“I hate Medieval times,” you say when offered a place in a Spiritual Rehab Mission, “and I don’t wish for even a split second that I had been born then, because I was, many times, and if you’re able to recollect what it was like, it could be described as daily grind, daily grind, daily grind, get food, cook food, eat food, sleep — only to be awakened suddenly by an invading horde of Others, the Tribe Next Door or one that came in sailing ships to overwhelm and overrun your shores, and furthermore, I don’t like sitting at a computer and wasting my precious personal time playing some silly game.”
You’re trained to find social and personal value in whatever activity you’re offered, and this is no exception. You have to overcome your personal feelings of “LIKE” or “DISLIKE” when accepting a spiritual training, because you can’t trust your personal taste in this area.
Personal taste is like saying, “I don’t like the taste of this medicine. I like cookies and that’s what I’m taking to get better. Yum, cookie.”
Well, so you don’t happen to give two farthings for the goings-on within the game. Big deal. You think I’m spending sleepless nights worrying about Uber Diablos roaming the Earth?
Heck, it’s not just in the virtual world that I don’t really care what happens, nor do I give two shakes which idiot happens to be temporarily in power, who rules whom, and the atrocities and injustices that abound in the virtual world and in the real world are none of my concern, unless I make it my concern, and that right there is the Basic Secret of Life — I’ll explain:
You’re waiting for TRUE LOVE to come around, all by itself, knock on the door and wait for you to wake up and respond. The fact is that you have to direct yourself to fall in love with anyone or anything — it doesn’t just happen by itself, although it may appear to.
You’re also waiting for GOD to come around and tap you on the heart, forehead or back-brain into consciousness up into a higher spiritual plane. That’s not a good answer to being alive. What you want is a remedy for daily life.
The continual nagging of organic life, of body pains, aches and personal agonies, of trials and triumphs and never-ending sand-fleas of everyday events overwhelms you into a state of permanent zombie-ness, in which you’re constantly looking for a way to get numb or number, and you can find a variety of ways to do that.
Becoming NUMB is not a good answer to being alive, either.
What you really want is a way to get back in touch with GOD, with your higher self, with your Guardian Angel, with your GODDESS or with your favorite ancient alien. You want to get back to that High State, and you don’t know how to do it or if it’s even advisable.
It is advisable. You should get back in contact with your higher self at least once a day.
Your life as it is right now is a simple result of a very complex set of probabilities and events — which are probabilities that actually happened. You’re waiting for things, especially emotions, to just happen by themselves.
In a way, they do, because most folks remain steadfastly unaware of the forces that rock them every day. Waiting for love to strike is like waiting for a great poker hand or a winning lottery ticket — sure, it’s POSSIBLE that you’ll hit the lottery, but if you hold your breath waiting for it, you might just turn blue, a condition that’s only good if your natural skin color happens to already be blue without harm to biofunctions.
Ancient people and non-Westerners in general today have no idea what it would be like to wait for love to come along. You get married, raise a family, care for your elders in their golden years, and then you get out of the way, clear the area for the next exponential wave of humanity.
All the relationships you’re currently enjoying are a result of accident, coincidence and tendencies. The only part of that which is under your control are the tendencies, but they are the most likely suspects if you’re caught in a maelstrom of life emergencies.
Emotional states are made, not born. You LEARN them and perform them by targeted stimulation. It’s all part of the machine, and robots, even soft robots like yourself, are expected to respond accordingly to the Great Machine.
Directives need not be issued by the Great Machine — it’s all contained in your DNA, every little instruction, every single attitude and realization is keyed to the Great Machine’s compound directives, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Well, there is one thing you could do.
You could change your mind. Yes, of course it’s possible to change your mind, all the settings, all the contents including good and bad memories, all that stuff is under your control, if you care to exercise it, but most folks never do.
It takes work, effort, you have to haul your fat ass off that soft couch and do something not particularly interesting to you, perhaps, but then you went to school for years and worked for years, and can you honestly say every hour of every day that you are where you wish to be, doing what you wish to do?
What the hell are you waiting for?
Miracles abound, and they happen to you all the time, but you’re trained to ignore it. Spiritual Rehab Training gives you the ability to see miracles and respond to them, to contact higher intelligences when they are available, and to recognize when vortex, gateway or portal opens up.
You can’t see miracles until you TUNE YOURSELF to them. You can’t PERFORM miracles until you train yourself to endure the energies that result from handling lightning.
You might not “naturally” enjoy video gaming or Medieval or Middle-Earth gameplay, but that’s not important, except to modern humans, who value their personal preferences, so you have to exercise the same power you would if you lived in most human cultures, which is to adjust to the mate who was assigned to you by arrangement between the two families.
In most cultures, personal preference is unknown. You do what you have to do in order to survive, because survival is on an hourly or daily basis and you never know where your next meal is coming from, and you can never be really sure that your village is safe from sudden attack.
Of course, that’s true in the modern world as well, isn’t it? You never know which morning it will be when you see that meteoric streak across the cold blue sky, and you watch with fascination as it descends, knowing that you shouldn’t look directly at a nuclear blast.
What the hell difference does it make?
If you’re close enough to see it, you will eventually feel it, and when you do, you can perform the Personal Response to Nuclear Attack, the one we learned as kids in school just after the first three atom bombs had been detonated in 1945 in the First Nuclear War, one of many devastating wars to follow, all with the purpose in mind of clearing the planet of a very aggressive and very dominating species of Mostly Hairless Apes.
So what DO you do if you’re caught in a sudden unexpected nuclear attack?
Curl up under your desk and tuck your arms over your legs. Fold yourself into a little ball, and try to kiss your ass goodbye.
So let’s see — what other excuses can you dredge up to explain why you don’t “want” to take the Spiritual Rehab Training???
Ah, yes, of course. You don’t want to kill anything. That’s why you’re a Vegan, remember? As a Vegan, you don’t participate in the murder of any living thing in order for you to feed your face, right?
Read your bio textbooks to find out what you are obviously unaware of, which is that you eat billions of living creatures all the time. Life is teeming on Earth and everywhere else, which is the whole point of the Creation, in case you weren’t listening at the time and, by the way, as long as we’ve mentioned it, the Creation is a misnomer — there are more than one Creation, all of which are available for download back where I come from.
You don’t care for the storyline? What, you like your life’s storyline? What’s to like about living and dying? You live in the world in which you’re born or into which you spawned, depending upon your world-view at the moment, and that’s it, there is no choice.
You live at a time and in a society in which you can say “no” to a job — you can refuse to work on a road gang or build a pyramid, but that’s just not true almost anywhere else in the world and in fact nowhere in the universe do folks do whatever the hell they feel like doing, at the expense of everyone and everything else on the planet.
Western Culture rests on the idea that you have and can exercise real choices, in your field of labor, in your lifestyle, in your personal habits, in your social and sexual life, and in your family configuration, again a result of accident and circumstance.
Everyone you ever met was a result of accidents that happen in your life that bring about certain inevitabilities, results that cannot be avoided. You’re waiting for something interesting and exciting to come along, something that has constant payoffs and surprises and continual obvious and visible immediate benefits to your personal state and welfare.
Wait no longer — it’s here.
Constant payoffs abound in the world of Spiritual Rehab, but eventually one learns to ignore them. Your personal happiness is assured but unnecessary to the final outcome. You TEACH YOURSELF to LIKE the training — it’s an Acquired Taste, like artichoke or dandelion stew, not a Natural Taste, that excites your body right away without hesitation or wonder.
Your body has a Natural Taste for Sugar, and this is its main downfall. Sugar is behind most addictions, even emotional ones, and I can and will prove it.
But waiting for a prince to come along and kiss you awake from your hundred-year dream is not the way to awaken, nor is it a good plan by any standards. You need to LIKE your work on yourself, and if you don’t, then you need to MAKE yourself like it.
Nothing could be easier, but you’ve been trained to believe that emotions, feelings and thoughts are not under your control, which makes you seem more “natural” to your friends and family, but actually, you’re nothing but a soft robot, responding to stimuli in the expected and approved manner.
Doesn’t that suck?
It’s true what they say: “The way out is the way through.” So buckle down to it, accept the fact that the training might not in itself automatically interest you, and change that attitude now, to give yourself the ability to use this wonderful tool while you still can. The time is coming when you won’t have it, and you’ll wish you’d used it while you had the chance.
That chance is rapidly disappearing. The political scene is about to get very unsteady and very, very rough. The economy is only going to get worse and worse, not better anytime soon, and the personal freedoms you enjoy now will soon be a thing of the past. You’ll have to hide your spiritual activities to avoid problems with the New Inquisition, which this time around might be a surprise even for those who know to expect it.
“But how do I know it will do me any good?” you ask. That’s one of the stupidest questions you could possibly dig up out of your reactive brain. You ask that when you start college, too, don’t you? And when you’re out shopping, it’s the same.
You choose books, mates, food, living quarters, automobile and cell phone by personal preference, don’t you? So why not spiritual training? Problem is, what you LIKE might not be good for you, just something you find tasty.
I invented the video game in 1972 as the Bio-Cyb Theatre, spelled the Canadian way because that’s where we were at the time, when the BioCyb was invented and developed and used at the Centre for Gestalt Learning, which I had taken over at the request of Fritz Perls with the idea in mind of closing it down and keeping just the Centre at Lake Cowichan, which is exactly what happened.
At that time, I introduced some work methods that met high resistance, and people ended up going elsewhere because they didn’t like the work they were offered there, and I can’t and don’t blame them — it’s the way people are trained. You do what you like, avoid what you don’t.
In the case of Spiritual Rehab, diet and exercise, you can’t afford personal preferences and often they’re misleading or downright harmful to the body, mind and spirit.
You can’t possibly decide to take or not take powerful shamanic spiritual training based on personal preference, but most people do exactly that. “Like, Dislike, Comment, Subscribe, Sign Here, Click Here, Send Money” are the triggers to which they are most likely to respond.
Sexual Triggers, Fear Triggers, Anxiety Triggers, Worry Triggers, Hunger Triggers, Love Triggers, Acceptance and Rejection Triggers and so many more await the ignorant traveler, and the assault is endless and merciless. Humans are not made to think, but to react.
Acquired Taste. You adjust, learn to like, even love.
Don’t “like” the Hero’s Quest? Okay, I suppose you do “like” your life as it is??? Right. So buckle down to it, and belay the bullshit “I don’t like gaming” attitude right now.
Those who don’t like gaming, especially the type of gaming represented by the Diablo 2 world and others more or less like it, have shut themselves off from a very powerful and important aspect of life, that it is in constant turmoil and that ultimately, you are never as safe as the illusion of safety suggests.
No matter how secure and snug you are, your world can be disrupted at any moment by the Thought Police or some thug who has no more heart and mind than an ugly bug.
FEAR. Nobody wants do die, not actually WANTS to die. You can learn to accept death as it comes if it comes naturally, but nobody wants to die in battle. You go into combat expecting to win, not to end up as a lump of dead meat on the cold, bare ground.
SQUEAMISHNESS. There’s lots of programming against squishy target practice, but the fact is that almost every human being on Planet Earth will experience some violence in their lifetime, and most folks are totally unprepared for such an event, inevitable as it is.
DESIRE. You only have so many hours or minutes of personal freedom, personal time in which you can do anything you want, and you want to spend your personal time doing something that ATTRACTS you, that you like and that you really really WANT to do.
DISBELIEF. You don’t believe that spiritual gaming will be of any immediate personal benefit to you, but you’re wrong. You need to put your attitude and programmed prejudice out of the picture before you can appreciate the opportunity offered in spiritual gaming.
DISCONNECTION. You don’t relate very well to video games or movies or television or videos. So? What’s your point?
There are more, many more objections and personal preferences and urges and demiurges that get in the way of accepting spiritual training in the form of life games in other dimensions, but all of them are bullshit, just shadow-show hiding a bunch of fears and personal prejudices that have to be cleared away before any building can take place.
Humans are so proud of the fact that they are pushed around by their automatic reactions, but this is actually their chief weakness — they have no Original Thoughts, Impressions or Emotions — they’re all triggered by external causes, which means the Machine is giving the orders, through impetus and reaction, and you’re part of that huge, wonderfully intricate pattern that IS the Infinite Ocean of Bubbly Goo that forms the multi-universe we call “Home”.
The entire universe and all the universes it rode in on are constructs — simulations of reality — and all of them operate on the same principles. Black Holes and Bio Life are the fundamental building blocks of a successfully launched universe, and try not to forget it.
Human beings are afraid and distrustful of anyone able to manifest a thought, emotion, feeling or sensation that wasn’t triggered by an outside source, have you noticed that?
Manifesting a “LIKE” response to the spiritual rehab training is like clicking the LIKE button on a website, except that you’re not necessarily responding to a personal like or dislike, just an acceptance that, in order to receive bulletins from the website, you HAVE to click “LIKE” and “SUBSCRIBE” in order to be treated like a real person.
That’s all there is to it. You ignore your personal preferences, you stop waiting for The Perfect Spiritual Plan, and get on the boat before it leaves the dock.
This isn’t the Perfect Spiritual Plan, at least not for the majority of folks. Had I limited it to one simple belief and one simple ritualized action, like crossing myself before leaving the house or eating some food or having licensed sex with my life-partner, no problem — within a couple thousand years, there’d be dozens and dozens of people practicing spiritual gaming, if computers were still around, which they aren’t, and their disappearance happens, if I recall my 37th century history lessons rightly, sometime soon, around the same time the internet goes down for the third time.
Gosh, I wish now that I’d listened to my history teacher, but I didn’t. Until I started time traveling, history was just a meaningless glob of names, dates and places, and I was tired of memorizing all that trash and spitting it out at test times, so I enlisted in the DayTripper Plan, and here I am to tell the tale.
Our civilization, the one from which I originally arose, has lasted for millions of years, maybe more, nobody really knows, but old, very old by human standards, it is, and over those millions of years, a lot of things got worked out, the first and foremost of which was to end all violence, all wars, forever.
Until a culture can blend into a singularity, it cannot possibly cease warfare, and the human machine is built to make war on its own species as well as other lower on the food chain.
Telepathy and Empathy are the basis of real civilization and, until this is universally true with no need of enforcement, there can be no contact with civilizations outside the space/time discontinuum within which the “world” exists.
Don’t forget that you are living in a simulation. Don’t let the sensations fool you. It’s a total simulation, a fake, a phony, just an illusion.
But you’ve heard that before. It rings true, All Phenomena Is or Are Illusion. But how can this be known, and if true, what should you be doing about it?
First of all, in order to be of any real help, you must understand the true nature of the universe, and nothing teaches this better than climbing willingly and heartily inside a game environment and taking part it — participating in — the goings-on that are going on inside that virtual world.
Is it real or is it virtual?
Idiot. Virtual is a presentation of reality that is exactly identical to the one you’re using right now to perceive and experience the world, with the exception of sensations — such as pain, heat, cold, pressure, contact — and smells. Add those in, wrap the visual around the experiencer and you have a full-immersion 3-D tactile hallucination, which is the very nature of what you’re experiencing right now, and I can prove it right now.
You reside somewhere, but you can’t place exactly where, right?
Your brain has no direct input of outside information. It depends upon a set of biological, chemical and electrical energy transfers to blend into enough information to give it the means to project a holographic interpretation of your world.
The sounds aren’t even close to what sounds are really out there. Your brain stores a “type” of sound resembling the sound you’re hearing, and you hear the sound the brain stored, the one closest to the sound being made now. Only if there is no similar stored “archetype” sound already stored is a new soundbyte taken in, and then only under severe repeated provocation.
Therein lies the Secret of Work on Self. Knowing EXACTLY how to provoke new thoughts, new soundbytes, new information, is the key, and spiritual gaming answers that necessity quite well.
You’re in the process of making major changes in your Deepest Self. How can you possibly allow personal preferences, moods and “druthers” interfere with your personal work toward Self-Perfection. A “Druther” comes from “I’d ruther (rather) do that than this.”
Oh, let’s handle that little firecracker right now, before it gets bigger and becomes a giant bomb. Self-Perfection means perfection TOWARD a higher goal, not TO that goal. Nobody expects you to ever be Perfect, and in point of fact, it’d be a disappointment to all.
Who wants to play a game that you can never ever lose? You ALWAYS win, because everything conspires to work out PERFECTLY for you.
You need to give up power, without giving up responsibility. How? By learning how exhilarating and fun it can be to start over again as a Level One and work your way all the way up to certain death when you finally graduate to the higher levels, just like Real Life, eh?
After a few thousand hours of spiritual gaming, none of the lower world values will have any meaning. You’ll have two and a half million gold pieces in the bank, with nothing to spend it on.
You’ll end up as King or Queen of the World, owning everyone and everything in it, with no opposition to your Will, and yet there’s a sense that nothing about this is permanent, especially when you delete your Level 99 Character at the end, as I did on video — you can see the event on youtube.
Not to worry, the character is reborn as the same character, but now it’s a Level 1 with no armor, no weapons, no gloves, no boots, no hat, no belt, no rings, no amulet, no shield, just a very vulnerable newcomer to that world of unremitting violence and horror — again, just like the Real World.
Okay, so then what? That depends on YOU. If you have no memory of the previous games you’ve played, you have nothing to build upon, no framework, no underpinning.
Spiritual gaming is a way to rehab your most ancient memories, skills and knowledge. Remember that the game is played very differently than the manufacturer’s intention in the sense that supergames and subgames are seen and acted upon by the player in ways unexpected and unappreciated by the makers of the game.
In short, I want to state right here that in no way are Third Party devices or software used in spiritual gaming practices. The game is played exactly as shipped, but with a different set of attitudes and expectations, values and realities, than that of Blizzard Entertainment.
We invoke Fair Usage in our spiritual practices using a variety of games including Diablo 2, Team Fortress 2 and other outside games, as well as games created on our own GoDD® Engine under our own licenses.
BOTTOM LINE:
Don’t let personal desires become your beacon — don’t follow your “Druthers”. If you happen to enjoy gaming, great, but don’t let that be your deciding factor. You can work in this mode whether you have an interest in it or not, and believe it or not, you CAN learn to like it.
I read and listen to Vogon Poetry at least once a day, don’t you?
See You At The Top!!!
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