
probably evolving (to some small degree.)

Is it continually updating your Facebook (Yahoo, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) page, with selfies, photos, and nearly meaningless drivel that only a mother could love? Is it hooking up with tens of thousands of nameless strangers you will NEVER meet (nor even share a meal, let alone a face-to-face conversation) who have joined you there to "share" and "like" tens, if not hundreds of other people's  offerings (while secretly disliking most of it), while depositing (if you actually do) mostly lame and poorly conceived and composed 1-3 line "replies", day after day for months, even years? Oh, sure, there are hundreds of other ways to expend your excess neural energy on the Internet (if you actually must), but since social interaction ("social media," and "talking a lot more than you have to") has captured the most eyeballs in recent years, it is the focus of this particular post.  

Check out active user counts chart, at the bottom.

Reading this somewhat arbitrary setup, MOST people's brains will almost immediately jump to their own defense, saying things like: "Well some of that may be true regarding other people, but ME - ME? - hardly, because MY stuff is always superior, and always reaching for the heights of perception, intelligence and conscious deliberation."

Well, uh, maybe!

Consider the following: can it really be said that the non-human world of around nine million distinct species (i.e., known, for there are probably a lot more than that) that can't even compose a sentence, let alone carry on a simple conversation with you, are INTELLIGENT in the way humans are INTELLIGENT? Sure, their instinctive-moving functions have evolved over several millions of years to perform their primary directive: stay alive long enough to successfully replace yourself when you are dead, and a few other secondaries not worth mentioning here - and, of course, that is the same for humans when you come right down to it - but, again, "What IS Human Life in the 21st century?"

A case can be made, that in EVERY century, there is only a small possibility that our human species will exist at a higher, if not much higher level of consciousness compared to the previous one, but there is very little difference between the somewhat "civilized" populations from 2000 years ago - or 1000 years ago, or 500, or even 100 years ago - except for the obvious "evolution" (advancement and proliferation and ubiquity) of technology - that  has only been advancing and proliferating for about 250 years, and extremely so in the last 25 years, but with that comes ever more potent ways of killing and controlling larger and larger groups of people. (Side note:  a "god" is a great example of ubiquity: an all-knowing deity that exists in every nook and cranny... which technology is fast becoming.)

So, ask yourself: "In what way am I, personally, more INTELLIGENT, more evolved, more conscious, than the people who lived 200 or 2000 years ago? And just because you know more "facts, figures and statistics" than they did (which may even be debatable in some respects), that does NOT make anyone more INTELLIGENT or CONSCIOUS. Hey, possibly LESS SO!

So, here we all are again: What IS "Human Life" today? I suggest it is this, and can ONLY BE this: the conscious attempt (as often and as much as humanly possible) to change the percentages between the DUMB (stupid) part of the human brain (non-conscious 96% - which includes the non-activated parts of the brain - in the sense that it merely actualizes the Primary directive), and the SMART (intelligent) part of the human brain (conscious 4%, that uses language, and occasionally-to-quite-often expresses creativity, discovery and invention - the main Secondary directives), and to - as much as one can  - "enlighten the world" (by increasing the 4, at the expense of the 96), which means NOTHING to the DUMB part, and EVERYTHING to the SMART part. I.E., to "share the wealth" with as many as possible, so that in the NEXT generation, or century, the world of men exists at a HIGHER LEVEL of consciousness and awareness, than they are only "just barely existing at" today.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~the chart~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Active Facebookers have UNITED at 1.5 BILLION so far!
One fifth of the whole world!

Bottom Line for those who care to consider this further: the main advantage to the Internet generally, and Social Media specifically, is that it draws more and more eyeballs and thus, more and more neurons into the habit of talking to other people at a distance, and at a level above simple chit-chat and random worthless and useless running off at the mouth (humankind's favorite internal, and external activity today.) The Global Internet (which includes WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS) is becoming conscious and aware, and it's already accumulated nearly 1/4 of the worlds population of brains. Personally I can't wait for the rest of this century to unfold, and the next century will be even more amazing.

Below the bottom line: A little known fact of life is that the dumb parts live by "kill or be killed", "eat or be eaten", "survive or DIE" (i.e., increase the 96% at the expense of the 4%) while the smart parts live by "enlighten the self, and the world or DIE" (i.e., increase the 4% at the expense of the 96%.)

Forget your books and papers

Here is what most people fail to realize, for two very important reasons  perhaps mentioned later. They fail to realize that ALL THE BOOKS and stuff and nonsense that has ever been available to the public - for many hundreds and nearing thousands of years - has ALREADY been ingested and digested by the people, by the human species itself, and was wired into the nervous systems of those self same beings, and passed on to their "followers" (family and friends and strangers down the genetic line.)

This can't be proved by modern-day science, but Think Clearly and you may have a realization about this, that it couldn't be otherwise. As if... "God created the world for YOU, just YOU, and the universe consists of all the reincarnated versions of YOU up and down through time." Or, put another way, there is just The Creator and the created. Or, additionally, you may interact with a "version" of yourself in the past or the future - though each would be oblivious of this - but Nervous Systems are always UP-TO-DATE.

What people don't realize, is that joining any group of other people (no, not dogs, or cats, or chipmunks, or even apes or dolphins) - like a Buddhist group, or Christian group, or Gurdjieff group, or general-purpose "spiritual/philosophical" group, or any other similar kind... you know in the "higher consciousness" variety (hey, take your pick, we don't care) - puts each regular participant in front of the greatest source of information IN CONTEXT with life as lived by (and here is the important bit) 21st century "strivers after Truth, the unvarnished and Whole Truth." One needs to look NO FURTHER than in this case, Facebook and Yahoo (singled out for their humongously large membership in these "h.c." varieties.

One reason for this is that information of all kinds enters the nervous system in a variety of ways, but primarily through the eyes and ears, and embeds therein, changing the user in ways quite unknown to most, but the user now sees, hears and experiences everything from now on, in context with the information contained within, and without. A person is NOT a singularity, an island in the infinite ocean, but a drop with an infinity of other similar drops - all wet and clear with all others. Pluck one out of the ocean, and inspect it carefully, and you are looking at the Whole Ocean in Eternity. You know...

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower; 

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - Blake.

Consider this final note: do you really believe the following list from here or here or here contains ANYTHING of greater value to you, than what fills that five-inch gap between YOUR ears, extending down and out far beyond your skin? And if so, we've got nothing to talk about... but if you truly comprehend this serious question,

Gimme five, dude(tte)
You contain and have access to all of human history.

Okay... for the reasons... 

• Our 21st century nervous systems are open-ended, too open-ended in fact, to perceive the Truth. Just look at our species, family, friends, strangers, media people, EV-RY-WHERE, and what do you see and hear? Argument, conflict, confusion and chaos. NOISE at deafening levels. But what do you see in the non-human species, whose nervous systems are closed-ended...? Silence, sweet, sweet silence.
• The human species "learned" to develop a personality, and that personality controls our language-using capabilities, and, as such, the rule is this: When you can't "English" (or pick your favorite mother-tongue) something (perception, apperception, gut feeling, etc.) you can't THINK or SPEAK about it intelligently. Mankind needs to think and speak something, fairly coherently, before they can begin to accept it, and until then, it is all just "more bull-stuff and bull-nonsense."

That is what the Systems, Teachings, and Instructions of the Mystics and Masters of old attempted to teach their favorite pets... I mean students, followers, acolytes, etc. How to activate "higher parts of centers/circuits" which can interpret the silence of the world - including themselves - and discover the way to Think and Speak about it... just as those Mystics and Masters did so very well.

Muddy Waters - the discordant cacophony

Some people "believe" their Way is the Right Way, or the Only Way, or the Best Way - and this list goes on and on - but it is ALL justification and rationalization for continuing a journey that may actually be a DEAD-END... but who can admit to that? Hmmm?

Those who give safe harbor to such "beliefs" are usually those who reveal themselves to everyone BUT themselves, and here is the way it is done: They continually ask the wrong questions to the wrong people, and never realize this on their own. The fact is, the wrong people don't realize what's going on here either, so the circuit "feeds upon itself." If someone does realize their impediments - which act like large rocks and boulders in an otherwise swift and free-flowing mountain stream - it is usually too late to alter the course, or change the horse, so they justify and rationalize their continuing to plod along, as before - sometimes crashing, and sometimes burning (chit-chatting) with those who haven't a clue (including themselves) - while remaining as clueless as they ever were, or worse... but still believing things might change for them in the future.

(Sideswipe: thanks be to the Big Guy we've got the Internet, eh?

To keep the Daydream Believers on course... such as it is...

on Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and other similar venues.)

This thing is all about the HUGE difference between Clear Thinking, and "muddled thinking" (which is not Thinking at all, and certainly not Clear Thinking.) The Best/Only/Right Way is to come to the realization that ordinarily, all "thinking" is reactionary, hormonal, and feeling-based, and, thus, "impure" (muddled), the same way silt makes the clearest ponds, streams, and lakes so thoroughly muddied it is impossible to See Clearly to the Bottom... of anything!

Once this realization has been made, more than once, deeply felt, one will begin to have other "follow-on" realizations: and a great one is to realize there are parts of the brain (some people call it "my mind" but I call it the brain) that can Think Clearly compared to the routine, standard-issue, everyday parts that never do, because they are reactionary, and automatically arising at the slightest impulses and virtually incapable of being shut-down until the energy which activated it has been spent. Clear Thinking requires more energy than automatic thinking - which usually occurs in dreams, and "sleep", and the zombified automatism of 21st century life - and must draw from stores built up over time. Time spent standing aside and observing all this discordant, cacophonous automatism occurring in all the circuits, and siphoning off (as it were) a quanta here and a quanta there, and storing it for later use.

"WTF, you say."  

What the Fuck, I say, and will say again if it is not perfectly

Clear in your Thinking 

Wrapping up for the unwrapped: Everyone has questions, of course, but most people do not know HOW TO gather up all the available data in order to coherently ASK their question, and so what happens is that people get nowhere fast, while believing they are getting to the bottom of the issue. Not even close. They are just talking around the edges, swirling round and round the drain-pipe, where the "conversation" (that really isn't one at all) terminates under its own weight. Generally, it is the ordinary, standard-issue, routine parts of the brain that compose and ask these "burning questions", and it is also those parts that locate and address the ones to BE QUESTIONED.

See the problem? What needs to start happening in all higher mammals with a sincere Desire for the Higher, is learning to consistently cultivate the Clear Thinking parts of the brain, and let the muddy waters do what they do best... make lists, text friends and acquaintances, and interact with the inconsequential areas of Life in the 21st century (you know what is meant here, DON'T ASK!) 

YES, there are things to talk about, consequential things, so start by CLEARLY composing what it is you want to think, say or write, and ADDRESS your higher parts where revelations, inspirations, discoveries, and real adventions, and creativities takes place. 

It's...... ILLUMINATING!

An "instant" in the life of a light being

Fable or fact: you be the judge
I Am NOT Catholic, Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Jewish, atheist, agnostic, or otherwise, but a Being of Light - as are We all - that entered this realm at least many millennia ago, and has inhabited a variety of life forms including, here and now, a human kind, and the body/brain complex that I Am willfully inhabiting knows enough to say, "The 21st century will most definitely experience a major paradigm shift unlike any other, of course, including the 20th century which was to date the Greatest Shift so far, at this level."

One thing My host body/brain complex likes to say is, "I don't need no stinkin' primped-up pampered pope or propped-up pompous prince or puffed-up puppet president (say that five times) to tell me what to think and feel and believe!" Well, I Am with you human.

What I Am knowing - that 99% of all human body/brain complexes have yet to discover, though a few certainly have... including this body/brain complex I Am now inhabiting - is that language, which lives quite happily inside that five-inch gap between their ears, is both the problem and the solution to all mankind's woes. Human body/brain complexes still believe, as they have for thousands of years, that they are the cause of all that they think, say, and do... but of course, nothing could be further from the truth! All of that energy is pulled out of them, streams out of them from a source deep inside... namely... Me,  I Am, The Eternal Light Being.

POPE leaves America, Americans thank God

Now, we can get back to the really important matters, like WHO is going to be the Republican Candidate - Trump, Carson, Fiorina, Rubio, Bush, Biden... - and the Democratic Candidate - Clinton, Sanders, Biden, O'Malley, Webb... You know, the really important stuff that draws advertisers and lots of extraneous talk by nearly nameless and mostly faceless news commentators and talking heads. You know, the really important stuff!

Oh wait, maybe nothing has changed AT ALL! The same nameless and faceless ones - in the news media, and everywhere else in Life - are still talking a blue streak about whatever has caught their fancy and captured their usually scattered attention.

It may not actually be a stretch to suggest - with a straight face - that the SUBJECTS really don't matter at all, Popes or Politicos (they only seem to, to the ones all caught up and captured,) and that what IS of much greater importance to the life of Life, is the movement of neural energy in as many human brains as possible... and you know, since the mid-to-late 20th century, and much more since the last eight years or so (the Internet and Smartphones, you know, don't you just love 'em?) IT HAS INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY. And that, friends, is a very good thing! NOT because the participants are "getting to the bottom of anything" (far, far from it) but because Life is vibrating at higher frequencies, and the music is getting louder and louder, such that even the dimmest bulbs on the planet are beginning to talk more about everything. Such is life. Such is Life on Earth. Movement of energy is life, cessation of the movement of that energy is death.

Life does isometrics.

Life pushes against itself and gets stronger thereby.

It's a beautiful thing.

POPE hijacks a country

A Guy who likes to wear pointy hats, shiny shoes, and gaudy dresses, hijacks American TV and the whole world goes ape-shit. It is kind of funny how people so easily defer to other people - for whatever reason - and if enough of them do that, it creates a "ground swell", and today, there are Billions with a B who will instantly go ape-shit if given a chance. What can you really say about such people...? That they are blessed thereby? Or, that they are demonstrably clueless, and perhaps even somewhat idiotic? That would be my bet. Having fallen for another person's "schtick" - by whatever name it goes, from Scientology, to Catholicism, and everything in between - does NOT seem to be the way to "Greater Knowledge", "Higher Consciousness", or "Expanded Being" but a deeper level of delusion, and belief in fantasy ... but then the Deluded LOVE company, and what a company America is (and many other countries, it would seem.)

Obviously, the above was a slanted viewpoint, and "Obviously, from a NON-Catholic, or angry, disgruntled EX-Catholic" some might suggest, but that is a cheap shot. To them I would say, "Use that gooey stuff filling the five-inch gap between your ears, and SEE if you can SEE my point here, because I can absolutely SEE your (and all the others so "deluded" - if we can use that term) point of view." Would you have the same response - and I mean SAME, no difference in any appreciable way - to some clerk behind the counter at the grocery store, or a cashier behind the counter at the fast-food joint?" The only acceptable answer, of course, is "No, of course not." but then you would drag out all the reasons for this difference. But I am not buying it. Hey, even Mr. Pope in Pointy hats, and shiny shoes, can do it (or appears to, anyway) so why not YOU (or anybody)? It is to THIS QUESTION that people everywhere should consider, most seriously, with that gooey stuff, along with thousands of other questions and ideas that haunt men's minds.

Consider, if you will (if you even can) WHAT does the Pointy hatted guy know, understand, teach, that any adult human with at least a normally functioning brain and body (not so thoroughly damaged or corrupted that thinking and feeling is no longer at the adult human level) can't know, understand, and teach - if s/he has a mind to do that? But then, considering that "Either you get this, or you do not - and therefore probably CAN not" - why would s/he set about "teaching this stuff" to others WHO SHOULD BE ABLE TO KNOW IT ON THEIR OWN ANYWAY? At best, really, a person becomes a "reminding factor" at certain times, places, venues, circumstances where someone else could reasonably be expected to REMEMBER for themselves that which they have just been reminded. If everybody, adult and normally functioning, with all their "wits" in tact, were "Walking Buddhas" (for that is what I like to call such people) what need would there be for Religions, Philosophies, Teachings AND Gurus, Masters, Sages AND Pointy hatted authority figures? NONE, I say. NONE.

Minor Update 6pm New York Time

- Madison Square Garden -

Mr. Pope celebrates mass for the World at large - and there are probably millions, or some such, who, not being Catholic, have never seen such a spectacle - and it certainly brings chills, and thrills to the human beings within earshot, and especially eyeshot, and most especially to those IN THE ROOM! No shit. But the question people do not bother to consider is this: How is it, that I am reacting to this spectacle? And precisely in which ways - if any - does it differ from a rock concert by your FAVORITE Rock God or Goddess? ("We both wear dresses") And where do you feel it, and how do you react to it, and how much of it is INTRINSIC and how much of it is simply an add-on? Tradition, Ritual, History, Belief, etc., etc., all have something to do with this, of course, but if you can separate all of that (which is an add-on - babies and very young children know NOTHING about it) from the Being In The Room experiencing just the EVENT-in-question, it is possible to discover "SECRETS" about human nervous-system functioning that could be, let us say, USEFUL if not damn near BENEFICIAL, and not just for yourself alone, but for the World at large. 

~~~~~~~~~

Post Script: for those who thought all of this was just a "negative rant" against something or other, it certainly was NOT, Okay? I would make the same statements about ANY Religious personage (authority figure) who presided over hundreds of Billions, with a B, dollars in land, buildings, property, and untold (and unknown to the rest of the world) treasures consisting of objects, gold and other things - A Great Hoard to be sure - and rather than just converting the Whole Damn Booty into Food and spendable cash, immediately if not centuries ago, and proceeding to spread the entire world with all of it, particularly to the poorest in the world, the "exalted" authority figure keeps the dream/fantasy (Opiate of the Masses) ongoing, with absolutely NO LET-UP, even to the point of trying to extend and expand control over others, by modifying and modulating the "schtick" so as to attract even more people into the fold. Actually, in the world today, the Pope is the primary example on Earth... I can think of no others, so... Mr. Pope, please do the RIGHT THING for once in your sorry, sorry excuse for a life on Earth... Okay?

To be clear: all of this - top to bottom - was a POSITIVE message for those who can hear it - the rest can't and probably never will. It is this: YOU TOO can be a Walking Buddha, if you can learn to, and practice the art of, SEPARATING fiction from reality, lies from truth, stories from facts - which means, engage your brain, all parts of your brain, even those parts that are now quite dormant and start Thinking without Imagination clouding your every thought.

Truth... from the GURUS?

(known and unknown)

Do you think THAT is a good question, or a sarcastic indictment, or something else entirely? How about, a Cat or Dog suddenly realizes there is something waving erratically behind him - just over this shoulder, and then over that shoulder - and starts a chasing fit, that goes on far too long?

How can this be related to the human brain - that somewhat complex web of neural fibers and connective tissues that consumes most of the energy generated by the body, outputting copious amounts of electrical activity, almost enough to light a small light bulb (between 10-23 watts) - and its activity on Internet Webpages where countless other Cats and Dogs are still actively engaged in their own, mostly unsatisfying (to say the least) chasing fits that most definitely have gone on far too long?

And then, someone suggests there is TRUTH that they might be able to perceive from the books and writings and mouth-noises of other... Cats and Dogs? If that was actually true, don't you think someone would have been the first to realize the question is ALL WRONG, and told his nearest and dearest about that, and that would have started a ground swell in humanity, not unlike the "hundredth monkey phenomenon" where one monkey FINALLY realizes something about the brain/mind/heart (or whatever Mr. Monkey "calls" it) and the Human Kingdom, in this case, rises above that level of chaos, confusion, and erratic chasing-of-tales into a "higher" level of new and interesting and fantastic stuff to discover and find out.

But is that new level evidence of higher consciousness? Perhaps it is just evidence of more connections in the neural fabric responsible for "higher thought." But, hey, "Who ya gonna call?" G. is dead. K. is dead, J. is dead, B. is dead, as are most, if not all of the other guys you know about (usually) who you could call - if only you knew their number... (right, as IF!) - so... maybe it is time to STOP CHASING TALES, kitties and puppies, and start to actually/actively sneak up on the mystery that is all around and inside your own skull.

Not this, not that either...

(yes, shades of "neti, neti")
Overcome your addiction to Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo AND all the other venues where you continually dump your stuff and nonsense, ("Who ME? You callin' my enlightened contributions to the global thought stream, stuff and nonsense?") and don't backslide until you experience a sudden urge to take another hit off the "bong" (or whatever your preferred delivery system happens to be,) and STOP! for a instant. If you are quick enough - and this takes practice - see if you can hear that "softer voice" in you that whispers sub-vocally, sub-thoughtfully, even sub-sensorially, "not this, not that either." (You see - but only once you do - the contents of that "bong" is NOT what you say/think/thought/feel or even imagined it was all this time. Get it?)

The taste of this realization is sweet, and in the experience you will wonder how it is you never discovered this Freedom before, which is especially meaningful once you have granted permanent privileges to that "voice" to Be Here, and There, and Everywhere - in everything you think and feel about yourself and the world around you. It is the Freedom to be in two places at once, and like some quantum particle, Know what you are about to do (say, think, feel) before it happens. It is like being able to VISIT the entire planet-of-you-in-the-world, without being observed... or impeded in the flow.
There's another world, unseen, unknown,
while functioning deeply embedded in the fog of war...
uhh make that, life - yeah, that's the ticket!

Giving Better than you get

ALWAYS, being the rule not the exception. In life, where all the peeps live, the rule is this: "Fuggetaboutit, and if you don't like it, keep it to yourself or we'll be takin' it outside!" Such is the way Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter have "grown up" to become the primary venues for supposedly "sharing one's thoughts."

What one sees, especially on all the (supposedly) "Enlightenment-related" groups on the Internet - but most other places as well - are poorly conceived, and sometimes even poorly constructed thoughts and ideas that have been presented, primarily, merely to let others know "I am still alive... hope you haven't totally forgotten about me... HERE I AM!" That is to say, like children they crave and expect attention from as many people as possible, for that apparently adds to their "sense of self" (-importance and -esteem.)

Here's a strange thought: "ALWAYS give BETTER than you get, in all situations," because that requires presence of mind, depth and breadth of thought and feeling, and a general desire to "Be the most conscious one in the room."

Consider: is it even surprising that if you approach someone, and ask them, "Are you conscious and awake right now?" they will ALWAYS answer in the positive (if they don't try to knock you out for "getting all up in their grill," but within about five or ten seconds AT MOST they will "flub the dub," revealing to the more conscious one's in the room that they are, in fact, sound asleep like a flesh-covered robot who can just about pass a Turing Test, merely simulating a conscious and awake Human Being (by walking, talking and able to "assume the positions")? Hmmm?

Thinkaboutit.

"Cold Turkey"

Everybody should know precisely what is meant by this phrase, but we're NOT talking about 'tepid', 'lukewarm', 'room temp', 'warmish', 'half-assed', 'unenthusiastic', 'apathetic', 'halfhearted', 'indifferent', 'subdued', or any other so-so attempt to point to what is being suggested. NO! Cold Turkey, in the sense of "Stop It Now, burn all bridges behind you, and don't wimp out!"

Having gone "C.T." on Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and Google venues for social-bullshitting, many things have come more clearly INTO FOCUS, than they ever did, or ever could, before Kicking the Habit.

"What?" you ask? Well, that's for me to know and you to find out (as they say, since I have kicked and you haven't,) but here are some hints: 
            Nobody is sitting on the edge of their seats anxiously awaiting your next glowing post (of photo, youtube, or clever one-, or even multi-line witticism), and Everyone takes an "out of sight, out of mind" attitude about this, and very quickly you are forgotten. 
            Another thing: what is much more important than "holding up your end of some inane conversation" on these social venues, is learning to Think Clearly, and be able to convert that Clear Thinking into writing and/or speaking, as you wish. BUT, carrying on back-and-forth chit-chat that starts out weakly and goes nowhere FAST, is never the point of all this Clear Thinking... which, by the way, can't even be done while still ADDICTED. If you don't realize this yet, or argue with it in any way, you are addicted, and the post you surely have NOT been anxiously awaiting is right here -----"The End"

"Do you REALLY want to be President?"

Which is the other way of asking, 

"Do you have the FIRE in your belly, 

or are you doing this because someone told you you should? 

Hmmmm?"

And, of course, this is NOT about the current runners for President of the good ol' U. S. of A. Such, is just an example of what a few (that is, not very many at all) people on Planet Earth - the Prison Planet of the good ol' System d'Solar - must contend with when fully-engaged in their quest for the Great Prize, which goes by so many names it's hardly worth reminding anyone anymore (if you don't know those names, you are not even reading this; if you do know them, then you should have already jumped to the end of this piece saving at least a few minutes reading time.)

The Fire suggests something like, More passion, More fight, More emotional investment***. No one discovers the Great Prize who plays at this thing as some kind of part time hobby, they only do on the weekends - if that - or worse, once a month at "The Farm (or "The Ranch", or "The Getaway", or "The Facebook Groupers" or whatever they call what they are doing with their short lives) - where they practice an over-abundance of "religious/spiritual correctness," and "word-perfect retelling of lines and passages from their favorite book(s) of choice at the time," never stepping out of line, or acting "imperfect" in Any way, to Anyone... you know, lest they get Booted, or Banned, or Exiled!

No! The Great Prize is ev-ry-where, and there for Ev-Ry-One to discover for themselves, if they are able... under, around, behind, above, even inside every rock, table, mouse, computer screen, eyelid, eyeball, tongue, throat, hand, fold of gray-matter, strand of neural networking, and countless other places spread around the three-, four- and perhaps even five-dimensional spacetime continuum we somehow found ourselves trapped within for a fairly short period of time, bouncing off the walls, floor and ceiling, always looking, always searching for a suitable Way Out we can somehow squeeze through. (Good luck with that.)

You know what is really funny, sad, hilarious, strange, crazy, bizarre about so many of "the few" who claim to be "On The Road To Find Out?" Their readiness, and extreme willingness to ADMIT to the world, the year, day, hour, even MINUTE of their "Enlightenment,", achieving "Self-Realization," entering "Nirvana," scaling the levels to "Man Number 6, or even SEVEN!" and how they do their "exercises," "numbers," "practices," "meditations," "thought-stoppings," and countless other (supposed) PROOFS of their many attainments. (Usually, you will find them listed within their "About Me" link on their website.)

*** 

"The Fire is about an extra inner drive some have, and most don't.
A burning to achieve, NOT just "some success" but SUCCESS, at any cost. 
But it’s just an expression of course.
Just words that we toss around around to mean big things.
It’s easy enough to talk about it, and preach about it, and many people do all the time, but much harder to let it drive your daily, hourly, moment-by-moment activity.

• It’s a big attitude adjustment.
• It means that you’re tired of screwing up.
• It means that you stop excusing away your weaknesses.
• It means that you’re angry that you’re getting beat by your competitors.
• It means that you are eager to try again.
• It means that you find a way to get better.
• It means that you’re putting in every ounce of extra effort you have.
• It means that you get pushed down but don’t stay there.
• That’s what “fire in the belly” means.

It’s not a sometime thing.
It’s an “all the time” thing.
An attitude of being invincible.
Unstoppable.
Not perfect.
Not powerful.
Just determined" (Internet bit somewhere)

Life - ah Life - is a Con Game!

(a swindle, almost a 'magic trick', in which the victim is persuaded 

to trust the swindler in some way)

Regarding the predicament involving those few humans who discover the esoteric idea of "conscious evolution," it is necessary to realize that Life is playing a Global Confidence Game on Humanity-at-large (discriminating for or against no one; i.e., each person has an equal opportunity to be suitably, and totally CONNED, and this IS the name of the game) and just because someone is, or claims to be, "one of the few" does NOT mean they will get away with their "wallet" (purse, pocketbook, bank) in tact... and, of course, of course, we are NOT talking about money here, are we?

In the first place, this only affects Humanity, because the animal kingdom's "hands" have already been played out, successfully, and all animals are now a "closed system" (no further evolution of consciousness possible in their short life spans, thus "Cecil" was a PERFECT lion, and "Fluffy" my cat is a PERFECT cat, and "Rover" my dog is a PERFECT dog) whereas humans are "open systems," incomplete and still evolving as a species, being somewhere near the beginning of their game (although there does exist the possibility for enhanced, accelerated evolution as an individual.)

This confidence game serves many purposes, completely mysterious to the oblivious, but OB-V-US as hell, once SEEN with three eyes. (Two eyes just don't cut it, not enough dimensions involved, spatial and temporal.) The main purpose, from our extremely limited vantage point, is to keep us "in line," queued up, suited up, and satisfied up to the hilt with the status quo... of our potential as we might conceive it to be, of our very consciousness as we hardly even know it at all. Therefore, we are NOT INCLINED to revolt against the system which confines us, but to "go along to get along" - since birth and before, until this instant while you are struggling to follow this very message (and look ahead?) and all the next instants that follow...(can you do both?) - which is to say, to keep us believing that we are, right now, at the height of our intelligence, our powers, our degree of consciousness, and all the other things we believe we possess now, or at least could possess (but, in reality right now, DO NOT.)

The confinement is this: We are born into a human body - made of the after-effects of the sub-atomic quantum world interacting with the material organic world over billions of years, all to produce, in our case, DNA of the type we know as "human," and as such, are INMATES in a high-security prison of unknown design, unknown place, and unknown time, there to perform certain "ACTIONS" for purposes of which we are completely, totally, oblivious... but, CAN BE "elevated/evolved" to a point where it is actually quite OB-V-US! As heaven!

For one thing, the walls, floors, ceilings are made of steel, and though there IS a door, it can't be opened from the inside - well, not by us, as we now are and will most likely remain. The CON is that we are made to believe - due to the way we were MADE as suggested above - that there are NO WALLS at all, or put another way, that there are DOORS everywhere. HOW?

Simple. Language: our innate ability to acquire one or more at a very young age, and learn, shortly thereafter, how to use it/them at will, and then for the rest of our days to SPEAK THOSE WORDS to anyone, anywhere, any time, and an overpowering willingness to do so - even at the drop of a hat, or the sound of a human voice speaking (or writing) one's mother tongue forming a statement or question. Do Note: you are reading these statements right now on the Internet - Facebook, Yahoo, Blogger - and your brain is "keeping up, and looking ahead..." hopefully.

So... where are the walls?
(if you can't see the walls,
you can't find the doors,
and there are doors Ev-Ry-Where!)

Still don't get this?