Janthopoyism: Scripture: You Are Watching a Movie That Is Watching You

You Are Watching a Movie That Is Watching You

Book 3: The Bridge of Receivings | Chapter 3.1 | 28 October 2020

The bulk of life experience stems merely from a point of observation. Much like a movie, images travel across your eyeballs, perceived from the inside of your skull. You don't even have any provable evidence that it's happening outside of your head whatsoever! Regardless, whether this is a reality that perpetually expands away from your person or is a persistent illusion of your creation, the film is the film, and the amount of the Universe's narrative that you can directly control is so minuscule that it would not even register as a comprehensible decimal percentage.

Of course, one could argue that this is an interactive film because you can force your input into the timeline, and there is some truth in that. However, your contributions will be of little bother to the larger reality, our action fluttering into the ether, getting weaker the further away it goes. Even people of exceptional power are primarily watching Life unfold in front of them, only able to intentionally knock the story ever so slightly one way or another, but remaining at the mercy of an unpredictable result, a minor spectator of the film's vaster unfolding.

But the interaction does not end there. Instead, you will frequently find yourself engaged in a magical exchange when the camera of Life abruptly turns its head towards you and demands attention. Here is where the External Universe and your Internal Universe meet as an act of divine intervention. Janthopoyism refers to such meeting places as "bridges". They're a two-way highway where data is rushing back and forth between you and the Universe as a whole.

There is an unlimited number of ways this type of confrontation occurs, but the easiest one to comprehend is an interruption of your planned path. Your phone ringing, spilling hot coffee on your foot, a puppy running up to you, the internet going down, someone farting next to you, passing the perfect outfit in the shop window, your partner leaving you, your shoelace coming undone, winning the lottery, your contact lens slipping behind your eye, finding a lump in your breast, sleeping through your alarm, getting caught in the snow, an incorrect autocorrect, your favourite song coming on the radio, someone unexpectantly handing you a glass of wine, breaking both of your legs in a car crash, needing to pee, falling in love etc. Whether a "positive" or a "negative" interference, the deviation from your prepared program causes conflict.

Sometimes this conflict will arrive from an action we've initiated. Sometimes this conflict will come smashing into you from a place of seemingly random. But what's imperative to grasp is that the source point is irrelevant. The Universal Energy is one thing, and therefore, the External Universe beyond you is the entirety of the Universal Energy just without you in it. When something happens to you, it's not an isolated incident or the fault of a specific individual. It emanates from the exact same source by cosmic order. To place blame on anything is a counterproductive move. To accept every moment as part of the same film is not only congruent with a Pantheistic Universe understanding but also calms reality into a far more manageable position of acceptance.

Ample spiritual philosophies encourage the loss of ego and recognising the Universe as one entity, oneself included. If this is something that resonates with you, then please pursue it. But Janthopoyism is less demanding with its suggestions because permanent ego death will melt a person into a useless blob whose physical body may end up in a psychiatric hospital. We much prefer to evaluate the individuality of each being as a gift from the cosmos! A fraction of "God" uniquely for you that you can work with to make a difference. Our minds have evolved into separation for whatever reason, and while Janthopoyism considers much of these material segregations to be false appearances, it is an unignorable facet of current existence that we each view the world from a personal perspective. And that is something we can honour and utilise rather than desperately attempt to escape from.

But beyond your section of supreme energy, there is zero value in treating the Universe as anything more than one. The External Universe is a lone force reflecting at you. Every person, animal, plant, and object is the same electricity in the same electron duplicating itself for infinity. Hence, the delivery of conflict is the energy field that gives you attention, requesting the harvest of data from your uniqueness as an explicit order from the cosmos. You are now directly interacting with "God". The universal system has summoned your exact brain to calculate something to which the entire Universe did not have the solution. The argument of whether this operation is conscious or non-conscious remains inconsequential. What matters is that the Universal Energy operates in this manner by design. Find solace in these holy moments of friction! You were chosen! You are lucky! You are important.

At varying degrees of urgency, the External Universe will enter your Internal Universe via what we refer to as The Bridge of Receivings. We have named it as such, for you are receiving this information, duh. Granted, the image of a bridge is not the most accurate analogy, as it's more akin to absorption from a molecular level. But the resemblance works due to the singular entry points into your perception (often across your biological senses). These conflicts cross the hypothetical bridge into your role in the film, and now you have to do something about it. So what should you do? And the answer is where things get a touch tricky and uncomfortable.

Truthfully, you will do what you do, and that's what you'll do. Your brain will weigh up the pros and cons based on how your mind has evolved through external experiences (including genetic disposal). It will then select the option it deems to be the most advantageous. This conditioned approach may appear to leave much room for error, but from a Universal Energy viewpoint, there are no right or wrong answers, as long as there are answers. No matter your reaction, the Universe demanded your reverberation above anything specific. Even if the conflict cripples you, you've still solved the question that the Universe has shoved into your unique fingerprint of perception. It wanted your answer, and you answered it without fail. After that, the film will continue on its tale, leaving you to deal with this new path it has dropped you into, until next time.

But please do not fear this deterministic mental behaviour! A hefty portion of Janthopoyism is about overcoming these trained mental responses, and we'll provide those at a later chapter, no stress.

Looking back, we can also sympathise that Janthopoyism paints the evolutionary system as an apathetic process squeezing answers from any emotion because, at its core, the Universe couldn't care less about the outcome of any circumstance. If there is an outcome, there's an answer, and there will always be an outcome. Your joy or your suffering are both equally beneficial to the evolution of all things. It is programmed that way and trivial to the infinite picture. But please know that it is in the Universal Energy's best interest that you seek your happiness. The closer you can get to your meaning of life, the more meaningful the conflict can be for you to solve. That is why, within the very fabric of the programming, pursuits that are good for you feel good for you. It is to advocate that path exactly.

Furthermore, you exist within the Universal Energy. Your part of the Universal Energy (aka Internal Energy or spirit-electricity or vibration inside of you) is forced to endure these happenings with you. Hence we can recognise that misery is the wrong setting because it feels that exact way: wrong. Within your Life-bubble, you must serve your Internal Energy above all else by seeking a level of peace with every decision you make, for it is there that the Universal Energy aligns. Such perception is comparable to the endlessly valuable teachings from the Greek Stoics, who emphasised the uncontrollable nature of the external yet the impossibility of anything causing your mind to suffer except for your mind alone. And that is where Book 3 of the Janthopoyism scripture comes in.

It's about learning how to play ball with the Universe.
It's about anticipating the energetic shifts and moving with them so that the conflict becomes a positive evolutionary collaboration for both Universes inside and out.
It's about letting go of your brain's conditioning and allowing the energy within you to make the decisions.
And, above all else, it's about burning down the bridge until your presence falls into the water, flowing with the chaos by riding instinctual feedback, eradicating the desire to control anything whatsoever.

But one step at a time.