Swimming In Reality...

…metaphor for “handling” reality…

Ist you have to float…a non-doing…Jung realized that reality would “support” him…

…then swim…move in the “waters” of reality…but in sync…in Tao…which is also a not doing, but deceptive. It seems like it is “you” who is swimming…but reality is swimming you. When you go against the current you struggle and get nowhere…or…if you do “get somewhere” it is with great effort.

Least action path is best…like shamans use (or Burroughs)…

Like the concept of flow…athletes…dancers. Dance with the Tao…dancing with God…

Role of intention…for it to really have power it must be in sync with the Tao…not from the POV of the ego.

Be able to switch the ego off.

This is the REAL secret. The ego will not have all of its desires fulfilled but “YOU” will.

Jung’s concept of what is inside is outside. Psychoid. Synchronicity.

If you thrash about too much, you’ll sink and drown. Relax…float. Don’t panic.

Head above the surface like consciousness in “this” world. Under water…”the other side”? Head out of water like the world that is obvious to us…the tip of the iceberg. The part underwater…much larger…other dimensions. Terrance McKenna…”you are a multidimensional transcendental object”. The part that you don’t experience in waking consciousness is the most of “you”.

Swimming in the ocean is different than swimming in a river and both are very different from swimming in a swimming pool…or floating in a flotation tank.

Consider…flotation tanks and their effects…the womb where you “floated” into being…from which you “swam” into existence.

A fish doesn’t realize he’s under water.

Re: The universe is made of stories, not atoms…are we swimming through life in a sea of stories? Or is it a sea of consciousness? An ocean of language…a sea of B.S. (belief Systems).

We are made mostly of water…who is it swimming in this little ocean?

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
Jacques Cousteau

Swimming in media...
Jack Hitt: I read a study recently suggesting that Americans now swim through most of their day looking at some kind of screen — screens on their cellphones, on their desks, in their kitchens, everything from digital billboards on the highway and in the back of a cab to the eruption of screens in urban centers. Times Square is no longer an unusual attraction; it’s the norm. The side of a building can now be made to broadcast video. There is hardly a public space left — a bar, a gym, the dentist’s office — that hasn’t been vanquished by some kind of screen. Now, let’s say I’ve got something to sell. This multiplicity of screens would seem to be a good thing, wouldn’t it?
From NY Times Magazine, November 23, 2008…The Screens Issue
Multiscreen Mad Men

And now...let’s go for a swim with Steven Wright…Roshi…

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me…and I didn't hear it.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic. I mimic my shadow.

He asked me if I knew what time it was. I said, "Yes, but not right now."

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

…and Einstein…

In the period that Einstein was active as a professor, one of his students came to him and said: "The questions of this year's exam are the same as last years!" "True," Einstein said, "but this year all the answers are different.