The Thinking Thing

The Thing about Thinking, is that it ONLY occurs in the past about the past, or about the future, but never in the NOW. Thinking is not a property of the NOW, only of the past and usually about oneself. Therefore, humankind can never stop thinking (in the ordinary bullshit sense of lamenting over the past and planning for the future). Thinking outside the past and the future is a function, NOT a feature, in that once harnessed, it can produce an exponential increase of power and intelligence in one, yet, until it can be harnessed - which is rarer than reliably predicting the WINNER of the next US Presidential Election results - it's all just the geometric expenditure of nervous energy and decrease of power and intelligence, and limits the possibility of using it for higher purposes. (Just look at all the news shows and social media pages - never-ending talk, talk, talk, and more idiocy in one place than you ever find elsewhere!)

But, dig this: EVEN IF one knows this with the mind, one will still willingly participate hourly, daily, for the rest of one's life, actively engaged in this kind of ordinary thinking, because people, as they are, do not know HOW to disengage before dying (when one is finally and completely disengaged... death is a still and silent place).

Ok, Here's a hint why we can't now and don't disengage on our own (spoiler coming, don't read UNTIL you've come to your own HINT...) Engaging in the activity of ordinary thinking (i.e., when nobody is home - the key feature of ordinary thinking and ordinary human life) and listening to the continuous commentary being live-streamed into your own and everyone else's nervous systems by good ol' Life Itself, activates YOUR OWN brain, in that part which translates the energy into understandable concepts, that in turn activates other parts of the brain, in a progression that is, frankly, ENTERTAINING and FUN, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes thought-provoking, and activates hormones and other chemicals that vibrate sympathetically... which is also, fun, funny, sad, depressing, anger-producing, etc., which makes people feel, if only momentarily MORE ALIVE. Partially alive to be sure, but certainly NOT Fully Alive as can be only a Fully Conscious and Aware Human Being. And... oh yeah, we are not supposed to disengage, because we humans serve a higher purpose, and that is to "be pumps" in a larger machine that requires the movement of a certain kind of partially rarified energy throughout, which is not completely unlike the way a combustion engine requires the movement of gasoline, a highly rarified form of crude OIL, which requires igniting, pushrods, pistons, crankshafts, cams and other bits and pieces not named here. And, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, humans have something similar going on, though who can figure that one out?

My Favorite Sandbox

The reason why my focus has been on the US Presidential Race to the top job - at least since Trump jumped in - is because it is a public venue that draws millions and millions of eyeballs, and almost as many news junkies who can't seem to help themselves talking about it for hours and hours every single day since then. ALL the social media platforms have lit up with miles and miles of posts, tweets, messages, images, videos, etc., etc. Enough to fill an entire solar system!!! Or maybe just a large landfill or toxic waste dump - take your pick.

You see - if you can, and I know many people can not, even when told to LOOK HERE-----> this whole Sandbox is NOT about the children playing in the box, nor is it about the chit-chat coming from the children, nor is it about the seemingly thoughtful, sometimes even well-formed but mostly not-so-much "ideas" that seem to be being expressed. NOT EVEN CLOSE! It is only about the brains functioning inside the skulls of those kids, and how the activity of the molecules bouncing around in those mostly unformed - or certainly not WELL-formed - brains, drag their fragile bodies around and around the Sandbox, causing each and every one of them to DO and SAY things which give the onlookers, and (idiot) reporters something to yammer on about for hours and hours every single day. All the talk, while NECESSARY for the movement of energy in Life's Body, is mostly meaningless and not worth the time it takes to produce it. It's all just the expenditure of nervous energy that wasn't used for higher purposes in the one from whom it is being expended.

THAT IS... all these human brains - nowhere near full maturity, and thus acting more like teeny-boppers*** at the mall making lewd and nasty comments at the passersby, while giggling uncontrollably - are controlling the show... but there is NO ONE HOME!

"No one home?" Right. No one home. They are nearly somnambulistic day-walkers carrying on inane conversations about who-cares-what, whose primary function on Earth (believe it or not) is simply to move neural energy around the body of Life on Earth in that area where humans reside. You see, if the nervous/neural energy were to somehow stop for a day, a couple days, a week or more, the whole of human civilization would come to a HALT. All services would shut down, and most people would never even get out of bed anymore. That would not be a very good thing. So.... it continues, and since the Internet and the Web, it is increasing exponentially, and thank goodness for THAT! (So Say We All, who profit from it!)

Remember who these bozos are - on the TV, radio, websites, papers, magazines, who are engaged in this non-stop running commentary about OTHER PEOPLE and their words and actions - they are PUPPETS on stage for YOU, and ME, and the few other people who know how to profit by their uncontrolled expenditure of nervous energy, without getting "caught up" (code for, remaining centered, not-identified, non-negative, and able to NOT TAKE SIDES in the apparent "argument").

Imagine a large sports arena, with several teams on the field at the same time, all suited up and ready to play their games for the huge audience spread out all around them, even up in the cheap seats where you need binoculars. Who ARE these "players"? Thoughts. Just Thoughts. And all these thoughts are operating by rules not of the making of the mouthpieces uttering them - far from it, the rules are absolutely HIDDEN for all time from those mouthpieces, primarily because they can't control themselves from automatically acting and reacting to those thoughts. So... the game continues, seemingly forever! But in the audience there are always a few people who wouldn't miss these puppet-games on a bet because they provide tons more energy to those willing receivers than anyone in the stadium can possibly perceive or receive for themselves because they expend it faster than it comes into them, being used by the gyrations of flailing arms, and wildly gesticulating hands, facial expressions, and all-over herky-jerky movements quite unbecoming of Mature Adult Human Beings.

***teeny-boppers: "a young teenager, especially a girl, who keenly follows the latest fashions in clothes and pop music." Sound FAMILIAR?!? (clothes and pop music is code for: thoughts, spoken and written)

The Excitement grows and grows

There may be some within the sight of my words that have become a bit "distressed" over what is occurring out there in the world (not to mention what is occurring in here, between their ears... but that's another story), but there is a very good reason for that, and a way to USE that "condition" for consciousness.

Most will never come to this kind of realization, even after following their parents religion, or their own chosen religion, or some teaching they picked up in a bookstore in the '70's or '80's with a similar kind of "excitement" occurring between their ears, but they did not realize that at the time, and most likely are not now directing that "excitement" for their own higher possibilities for being Conscious in a Cosmic sense. As such, the "excitement" has reached a plateau, which is NOT SUFFICIENT for higher possibilities.

The distress in many people today has to do with their "homeland" and the "leaders" who have driven it into the dirt over the last several decades, and their perceived "prospects" for the near and farther future, particularly about the U.S. Presidential Comedy Show that has such huge implications both nationwide and worldwide, and those many people are getting nervous, scared, and perhaps even overly agitated about it. There is a distinct possibility for a kind of "revolution in America" that those alive today have never witnessed. Of course, there are a LOT of people who would love to witness it, and some who would love to participate. (Of course, of course, the BEST way in which to participate in the revolution is INTERNALLY... but that's the other story*** ).

The Way to Consciousness is narrow, like the top of a fence running all through your human brain, that you can neither SEE from above (not yet anyway), nor stay atop for very long if you ever find yourself engaged in that Glorious Balancing Act. All the forces of life - both visible and audible out there in the 3D world of space, and the invisible and inaudible in here in the 4D world of time - are acting upon everyone simultaneously, and almost NOBODY can stay "centered", atop the narrow rail, conscious and aware of all that is occurring everywhere, and WILL fall into one or another "point of view".

One must be brave to watch the News Media today - more so than in the past, and it's getting "worse" every day - because that is where the preponderance of lies, idiotic statements and overblown, outrageous and some would say, dangerous rhetoric are the most obvious. Between the ears, there is a lot of confusing thinking to be sure, but most of it is missed - thank goodness, else one would go mad, MAD I SAY! - but the Noise Media is so "in your face" (TV, radio, Internet) that unless one actually lives IN NATURE, miles away from anyone, one is going to (want to be) subjected to an almost constant barrage of STUFF TO THINK ABOUT. The only problem, is that the carrier waves are bringing discordant spikes - peaks and valleys - that most people simply can not deal with it. They are quietly going mad, MAD I SAY!

Just look around, even today: March 10, 2016. This was and will be a day to remember in the longer story being told in America since June 16, 2015.
One is indeed lucky - from one viewpoint, and more conscious from another - if one can Ride the Rail and remain centered, balanced and moving forward without taking SIDES (falling off, yet again).

*** The "other story": the Real revolution (not the Fake one) is not a call to correct apparent ills of the world, nor the people in it, but for an expansion of personal boundaries. In this Way to Consciousness, one has no conflict with outward forms and institutions; instead, they seek to wrest power from their own internal powers-that-be. Atop the narrow rail that leads to Consciousness, one comes into contact with a kind of SEEING that is not about forms, objects, institutions, peoples, but of FLOWS OF ENERGY, from the extreme passivity of death and darkness to the extreme excitement of Enlightenment and Life...
but that's even ANOTHER STORY!

The Fragility of Human Brains

People don't look at it that way, of course, of course, because everyone believes their own brain is working perfectly, if not super-perfectly, while other people's brains are damaged, broken, crooked, deluded, stupid, etc. But, the issue is not who is right or wrong on this. The ISSUE is, can you see how it is and why it must be that way that Human Brains are Fragile, and THAT accounts for the strange quirkiness perceived in oneself and others?

The Fragility has to do with not having a Real I, or Realized Self (as some would say). Therefore, the mass of "i's" constantly form and reform small groups of "i's" and when the small group is noisy enough, loud enough, it arouses the person to yet another shifting point of view.

Just today, last cycles failed Republican candidate (some would suggest is a Stuffed-Shirted PUPPET if ever there was one) came out AGAINST this cycles aspiring Republican candidate (some would suggest is an Empty-Suited PUPPET), in the hopes that certain people who were "on the fence" would shift sides. What a damn joke. (Meaning, it merely adds to the strange hilarity that is this years contest.) They don't understand what is going on with Human Brains. They are puppets, one and all, including those who, as a result of Today's Lambaste, do or don't shift sides... temporarily at best, most likely because of their inherently Fragile Brains.

Are you a puppet? Look deep. Think hard (and long, if necessary), and try to experience the rising of your Real I, for only that experience (not just occasionally, or frequently, but as your State of Will) reveals what is happening, not only within you but within everyone. But, some advice for those few or many who (in their fragile brains somewhere) quickly reached for their holy (or merely revered) bibles, work books, spiritual tomes, or clever youtubes... DON'T ANSWER too quickly, little puppet... because, really,  

Can a PUPPET know that it is a PUPPET?

Cruz and Rubio NOT ELIGIBLE to run

Best Thing I saw on YouTube today, and 
quite pertinent if you care about the 
Next U.S. President.

(By the way, I've scanned ALL the mainstream news 
sources since this video was released, and
NONE has picked up this story and reported
THE FACTS.)

VIDEO: THIS is why Cruz and Rubio 

didn’t attempt to have a court decide 

their eligibility in the past. 

They would have been ruled ineligible!

Please listen to the whole thing, but the
Cruz and Rubio bit is at 8min 55secs.

From the US Constitution, if you've never read it:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident... 

So, unless the Constitution has been deemed irrelevant, Cruz and Rubio fail the necessary tests. Natural born is not the same as "naturalized", because it has to do with the citizenship of the FATHER, not the physical location of birth mother. Where the person is born is not as much an issue as whether or not the FATHER was a citizen at the time of the birth. Citizenship is "handed down" from the FATHER, not the mother. Therefore, Rubio is not eligible because Rubio's father was not a citizen at the time. And Cruz is not eligible because Cruz was not in the US, and his father was not a US citizen at the time. Watch the VIDEO from above, watch it in its entirety, and find out for yourself.

Oh, and curiously, if you can believe it: Barack Hussein Obama does NOT pass all the tests required to be elected President of the United States of America.  Specifically, Obama's father was not a citizen at the time - Look it UP! Therefore, apparently, damn near anyone can run for that high office, proving to me that things are changing around here BIG TIME! We are using the "anchor baby" rule, a man-made rule: any child born in America (on American land) - even if born of ISLAMIC TERRORISTS - is now called NATURAL BORN CITIZEN, and can run for that high office! Wrong!

This is getting weirder and weirder as time passes. And those who have actually READ and tried to comprehend the US Constitution, especially this passage being argued, must be going nuts the way the media and the masses have totally IGNORED the most important issue.

The News Media

Every day and in Every way, the news media shows itself to be a collection of really dim-witted bobbing heads all trying to "one up" the other guys' previously made - though usually quite poorly - point of view, because it makes them feel good in a certain place and in a certain way, though just barely registering on their internal "glee meter". That's why the conversation keeps rolling on, as our brains keep on keepin' on, to take yet another hit off the bong (so to speak.)

There is much more going on with this, of course, but the main point is that the human brain needed "something" - way back when, some several if not tens of thousands of years ago, and continuing even more so, almost exponentially, today - to stimulate the growth of the language and speech centers, and attuning the hearing centers to register thought and speech from "out there". A "something" that connected the "intellectual, dry and mostly electrical gray-matter being" to the "emotional, wet and mostly chemical blood&guts being" just coming along, evolutionarily. That is, thought that comes out the mouth and is heard by both the speaker and some listener(s), makes one "gleeful" in a rather insignificant, yet also quite important way. Thinking, and Speaking, and Listening (with intention and attention that exceeds the general, typical, ordinary state of somnambulistic automatism of that human being) is FUN, big time, and in a very useful-to-the-species way. That is, EVERYONE enjoys this activity, almost more than any other activity, and that is especially true today, in our generally sedentary world.

(Note: if all human brains on Earth suddenly went silent - maybe from a strange virus that appeared on the scene, perhaps a weird Zika variant, or a bizarro GMO - the speech and listening centers would quickly atrophy, reverting to their older pre-language capacities, and after a few short generations we would probably revert to the primarily lizardly/mammals that were here in the very beginning of our life on Earth. Our brains might even start SHRINKING, and later perhaps, even our SKULLS!)

Just watch CNN, or MSNBC, or FOXNEWS, or any of the other opinion-based sources of "infotainment" (entertainment parading as information, all for the primary purpose of collecting AD DOLLARS), and notice how the bobbing heads jockey for position in the ongoing conversation stream, for hours on end, without even a bathroom break, while each and every one of them maintains their HUGE PASTED-ON SMILES as they blurt out their next, supposedly "important and significant" bit of the imaginary PUZZLE being fleshed out before the audience's eyes. Most of the points being made, are a god damn JOKE, not worthy of a group of pre-adolescents discussing their favorite and not-so-favorite teachers, classmates, pop stars, parents and the rest of their tiny world. But, do note, they are loving every moment, and seem hyper-stimulated between the eyes and ears, where all those sound and light waves are converted to a certain kind of electrical energy that is quickly consumed by the bucket-load in that "Certain Place" and in a "Certain Way", that damn near nobody on Earth has a clue about!!!!

(Uh... but just because damn near NOBODY has a clue about it, 

that does NOT mean NOBODY has a clue about it... 

and therein lies a SECRET for all those who care to SEEK IT.)

da Rubio de Bacle (an inside joke?)

Very recently, the supposedly learned, educated, semi- (or better) talented talkers, and tweeters, and writers, have flooded the major news outlets with the JOKE that occurred (for all our - the insiders - entertainment), and the tape-loop of the JOKE has been played, and replayed thousands of times so far, and will probably be repeated many times in the near future.

However, what has been missed by all of them, including those on the sidelines who haven't said a word, or had a thought about it (as damn hilarious as it was... though, perhaps only to the insiders), is the FACT (for some in the, let's call it "increasing one's self-awareness game"), that this robotic thought-based tape-looping that is so damn hilarious when spoken aloud to other people, is totally missed by EVERYONE when it occurs silently in one's own head. Ever notice THAT?

THAT is what is the most hilarious part about all of this. That it happens so frequently in EVERYONE, yet is totally missed, to the point of being unknown by those same EVERYONE. (Here is where you should insert your own realization of how true that is.) The next most hilarious part, is that very, very, VERY FEW realize this, even after being reminded about it just now! But then again... perhaps this whole piece was just an INSIDE JOKE for Insiders.

All these tape loops are harmless enough of course - they are just a major, major leak in the plumbing, and massive drain on the rather limited energy stores from which all thought derives - but they are highly suggestive of a brain that is not even capable of Waking Up to what is really going on in that five-inch gap between the ears, and Awakening From the dream that has almost, if not totally captured the imagination of the human species at large. These self-running, stimulus-response, automatic thought streams take up SO MUCH TIME (that, as was suggested above, is mostly missed by everyone) that to really utilize the human brain for that which it COULD BE used, is simply out of reach for most people. That is a shame... but then again... perhaps this whole piece was just an INSIDE JOKE for Insiders.

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Following is a point of clarification for those out there who still don't get it: it is NOT just the five, fifteen, twenty or more word, too often repeated Tape Loop that is the silliness here (like what we saw being played out, and repeated, FOUR TIMES on TV the other night, without any apparent irony or self-awareness from the perpetrator that it was even occurring), it is the short, medium, and long or even longer Stories that continue to be repeated, over and over and over again, mostly to oneself alone, but also on a variety of external communication outlets... without ANY AWARENESS. You know the classic example: a twenty-year smoker or drinker, finally learns from his family doctor that he is going to die real soon if he doesn't immediately QUIT those damnable and highly toxic tobacco sticks and/or alcoholic beverages, and never use them again, and then for the rest of his days, he goes on this verbal TIRADE to anyone and everyone within ear-shot, that they too must STOP IT NOW. The person has become "stuck on a meme", and can't get the thing out of his head, and it plays in there for years and years, while the person remains totally clueless about all of it... unless he begins to find out, but lacks the skills to deal with it properly, and jumps into an empty well out of frustration.

(Enter the "teachings", if one is lucky enough to encounter an appropriate one that even KNOWS ABOUT THIS! Sometimes, it is better to stay asleep, than to Wake Up too soon, or in the wrong way.)