Mr. Giggles and his inner circle

Most of the brain (of whatever species) is used for keeping the body alive and healthy (relegated/delegated to the inner circle of organs, glands, etc.), and only a relatively small part (in humans particularly) is devoted to thinking up, composing, and telling jokes, and funny stories - and all the other kinds of thoughtful mental activities, including what's going on here on this electronic whiteboard on a regular basis. It's a pretty wide spectrum - thought - and it covers everything from "hate speech directed at everyone" to "love the world and everyone in it", as well as all the bad (and tasteless), and good (and thoughtful) jokes that go along with that.

Only the brain can be funny. That does not extend to non-humans without such a sophisticated brain, of course, that probably "think" (or their version) that our attempts at humor are, well, "silly/weird". Okay, okay, they usually exhibit NO reaction at all (tell a really good joke to your cat later on, and watch her reaction), which is probably the best reaction in any case (humans, are you listening?) But humans can be funny as hell, and some of the funniest things they say and write have to do with their opinions on what's going on in the world around them, and within themselves, and what they have done, or intend to do, about all that.

Hilarious at times. 

Some have made a career out of it.

It is interesting that some comedians, and funny people - male and female - draw consistently larger audiences paying larger entrance fees, than almost any other group of public speakers... well, except for certain "favorite" and generally quite serious people, like Clinton and Trump and others, who "command" multi-thousand dollar fees. (But then, consider their audience - jeez!)  

But WHY do people "make funny", even to the point of being hilarious, about almost everything? This should've been thought about and worked out by you before you got here, but if you haven't "done that work", keep reading for a slightly off-kilter, serio-comedic take on it: If you can't "make light" of every thought, idea, concept, icon, symbol that you and/or the rest of Humanity holds "dear" (so dear, sometimes, they will come to BLOWS if someone "treads on them"), then you haven't achieved the status of Mr. Giggles, a status which is revered in a few solar systems, including our own. There are simply NO thought-forms worth revering higher than the ONE who sees through them all. Thus, such a ONE would be held in the utmost highest esteem everywhere in the Universe. It is fair to consider this as "a purpose" (if not "the purpose") for living on Earth as a Human... to become a Human Being of rightful status.

Everyone has beliefs about the physical world - mathematics, physics, sciences, etc. - and the not-so-physical world - religions, philosophies, teachings, etc. - some of which even include "personal experiences about them", yet all of that "information and experience" can be seen more correctly as being still open to more thorough, even deeper investigation. All human ideas on all topics CAN BE SEEN as simply, silly on its surface, and the deeper one looks, the funnier it is. This is more true, of course, for ideas about the not-so-physical world, but there is still a lot of laughter possible about many ideas about the physical world. Humans, for the most part, are nearly clueless about almost everything, much closer to young teenagers (mentally, and emotionally speaking) than to fully matured and consciously evolved adults. (Can you smile at that one?) 

Just because 2+2 seems to equal, under all known conditions, 4, OR, just because your family's history and experience and bibles tell you there is a domineering God in Heaven watching out for you, OR... OR... doesn't mean there is not much more "WORK" to do regarding getting to the bottom of that and all questions, until the bottom is actually reached.... i.e., Mr. Giggles Awakens.

Remember, in all of this, it's not the contents of the mind - what people think, believe, talk about and write about - that needs to be questioned, per se, it's the mind that is doing all the questioning. Put in a slightly different way: investigate the box - nothing but the box, once a quick study of the objects is effected and out of the way (a process that takes longer and longer in the beginning, but is made quicker and quicker through experience) . Unless one understands the nature of the box, they understand nothing. 

And Mr. Giggles never actually awakens.

Pay Attention!

The simple viewpoint: Be there, ALL there, and well, Pay Attention.

The complex viewpoint: Payment is a principle, 

and one must know HOW to pay,

and one must know WHAT is paid, 

and one must know what is expected FROM that payment.

(The basics are these: nobody can get anything that he does not pay for; things cannot be given, they can only be bought, and this includes knowledge; it is magical, not simple; it is a cosmic law.***)

What is going on here, for several years now, is not something that anyone needs, but simply a long unbroken discussion about that which everyone believes they already possess, and therefore should not have to PAY for it. That is, even when some potentially "New Information" is shared, people who believe they already fully understand all that and MORE, are not inclined to Pay Attention very long, and will in fact, check out very soon. If there WAS something "New" there, they will never receive it - again, because they did not, or could not, Pay Attention.

Often, the "New Information" is intertwined with apparently old, ordinary information, so as to be received "along with", and then, if the receiver WAS actually Paying Attention - i.e., knew How to pay, What to pay, and what was expected From that payment - they will be able to extract the New from the old (or, as other's have said: the Wheat from the Chaff.)

Old information - wherever it is to be found, on whatever mundane, worldly topic - is the chaff: possibly useful for the physical purpose it is intended, like fixing toasters, or building chairs; but regarding the Aims and Intentions of what is being presented here, almost daily, it is useless at best. 

New Information is always about one thing only: reaching Higher Levels of consciousness, "enlightenment" if you will, while still alive and able to appreciate it fully. Just because a person is walking around, talking to themselves and others, making todo lists, paying monthly bills, driving cars, and countless other physically useful activities, does NOT mean they are fully AWAKE, and Conscious. 

There is nothing more obvious in the world than this, but only to the ONE who understands it correctly, and for that understanding, there was an almost continual Payment being made, over and over and over, but with greater "payback" than could even be imagined when they began so long ago.

Only then, can such a person answer the questions: 

HOW to pay? WHAT is paid? and what is expected FROM that payment?

Strangely, the simple already know:

Be there, ALL there, and well, Pay Attention.

Class Dismissed, 'till next time.

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***from "The Fourth Way" P.D.O.

In the beginning...

In the beginning - that is, your "beginning", after your physical beginning, when mr. sperm met and married ms. egg - was the word, and thought, and speech. And looked at in a particular way, practically all child-speak is hostile; that is, parents act as the instigators/invalidators in this dynamic (the negative, or denying force, to the child's continual active force). This is especially true and easy to see once all the goo-goo baby-talk ceases... "Hey Johnny! Stop throwing food on the floor! Stop hitting your sister!". Later, the grown-to-full-size-child (some call them adults, but they are all just full-sized children in so many ways) continues this outward instigating/invalidating (that was "inherited from parents") of everything they see and hear.

And so the human race of Speech becomes the 

New Generation capable of doing unto others, what was done to them.

Everyone's head, today, is a metaphorical cosmos of "core ideas", little sub-versions and assorted fragments of the "core ideas", and clouds and more clouds of debris fields swirling about the cranium - both within and without.

If you can look just a little askance, you can see it. 

You can certainly HEAR it.

The sun - or, one's sense of oneself, and what one thinks and feels one truly is - is the "core idea". Spinning wildly, but seemingly orderly around that core (most of the time), with arms spiraling outwards, are words which have grouped together quite mechanically and quite semantically and congealed into several - quite distinct when seen, though hidden when not - "points of view", which are little sub-reflections, sub-versions, clones of the sun. And when one or another "point of view" temporarily transits "into your view", you think it and believe it's you thinking. Hah!

Thoughts come and go like uncharted
planets, comets, meteors, asteroids,

in an unknown solar system you have been thrown into

by forces completely unknown to you and everyone,

once upon a mini(mom n'pop)bang-time,

at the original "thought of your conception."

These bodies, or planetoids, or concepts - mechanically deposited sensations in memory - are continually smashing into each other, apparently non-destructively as in argument and debate and everyone talking at once, but also at times, quite destructively as in real "learning" and "realization", and especially "new realization". This process of thought-interaction, leaves particle trails, and waves, of broken phrases, and tangled, twisted logic-strings, that get knotted, clotted and piled up in closets, corners, under stairs, and in basements, as if by some slightly crazed hoarder. "Nothing is ever lost, or thrown away."

These amorphous, seemingly coherent (at times) threads are like ever-tightening asteroid belts that separate and sometimes strangulate larger bodies, or concepts. Really, it's a ZOO in there! This is why it can be said: "You don't really know WHAT you think, unless and until you can SAY IT."

None of this is true, of course. 

It's just the "telling of a tale", that overlays the known physical cosmos, with the beginning-to-be-known non-physical cosmos, that is "oneself". Thinking in this way will not help you, or harm you, unless YOU PERSONALLY can think this way, on purpose. Then, and only then, it will help your neural expansion that is the Key to Conscious Evolution in one life time. But again: 

None of this is true, of course.

Higher Perception, or Objective Reason

From one real view, the ability to understand language - the only tool the brain has to convey certain kinds of messages to other people (not all of course, but the subtlest of kinds) - requires a shift from one's ordinary "faith-based belief" in the reality of oneself as one is, and the reality of others as they are presumed to be, to the nearly permanent realization that NOTHING is personal, NOTHING can be taken personally.

The NOISE of LANGUAGE is out there and in here, all around and everywhere, but it is NOT coming from anyone in particular, and it is NOT meant for anyone personally. Not understanding this well, leads to the Masses tendency to take everything personally, and not just everything, but the wrong things, while never taking the RIGHT THINGS personally. Yes, Va., there is a difference. The "trick" is distinguishing which is which, in time!

Stand Aside - always and everywhere - and instantly you will see what is meant here. For example, firm believers in (the) GOD (of their religion) can be turned, not into simply an "atheist" or "non-believer" (as that is NO BIG DEAL at all!), but into one with Objective Reason, which is the ability to UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE. Nothing more, nothing less.

Doing the Neural Dance Three-Step

This "Three-Step" is not quite the same as 

the "Two-Step", of which we are all quite aware. 

But, it is the MOST intimate relationship possible in a Man,

known by some, and quite UNKNOWN by all the rest.

People can "do" in a physical sense, quite easily. Just ask someone to fetch you a glass of water, or water plus ice, or coffee with cream AND sugar, or fill out tomorrow's grocery shopping list. "Done," they say, and in minutes, voila, it IS Done.

People can NOT "do" in a mental or emotional sense. Period. Just ask someone to Rise to my oft-given "Daily Challenge", and watch what happens. NOT A DAMN THING. NOTHING!

Evidence of consciousness is the capacity to Think Something you have NEVER thought before, and then start THERE - engage in the neural three-step, and simultaneously from ABOVE (the key idea here), watch your "path" as it is inscribed on your own neural dance-floor, creating a "map" of sorts, which you can then, voila, give to someone else (though giving is not the issue; being ABLE is the issue), so that THEY can learn - if they must, or perform if they already can - the SAME DANCE... and then - the proof of the pudding, so to speak - is to do a DANCE for you. Similar to the Bees - you know them? Not exactly, of course, because Humans have something Bees Don't!

Evidence of consciousness is not so easy to accomplish for living humans, and absolutely impossible for dead humans. Only those few humans who CAN DO - without question, and without question marks, and without interminable excuses - are those you should listen to for more of that which they (seem to be able to) produce, Daily.

One question to ask of your self, then attempt to answer, is this: "How is it that 'they' come up with new and different things on a regular basis, and I (you, apparently) CAN NOT?" Hey, if you could you absolutely would, believe it! Once you have done so, even ONCE, you will never go back to the "olden ways" of your ancestors. It's like traveling to the TOP of the "Mystical Mountain" (affectionately known by many other names, including "Ms. Tickle", just to name one), while reclining in your desk chair, while looking out the window for a couple, or maybe five or ten minutes, realizing you are suddenly capable of "bringing something BACK!"

It's the neural equivalent of an orgasm (here's another reference). Here is how/why: the TOP of the mountain is the ultimate "clean room" - there is nothing there but Sky and it extends for Eternity. Getting there is "half the fun", but getting back - now THAT is the "Challenge for the Ages" (i.e., your personal ages, grok that!) Many have arrived; Most have not come back. Well, they "came back", but they didn't bring anything new BACK with them, but simply trotted out some more of the same old thought-forms they went up there with. What that indicates, is that they never reached the "clean room", but only got to the debris matter, the detritus of previous climbers, who may have left a few of their old thought-forms near the top, but they only grabbed a few of somebody else's old thought-forms on their way back. You can spot those types in a second, once you know how to do This. They start quoting from some living or dead guru-type.

In any case, the "clean room" always remains perfectly clean, no leftovers. And you can't leave breadcrumbs for your journey back, just in case you might want to return any time soon. You WILL FORGET, and so the only help you will have to return, is the "taste", the "smell", and the "neural quiver", that you have learned is the "neural three-step".  Look up how taste and smell are "connected" to memory, and then discover how the "neural 'quiver'" (both senses of that 'term') activates yet another area of the unused landscape between your ears that is, right now, quite INACTIVE. It is like the influence a Real teacher (of something useful) has on his "followers", and the transfer of energy increases the size and scope of the Active Neural Landscape.

But, time to go now...

I could, but won't, go on.

It is up to you to Do This on your own up there.

(Final note: One is creating one's OWN opus, and it may require reusing the same "maps" many times - as is continually done herein - before others start making their OWN internal connections, such that the "ENERGY of Awakening" begins to flow in a, let's say, less impeded manner.)

Get a job, keep a job, get paid, retire

Most of humanity aspires, from a young age actually, to get a job, keep a job, get that weekly paycheck for 50 years, and that government pension for the next 20 years. There it is. The ordinary life of a simple human.

Where WE live, it's bigger on the INSIDE!
WAY WAY BIGGER!

Now there's absolutely nothing wrong with that because it is they who "keep this world humming". They build the roads and buildings, and cars and bicycles, and grow the food and transport it to the stores, and make the clothes we all must wear in ordinary "civilized society", and so very much more.

THANK GOODNESS for the job-holders and paycheck-collectors, for they make life on Earth so much better for all the rest of us who never aspired to ANY of that, EVER. We are, the "Who's - yes, some are doctors, lawyers, farmers, artists;

We are The Who's of Whoville.

Job holders - the dutifully employed for their entire lives, or more - are primarily interested in the care and maintenance of their BODIES, so that they can buy things for their bodies, like food, clothes, cars, houses, trinkets, and so very much more, and when possible go on a fun-time vacation every couple years or so, sometimes even Out Of Town! "WhooptiDO!" Their rightful belief  is that when you have taken care of the BODY, all the rest - heart, mind, soul, spirit - will take care of itself. And they are right; this IS a rightful belief. The only "problem", which even they themselves know so well, is how much TIME, EFFORT and ENERGY is required to accomplish all or some (hopefully enough) of that, leaving very LITTLE time and energy at all for the "higher pursuits."

The rest of us - The Who's - know all that too, but we accomplish it expending as little time, effort and energy as possible (just enough), even "ZERO TIME" (which has a "special meaning" once grokked), when we can make "taking care of the needs and desires of the body", just one of our "good habits" - the kind that happens (sort of) automatically, (sort of) mechanically even, but the important part is that IT IS DONE, coming as a result of UNDERSTANDING the consequences of failing to do it. What's even better, is how little time, effort and energy is required to accomplish what the job-holders (sort of) accomplish expending five or ten times as much. 

The Who's know that a "REAL LIFE" is possible for all men; a much, Much, MUCH BIGGER LIFE than is ordinarily lived by most, but only a few ever achieve it to any degree. One of the main reasons, is that most people everywhere are too tired, too burned out, too exhausted by the end - if not the middle - of the day, to have ANYTHING left for something else. That is, they are not in balance, and to do THIS kind of thing, you have to start IN BALANCE, in order to be able to "shift your weight" in such a way that you have even MORE available time, and energy, by the end of the day, than at the start of the day. 

Easy to say; Impossible to do, until it is "do-able"

Any time is a good time to do THIS kind of thing; but really, you are going to need MORE time, and MORE energy to really "get anywhere" (especially, way out of town - like "Sky City.") 

Perhaps you could find a use for a 

Time and Relative Dimension in Space vehicle?

Sleep, is forgetting one's place

You can't tell yourself or anyone one thing you were thinking yesterday, and that means "verbatim", start to finish. Watch it now, or you'll lie to yourself about that, though the correct way to say that (to understand that) is: your brain would be fooling you. 

Saying you were "thinking about your aunt mary or uncle fred", is NOT saying WHAT you were thinking yesterday, verbatim, only the "subject matter"... and almost anyone alive can "do" that. It's just another case of "B.F.D." But to be really significant, one must be able say "B.F.D." to oneself, with understanding. And if you are "one of those types" who believe they CAN say what they were thinking yesterday, verbatim, then they are not doing This Work, or ANY Work. They're still deeply in imagination about all of it... but then, hey, they have LOTS of company! (Many billions of them at last count!)

The conscious part of the brain (or mind, as most would call it, usually preferring to say "MY mind") - where consciousness is active in one, where one can think about thoughts, ideas, concepts, actions, and talk about it - has no memory of itself or what it does, outside a very short window of possibility, not fixed in anyone but fairly knowable from active observation over a long time. Within that short period (6, 12, or 24 hours or so), it either becomes semi-permanent, or disappears entirely. 

The conscious part of the brain only has memories of bodily - sensory, physical - experiences, but no memory of its own functioning. That's why you can remember for months some physical experience in all detail, but can not remember for more than a day or so, some extremely lucid mental experience. You have been "thinking" non-stop for decades, yet you have no memories of any of it, except, perhaps, for those rare "enlightenments", that some people have, and spend the rest of their lives remembering, in thoughts, the mental experience. Surely everyone realizes that even though other people read them, over and over, NONE get enlightened, though they both may enjoy reading them.

The mind can remember only that which has a physical component, 

never when only a mental one.

Sleep, is forgetting one's place, in the Grand Scheme of Life in general, in the grand scheme of one's own life in particular, in the grand scheme of time's unfolding hour after hour, and in the grand scheme of thought trying to wrap experience in order to remember one own Life.

If you are just one of the billions 

who enjoy their sleep, and 

their fictional mental life, more than 

Seeking an Awakened Life, 

then the joke is on you.