suddenly,bob's name became gnat , , , , ,,
gnat sat up in a stream... quite literaly in his Stream Of Consciousness. (SOC)...
he could feel the stream pressing on his back ..the turbulance around his body..tugging at his arms . making a white noise .
his interior mind.. his own internal Stream of Conscious (SOC) stopped. . . . . . .the silence was deafening.....he opened his eyes..all he could see was the fluid flowing downstream..he slipped a little downstream and that gave him a fright..so he rolled over and stood up...it was a little over knee deep....the current was tugging at his legs .. his mind was a blank..
gnat crawled out of the soc, onto the bank and lay on his side awhile..the ground was tan...he rolled over on his back..the sky was a pale blue yellow.. stretching out to the horizon in all directions.
no brainer
He stood up.....
he scanned the horizon and looking upstream, he could see a large tree off in the distance
there were no other land features just the tree and the stream of consciousness which he contemplated. .. it was very turbulent.. even looked like white water
He started walking along the bank, going upstream..
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he walked on and on..
He came to a little shrub growing by the SOC bank . . it was a GRIN plant and had clusters of GRIN seeds on its leafy branches.. he gave thanks, and comtemplated what to do...should he harvest them all or leave a surplus . . . . .. would he be greedy or just take what he needed.. what if he were to come here again in the future what if someone else came here. . ..he plucked a single seed and popped it into his mouth and chewed it, it seemed like the right thing to do .... then continued walking upstream.
He thought about his ego and how it seemed to be just a temporary thing. . and seeing other people as equals .. looking into their soul and seeing himself...seeing a bird as equal...the soul in common with all living things.
He noticed a large bird, a raptor, flying up ahead and at the same moment the bird noticed him. It screached, wheeled about and flew directly towards him. Closer and closer it came until it buzzed him with its tail feathers fanned out.. beautiful .. and then it was gone.. .Gnat considered this a blessing and it warmed his heart .. .with joy..a blessing that said that he was on the right path.. He smiled and kept going upstream..
Eventually, gnat came to the base of the tree...it was huge and squat . ..its trunk was hollow and had an arched opening from which the SOC emerged. The SOC wasn't as turbulent as it had been. In fact it was quite smooth..and the sheer volume of the stream was much lessened... There were 3 windows.in the trunk. All in a coloumn going up one side of the tree . He walked around to the back of the tree. it was quite wide . .On the trunk was a board with these two words carved on it ... . . ..EGO TREE .... . He continued walking around the tree till he reached the front again, where the SOC was issueing forth. There was nothing else to do but go inside which he did post haste...
it was quite spacious inside. there was a rather large machine on a table from which issued the SOC. it had several marked components...there was a short term memory sphere, the ST and a long term memory sphere ,the LT which contained an associative lobe and a fantasy lobe. these fed into to the cirle C chamber the circle C being the consciousness...in the middle was a request arrow. feeding from the circle C into the long term memory ...Finally , there were four tubes, three marked the senses of touch, sound and sight and the fourth was labeled personal past ... They fed thru the ceiling down the wall and then the three senses fed into the circle C chamber. The fourth tube dissappeared underneath the table. .There was an empty chair sitting in front of the device.. whoever sat there gnat had no idea. He sat down and watched the machine for awhile.. ..it looked like this:
He called it a machine, but it really wasn't. It was alive somehow and he wondered how it got its sustenance and if it even needed such a thing.
off to the side was a wide screen TV . . .the image on the tv was moving ,, ,,he focused in on the tv . . .and the image on the TV was the TV . . . .curious . . . .he raised his hand in front of his eyes and the image on the TV was his hand in front of the TV ,, ,, the image on the TV was what he was seeing through his eyes , , ,,he was the camera , , ,
Beside the table was a stack of books...on the top of the stack was.."Awakening to the Sacred" by Lama Surya Das. He didnt feel like reading the whole thing, so he opened the book at random: " It is possible that there is only one question that seekers need ask themselves about their spiritual progress, "How well do you love""
Nothing much happening there so he looked around the room. it was well laid out,, a comfortable apartment , , , ,a nice table,,,a chair , a sofa,, a kitchen , ,. one feature was an arched opening which he went over to investigate...it was an enclosed spiral staircase with steps leading up.. The stairs were of well worn wood and visibility up the stairs was limited to a few higher steps.. very much like in a midaieval castle...
so he climbed ... it was darker and a little claustrophobic but he pressed on until he came to a wooden door with the word "TOUCH" inscribed on it .. he opened the door, and went inside...it was dark but his eyes soon adjusted:
gnat closed the TOUCH door and continued on up the stairs ..making a complete 360 degeree rotation before he came to the second wooden door which was marked simply "SOUND" :: inside it was very dark.. but he went in anyway::
gnat closed the door of SOUND behind him and continued on up the stairs.. soon he came to a third wooden door which was marked "SIGHT" he went in.. it was dark........
gnat looked at the chair ,. .it was a recliner , , , very comfortable so he sat down in it ... it looked .like the cockpit of an airaplane with one pilot, , ,instead of windows it had a large wrap around screen ,, ,,and on the screen was a dark image unfolding ,, it was like looking into a vorex ,, ,, a writhing wormhole . ,, ,while gnat looked at the wormhole , , near the center of the screen ,, ,, the wormhole straightened out and became a rabbit hole ,, , and at the center of the rabbit hole was another rabbit hole. . . . . . . as he closed his eyes, he saw the rabbit hole, ,, ...what he was seening on the screen was what he was seeing thru his closed eyes .. , ,. .in real time . . .as it was he was seeing what he was not seeing ..
he crawled out of the observer seat . . .
gnat closed the SIGHT door and continued up the staircase until he came to a circular room .a room with many doors,,,,he continued climbing..the spiral staircase until he came out on the roof.. . . .it was windy and foggey out there . . .and the entire circular roof floor was one big yin yang symbol . . .
mw>>why gnat so good of you to come , ,
gnat>>my my . . .oh my..you know my name , , ,how , , ,
mw>>lets just say you've had an interesting life , , , right now your standing on the roof of a teleporter .. there are other teleporters out there and they are all connected . . .spiritualy,, ,
gnat>>where am I
mw>> your in the noosphere , , ,a realm of only truth . . . and never lies , , ,a realm divided into three parts ..nootopia and dystopia , and nirvana, , in nootopia they follow natures laws , , and dystopia where they follow the laws of man , since man evolved, , ,and of course in dystopia thing are going horribly wrong . . . kinda hard to take in,,,so I suggest you go down a floor and explore the corridors , , ,for now , , ,
so gnat went down a floor.and walked into a well lit room with doors all along the left side , , he counted them and there were 20. . . .. ..but only the farthest door was opened .... thru that door gnat could see a brightly lit corridor...with doors on either side. The walls, the floor ,and the doors were all dull white the doorknobs were all bronze .....he went to the first door on the left..turned the nob and opened it. he could see himself as a child in diapers...with brown with brown curly hair...the child was suspended from a seat in the middle of a flat donut of wood with 4 wheels. The device was holding him upright.. . the child was listening to music.."Bolero" by Ravel ..His mom was in another room, doing the ironing and played the music to help pass the time.. .across the room his older sister was sitting on the floor watching tv..he had a thought and it was that he liked MUSIC better than he liked TV.. . ...gnat realized that the scene in front of him was one of the earliest memories from his childhood. he closed the door and went further down the corridor....
This time he picked a door on the right.. here he saw himself a child again .. in the kitchen, reaching, stretching , way up to the top of the stove and burning his hand slightly on a heating element. It was the second time he'd done it and when he told his mom, she said to "learn from your mistakes.".. he pondered that .saw the logic of it and vowed to do it in future.. . .this was his first abstract concept .his first labored thought.. . Gnat closed the door on that memory and headed further down the corridor..
.here the corridor split in two ....the main branch continuing on and this other branch veering to the right .. he stayed with the main branch...he opened a door to the left and there he was stirring a bowl of chocolate ice cream until it was mushy. the next door on the right was him getting nausious over a plate with green peas...doing anything not to eat them...he shut the door..he continued down the long corridor until he reached the end...with two doors facing each other..as he opened the left door, the right door opened simultaneously . looking thru the door, he could see his own back..then .looking over his shoulder he could see himself looking back .....this must be the present.. and satisfied he closed the door and retraced his steps back down the corridor until he came to that first branch off the main corridor.. . this branch also had many doors ,,
the first door he opened on the new brach showed his mother..the next door showed his father then his sister all the people that were part of his life..relatives
there was another branch to the right .. . .this was school .. it went for a ways and then had a multiple branching .. .
these corridors went on and on with branches going into new territory..
he spent a long time going down and around the corridors
he loved to map things and this was quite a challenge but he finally had a rough draft down of how the corridors were laid out...
There was a corridor of work ,, and one of books read .. and movies seen . .and many others.. but he put it as simply as he could:
the subject of the final corridor to explore was tough to decipher ..what was its catagory..it had and no branches as far as he could see and only one unlocked door . . .the first one .. ..all the other doors were locked .. Then the thought occurred to him that its featurelessness looked like the area he was mapping prior to when he sat up in the SOC..and was therefore the category of INNER..This INNER category had 2 components . . . the mind and the soul . . . .he opened the only unlocked door .. .and it revealed the SIGHT door in the ego tree..he went in and opened the sight door and there was the . ....chair and the screen ,, , , on the screen was the screen and the chair..........sitting in the chair was a man in green uniform . the man turned around in his chair and gavr gnat the thumbs up and a big grin, , , he closed the doors. . . what should he do . . .He'd explored all the other corridors to their ends and so he was determined to go to the end of the INNER corridor ,no matter what ... On and on the corridor went . it began to go uphill and he was soon out of breath, but he kept on going. his heart pounding..soon it became too steep to walk, so he crawled..finally .the corridor reached a peak and looking forward from there the downward slope was such that there would be no going back..so he sat up on the corridor peak. Here the floor changed from white to something smooth and tan.. he took a deep breath and with feet in front of him, he pushed off and started going down.. faster and then slower and turning and onward like a roller coaster..... Soon it started getting brighter...and lighter..until the white light was dazzeling. and he emerged flying through the air for a second before landing on some soft sand ....
onward and backward into Zero Island