What makes right now “The Grand Parody’ is the consideration that everything in it is content in the dream mind is dreaming. Mind is dreaming the history of TAG (“The Anti-truth Game”), or the sum of all the ways mind features the dreamers in “The Grand Parody (TGP)” defending the fiction right now is real and not content in TGP. Either right now is more of TGP, or not. It can’t be both! Since TAG features how the dreamers in the dream keep the dream seemingly real, most dreamers defending the fiction right now is real are too deep in trance to even consider that mind is dreaming ‘everything,’ just the way it manifests in the course of time.
Because trance is essential in TGP to defend “The Master Lie,” that right now is real and certainly not content in a dream, very few dreamers are prepared to even entertain the idea right now is being dreamed by mind, even as it includes ‘me’ typing this. Comedy includes the fact there are no people to believe or disbelieve anything, not if right now is only the dream mind is dreaming. TAG features all the ways the dreamers in TGP reject truth as false in favor of defending the impossible lie right now is real, especially all ‘the people’ played by all the dreamers in TGP. Isn’t that “The Main Event” in TGP? Mind features the vast majority of the dreamers deep in trance, busy using the invented self to play the part of some kind of a person in TGP, and, more often than not, someone whose ‘realness’ in TGP depends on the fiction someone’s self was damaged by ‘bad events’ early in the dream.
TAG displays all the ways the dreamers use the invented self in TGP to defend the fiction right now is real, and hardly content in a mind generated dream. What works best in TGP is to defend the fiction the dreamer is a real person because it has a self that was damaged by ‘bad events’ in the dream, as if these ‘bad events’ were not content in TGP, like everything else. The TGP mind is dreaming features how the dreamers in the dream insist events in the dream were real events in a real reality outside the dream. If the dream had an ‘outside’ in fact, that would lock in the lie duality is real: there is mind, and then there is this ‘real reality’ that exists outside of TGP.
What makes “The Recovery Process” effective, even with high TAG dreamers firmly entrenched in the fiction they are ‘the real people’ mind features them portraying in TGP, is that the shift from the lie to the truth takes the dreamer from the lie duality is real to the truth mind is all there is. Dreamers in TGP get to have ‘difficult lives’ precisely because the lie someone has a real self depends on the lie duality is real; that there is such a thing as ‘not mind.’ This takes us to the origin of humor because if mind is the sole author of TGP, then TGP includes TAG as “The Main Event,” featuring how the dream features the dreamers pretending mind is not their source; that they can achieve’the escape necessary to defend the fiction a real person with a real self exists outside TGP. Mind dreams TAG as “The Main Event” in TGP. TGP features how the dreamers require the fiction duality is real to dismiss the fact they are content in TGP, like everything else.
No one has a problem if they are only content in TGP mind is dreaming. Waking up features the dreamer reconnecting with the fact it is a dreamer in the dream mind is dreaming. There is no one to have a SEPARATE self. There is no such thing as ‘separation’ if mind is all there is, including how it dreams the dreamers endlessly defending “The Defection Parody,” that a real someone has no tie to mind. If mind is dreaming ‘everything,’ feigning defection from mind can only be content in TGP mind is dreaming. The seeing of this clearly results in laughter. You are in the dream mind is dreaming (TGP), and the dream features you creating duality to defend the fiction you are a real person with no tie to that which is dreaming TGP. Mind dreams TAG, or the sum of all the ways the dreamers in its dream engaged in “The Defection Parody” to defend the fiction right now is real and not content in TGP mind is dreaming.
This is what I say to a new client: “you don’t have to believe a single concept we are about to explore, so let’s see if you can set that aside so you can discover the connection between suffering and defending the fiction duality is real. If playing with these ideas results in a reduction in suffering, does it matter if the ideas are valid?” If TAG is an index of the degree to which a dreamer in this dream defends the fiction separation from mind exists (duality), then the ‘client’ gets to find out that ‘suffering’ goes with defending the fiction defection from mind is possible. Dreamers suffer in TGP as long as they fill time defending the fiction mind is not the source of ‘everything,’ including ‘dreamers using the invented self to defend the fiction defection from mind is possible.’ Mind is dreaming “The Defection Parody” as “the Main Event” in the dream it is dreaming.
Waking up features the dreamer in TGP, busy defending the fiction it is a ‘real person’ outside TGP, reconnecting with the simple fact truth is absolute: right now can only be the dream mind is dreaming, displaying where each dreamer in the dream is with the fact truth is absolute. Mind is dreaming TAG as “The Main Event,” featuring how the dreamers create duality to pretend it’s possible to prove mind has nothing to do with this fantasy called “reality” (TGP). Mind is dreaming the dreamers filling time defending the relative (duality) to dismiss the fact mind is dreaming “The Whole Show” in its entirety, including, and in particular, how the dreamers in this dream argue for the relative, that the invented self is sufficient to prove the dreamers exist outside of the dream as ‘real people.’ This is “The Big Lie” in TGP because if truth is absolute, then mind is all there is.
In the absence of people, this dream features how mind dreams the dreamers in TGP engaged in the defense of “The Big Lie.” This is what this dream is all about. The dream is ‘on’ right now because right now is what mind is dreaming, including “The Main Event,” or all the ways the dreamers create ‘duality’ to drag out the fiction they exist as ‘real people’ outside of this dream, the one that is in full swing right now.
Waking up takes you to a place of clarity which makes it possible to identify what brand of duality you keep in place in TGP to drag out the fiction you exist as a ‘real person’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. If mind is all there is, then mind dreams the dreamers creating duality in the dream to fill time defending the impossible fiction they are ‘the people’ they insist they are in this dream. This makes the creation and defense of duality “The Main Event” in TGP mind is dreaming.
No dreamer in this dream can play the game of TAG without making the shift from the fact truth is absolute (mind is all there is), to the lie the dreamer is a ‘real person’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. Mind, in other words, can’t dream TGP unless it features the dreamers in this dream engaged in “The Defection Parody’; that duality will prove separation from mind is possible. This is content in TGP mind is dreaming. There is no one doing anything, ever.
TAG displays the degree to which the dreamers in this dream treat duality as real to defend the fiction they are ‘not mind.’ This is content in TGP precisely because mind is dreaming the dreamers feigning defection from mind to drag out the defense of the relative. TGP features the mind generated tug of war between the truth, mind is all there is, and the dreamers in the dream relying on the lie duality is real to defend the relative, that people exist as ‘real people,’ having ‘real lives’ outside TGP mind is dreaming. Nothing exists to ‘go on’ outside of TGP mind is dreaming. TGP is aways exactly what right now is.
A dreamer gets to play the game of TAG in TGP the minute it shifts from the fact truth is absolute to the creation of duality to defend the fiction defection from mind is possible. All suffering in TGP stems from defending the fiction defection from mind is possible. If right now is TGP, then only the dreamers in TGP suffer from defending “The Big Lie” in TGP. This is testable. When a dreamer wakes up in TGP it reconnects with how it keeps duality in place (the lie separation from mind is possible) to defend the relative in TGP. This signals the beginning of playing TAG in TGP.
I refer to this shift from the absolute to the defense of the relative, “The Critical Moment,” since it heralds the beginning of a dreamer’s participation in TGP. The shift can occur as a slow slide into “The Big Lie,” but, more often than not, it occurs in response to the sudden, unexpected, realization that right now is only a dream, the dreamer is only a dreamer in the dream, and no part of right now has anything to do with people. The dreamer shifts from the truth it is a dreamer in TGP to the fiction it is ‘a person in jeopardy,’ including ‘fear’ and associated ‘bad feelings.’ On the surface, the shift takes place in the presence of ‘trauma,’ but the truth is ‘the real trauma’ is the sudden realization that nothing going on has anything to do with people because right now is only a dream in progress. What ‘shocks’ the dreamer is the fact truth is absolute. There is no one in fact to be in any kind of jeopardy, not if everything ‘going on’ can only be content in TGP.
This is the moment the dreamer in TGP creates duality to defect from the fact truth is absolute so it can invent a self to defend the relative in TGP. Truth is ‘the shocker,’ and this insight is dismissed in favor of playing the part of a less than okay person, ‘damaged by events in the dream’ treated as ‘real events’ outside of the dream. The shift takes place in TGP, from the fact truth is absolute to “The Big Lie,” the dreamer is a ‘real person’ whose self was ‘damaged by real events’ outside of the dream. This is the moment in the dream when mind features how a dreamer gets to play the game of TAG in the dream. Most dreamers fill time playing TAG to pretend truth is false, which isn’t possible if truth is absolute. Most dreamers treat trauma as real events in a real reality to play the part of a real person with a damaged self. All of this is content in TGP mind is dreaming, and none of it involves people. Waking up brings this fact into focus, often with laughter since there is no one to be in bondage in fact; only dreamers reliving ‘trauma’ to play the part of ‘a damaged person with a damaged self.’
In the next installment, as promised, I will identify what is required for a dreamer in this dream to play the game of TAG, as if the game is winnable. Since the dream isn’t about people, only dreamers using duality to defend the fiction they exist as ‘real people’ outside the dream mind is dreaming, mind features “The Set of Tricks” the dreamers require to maintain the fiction they exists as ‘the real people’ they impersonate in this dream, from one day to the next.
