reality

Reality is realizing that your leaders can't lead you anywhere. That mass consumption is leading to a lump of consumed mass. That for all of the high-tech gear, people are getting neither smarter nor wiser. The beauty of the planet and the future of children deserves a LOT more than being cool.

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This journey is mostly written for men stuck in the System. Females and men with beards would probably be safer finding a petty tyrant and bushwacking her/his own path to being a peaceful warrior.

Reality. People think they live in it, but in actuality, most people are actually living in their private dream that props up their ego and personal view of the world. Or they live it vicariously through television, their smart phone, celebrity magazines and such.

Want reality? Done being the winner on Team Mediocre? Ditch your life for awhile. You know, the one where everyone knows you. The one where you know who to call when you get bored, when you need money, where to go when you get hungry, where you buy the same groceries each time because you've "got it all down now".

Ditch your wallet, your cell phone. You don't need it. People lived for millennia before these things. Cancel your apartment. Say bye to your folks that you're going to leave for awhile, to "sort things out". Close up all of your loose ends, all of your debts. All these things pin you down. Be thorough and then keep whatever money you have to bring with you. If you have children, don't do this. You should find the snide guide on how to care for children and start redeeming your world already.

Start walking out of town. As you get to the edge of town, get everything you need to make it on your own. Perhaps it's a duffle bag, a backpack, a tent, or a vinyl tarp, whatever. Walk to its edge and then hitch a ride somewhere. It doesn't matter where. You're not going anywhere: you're going to your self.

When people ask your name, just say your name is Jake, or Pete, or Marla. They want to know what you do for a living, say something vague, like you do "research". Make something up.

Sleep in the woods, they're everywhere. Perhaps you've never done anything like this, you get wet, you get hungry. You forgot water. Maybe you get afraid. Perhaps it gets below freezing. Start learning how the animals do it, the Indians. Learn to be in tune. Learn from your discomforts, until you've perfected your personal "kit" that you travel with where you find that you can handle any situation -- where you're going to sleep, what nourishment you need, how you're going to get food.

Understand your fears and master your relationship to the Spirit until you can handle anything. Perhaps you're afraid that someone robs you. You don't have anything anyway, but these are real things that keep you chained to the 8 to 5. Why would someone want to rob you? Are you getting flashy around others with less? What do you know that they don't? Does it cost you anything to share it? Learn about the Bully that keeps everyone on edge. And learn how to move with that.

Then, and only then, have you arrived. Be careful about any naive or macho concept of not needing anything. There is yin and there is yang, and each needs as depends on the other in this life. The goal, however, is to be so impeccably tuned to Spirit that your every move is aligned with it and it provides everything you need.

You are no longer a slave. Go hop a train and see the mountains from the clear air it affords you. Take a trip to the ocean if you've never been there. Get a job on a boat going up to Alaska. Hire a nice gal in a Mexican border town, just to sleep next to her.

Find the library in a big city you visit. Hang out with the books and absorb the resources. Realize the immense amount of material there. Take notice of titles you like and buy them from a second-hand store you find on your journeys.

Be on the watch for what new skill or material item will allow you to express your relationship to the Infinite more clearly. It could be writing poetry, or learning an instrument, a badge you've designed worn on your apparel. Or perhaps it will just be talking to others.

Don't get lax. Stay aware. Who knows how the universe will test you. If someone starts a fight, be prepared. Meditate. Meditate on God and the Cosmos when you find a nice spot out in the woods beneath the stars. What keeps power from dying out? Journeys from people like you who add something novel to the world and add their spirit to it, who conjoin disparate things into a new harmony, and maybe by giving a little back to God, Jesus, the Earth, or your other (yin <-> yang).

Find a way to leave little messages for others like you. You should always have a pen with you. Sign them "Captain Dynamite" or "Dr. Bigcock" -- whatever name you used on your travels. Perhaps there's someone else who read this note. Be on the watch for things like that. Always leave little gifts for the Spirit of Man. Little gifts where no one expects it that brightens someone's day.

An Indian told me once to always be on the lookout for gestures from the Spirit. It could be as simple as a glance from a wild animal or a note blown from the wind, a book that points itself out to you, or a vision. It's never complicated. If it is complicated, you're probably getting stuck in yourself again, because the Spirit is selfless.

Here's a test: you start to get sick. Do you go back to your old life where there are doctors and such? If you are getting sick and you can't pin it down to something obvious that you just did, then you're sick because you are out of balance with something in your life. It could be your past, your karma, or your beliefs. Meditate on it. For karma, it could be God or it could be the Earth. Find new solutions instead of re-using old ones requiring someone else which gives away your personal power.

Don't tell people too much about your journeys. They simply won't get it. People who haven't seen Reality, won't recognize it, and you'll end up disappointed. But that's another test of the Spirit. You have to be patient for the proper moment to arrive. Or come here and tell your story without using the pronoun "I". Sign your name at the end of your story. Out there in the vastness, when you're selfless, your name all you have. You never made your body, the air you breathe, the food you eat, the life in your blood, or the planet and its greatness.

After you've found yourself, find a hackerspace and start/lead the World Game. When the pressure of the normal world becomes too great, there's fight club.

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