If mind is all there is, then ‘right now’ can only be the dream mind is dreaming, displaying where the dreamers in the dream are with that fact, somewhere between total acceptance and total rejection. If ‘right now’ is the dream mind is dreaming, then ‘right now’ is the truth. Mind is dreaming ‘right now’ just the way it manifests, including where all ‘the dreamers’ in the dream are with that fixed, immutable fact. As you expand into consciousness, making the shift from “The Small View (TSV)” of reality to “The Big Picture (TBP),” the more obvious it becomes that ‘right now’ is only a mind generated dream in progress.
Consciousness includes the truth right now is only a mind generate dream, and how mind dreams ‘the dreamers’ filling time dismissing truth as false to defend the lie right now is a real “reality,” which features TAG, or “The Anti-truth Game,” as “The Main Event” in this dream. If ‘right now’ is the dream mind is dreaming, then there are no people, only dreamers dismissing truth to defend the lie they are ‘real people’ in this dream. If mind is the source of everything, then mind is dreaming how ‘the dreamers’ in the dream fill time playing the game of TAG, somewhere between awake, and one with the fact right now is only a mind generated dream, to deep in trance, dismissing truth to defend “The Master Lie,” that everything in the dream is real and exists outside the dream mind is dreaming.
The dream features how ‘the dreamers’ in the dream reject truth as false so they can fill time trying to prove right now is real and not a dream, and that they are ‘the real people’ they impersonate in the dream, and not dreamers in a mind generated dream. If it turns out to be true that ‘right now’ is the dream mind is dreaming, then no dreamer in the dream can prove it is a ‘real person,’ having a ‘real life’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. If this turns out to be true, then this dream has absolutely nothing to do with people, only the problems the dreamers have in the dream trying to prove they are ‘real people,’ with no tie to mind, the dream mind is dreaming, and how mind dreams them dismissing truth to prolong the fiction a dreamer in the dream can prove it is some kind of a person. The dream mind is dreaming includes the game of TAG, or the sum of all the ways mind dreams the dreamers ‘trying to prove truth is false,’ as if that’s possible. If it turns out to be true that right now is only a mind generated dream, then the dreamer’s status in the dream never changes. No dreamer in the dream can cancel the fact it can only be a dreamer ‘right now’ in the dream mind is dreaming.
TAG features the sum of all the ways the dreamers in this dream pretend it’s possible to defect from mind, which underscores the origin of comedy if mind features “The Defection Parody (TDP)” as “The Main Event” in this dream. How can a dreamer defect from mind when mind is dreaming TDP? Waking up brings TDP into focus. First you identify how mind dreams you engaged in this parody, which, in turn, makes all ‘the dreamers’ engaged in this parody immediately transparent. It makes sense that waking up in the dream features a shift from ‘the utter seriousness of life,’ to the humor that goes with ‘watching dreamers defend the fiction defection from mind is possible.’ If mind is dreaming ‘right now,’ no part of ‘right now’ has any other reality than content in the dream mind is dreaming. The dream is ‘on,’ as usual, and mind is dreaming ‘the dreamers’ engaged in TDP, somewhere between comedy and tragedy. Mind dreams TAG, or the sum of all the ways the dreamers in this dream engage in TDP.
The dream features TDP as the center piece in this dream. No dreamer in this dream is, or can ever be a person. If ‘right now’ can only be the dream mind is dreaming, then our status in the dream is fixed, permanent and non negotiable. Every ‘person’ you encounter in this dream can only be a dreamer in this dream, displaying their level of devotion to the game of TAG. You know who is showing signs of ‘waking up,’ and whose defense of “The Master lie” is conspicuously delusional.
A dreamer who is flat with the fact ‘right now’ is the dream mind is dreaming is objective, rational, non delusional and appropriate. To be awake in this dream is to be a dreamer who is one with the fact ‘right now’ is the dream mind is dreaming, and that everyone in the dream is a dreamer in this dream. When you are awake in the dream, you know nothing is personal because, in the absence of people, nothing is PERSONal. Because you are awake, you can describe how mind dreams you playing the game of TAG in the dream. In the absence of people, this being a mind generated dream, there are no people to ‘tell lies.’ TAG features the lies the dreamers reiterate in the dream to defend the lie they are ‘the person’ they feign being in the dream. To be awake in the dream, is to be one with the truth, knowingly, that ‘right now’ is the dream mind is dreaming, featuring as “The Main Event,” where all ‘the dreamers’ in the dream are with the truth. To be awake in the dream, is to watch the dream ‘going on’ as fast as mind dreams it, paying particular attention to all the ways mind dreams ‘the dreamers’ defending “The Master Lie,” that 1) right now is real and not a dram, and 2) that all the dreamers in the dram are ‘the people’ they insist they are.
“The Defection Parody (TDP)” is “The Main Event (TME)” in this mind generated dream, called, amusingly enough, “reality,” by the dreamers featured engaged in TDP. This dream, by definition, has nothing to do with people. This dream features TAG, or the sum of all the ways mind dreams ‘the dreamers’ pretending they can distance their ‘selves’ from the fact they are being dreamed by mind engaged in TDP. Dreamers can’t play this game successfully and know, simultaneously, that they are being dreamed by mind playing this game in this dream. Because truth exists as a fixed fact, and mind dreams ‘the dreamers’ engaged in TDP, the dream includes ‘amnesia,’ or what it takes for a dreamer in the dream to pretend truth is false so it can fill time pretending what it does will prove it is a ‘real person’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. The dream includes this as “The Dreamer’s Dilemma” because the dream has no outside. It is what ‘right now’ is in its entirety. The dream includes how ‘the dreamers’ pretend they are ‘real people’ outside the dream, while in the dream because the dream is what there is to ‘go on’ from one second to the next.
Since no dreamer in this dream is, or can be, a person, TAG serves as an index of delusionality. The dreamer who is awake in the dream, operates in a context of zero duality: there is no such thing as mind and something else called “not mind.” There is only mind, dreaming ‘the dreamers’ engaged in “The Not Mind Parody” (TNMP), which is the same thing as “The Defection Parody” (TDP). Mind dreams ‘the dreamers’ engaged in TNMP so they can defend the fiction they are real people outside the dream. Since the dream is all inclusive, and nothing exists outside the dream, TDP is a clearly a parody: the dreamer is always in the dream pretending it can prove it is a ‘real person’ outside the dream. Because this isn’t possible, the dream features all the problems ‘the dreamers’ create in the dream in defense of the fiction they can prove they are ‘real people,’ having a ‘real lives’ outside of the dream.
Because our status as a dreamer in the dream exists as a constant, the option to wake up in the dream is always, in potential, imminent. Sometimes the shift from the lie to the truth takes place suddenly, with no warning: mind dreams you waking up in a split second. Yesterday you were busy tending your grudge to do ‘personhood believably,’ and today, inexplicably, you are on the floor laughing because you just got it that only dreamers ‘harbor grudges’ to play the part of ‘real people who were wronged.’ Yesterday you were starring as the perennial ‘sore loser’ in the dream, and right now you know there is no one to be that, or anything else on the list of ways to do personhood convincingly in “The Grand Parody” (TGP) mind is dreaming. The ‘sore loser’ motif is very popular in this dream because, in the absence of people, the notion of control can only be a myth: there is no one to ‘get their way,’ ever. Mind unfolds the dream inexorably, just the way ‘history’ happens. What we, as dreamers ‘get’ is precisely what is included in the dream, regardless of what that is.
As a rule, mind doesn’t dream ‘the dreamers’ waking up too suddenly or too fast. The majority of the dreamers in this dream fill time, exclusively, with defending “The Master Lie” (TML), somewhere between low to high TAG, featuring a precarious balance between comedy and tragedy, or some mixture of both. That ‘we’ do this isn’t a tragedy: this is how mind dreams this dream. The dream is a “Cliff Hanger”: will so and so ‘see the light’ today, tomorrow, or never? As a practitioner of “The Recovery Process,” mind dreams me assisting dreamers to wake up in this dream. I get to find out if what we do as a team will promote that outcome or not.
In the next installment, I will focus on how mind dreams ‘the dreamers’ assembling the self they require in the dream to play the game of TAG, as if a dreamer with an invented self can prove it is a ‘real person’ while in the dream. No dreamer can play the game of TAG convincingly without the self mind featured them assembling. It’s our pawn on the game board of life.
Do you remember Transactional Analysis? We don’t hear much about it nowadays but it was what first woke me up to “The Games People Play”, years before reading Wei Wu Wei who clarified what we are and why and how we do it.