If it is true that right now is the dream mind is dreaming, and everything in the dream can only be content in the dream, then there is no one to have a self. When you know that’s a fact, you wake up in the dream. As a dreamer in the dream, you are free to identify how the dream featured you assembling the self you use in the dream to play the part of ‘some kind’ of a person, somewhere between a self that is okay or not okay, and everything in between.
Once you know how you filled time in the dream defending the lie the self you invented is real, you are free to watch the way all the dreamers in this dream do personhood believably with the invented self. No dreamer in this dream can play the part of a person without the invented self. TAG, or “The Anti-truth Game,” features how the dreamers use the invented self to drag out the fiction they are some kind of a person in this dream. No one has a self at risk; what’s always ‘at risk’ in this dream is the lie the self is real. Each dreamer fills time defending the lie the self they invented is real to defend the lie they are a ‘real person’ in this dream. Since the lie the self is real is always ‘at risk,’ the dreamers, posing as ‘real people,’ are very defensive about the self. This is both justified, since the self they defend is used in this dream to do personhood believably, and totally understandable. If right now is the dream mind is dreaming, then every day is another day to defend the lie the dreamer is a person because it has a ‘real self.’ Think of how much drama a dreamer creates in this dream in defense of the lie the invented self is not only real, it belongs to a ‘real person.’
Since no dreamer can be a person in this dream, not even with a ‘powerful,’ or ‘cunning’ self,’ you realize why defending a fictitious self in a dream is such a precarious business. It’s defense results in ‘defensiveness, ‘ and ‘self consciousness,’ and all forms of delusionality and grandiosity. Fear includes the fact it isn’t possible to prove an invented self is a real self. This keeps the majority of the dreamers in this dream stuck in the business of insisting they self they have represents them accurately. If you can only be a dreamer in this dream, there is no way the invented self can represent you accurately. TAG features “The Main Event,’ or the sum of all the ways the dreamers in this dream insist the self they invented is who they insist they are. Is it any wonder that ‘suffering’ plays such a huge role in this dream. Time is the venue that displays the dreamer’s level of devotion to the fiction it can prove the self it invented is the person it insists it is in this dream.
A child shows up in this dream (gets ‘born’) with no self. It enjoys the non dual truth of just being in this mind generated dream with no obligation to be anything. The dream is ‘on,’ as usual, and it is in it. This dream includes, as content, that the dreamers in this dream are going to invent the self they will use in the dream to play the part of ‘some kind’ of a person. Mind dreams this as “The Main Event” in this dream. TAG captures the sum of all the ways mind dreams the dreamers pretending it’s possible to defect from mind. Mind dreams the dreamers playing ‘not mind’ in the dream by using the invented self as proof defection from mind is possible.
This is a mind generated parody because mind is all there is. There is no such thing as ‘not mind.’ If mind is all there is, then there is no such thing as duality. Mind is the dreamer of “The Whole Show” in its entirety,’ including how the dreamers use the invented self to defend the ‘not mind’ parody. Right now, for example, is the dream mind is dreaming, and it features how the dreamers use the invented self to drag out the fiction defection from mind is possible.
When does ‘the child’ in the dream shift from the truth it is a dreamer in this dream, to filling time engaged in “The Defection Parody?” It can happen any time in the dream, but, on average, it happens when ‘the child’ realizes that it can’t run reality on its terms. What wasn’t an issue is now an issue: it has no say in how the dream unfolds. It might get what it wants, coincidentally, but the odds are the dream will include a slew of events that threaten to remind it that that it can’t run the dream it’s in.
The dream mind is dreaming is always running just the way it manifests, including where the dreamers in the dream are with that fact. A few accept the fact they are dreamers in this dream, and flow with the way it manifests, within a range of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ events. A few even remain one with the fact all ‘events’ are only events in the dream, and that no ‘events’ have any more reality than content in this dream, but this is rare.
Mind features the majority of the dreamers dismissing the fact they are dreamers in this dream by pretending events in this dream are real events ‘outside’ the dream. This is the beginning of ‘The Dreamers’s Dilemma’ in the dream because the dream has no ‘outside.’ Mind is dreaming ‘everything,’ as content in the dream it is dreaming, including ‘the dreamers,’ where they are in the dream with the truth right now is only a mind generated dream, and how they invent the self by treating events in the dream as real events.
Nothing ‘going on’ can ever be any more real than content in the dream mind is dreaming. Right now, for example, the dream is in full swing, and it features TAG, or the sum of all the ways the dreamers in the dream use the invented self to defend the fiction they are ‘real people,’ having ‘real lives,’ in a ‘real reality.’ Mind dreams TAG as “The Main Event” in this dream. This dream can’t be about, or include, ‘people,’ only dreamers using the invented self to defend the fiction they are ‘real people.’ This is what mind is dreaming in this dream.
Time features the majority of the dreamers dragging out the fiction they are ‘real people’ in this dream with the invented self, but the fact remains, if right now can only be a mind generated dream, then no dreamer can alter its status in this dream, one iota. The shift from the lie to the truth can occur any time in the dream, but, as a rule, most dreamers are famous for pursuing the fiction the game of TAG is winnable, and they are on track to prove right now is ‘real,’ and not a dream, and that all the dreamers in this dream are ‘the people’ they portray in this dream. Mind is dreaming this parody, since there are no people, and nothing can alter that fact in this dream.
Most dreamers treat events in the dream as ‘real events’ in order to assemble the self they get to use to play the game of TAG. Because everything ‘happening’ can only occur as content in this dream, nothing is any more substantial than content in this dream. Mind dreams the dreamers, for example, responding to events in the dream as if they were real events, and the events are used to insist that a perfectly okay person with a perfectly okay selfs was damaged by ‘real events’ in the dream.
Dreamers can’t play the part of ‘real people’ in this dream unless they assemble a self, a story about the self, and a parody to occupy in the dream to play the part of some kind of a person, and more often than not, ‘a person with a self that was damaged by events (treated as real events) outside of the dream. Mind is behind the whole charade because mind is all there is. Mind is dreaming this dream, the dreamers in this dream, the events in the dream, the dreamer treating events in the dream as ‘real events,’ so the dreamer can fill time playing the part of some kind of a person in this dream.
Most dreamers fill time pretending its possible for a dreamer in this dream to prove it is a real person. Dreamers suffer in this dream from pretending its possible to prove it is a real person (while in the dream). The option to be a person in a dream is zero. Dreamers suffer in the dream from refusing to accept the fact that no dreamer in a dream is, or can be, a person. Dreamers defend the lie they are a person with the endless re-run of the ‘bad feelings’ that go with defending the fiction they were damaged by ‘real events’ in the dream. The parody the dreamer occupies features living in the lie ‘a real someone isn’t okay,’ which begs the question if there isn’t anyone to be, or not be any kind of a person, including ‘okay’ or ‘not okay.’
Because no dreamer in this dream can prove it is a person, not even with reiterated suffering as part of its parody, the option to wake up in this dream is always imminent. You can only be a dreamer in this dream, displaying the degree to which you fill time engaged in the unwinnable game of TAG, and any dreamer, in potential, is eligible to retrieve how it fills time engaged in the ‘not mind’ parody.
The goal of “The Recovery Process” is to assist dreamers to shift from the fiction they are the ‘real people’ the portray in this dream, back to the truth they are dreamers featured engaged in “The Defection Parody” in this dream. Any dreamer can wake up in this dream because it can’t defect from the fact that is what it is. Waking up includes recovering how mind featured you using the self you invented in the dream to drag out the fiction you can prove you are a ‘real person.’ Waking up includes many benefits, not the least of which is the fact — it is much easier to be what you are and can only be, than to fill time exclusively with the fiction you can prove you are who you pretend to be. Suffering is the sign the dreamer still fills time pretending it can prove it is a person, often using the creation of suffering as proof for that lie.
In the next installment, we will look at what kind of a self most dreamers invent in this dream to defend the fiction they are ‘the real people’ they insist they are.’ By way of coming attractions, it should come as no surprise that most dreamers engage in “The Victim Parody” to defend the fiction ‘a suffering someone will pass for a real someone’ in this dream. The addiction to the fiction something is wrong with us is what ‘addiction’ is all about. How many ways are there to bring credibility to the lie someone is real to be not okay, while in the dream?
