It’s no one’s fault, of course, that the dream we find ‘our selves’ in, features us waging a raging war against a hard and fast, fixed rule: “THE OPTION TO BE A PERSON DOES NOT EXIST.” In the guise of a ‘real person,’ especially a genuine materialist, or even someone of stature, the rule is not only dismissed as utter nonsense, it is relegated to the back of the metaphysical bus, along with “spirituality” and “the bizarre and the mystical.”
Don’t be fooled by any of this. The cornerstone of this dream includes “amnesia,” the ability to dismiss, obscure and ignore the fact the rule, in the context of this dream, is a fact. Amnesia can dismiss it, so the dreamers can make their personhood contribution to “THE MAIN EVENT,” but what makes truth true is that it is a fixed fact. The dream includes amnesia so the dreamers can dismiss the rule in order to use time and tricks to defend “The Master Lie,” that nothing is content in a dream, and all ‘the people’ are the people they insist they are. Without amnesia, there would be no “MAIN EVENT” for the dreamers to strut their personhood stuff.
Once a dreamer accepts the rule, it is set free to be in the dream, watching the dreamers dismiss the rule in order to play the part of ‘real people.’ “The MAIN EVENT” is what ‘right now’ is, but before the rule (BR), the dreamer thought it was watching people having lives, and, more often than not, “difficult lives.” As dreamers, are we not famous for using every trick in the book to pretend what we do in the dream will work to revoke the rule? If only dreamers in this dream exist to engage in this parody, the drama shows up as slapstick. No dreamer, no matter what it does in the dream, can cancel the rule: but oh how we try. That’s what makes “THE MAIN EVENT” the main event. Statistically, dreamers rely on ‘the creation of suffering,’ as backup, to give the rule a run for the money.
What there is to witness in this dream is the sum of what the dreamers do to make their contribution to “THE MAIN EVENT.” Some display high amnesia and some display low amnesia, but the truth is we can’t wage war against the rule without some level of amnesia. Who you pretend to “prefer” will be viewed as dualistic nonsense in the face of the rule: not one of them can be a person. In a dream? Are you nuts? It’s true: the higher the level of amnesia, the more dramatic the personhood parody. In the extreme, you meet those dreamers who play hardball and are busy trying to scare everyone to add to the fiction the game is winnable. Depending on amnesia, some dreamers are cuddlier than others. I am a sucker when confronted by a dreamer who relies on total body Tattooing to compete in “THE MOST WEIRD CONTEST.” In this dream, the competition for whose parody works best to cancel the rule is fierce.
Soon enough you begin to wonder what does amnesia hide that would wreck the game? This is pure irony, because the truth that it tries to dismiss is that there is no duality if Mind is the author of “THE WHOLE SHOW.” Amnesia pretends duality exists so the dreamers can hatch the invented self, to star in the invented drama, to play the part of a ‘real person,’ often requiring moderately high levels of ‘suffering’ to dispel the idea the dream is the context for the whole show.
Mind can’t set ‘the dreamers’ free to use time to defend the fiction they are real people, in a dream no less, without amnesia. There is no duality; just this MIND SHOW featuring ‘the dreamers,’ thanks to ‘duality,’ who show up to give the rule a run for the money. There is no “MAIN EVENT” unless mind features ‘the dreamers’ pretending to forget that little fact, so they can prolong the fiction they are ‘the real people’ they insist they are, instead of dreamers using time to portray ‘real people’ in this dream, the one that is ‘on’ right now. The dream is the context for “THE WHOLE SHOW,’ including the dreamer’s dependence on amnesia to dismiss the fact duality doesn’t exist.
If there is no one to be a “Psychologist,” why fill time with the lie there is someone to be one? If this is a dream, is there anyone to be anything? This insight can be very unsettling; depending on the dreamer’s level of attachment to the fiction it is some kind of a ‘real person.’ Your average ‘president’ in this dream fills time with what passes for ‘presidential activity,’ along with reassuring photo ops. ‘Generals’ are rarely seen without their medals because they are necessary to authenticate the lie generals exist in fact. In a dream? Are you nuts?
Reality features the sum of all the ways ‘the dreamers’ show up to pretend their parody will work to disprove the rule. Sorry gang; if Mind is all there is, and ‘this’ is it, then the dream includes all of ‘us’ delivering our best shot to dismiss truth, thanks to amnesia, to fill time with the fiction we are ‘the people’ we insist we are. There isn’t even anyone to chastise for this stunt. In this dream, this is “The Standard Stunt.” The second you know this is a fact, you realize you always knew what this was, and didn’t you have fun pretending you “forgot” so dreamer you could make your contribution to “THE MAIN EVENT.”
What does the marquee say about how you use time to give the rule a hard time in this dream? ‘Snob’ is good, but ‘super arrogant’ is even better. How about playing the part of, ‘a man of God.’ Don’t forget to quote scripture just so the audience is clear about who you are busy being. Laughter is one step away from the truth the dream is jam-packed with impersonators, all vying to see whose parody passes for the real deal. In a dream? Are you nuts?
The rule will survive anything we throw at it.
By: Dr. Gregory Tucker
About "The Recovery Process"
Welcome to “The Recovery Process.” Over twenty years ago I read the works of Wei wu Wei and, as a practicing Clinical Psychologist, it became obvious that his synthesis of Buddhism outlined a very different approach to Psychotherapy. He wrote eight books, all gems, and I decided to synthesize his works into what I now refer to as “The Recovery Process.”
I work with clients over the phone using this process. For reasons that will become apparent, I no longer call myself a Psychologist. I don’t advertise, rent office space or solicit business. Clients refer clients to me because the process works. It works because it recovers the truth which allows you to identify who you are, who you pretend to be, as well as what “reality” actually is.
This approach is 180 degrees out of phase with our traditional views about reality because truth is 180 degrees out of phase with what we refer to as “reality.” There is the truth and, as a context, it includes the sum of the lies we assemble to create and defend our fictitious view of reality.
The Western view holds that everything is real, including what shows up as “reality,” including the self, people, and all the suffering we endure in a lifetime. The Eastern view, espoused by Wei Wu Wei and many others, holds that none of this is true. In a sense, “The Recovery Process” views The Eastern View as closer to the truth than The Western View, and that The Eastern View is the context for The Western View; namely that The Western View represents the sum of the lies we assemble to defend “The Master Lie,” that everything is real, especially the self and the people who argue for the self, often using the creation of suffering as the vehicle to prolong the fiction the self is real.
“The Recovery Process” identifies what the truth is and proceeds to provide the reminders the client requires to recover the truth of who they are in fact, and to use truth to identify the lies the client depends on to prolong the fiction that everything is real, the self in particular.
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