Connections, and the MPP

Clearly, obviously, the world in which I live is not the world in which you or anyone else lives - and exactly the same is true for you and everyone else - and the only real (physical) connection between "my world" and "your world" are the words that describe objects that appear to me in "my world", such as my HP monitor, or my xfinity broadband modem, or my overweight 16 year old, orange male cat asleep over there in the corner of the room, etc., etc.

And immediately upon reading each and every word above, particularly the descriptions of these objects, you the reader had an instantaneous, though possibly only barely perceptible image of the "monitor", the "modem", the "cat", the "corner of the room" arise in your mind, i.e., "your world". As such, we are connected, and that is just about as far as it goes, for 99% of the people you know, or will ever even meet. As for all the rest, there is no connection whatsoever, and that's fine with me. It could be suggested, or even claimed, that all humans are connected, because they are humans, part of the human species, part of Organic life on Earth, but no human can directly perceive that connection if it actually exists. Some will claim it, sure, but they can't prove it.

However, because we have reasonably similar healthy brains in our skulls, our minds ARE connected, in the same way the nodes in a massive quantum computer network are connected. Life is that Massive Parallel Processing quantum computing machine consisting of more than seven billion human brains, plus the several billions of non-human, most likely mammalian "brains" (The MPP), and we are part of that MPP just as surely as we are part of the atmosphere, the light, the water, Life on Earth, the planet, the solar system, the galaxy, and possibly even further out to the edges of the universe - even though no human can directly PERCEIVE those connections. Some will claim it, sure, but they can't prove it. "But Bob," said Carl Sagan before him and Neil Tyson today, "we are stardust," the latter even adding, "We are not just figuratively, but literally stardust." Okay, got it.

My effort for 30 years - here and elsewhere, in small physical groups with a leader where all are dedicated to this, yahoo groups where they are sort of interested in this, and facebook, more recently, where they are not very interested at all, although many seem to like to talk a lot about it - has been to define and describe the technologies, the methods, the efforts required, and signposts or clues along the way to a personal realization of those specific deep and wide connections.

ONLY in that way, can one increase the size of "one's world", NOT by adding rooms to your ranch house, or floors to your mansion, or acres to your spread, or cars in the driveway, or furniture in the living rooms and eight bedrooms, or thousands of "friends" (mostly pseudo-) on Facebook and Twitter, and/or especially $$$ in the bank. ALL OF THAT STUFF is merely alternatives (read: distractions) to actually beginning the long road that started in the cradle so many decades ago, when Life spoke directly into one's ear - probably voiced by one's mother even before birth - and breathed Language into that part of the brain where one's present capacity for reading and comprehending these very words was initiated, and eventually - quite quickly actually - flowered into an ability to respond "in kind" via speech and writing.

This milestone is the first necessary step to what can become, in everyone, anyone, the awakening of consciousness above the ordinary level at which humans live their entire lives from the time they open their eyelids in the morning, climb out of bed, stumble into the bathroom for a pee, hit the kitchen for some ice cold water, feed the cats, and start getting ready for the day, and THAT LEVEL is the best level one attains for the rest of the day (all the soft and/or hard drugs, drinks, or stimulants one consumes, ingests, injects, or inhales notwithstanding), until they flop down into bed later that night, and wink out for several unconscious hours, only to do it all again the next day, for a little more than a handful-and-a-half of decades, and then they retire for the last time.... having NEVER perceived their connections to their species, all the way UP to their connection to the far-flung universe, and all the way back DOWN to themselves sitting there reading this WORD, and every damn thing in-between.

Humans are LARGER than the LARGEST LIVING THING on this planet, yet (damn near) nobody realizes this, let alone has begun to seriously perceive this, nor do they even have a clue how or where to begin, nor how to continue, nor how to overcome the extreme resistance to forward movement that only increases with every advance one makes. These are now, and must always remain MYSTERIES that the MASSES are excluded from discovering.... NOT because they are not "worthy" (which they are), and NOT because they are not "equipped" (which they are), but because they are NOT SUFFICIENTLY INTERESTED.

It's a very big and important thing to be able to control desire and interest, so that your ordinary carnal desires and interests (sex, food, drugs, alcohol, caffeine, sports, entertainments, negativity, hostility, stupidity, childishness, foolishness, and countless others) don't TRUMP your Desire and Interest for the HIGHER.