Weekly SPARK - Experiment 49
Reasons are only an attempt to look sane.
SPARK EXPERIMENT
Specific Practical Application of Radical Knowledge
SPARK- Experiment 49
Reasons are only an attempt to look sane.
(Matrix Code SPARK049.00)
NOTES: Why do modern culture businessmen wear coats and ties instead of Tarzan suits? Why do modern culture women wear the latest fashion instead of whatever they have in their closets? Why do men shave their chins and women shave their shins? Why are modern culture houses and apartments so similar to each other? These questions point to something so deeply ingrained in devotees of modern culture as to make the questions seem ridiculous.
If you went to work wearing a Roman Toga and carrying a large Banana Squash, your colleagues would want to know what is wrong with you. If you gave them a good enough Reason, perhaps they would act as if they temporarily accepted your Reason. But if you gave them no Reason, or if you persisted in wearing the Toga, or if a man kept wearing women’s clothes, or carrying around squashes, what would happen? There would soon be serious consequences. You could be severely rejected by friends, family, colleagues, even from society.
We are Human Beings. We are designed to live and work in villages. The worst threat anyone could make to you – the supreme punishment – is shunning, banishing you from the village. Deep in your cells, you know that being excluded means means death because you are cut off from all that you need to live. Long ago, to avoid being sent to your room and left alone, you learned how to be acceptable to the norm. The main way you make yourself appear ordinary is with sane Reasons.
A Reason is a Story World that you Declare into existence using Is Glue to combine 2 or more concepts together that are not, in Radical Reality, related. It takes effort to Invent a Reason, so you do not make up Reasons for no Reason. This means, every Reason you fabricate has a Purpose. If you are not aware of the Purpose of your Reason, then your Reason serves Unconscious Purposes, such as survival, superiority, making an Excuse, a Justification, a case for the Inquisition. Your Gremlin probably has secret orgasms when giving ‘really good’ Reasons at your expense.
You may be so Identified with your mind, and such true Believer in Reasons, that you think a Reason can be a cause. The Reason is not the cause. You are the cause. The Reason is just the Story you make to try to cover up that fact.
You do not realize how gravely deformed you are by your need to conform to acceptable Reasons so as not to be rejected. But this is only half of the Story.
The other half of the Story is that you Believe your own Reasons! You have been so seriously conditioned to limit your life to the domain if acceptable Reasons that you think Reasons and behavior are somehow connected! But Reasons and behavior are NOT connected! You think you take actions for Reasons, but you do not.
Your life is so constrained by having Reasons that are approval by external authorities that if you cannot create an acceptable Reason, you do not act. You put so much effort into creating acceptable Reasons that you think your Reasons are true! But Reasons are NOT true! Reasons are Reasons.
Your Reasons for Choosing a career or not Choosing a career, for getting married or not getting married, for having children or not having children, for converting to a religion or not converting to a religion, for trying to identify with another gender or staying the gender you were born with, for flossing your teeth at night or not flossing your teeth at night, for rising out of bed in the morning – you think those Reasons are important. You think Reasons support morals, or logic, or decency, or evil transgressions. You think Reasons are a valid defense. You think Reasons mean something. Why else would you listen to Reasons? You think you are making Decisions because of the Reasons you give?
How many years of your life… how many mysterious, magical opportunities and invitations... have you sacrificed at the altar of Reasons?
EXPERIMENTS:
SPARK049.01 PRACTICE SELF OBSERVATION TO EXPLORE WHEN AND WHY YOU CREATE REASONS Self Observation is the transformational Practice of Splitting Your Attention to Notice what you are Noticing, and to Notice what you are Noticing with, and why. If, by now, you are not a ferocious Self Observer, actively Observing Yourself at least 20% of the time, then go back to S.P.A.R.K. #000 and Start Over again. Why? Because you have missed half of what is happening and half of what is Possible due to being Identified with your Box and Gremlin Survival Strategies, rather than Observing what your Identified Self mechanically creates at the effects of which you are suffering. (Look… I will wait right here – however long it takes – while you Start Over and meticulously Experiment from S.P.A.R.K. 000 through S.P.A.R.K. 048 with your S.P.A.R.K. Experiment Team and return here to this POINT with Integrity. This Path is not for dogs, so stop behaving like a dog. By the time you get back here having Self Observed the whole way, you will easily answer the following questions. Thank you for doing that.) What is really going on? (That is the supreme Quest-Ion.) You make up Reasons for your actions after you have already decided to act a certain way. You make up Reasons SO THAT if anybody ever asks you why you are doing a certain thing, you can give them acceptable Reasons. If you can give people really good Reasons for your decisions and actions, then they will not perceive you as crazy. Crazy people are a menace to society. Crazy people are ‘dangerous’. They get locked away in solitary confinement and given heavy doses of brain drugs plus electroshock therapy. If your Reasons convince others that you are not ‘dangerous’, then you are ‘sane’. Limiting your life to actions for which you have created very good Reasons keeps you looking ‘sane’. This is a very good Reason for limiting yourself. But think about it. No matter how good your Reason is for limiting yourself, you are still using Reasons, and, you are still limiting yourself. This Experiment is to write and publish an Article titled something like: SELF OBSERVATION AND REASONS. Take readers on the journey you have been going through to get a grip of your Box’s Reason-generating function so that you could be a Human Being and have a Life. Share your Article on your Website.
SPARK049.02 FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE TRYING TO LOOK SANE FOR, AND WHY There is a shadow lurking over your shoulder, judging you at the deepest levels, testing your worthiness and constantly finding you lacking. Let us come together as a Team and find out who that is for each other, shall we? In your Possibility Team, sit in groups of 3 with a Possibilitator facing a Client, and a Coaching sitting to the side of the Possibilitator. The Client gives their Beep! Book to the Coach and asks them to take clear and complete notes. The Possibilitator checks to make sure everyone is in First Position, with their Center, Grounding Cord, and Bubble, Gremlin on a short leash to their side, Sword of Clarity to hand, being in Awe, and Improvising. After asking about the color of people’s Grounding Cord, the Possibilitator begins by asking the Client to close their eyes, take a deep breath, and remember back to the first time they were terrified that they might die. Who shocked them? What was the threat? What caused the fear? Ask the Client to let their fear get bigger, and to let the sounds out. Ask the Client to let their fear point their finger in a direction towards what scares them. Is it day time or night time? Are they inside or outside? Are they standing, sitting, or lying down? Is it a place they know or a place they don’t know? Are they alone or with someone else? Is it someone they know or someone they don’t know? It is male or female? Who is it? What is happening that is threatening their life? What are they blaming you for? What Reason are you using to defend yourself? Did your Reason work to save you or not? What did you decide about Reasons? What did you decide about people who ask for Reasons? Who are those people in your life now? Make a list of their names. For each one, what are your tricks for making yourself look sane and acceptable to them? Why is it important to look sane to them? What could happen if you do not present yourself as sane? Make sure all of this is written down. Consciousness is Transformational because it gives you new options to choose from, rather than acting out of Unconscious (forgotten…) old Stories, Assumptions, Conclusions and Decisions. A Decision continues to do its work until you make a new and different Decision, even if you forgot that you made the old Decision. Go for 20 minutes, then rotate to the next chair in your Team. After everyone has had a chance to be the Client, move into the big circle and share about what you experienced and realized. This would be a time for anyone to make a new Decision about anything if they wanted to.
SPARK049.03 WHO WOULD YOU BE IF YOU NO LONGER BELIEVED IN THE RELIGION OF HAVING ‘GOOD REASONS’? In your Possibility Team, sit together in the big circle with your Beep! Book. Once everyone is Present in First Position, the Spaceholder asks this Quest-Ion: “If you did NOT have to worry about trying NOT to be seen as dangerous or insane, how might you behave differently? If you could let the largeness of your Being explore and and express itself as a creative force of Nature, what would come through you? What do you actually Love? Who are you really? What makes you electrified with joy and ecstatically alive? Please just start writing without thinking. I am Holding an Ultra-Safe Space. Here are tissues, buckets, Rage Towels and Space. Don’t hurt yourself. Don’t hurt anyone else. Please keep answering the question, If you no longer believed in the religion of having ‘good reasons’ for every last fucking part of your existence, what might you become?” Then go for 30 minutes of feelings and writing. After the 30 minutes, the Spaceholder says, “Gently come to a pause and move into Teams of 3. In this smaller Team, make a list in your Beep! Book of experimental actions you could try if you did not have to have Reasons to justify your behavior… if you did not have to worry about trying to look acceptable or sane. Try not to edit your list at all. You do not have to share this list with anyone. Title your list something like: MY NEW ALIVENESS.” Just having these ideas and giving yourself permission to imagine yourself taking off in these new directions is already Radical Transformation. If you end up trying any of these new behaviors, consider bringing your Legends back to your Possibility Team in the next weeks so all can be inspired by your courage.
SPARK049.04 DO NOTHING UNTIL YOU CAN DO IT FOR NO REASON Set aside 3 years for this Experiment. You may not need all 3 years, but in your mind, give yourself that much time. It starts simple. Select a private and safe place where you will not be disturbed, then lie down on the floor on your back. Just lie there. From this moment on, for the rest of your life, do not move a single muscle without you taking full Responsibility for choosing to do so. If you move for a Reason, then you do not have Responsibility for your action. The Reason has responsibility for your action. Do not move until you realize that you can Choose to move for no Reason, so that you source the action and not any kind of Reason. You are disconnecting Reasons from actions, and actions from Reasons. Actions and Reasons live in different Universes. Do not breathe. Do not shift your eyes. Do not place your Attention on anything.
Self Observation is done for no Reason. If you have a Reason for doing Self Observation, then your Self Observation is not Radically neutral. If Self Observation is not Radically neutral, it is not Self Observation. It is your Box and Gremlin trying to criticize yourself to see if you are doing it ‘right’ or not. Then you are still being Adaptive to some external authority, and you are not being yourself.
Continue lying there. Do not think a thought, or speak a word without it being 100% undeniably your Choice to do so. Recognize, through careful Self Observation, that actions come first and Reasons follow, that actions and Reasons are, in fact, not connected at all. And that you are free to make any action or any Decision you like without having it be connected to any Reason at all, ever.
Later on, if anybody does happen to ask why you did a certain thing or decided a certain way, you can either look at them and spontaneously Invent out of Nothing a superb Reason that would be exactly what they would want to hear from you to prove to themselves that you are sane. Or, you look them straight in the eyes and in a steady voice, say, “No Reason.”
Now, in this moment, without a dense cloud of pre-made ‘really good’ Reasons around you, you are Radically at risk. You have no escape at all from being solely Responsible for your actions. And.. you seem to be okay with it. You might be lying there on the floor for three minutes, three hours, three weeks, or three years before you get it. But until you make this Experiment and take Radical Responsibility for your actions at an irreducible level previous to Reasons, you will forever be falsely founded on trying to look sane to people who live like Zombies in an insane culture.
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