Knowing When to Shut the Hell up

Book 4: The Bridge of Offerings | Chapter 4.1 | 27 January 2021

Janthopoyism talks of symbolic "bridges", whereby information-traffic goes in and out between your Internal Universe and the External Universe. The Greek philosophy Stoicism concurs with our teachings of these dual Universes.

As soon as you say a word or perform an action, it is no longer yours. A motion has been sent from your person, which might develop into nothing, or might spin around to attack you. Either way, it has left your Internal Universe's ownership and entered the realm of the External Universe. And the External Universe will do what it pleases. You're just going to have to deal with it, buddy!

You do not control what happens to you in life but you can control how you respond. This foundational chapter is about accepting a moment without immediately reacting, and in so doing, preventing a big fat mess.

As discussed in Book 3, nothing invites stimuli into your experience faster than fixating on them. If you are not aware of something's existence, you most likely won't notice it. Meanwhile, the material which you've fine-tuned yourself to detect will leap from every corner. Many of us are familiar with the Law of Attraction secrets, which proposes that shouting "no!" at anything does not cause it to go away. Rather, it aggravates this circumstance into our perception louder than before. Janthopoyism agrees. You are training your brain to register this issue as much as possible. You are feeding it. Whereas if you concentrate in a different direction (or better, the polar opposite/solution to your problem), the initial trouble will shrink out of focus until it vanishes.

"Everything in Life is Vibration," said Albert Einstein. Thoughts are vibrations which reverberate at increasing volumes. But adverse thoughts are easy to conquer with simple exercises, gradually shifting your attention as the rubbish gets smaller. It takes practice for the Gatekeeper (Reticular Activating System) to obey your authority, but we shall provide plenty of examples of how to do so. For now, appreciate negative vibrational thoughts, for they are still technically yours. Sure, they can pull your consciousness towards unwanted physical realities or spiral into mental agony, but they remain part of your Internal Universe. However, if you release them across your Bridge of Offerings, you have completely relinquished command. Whether a complaint, or an attack, or even a positive expression, the result is at the mercy of the External Universe. And you will attract a cosmic reaction very quickly.

One of the strangest traits of human behaviour is how desperate we are to prove ourselves correct, even to strangers, even if we can't see their faces. We expend so much energy and waste so much time pursuing this, causing tension throughout our days just to convince someone of something. What makes their sole brain worthy of your suffering? Would it not be more beneficial to use that same amount of energy to reach a larger audience? Or, greatest idea ever, to dedicate that energy to a task that brings you love and peace?

Even if we manage to persuade another brain that our brain is correct, we've traded an unreturnable portion of our lives for a singular human. Only several billion to go! It makes no measurable difference nor any sense whatsoever. It means nothing. And, more importantly, why do you think your brain is correct in the first place? Did your brain tell you this? Notice where the ego is, notice where the spirit is, and reevaluate your intentions.

Nevertheless, swaying a mind to change is still an unlikely outcome. Far more plausible is that an argument will ensue. Two people with opposing views will attempt to convince each other of their correctness. And so you shout "no!" and they shout "no!" and you are both concentrating on the thing you do not want. This behaviour is akin to screaming at the Universal Energy to bring as much as that opposing opinion as possible. Your Gatekeeper observes you focusing on this and will do its best to locate some additional corresponding material for you. Yes, your pride desperately wants this person to know it's right, but you do not need to! You are part of the identical cosmic system! One that relies on disparity of opinion to learn and evolve!

Feeling offended or defensive are glaringly obvious signs of someone out of touch with who they are. Getting upset shows that you've lost control of the situation. As Book 3 told, those comfortable with their stances will find amusement in attacks on their beliefs. One could never offend a truly spiritual individual. If a person insists that the sky is green or that your name is Fluffy Briefcase, how much time will you spend defending your contending stance? If a child initiates an argument about a topic on which you're well-versed, would you shout at them in anger? The pool of spirituality has "elders" and "children" alike, irrespective of their earthly age. Confidence in your position will never require validation. Recoiling into a protective mode is a vibrational mismatch to your True Path. What's worse is that resistance breeds resistance like ping-pong. Defence serves offence serving more defence serving more offence, ad nauseam.

Now, you could argue: is this not what Janthopoyism is all about? Here is conflict in action! The very essence of evolution! Should we not encourage such arguments for the greater good of progression? The answer, as with every Jantho answer, comes in dual. Indeed, the evolution of the Universal Energy benefits from this conflict. Dude, the Universal Energy benefits from anything as long as there is momentum! And there is always momentum. But here we're scrutinising repetitive Lower Quality Conflict transmitted between a measly two minds with minimal consequence to the overall picture. The evolution of your Internal Universe may stick in a stale place, or worse, fall away from your True Path, causing considerable discomfort to your being. Hence, never concern yourself with inciting conflict, for the Cosmos will serve it to you by order. Centre yourself with harmony because that feels better inside.

Trying to get people to understand your viewpoint is the opposite of what you should be doing. You are merely spouting information that already exists in your cerebral grooves based on previous experiences that have zero idea of other people's experiences. You do not gain anything from this process. You do not grow. Preferably, spend your energy trying to understand another individual's perspective even when you deem them incorrect. Every path is valid in its own way; we all contribute to the same collective. Listen more by opening your Bridge of Receivings. Speak less by closing your Bridge of Offerings. Take new information in but don't feel the need to put information out. The more you receive, the more you learn, the higher you will evolve, and the riper your mind will be to obtain ideas from the Universal Energy. If you can't do that, then simply turn and walk towards a more joyous place.

Your first call of order is to notice when your energy is bubbling up into negative emotions. Do not fight it because this reaction is normal. Congratulations, you are human. But the moment you allow it to blast out in some undesirable response, the Universe now owns it, and that includes your immediate company. The consequences are out of your reach; you gave up the power.

So how about pausing instead? Hug those negativities with amusement. It requires discipline, but not a lot, and pretty soon the awareness will come before your response. If you can catch the rise in the act, it's as easy as ceasing everything instantaneously. Remember Accessing the Universal Mind? The best solution lies there, and it's nowhere near your brain. Seek the better emotion that generates the better thought that generates the better emotion that generates the better thought. When it comes time to reply, ask questions. And if your statement is unavoidable, make your goal to respond once so well that everyone is satisfied to leave it as such. If you speak something strong and loud enough, others will defend it for you and you can refocus on your mission. But the superior decision is always to not react. Let it go. Laugh it off. The entire Chinese philosophy of Taoism revolves around this method of inaction alone, and much of Book 6's middle section will cover this ground in deeper detail.

View life like a test. Locate what makes you happy and pursue it. Accept that things will come to distract you that are not part of your plan. Be amused by this occurrence which takes place by universal design, then act accordingly. Can you turn your attention away, back to your primary meaning? Then do so. Or does this interruption require your attention for you to move forward? Then fix it from a rational viewpoint of calm, looking for the quickest route to remove the obstacle. Do not nurture it. Do not encourage it. Pat it on its head and go.

Finally, we must address the inevitable accusations of suppression. We do not teach avoidance. We teach delegation. Embrace your shadow work. Recognise and be grateful when something upsets your serenity: it reveals a weakness within yourself and highlights a point of concern that requires your consideration. If an incident or a being manages to get a rise from you, this is the perfect opportunity to practice doing nothing! Take note of that heightening of emotion, but instead of bestowing your heard-earned energy and time onto this moment, aim and shoot that same vigour towards an undertaking that can benefit your path and the path of others.

This approach will contribute to the evolution of both the External Universe and Internal Universe while blessing your Gatekeeper with superpowers. We shall cover all this at great length over the next chapter.

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