Self, or No-self?

Ask a thousand or hundred thousand people if they have a self, and they will likely say, "Yes, of course, ninny - it's in my head, or my heart, or my sex; somewhere in 'Me'".

That is the common view. Damn near everyone has it, just like every cow in a herd reports their cow-ness when asked about it (if they only had a brain/speech).

The uncommon view is that there is no self at all - not now, not later. Just a system of extremely organized living matter that operates on a push-pull, attract-resist, positive-negative, in-out, up-down circuitry. Self does not "go to the store". Self does not even decide to go there. The whole entire natural world requires certain "law-conformable" results, and each living material creature, performs their little dance, on time, and under budget.

That is the UN-common view. And a few, accidentally and externally-instructed (as well as a few damaged) others maintain such a view, just like there's always a few bad apples in every bunch of cows, er, apples.

But, and if you can finish my next sentence, you're even more uncommon than that... They are **Both** wrong, *not* both right: both wrong.

That is, the question of "is there or is there not such a 'thing' as 'self'" is the wrong question. And only lies and falsity results from wrong questions. It is of no more significance than questioning the existence of Snow White and the height, in feet-and-inches, of Sleepy - and you are very Sleepy if you get into that quagmire.

That, dear friends and republicans alike, is what the dead brain is, and it exists as real-ly as your arm exists and your finger exists, and can be brought to a screeching halt with a large screwdriver in the left nostril, and a big ball peen hammer, the same way your left forefinger can be brought to an end with a sharp knife. Try it, you'll see.

Only the uncommon-est of the uncommon have any possibilities - not the common, not the uncommon, for they - both of them - are simply part of the duality dance, yammering their made-up stories to one another. Full of fluff and non-sense, amounting to nothing at all.

To get yourself OUT of the dead brain before it's absolutely Too Late, is like using that screwdriver and ball peen hammer to perform a skilful bit of brain surgery upon yourself. Few, few, few there be who can stomach such a rare, rare, rare possibility.

But, dear compatriots and democrats alike, the Living Brain - the Future - is calling out to all... can you but hear it.

By the way - this possibility has NOTHING to do with spirituality, or enlightenment, nothing. It's about Understanding, top to bottom, inside out, and whack-birds. And, the dead brain can't get this in a million years. Only the Living Brain.