If, as Wei Wu Wei says, right now is the dream mind is dreaming, and that is true, then “history” is what mind is dreaming in the context called ‘time,’ which, allegedly, began with “The Big Bang” some fifteen billion years ago. Mind hatched this dream with “The Big Bang,” featuring ‘the unfolding universe’ as the center piece in this dream. Without the creation of time, there is no space in which ‘events’ could unfold as “history.”
“The Recovery Process” is a dreamer to dreamer encounter in this dream. One of the two must be awake in the dream, or awake enough to discuss the dream objectively, in order to assist the “client” to identify how it treated events in the dream as if they were real events outside of the dream. If the dream is always what right now is, then the dream included the events the dreamer in the dream kept in place as not only ‘real events,’ but the events that damaged a real person. If “history” is the dream mind is dreaming, then the dream included those events, the dreamer in the dream, and the dreamer in the dream using those events in the dream to dismiss truth by pretending it can be replaced with the fiction a real person was damaged by real events.
As Wei Wu Wei says, repeatedly, it’s an all or nothing proposition: either the dream is always what right now is, and ‘everything’ is content in the dream, or nothing is content in a dream. Waking up features the dreamer in the dream retrieving how it keeps old, usually negative, events in the dream real to use reiterated suffering to anchor the fiction a real someone has a real self, and reiterated suffering is sufficient to prolong this fiction in the dream. The so-called “pain body” is what a dreamer in this dream relies on to defend the fiction a real person is ‘damaged.’ If right now is only a mind generated dream, then there is no one to be anything, including ‘damaged.’ The lie the self is real depends on the lie reiterated ‘bad feelings’ are sufficient to prove someone has a ‘damaged self.’ If this is a dream, and there are no people, only dreamers featured defending the fiction they are people, usually with reiterated suffering, then waking up can occur when a dreamer identifies how it converted “negative events” in the dream into the story it occupies that it was damaged by real events in reality.
If right now is the dream mind is dreaming, then there are no people, only dreamers keeping negative events in the dream real to prolong the fiction right now is real and not more of the same, on-going dream; and that dreamers who play the part of ‘damaged people’ in this dream are real damaged people. The question is, can a dreamer play the part of a ‘real person’ in this dream without reiterated suffering? Nothing works more convincingly than reiterated suffering to defend “The Master Lie,” that right now is real and our collective suffering is proof that’s true.
It is startling to realize that if right now is only a dream, then no one exists to be damaged. The dream included events the dreamer in the dream used to invent ‘the damaged self.’ Once you retrieve how you defend the fiction you are a person in this dream by playing the part of someone who was damaged by events you keep in place as ‘real events’ outside of the dream, you suddenly realize what percentage of the dreamers in this dream defend the fiction they are ‘real people’ in this dream because they have a ‘damaged self.’
Reiterated suffering works to keep this dream in place as a real “reality,” featuring dreamers who keep this parody in place with reiterated suffering. Suffering is rampant in this dream because nothing works better in the dream than pretending you were damaged by ‘real events,’ when the dream is always ‘on,’ and always displaying how the dreamers rely on reiterated suffering to prolong the fiction this is not a dream, and all the people are ‘real people’ in this dream.
If “history” is the flow of events in this dream, one after another, than nothing in the dream is any more substantial than content in the dream mind is dreaming. The dream features the events the dreamers will use in the dream to defend the fiction they are ‘real people’ in the dream, and not dreamers delivering personhood believably with events in the dream.
For example, the dream includes the event called “adoption.” It takes place in the dream. It involves the dreamers in the dream. It has nothing to do with people, not if right now is the dream mind is dreaming. If mind featured a dreamer permanently awake in the dream, it wouldn’t pretend adoption had anything to do with people. It wouldn’t use ‘adoption’ to assemble a parody in which it occupies the theme of ‘abandonment,’ on a daily basis in the dream. It wouldn’t invent a self that was ‘damaged by terrible events’ in the dream. It wouldn’t treat all woman as ‘the bad mother who gave it away.’ It would view ‘adoption’ objectively as one of thousands of events in the dream.
Having worked with ‘adopted children’ in this dream who use ‘adoption’ as the cornerstone for their ‘abandonment parody,’ I can report that ‘adoption’ works remarkably well to anchor the lie the event called ‘adoption’ damaged them permanently. The lie the dreamer is a real person who was damaged by events in the dream, manifests as living in this parody for one lifetime, or until it wakes up and realizes it used ‘adoption’ to play the part of a real, less than okay person.
Since no dreamer in this dream is, or can be, a person, the question is how does mind dish up the events the dreamers will use in the dream to engage in “The Grand Parody” mind is dreaming. Mind is dreaming this dream in its entirety, including where each dreamer in the dream is with the truth right now is only a mind generated dream, and what events in the dream will the dreamer treat as real events outside of the dream to assemble how it will fill time 1) playing the part of ‘some kind of a person’ in this dream, and 2) how does it fill time defending the parody it occupies to defend the fiction right now is real and not a dream, and that all the dreamers are ‘the people’ they portray in this dream.
If mind is the ultimate subject for this dream, to the degree there are no people, only dreamers delivering that parody in this dream, then mind is what ‘everything’ is. Mind is dreaming this fantasy called “reality” featuring TAG (“The Anti-truth Game”) as “The Main Event” in the dream, or how the dreamers use history in the dream to play the part of ‘real people’ in this dream. If mind is dreaming this dream called “reality,” then waking up can occur in this dream when a dreamer reconnects with the truth it is in the dream mind is dreaming, using events in the dream to play the part of ‘some kind of a person,’ usually ‘someone who was damaged by bad events.’ When a dreamer retrieves the fact there is no one to be in bondage, and that the dream features using ‘bad events’ to defend the fiction it is a ‘real, not okay person,’ the dim outline of waking up comes into focus. The dreamer can look at how it used events in the dream to play the part of some kind of a ‘real damaged person.’
The dream features ‘the physicists’ looking for “The Theory of Everything,” or TOE. Perhaps right now is proof it already exists, waiting to be ‘discovered.’ If you are willing to consider that right now is the dream mind is dreaming, and that it includes how ‘you’ fill time with reiterated suffering to pretend it’s possible to prove truth is false, then ‘you’ can shift from content to context, from object to subject, and from ‘real person’ in a dream to a dreamer using events in the dream to drag out the fiction ‘you’ are a real, less than okay person. There is no one to be not okay! This is at the core of Wei Wu Wei’s message, which he arrived at by deconstructing “The Perennial Philosophy,” with a special focus on Buddhism.
If we only focus on Mind, what we come up with is mind’s math, or the architecture of this dream. Mind is dreaming ‘the dreamers’ creating duality to pretend to be ‘not mind’ so they can fill time in the dream with the fiction the dreamers are ‘real people’ in this dream mind is dreaming. Since none of this involves people, this is “The Grand Parody (TGP),” and it includes ‘you’ in it doing what ‘you’ are doing to prolong the fiction right now is real and not the dream mind is dreaming.
M is dreaming D’s doing ‘not mind’ to do ‘personhood believably’ in TGP mind is dreaming.
Obviously if mind is dreaming ‘everything’ as content in the dream it is dreaming, then nothing exists as ‘real’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. In fact, the dream mind is dreaming features how the dreamers defend the fiction all events are real because they exist outside the dream. If right now can only be the dream mind is dreaming, then nothing ‘real’ exists outside of this dream. Time displays how the dreamers in the dream defend the fiction nothing is content in this dream. This is what makes TAG a no win game. There is no one to prove they are any kind of a person if right now is the dream mind is dreaming. The seeing of this heralds the beginning of the origin of humor. Truth is humor if it is nothing more real than the dream mind is dreaming. You are immersed in the humor of this mind generated dream, displaying where you are in the dream with the fact truth is what humor is.
In the next installment, I will focus exclusively on the top five events the dreamers use as ‘real events’ to invent the self they use in the dream to play the part of some kind of a person, and, more often than not, someone who was ‘damaged by bad events’ in the dream. Waking up includes remembering all dreamers know ‘everything’ is content in this dream because this dream is all there is to ‘go on.’ When a dreamer wakes up in this dream, it shifts from the delusion it is a ‘real person, damaged by bad events,’ to the non delusional, objective insight, this is what mind featured it making up in this dream as part of “The Grand Parody.” There are no people to make up anything whatsoever. “History” is a record of how the dreamers in this dream played the part of ‘real people,’ including ‘significant historical figures,’ some of whom turned “reality” into a living nightmare.
Here’s my struggle: If right now is mind that is dreaming, then there is no one to be damaged. There is also no one to be happy, no one to be okay… I see a focus on how the dream hinges on suffering. Perhaps one would think that ‘waking up’ in the dream would be a ‘good’ thing, but one can’t really wake up because there’s no one, and it can’t be ‘good’ because it’s nothing. But hey, it can’t be bad because it’s not real. I do feel that these concepts are dependent upon one another, but every time the concept of no-self is discussed, it is romanticized. This persuades toward getting rid of old baggage (the past) and achieving this freedom – this ‘awakening’ that is ‘good,’ simply because it’s the absence of the damage, of suffering. This cannot be the case, because realizing there is no one to experience sorrow is the same as realizing there is no one to experience joy.
You make a great point, and I too have struggled to get my head around this at times.
What I’ve learned to do (i.e., that which helps me) is to stay focused on what is “real”, understanding that what “I” define as “real” is that which is eternal.
The only thing eternal is love…the pure energy of creative potential, which at its core essence is divine love.
Thus, in order for that which is all there is (God, The Universe, First Source, “The All That is”, or whatever you want to call it) to experience pure love and eternal, infinite joyful bliss, then the paradox is that it must experience that which it is not (e.g., death, limitation, lack, fear, sorrow, etc).
It is by staying vigilantly attuned and centered on the knowing of who and what one is, that the spectrum of duality can be modified/tempered/regulated, if you will.
In other words, you, me, we all–ARE GOD. We (God/First Source) elect the experience of individuation (separation and dualism) in order to create the illusion that enables certain experiences.
…One example is the experience of being human on the 3D Earth plane, involving linear time and communicating with each other via the medium of internet posts–about the very anatomy of consciousness itself.
–Talk about examining the inside-out of it all!
I had a “dream” as I slept last night. Actually, I had several, and they all seemed very real. As real as “waking life” as I type this.
It caused me to ask: “how was that dream last night any less real than my “wakened” awareness and experience this morning. –And why can’t I dream a different dream while awake, so that my experience is more like the travels and experiences in my sleeping “dream’”?
I read a couple of articles and came upon this website for the very first time. I then read Dr. Greg’s articles and was happy at how they echoed the principles of A Course In Miracles, which is something I’ve been studying for ten years now.
I do not yet have the full answer for the question that I seek to fulfill this day, but it will come to me as I continue to dream the solution–and an infinite number of potential outcomes, all of which are “right”, so long as I interpret them within the context of The Whole.