2009 Treatise – Part 2 of 5

Unwrapping The Three Levels Of Perceptual Blindness And Deafness

[Or, awakening to our blind spots]:

Imagine yourself in a theatre in which a hypnotist is performing for an audience. The hypnotist asks for two volunteers from the audience – a woman and a man. Once upon the stage, the hypnotist asks their permission to hypnotize them for a harmless but entertaining demonstration of the powers of hypnosis. They agree.

The hypnotist then prepares the two volunteers by skillfully counting them down from 10 to 1 – at which point they enter a deeply relaxed trance-like state. He then carefully explains to the entranced man:

“When I click my fingers, you shall open your eyes and see this woman as a teapot. You dearly want a cup of tea. Drinking a cup of tea right now is the only thing on your mind. Nothing else matters. When I clap my hands, you shall awaken from this experience into your normal state of being, feeling happy and relaxed.” The man agrees.

He then turns to the entranced woman and carefully explains to her: “When I click my fingers, you shall open your eyes and see this man as a jar of cookies. Eating a cookie right now is the only thing on your mind. Nothing else matters. When I clap my hands, you shall awaken from this experience into your normal state of being, feeling happy and relaxed.” The woman agrees.

He then clicks his fingers and a very entertaining and amusing bought of activity unfolds: The man tries to use the woman to pour a cup of tea, and the woman simultaneously tries to open the man to get a cookie out of the jar. This amusing spectacle continues until the hypnotist claps his hands.

The interesting predicament about being in such a hypnotic trance-state is this:

No matter what anyone tells these two individuals while they are hypnotized, there is no convincing them – no mental ‘understanding’ or ‘explaining’ – that leads them to believe ‘the other’ is not a pot of tea or a jar of cookies.

When the hypnotist asks them what they are doing – they reply with conviction: “I am trying to pour a cup of tea from this pot” or “I am trying to get a cookie out of this jar”. One may write books, give lectures, show demonstrations, and provide them with DVD’s and CD’s to watch, or do whatever one wants to try and explain or illustrate the situation to these two. However, while they remain within this hypnotic trance, all attempts to reveal ‘what is actual’ are futile. No matter what is said – the woman is a pot of tea to the man, and the man is a jar of cookies to the woman.

To a physically-transfixed individual, this predicament does not initially appear to be an issue of ‘blindness’ or ‘deafness’. These two individuals are clearly still able to see and hear well enough to interact with each other and the physical world around them. However, they are clearly perceptually blind and deaf, because no visual or audible attempts to show them ‘what is actual in that moment’ succeed. They can only see and hear what they have been programmed to see and hear – even though none of it is valid.

This condition represents The First Level of Perceptual Blindness and Deafness. As sighted and hearing people on earth, we can still see and hear well enough to function. However, unbeknownst to us, we remain blind and deaf to the actual identity of what we perceive and are only able to see and hear what we want to see and hear of others and of the world in which we live according to what is energetically programmed into us. For the most part, we can only perceive the world in terms of ‘the cookies and tea we are after’ – or, whatever else it is we assume we want.

This is why it is extremely perilous, and will become more so, upon this planet in 2009. When moving about amidst our populations, one cannot actually be ‘seen or heard’ by most people. This is because most of us see and hear only what we want to according to the drive of our programmed trance-state. Whenever we encounter others in this world, we therefore have to continually remain alert to the instinctive human propensity for ‘experience manipulation’ – to the current human condition of continually attempting to use each other as a means ‘to pour tea’ or ‘grab a cookie’.

We do not even real eyes we are behaving in this manner, and while we are entranced, no amount of ‘mental explanation’ assists in bringing this behavior to light for us. We perceive ‘the manipulation of others and our environment as a means to satisfy the drive of our metaphoric wanting for tea and cookies’ as being ‘normal and appropriate behavior’. We do not intentionally mean to be hurtful – yet, we are. And very soon, as a species, we shall become even more dangerous to be around.

This first level of perceptual blindness and deafness hides ‘the actuality of the moment’ from us and instead transforms ‘the actuality of the moment’ into something that appears either useful or useless in satisfying our pre-programmed wants. In this manner, it obscures the actual identity of others from us.

To start awakening to our First Level of Perceptual Blindness and Deafness, we simply ask ourselves this question:

“What is the difference between ‘a need’, ‘a want’, and ‘a requirement’?”

To communicate The Second Level of Perceptual Blindness and Deafness, we return to the hypnotist’s performance.

Not only do the two hypnotized individuals not see each other for who they actually are, and not only do they remain impervious to all attempts to demonstrate this actuality, but while hypnotized, they also remain completely unaware that just minutes prior to the debacle in which they now participate, they were sitting in the audience and had entire life histories!

While they attempt to get tea and cookies from each other, they are completely unaware of their vast and intricate identities – of the entirety of their life experience outside of the situation in which they are now in. While they remain hypnotized, they are oblivious that they have jobs, homes, children, birthdays, pets, allergies, and favorite foods, etc. While they operate within this trance-like hypnotic state, their ‘actual reality’ is completely invisible to them. It is as if it had never existed.

If the hypnotist asks them about their home life and their loved ones, they would for a moment look upon the hypnotist with a blank expression, then immediately continue their futile attempts and get cookies and tea from the mistakenly perceived teapot or jar of cookies. Nothing else matters.

Within this Second Level of Perceptual Blindness and Deafness, no other reality exists outside the attempt to fulfill the programmed want. Nothing! If someone says to a perceptually blind and deaf individual: “You are an unlimited being – an immortal presence who is currently and simultaneously experiencing countless eternally ongoing life experiences, and who is established within uncountable intimate connections with millions of other presences throughout creation”, they would simply respond with a blank expression. Such an assertion appears crazy to them. Such assertions have no point of reference for them within the perceptual incarceration of the hypnotic trance.

The Second Level of Perceptual Blindness and Deafness renders us inherently unaware of our own actual identity. Pointing out this identity to us is as futile as telling the hypnotized couple they have a family sitting in the audience and a whole life experience outside the theatre walls.

While we are entranced, we may sometimes willingly choose to ‘believe’ a claim that we are indeed ‘more than we real eyes we are right now’ – just like the religious choose to believe the priesthood’s claims, or voters choose to believe politician’s claims, or consumers choose to believe profiteer’s claims. However, while we are entranced, our acceptance of any ‘claimed actuality other than the one we are experiencing right now’ is an awareness based purely on belief [hear-say], not on any actual knowledge [experience].

All belief is a state of hypnosis.

The second level of perceptual blindness and deafness hides our own actual identity from our awareness. In place of this actual identity, our memory field is a blank, empty, and seemingly a vacant space. or, it is full of hallucinations governed by belief systems imposed from outer influences [as opposed to actual knowledge actualized from personal inner and outer experience].

To start awakening to our Second Level of Perceptual Blindness and Deafness, we simply ask ourselves the question:

“Can I remember not being alive?”