Big Mind

                                                          Big Mind

                          

                              "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

                                                                            Oscar Wilde

 

 

Now we are ready to continue merrily merrily down the stream realizing the dreaminess of life. With the first pass and second coat of paint, the reader should recognize what the merry prankster is up to in our rude awakening. We are constructing a theory of mind in a sense, just as nature is, by nature, structural and pattern making, so to is the human mind and consciousness a structural framework. Jung attempted with profound results to map the collective consciousness that is our psychic genome. So we to, are building a structure that is a vehicle of consciousness. This vehicle cannot be conceptual, which is a real paradox because we are using words, ideas, images, and thoughts to convey something that is far beyond concept, it must be a felt experience of being, as in when Gandhi says; "Be the change you want to see in the world."

I'm interested in supporting myself and others to see that the Emperor is indeed wearing no clothes and trying to pull off the most elaborate hoax of all time, namely that we should go along and trust the plan they have for us, kinda like Bush telling us that he and Brownie 'had things covered' in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina.

The party lines, status quo, traditions, and institutions such as schools, churches, professions, corporations, and infinite bureaucracies do not have our best interests in mind, they seek control, conformity, compliance, and the ability to manipulate with self- serving, ethnocentric, and manipulative intentions.

To awaken to this fact is a shock to the system, like taking hallucinogenic drugs. The literally overnight shut down the U.S. government imposed on hallucinogenic drugs and academic, pharmacological research is an example of the organized power that can be imposed on people that is a far cry from any democratic or scientific consensus. So now that we are once again beginning to re-start this research for such patients as terminally ill cancer patients, we are getting quick results, but we had a 30 year hiatus that put us far behind where we could have been.

Rude Awakening is an invitation and road map to being able to identify with the infinite, to move from our limitations, dysfunctions, conditioned, Pavlovian reflexes to the Source of everything that arises and passes and arises again, in Buddhism this is called Big Mind.

I am helping people move away from thinking, judging, being attached, being polarized to a mind that includes all that stuff but also transcends it. Jung talked about how the first half of life is a process of building the ego and the second half about getting rid of it. First half being in and of the world, second half being free of our attachments, data, fears, and compulsions, and moving merrily down the existential stream of consciousness toward the inevitable mortality of our physical bodies.

 

We become more interested in being, feeling, and loving than we are in thinking, seeking, acquiring, and controlling. This is a shift from our usual software to being like Christ when he said; “I am the way,” or Buddha when he said; “I'm awake.” We move from speaking as the self to speaking/thinking about the self in the 3^rd person. We are less involved in our story or script, we can try things out as possible script rewrites, but we're more interested in the production of the whole drama/entertainment of life. It's such a production isn't it?!