REALITY ISN’T REAL, 100th MONKEY AND MESSIAH MONKEY
Perception is the beginning of illusion. There is nothing out there to perceive. There are no people, no events, no objects, no planet, no sun, moon or stars, nothing—no thing at all. It is a dream at best and a nightmare at worst. When we perceive it as a dream, we know it is illusion and therefore ephemeral. When we perceive it as nightmare, we are fooled into thinking it is reality and we then make a further mistake in letting it affect us in some way (as though against one’s will), reinforcing a false notion that even we ourselves exist, are real and are therefore separate from what truly is. This creates the comedy/drama we call life. Those who are not fooled into thinking along such ways (even into thinking, period) are masters of the illusion.
All the problems we experience stem from a belief that what is happening is really happening. We forget it is all a dream. Who takes their dreams so seriously as to think that anything that happens in the dream is real? Only a fool, that’s who. It is imperative that we remember at all times that all we experience is a dream and therefore cannot harm us, much less affect us in any way…unless we allow it.
The less perceptions one has, the less labels, the less beliefs, the less dogmas, the less thinking that one does in trying to figure out reality, then the more able one is to correctly discern it all as it really is.
As a example of this kind of mindset, I have had rare experiences during deep meditation in which everything I looked at looked like a thin virtual world, and I could detect its illusory nature to the point where it seemed that I could see thru solid objects, even my own body, as though I suddenly had the X-Ray vision of the comic hero Superman.
There is a saying. “With God, anything is possible.” It has also been stated another way. “With God, nothing is impossible.” Both of these statements are correct in light of the above paragraphs. Think about it. If there is nothing out there, nothing to truly perceive, i.e. if nothing is real, then why should anything be impossible to perceive or experience in some way shape or form at any given vantage point in space-time (which is also an illusion)? If it is all illusion, all a dream, then how can it be impossible to experience anything at all? In light of the universal principle of reality as illusion, how can any one dream be more preposterous or unreal or impossible than any other? So-called impossible things are happening all the time right in front of us. After all, the reason anything happens is because we have lifted our disbelief that it can happen—and so it does happen.
Every human being on earth is currently doing and/or experiencing something(s) that at least one other person on earth is convinced is impossible. But if one person does a new thing, something never before seen, then the mere fact of that occurrence instantly nullifies the very idea that it was impossible for that thing to happen, now doesn’t it? This is the very essence of the well known 100th Monkey phenomenon, an event actually witnessed and recorded by scientists. Briefly, one monkey does something new in the monkey world, then another and another start doing the new thing, and before you know it, all monkeys are doing the new thing, even and most especially those monkeys who live far away, having no physical contact with the original monkeys . And so what was once impossible or unthinkable becomes common place. It would appear that even the monkeys are in touch with God (or something).
And we humans are so foolish to think that we are not in touch with Divinity? Who is smarter, then? The monkey or the human?
Much of humanity’s selfish endeavors relies heavily upon the common man’s ignorance of his own stupendous inherent abilities to create his world around him. With humans, the 100th Monkey phenomenon has become perverted into the One Selfish Monkey phenomenon. This usually occurs in business circles when one monkey discovers something new that would benefit all the fellow monkeys, however the monkey greedily keeps it secret so it can use this secret to make a buck from his fellow monkeys. There is also the One Destructive Monkey phenomenon, usually found in the most unenlightened and uncivilized militarized groups of the world, in which something new is discovered and immediately applied towards destroying other monkeys.
The most benign variation of this monkey phenomenon may be called the Messiah Monkey phenomenon. This occurs when one monkey discovers the true nature of life, the universe, reality, God, etc., and tries to share it with his other monkeys to alleviate their suffering. What usually happens is that all of the Selfish, Greedy and Destructive monkeys gang up on the Messiah Monkey and kill him, all in order to protect their own selfish monkey interests, to prevent the other Common Monkeys from learning that they are being screwed over royally by the Selfish Monkeys.
Human or Monkey—which is smarter? Which is more…human?
