SMOGOPS party member going through the Tunnel of Love & Rebirth, in 2Forts CTF.
We can use the art and science of video game self-reprogramming by first of all motivating ourselves to do the work required to burn off the Karmic grit that has accumulated over the past several millenia. In short, to get rid of the encrusted barnacles on your hull, you’ll need to go into drydock and yes, that means you have to get out of the water for awhile. There are some “hooks” that keep you where you are.
What are the Basic Hooks that keep a BOT, any BOT, including the one you’re wearing, marching toward the sea with the other lemmings?
1. The First Hook is Food. The Second Hook is Shelter. The Third Hook is Sex. Those are all the hooks necessary to get a BOT to do just about anything, including thinking, if actual mentation should accidentally and inevitably somehow become absolutely imperative for immediate survival or domination of another.
2. The means of motivation is entirely up to you, but it has to be good every day, without fail. You shouldn’t have to re-motivate each time, so your DRIVER has to be really effective, which means you actually WANT to do the PLAYER training.
3. There must be a palpable reward for doing the job; you’re trying to get your BOT to help you overcome its natural tendencies, meaning to fall into bed at the slightest opportunity; to engorge itself with sweets and rich foods, especially at someone else’s expense; to take advantage of the misfortunes of others in order to enrich itself and its family. If you’ve been on Planet Urth more than a week or so, you know the drill.
WHAT’S THE CURE?
There is no cure. There can be a simple, slow process of regaining PLAYER skills. It begins with re-origining yourself as a PLAYER, not a BOT. Gurdjieff would have advised you to “not identify with machine”. It’s not as easy as it sounds. At first blush, you’re thinking, “so what’s the big deal?”.
You’d be well advised to find out what the big deal is, and here it is in a nutshell:
You’re tripping along in life, when suddenly it hits you; there’s something more to life than just finding interesting things to do while you’re waiting to die.
Only problem is, you’re not sure exactly what it is.
You hear rumors; Peggy Lee’s famous song, “Is This All There Is?”. There’s a joke that runs something like, “What if the Hokey-Pokey WAS what it’s all about?”. Another, “Nothing is sure except Death and Taxes, and I’m not so sure about Death.”.
Well I am. Death comes to everyone, even the Pope, even the Buddha, even the Prophets and Saints and Martyrs and every single person who ever lived in Ancient Rome; they’re all dead, and predictably, you will join them fairly soon by historical standards.
By archaeological, geophysical and astronomical terms, you’re dead the moment you’re born.
What chance do you have, given the shortness of time, to complete your mission here on Urth? Um, you DO have a mission on Urth. Maybe you forgot?
One function of the Great Eraser, that strips you of previous life while cleaning and preparing you for the next life, is that you forget almost everything, right down to Being- Memory, which is precious little.
No matter how crowded your home might be with hoarded things collected over the decades, as a Being, you travel light.
Essence Lite, it would be called, if we were marketing it to locals.
This lightness of the PLAYER in the Between-Lives State means that not a lot of memory is stored there; the PLAYER-IN-THE-RAW basically handles data in much the same way that a very fast processor would do. Not a lot to go wrong there. Economy is needed to traverse the immense distances of time, space and energy required to do The Work.
Never forget that the Basic Strategy is to get “hired” into The Work; that means making yourself valuable in ways that are noticeable by The Powers that run The Great Work. These are Angelic Powers, and they tend to be grumpy with those who engage in work that is higher than they can actually perform.
The TRAINING GROUND for Bodhisattvas in Training is multiple; there’s orbs to run, gardening to do, water to fetch, wood to chop, movements to learn, food to grow and prepare and serve, people to help bail out of pure misery, and much, much more.
That first enthusiasm, what’s called “First-Nighter Syndrome”, isn’t enough to keep you going. You’re going to fail if you don’t prepare a powerful motivating force behind your work efforts.
“First-Nighter Syndrome” is the effect you get the day after your wedding. It’s also what you experience when you only go to plays and musicals on their opening night. Naturally, you also get this effect the day after you sign up for 3 years’ worth of spa workouts or a diet program with expensive artificially prepared dietary or health foods.
Shouldn’t happen to a dog, you say? It all-too-often does, and that’s why we make delicious and nutritious foods for all the animals here on our ashram right in our kitchen, same as we make for ourselves. It’s not only fair, it’s good common sense. Think of your pets and farm animals as members of your family, deserving of the same consideration.
Actually, animals should be treated as company.
You know what I mean; I don’t know if you had the kind of mother who scolded, “Don’t you DARE touch that — it’s for company!!!”, but I certainly did. We had a larder full of stuff that my Dad and I were forbidden to touch. These were things just for guests, and when they were served, we were not to eat any of them, lest a guest be deprived of seconds.
I’m told that’s culturally common among Eastern European Jews living in New York City, like my grandparents and great-grandparents, my cousins, uncles, aunts and great-aunts Leah, Sadie and Molly, all from the Semels clan that came from Ludz, Poland.
It’s not that they all of a sudden decided, “Hey, let’s leave Ludz, Poland and go live in New York City!”.
It was more along the lines of: “The Cossacks are raiding the shtetle (ghetto) again; what do you say we get the hell out of here, who cares where?”.
In the case of the Semels family, they landed in New York City sometime around 1905, the same time Herman Stein arrived from Poland via hospital — he had been left for dead by the Cossack soldiers in the 1905 Pogrom, and nursed back to health by fellow survivors of the massacres.
Pogrom is a word that means “Hive Purge”, where you get rid of the unwanted runts of the litter. That’d be just about any minority anywhere, and I belong to several of them.
My friend Sammy Davis, Jr., whom I — only once — called “Mr. Junior”, said of himself, “I have three strikes against me; I’m short, black, Jewish and incredibly talented.” He was right, and if you add his looks, it’d be five strikes.
Sammy was definitely overqualified for Planet Urth.
Deeply spiritualized and aware of his mission, he had a plan and kept to it, disregarding personal woes and misfortunes, setbacks and privations. He could have had anything in the world, and he chose to do “Golden Boy” on the live stage. That’s courage and determination in the face of indifference if ever I saw it.
And Sammy wasn’t the only one in the entertainment industry who could keep himself motivated and had a plan for life. Shirley MacLaine is notable among those highly spiritualized individuals who kept themselves on the path in spite of Hollywood’s notorious distractions and erotic amusements galore.
Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll. That’s the common motivator, and it works for BOTS but not for PLAYERS.
A PLAYER becomes a PLAYER at that very moment that the PLAYER decides to actually use this lifetime to accomplish their Work.
This of course means taking control of the BOT from the BOT…but not all controls. We like to leave breathing, heartbeats, digestion, blood circulation and secretions and excretions in general to the machine, thank you very much.
Eating is one of those things we want to “voluntarize”. I use the term here, because we’ll be learning to voluntarize things in our machine in our training program, which can be done right in your own home.
You won’t need an on-site workshop until you’re ready to train others, for Merits that can make ordinary Merits look like money drops in Normal, if you know what I mean.
If you have withstood the Test of Time and resisted using Higher Purpose Video Games such as those found on urthgame.com, why, you’ll have no trouble at all resisting the MoveAct Code Training and MoveAct Code Drills.
If all you want is Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll, you don’t need them, or anything else I offer.
But if you’ve spontaneously awakened and you find yourself in a machine that’s out of control, you’ll appreciate my skills recovery program, called The MoveAct Code, and you’ll want the handbook, MoveAct Code Decoded.
Ultimately the motivation will have to come from within; it can’t come from without, if you get my drift.
I’m working currently on an adjunct to learning the MoveAct Code, which involved the creation of an entirely new kind of CTF (Capture The Flag), Single Player CTF.
Single Player CTF means that you’re alone in that world with a bunch of BOTS, and you’d better learn to get along with them if you know what’s good for you.
Single Player also means you don’t have to watch your screen say “searching…”, looking for partners for your game; you don’t need to find anyone else to play a single player game, see?
Now, if you want to see another PLAYER, you’ll have to open the game up to other PLAYERS, and they’re going to be as powerful as you are, in the GODD POWERS realm, so get ready for some disappointment. You’ll have to share your space, and accept their ideas, and learn to blend and compromise.
Teamwork is the answer.
But you have to understand the limitations of a BOT before you can work well with them in daily life.
Those limitations are not what you’d think. They’re not mental. BOTS are capable of Einsteinian Thought, and yet never leave the dock.
It doesn’t take a PLAYER-In-Residence inside a BOT to make the BOT look like a genius to other BOTS. The only way you “know” that an engineer is an engineer is the degree on the wall, unless you’re another engineer. It takes one to know one.
That’s, of course, the secret to detecting PLAYERS. We’ll talk more about that at today’s ICW.
See You At The Top!!!
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