The Recovery Process

The dream that we find out 'selves' in features 'the dreamers' either coming to grips with the truth duality doesn't exist, or using time and tricks to drag out the fiction duality is real. It isn't real. In the context of this dream, it is the main parody that brings architecture to the dream. Without it, there would be no drama, no fiction called "good versus evil" and no tragedy. Without duality in the mix, the myth of separation would never get off the ground. Without duality, who would believe 'opposition' is possible?

The dream features duality precisely because duality makes a dream seem real. If you knew, consciously, that Mind is what everything is, who exists for you to oppose? In the absence of duality, you are always in the presence of the rest of you. Never mind the apparent differences, the costumes, the cultures, the languages and the 'borders' that serve as props to reinforce the fiction we are all at odds with one another.

If you knew duality was a prop in a dream, the odds go up that time would dish up "The Grand Epiphany," a moment when you see with great clarity that this dream features 'duality' for 'the dreamers' to unmask and expose as the hoax that it is, or to fill time acting it out because we can count on it to fill time with suffering, conflict, violence, and all the parodies that go with the fiction someone is 'right' and someone is 'wrong.'

In this dream, it is the hoax called duality that obligates 'the dreamers' to fill time with the defense of the lie 'the self' is real. Time features 'the dreamers' using a huge assortment of tricks to defend the lie the self is real because if there is no self, and duality is a hoax, what are we going to use to maintain the fiction we are 'the real people' we insist we are, in this dream, of course.

In this dream, 'the dreamers' depend on the lie duality is real to prolong the fiction the self is real. We can't play the part of 'real people' in this dream and know duality is only a parody that keeps the lie alive someone exists to have a self. In a dream? Are you nuts? In this dream, job one for 'the dreamers' is to rely on amnesia to shield us from the truth that no trick, no matter how eloquent, especially duality, will work to revoke the fact the dream is the context for 'everything' and 'everyone,' including how 'the dreamers' depend on 'amnesia' in the dream to obscure truth so we can fill time with the drama called "the very real."

In this dream, duality is mandatory to make it possible for 'the dreamers' to use life as the arena to defend the grand parody called "personhood." Time is the venue for that great misadventure. If 'the dreamers' woke up, one sunny morning, and knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that duality is a trick in a dream to make the dream seem real, the sound of their laughter would fill the universe. Long-standing "enemies" would be hugging in the streets. Every negative story you made up to keep dreamers in place as 'bad people,' perhaps the ones who "ruined your life," would be viewed accurately as sheer nonsense. Duality sustains the fiction, in the dream, that 'real people' turned us into 'tragic figures' with 'damaged selves' that require years of psychotherapy to recover. In a dream? Are you nuts?

The only 'people' you are ever going to meet are the dreamers in this dream whose devotion to the fiction duality is real ranges from full time to part time grudge, and a few 'odd ones' who watch the spectacle called 'opposition' we keep in place in the name of 'the very real.' If this is a dream, who exists to be against anyone, ever? Thanks to duality, this parody not only survives, it is defined by time. If this is a dream, who exists to be 'right' or 'wrong' about anything? Superiority is a parody dreamers display in support of the fiction someone exists to be 'right.' The translation is, "my self is a better self than your self, "and this is pure comedy in the absence of anyone to have a self.

Life in the dream features how the dreamers use time and tricks, especially 'amnesia,' to keep from knowing they know that the dream can only feature 'the dreamers,' and their level of devotion to the defense of the lie someone exists to have a self. The defense of this lie is pure comedy. Is your religion "the one true religion?" Is your political party the one true party?" If you are fortunate enough to be in a place in which you watch the dream and the drama the dreamers deliver in the dream, to drag out the lie someone exists to have a self, you are on the cusp of liberation. Granted, 'liberation' can only occur in this dream, but what did you think 'right now' was: Swiss cheese?

Think of what percentage of time in the dream is devoted to the defense of the lie the invented self will work to prove we are 'the real people' we work so hard to portray in this dream. How many hours do couples use up in the dream trying to prove that one self is better than another, to pretend they don't know there is no one to have one? The arguments are circular, redundant, and futile. Only dreamers in the dream, using time to defend the lie the self is real, thanks to the hoax called duality, believe the argument is winnable. In a dream? Are you nuts? Time is the venue for "blah, blah, blah, blah," with time off to eat, take care of bodily functions, before they return to the fray. Are couples any more absurd than nations who view victory as the annihilation of their imaginary "enemies?" The dynamics are always the same; it is the scale of tyranny that changes shape and form.

The ultimate irony is that no dreamer can prove it is a person, in a dream no less, no matter how much faith it places in the lie duality is not only real, but it will work to prove someone can vanquish another dreamer? In a dream? Are you nuts? It might be your good fortune to reconnect with the fact the dream is the context for "The Whole Show," and perhaps, just perhaps, you might step out of the drama to identify the contribution you made to the apparent seriousness of everything. Who do you love to keep in place, in the name of duality, as a real someone to be against? Almost every dreamer has such a list: it is the sign the parody called "duality" is alive and well.

What would the rest of your appearance in the dream look like if you tore up your list because it has become all too obvious, if not slightly embarrassing, that the list is bogus?

By: Dr. Gregory Tucker