Up-Side-Down and Right-Side-Up; It's Party Time!
	During my college years I either read or heard that if you were to wear a set of lenses that caused everything to appear up-side-down, in time, the brain would begin to transcribe the situation and interpret the incoming visual data right-side-up.  When the person removed the lenses everything would appear up-side-down again and the brain would have to go through the whole transcribing and interpreting procedure to make everything appear right-side-up. Brain games!  Whether this is fact or fiction, I don't know, but this is somewhat similar to what mankind will have to experience if it is to align itself with reality. Free-will is the artificial lens which has caused our social consciousness to perceive an inverted reality as right-side-up. Removing free-will is going to make everything seem wrong.  In the process of turning our world right-side-up, our world is going to appear up-side-down. There will be times when our brains will scream, this doesn't make a bit of sense, and we'll will ache to put those old artificial lenses back on.  When this happens, remember:  It always comes back to Soon, Libet and history. • the clinical studies of Soon and Libet place brain function ahead of conscious awareness. • historically, when the physical sciences, the natural sciences, and mathematic disciplines aligned themselves with a determined universe, they experienced wholesome stability and dependable growth. • historically, when the social sciences aligned themselves with free-will, they have experienced debilitating instability and cyclic collapse. • historically, the societies of man have experienced agony and disastrous pain.  Pain and agony are nature's way of saying, something is wrong.  There is abundant evidence that free-will is this something. This whole thing is going to be a cerebral exercise; mental isometrics; mind over matter. Regardless of how everything might seem, free-will is up-side-down, and a determined universe is right-side-up.  Ceilings are not ceilings.  They are floors.  Matter does not fall down.  Matter falls up.  Attics are basements and basements are attics.  It seems Mr. Dali wasn't as far off as we thought he was! As crazy as it might seem, this is the lesson pain has been desperately trying to teach us. It is a lesson that will not be easily mastered. Don't worry about failure, though.  We are all perfect. However, this perfection is contingent on the fact each of us is a link that connects a universal past with the universal future.  It is unlikely any of us will experience the benefits of this coming to fruition.  Catalysts are consumed by the process.  Never-the-less, being a catalyst is a glorious honor. If you manage to get the glasses off, do not put them back on.  This world desperately needs links and catalysts.  Actually, if you are able to live in the moment, if you are able to let loose, if you are able to let the river move you, it's an unbelievable hoot! Even now, there's a whole lot of grinning and laughing, even if it is all mine!
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