A Closed Maze

Belief is an activity in a mind which doesn’t knowing that it’s being conditioned. That is the closed maze. When we’re conditioned, we’re predictable, and therefore, controllable.

Everyone we meet is controlled by conditioning.
If we think we aren’t conditioned, we’re conditioned.
If we know we are conditioned, we aren’t conditioned.
An open mind knows.

Breaking away from the replicant state where our responses have been programmed requires moving past blind belief and into direct, experiential knowing.

This is obvious, so why don’t we do it?

As soon as we starting thinking about something, we go into word mode which takes us to concepts, and the mind closes down, going round in circles. A closed mind is full of self-deception, which is a deeply embedded survival and social mechanism. Knowing this, we understand the performance going on in front of us – we’re all actors on a stage, managing the impressions we leave on our audience.

Understanding life as a performance changes how we interact with the world. We stop taking surface level behaviours at face value, and gain a deeper insight and empathy for why people feel the need to perform in the first place.

Realising we’re part of the play
means that we can exit the theatre at any moment.