All Illusion Works for a Reason

After a presentation on this subject years ago, one of my professors approached me. He was one of my dance instructors. I was interested to hear what his feedback would be as a physical performer. He told me I was a reincarnated Essene master and he gave me a book by Dr. Edmund Bordeaux Szekely. The title of the book was, “From Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls.” With a smile and a hug, he walked away. I don't think I ever saw him again. When I got back to my place, I skimmed through the book with interest. It was interesting, but I didn’t have enough information at the time to understand what I was looking at or what he told me. I had some trees that were in that forest of meaning, but the forest itself was required to know that at which I was looking.

Professor, as he liked to be called, was a medical doctor; but more interestingly, he was a very influential anthropologist. His command of language was amazing. He spoke 14 ½ languages and the half language, he joked, was English. His translation work has illuminated our understanding of the ancient Sumerian culture, Essene Gospel of Peace, Dead Sea Scrolls and the Toltec culture of the new world to name a few. In addition to his translation work he wrote some 82 books. I’ve read virtually all of them.

This man’s teaching had a profound effect on how I view and interact with the world. One of the great “take aways” I got from his work was the idea that, one cannot take an element away from a living system, without putting something back in its place that is equal to or better than what was taken. 

In nature, living systems select what supports the continuation of life. When the imagination of human consciousness is involved, such rules do not necessarily apply.

In our Record/Play (R/P) non-conscious self, if a recording is attached to a specific stimulus, then that recording will be played if the environment represents that stimulus. Once the R/P self has a solution to an environmental challenge it can’t be erased; however, it can be replaced. I think this is self evident to most. The real question is, how do we effect such change? (See post 11/18/2011)

Remember, experience is not what happens to you. Its what you do with what happens to you. Context is so very important to the nature of a moment. Here are some ideas that can shape and focus when choosing how to experience what happens to us.

: Remember, it’s all a composed illusion

that happened no less than ½ second ago.

: If you are conscious, you have a veto.

: The composition of now is a creative process.

              There is no right or wrong in the creative process.

                       There is what doesn’t work.

What works and what works better.

: Mutual respect is the foundation of freedom.

       Virtue is mutual respect in action.

: Experience is not what happens to you.

It's what you do with what happens to you.

: All illusion works for a reason.

              Know the reason and the illusion becomes a tool.

: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Remember these principles when applying the solution. Here is the solution from the post on 11/18/2011:

Two elements are required to effect change in how one chooses behavior:

     1. Train in a “better” solution before it's needed now.

     2. Veto the perceived “negative” pathway when it’s initiated and don’t veto the

         perceived “better” solution.

The application of these gifts has quite an effect on the creative process of composing now. Once you commit these principles to your knowing, they become writing tools for your non-conscious self. Non-conscious self will select the pathway perceived to be best. Dr. Bruce Lipton, in his book “Biology of Belief” shows how perception shapes our choices. We compose our own "Now", a simulated "Now" that is based on past recorded experience. no less than ½ second old. The play becomes the simulated perceived environment of our visual illusion, existing only in our own imagination.

The simulation we presumably witness as now, is painted in a pallet of assumptions. The colors of our now are the colors we individually have learned to see. The same is true of the sound in our now. There is no constant. Each non-conscious self must learn how to experience new sights and sounds individually. This is true of all other qualities of experience; i.e., smell, taste, touch, thought, movement, memory, etc.  We indeed live in the moment; but remember, your conscious awareness is a simulation no less than 1/2 second old, not the experience itself.