Banquo's revenge

Reality bias

Er…

Reality bias

Yes, I heard  you. Do you really want me to ask you to explain what this means – or are we just going to pretend we understand what you’re on about?

We?

Ok – me and the 74 million subscribers who follow your blog.

That’s more like it.

So I guess the answer is “no”.

Oh that – I just need permission – your permission to proceed.

You do?

Well yes.

Why?

Not allowed to give you stuff unless you ask for it..

Who says?

Non-interference protocol.

Ok. If you say so.

So, I’ll take that as permission granted.

Granted, granted – for what it’s worth.

So, you naturally assume reality is the whole thing, don’t you?

The whole what?

Yes, that’s it more or less – the whole what – and you assume that reality is neutral and unbiased, do you not?

How can reality be biased? It’s just reality, isn’t it – whatever is. Basically everything.

Absolutely. Every thing. Reality is all about things, isn’t it – and you never really wonder about all those things which don’t quite pass muster and make it into the “real.ity” operating system, onto the “real.ity” platform, the real.ity net.

Why do you imagine there are things that are excluded from reality?

No, you’re mistaken.

I am? Are you sure?

If I imagine something I’ll prefix it with the words “I imagine”. If, on the other hand, I’m stating a fact – then the “I imagine” prefix will be absent.

Ok – you don’t imagine – you’re absolutely sure that there are things which exist, which are real but which don’t make it onto the “reality” platform.

Absolutely. Such is the nature of the platform, though technically the word “real” only refers to things that appear in the reality you mistakenly assume to be all-encompassing.

Huh?

It excludes any thing which exceeds or deceeds very specific, tight, prescriptive operating parameters, like fish above or below the size of our reality net so to speak.

In the micro-hertz and mega-hertz range?

Good guesswork. Allow me to suggest that the precise frequencies are not right now terribly important.

If you say so. Then what is?

Important?

Yes.

The fact that so-called reality is half complete – that there’s another half which evades detection until or unless you figure out some thing doesn’t add up – that there must be more – that our real.ity is an mp3 or 4 digitised version of reality – that adding in the other half would collapse the wave function of real.ity and we’d be back in a landscape in which dream and undream are largely indifferentiable. There’d be all kinds of unthinged versions of any thing vying for our attention – competing with the table, the chair, the bird, the knife, the fork, the tree or the mouse – not to mention formless background noise – you’d be hard put to make head or tails of whatever is, or is not, what.

Oh.

Exactly.

So things are not what they seem.

Absolutely.

And?

And what?

What am I supposed to do with this er…

Revelation

Information

Do? What do you want to do with it?

I have no idea. You pull the rug of reality from under my feet – so I may as well assume you must have some ulterior motive.

How cunning.

Me? Cunning?

No, not you – the mind complicit in presenting the half-sided, filtered version of reality.

?

It’s very good at defending itself by directing attention elsewhere – at the messenger, for example, who provides additional information.

Oh – you think that’s a specific mind rather than my own personal response?

Absolutely. You’d be hard pressed to distinguish your real conscious self from the real.ity mind.

Reality mind? Are you absolutely sure there’s a separate mind for this particularly real.ity?

Absolutely. How else could it be so utterly convincing, so well defended?

So me – where am I in all this?

Where do you want to be?

Er…

Do you want to be in a controlled, edited, manipulated version of things – a so-called reality – or…

I think I’d prefer the truth – the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Even if it’s going to be somewhat confusing at first.

I can’t say I’m over the moon about experiencing a mental breakdown – but I’d rather experience reality in the true sense, than a fake version.

It’s just your half-mind is going to put up a bit of a struggle – it’s got used to having things its own way – and won’t want to relinquish control of you.

You make it sound like some scary enemy.

Well, it’s a bit like a drug addict. We all grow addicted to things – and the matrix mind – call it what you will, has grown addicted to controlling your conscious-awareness – which is a huge multi-dimensional setup with almost limitless possibilities. Like a kid in a candy store, the real-ity mind is definitely not in any hurry to go back to sharing the crown jewels with the other side of is, the why-mind-at-all-when-all-is-one – otherwise known more accurately as “0=1” if you don’t mind.

And, er… could this get dangerous for me?

For you, for everyone – absolutely. This is where you get to play a game of brinkmanship with your own mind – which is hellbent on keeping you penned in its version of things, as opposed to the unversion of query-things – aka “the isness of be”.

Gulp. Like a game of chicken, you mean?

Absolutely. It’s like a dog – if it sees you blink, or senses you’re about to flinch it’ll exploit that perceived weakness to the utmost.

Well, I’m not sure I have what it takes. I’m not exactly cut out to be a hero, you know.

I know. You’re welcome to revert back to the status quo, but the trouble is…

Yes?

Now the mind knows you know that it ain’t more than a rendition of reality – it’s going to have to move fast to re-secure your conscious-awareness before you see too clearly the limitations of what it’s able to reproduce.

And what exactly might that involve?

Difficult to say really – bear in mind that your mind is connected to all the other minds.

It is?

Absolutely. They have direct channels of communication you’re not even aware of. That’s how they manage to ensure you all perceive the same things more or less in the same way. They’re in cahoots.

Oh.

Yes, well if your awareness is now endangering the controlled-real.ity node you have hitherto functioned as, that’s a problem because awareness is kind of infectious – you could certainly spread the disease which could lead to a cascade failure or a domino effect spread of real.ity-scepticism – first  you, then more and more people you connect with would stop accepting unconditionally the truth of the real.ity you hitherto took for granted.

And what?

Well, a whole part of the mind-net would go blank for them, wouldn’t it? They’d lose control of your resources.

They? Who exactly are you referring to?

I can’t or won’t say – because until/ unless you’re able to see through the filters blocking them from view, and to see to some extent the fuller nature of true un-ity as opposed to real.ity – “the isness of be” as I prefer to call it – until that happens any name I give you will just be another thing to distract you from your own awareness experience. It will benefit you not in the least. On the contrary – it will be a distraction. Suffice it to say that you are part of a continuum which extends more or less ad infinitum – in other words, you ain’t the top of a Darwinian food chain.

Huh?

Your thoughts, your conscious-awareness mind resources are of huge value and feed a vast network of dependents – in the same way your body is a vast ecosystem for bacteria and other creatures, likewise your soul.

OMG

But this doesn’t have to be necessarily a bad thing.

No? You could have fooled me.

Well yes, but that would hardly benefit the cause, would it?

What cause?

Wait a moment – let’s rewind – so nature, as you know, abhors a vacuum – and as long as you were unable or unwilling to use your natural resources – the energy, the processing power of your mind, then it was fair game for it to be exploited by other more advanced entities. They do that by substituting their mind for the original, keeping you so busy minding things of no-significance whatsoever that you utterly fail to notice the mind is not your own, that behind it stand some rather sophisticated neural hackers.

Well I don’t see what gives them the right…

Correct – you don’t see, so stop huffing and puffing and consider that possibly they were doing you a favour – for although they were exploiting your untapped potential, they stopped it from atrophying and kept it more or less in good working order.

Oh.

And besides – quit whining about nature; everyone and everything is connected – we’re all interdependent, like it or not.

We are?

So literally there’s no way, physically, you can completely cut yourself off from all foreign, all alien entities.

Oh, it’s like that is it?

Absolutely. Even a king has to cultivate relations with other players on all sides to get anywhere.

Oh.

Besides, you were happy to go along with the subterfuge.

I was?

Do you imagine you wanted to know about what lies under the bonnet of the car, what lies inside the computer, what makes the beast perform in such a way that you fail to realise that it’s controlling you in every conceivable way.

Such as?

Emotionally, gastronomically – through the bacteria in your gut, mentally through thoughts and ideas, and so on and so forth.

OMG.

Absolutely. It beggars belief, does it not, but in the end there’s so much to learn, so much fun to be had by gently, carefully stepping outside the playpen we’ve been locked in (for our own safety – I hasten to add) and beginning to become aware of our real.ity bias – a bias which even defines “real” as “true” and “indisputable”, ironically, as opposed to it’s true meaning where “real” merely refers to the version of things, the perception of things, renditioned by the substitute mind within apparent “reality”, to the exclusion of all else. Real.ity is like the visible light spectrum – a tiny part of the entire electro-magnetic spectrum and any wavelengths real.ity-mind cannot see are de-platformed, disallowed, ignored with apparent impunity – as long as we’re willing to go along with this convenient substitution, buying into the myth that things actually matter – that matter maketh man.

Oh – so now we’re the ones to blame for this shambolic mess?

Blaming is exactly what they like you doing. As long as you’re upset, angry or fearful, as long as you’re fixating on some kind of enemy, then you’re simply not able to broaden your frequency band to take in anything else – so you’re welcome to give them the sweet satisfaction – the highly prized delicacies of fear and anger.

I can’t win. Everything I do is wrong.

True – you can’t exactly win – but you can shift phase; you can become aware of your reality bias, and simple awareness, mere awareness is enough to tip the balance, to get you centre stage so that the competing energies, forces or entities radiating from you/ through you hold one another in check.

Oh my G**

For how else could you be part of a continuum? How else could you have access to one and all – were you not already connected to an astonishing degree, once you allow your real.ity mind to confound itself by finally seeing through matter and through the mind that does everything it can to remain undetected.

But…

Yes – we can talk about it because your awareness is already lapping over the edge of the pool it was contained in – like water, but seeing is essential, and seeing involves facing what you most fear to see.

?

Fear, after all, is the mechanism which helped preserve the status quo just long enough to get you thus far – so there’s nothing wrong with fear, per se – only should you decide to choose to make fear, or matter (for that matter) your master, to the exclusion of all that is.

Oh.

Precisely…  By the way – consider for a moment me – who or what I am – whether in fact I exist.

?! Of course you bloody exist.

So you’d imagine, would you not?

Oh come on Banquo – I’ve known you for ages. There’s no way…

You see – you’ve known me for ages because that’s what you remember – but something just told you that that memory is insecure – was backdated – implanted to fill an awkward gap.

This is ridiculous.

I agree – but I’m hardly going to want to eliminate myself – am I? I’d only chose to do so if it were necessary to assist your awareness shift – as you realise that nothing is quite what it seems – that the mind is incredibly powerful – but isn’t in your control until you expand conscious-awareness to the point that mind is compelled to work with 0=1 unmind – which is non-local,  non-specific, non-definable – a disaster to all appearances, but which, nevertheless, manages to extract meaning or sense from infinity, to unexpectedly save the day when all seems lost and forlorn – which constantly defies and defeats our expectations – wrong footing our OCD predilection for predictability and pathological pedantry.

3Ps

Indeed. And maybe, just maybe that was a coded message, a signal to trigger what logic or reason cannot quite manage to achieve. 3Ps will do – and I will close

You’re not going to vanish like a ghost now that you’ve delivered your message are you Banquo?

Et tu Brutus

Huh? Shakespeare. Non sequitur or what… or – what? Betrayal? A nagging feeling something doesn’t quite add up… yet can’t for the life of me pin it down. If only Merry were here to shed some light on this

shameful tale of betrayal

 if I’m not greatly mistaken…

if I am

not

[Cut]

Outside the studio three disgusting old hags dance around a cauldron on a wild, stormy moor little suspecting I’m now at liberty to see how they managed to weave, to spin, to twist me into their narrative – as if somehow mind takes its cues from far flung outposts – stories scattered around the collective-mind-space of things that somehow or other define, determine, decide what apparently matters, and what absolutely does not in so-called real.ity    

if only they knew…

shut up Mac B – of course they do

it remains to be seen – dunnit?

absolutely…