The Game / Life On This Planet and The Witness / The Infinite

[Grizz Griswold]

Hi everyone, my personal analogy of whatever it is we all experience,
while seemingly in bodies, on this planet, is ...A Game!

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game

The word classroom used to spring to mind, but when a
Game is played, we do learn, so classroom is inherent in the word Game,
We can learn a lot by playing games.




i like Bill Hicks....It's just a Ride.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMUiwTubYu0

But then isn't a ride just part of the Game? When we ride a roller coaster isn't part of
that Game just trying not to throw up or trying to not be afraid? (hey i won, i didn't
get sick this time)

The ego seems to love games....it always brings the little i along to play. Sure the
little i has team mates....it can always blame them if anything goes wrong but if
the game is won it can behold itself as being special (they couldn't have won without me)

The Game has danger, worry, excitement, death, injury, pain and can be fun...it can
also become tiring and some become weary...some do not play by the rules.

Some start to notice that they no longer enjoy playing and start seeing an illusory
nature to the Game...it's underpinning is gone when the witness starts to sit back
and just watch without putting any value on any part of the Game...nothing good
or bad, just unreal. Those who see the Game as real are still caught up in the Game.
It is a Game of separation and limitation and when seen as illusion the oneness of all
is realized, it's thin veil lifted.

The Unlimited the Infinite play the Ultimate Game of limitation,
playing the Game of being a separate body.
ACIM..... "You travel but in dreams, while safe at home."

All the best.

barry

[johnf]

Hi Grizz,
This is one of my favorite themes.

I think that there are layers and layers of games.

One of the beings Bob Monroe ran into said "games within games within games"

The very top of the game might be something like the infinite ability to create anything you can imagine, and know exactly how it all plays out.

At some point beings get bored of this and want some unpredictability, and introduce unpredictability, unwanted outcomes etc.


Perhaps the ultimate game is to follow things down to near permanent disaster, and self forgetfullness, then reverse things all the way back to the original state.

Who knows how many times this has happened.

John

[sirdipswitch]

johnf

"Who knows how many times this has happened."


More times than you can count!

[Jake]

A game within a game within a game. Indeed, i like this analogy!! Makes sense,, some of us jumped on the 'kiddy rides',, while others ride the Roller Coaster,, (Ups and downs and turns and fear and at the end we get sick,, and say,, "Wow! Let's do that again !!!)

Then we look over at folks who have chosen the easy ride and think,, 'boy are they missing out'...

Very cool way of looking at it.
Jake.

[Grizz Griswold]

Posted by johnf (here)
Hi Grizz,
This is one of my favorite themes.

I think that there are layers and layers of games.

One of the beings Bob Monroe ran into said "games within games within games"

The very top of the game might be something like the infinite ability to create anything you can imagine, and know exactly how it all plays out.

At some point beings get bored of this and want some unpredictability, and introduce unpredictability, unwanted outcomes etc.


Perhaps the ultimate game is to follow things down to near permanent disaster, and self forgetfullness, then reverse things all the way back to the original state.

Who knows how many times this has happened.

John

Hi johnf,

"games within games within games"

A lot of the old teachers/gurus make mention of Games.

Here's an excerpt from Ramana Maharshi

There is no greater mystery than this - viz., ourselves being the Reality we seek to gain Reality. We think that there is something hiding our Reality and that it must be destroyed before the Reality is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will yourself laugh at your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now.

Page 133
D.: So it is a great game of pretending?
M.: Yes.

Here in its entirety.

http://benegal.org/ramana_maharshi/books/tw/tw146.html

Until the witness enters...the Game goes on and the ego is
a master at playing games.

All the best.

barry

[conk]

"One, as Love IS, seeks to know itself in the same way that consciousness potential seeks expression. In other words, Love IS, in its stillness as unconditional love, has no way of knowing itself as love without experiences that reflect back its own essence to itself.

As One, Love IS, in its stillness as unconditional love, dances alone - until its movements emulate a spin or torsions of joy, dancing through is-ness.

Love spins and spins, and in its spinning there is a momentum that creates and propagates another torsion field. Another torsion field manifests as a reflection of itself, such that the torsion fields can now dance together.

In this reflection, there is a coupling, a relationship-to. Love IS, as One, sees itself mirrored in another. Awareness of self is born in relation to another. One, as unconditional love, spins gracefully into a new condition or expression of love, as Two.

Two is not greater than One, just as One is not greater than Zero (Zero being nothing or no thing. No things have no boundaries). All are inherently connected. Each seemingly separate , albeit truly connected, part contains the whole of each One and Zero too (Two)!

Love IS, love expresses, love experiences, and love reflects. Love returns to itself. Love IS. As love, you are, you express, you experience, and you reflect. You return to yourself as love because love is what you are. Love is what we all are. We are...I am...and you are All that IS".


Quoted from M-Joy Practically Speaking, by Melissa Joy Jonsson.

So stop working on yourself and just play! Just dance!

How fortunate we were to live with George Carlin and Bill Hicks.

[Grizz Griswold]

Posted by Jake (here)
A game within a game within a game. Indeed, i like this analogy!! Makes sense,, some of us jumped on the 'kiddy rides',, while others ride the Roller Coaster,, (Ups and downs and turns and fear and at the end we get sick,, and say,, "Wow! Let's do that again !!!)

Then we look over at folks who have chosen the easy ride and think,, 'boy are they missing out'...

Very cool way of looking at it.
Jake.

Hi Jake, i used to be a roller coaster nut, didn't care too much for the other rides
but a good ,scary roller coaster, one that made you wonder if you literally were
going to live through it or not, now that was a ride.

Iv'e often wondered if that was what the Game of life was really like, go through
a scary and insane ride, all the time thinking if i ever get off this thing i'll never do it
again. Then when it's over we run like hell to get back on and do it again.

Here's a exerpt from Lester Levenson.
So long as we
keep looking at this body as being us. We are stuck right
there; we cannot see our infinity, we don 't know that it
is; and we go on and on, lifetime in and lifetime out,
assuming that we are a body.
We have done this for so long that it takes a super will to
move in the opposite direction, to look at and see the
infinite Being that we really are. This super will can take
us a way from assuming every moment that we are a
limited body. If we would do it for just one second and
see this infinite Being that we really are, we would use
that second to undo much limitation. But first we must
assume that we are infinite. Then we must start undoing
the limitations. We must actually accept that we are not
this body, that we are not this mind. and until we do that
we have absolutely no chance of getting out of this trap,
called "The Game of Being limited Bodies.

All the best.

barry

[Grizz Griswold]

johnf said.


Perhaps the ultimate game is to follow things down to near permanent disaster, and self forgetfullness, then reverse things all the way back to the original state.



johnf hit the nail on the head with this statement, and would like to add, this is probably the place of the greatest opportunity.
Dark night of the soul? perhaps, at least it's a place where the player of the Game becomes wearied and starts to question the Game and begins to see it as illusory. The ego is very good
at Games.



Namaste
barry

[Grizz Griswold]

“You have seen that the universe is at root a
magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate
"you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The
only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws
itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the
universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that
come and go so that the vision is forever new.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

barry

[Grizz Griswold]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fMSaXWCDAko

From the movie Revolver..."The greatest con he/ego ever pulled was making you believe, that he, is you"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=chzqWI346DI

barry

[Grizz Griswold]

Those who see the Game as real are still caught up in the Game.

It is a game of separation and illusion.

Most who play the game don't even know their playing.

Realizing that the game is not real is the beginning of awakening.

All the best.

barry

[blotter]

one of the few times I've had super vivid pictures meditating was out in the country one night. distinctly remember the word 'toy' coming into my awareness, then 'toy-ah' and finally another derivative that I knew meant 'toy', but was in a different language.

a big game indeed

[Grizz Griswold]

Nasa physicist Tom Campbells, take on the Game.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BoWG3EBvnRw

barry

[Grizz Griswold]

Tom says in the last video that he did this for the left brainers
that most related material was for right brainers...barry

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uqkHfLnNiBk

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9JovIu2oKuM

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hVDxtg0QQN8

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YRrP3LUj7BA

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aiRU-YCl7Go

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xXClDqWiRJs

[Jake]

Time to bust out the popcorn and cool-aid!!! I'm watchin these vids today... Tom is one of my favorite thinkers... OBE's n such....

Thanx Grizz!!!

Jake.

[Grizz Griswold]

Posted by Jake (here)
Time to bust out the popcorn and cool-aid!!! I'm watchin these vids today... Tom is one of my favorite thinkers... OBE's n such....

Thanx Grizz!!!

Jake.

The six Ireland videos with Tom Campbell are a little different
than usual, at least you don't have to be a physicist to understand
them...Thanks Jake...............barry

[Grizz Griswold]

Join in for the Global Meditation for Peace.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lg-fegIXXcc

Namaste
barry

[Jovian]

Thank you, Grizz, for the clips from the movie, "Revolver." I now remember someone had recommended it to me a few years ago. I couldn't imagine how a movie could illustrate the concept of our 'battle' with ego, but the clips really look good.

...This other clip is from the movie's end scene:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q3vM1PcrV0k

"Who takes care of the good times, Jake? We’re a team. We’re best pals, Jake. You wanna get rid of ME?! Do you know life without me? NO! Because it doesn’t exist. Do they talk about me? NO! Because I don’t exist. I protect you. If I say do, you do… You’re weak without me. It’s us against them…."

...I had also just been reading a 'channeled' message here, https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...le-June-9-2014 and this bit had stuck with me:

Resistance to change and opening to truth is always fear--fear of the unknown, fear of losing self along with all that has been held as necessary and important--the belief system that has been one's foundation. The third dimensional energy of duality and separation causes people to see themselves as separate beings who must personally struggle and strive for every good. Letting go of these beliefs means a letting go of the personal sense of self--'Ego.' This can feel like a death and be very scary, for one's foundation is being pulled out from under them. However you must understand that nothing real can ever be lost, only that false sense of self, "Self" is forever. The real foundation will appear as the illusory one dissolves. Let go of the dream dear ones, let go.

...What a game we have created, indeed. It's no joke: ending the illusion does feel like death. You really have to keep bombarding yourself with the clarity of such messages in order to escape the morass. Certainly, I can step back from the game, for moments at a time, at certain periods in my life. ...But to truly let it go and continuously and consciously 'take the road less traveled?' I am feeling lately like I am at this fork in the road. ...To consider life without that 'false self' really does feel scary... What will be left of me? How will I survive without 'striving' for things? Can I really trust that I am part of some greater universal order that makes sense, to be found even in this dense current reality?

Also, when I think about the death of that part of me, it does feel 'boring.' I can't foresee a life beyond it. ...It really is an addiction to the ride, with it's highs and lows, that I am apparently not tired of yet. But oh--the peace I feel when I step back from the game...I'd love to become addicted to that.

[Delight]

This morning, I decided to look at what various people are saying they think "3D creation moving into 5D creation". According to Joe Dispenza's concepts, as we move more toward experiencing self as energy in a field, we move more to present time and this involves raising our vibraton, having greater energy that we bring to the moment and the clarification of intention.

We are learning how to skillfully play in a larger mastery of what looks like (Virtual Reality). My investigation led me to a man whom I really like and he could be interesting to others?? This game when it involves others seems an interplay of experiential fields to me??

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w1x9jZeTOMI

For me, the game is moving deeper and deeper.....
Here is a small article form someone engaging the ideas too.
http://lightworkers.org/blog/197406/...5d-compared-3d

[Grizz Griswold]

Revolver is a great movie Jovian, I had never heard of it but Tim ...He did the thread....(Enlightenment - A direct, succinct account of what occurs)
recommended it to me, so the credit goes to him. I have watched it at least 4 times and would like to watch it again. It comes and goes on Youtube...not always available.
The movie never says the word ego but that is what it's all about. I recommend it highly.

Jovian said.....What a game we have created, indeed. It's no joke: ending the illusion does feel like death. You really have to keep bombarding yourself with the clarity of such messages in order to escape the morass. Certainly, I can step back from the game, for moments at a time, at certain periods in my life. ...But to truly let it go and continuously and consciously 'take the road less traveled?' I am feeling lately like I am at this fork in the road. ...To consider life without that 'false self' really does feel scary... What will be left of me? How will I survive without 'striving' for things? Can I really trust that I am part of some greater universal order that makes sense, to be found even in this dense current reality?


A phrase used in the movie I liked was..."The greatest trick, He/the ego ever pulled was to make you think, that He is you"

Delight said...We are learning how to skillfully play in a larger mastery of what looks like (Virtual Reality). My investigation led me to a man whom I really like and he could be interesting to others?? This game when it involves others seems an interplay of experiential fields to me??


Tom Campbell says that the best metaphor for the existence that we live here on earth is Virtual reality....sounds reasonable at least as a metaphor for life in this
physical plane. Its like when we play a video game and we operate the joystick and buttons....In Campbells concept our physical body is the Avatar and our higher
self operates it. It's main goal is less entropy ( less randomity and disorder in our thought ) Everything we go through good or bad is part of the game and is a learning
experience that takes us towards the goal of love.

This however is an intellectual look at what's going on, less entropy is just us going toward being unconditional love!
We could actually will to just be love, the witness, our true self. Until we consciously make the choice to just be love/the witness,
we will continue on with the games.

Namaste
barry