In the movie, Stranger Than Fiction,
our hero is doing what he is doing, unconsciously.
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When Harold Crick, the hero of the movie, starts hearing the narrating voice in his head, what the voice says takes him out of his unconsciousness, his usual way of doing things, going through life like a drone, and this changes his life.
Continue reading Respect: look again… but this time differently
One sign of low intelligence [note]from Quora –>, but it is quite accurate, 70% truth value: Most low IQ people tend to almost be Fundamentalists and take things very literally due a lack of imagination, intuition, open-mindedness, cognitive flexibility, comprehension, critical thinking and are always relying on very direct impressions because of the lacking of depth in their thoughts and understanding of things[/note] is thinking that you see everything that is relevant. And when someone shows you something new: that doesn’t change your thinking… you think: now I really see everything. I even catch this last one… although not as frequently as I used to…
It’s normal to think that… but it is also stupid. Because a person who thinks that doesn’t even look. And definitely won’t look differently… Won’t ask different questions. Will be more interested in what they have to say than what others have to say.
They want to go for the ‘answers’ within… but what is within is not what gives the ‘answers’… the answers are without, or outside the narrow space the low intelligence person is looking at.
The Driftwood capacity –> is the divider between low intelligence and higher intelligence.
But it is tricky. Continue reading What can’t you see that if you saw that, your life would change to the better?
Even if you have the driftwood capacity activated, you have to learn what it is like to be looking.
Yesterday’s article about assumptions should clue you in: you mostly are stuck with your assumption: you have never really looked and seen.
It seems that to observe, to look, to look until you see something is not a low-vibration person activity, and most people ARE low vibration… so most people never look.
The ones that do are famous at least in what they do for a living.
Quentin Tarantino… Albert Einstein, Ayn Rand.
It really seems that this capacity to look and see is very rare. Continue reading What can you see in the sideways view?
What the f… are you talking about. Sophie?
Because 99% reality, 99% of all-there-is is invisible to most of us, we all developed some way to cope with that… and of those the most damaging, the most harmful is assumptions.
You assume you know. Youe assume the context. You assume what is wanted and needed.
Asking questions is below you… you think, and you don’t ask. Continue reading Assumptions or gratitude, appreciation, abundance… Choose.
Actually, lots of things can only be seen from the sideways view… and therein lies the inability for humans, for homo sapiens to grow, evolve, because 98% of all humans can’t look from the sideways view. And the 2% that can, doesn’t know that about the 98%, or even know about themselves, so they don’t fully utilize this rare capacity either.
I just finished reading a near future sci-fi novel, where part of the book plays out in Nazi Germany, and even in interactions with Hitler. Hitler depicted very differently from any depiction I have ever seen or read: a hygienically challenged weakling. I muscle tested, and the test proved this new picture more accurate than most people have: Hitler had only one predatory gene active, so he was pretty powerless, a petty tyrant. Greasy hair, greasy skin,… ugh…
He lost WWII, because he fancied himself to know to do what he didn’t know to do… run a successful war on many fronts. Thank heaven for that… Continue reading Happiness is an inside job, but this can only be seen from the sideways view
Taurus (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Gary Snyder said, “Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.” Personally, I think that many of us, not just philosophers and writers, do the same thing. Are you one of us? Your first assignment during the next four weeks will be to explore whether you do indeed tend to convince yourself that you like the cage you were tricked into entering. Your second assignment: If you find that you are in a cage, do everything you can to stop liking it. Third assignment: Use all your ingenuity, call on all the favors you’re owed, and conjure up the necessary magic so that you can flee the cage.
What is a horoscope? It sounds like a prediction, but in my view it is best considered a spiritual practice for the week, or longer if it is necessary.
How so, Sophie?
A spiritual practice, a real spiritual practice is a context. Or else it is just something you do… worthless, if you ask me. Continue reading 3 profound horoscope readings of this week
There’s Nothing To Get And There’s Nothing To Fix… is that true?
A Cup Of Tea
Nan-in, a Japanese Zen master during the Meiji era (1868 – 1912), received a university professor who came to him to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured it into his visitor’s cup until it was full, and then he kept on pouring.
The professor watched it overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s full. No more will go in!” he cried out.
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
Why am I sharing this anecdote? I intend to return You To Power So You Can Have Grace, Ease And Power Inside The Machine And Make the machine and your life Fly
But your cup is full… you already know the meaning of everything… in fact have known it forever… and therefore your life is fixed, and that’s that. So you merely sample what I teach, you pick and choose what you like and don’t like, even what you hear or ignore.
Maybe you can’t do better. Maybe you can only see what is visible from the singular vantage point: from behind your eyes.
What does that mean?
There is a word in the English language that is used in a limiting way: only as duty, or what you should do. Continue reading Driftwood? Why driftwood?
I started this article in the middle of the week, but it was half-baked… it needed to sit a few days… baking. Is it fully baked? You be the judge…
I learn where I can, from where I can.
One of these are books. Another is movies, especially series, where there is enough time for character development.
I had been waiting for this series on Amazon Prime Video, Hunters. Nazi hunters that is.
One of the things I am learning is that a wound is a wound, and it may never heal, but every time I have a chance to weep about it, it cleanses.
So far, I am only half way through the first season, I have seen masterful re-enacting memories of people who were in the Holocaust, so well, that it clean opened up all the wounds and I have been crying and weeping, and sobbing for almost a whole day now. good for me. Continue reading Sunday Rant or was it Sunday runt? lol
I have a few students who take pride in not getting upset or getting upset less often, or less upset than they used to.
As if the purpose of life is to have it be smooth, easy, and emotionless.
Death is smooth, easy, and emotionless. I guess they are practicing for death… or maybe they misunderstand something.
Being upset, being angry, weeping, shouting, is normal human feelings and their expressions is also normal.
Without them you are sheep… dead but don’t know it. Continue reading I watched this Amazon pulp thriller… Hunters