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    Question Reality! The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness
    Question Reality! The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness
    Question Reality! The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness
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    Question Reality! The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness

    By Carl Lyle Jenkins

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    Question Reality!

    The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness

    Right now, the tail is wagging the dog. And the hapless dog doesn't even know it!

    Instead of humans using language, language is using us.

    We have become unwitting characters in scripts that are writing themselves, pawns in real life comedies of errors that all too often end in confusion and tragedy. Instead of living in the Present--the only state in which we actually exist--we are diverted by language into the illusory past and the future. And so we live, forever ahead or behind ourselves. We thus miss the pure joy of simply being alive.

    Is making language the primary culprit for our collective insanity saying that we should stop all thinking or do away with language?

    Of course not! I'm not that crazy!

    But have you ever considered what might happen to our world if we can learn to cease self-identification with our languages, with our concepts, and our ideologies?

    What do you think might happen if we all stopped identifying ourselves and behaving as part of the 99% or the 1%, as a capitalist or communist, as a Christian, Jew, Moslem, or Hindu, as black, white, yellow and brown or shades thereof?
    And what might be the result if you committed yourself to Questioning Reality, to following The Curious Way, to "knowing thyself", and agreeing to examine everything you claim to know and believe, and to modify, and possibly even abandon your language based identities if warranted by what you discover during the process?

    Do you think it's possible that both you and the world might become happier and more peaceful?

    In my experience, the problems in my life most often arise when, prior to speaking or acting, I fail to take a very close look at and begin to question my mechanical thinking processes and the language that I've been programmed to regurgitate on cue. The practice of recognizing and freeing myself from my ego's deceptive nature has shown me the possibility of enduring inner peace and happiness. Freeing the mind is the key. This is among the most difficult feats imaginable. It also has the potential to become the easiest process in the world--once someone points you in the right direction. And clues to that direction may be found by Questioning Reality...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarl Lyle Jenkins
    Release dateApr 10, 2012
    ISBN9781476464947
    Question Reality! The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness
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    Carl Lyle Jenkins

    Carl Lyle Jenkins is an accomplished visual artist, an award winning broadcast journalist and news director, the publisher/owner of Somewhere Press, and an author of books and essays on a variety of topics. Carl’s colorful artwork is found in the homes and offices of collectors from around the world. He has created hundreds of original works of art that have been displayed in shows and galleries on the mainland and in Hawaii. Carl's commissions include a series of murals created for the Universal Pictures movie, Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwartznegger. Created under the artistic direction of Academy Award winning production designer Bruno Rubeo, the murals were used in Universal Picture's worldwide advertising campaign for the movie. The illustrations in Secrets of the Laughing Wave are digitally created collages that incorporate the artist’s original oil paintings, photography, and images created using computer painting and special effects programs. In his multi-faceted life, Carl has also directed theater companies in Oregon and Hawaii, served as a corporate training and development director, and worked as executive director of a social service agency dealing with domestic and gang violence. His latest artistic project is live video performances as a VJ. Playing live on a keyboard with special effects capabilities, Carl turns his artwork into fantastic music synchronized videos that are projected unto full-sized movie screens. Carl welcomes emails from readers: carllylejenkins@aol.com

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      Question Reality! The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness - Carl Lyle Jenkins

      Question Reality!

      The Curious Way to Peace and Happiness

      By

      Carl Lyle Jenkins.

      Copyright 2012

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      For

      My Friend and Teacher

      The late

      John Maguilla

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Spellbound by Storytelling

      The Curious Way--Who?, What?, and When?

      Where?

      Why?

      Perception

      Dreams and Perception

      Faith

      A Logical Conclusion?

      The Curious Way Out

      Education--Another Brick in the Wall?

      Breaking the Magic Spell of Language

      The Tower of Babel Effect

      Returning to the Source

      The Art of Language

      The Hero’s Quest

      How?

      Choosing Happiness

      Star Meditation

      Self Talk

      Breathing Exercises

      Journaling and Dream Journals

      Self-Remembering

      Author Bio and Contact Information

      Bibliography

      Preface

      In every human being there exists an infinite source of peace and happiness. You were born with it. Your heart would cease beating and your mind would stop functioning without it. It is our common origin, the source of all life, that from which everything arises.

      Somehow, in the process of living, the knowledge of how to return and connect to the source, to the miraculous Heart of Life, has been misplaced.

      Returning to the Source is the hero's quest. It is the journey home to the font of our living being. And what we are seeking is The Holy Grail, The Secret of Life.

      Why is it so difficult for us to Return to the Source of happiness and peace of mind?

      Our inability to do so causes unnecessary and seemingly endless suffering to us both individually and collectively. It has also placed our entire species in great peril. And our failure to address this question has led us to the very crossroads of human evolution.

      The path we’ve been following is the product of the Tyranny of the Mind. This way is leading us rapidly to a dead end--to the unconscious creation of a living nightmare and the rapidly increasing likelihood of our annihilation in a nuclear or ecological catastrophe. But the other path at this Grand Junction leads to a change in individual consciousness that may allow us to create heaven on earth. This other way is The Curious Way, the philosopher's way of self knowledge based upon the ancient observation that the unexamined life is unworthy living. The Curious Way leads us upon The Hero’s Quest, the Return to the Source, to our original state of being, so that we may learn to lead our lives from the Heart, the Original Source of Consciousness.

      To obtain the Secret of Life, we must first learn to Question Reality and end the Tyranny of the Mind.

      From the moment we are conceived we have all been systematically hypnotized and tyrannized by the magic spells created by the mind’s inseparable twins of thought and language. As a result we find ourselves living in an Alice in Wonderland world. The stories human beings have created about our world and each other have trapped us all in an endless hall of mirrors, in a maze of our own creation with no recognizable way out. As long as we remain mesmerized, we are only able to see the world and each other through the veil of the mind’s imaginary creations. If we are ever to have any hope for peace of mind, let alone peace between individuals and nations, the magical enchantment born of language must be broken.

      It doesn’t matter what language you speak or which culture you were born into. The minds of all human beings are thoroughly programmed by their cultures and languages of origin. Our memories faithfully record this programming. All of our life experiences are filtered through it. Fortunately, it is possible to understand, reverse, and remove the more harmful aspects of our conditioning. This become possible when we begin to Question Reality as we have been programmed to know it by our cultures of origin.

      The first, and by far the most difficult challenge, is to end our denial. We first must recognize and acknowledge that we have been indoctrinated-- that we have not been taught how to think for ourselves. We may then choose to begin the lifelong process of Questioning Reality, of identifying and reviewing the many stories, concepts, beliefs, and ideologies--with which we have been programmed. By pursuing the paths of self-knowledge, by engaging in meditative and self-reflective processes, we can break the magic spell of language. We then gain the possibility of becoming truly free, of residing in our natural state, and ending the Tyranny of the Mind.

      All real change begins and ends with individuals. When you change yourself, you change the entire world. Nobody else can do this for you. It is entirely up to you to Question Reality and learn to see what's real for yourself. I believe that you will find it well worth the effort. For Returning to the Source of all knowledge and understanding is the key to real happiness and peace of mind.

      Carl Lyle Jenkins--Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2012

      "Sticks and stones may break your bones

      But words can hurt you more

      They are the cause of ignorance

      Of hatred and of war

      That this sounds very strange

      I know

      And the truth of this

      I cannot show

      'Cause it's all inside your head

      Everything from A to Z

      And you are the only one

      Who can set you free

      From all those hurtful stories

      About them and you and me

      And all those strange ideas about

      How it all should be"

      From Battle Lines by Carl Lyle Jenkins,

      Copyright 1984, Somewhere Press, Santa Fe, NM

      Spellbound by Storytellers

      "Everything You

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