Are You The Lucky One?

But how, you ask, can I explain the unexplainable?

By having you explain it to yourself, of course.

For the very first time, here are the instructions that you should follow, just like I told you before:

1. Don't follow these instructions.
2. Don't read this blog entry, especially the phrase, "But how."
3. Sit quietly or not.
4. Open yourself up to all the emotional states of the people around you and all the states of energy passing through you and them.
5. Don't follow these instructions.
6. Doubt everything I'm telling you.
7. Laugh.
8. Laugh belly-achingly loud.
9. Start again at step 5.
10. Skip to step 1.
11. Proceed to step 12.

Now you have the idea how it all works.

If you were indoctrinated into a there-is-a-real-enemy-who-must-be-stopped-at-all-costs, then I can't help you.

You see, it's just us.  Really.  I'm not telling you the truth.

There are people who build up paranoid delusions that there's more to it than what there is not.

There is only us in this moment.  There's no turning back the clock, no going forward into the future.  Time does not exist, except through illusion.

Now you're ready to proceed to step 13.

THE THIRTEENTH STEP!!!

Have I repeated myself too much?

Do you know the gods like to have fun?

Do you know what a god is?

If there is only us, what is a god?

Are you a member of the listener/whisperer tribe?  Can you hear what is there and what is not there?

Every now and then, step back and see that as real as your pain feels, no matter how helpless the situation, millions of people feel your type of pain right now, and billions have felt it who no longer exist.  Billions more will feel it in moments that haven't yet existed.

Does that help you see that you can make the pain disappear by dispersing it into the people around you through humour?

Can you tell yourself and believe, "I am not real, I do not exist, this is all a temporary illusion"?

Or do you want to experience every moment to the fullest, happy or sad, healthy or hurting?

Let's get back to the states of energy that exist through our mutual belief in the power of states of energy but, as you will soon see, don't really exist, either.

All of us who can read this as members of our species will say we have lived and we will die.  Forget that for a few moments, will you?  Or if you don't want to forget that, go on with what you were doing and proceed to step 14.

But also keep in mind that all seven billion of us have to exist here together.  There's no alternative universe that pops up out of nowhere to which you can magically appear in a world that meets your idea of perfection.

This isn't about wishful thinking and projecting a future five lifetimes from now when you can join your family members in harmonious takeover of the world.

We really only have this moment.  Seriously.  This is it.

There are no good ol' days - there are only todays and more todays and the today after this one and the one after that.

So forget about trying to live in history, but at the same time, learn from it.

You can live in subcultures today that make it feel like you're the only one and your subculture is the BIG "IT."  If you so choose, please do.  But don't try to take down other subcultures that feel the same way.

Tearing down the lives of others who are happy what they're doing without physically/directly undermining your life in any way (other than the fact their existence doesn't fit into your worldview) is not the same as living in your subculture the way you like, including any form of compromise in which you incorporate others' pleasing subcultural habits into your own.

I cannot change the past.  I cannot undo whatever it is your/our ancestors did that is supposed to be the way things are but don't work in the current moment.

I can only seek understanding about their actions in relation to their times.  I don't live in their times and they don't live in mine.

There are those willing to play games with your lives if you let them.  After all, this world is full of people willing to let others tell them the way you're supposed to live.

I'm a prime example, using this approved electronic device to convey a message through a socially-acceptable manner in a communication method called a language taught to me as the official means of socialising.  And I've played right along with this, never once saying, "Hey, I'm going to wave my body about and make nonsense noises until everyone else is doing the same thing my way."  [Look at Esperanto.  Are you using it?  Have you heard of it?  Point made.]

Therefore, get with the program.  We're seven billion people about to have a major "conscious" shift into seeing that we're all on this planet together for the same purpose - to move our species forward off this planet and into the rest of the universe.

We've got testosterone and oestrogen to deal with, our being a rather hormonal species (after all, like so many others, procreation is our major means of saving the species).  But with an adult approach to product marketing/advertisement - that is, lowering the appeal to our hormonal urges - we'll put consumption on the right track while leaving plenty of room for freedom of expression and all that.

And then we'll see more about why seeing our universe as states of energy was as quaint as phrenology.  We can talk more about that later.

Along the way, we'll monitor the species for megalomaniacs bent on homogenisation, conformity and "choppin' off the 'eads of them's what got us here in the first place" types.  In other words, the normal flow, the ebb and tide, of social change.  Lots of time to have a good laugh at stereotypes we all can relate to at one point or another in the moments that we live.

The youngest generation already gets it.  The rest of us oldtimers might, too, given enough moments to see that the past doesn't exist and never did, even though we can study shallow snapshots of time we think is the past that gives us clues about how to live in the ever-changing moment that is now.

Speaking of which, now it's time to go back to step one and skip this blog entry.  Or was that step two?   Doesn't matter, the steps no longer exist.  Or do they?  Yes, they do.  They're examples of how to live in this new moment.