The Recovery Process

Because our status as a dreamer in this dream is a fixed fact, the option to be some kind of a ‘person’ is zero. The dream displays all the ways ‘the dreamers’ in this dream fill time dragging out the lie they are some kind a person, often, to clinch the deal, a less than okay person, like someone with "low esteem," or a "loser," or someone obviously ruined by a "bad childhood."

None of this is true, and all of it describes how ‘The dreamers’ in this dream fill time. In fact, we can call this "The Main Event" in this dream because it describes how the majority of the dreamers fill time. Once a dreamer assembles what it takes to play the part of some kind of a person in this dream, it is often "good to go" for the duration of its appearance in the dream.

The dream features all the ways ‘the dreamers’ imposter being some kind of a person, and what kind of drama they create to drag out the fiction they are the ‘real person’ they insist they are. "Reality," from the perspective of ‘drama,’ would be nothing, literally, unless ‘the dreamers’ filled time with this parody. Defending the lie a dreamer is some kind of a person is a full time job. Once the dreamer creates its personhood parody, it becomes the software that runs the dreamer’s personhood parody in the dream; and make no mistake about it, the parody includes what dreamers do to defend the lie they are the person they are impostering. The dreamer’s drama not only includes assembling what kind of a person it will imposter in the dream, but what it takes to defend the lie it is the person it is impostering, Time provides the arena for both, and both are what there is to witness in the dream on a daily basis.

The good news is, of course, there is no one to indict for impersonating a person in a dream. If this is a Mind generated dream, as the Buddha and many others suggested, then "reality" has nothing to do with people because there is no one to be one. In a dream? How?

Waking up in the dream includes reconnecting with the truth your status in the dream is a fixed fact: the dream is ‘on,’ as usual, it is what ‘right now’ is, and it features where all ‘the dreamers’ are in the dream with the truth. A few remain flat with the truth they are dreamers in the dream, with no interest in filling time impersonating a person, unless they do it tongue in cheek, while the bulk of the dreamers in this dream show a high level of devotion to defend the fiction they are the person they are impostering in the dream.

If right now is only a dream, so what! Reality, in this light, can only be a Mind generated fantasy featuring, of all things, ‘the dreamers,’ and how they reject or come to grips with the truth. Even a cursory observation of this event in the dream discloses exactly how ‘the dreamers’ fill time dragging out the lie they are the people they are impostering. It should comes as no big surprise that defending a lie as if it is a fact results in suffering. Suffering is central to this dream because most of ‘the dreamers’ in this dream show a profound reluctance to admit they know there are no people, only dreamers in the dream defending the fiction they are ‘the people’ they insist they are.

The defense of this lie is the centerpiece in this dream. No matter where you look, this is what there is to witness. If, as a dreamer, you still have one foot in the lie your personhood parody is the real deal, you will show up defending that parody as if someone’s life is at stake. Who could possibly have ‘a life’ in a dream? The dream features ‘the life’ the dreamer is having in the dream, either giving truth a hard time, or reconnecting with the fact it is much easier to be what you are instead of what you pretend to be.

It is no accident that dreamers live on the cusp of embarrassment because the rule is always staring them in the face: "Under no circumstances can a dreamer in a dream be, or become, a person," no matter how they fill time impostering being one. Because this drama is an event in the dream, in the end, isn’t it a comedy, just like Wei Wu Wei reminds us, ad nausea?

If we can’t be anything but what we are, and we fill time playing the part of some kind of a person, isn’t this the origin of retardation? It’s like telling another dreamer you can throw a ball a country mile, knowing your statement is not only not true, it’s funny.

As a rule, not too many dreamers, defending the fiction they are the person they are impostering, find truth very funny. The dead give-a-way for this fact shows up as endless defensiveness, because, as dreamers, we know at some level that nothing we do in a dream to prove people exist will ever work. We know the war we wage on truth isn’t winnable. We know ‘reality’ features dreamers impostering being some kind of a person, usually featuring a ‘flawed self,’ and yet, most dreamers in this dream show up to defend a fiction as if it is a fact for the duration. How lucky we are that all of this is only content in this Mind generated dream, and that none of it has, had, or will ever have, anything to do with people. There are no people to be ‘the doers’ of a single thing. Don’t we, as dreamers, love to pretend that simple fact is so difficult to ‘get.’

I work with dreamers who show a readiness to reconnect with the truth in this dream, but the road from the lie to the truth can be a long, winding road, even though truth itself, as Mind, is the context for the whole show, from start to finish. Lately, I am one with the truth not too many dreamers can make the shift from the lie to the truth in this dream. There is no one to be held accountable for this outcome: it happens in the dream, as an event, just like everything else, from ‘birth’ to ‘death,’ and everything in between.

This dream doesn’t feature too many dreamers chomping at the bit to shift from the lie to the truth because this is what most dreamers do in this dream. The drama we deliver in this dream is played against the fact nothing we do in the dream can alter our status in the dream. Once a dreamer, always a dreamer, regardless of ‘our’ level of devotion to the lie the game is winnable.

‘Sadness’ (not to mention ’anger’) is often the price we pay for pretending we don’t know ‘we’ lost the game before it began. Every dreamer, because it is one, has the opportunity to wake up in this dream, but the dream features most dreamers playing ‘hard ball’ by defending the fiction impostering being a person in a dream is a winnable hand in this impossible game.

The dream is the context for the whole show ‘the dreamers’ deliver in this dream. Might as well enjoy the show because that’s what exists to ‘go on.’ Pull up a chair, close your mouth and watch Mind deliver the goods, as everything ‘going on’ everywhere, all the time, with no exceptions. In particular, pay attention to ‘the dreamers’ and how they fill time dragging out the lie what they do in the dream will work to prove they are some kind of a person. Sipping a martini might help to deal with the endless incredulity of this drama.

There are days when the drama is so ‘unbelievable,’ a snapshot will catch you with your jaw hanging down around your knee caps. It pays to think, "and then what happened," or, "he did what?" The war on truth isn’t winnable, of course, but it sure fills this fantasy called "reality" with everything it needs to drag out the lie it’s all about ‘people,’ and the struggles they face trying to find "enlightenment," as if there is someone to achieve that goal, or anything else, for that matter.

From my perspective in the dream, nothing is more fun than assisting recalcitrant dreamers to reconnect with truth they pretend to be separate from. If truth is what we are, how can anything, including the use of ‘duality,’ work to prove defection from truth is possible?"

"The War on Truth" is pure slapstick: it is what you are even when you pretend you are not what it is. Indeed, truth is the context for the lies dreamers require to play the part of ‘some kind of a person’ in this dream. There are no people doing anything at all, ever. Truth doesn’t give a rat’s ass if dreamer you surrenders to this fixed fact or not. The odds are excellent that you will do the one or the other, and the statistics favor the odds that you will fill time defending the fiction you are ‘some kind of a person,’ often with ‘grave flaws.’ Most dreamers display a high level of uneasiness about defending this fiction as if it is a fact. Can you blame them?

By: Dr. Gregory Tucker