The dove's dream

The dove dreams of effortless flight but pushes against the wind to stay aloft.

We chase ghosts across the multiverse. That is, an organizing, dissapative structure -- a selfplex -- inhabits a reality tunnel. The tunnel shapes sensations allowed, perceptions evidenced, emotions felt, cognition enabled and responses made. For most urban primates, only the lower four circuits are effectively used. The cultural, political and economic forces of 'a power greater than ourselves' provides effective feedback that the tunnel itself is reality experienced in full.

What the sleeping urban primate dreams in waking life is that their 401K together with their Social Security checks will keep them secure in old age and that their vote counts in the Democratic primary in Texas. These pale dreams may come true or they may not. Dreams are fleeting and do not, in fact, reflect the changes brought about by the larger forces of the upper 4 circuits.

A buddha is awakened to all eight circuits. The choices made while following the middle path can be fortuitous; the choices made when deviating from the middle way cause increased suffering. The way to destruction is a selfish and egotistical devotion to material wealth for the individual instead of an equal share of happiness for all sentients. We constantly make and remake our reality.

There is no reality for an embodied sentient that has no suffering. Life is suffering. Our dissapative structures from the standard model of physics (our fermions and bosons) push against the Higgs field. The dove dreams of effortless flight but pushes against the wind to stay aloft.

At each significant choice we execute a slip across an Everett branch. Forgetting to set my alarm the night before I am scheduled to take the SAT. Losing my car keys when I must be at work on time for an important meeting. Paper or plastic. Cash or charge. Sometimes these decisions matter but we never can determine at the time which decisions change the ride we are on. Unless I am awake to the potential of catching a new ride, I am not going to have a good time.