AI

More and more people are becoming aware of AI. Artificial Intelligence…which thought that creates it is telling will be upon us soon on this entire planet in such a powerful way it may well put an end to human beings as that term is understood today altogether. It is thought: robots which those of us still live will serve will absolutely decide our every move. If we consider seriously what effect technology has had already upon the human race through computers and hand held devices it will not be difficult to predict how awful the world can become, all of the misery made by thought itself. From there it becomes apparent. We, the great mass of individuals who have adapted our lives to the demands of the technological rage which cannot be slowed or stopped except by a turning within by each one, alone, to face its awful, destructive power squarely in total conscious awareness of what we have become-and the fact we have done it to ourselves-finding in that the enormous courage and vast intelligence within every human to end it absolutely now! The human brain in your head is constantly under rating itself.

See that we as modern humans are also robots whose thoughts are the perpetrators of AI. Look. Thought first put together an image and taught you to call it “I” that answers to “You”.  It is not AI that is to blame, oh no, AI is but a pawn in a game human thinking has created out of a sense of insecurity and a drive for power over others and a fear of death. Life without love, in other words.

You says,
“I want a job. “ and  “I want the government to keep me safe from hunger and disease and old age and death and to identify and kill my enemies for me”. The government, knowing your thoughts, makes up a system to make you believe it will do all this for you since you, as you are made, are incapable of leading a fruitful and satisfying life. One government system is based on an ideal of private ownership of property and building of fictitious businesses to grow wealth enough to hire many employees to offer products and services and convince people they “need” them. The wages and profits from business and property is taxed to afford systems for education, military strength, medicine, and old age pensions. Is this anything other than AI? Examine it. There is not one bit of natural, living truth involved in it. Even the criminals in these systems are robots of the systems. Even the rebels are the same. Rebellion always replaces one form of authority with another. So, it follows the robots built by any system are bound to do the same. 

The simplest way to put it is to point out that thought has and always must divide people from each other in complete defiance of the truth that the entire Universe is one, inseparable whole. The past and the future are contained in the present but we are but the dead ashes of yesterday. Shallow thinking got us into this mess and only an intelligence born out of love for each other can take us home. 

Together, as one, completely, we are capable of crossing the river of ignorance born of shallowness to the other shore where peace at last will reign.  There, if one eats all eat. Look. Nobody has to tell you you are hungry. There is hunger and you control it not. In such humility and awe approach a new life. What gives hunger will feed you. 

Nobody wanted a personal computer. Nobody wanted a mobile phone. Nobody wanted a light bulb. Henry Ford had a sickness in his stomach, it is told. On watching a kid eat a hamburger Henry said “I would give all my wealth to eat a burger like that young boy!” Rather than stopping here let the truth of the matter carry your consciousness deeper and deeper and deeper for every day life brings.

 

SENILITY

At a young age, whatever that means, Bob Dylan wrote and sang a lyric that really surprises and delights humans. “Ahh, but, I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”. 

Recently, I heard a man in his eighties speak who asked an audience, “what is senility?”. “Who is senile?” “Is it only the elderly?” “Is it begun about 30 or 40 or so?” Does it begin about 5 or 6 when a child goes to school? Does it have to do with the development of a repetitive, dull, routine life until it pervades a person in all aspects? Is it creepy? Same work day after day. Same drive home and back. Same sex pattern. Same opinions. Same discussions. Same activities. Same thoughts. Same addictions. Same complaints. And so on? Is it when you begin to know what everybody is going to say? Same fears. Few if any surprises. Nothing new. Lack of creativity?

Could it be we could, instead, grow younger? Even to the point we defy age? Could we be brand new every morning? Does it interest you? It does me.

 A New Way of Learning

I want to speak of something very important. I am going to try something new in order to do it…I am going to follow the lesson I want to describe to reveal the answer. It will be fun.

A few days ago there were written words describing how catching a ball is to enter a new dimension from the ordinary one that’s the common way we live. One must go beyond thought. One must not allow thinking to play a role in catching a ball or one will miss catching it. It happens fast. One begins to catch the ball before it even is thrown or struck by a bat. The motion of the throw is vital and one begins a movement associated with where that motion is going to send the ball totally outside of thought. One might say the doing and the learning are simultaneous. This is being written in that way. Learning and doing as one thing. This is a completely different way than we are trained to live our lives. What people normally do is think of an ideal they want to bring into actuality…maybe it is work related… then formulate a plan by thoughts to do that and then try to execute the plan. This is where we can waste a lot of energy…trying. People often say “ I try” after they are commended on a job well done. And this means there is going to be a continuous struggle for them to keep up the satisfactory accomplishment expected of them and by them. In this is the beginning of a way of life felt to require effort. The conclusion to be drawn is “life ain’t  easy”. This new way being followed as this is written is effortless…a flow…most pleasant. It feels like one gets even more energy from doing than one had before it. No trying. Are you interested in this? I am. 

 THE FLAME of DISCONTENT

It is as if a mission calls…burns. Urges forward. Having no outlet, intensifies.

The causes come. A career. A marriage. A religion to join, the more extreme the better. A political movement, the more extreme the more attractive. At some point these reveal they are not at all satisfying. All are seen to be surface and shallow and meaningless. All are monstrous creatures of selfish thinking with motives to keep all down in the hole that they are in. Now a completely meaningless life begins to nag and wants its chance. “Get what pleasures I can before it’s too late” calls. Hell is preferred to the Civilized Trickster. 

Death awaits. Just before death takes life away some current of clarity shocks at just the right moment and prayer, not some separate self, asks “help” from out the dying flame of discontent. It will develop that flame was alive all the while and its cry to not accept anything for a substitute satisfaction is the human being’s last resort and its highest intelligence and what has been found amounts to truest lover willing to die that all may live!

Another funny thing is that people never get enough of the things they want by acquisition of things but by losing it all…only then there is a chance to see how much is enough. Nobody ever found that out voluntarily, though. Too dumb, I guess. Too greedy. Blessed are the meek and poor in spirit.

                                                                       SCENIUS

I was introduced on the internet recently to a man I felt in minutes was an old and quite dear friend, Brian Enos. Known by many as a musical genius, Brian has written over 5000 pieces of music and much of it used in films as background. He has always done what he wanted to do which is far from doing nothing. Very busy human being. Very productive. In the course of his work and word spreading of his genius he has been invited to speak at art school to its students often. He has done so but is seldom invited back for he begins his talk with “I am here to persuade you not to get a job”. The teachers are made nervous as they believe their “job” is to steer students into a job. To earn a living is the goal. It is the need to earn a living that Brian sees as the obstacle to having the kind of society he would like very much to live in. I agree whole heartedly. 

What does it mean? 

Brian noticed in the art world one often hears the term “genius” and the presumption behind it that these individuals are the “great ones” responsible for the advances of mankind. He disagrees. Brian Enos and J whooper Swan have seen that in reality the advances that are accredited to an individual are really generated by a particularly energetic community the individual is immersed within at the right time.  Brian termed the phenomenon “scenius”.  It’s the scene, man. An important example would be Greenwich Village New York 1950’s and 60’s and Bob Dylan’s incredible burst of amazing songs. 

Listen to Dylan himself talk of the experience. “It just happened.” Friends around him speak of how Bob was just a very ordinary musician struggling in the folk music scene with the same songs and delivery as many others and not very interesting then suddenly he is a real interesting performer who seizes the attention of many and the rest is history…still unfolding by the way. Dylan talks of the experience at the time of just scribbling down songs while sitting on a subway or talking with friends at a restaurant or walking down the street…anywhere…just jotting down songs he picked up from listening to people around him. He was writing and then singing what others really wanted to say but could not. Scenius.

The concept of individual “geniuses” is a product of the pyramid design for governing a system followed by societies all over. A very great loss is the result. Scenius. For one thing, the pyramid form of organizing anything means the best people are the few at “THE TOP”.  Which is a false concept corrupt from the outset. That is not how life works. Every human being is a unique set of gifts and talents and carries a deep passion to express them. We are losing most of that energy and have been doing so for tens of thousands of years.

J Whooper Swan had a unique opportunity in the late 1980’s to associate himself among a group of people in Austin Texas amid an explosive need to change and do so now! Whooper had no credentials for what was to happen to him. Except one thing not on a usual resume. Whooper was an alcoholic who had had no drink for about 4 years. He had met and hung out with a group of drunks who had recovered from the affliction and something “rubbed off” in the nature of a brand new point of view and Whooper was inexplicably told by his supervisor to make up a job for himself for participation in the group. It was as if a door he never guessed could exist opened for only him. Have you heard of an authority figure instructing an underling to just make up a reason for being among us? It happened. It must have been like that for Dylan too. It happened.

It bubbled up from the community around us. This is apparent to Whooper. The way to be of service to the others was given me day to day and that bunch flourished for several years like no other!  The message to everybody was identical…we no longer have managers here, including the Speaker (Whooper) …all of us are servants and helpers to the whole community. People responded to it with intense devotion. That is who we are. I do not believe it, I know it. This fact feeds itself!

 

Societies and Dropping the Ball

Time and thought are one thing. They bring fear. Freedom is “no fear”. Recently, I resumed a life long love with throwing and catching a ball. Very quickly, it came right in my face that to catch a ball or in anyway intercept its progress takes place in some dimension way beyond thinking. It became so obvious that when I caught the ball thinking was entirely absent. That stunned me at first and kinda shook me up. It was so clear, though, and I remembered my childhood had borne that out. To catch a moving object is a total action.  Pure.  And simple. EITHER ONE CATCHES IT OR ONE DOES NOT. 

A relationship is exactly the same…beyond thinking and fear. Think about a relationship and you will muff the moment and appear a fool. Try to make it happen and you fail every time. Insight will show that every experience and the experiencer are the same thing as well. To separate the two in the mind is to introduce fear. Freedom is “no fear”.  LIFE IS RELATIONSHIP!  So, thought fucks up life. Relationship is total action. Pure. And simple. You already know this. 

There are many types of societies in the world made by man. There are nations, states, religious societies, societies of those devoted to causes, societies of common self-interest (lawyers, doctors, teachers, gangs, etc. ) We have become a species now that depends on these ambitious, selfish societies to mold and distribute the leaders who will direct the great mass of society on a path well- thought-out by the intellect of its membership. The mass of men and women are instructed to obey rules made by thinking in return for promises that they will be cared-for and their needs met. Such an approach is so corrupt throughout that it can lead and it has only led to a more and more mad chaos of dropped balls. Will we ever learn to be present?