Poof! Extinguishing the "I-Me" Neuro-circuit Completely

If the devout spiritualists (Zen Buddhism, Advaita non-dualist, and all other "self is suffering" or "ego transcendence" adherents) wish to transcend the "self" they should simply turn to the advances of neuroscience as objective proof that the neuro-circuitry of the self is nothing more than a electro-chemically induced brain experience having no more sacredness than the circuit that provokes you to pick your nose from time to time.

Actually, this self-transcendence stuff they propagate is nothing more than self-exaltation dressed up to look like a negation. When you tell them that they can rest easy now, cause science is proving they don't exist, they tend to get downright nasty.

I remember reading one of Ram Dass’s books (I think it was “Be Here Now”) when he talked about spending a very long and arduous time with his guru in India meditating his previously sinful arse off. He talked about joyously flying through consciousness and meeting his beloved guru in some cosmic nether land of "pure" meditative awareness. Hence, thinking he had reached a particular “enlightened” state, he flew back to the U.S. to teach it to others. Yet, while riding a bus home, he recalled looking out the window, seeing a pretty girl and experiencing all his past conditioning, socio-cultural and genetic, come cascading down on him (or 'up,' depending on your perspective) generating the same behavioral responses that occurred before his years of meditation.

The brain, and its quadrillion neural connections, owns you because it is "you."

The neuro-circuitry of the brain will not be overcome. It will either be accepted as “you” or rejected and even that is contingent on the neuro-networks level of development up to the point of decision. It will NEVER be up to “you.” You had no say in the development of its neuro-circuitry and you will have no say in changing that circuitry (although soon science may be able to download it to a CD).

Why do we seek so hard to overcome brain circuitry? Rejecting current neuro-circuitry does not extinguish any circuit, but only unconsciously constructs new circuits and squelches other electrochemical stimulations until the very moment an experience reinvigorates a current once again.

This is why there is NO “subconscious” mind. "Mind" is simply a concept representing an experience of electrochemical circuits in the brain and, although some circuits may not currently be electrochemically stimulated (and are thus "subconscious"), nonetheless, they exist as “dormant dendrites” (to conjure up a phrase) awaiting the opportunity to be fully engaged and experienced once again (memory).

Einstein discovered the Theory of Relativity simply because the genetic and socio-cultural conditioned circuitry facilitated electrochemical firings of neurons which generated the experience of thought processes culminating in the revolutionary Theory of Relativity. He was destined to discover it, based on the unique developing circuitry of a brain that he had absolutely nothing to do with.

Destiny is game of neurons. Ya never know what you're gonna get...

Note the premise of neuro-plasticity (or referred to as neuroplasty by some) promotes an understanding of brain malleability. It is brain plasticity that allows experience to be etched in the brain matter as electrochemical impulse circuitry occurring chronologically from birth to death. Hence, if life experiences sculpt the already genetically predisposed brain like clay, why not artificially generate experiences to construct new, more pleasing and adaptable, neuro-circuits?

Obviously the “spiritual,” new age charlatans and magicians will eventually jump on the neuro-plasticity band wagon as they have with all new scientific discoveries (like "Quantum Mechanics"), but they will be dumbfounded as to how to change genetics. You may succeed in generating experiences to change neuro-circuitry. But, unfortunately, it may NOT come out exactly as you’d like, because in manufacturing that one desired neuro-network, you have no idea how it will relate to the other 100 billion neurons, and their quadrillion dendrite circuits, that reside in your brain.

Neuro-circuitry works through neuronal relationships (think of it as a 'society of neurons'). You could construct a behaviorally influenced neuro-circuit to induce a specific electro-chemically charged action. But there really is no specific actions in life. All actions are influenced by numerous unintentional relationships with people and events. Consequences, thus, influence other actions with the people and events you encounter everyday. Neural circuits work the same way with experiential and genetic brain networks (billions of neurons branching out from a quadrillion dendrite connections) influencing other networks. You could alter brain circuits to engage a specific action (and this has been proven with stroke victims) but you could not rely on that circuit to fire in the same way all the time. Let’s say you wish to construct circuitry that improves your ability to have a more "positive" personality so people would like you more. Would you want that circuit to override other circuits if, in fact, an assailant runs at you with a knife, clearly intent on your destruction? And how would such a circuit benefit you if a loved one had died? Would your new improved “positivity” circuit interact or override your grief circuitry? How would that affect other circuits as well?

There is no sacredness to mind, because there is no "mind" at all. There are only brains. The brain experiences an outside world, inside bodily states and the electro-chemical charges of it’s own neuro-circuitry, which it then applies linguistic conceptual interpretations (also electrochemically stimulated neuro-networks) to generate additional meaning and value circuits. This is simply consciousness itself. The brain is essentially a hunk of electrified fat within a skin-encapsulated cranium atop a bipedal mobile organism and from that you experience an "I-me" charged circuit. There is nothing special or sacred about it, nor about its neuro-circuitry. This does not require religion or philosophy to define (in fact, it tends to annihilate all religious and philosophical concepts in one fell swoop). But as neurons exist in communication with themselves, so must human organisms exist in communication with other human organisms.

Try not to unconsciously construct neurological "meaning" behind those communicative engagements, because that would be an exercise in futility (in relation to circuitry you have yet to "experience").

Just simply engage and observe what arises.

You might consider this materialist reductionism rather empty and meaningless (in other words, fuzzy feel neuro-circuits related to your non-dual ego transcendence are not lighting up after reading this). Yet, many would contend that it is only through this extreme form of reductionism that real meaning can eventually be discovered, rather than genetically and socially constructed meanings, which are nothing more than electrochemically charged brain stimuli relative to the circuitry of each individual nervous system which, itself, is contingent on the neuro-circuitry of each individuals genetics and life experiences.

Eventually, science will extinguish the “I-ME” neuro-circuit as it serves no further purpose to the communal nervous system, just as it has served no real fruitful purpose to the communal social system.What gets built up to ridiculously absurd heights must eventually fall, circuit by circuit.

The real post-modern “spirituality” will seek to discover what exists when the “I-Me” circuit is reduced to material nothingness, with no more meaning than a slice of white bread. Once your every thought, every feeling and every action is broken down to nothing more than neurons, axons, dendrites, generating electrochemical spurts along a cellular network, what will become of “you”? How will you relate to yourself if NO such "self" is in there at all?

And when the “I-ME” is completely annihilated by neuroscience (as it is currently doing piece by piece, staring with "free-will") what will "you" then become? When free-will is eradicated as folklore, what will be the point of doing anything at all? If there is no “you” to experience happiness and suffering, will those experiences simply be extinguished as useless neuro-circuits?

Or will they take on new meaning, devoid of the old synaptic firings bubbling up useless concepts, generating new experiences not hinged on self-actualizing electrochemically charged neuro-circuits?

The real spiritual revolution will occur through accepting that “you” are not real, but simply interacting networks processing electrochemical charges in physical matter. The only evolution in and of consciousness will occur when consciousness is accepted for what it actually is and all mythical folklore is abolished by the weight of its own nonsensical implausibility, since all that any mystical theory of existence has ever done is electrochemically fire up self-concept neuro-circuitry through inane, but constant, self-exaltation in opposition and in competition with other neurons (and others seeking their own self-exaltation). 

The end of egocentricity is fast approaching.

Are “you” ready?

Artwork by DrunkenNinja - "Dissolving letter face"

Discovering the “No-Self” Neuro-Circuit

Not too happy about your changing moods? Well, not to worry, your brain electrochemical, neuro-circuitry insures you will have them regardless of how many pills you consume as a means of altering the chemical composition of your synapses. Got some addictions playing out? Yep, circuits for that too. Wish you had more money? Brain circuitry insures that your “wish” continues, neuron after neuron, to be an “experience.” Not meeting your goals and aspirations? That’s okay because all your goals and aspirations are genetically and socially predetermined within a labyrinth of neuro-circuitry that spreads for miles throughout  the grey matter in the brain and that you began collecting since you first saw your “self” in a mirror.

Do you really think “you” ever had anything to do with you’re being “you”? 

If you said “yes” then rest assured there’s an electro-chemical circuit for that too.

“You” are nothing more than a web of neuro-circuits stimulated by electrochemical charges, which in turn are stimulated by the impact of experiencing a world seemingly outside your brain and which, in turn, stimulate further “firings” in the brain that you could not alter if your life depended on it. Your “subconscious mind” is nothing more than neurons firing off without the attending neural circuit of “awareness,” because awareness has its own neural circuit that doesn't bother with dumb sheit.

And let’s not forget the infamous “mirror neurons” which, not only fire off when you do something, but also when you observe someone else doing the same action. This is what allows the world to imprint upon your brain through tiny microscopic wires. This is how you are sculpted BY the world and not by your “self.” The “me” that you think you are had nothing to do with “you.”

But you reject the idea that you are nothing more than brain circuitry. You reject the concept that there is no “you” and only an amalgamation of mutually stimulating circuits firing off an experience of "I-ME," that really has no more substance other than billions of microscopic neurons that twist and turn within the cerebral cortex.

Well, not to worry, there’s a circuit for your “rejection” as well and, as long as you keep stimulating it through self-enhancing electrochemical impulses, it should last your whole life.

Do you realize that you are unconsciously constructing neural pathways each and every day? In fact, with each passing moment? Even while reading this, and asking yourself "why the hell am I reading this?" microscopic dendrites are branching out and connecting up with other neuronal circuits. You can't help it. That's what brains do.

Love your kids? Yep, that’s wired in. Enjoy your career? Good thing that enjoyment is dependent on brain circuitry, otherwise, it would suck. Not in “love” with your spouse anymore? It seems that circuit has been extinguished and losing that “loving feeling” is nothing more than the experience you get when you forget to pay the electric bill…no power. Wish you were more attractive or smart, funny, happy, contented, healthy, wealthy and wise? What’d ya think, you just thought all that up? Well, no, somebody else did and its name is “society” and society is wired deep into the contours of your brain’s neuro-circuits.

But at least you can stake the claim that you have a “self” that has a “spirit” and a “soul,” forgetting that every abstract concept you pay homage to is nothing more that neuro-circuitry associated with the linguistic centers of your brain. Electrons are fired off by a brain because a brain fails to understand itself and so requires concepts or linguistic (words) experiences. As long as Alzheimer's or a stroke does not infect you, and completely wipe out those centers, you can always look to your concepts to demand your rights and needs be met by others and to make sense of a nonsensical world. You can always complain to your spouse about how he/she is not meeting your needs, because without your specific brain circuitry you wouldn’t have any of those personal, self-actualizing needs. You wouldn’t need anything related to being a “self” or a unique individual. Just food, water, sex and shelter and you’d be one happy camper. But your brain is wired for much more….

But then, you exclaim, “at least I have my consciousness! That is all mine.” But who is it that is conscious? What is this “I” that claims it is conscious? Is the “I” something completely distinct from the neuro-circuits in the brain? Distinct from electrochemical impulses that inform the body how to act and vice versa? What is an “I-me” but another brain circuit providing a brain-centered experience of an autonomous and separate existence? How many decades of parental, socio-cultural experiences impacted upon the brain, additionally influenced by genetic factors, did it take to manufacture neuro-circuitry that provides an experience of being a unique self? And if it actually was genetic predisposition and socio-cultural influences that formed “you,” how can that in anyway be uniquely “you”? What brain circuitry fires off neurons that provide the electrochemical mirage of an “I” experience? Can there actually be such a thing as an “I-me” if it is only conditioned neurocircuity? Does it matter that "you" are nothing but conditioned brain circuitry? Can you still get all jiggy with that?

And if all this brain circuitry (billions of neurons corresponding through miles of connecting axons and dendrites) is “you,” then why do you constantly reject your “self”? Why are you forever seeking to change your “self? If it’s your neuro-circuitry, why not accept it? Why constantly grit and grind over the things “you” do or don’t do? Why continue to claim that when  “I” do this it is “bad,” while doing this is “good”? If circuits inform you of what is good and bad, then why not simply accept both as “you,” since it’s your brain circuitry? And if your “self” is nothing more than a product of conditionally formulated brain circuits, why not just do away with it, if it causes such duress over doing that or not doing this?

Wouldn’t it be better if you could just trash that entire circuit, rather than struggle for years over past “bad” vs. past “good”? And if there were no “I-me” self circuit, would you even care about good and bad? Would those circuits expire along with the neurons that make up the self? But then, if that were so, who or what would be conscious? How many other circuits would be discontinued along with the brain circuit that gives you an electrochemical experience of a “self” that is “real"?

Is “consciousness” nothing more than a neuro-circuit electrochemically firing off an experience, that we call “consciousness," but is really nothing more than electrochemical charges in 3 lbs of fatty tissue? Ha! wouldn't that be a humdinger of a neural pathway to exist through?

Is what the Buddha supposedly said, “Events happen, deeds are done, consequences happen but there is no individual doer of any deed,” actually true? But “who” would know it was true? If the brain circuit that fires off subsequent to other circuits informing “I-Me” that “I-Me” is an actual experience, were discontinued, how would “you” attain Buddhist “enlightenment” or an experience of “non-duality”?

If the “I-me” circuit in the brain were discontinued, who or what would be meditating and achieving experiences of “higher consciousness” and believing in karma and ego transcendence? How could “you” believe in anything at all if you didn't have the circuitry to identify "you" as the believer?

But not to worry, because there is a circuit in your brain that demands that all of this be completely NOT understood and that you remain ignorant. A circuit that demands you ignore everything on this page as stupid and confusing drivel. A circuit in your brain that absolutely requires you disregard everything that does not conform to current circuitry that works to continually assure you that an “I-Me” does in fact exist and “you” are most certainly a real existing entity. A circuit that directs you to provide attention to scriptures and sutras that sing praises to the “I-ME” that has come to understand the sutras and scriptures. A circuit that gives you out of body experiences and allows you to see the Christ’s face permeated on a piece of burnt toast. A circuit that demands your complete ignorance as to how you are completely controlled by the brain that sits between two ears and atop a physical frame. A circuit that believes utter bullsheit as true, because believing otherwise would fire off too many uncomfortable dissonant neurons.

Follow the circuit to the circuit that electrochemically fires off neuro-circuits, influencing other circuits,  that proves you have NO choice, but gives you an experience of a “self” that makes important choices, and you will finally realize a “self” that…

…does NOT exist, has NEVER existed and cannot possibly EVER exist.

In every dual hemispheric brain there is a “self” and a “no self” circuit.
Apparently, only a few have ever made contact with the “no-self” circuit and this is most likely due to the intensity of the constant electro-chemical stimulation we provide to the “self.”

But, obviously, once located, nothing ever seems the same again.

But, make no mistake, even the "no-self" circuit is nothing more than an electrochemical experience of corresponding neurons.

It too, does NOT exist at all....

Artwork by Erica Herazo - "Inside the Brain"

The "Choice" for Egocentric Anarchy

"If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.” (Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse five)


“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.” (Sam Harris)

“I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.” (Einstein)


The one thing an egocentric self-concept (“I-ME”) will not tolerate is having no volition or choice over its actions. The ego-self demands this be true. Yet, this demands full control of the thoughts that it experiences from which actions/behaviors originate. Yet, clearly, the idea of NO free-will, if fully and completely accepted, would annihilate the egocentric attachment entirely simply through demonstrating it has NO free-will whatsoever.

The paradox is that there is no free-will as to when, or if, you will accept it. It’s not your choice, because an ego self-concept does NOT in any way make choices of its own free-will. It lives within an anarchy of experience, ruled by random firings of synaptic, neurophysiological networks in the brain/body.

But shouldn't knowing this be a good thing? Shouldn't this be liberating? Unless, of course, the conditioned neuronal pathways firing off randomly in your brain, inform you it's NOT a good thing at all. In that case, you might be angry, confused, ambiguous...well, who the hell knows what you'll "feel"?

To some this is an absolutely absurd proposition and they will refuse to consider it, never really examining how the choices they believe they made or will make in the future, were never really made by an “I-ME” entity/concept and the choice of not considering non-volition is as non-volitional as the choice to consider or even agree or disagree.

Either thoughts arise based on external influences (if you're hit by a car then you’ll experience having no choice but to think about being hit by a car, and even then you will respond through conditioned neuro-circuitry) or they arise from random neurophysiological firings within the conditioned brain/nervous system. Neuron/synaptic circuitry firings send electrochemical messages that are experienced as “thoughts,” that another billion neuron pathways has learned to accept as “me” (a neuroscientist would describe more aptly but i think you get the gist of it).

But now, where did this theory I present come from? I have no factual idea and the fact that I’ve arrived at this idea/thought process (as have many other brighter minds long before me) merely demonstrates that I had no control over its arising as experience. Most likely it evolved through years of conditioned neuro-circuitry, thereby, constructing the neuronal pathways that led me to be influenced by other experiences up to a moment of realization. Of myself, I could not possibly have had anything to do with it, nor do I have anything to do with what comes after.

Really, the only thing an egocentric self-concept can say is that, although these thoughts are not produced by a “me,” it is certainly me that is having them. But if the “me” that is having them does not have any control over their production (thoughts), what does that say about the “I-ME” that believes itself a real entity with the power of control? Who or what is experiencing the thoughts that “I-ME” have nothing to do with producing? Does such an entity even exist, other than as a product of past conditioned experiences that generate randomly influenced brain firings that "I-ME" is NOT even aware are happening in my brain, let alone as to how they evolved to fire off as they do, thereby, initiating actions/behaviors from beliefs/thoughts?

The easiest way of experiencing all this is simply to sit in meditation. As you perform whatever practices you use in seeking to quiet the mind, thoughts simply pop-up out of nowhere and you’re often left to consider, “well damn, where’d that come from?” You have no idea. While deep in meditation suddenly the thought, "I better pay the electric bill," simply pops up outa nowhere. Why did that thought arise instead of any million other thoughts that could have popped up? What prompted that one to come to you the moment it did?

However, you do believe you have the option of detaching or dissociating from that thought, the very basis of your meditation, but only in relation to the mechanics of the meditation practice you were taught, which you learned from outside influences and has a neuronal pathway all it’s own influencing other circuits. Hence, can you say that you were able to extinguish the thought of your own volition? If the action to do that very extinguishing was simply another neuronal pathway? Doubtful, since there is also a circuit formed in the brain to give you your meditation practices and without that pathway, no such practices could be thought of and no "mind-quieting" could occur. Could you say you’re in control of your meditation practices? Doubtful again, since how to meditate and when to meditate are always influenced by outside stimulus. Could you say that you make a conscious decision to learn meditation practices? Hardly, because if you had the potential to study the evolution of “you,” from birth on up to the very moment you engaged the meditation practice, you would most likely see a confluence of external influences, including bodily/physical states and conditions happening outside and inside “you,” impacting and shaping your neurocircuitry, bringing you right up to the very moment of choosing to meditate. States and conditions that you had no control over whatsoever. They simply happened and where processed by you in ways that relied on numerous neural circuits which in turn influenced other neural circuits in turn influencing umpteen billion more, all the while specific circuits in particular fire off an experience of seeming volition and free-choice ("hmmm...my brain tells me I made this choice, so I must have").

Look at any ancient wisdom tradition and this fact of no free-will is apparent and many post-modern traditions are making this same claim. If you look at “A Course in Miracles" in the text referred to as “Workbook," you’ll see these claims clearly highlighted in the first 20 lessons with the theme, “Your thoughts are meaningless"

“Unlike the preceding ones, these exercises do not begin with the idea for the day. In these practice periods, begin with noting the thoughts that are crossing your mind for about a minute. Then apply the idea to them. If you are already aware of unhappy thoughts, use them as subjects for the idea. Do not, however, select only the thoughts you think are "bad." You will find, if you train yourself to look at your thoughts, that they represent such a mixture that, in a sense, none of them can be called "good" or "bad." This is why they do not mean anything.” (ACIM, Workbook, lesson #4)

In fact, many of the postmodern non-dualists, i.e.,  Ramesh Balsekar, Wayne liquorman, Adyashanti, etc, are proclaiming this “non-doer” status as truth. Not only are you not the doer of your actions, but you cannot even stake claim to the thoughts that proceed and motivate your actions. This can only lead to the proposition that if you are not the source of your thoughts and actions, what the hell are “you” anyway?

But most of all, we have neuroscience easily demonstrating the absolute control of neurocircuitry as basis for actions, in opposition to any form of self-volitional control (the egocentric self-concepts most prized possession!) with the neuroscientist Sam Harris currently leading the scientific claim of NO free-will.

You have simply been jostled and buffeted about in ways beyond your control, some ways your neurociruitry interprets as "bad" some "good," and each choice made, that you interpret as an attempt to assert some form of control, came from brain circuitry that takes “you” out of the equation altogether. Conditioned circuitry is clearly running the show. So simply let it unfold as it will, cause you really have NO other choice.

Sit back in your meditation posture this evening and direct your awareness to your brain’s neuro-circuitry. Experience the billions of synaptic firings sending messages through numerous other billion neuronal pathways prompting additional firings and note which neuron pathways you would like to redirect or extinguish altogether, because those "thoughts" do not serve your spiritual aspirations.

Does this sound absurd? That’s because it is!

But doesn’t this liberate you from the constant pressures to control your world? From the guilt of actions performed or not performed in the past? Why would the fact of no free-will appear to some as absolutely horrifying and beyond comprehension, while others attain enlightenment?

With this comes the realization that the war waged, all these years against reality, in demanding it be as “you” say it should be, was made as a result of reality being experienced in the brain exactly as it is, and it’s time you simply surrender the fight. Let it all simply happen as it will, since you have NO control in what will happen. Make choices in the realization that no ego-self has the capacity to make choices, just a deluded concept bent on ruling its world, and enjoy the choice made.

Obviously, if there is NO egocentric control of events through choices, but only an illusion of control, this will cause many to fear egocentric anarchy.  But choices will be made and must be made, as that is a product of neuro-conditioning as well. Only this time choices can be made with no consideration as to who the maker is and there comes a spiritual freedom in this beyond any choice that ever could be made by thinking one has the volition to make a choice to become spiritually free.

This means “awakening to truth” is definitely a choice, but fortunately, one “you” will NEVER make.

 “All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.” (Samuel Johnson)


Artwork by Pixelnase - "Flying Brain"

Dancing on a Pinhead of Guilt...

Holy frickin' sheit did I get alot of "important" crap done today!

"Thank God" for that, cause what value could I possibly extract from "existing" if I had NOT completed the pseudo-necessary tasks that insure that "I-me" really does exist? Who would I be if I didn't go to work and pay my bills as required?

What would "you" be if you could not do the things you "need" to do that assure to "you" that you're most certainly, without a doubt, "alive" and somebody? That, because of the sheit you do, whether mindless or not, harmful or harmless, you "exist"? What other measuring stick do you have to prove your "self" real, but the jiggy-poo sheit you "do" and feel all comfy-cozy about when you git're done? Other than what "you" do, who are you? Who or what could you be beyond the actions and behaviors that define "you"?

Did you get lotsa important sheit done today? At work? Did you finally pay that bill? Do you feel all peaches and cream cause you got a lower rate on your mortgage? Did you get the lawn cut and the hedges trimmed? When are you gonna get the oil changed in the Hummer, not to mention wash and wax? How can you sleep at night knowing the gutters need cleaning and your kids need braces? Are you finally getting those marble counter tops? Did you finally file that court case against your greedy siblings for taking all dead grannies money? When you drop your empty skull on the pillow tonight, will you worry about the sheit that "needs" to get done, or will you drop off into nirvana-land in the peace and tranquility of knowing you completed all necessary tasks that assert your right to be a "happy" self-actualized human being? Or will racing thoughts taunt you over the absolute need to get this done and that done?

Egocentrics are bound to the "doing," without which they have no idea of being alive and NO idea of who or what they even ARE? What would you be if your existence wasn't defined by the silly horsesheit you have been brainwashed into believing must get done everyday?

Just the other day I saw a book called "Exercises for Non-duality."

Huh?

Whether you're doing for your "self" or doing for another (which is always just another watered-down form of self-actualizing) "you" have NO idea of what you ARE unless you're doing something that seems as if it is "you" as the "doer," and that the "doing" is "good." Obviously, when that 'doing' is "bad," you're a big sheit and you know it! But doing nothing is a recipe for chronic GUILT, even though you seem NO less guilty even with everything you've done all these years.

Aren't you proud of all the grand sheit you've done in your life? Do you have a college degree? What would you be without reference to all your past actions and behaviors? Have you finally found your "soulmate"? Was the divorce finalized yesterday (but you're still not sure if momma will give you the 6 grand for lawyers fees?). Are you stocking up for 2012? (but quietly, cause you don't want to look like a fool if nothing happens?).

So go ahead and try doing absolutely nothing for a week. That's right, for one week sit on your ass and watch the weeds grow. Can you do it joyfully? Of course not, cause eventually waves of guilt will wash over you. Life demands "you" do certain "things" in order to get that wrap-around butt tap from God.

The egocentric self concept/image/belief is impounded by values collected from years of "self-development" and reversing that effect is tantamount to preparing for death. But then, what else are "you" but a mechanistic body-mind whose chief raison d' etre (reason for being) is "doing" all kinds of jiggy-poo sheit up to the last breath? But what for? You really haven't the slightest idea. But that doesn't obstruct the "doing."

"It's nice here with a view of the trees
Eating with a spoon
They don't give you knives
'Spect you watch those trees
Blowing in the breeze
We want to see you lead a normal life"
(Peter Gabriel)

Alas, I'm gonna get inundated by all kinds of spiritual roughnecks (and believe me, the spiritualists are the most fanatical egocentric 'doers' when it comes to protecting their precious kumbaya belief systems) demanding that I recognize the value of the "existence" of every "human being," as if "human beings" had some absolute definition of value beyond an elephant or an amoeba, rather than the relative "lifestyles" we currently define ourselves through that hold no universal importance except to the one "living" it. Hence, it makes absolutely NO difference what "you" do, except...to "you" (and the few you've surrounded your "self" with who believe the same horsesheit).

Let's face it, my friends, "you" hold no value and thus the system of values that seems to hold you up through your "days" between birth and death, with all that must get done, is as worthless as the "package of beliefs" (Freud) you insist is definitely, without a doubt, "you." Eventually it all must crumble unto dust as it always does. Hence, as sad as it is to say, what you "do" is as worthless as "you." Other than a bag of bones in slow perpetual rot what the fook are "you"?

Without doubt, the foundation is always GUILT and that is what DEFINES you on a daily basis.

Guilt literally keeps you alive because, day by day, moment by moment your head is busy evaluating the right or wrongnesss of what "you" DO. The "good" or "bad" of your actions is your defining principle based on socially conditioned beliefs. Guilt gives you your ONLY reason to exist and though you know NOT why you exist, you continue to perseverate, ruminate and grit and grind on the failure of your existing as REQUIRED, even though your utter confusion as to "why" is what chisels you down, day after day, into little smelly fish-heads, doing all manner of important relative sheit that, in the end, means absolutely NOTHING. This is what makes people "sheeple" and why "you" will never be anything more than GUILTY. Mindlessness requires guilt and guilt literally is the core of your existence.

Never will egocentricity LOOK to 'why,' only 'how,' because the moment "you" deeply examine the 'why,' the 'how' dissolves instantly without even a whimper.

But it does tend to take "you" with it....


Artwork by Christopher Haines

Eventually, you just can’t help but bust out laughing…

When concepts can no longer be found for which to make sense of it all, you just can’t help laughing your fooking ass off.


When you’re lookin’ outside your eyeballs and suddenly you can’t hold back a  big deep belly laugh...

....recognize that you’re awake.

Now here’s a chap worth watching. Notice how he’s struggling to take this sheit serious, knowing that’s what “Seekers” demand, all the while holding back from just busting out laughing.

In the 2nd video he completely loses it.

Definitely a sign of an "awakened master," except....

...to the serious ones.

My thanks to Lisa for the main photo.

Sheit Happens (so just keep dancing)

 

It makes no difference what you "do," yet this does not negate the "doing." You'll continue the delusion of control until it finally makes no difference. When the final breath is extinguished you'll have about as much control as when you took that first gasp.

Go ahead and allow your egocentric insecurity to wash over you like raindrops in a thunderstorm.

Consciousness unfolds as it will and the Divine Comedy is that your belief in free-will is as much a product of consciousness as all those important decisions and choices you "think" you've made all these years. Consciousness is in the drivers seat, since only it has subjectivity, while all else is mere object (including "you"). Consciousness is the Puppet Master and its pulling your strings, all the while filling your head with sugar plum faeries that you call "choices."

But hey, isn't it great to know that all your choices don't mean squat and that you have about as much free-will as weeks old road kill? Doesn't that fill your heart with a sense of freedom ne'r before experienced? You're free to allow consciousness to flow like water and take you wherever it WILLS. All you gotta do is sit back and enjoy the dance. Just keep dancing and whenever you fook up royally, you no longer need take on that guilt that's been dawgin' ya all these years, because when you look closely at cause and effect, "you" are not in the equation at all. Never were. Never will be. 

So just sit back, relax and watch the show...cause Sheit Happens, Yo!

One moment your jumpin’ for joy, the next your down on your knees praying for it ALL to go away. The illusion of control is just an attempt to make sheit less sheitie or, if it's good sheit, to roll around in it as long as you can. But still...IN consciousness....sheit happens, as it always has and always will happen. It makes NO difference what you do, cause when sheit happens...it happens.

Look at your "life" and see for yourself. Sheit happens causing more sheit to happen, causing more sheit to happen, thereby, hence and ergo, causing more sheit to happen and then, one day, you make a "choice" and think that the choice you made was the cause of the sheit happening. But you fail to fully see the Pattern of Sheit Happening. Sheit had to happen before you made the "choice" that made that particular sheit happen. Sheit happens whether you choose it or not. If all the previous sheit had NOT happened, the "choice" you think you made, that you believe made sheit happen, would NEVER have happened.

And look at all the major sheit that has happened to you in your "life" that you didn't choose! (you call that "chance"). Most of that sheit, good and bad, fell in your lap with absolutely no help from you. You have NO choice about sheit happening, cause it will happen as it has and always will.

“Time” is nothing more than a constant procession of sheit happening in consciousness. While sheit happens, consciousness never changes. Consciousness remains the same, but sheit keeps on a' happenin.' Forgot about the nature of "sheit," just focus on the "happening." The sheit is "you," while the happening is simply consciousness.

So now that you know "The Secret," you can get all jiggy with sheit happening in the recognition that nothing you can do, or not do, will fail to make sheit happen. Cause sheit will inevitably happen as it always has happened and always will happen.

Consciousness. You can’t leave home without it.

You couldn't even have “thought” if consciousness didn't allow it. yet, you think you have control. Nope, no control, just repetition. And consciousness gives you that.

Like the other day you were walkin' down the street when, Alakazam! from outa nowhere, up pops a thought and you go, "now, damn, where'd that thought come from?" Or how about feelings? The ones that come upon you outa the blue causing you to run to your therapist with "I just don't know why I feel so bad."

Give it up to consciousness kids! You are a victim. Without consciousness yo arse wouldn't exist. Without consciousness there'd be no universe to exist in! Consciousness owns you. Do you think your egocentric theories of logic have a snowball's chance in hell of making a spit of difference to consciousness? Ha!

You egocentrics can get your panties all in a knot if you want, with all your save-the-world-and-do-the-hokey-pokey sheit. But that don't stop dualistic sheit (good and bad) from happening in consciousness. And consciousness wants duality, cause that's what you get (and why would you get it if consciousness didn't want it?) and there ain't no saving grace in that dearies. It's just all kinds of sheit happenin'!

Some get a billion bucks, while others get run over by the bus. Some get mental illness, while others invent theories of relativity. Consciousness don't care who gets what, just that the sheit that happens unravels in living Technicolor. Consciousness allows sheit to happen. "You" don't. And none of it makes a speck of difference.

But egocentricity wants to know "why." 

Only a few will ever understand...

You can pick and choose sheit you like and sheit you don't like, but that don't matter, cause the sheit keeps happening. Consciousness don't give a wippiedoodle about your suffering over sheit happening, cause sheit keeps on a' happening. That should be clear by now.

But go ahead and grit and grind over the sorry state of your personal world. Sling around all kinds of kumbaya yippie yahoo ideas on how to make a better world so that only “good” sheit happens. Consciousness allows that too!

You can't stop sheit from happenin,' so just sit back, grab some popcorn and...

...watch sheit happening.

Artwork by Erik Johansson - "Arms Break, Vases Don't"