The following questions and answers have all been fished directly from the Thought Pool and typed out while they were still wet and flapping about. The question will likely arise, 'Who is asking the questions? Who is answering?' A very good question! As usual, when we really look closely into it, we have no idea who is doing either.
Q: So what do you think about all of the predictions of something either calamitous or miraculous happening on December 21st 2012?
A: Same old same old. Thought perpetuates itself by inventing linear time, something is going to happen, not right now, but at some date in the future. Within The Game, this date will just appear to come and go like any other and will be replaced by some other date in the future when everything will either suddenly be wonderful or suddenly end disastrously.
As soon as attention shifts out of thought, time vanishes, and all dates are irrelevant. This is what some have referred to as The Now, or the present moment. It has no date, nor any other attributes, as thought is not there to separate and define and judge and project. Utter untainted simplicity.
Q: It has been told that thoughts become things and we need to be careful and take responsibility for the thoughts that we put out into the world.
A: Ha ha! There isn't anyone putting thoughts out into the world. There isn't a world as such either. The thoughtsphere is available, a chaotic mass of contradictory signals that are ever-changing. Attention can either focus on some of them or not. It can be imagined somewhat like a radio receiver.
Imagine there is a show on the radio, let us take a famous show from Britain as an example - the Archers. If the radio is regularly tuned to the Archers and the sounds coming out of it listened to, it will gradually start to seem as though there is a world in which all these characters live and lead lives and have relationships etc. There will seem to be storylines unfolding in which the characters have vested interests.
But if the radio is either tuned to another channel, or not switched on at all, then that world simply does not exist on that particular radio.
So the radio can either tune into this story or that story or no story at all, or perhaps some music or a comedian or a silent naked juggler or .... well the possibility is endless.
Q: So we can choose which story to tune into?
A: Ah, choosing or not choosing. That's another story! :-)
Q: What should be done about the state of the economy?
A: Done by whom? Nothing has ever been done. Stuff just happens. The state of the economy will change by itself, just as all states do, as a wave-form. It is possible for attention to take a very narrow point of perception focusing on one small part of the wave form and assert 'Ha ha! I am doing this!' or 'Hee hee! I am doing that!' - but that doesn't affect the state of affairs one way or another. The wave form plays out either way.
However, it seems that some instruction is wanted. OK. Do whatever happens to get done. That ought to sort it.
Q: So the world did not end last on the 21st December like all the predictions said. What do you have to say about that?
A: Of course it did.
Q: What do you mean?
A: The world ends every night. It's just that a very very similar one keeps getting imagined again in the morning.
Q: Who are you trying to convince?
A: On the surface, just myself. Ultimately, no-one.
Q: What is that supposed to mean?
A: This play of questions and answers, of seeking, of seekers and wise men, of questioners and answerers ..... this play, it all begins with I Am or Being, who is playing all the characters, every one, asking the questions and answering them, but no matter, because no answer ever satisfies until the energy is spent, the I Am energy will go on and on asking and go on and on answering until it is spent. So that energy, I Am, is what is being referred to as myself. I am both the Q and the A, and the other folks if there is the imaginary idea that there are other folks going to read this if it is published somewhere.
But sooner or later, that energy peters out, just like a candle that has burnt itself out, or like an addict that drives himself to total destruction and no 'I am' is left at all, and so the question 'who are you' does not make any sense any more, as no-one is, nor has anyone ever been, as the time is just part of the imagination, a function of the energy. But there is no point trying to explain this part, as thought can only describe that which is.
Q: Isn't it important to spread your love, particularly at this time of year?
A: Love is already everywhere at all times. Always has been, always will be. It is a bit like suggesting that I butter a piece of toast which is already buttered, when I have neither a butter knife, nor any butter.
Q: How can one tell that one has found a true master?
A: The same way one tells any story. Starting with 'once upon a time' is very popular, but probably won't win any literary prizes. Anyhow, the process is the same. Just a simple assertion: 'one has found a true master'. Then there it is, told.
Q: When will this search be over?
A: When did it begin?
Q: I liked your analogy about the 'I am' being the equivalent of the One Ring in Lord of the rings. Got any others like that?
A: Tolkien was full of them. Let's take a look at Aragorn as he goes into the mountain to face The Dead. This is an analogy for the 'inner search'. He takes the path that few dare to take, and from which none has ever been seen to re-emerge. He faces the 'ghosts of the past' and ultimately faces up to his own mortality, his own death as the ghosts try to persuade him to turn back or be destroyed.
The ghosts are portrayed by Tolkien as betrayers, those that promised loyalty to the King, but broke their oath. Now the King returns and demands that they fulfil their oath. The analogy is with memory, and with personal definition, creating a sense of identity with what has happened in the past, a linear time-line 'me' story which is always a colossal betrayal of the infinite freedom of undefined Selfhood.
Once the dead are faced and conquered, they are used to serve for a short while, to help vanquish the other dark forces, but ultimately once they have served their purpose they dissolve and vanish, never to be seen again. The past is no more. Memory is over. The 'me' story with its continuous struggle between dark and light ends.
The King has returned to the throne.
Q: So are you a Master?
A: As always, first concentrate on the question 'Am I?' Until that one has been answered, there is no point in going into who I am or what I am. Try to firmly establish, one way or another and without any doubt WHETHER I am. It will quickly become very clear that the initial question is quite absurd.
Q: Is there free will?
A: Just try to change it and find out. If you think that you want something or want something to happen, just go ahead and try to stop wanting that and see how you get on.
Q: There are lots of things that I have stopped wanting. What I want now is nothing like what I wanted twenty years ago.
A: The weather is also different today than it was two days ago. Does that mean that I caused it? Try to change your will right now. Immediately. If will is free, that should be a simple matter. But is it? Or is it more like trying to stop the rain when it is raining? Sure the rain will stop sooner or later. Always does. Such is the nature of the cycle. But can you stop it when it is happening?
Q: Have you not ever been unhappy in the past?
A: Yes, I have been most disgruntled during the Napoleonic Wars and thoroughly miffed during the Roman conquest of Gaul.
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