The Driving Experience

Monday, January 25, 2010

This is my first attempt into the blogging world. I truly didn't consciously outline what I wanted to say, so I begin in a very familiar area in my life...reality.

Yes, reality is a word to which few people can assimilate. It functions in most circles as a taboo sanctity of which no one truly speaks. If you dare to speak what is real, others mock you, and label you a cynic...negative...or the ever-marring "gloomy gus." Well, as you will soon determine from my writing, I am not afraid to speak the truth (or what I feel is the truth), nor do I fear treading on the razor's edge of what we live in and what truly is.

And, I do think that truth is a feeling...it is a feeling lost to the daily monotonous programming of this matrix we call "life." Everyone should actively try this next suggestion. I'm sure everyone has experienced this, but, at the time, didn't consciously dwell upon it. Go on a vacation...if you can get so lucky. Try to spend at least 3-4 days away from the haunts of the daily grind. I mean: Escape the drilling alarm clock sound, the television, the television commercials, the feeling of urgency to leave the house to beat the traffic, the traffic, the deadlines, what to cook for dinner, what others suggest you cook for dinner, the endless loops of radio commercials on the drive to and from work, and the endless drivel spewed from the orifices of everyone getting paid to promote their product. If you do this, within a few days of no urgent cellphone calls or work emergencies, a weight lifts from your shoulders. You actually begin to feel...lighter. This weight that is lifted is what I call "The Driving Experience."

All things in life can be equated or even analogized to what one experiences from driving on the roads. Think of the worst driving experience you have encountered. Now, imagine this experience accumulating...not only on you...but, on everyone that experiences it....in their own ways. Since I had first gotten my license and pulled off for the first time on my own in my parents' car that sunny August morning so long ago, I have yet to encounter a truly good driving experience. I feel heavy, "weighed-down," and lethargic as I push through traffic.

This "driving" feeling is a more acute experience of the subtle drowning we experience by living our everyday lives. Subliminal messaging, corporate behavior programming at our workplace (e.g., use "accountable"-- not "responsible," use fancy terminology like "symmetry" and "working cash flow"), commercial marketing, and on and on and on. If one truly dwelled on the garbage-in, garbage-out function of this daily sequence of operations from the corporate machine we call life, one would realize that we are "used" vessels....used for someone..or something...else's advantage.

Now, drive back to my original suggestion....take a vacation. It doesn't need to be extravagant. It could just be a weekend get-away....just as long as you escape the aforementioned daily occurrences. And, I would strongly suggest, at the very least, leaving your cellphone, blackberry, or any other communication to the everyday world on mute. This is your vacation experiment...an experiment to combat the driving experience...in order to bring you closer to some faction of truth. As I said, you will naturally, if you allow yourself, begin to feel the burden of life exit from your body after a couple days of this solitude.

A sense of intuition will come back to you. And, when I say "come back," I mean "come back." The daily corporate programming suppresses your natural inclination to "read" things for what they really are. The world we see with our eyes is far different from the world that really is...they don't want you to see what really is. When I say "they," I mean everyone and everything acting as painters of your personal reality. You, yourself, should be your own artist. On this experiment, you will re-gain the ability to paint for yourself. You will be allowing that secret place in yourself that has been buried for so long to emerge as a creative and intuitive function.

I am in no way promoting the permanent escape from the painted reality. In order to experience true reality, you must recognize the difference between the two realms. When you return from your experiment, as anyone does after a vacation, you will naturally feel "re-charged." And, many feel a sense of depression at the same time, as you must return to what you've always believed is reality. But, I'm telling you, the reality that has been programmed to which we return with sadness, is not truth. This, in itself, should elevate your senses. The mere suggestion of a real reality that opens itself to the endless possibility of self-creation and true beauty...makes it exist. The knowing is the first step to battling the driving experience. Know that it exists.

Stay tuned for what we need to do with this knowledge.