Staring Into the Eyes of a Stranger…Looking For The Man in the Mirror.

Have you ever caught yourself wondering how you got where you are right now? Have you ever had the thought that you don’t really know yourself? Has it ever occurred to you that the body underneath all of your thoughts is something different and impossible to contain in words and thoughts?

The exercise I will do with you today will help bring you to a deeper experience of you as a physiological experience, instead of all the thoughts and labels you think you might be.

Whatever you call yourself–human, socialist, leftist, liberal, conservative, Buddhist, Christian, [your name here], fat, thin, ugly, pretty, and anything else you can think of–is not the same as Y-O-U. Why does any of this matter? Perhaps it doesn’t matter at all. Perhaps living a life in which the real creature gets buried under confused thoughts, and confuses itself for those thoughts, is not too bad after all.

It takes so much effort and time to pay attention, to develop focused, concentrated awareness, and to really get clear with oneself about what the hell is going on in any given situation…Why not just float with the habits and programs that have gotten each of us this far?

Well, for one thing, that is not the mission of Creative Deconstruction or Escape Plans Unlimited. The mission of this blog is to wake myself up; to seek my own enlightenment, my own joy, and my own concentrated and focused attention; and to ignore anything and everything that tries to convince me otherwise. Of course, this can get a bit complicated when attempting to identify foreign installations, as Castaneda called our programming and waking sleep, and to remove them.

Again, I redirect your mind to the body in which it resides. Feel that thing sitting there in front of this screen.

For the sake of the following exercise, record a video of yourself doing it, or feel free to follow along with me and to stare into my eyes during the video. Do not expect to be entertained by this video. Instead, expect to have an experience….your own experience. Notice if the full 2 minutes of the 2 exercises seems to drag on, notice your breathing and your reactions. Leave me a comment about such observations.

Without further enjoyable rambling, the video:

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