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