A Crazy World But A Great Game Too!

by Peter Shepherd

The practicalities of survival must have put you face to face with the realities of this somewhat crazy world in which we live, and that of course puts you equally face to face with your case: the restimulation of aspects of your life which you'd rather ignore.

Perhaps I can help you see the light at the end of the tunnel by describing what I think are the issues that concern a spiritual Being attempting to operate in a material world.

The downward spiral.

1. Natively, the Being makes postulates, ie he creatively causes an effect. If he is in control of the space or universe which he viewing, the postulates happen, they cause an effect. This is a lonely life however. This is also somewhat hypothetical, since it is not the world in which we live, but it is familiar to us in the world of our dreams, especially in the more conscious world of lucid dreaming.
2. To make life more interesting, the Being becomes involved with other Beings in a game scenario, and there are agreements about the scope of acceptable postulates. This is to maintain the game scenario, which is the universe in which he is operating. Postulates which affect other Beings, such as through communicating desire or intention, or initiating actions towards individual or shared goals, are relatively free, limited by agreed-upon rules. They are much less limited than those which affect the matter, energy, space and time of the game scenario, because these are generally the barriers of the game, like a playing field. The Being adopts a game involving various challenges because to do so is fun (perhaps more fun than things just happening). It's not serious or solid because it's a knowing game with freely accepted freedoms, obstacles and purposes.
3. Then things may go wrong. In this world, the agreements about matter, energy, space and time are very solid. The agreements are forgotten, we just find ourselves here in material bodies, and we are given very strong indications that the body is our identity - who we are. Postulates that contradict the material agreements simply don't happen. So to make anything happen in this world one has to use effort and cycles of action: start - continue - complete. At least, that's how it seems; in fact there are freedoms and ways in which one may be directly causative, eg telepathically communicating with others, but the tendency is to be overwhelmed by the solidity of things and the necessity for survival of the body in this context.
4. The Being may build up bypassed charge (frustrated intention) when others do not duplicate his communication; when he does actions which others cannot confront or be willing to experience; when he justifies these actions and solidifies a self-rightness by doing the actions again; when others try to impose a change of direction on him or give wrong indications (by evaluation, invalidation or false information) which cause him to introspect; when he considers others are opposing him and forgets it is he who is opposing for purposes of game. These things all cause confusion - his intention is not working - and the charge is built upon lies, basically non-confronts of the truth of what exists. As the charge builds up he moves downtone, from enthusiasm through boredom to anger, fear, grief and apathy. His problems solidify. His identity becomes stuck in his rightnesses, and he loses understanding of those he is opposing, who he thinks are opposing him. He can no longer love and is no longer just naturally right - he must be right. He has lost integrity.
5. In the face of this charge - the ridges he has built up in self-defence - he finds a safe solution. He adopts a lowered goal and a lowered identity to achieve it, with lowered ethics. He finds a suitable Why to justify this change, not based on rational judgement but on fixed viewpoints (the justifications mentioned above).
6. And this cycle continues, until eventually he finds himself opposed to his original goals and in conflict with his true self. A normal human being.

The upward spiral

1. The normal state of the world around us is as 6. above. We strive towards fulfilling our suppressed postulates by sex, food, effort, emotion and thinking. Our stable data are fixed ideas along the lines of imposed conditioning - through traumatic experiences, bypassed charge, identification with the genetic animal and all its instincts, cultural influences, and a case structure as above: stuck problems linked to unachieved goals, in this life and past lives. Life is serious, solid, heavy. Thinking is "them and us", based on compulsive rightness of identity - safe solutions to unresolveable problems. Games are stuck and unknowing. One is unhappy and at effect, at least in the area of one's true goals. One is stuck in fixed identities and failed purposes - one no longer knows who one is.
2. The only way that I know of to resolve this impasse is through examining what is with ruthless honesty, which is what individual analysis should be (but isn't necessarily - it too can be used as a safe solution, hoping to justify rightnesses, but then it never arrives anywhere). Used with integrity, the tools of individual analysis (viz. Meta-Programming) can help one to see, bit by bit, the truth. To gain understanding (consisting of empathy; duplication of what is; and good communication) in those areas where one had shut off one's vision.
3. By increasing understanding one is increasing awareness of truth, and then in life one needs to actually confront what is (ie face it with equanimity) and take responsibility. This is the second place where individual analysis can break down. Without actually confronting and taking responsibility, the session insights may be forgotten and the body-mind programming (the habit patterns of many years) may take over again. Without such integrity of application, even extensive auditing can become a charade. Individual analysis, then, if done honestly, enables a re-education, a new understanding, and the application of this regained awareness through increased confront and responsibility.
4. With increased awareness and confront in life of what was previously avoided, and then taking responsibility, it is possible to regain causation in life. One is motivated to complete cycles of action because one has recovered one's true identity and is aware of one's own goals. What were previously heavy and serious problems are now games to enjoy. One is truly happy with renewed purposes in life. Others are not enemies but either team mates or competition, who make the game more interesting and from whom one can learn - from what they do right and what they do wrong. Without fixed rightnesses, one too can learn both from things that go right and from one's mistakes.
5. Life, love and truth become one's operating basis.

The way I see it, all experience is for learning, and when you've learnt the lesson that experience offers then you can move on. Provided you have learnt the lesson, and not got serious/solid/heavy about it and justified your ego - otherwise it haunts you till you have really learnt the lesson (which is karma). A misdeed remains to haunt you until you have learnt its lesson. It seems you keep coming back to life on earth (the cycle of rebirth) until you have learnt the lessons that life here offers.

Usually the lesson is that life is a game and if you can see it like that, the problem disappears - you're left with obstacles to overcome, but not with the solidity - at cause rather than at effect.

A friend recently wrote to me about her young daughter, and how great it was to be around her. The little girl, relatively unrestimulated and untainted by conditioning, lives in a beautiful world of dreams and play. What life could/can be for all of us, I guess, when restimulation and imposed conditioning has been resolved.

So the gist of my message is that work on Meta-Programming, if carried out with integrity, would help any person to recover motivation, rehabilitate their peak experiences and validate the truths that they know. The stupidities of this world don't go away but one can see them in a different light.

I realise how frustrating it sometimes is when you are aware of the discrepancy of what you can be and what you are being (most people of course are not aware of that). The answer for me, and the most workable answer that I am aware of, is to take down the goal problem structures that cause this discrepancy. It's not easy but it is a game in itself and therefore can be immensely rewarding.

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