"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?

 

"Enlightening Information"

The reason "enlightening information" IS that, after all, is because a) the speaker never read it before, never heard it before, and b) it was created, discovered, and/or invented out of one's own experiences, perceptions, observations, realizations and not just compilations of previous thoughts read in a book or website... so therefore, it was Personally Enlightening. That is - re-stated in a way that should say everything - it was NEW to YOU.

The fact is, most people on Earth fall into the "reporter's trap" (saying nothing new at all but only reporting what someone else said or wrote before them... who did the same... all the way back!) and when (some of) those people are supposedly on a "Path to Awaken" ("Hey, that's what I tell myself, and others, so it must be true, right?") they are only putting themselves deeper to sleep, while believing otherwise. (Even their "friends" can't alert them to this, because they are, ALSO!)

The common/routine "reporters" out there in Life (in the media) can certainly be forgiven for that intellectual "fault", because they have been PAID handsomely to fulfill that role in life, whether or not they realize that, or more deeply realize precisely WHAT the payment has been and will continue to be. (PAYMENT is not only in dollars, or francs, or euros, or donuts, but also in other things... but you already know that, right? If you do, write down the top 3... go on, make an effort.)

The few, however, who think they are, or say they are walking the "Path to Awaken" can not be forgiven if they STILL - after all these years! - have not realized the role they are playing in the general mass of Humanity charged with pushing neural energy around the globe. "Reporters" are simply those who create nothing intellectually - certainly nothing "enlightening" - but only report what others have reported before them, who were doing the same in their time. I.E., passing on boring information to as many already bored people as possible. Sure, energy is moved around the system - and that is good and necessary to the life of Life (just as blood moving around your system is necessary to the life of You) - but it has very little to do with the kind of outrageously "enlightening information" necessary to the "Desire for the Higher," whatever in the hell/heaven that might mean.

"Out RAGE us," and so... he did!

(Top note: This bit - totally impromptu and ad hoc for the time and place in which WE live - is meant to be understood along two tracks, two ways of thinking: the ordinary mundane way that is common in the here and now, and the extraordinary, or at least NON-ordinary way that is not common at all... and so... he did!)

Information about "Awakening" and "Enlightenment" is supposed to be, designed to be, expected to be OUT-bloody-RAGEOUS, and extremely DIS-freakin'-RUPTIVE to your internal, ordinary "state of mind" - which is usually so bored and oblivious to 99% of everything experienced through the five senses (including eyes and ears) - that when REAL Info about these high-level concepts hits the higher ends of your neural net, they can (in some, not all of course) be processed, transformed and most importantly MOVED to more, let us say, protected areas. Generally, all the really good stuff is almost immediately trampled into the dirt (that "you" are, as in, what you EAT becomes "you") by the nay-sayers, negative-nellies, and know-nothings who rule most people's internal world (where "you" live.) This is why 99% of everything ever said or written, that at one time was taken as "enlightening ideas," are now taken as "Ho-hum, heard it all before, go tell someone who gives a crap!"

Real Information about these kinds of high-level concepts MUST BE new, fresh, and never heard or read before (i.e., not pre-digested), particularly by the individual receiving it, but generally by the larger group(s) of which they "are a part" (hang with.) Another way to say this is, if you sleep with dogs, you get everything dogs must deal with, like leftovers, non-government approved horse-meat and scraps from the servants tables. I.E., hang with people you respect, HIGHLY, by virtue of past experience with their thoughts and writings and sayings, and you run the "risk" of being able to correctly perceive the VALUE in things before the downer-dummies in you tear it all apart, again.

(Side note: this is why "Mr. Wild Hair" has become so very popular among the masses on "that end" of the political spectrum... NOT that he is talking about these "higher concepts" of course, but that he is saying things many have been thinking and talking about themselves, but it sounds almost NEW and OUTRAGEOUS. See? New and Outrageous WORKS!)

People everywhere know all of this, honestly, but they can't make the mental/emotional leap from the absolutely, totally irrelevant ideas (about the higher pursuits) and the Actually Pertinent to the higher pursuits, if not even CRUCIAL.

People, who say they are "Doing some 'work' for their higher being" must realize that New Information about these higher concepts means, NEW for this current generation, and thus "Awakening" and "Enlightenment" pertain to results achieved in the here and now, that the masses (who live mostly in the past and daydream about the future) can not achieve. It means awakening to a level which is HIGHER than those who went before, even as little as a century or half-century ago. Sure, they "may have been" sort of awake for their time and place, but their words and statements about it was for people of THEIR time and place, NOT suitable for people of OUR time, because this kind of New Information has a very short life-span, and the sooner people figure out precisely WHAT that means, the better. An "in your face" example of this is, "Jesus Saves", which for those people, THEN, was enlightening to say the very least, and life-changing at best - moving them off their dead-end, into a new life of higher possibilities. Today, for 21st century sorta schizoids and other similarly aberrational examples (as Humanity has become in this and the last century) "Jesus Saves" is a damn JOKE, and NOBODY cares or believes in it anymore.

(Bottom note: once upon a time I saw a flyer nailed to a telephone pole in several neighborhoods bordering and surrounding the "cool part of town" so, not having a camera, or the heart to rip it down... I made a fair facsimile of this clearly OUT-bloody-RAGEOUS attempt to find a few people who would actually find it, well, "interesting"..., and here it is.

(Below it is a way to find the Big Blue Door, 

should some of you care to visit.)

(DO note: haha... There is a fine distinction between TOO outrageous and JUST outrageous enough, and that is where so-called consciousness and wakefulness come into it, because TOO will not even be heard by anyone, but JUST very likely will (if they already suspected it before themselves.)

War Heroes... really?

Again, the "News from around the world" strikes again.  

"Wild Hairs" everywhere have their "definition" of the words they use, so they use them - internally and externally, whenever and wherever - and the listening/viewing public has a field day, climbing onto their (presumably self-selected, but actually)  assigned bandwagon, cheering or booing as loudly as possible, and each one of them feels just a little, or a whole helluva lot better for having jumped onto that Wagon-of-righteous-indignation already quite full "up-to-here-and-then-some" of muck-and-mire they so love to wallow in... (do you?)

As has been said here before, and will be said again, Life (which here means "the world you live in" - including you, who lives in "YOU, the micro-cosmos", if you can catch the distinction) is the Greatest Teacher available to all who learn to "tap into it," once they discover how to do that. This skill/talent is NOT a natural feature, or property of human beings. Certainly not in this century, or any other before us. Maybe a few hundred years down the road - if we haven't blown ourselves to smithereens! This skill/talent must be developed, intentionally, over a period of time... which actually expands one's "time-bubble" in which they live, breathe and have their micro-being (uh, you do know how large that is... right?)

Unfortunately for all humans, they can never discover how to do that, because they are, moment-by-moment, consumed by it, never able to get out in front of the moment, and OBSERVE what is going on, at least until they achieve permanent self-consciousness bordering on cosmic-consciousness... two more quite un-natural states of being that must be developed from the raw material that is, man the micro-cosmos.

Then, when the "News from around the world, of men, and otherwise" impinges upon their nerve-endings of five primary variants (seeing, hearing, etc.) they can STAND ASIDE just enough so as to observe and participate at the same time - or, said another way, "Brer rabbit" pulls himself out of the TAR PIT, just in time to save himself from being fully engulfed therein. (This little brother rabbit knows how to linger on the ledge of the "event horizon" - where future/now becomes now/then - forever... watching, dancing, swaying, giggling... without becoming all "spaghettified.)"

This, is SCIENCE when you can do it, and 

MAGIC to all who might see it occur, but a 

higher order NeuroElectric-ALChemistry 

when you discover the method.

"wh-, wh-, What!?!"

Here is the physics of the situation - or neurophysics/electrochemical bases for what is being referred to, rather obliquely herein - NEVER think or talk about what the masses in your neural neighborhood (when in America hooked to TV/Radio/Internet, as well as at home and at work and at play... i.e., everywhere!) are apparently thinking and obviously talking about - THAT IS, don't pick a side, ANY side! And even more necessary than that bit: NEVER let the chemical (in you) become neural (in you.) Or, to put it another way, all human problems of a mental nature (not broken arms and cancer and such), are due to inner self-talk about it; stop the talk (don't let the chemical become electrical in you), and the problem disappears. Period. "Me" is slow, really slow, and it is quite possible to move faster than "me" could ever move, to get out in front and stay there...  To linger on the ledge without falling in! Don't let chemical, hormonal "me" become electrical, neural, thought-based... keeping it in the chemical/hormonal bath where it lives, and keep an eye on the door, by keeping "I" on the door.

But... 

we don't need to... 

keep telling YOU that... 

do we?

"Pick a side, any side..."

Sounds a lot like, "Pick a card, any card..." and for a very good reason. LIFE is a "magic trick," (or more precisely an "alche-magical trick") - a term/idea we all think we know and understand, but in reality, hardly at all! More Later... - and from humanity's point of view, "Pick a side/card..." was whispered in our ears at a very young age, and for the rest of one's life, The Trickster has been setting up events and circumstances that DEMAND your attention, and Picking a Side. Now the "trick" is, to find out, to discover with certainty, what the trick IS... "A-HA!" and of course, nobody ever does and for a very good reason.

A wild card with wild hair suddenly joins a bunch of aspirants to the American Presidency, and for the next several weeks (believe or not) Mr. WildHair is all the rage and news filler between supposedly "more serious matters." And if you ask anybody with a brain and access to a television, radio or website, "Well, sir or madam, which side have you picked, and please - by all means - tell us all the reasons why, and what that means to you," they will very likely INSTANTLY if not sooner, have loads and loads of language to dump on your head in hopes they can convince you of the sanity of their choice.

Really!?! And if that one was way too easy, do know this list of examples could go on for thousands of pages covering just the last WEEK of media reports from the world, but that job will be left to those who have been conscripted (against their will... but they don't realize that!) into that line of work who gladly justify and rationalize their incarceration in that part of the maximum security prison they now inhabit... imagine having to be a reporter of news from the world of humans. Egads!

That is the human mind for you, doing its thing - the only thing it CAN do... pick a side and then justify it, rationalize it, and try very hard to feel "good enough, if not much better" for having told you all about it. What 99% of humanity can NOT see, and can NOT even realize when this is pointed out to them, is that this built-in tendency to always "Pick a side, and then report it" (which has a place in human life, of course) is the chief cause of all man's problems on Earth - top to bottom, left to right - and makes the problem of their inherited/inherent (actual) Stupidity and (esoterical) Sleep all humans share with others of their kind, only worse for them.

Here is something the "more conscious and awake" know that the "somnambulistic zombies" do not: There are two worlds - the (higher ) World of Conscious Beings born from Above (grok it! - understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed), and the other world (the lower world) of ordinary humanity where babies are born from Earth (mothers, always - not from fathers who merely contribute the seed - Mothers, of the Earthly Female Kind), and are brought up from toddler to teenager and beyond, to perform one duty only... Learn the mother's tongue, and how to use it, at least well enough to say and sign your name to whatever "choice" you apparently "chose" in response to Life's Continual Question before you: "Hey little one, PICK A SIDE, and tell us all about the whys and wherefores... (or else!)"

So, summarizing to some nano-small degree until next time: 

What is this "alche-magical trick?"
It has to do with turning a 

three pound, gray, "brer rabbit" 
into a "top hat" (no, not another Tar Baby!)

of special configuration

and then pulling another three pound, gray out of it, again... 

kind of a perpetual form of Creation, 

where humans born of (unconscious) inert earth dirt, 

alche-magically become (conscious) Electric Photons of Light.

"Ho, we gonna rocket(sic) down to Electric Avenue 

and then we'll take it higher."