Mason Riggle

@Forestluv did you see this article I shared on a different thread? It really explains the workings behind what you are noticing. A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5

“People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.” ― Suzy Kassem

I used to wonder if there was really anything happening beyond my experience of it. Like, if I can't see (experience) what's in the next room, is there really anything happening in the next room, or does it only manifest when I go looking for what's there? Hmmmm...

"When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music)" https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5

“There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

@An young being recognize that thoughts of the past, or thoughts of the future, are occurring now. The trick is to not identify as these thoughts.

I get a good chuckle whenever it occurs to me that the only thing I ever do is 'be myself', and I never have to try to do it.

@Adamq8 nice

It's always now.

Imagine EVERYTHING all at once. Can you do it? If you were EVERYTHING, would you know it? Perhaps one possibility, among infinite possibility, is imagining limitations, or 'pretending' that everything is not everything, but rather.. that it is 'something'.

Here is another example of LOA, as described by Henry Ford. "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right,”

Yes, this is a silly notion of what 'LOA' means, if you think it is the power to just imagine something and have it instantly appear before you.

@Beginner Mind if you have no idea where you are going.. any path will get you there. don't confuse 'law of attraction' with 'the power of 'instant manifestation'. Think of it more like this.. If I decide I want to learn Japanese, for example, once I decide that's what I want, the opportunities for me to learn Japanese will present themselves (I will notice them).. I won't instantly learn Japanese, but the path becomes clearer. If I have no idea where I want to go, how will I know what path to take to get there? Law of Attraction is all about clearly understanding what you want, so you can recognize the path that will get you there. "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." Paulo Coelho Don't take my word for it.. this is something you can experiment with and notice for yourself.

@Beginner Mind how can you take steps to make what you want happen, if you don't first know what you want?

"be careful what you wish for because you just might get it" My mom, 1985.

Notice that all 'objects' exist to you 'subjectively'.. (to whom or for whom do objects exist? some subject). Then notice that your subjective experience, objectively exists. Something is happening right now. That you are having some 'subjective experience', is objectively true.

@Endangered-EGO If I'm always being myself effortlessly, what else is there for me to do but 'be myself', which I'm always doing? It seems silly to me to suggest that a tree might use it's 'lack of trying to be a tree' to be a 'better' tree.

Sometimes this thought occurs: Of course the organism called "Mason Riggle" is doing things, like typing this sentence, digesting food, growing hair, thinking thoughts, etc., It also occurs, that one of the things the organism called "Mason Riggle" sometimes does is recognize that the organism "Mason Riggle" is doing these things all by itself. The 'awareness of what my organism is doing', is just something else my organism is doing all by itself. It seems that "I", this 'awareness', the knower who knows this, is also just something else my organism is doing. Is there anything that this awareness does, other than 'be aware'?

Yes. It seems rather, that 'I' is something that occurs, rather than something that 'does things'. Similarly, there is no 'tree' inside a tree that has to 'try to be a tree'.. trees just 'are trees', effortlessly. I never have to 'try to be myself', I just am always 'being myself'. If I ever try not to be myself, then that is 'what I'm doing', which is just more 'me being me', and I do that effortlessly.

Trump isn't even playing the same game. If he were the head coach of a football team, his entire team would walk out onto the field, punch the referees in the face, beat up the other team, and declare victory, while his team's fans cheered from the stands, declaring, 'now that's how you play football'... and the minute anyone tried to point out that actual football has rules, they would complain that they are the ones being treated unfairly.

@X_X how do you know you are 100% responsible? Why would you try to affirm something, if you're not sure it's true? Perhaps what you really want to do, is know that it's true, then you will no longer need constant reassurance. The best way to remind myself that the sun exists, is to look at the sun. If I have to keep telling myself, 'the sun is real' in order to believe that it is.. I might start questioning why I need to do this.

These questions stem from your definition of 'God'. You might recognize, that even though Reality is seemingly made up of many different things, there is only 'one' Everything. This 'one everything' is God. The problem with being 'one everything', is that 'one everything' is infinite, which is to say, 'one everything' has no limits. No size. No shape. No color. No borders. It can't be described. It is the same as 'Nothing'. So then, the only way for 'God' to 'know itself', or 'be something, rather than nothing/everything'.. is to pretend that it isn't 'one everything', but rather, many things, by placing [imaginary?] limits on itself. In this way, God is hiding from God, by 'pretending' not to be.. by pretending to be 'us'.. by pretending to be 'not God' (everything).

Your mission is not to accept this mission, do you accept?