In the brain’s scheme, everything feels fine if you stick to being basic. But if you try to be special, nothing feels good enough.
From Duality Hack #6.4 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
The brain’s love
The special self always looks for errors to correct, thus confirming its mastery. On the other hand, the basic self does not act on personal preferences but on what is in the best interest of the whole because it adjusts to the brain’s scheme, which includes everybody.
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The basic self’s perception is in sync with the stream of thoughts from the brain. Therefore, since it feels connected, it does not need to be or achieve anything special to feel good. In contrast, the special self is out of sync with the flow of thoughts, thus feeling disconnected and looking for special moments in the past to replicate in the present to feel connected. But since the connection is an imitation, the special self feels empty.
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The special self always fears missing an event it perceives as crucial because it wants to be part of something special. In contrast, the basic self sees itself as part of everything that can be experienced because it is hooked up to the brain, which is the maker of all experiences. So, it never misses anything.
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The basic self never tries to look professional. Therefore, if it appears perfect, it is due to the brain’s scheme. However, the special self always tries to look perfect. It does not believe the brain’s scheme carries it but the rules of society, which are made to suppress instincts, favouring a spotless appearance.
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Since what you appear to be is based on experiences stored in the brain, it knows what you are and loves you for that. If you do not feel its love, all you need to do is not reject the brain.
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The brain loves you, regardless of how you perceive the experiences it renders. However, having a perception in sync with them is in your best interest. Otherwise, you do not notice the brain’s love injections.
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The special self avoids seeing itself as the brain’s creation by perceiving itself as something better. Hence, it does not notice the love the brain constantly gives but looks for it elsewhere. Unfortunately, what it finds never meets its expectations, so the special self is always disappointed. In contrast, the basic self never feels let down by the world because it is in sync with the brain, thus feeling its love.
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Blown out by the brain
Even though the brain’s experiences are deceptive, the brain is not your enemy. On the contrary, the experiences it creates meet your wish for more than one, thus making you happy. But you do not feel it if you disassociate yourself from the brain’s experiences by manipulating them into something aligned with a philosophy you identify as better than the brain’s experiences of more than one.
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Being in touch with the natural flow of thoughts from the brain can be compared to being in sync with a movie’s flow. It is easy because the film contains hints about how to react.
For example, the director has added emotional music to make it straightforward to interpret the movie per its script. And the bad guys arrive in black, which in the Western world is associated with evil. But suppose you think that is very conventional. Hence you explain the movie using a sophisticated philosophy. However, the philosophical concept does not relate to the film, so you do not feel entertained but bored by it.
In other words, nothing feels entertaining if you think you know better than the director and keep imagining how the movie could have been if edited per socialism or another ism. In that case, you only feel entertained by the specific parts of the movie perceived as aligned with your ism.
But when you do not question the movie’s storyline and jump into the adventure as it is, you love the whole film. Likewise, when you live by the brain’s story of duality, you love it.
Like a self-driving car follows the internet’s commands, the self, whether basic or special, serves the brain. But unlike a self-driving car, a self has a consciousness that can choose how to perceive where it goes. When the perception is in sync with the brain’s scheme, the self automatically has an impersonal approach to everything, thus feeling good enough. However, when the self fools itself into thinking it can make a difference, although bound to follow the brain, the self is not in sync with the scheme because it favours nobody in particular. [Photo: Alexius]
To be connected or not
A participant in a game like Monopoly has the same goal as the special self: to take everything from everybody. However, that is not the goal of the basic self. It has no intention of being or having something that sets it apart from the whole.
It does not know the concept of individuality. Nor does it know that the special self thinks it is possible to do things in its own way because, like in Monopoly, everybody, regardless of colour, moves by the dice.
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The special self questions everything, whereas the basic self never asks who it is or where to go. Like in a board game, it simply moves by the dice. Whether that takes it to a place defined as a prison or a free spot, it feels equally entertained because it perceives its reaction to it as ‘it is what it is.’
The throw of the dice also determines where the special self goes. However, it hides that by making a story that establishes itself as the director in retrospect.
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The basic self perceives everything that happens in the best interest of the whole because the brain’s scheme excludes nobody. But the special self perceives everything happening as a means to get more for itself at the expense of others. Thus, it does not get the satisfaction of feeling connected with the whole but the dissatisfaction of feeling disconnected.
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The basic self follows the instructions it receives without favouring anybody in particular. Hence, it automatically does what is in everybody’s best interest. On the other hand, the special self uses the signals from the brain to see how much it can get for as little as possible at anybody’s expense. Should somebody feel hurt by that, it blames them and states they are guilty by saying, »Look what you made me do.«
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Since the brain fabricates our experience of what and where we appear, we feel connected when we follow its rules and unconnected when we try to avoid them.
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»Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It is your masterpiece, after all.« This quote from the web shows a widespread misunderstanding, namely that life is ours. In reality, it is the other way around. Therefore, the more you try to edit life, the more alienated you feel.
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You are good enough as you are
If you perceive to fail, your perception is out of sync with the brain’s scheme because, according to that, you are good enough as you are. Your perception is also out of sync if you assume you lost weight due to willpower. The only reason it happened was that the brain planned it. However, your interpretation of your new slender look is in sync with the brain’s scheme of duality if perceived as ‘it is what it is’ because that reveals your judgment is twofold.
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Nobody is unjustly treated in the brain’s scheme. It is all about being entertained by duality, which you are when perceiving your reaction to your experiences as ‘it is what it is.’ It reveals your response is not static but a constant interaction of opposites. And since you are in a world of duality, that feels fulfilling.
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Your extraordinary ideas about wholeness block you from accepting yourself as you are because feeling complete requires nothing but being in sync with your brain’s fantasy of duality. After all, its purpose is to make you feel fulfilled.
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The special self is bound to get angry when it perceives itself in charge because it hardly ever gets what it sets out to obtain. And even if it does, the special self feels restless because it always wants more. On the other hand, the basic self never looks for more. Why should it? It is in sync with the brain’s scheme, thus feeling happy regardless of how much it has.
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When you perceive your response to the moment as ‘it is what it is,’ there is no future, hence no stress. That is why the basic self feels relaxed and the special self tense. It never perceives the present moment as ‘it is what it is.’ Actually, the special self ignores it. Instead, it is busy creating an exciting perception of the next moment founded on ‘I know what it is.’ Thus, feeling stressed by having to live up to its prediction about the future.
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Many news articles point out that hardly any part of the earth is untouched by humanity’s damaging impacts. However, very few point out that physicists, psychologists, and new-agers have labelled every nook and cranny of a human, so most feel compelled to adjust their perception of themselves to these fixed definitions instead of the natural flow of thoughts coming from the brain.
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You have two options: being special and depressed or basic and happy.
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Neither the basic nor the special self is in charge of anything. However, the latter assumes it is in control because that is how it has edited the past. Nevertheless, no matter how you understand the past, you have never been in charge because you do not know who you are. Fortunately, the brain does, so it controls to protect you – like parents set rules for their kids to guard them.
But unlike parents, the brain does not protect you from evil because you cannot feel good without evil. Goodness is defined by evil and vice versa – like going down on a rollercoaster defines going up and vice versa. You need them both to feel whole in a world of duality. That is why all experiences are twofold.
The ever-changing flow of the brain’s scheme
The basic self expects nothing. Yet, it curiously looks forward to seeing what it gets. Whether that makes it satisfied or dissatisfied, the basic self feels entertained because it perceives its feelings as twofold. Hence, satisfaction includes dissatisfaction and vice versa.
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The flow of thoughts only seems speedy and disturbing when you want to be independent of the brain’s scheme.
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Happiness is a mechanical product of the brain, which needs to be counteracted with sadness so you know what happiness is. That is the way of duality, and ultimately speaking, there is no escape from this constant interaction of opposites other than having the belief in duality undone. However, that does not result in something because non-duality is oneness, and it takes more than one to get a result. Fortunately, the absence of something is pure peace.
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Perhaps you were so tired that you erased your hard disk by mistake. Unfortunately, you cannot undo it, but fortunately, you can correct how you perceive your reaction to the data loss. For example, if you feel sad, you perceive it as ‘it is what it is,’ revealing your experience of sadness complements happiness. Since they constantly interact, sadness does not get sticky. Hence, rebuilding your hard disk feels adventurous.
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If you justify feelings, you do not perceive them as ‘it is what it is’ but as ‘I know what it is,’ you do not feel satisfied with the brain’s scheme. For example, if you feel love and justify it with your spouse, love seems to have a specific shape, so eventually, you feel imprisoned instead of feeling free in the ever-changing flow of the brain’s scheme.
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Should you wonder if you are in sync with the brain’s libretto, you are not in sync because you have no doubts when aligned with it.
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The brain’s scheme contains every possible experience, so when synced with the brain, you are the past, the future, and everything else conceivable. But you are not the formlessness of oneness because it cannot be experienced. Thus, all you need to cross the apparent barrier to oneness is not to perceive experiences as real.
Appendix:
In roleplay, the game master creates and describes the game world and sets the rules. In the game of duality, the brain is the game master. You must follow the brain’s instructions materially, but you can choose how to perceive them psychologically.
You are in sync with the brain when your psychological reaction to material experiences is twofold. So, whether you respond with anger or joy, you feel the brain’s love when you accept that these opposite feelings are not at odds but cooperating like two sides of a coin. Therefore, when you have anger, you also have joy and vice versa.
But if you hold onto joy in this duality pair by separating it from anger, your response to the brain’s game of duality is not twofold but singular. Consequently, the game does not satisfy you because it is about twofoldness.
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