Imagination is the Escape Hatch -- not the Destination or Its Features

What makes us believe we know what is happening is our subconscious stress-conditioning rising to meet every new moment, to make sense, of it.

The mind cannot sufficiently grasp this point without an intuitive experience of it.  Prior to that, it is just words.

If you "get it", you're having an intuitive sense, of it that informs and infuses your word-mind with a sense of the meaning.

Intuition and imagination are closely related.  Both are non-verbal or pre-verbal apprehensions of the process by which things come into existence out of the unknown Unknown.

Here is the structure of imagination:

1. imagining
2. as-is, undefined
3. spontaneous immediacy
4. origination
5. happening
6. difference
7. Is-Is

Here are how unconscious impediments or inadequacies of imagination lead to overwhelm.

LITTLE QUIZZE
The first "muscle" of intelligence we have just considered is ___.
(A:  imagination)

Imagination is the entry of something new from ___ to ___ reality.
(A:  unknown, the known (memory))

When combined with the three others, imagination is the release-mechanism from experiences of all kinds -- and hence, from overwhelm.  What's important about it isn't the content of imagination, but the activity of imagination, itself, as a conduit from the unknown into memory.

The unknown is the release from the known.

This is transcendence, or release from the effort-filled alternatives of possible experience that overwhelms us.

Imagination and memory are the objects of attention and determine the objectives of intention.

Reality is the Four-fold Unity Comprising What is Both Conditional and Transcendent.

If necessary, specific maneuvers of attention, intention, memory, and imagination, in the form of well-structured procedures that take minutes to do, may be self-applied with or without external facilitation-guidance.

Intelligent consciousness, and indeed, all experience, is composed of attention*intention*memory*imagination.  Of these, attention, intention, and memory are conditional, or defined, or finite, or definite.

The fourth, imagination, is infinite, or undefined, or unknown, or non-conditional.  Transcendent.

Imagination is our interface with the unknown, or underined.  Imagination is where the unknown becomes known.  It is our "face" of confrontation with moment-to-moment experience in the most ordinary sense.

It is the truth of the observation that we don't know what is actually happening until it has already happened -- and a memory of it has formed -- even if only short-term memory.

Recounting, Incomprehension, and Comprehension

A clear perception of subconscious conditioning requires an operating based, or standpoint, that is other than and distinct from what is being contemplated for the sake of release.

Mere working harder won't do it because doing so may entail more doing of that which must, itself, be released.

Humans tend to follow frustration with more-of-the-same kind of effort that has been being frustrated.  We may tend to just add more "whack" to the effort, when what is needed is to decrease effort -- something people may consider counter-intuitive -- but which is merely "counter-habitual".

The recounting, from an apparently "outside" source, provides such a free standpoint.

However, due to the subconsciousness of the stress-pattern conditioning, such a recounting may result in our being confronted by a feeling of incomprehension.

Incomprehension is a state of conditioning, in itself, a form of resistance discovered to be voluntary, when pressed.

So, in the case of incomprehension, that feeling of incomprehension must be felt, recognized, and stripped off before the subconscious resistance (unconsciousness) can be revealed, met, recognized, and released.

The recounting is a first, preparatory step.

Feeling is the next step.

Recognition is the next step.

and Release, or informed relaxation, is the last step -- done in a succession of encounters with ones own subconscious stress-conditioning.

What follows this entry, then is that recounting.

Distinguish Shit from Shinola

So many people and companies want to train us to accept bullshit.

They do so through crappy products, crappy service, and outright misbehavior.

Whey want to cut corners and they want US to accept it.

They want to train us to accept even MORE bullshit. They want us so we can't tell shit from Shinola (shoe polish).

They want us stupid and compliant.

But don't let them win. Distinguish shit from Shinola ... and act accordingly. That's a function of The Middle Way Memory Matrix TetraSeed Invocation.

Be smart and expectant. Get what you deserve: integrity and fair treatment.

That means that the exploiters have to grow up and behave like mature adults whose actions have consequences, not just for others, but for themselves (long term).

Witnessing Leads to an Eruption

 Witnessing, as in the transcendental sense, is always different, from moment to moment. It is never the same.

There is no "THE" Witness. There is only WitnessING, one with and identical to the content of experience, at any moment.

Witnessing faces experience by means of attention, but also witnesses the intention of attention to locate, like a mouth as large as the sphere of our experiencing, all that emerges to experience in the Unknownably Unknown.

WitnessING : IS : IS : Witness.

"The" Witness is an anthropomorphic artifice, like The Bearded God or Santa Clause.

Witnessing is not a self. All selves are being Witnessed. We are being witnessed. "We" are not Witnessing.

So, to "be" The Witness is to intuit BEING Witnessed. If an "other" "doing the witnessing" appears, that is also being witnessed.

To be witnessed is not to be known or to be a subject of knowledge or memory. Witnessing is not recording anything.

To be witnessed is to be at the meeting place of the unknown and the known -- and that is all.

The Unknown Witnessing everything, is witnessing US. We are being witnessed. But not known.

We intuit being witnessed when we sense of things in particular. To the degree that we sense anything particular, to that degree are we being witnessed, witnessed doing the sensing -- witnessed, but not known. Witnessed : Illuminated for Attention

What is witnessing us is Unknowably Unknown -- Unknowably Unknown -|- right out through the top of the head.

The Unknowably Unknown IS the constancy of The Intuition of "THAT" --, "the same, throughout all my life, as now" -- most subtle, everpresent. NOT particular.

The Unknowably Unknown is unknowably unknown, now -|- from the heart region through the tongue to the palate, to the brain core, breathing in through the top of the head. Old Faithful.

The Paradox of Relationship and Avoidance of Relationship

What we consider and call, "relationship", is, when discerned by feeling, exactly the avoidance of relationship.  Even in pleasure, there is the "low note" of lurking dissatisfaction and avoidance.

Both the feeling of relationship and of what we call, "avoiding relationship", are the avoidance of relationship.

It's all avoidance. "Qualified" relationship is avoidance.

"Unqualified" (or "quality-less") relationship, by definition and in actual experience, does not exist in the experience of things-in-relationship, which are themselves, aggregates of qualities.

To exist is to stand out.  "EX": out, as in, "external".  If it stands out, it stands out by virtue of some quality:  it's "qualified".

Nothing unqualified can be said to exist, or can be located by attention.  Attention, itself, is qualified by its objects.  No quality, no experience of attention.

Therefore, to seek, work for, or reinforce relationship or relatedness is to reinforce qualification, and to reinforce qualification is to reinforce relatedness, which is by feeling, recognized to be the same as the feeling of avoidance.  That may explain the difficulties of marriages and relationships and the frustration of perfectionism.

To reinforce relatedness, and its qualities, is to reinforce avoidance.

No action in that domain of experience, relatedness, can undo avoidance.  It's all avoidance.

Even this knowing fails to avail, for the same reason.  Seeking the "quality-less" event flavors it with the effort of seeking.

Only the tacit recognition of the common identity of avoidance and relationship pops one free of the dilemma.  "Tacit" implies felt, not analyzed out, by thought.

Feeling is common, or in-common, to both relatedness and avoidance.

Feeling persists and persists, by changing.

Feeling underlies all thought, all assessments, and all experience.

The feeling faculty is the substance of relationship.  It is also the substance of avoidance.

Feeling is made of attention, intention, memory, and imagination.  When those are awake, integrated, and balanced, they "go transparent".  Their qualifies fade into balance and are lost.

In that manner, "form is emptiness and emptiness is form".

But not otherwise.

To seek relatedness is to seek the very distress that motivates the search for release from relatedness.

Only integration avails, and in so succeeding, disqualifies itself from (or dissolves) the qualities of relationship.

No-seeking is not an attainment, but "what" is "left", or felt, an absence of both relationship and of avoidance.

The Stakes -- and The Call

 It's a choice between betraying the spirit of the Founding Fathers by allowing a criminal to prevail and to destroy the American Experiment in favor of self-serving authoritarian tyranny -- or temporarily betraying the spirit of the Founding Fathers by using his own weapons against him in an autocratic way -- as an act of service to the greater good -- as authorized by the Supreme Court ruling on "immunity".

One is a long-term betrayal of the higher values of this country and the other is a short-term betrayal for the sake of preservation of those higher values.  The difference is one of a habitual pattern vs. a deliberate, but temporary pattern.

How well does the metaphor of "at war from within" fit?  Old saying:  "All's fair in love and war."

Sometimes, extreme conditions call for extreme measures -- in this case, sacrifice of ones self-image for the greater good -- to beat them at their own game.  The motive makes all the difference.

It would be a great and courageous -- not "gesture" (which signifies only a symbolic communication) -- but course of action (which indicates lasting consequences).

The biggest problem could have been solved, when it was small.

It's no longer small -- and it has the potential to get much bigger.

Alito, Thomas, Trump, et. al., who are no longer "playing by the rules", must be neutralized, the sooner the better.  "Neutralized" as in, "neutered."  Outside the "rules".  The same is true of all who have been accessories after-the-fact.

Freedom without responsibility is the ideal of the adolescent; freedom without conscience is the mode of the juvenile delinquent -- and of the Supreme Court Six.

Orchestrated action, carried out.  That's where the courage is called for.