Here’s a subject you’ll want to know about…Dramatics. It’s something you do every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year, and yet I’ll lay down dollars against your donuts that you haven’t a clue, because getting a handle on this requires SERIOUS SELF-STUDY and serious self-observation, taking in the data with no judgment and no personal affixation, either mental or emotional, about the outcome.
This is not an easy task, and generally takes about six years to accomplish from the time that you actually begin the self-study program. Contrary to popular wisdom (the ultimate oxymoron, followed closely by “army intelligence”), the clock doesn’t start on that particular exercise when you’re just thinking hard about it, although your life can change just by reading the ABD aloud, but that’s a different issue and a different lineage of reality.
Okay, back on subject we go… Dramatics.
You’re dramatic without knowing it, an actor or actress or object on The Stage of Life — “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man, in his time, plays many parts.”
Shakespeare goes on to say, “…a world too wide for his shrunk shank…” as he describes old age and death.
Many parts, indeed, Bill. And I’m just the one to prove it, too:
You certainly don’t play the same character in the same way both in the bedroom and in a fine restaurant, do you? Well, okay, so they came to take you away and they won’t let you into that restaurant again, eh?
And you don’t behave the same in the bathroom as you would in the kitchen. You also don’t do the same things at the office as you would at a sports event or at a Las Vegas Convention, unless it’s Friday afternoon at your average corporate offices.
Similarly, you’d behave very differently at your College or University graduation than you might at a children’s birthday party…or would you?
Anyhow, there’s a world of difference between how you handle different situations, and you don’t think there’s anything weird at all about that, but you’d be missing the point. You DO get dramatic, on a scale of mildly theatrical all the way to flaming riot, depending on how much drama you put into your PERSONAL THEATRE. (Euro spelling is intentional).
Most of the DRAMATICS that we use from day to day are so automatic, so robotic, so knee-jerk, that we don’t notice them, and nobody we know well notices them in us, either, or the constant phoney interactions would annoy us forever, and for those cursed with the horror of Wakefulness and Noticingness, it’s a never-ending plague of locusts.
From whence came all these DRAMATICS?
From Aunt Maggie, and Uncle Arthur and your best friend and your playmates and your mom and dad and everyone you knew and many television and movie actors and actresses you didn’t know, and from magazines and street action and little scenes enacted at school and at home.
The whole subject of DRAMATICS assails you the minute you start to interact with anyone or anything in your environment, and that means long before your first Rug-Rat crawl, long before solid foods, long before you’re even born.
Sorry to remind you of the sad fact that this isn’t the first life you’ve almost blown away.
Luckily, you’ve got the power of your Avatar and the Willpower of your Bodhi Self (one short city block ahead of you, in our way of seeing things) to pull you through the rough spots, eh?
I accidentally typed “he?” several times there, and actually, that’d be more like what I’d be grunting Back in The Day, meaning Biblical Times and such. “He”, pronounced “Heh”, was an ancient way of saying, “eh, what?” or “don’t you think so, too?” or “what do you think of THAT???”
DRAMATICS are little personal “mini-characters” that you wear or play as, but only momentarily, unless you fail to get your way, in which case you can get “STUCK IN CHARACTER” and go ’round and ’round in the same scene, over and over and over, helplessly spinning into the CONTROL WEB of the Character.
Yes, you can get stuck in a CHARACTER, or stuck in a PLAY, or stuck in a SCENE, or stuck in a DIALOGUE, or stuck in a MONOLOGUE, or stuck in a LINE, or stuck in an ACTION, or stuck in a PIECE OF BUSINESS, or stuck in a MOTION, or stuck in a GESTURE, or stuck in a SPOT or stuck in a CONFUSION or stuck in a MOTIONLESS STAGESTRUCK FREEZE.
None of these are on my “good” list, if you’re expecting PRESENTS, WILL and ATTENTION from Santa this year!
Even with the small amount of single-lifetime self-observation — or if you’re more dedicated, self-study — you’ve managed to squeeze out of your reluctant almost-hairless ape-descendant host or hostess, you must have noticed that you tend to play out very predictable little scenes every day.
There’s no real reason to change that, unless your character is either ineffectual or downright embarrassing. For most folks, humiliation is the worst thing that could ever happen to them.
If The Work isn’t your focus, I guess humiliation would be the worst thing that could ever happen to you, because lacking a higher goal, your focus would be on you, and most folks define “you” as the body-mind-emotions of the organic self.
Many folks opine that they do in fact have a higher self, which they objectify and project outward, as in “I have a Soul”. So, I’m all ears — who exactly is it that HAS the Soul?
I AM a Soul would be nearer the mark, but it might get you burned at the stake again.
Yes, that right, I said “again”, because it certainly wouldn’t be the first or last time that happens to you.
DRAMATICS.
They can, if they’re dramatic enough, land you in jail or the funny farm. If you know how to use them, DRAMATICS can take you all the way to the White House or the Moon.
If you’re smart, you’ll stick to the Moon, and avoid the White House — the food’s lousy, non-vegan and badly served. You’d do better to sneak upstairs to the Back Kitchen for a burger and home-fries.
French Fries used to be called “German Fries” in America until the outbreak of World War I — actually the entry of the U.S. into the war after the Lusitania Incident — or was it the Maine??? No, definitely the Lusitania; I remember the Hearst papers front page photo of that event quite vividly — anyhow, German Fries became French Fries, and Sauerkraut became “Liberty Cabbage”. Liberty Cabbage went down with the Armistice, but “French Fries” stuck and became legend.
So DRAMATICS are little acts, but they can also be entire plays, whole lifetime dramas or comedies or dramatic comedies, which is what you’re very likely playing now…
All the PERSONAL DRAMATICS in the world won’t get you what you really want, Liberation, but there’s another kind of DRAMATICS — OBJECTIVE THEATRE.
Objective Theatre is what the ancients knew about when they enacted certain “plays”, not to entertain, but to activate and direct certain magical actions.
DRAMATICS are especially good for translating oneself into alternate universes, a thing that kids know instinctively and have emotionally and psychologically beaten out of them by the surrounding environment. Some kids have the reward of being conditioned by psychologists to react in the appropriate way by totally rejecting any “fantasy acting outs” that might lead to escape from the prison in which they find themselves.
There is a real way out and a false way out.
The false way out is the easy way out. You just scramble your brains and sit in confusion for the rest of your life, amusing yourself with hedonistic fluff while waiting to die.
The real way out is to OPEN CHANNEL “D”. Let the didge work help you, heal you and give you daily strength. Put your Avatar into the Ashram. This makes SOLID CONTACT between you and your Bodhi Self, allowing your Bodhi Self to draw you forward faster than karmic wind is blowing from behind.
Keep your Avatar in the Ashram as long as you can every day. This converts all your daily work to Bodhi levels of Merit, conferring as much as a thousand times the Merit you’d ordinarily accumulate. This means you can pay down your Karma in a single lifetime, if it’s done right.
Follow Right Action all the time. Don’t hurt anyone, and don’t hurt yourself.
Use the DOUBLE CONNECTION of Livestream Video to get a double blast of didge work. Be sure to enter the command into the chat in all caps, programmer style:
OPEN CHANNEL D
If you know how to do it, you can enter:
INITMOVES=(PLM)
[moveractioncodes]
PLM={ XT(1016-1020) OSOUND(DIDGE) INCOS=(K-1000) }
That’s all there is to it. You can enhance the effect by joining in the various events within the Ashram.
You can learn to consciously use DRAMATICS to move from universe to universe, but you can’t use that spiritual technique to control your friends and influence your enemies…or is it control your enemies and influence your friends???
Or is it control everybody but yourself?
We’ll talk more about this at this morning’s ICW.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby