I have been dealing with people and the problems they face my entire life. Haven't you? Haven't we all wondered why things are the way they are. Why do people act the way they do? Isn't that what causes us to make some attempt to "find the meaning of life"? I have, like I said, been at this a while and I want to give everyone some idea of what I see as the cause of the people disturbance.
There are many references in ancient cultures to the dream state and the trance state. It seems that this is where they went to find things out. I was wondering about early tribes and why they didn't eat the wrong plants or animals and die. Well for sure some did. But I ran across a story of a shaman in South America who was telling the man doing the interview that they knew what to eat and how to live because the serpent told them. They got in touch with the serpent through psychoactive plant tinctures. Another thing that they were told is that this was the dream world. The world where they couldn't remember what they were, had to use words to communicate and so on. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand as someone who went through a horrendous drug addiction I know what it's like to get high and think things. On the other hand the not remembering and feeling as if I live in a dream world rang some inner chimes.
According to the Indians you know if you're dreaming if you're here in human form. That's not really helpful to any of us on our way to the office. Even if it's true what good is it. In my study of myself, and my fellows, and my search to get to the structure of things I have found a common thread in all addictions, anxiety and mental dis-orders. Don't confuse dis-order with disorder. Dis-order has no clinical definition, its not that complicated. The common theme is all of the individuals in these troubled states were involved in some form of fantasy life. Not an intentional fantasy. Not the stare out the window and dream about a lover fantasy but rather fantasies about Life. What life is what our part in it is and what makes the worlds go round. What are these things really? What are the real facts.
One thing for sure, if you're not dealing with facts then you're dealing with fantasy. If our facts about the world in which we live are not really facts, then we're living within the resulting fantasy. We're dreaming.
Over and over I go through this with people. It's always the same. They have a problem and they want it gone. When we finally arrive at the cause, there always exists some aspect of their lives that is supported by some fantasy structure. With a life built on this nonexistent foundation the building is proportionally fragile. It shakes and wobbles and needs to be constantly patched and propped up with relationships, drugs, achievements, acceptance and so on. It's never restful and it never ends.
So how do we find out if we're dreaming? We have to find out what stories we have built our lives within. Not around: within. You can't be in and out of a story. When you accept a life story, whatever it is, you become a character in that story. So the first question then becomes, is this story real?
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Bio: Doug Wilson is an avid student of concepts and has spent the last five years seeking out the structural aspect of unrest in human nature. The results of this study is being written into a useful system formatted on twelve step program principles at Addiction: In the 21st Century; http://dgswilson.com
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