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 and are perceived from inside your skull. In fact, you don't even have any provable evidence that these experiences are happening outside of your head whatsoever!

Regardless, whether this is a reality that expands from your person or is a persistent illusion of your creation, the film is the film, and the degree to which you can directly control the Universe's narrative is so minuscule that it would not register as a comprehensible decimal percentage.

You could argue that this film is interactive because you can force your input into the timeline, and there is some truth in this. However, your contributions will be of little bother to the larger reality, our actions fluttering into the ether, growing weaker the further they travel. Even people of exceptional power are primarily watching Life unfold before them, only able to intentionally knock the story ever so slightly this way or that. Still, they remain at the mercy of an unpredictable result, a minor spectator of the film's vaster unfolding.

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

This type of confrontation occurs in unlimited ways, but the easiest one to comprehend is an interruption of your planned path. Your phone ringing, a puppy running up to you, the internet going down, someone farting next to you, walking into a spider web, 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, discovering a lump in your breast, sleeping through your alarm, getting caught in the snow, a friend unexpectantly handing you a glass of wine, breaking both of your legs in a skiing accident, falling in love etc. Whether a "positive" or a "negative" interference, the deviation from your prepared program causes mental wavering and necessitates a response.

Sometimes this conflict arrives from an action we initiate. Sometimes this conflict smashes into you from a seemingly random place. 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 is not an isolated incident or the fault of a specific individual. It emanates from the same origin by cosmic authorisation. To allocate blame on anything is a counterproductive move. To receive every moment as part of a unified film is not only congruent with an understanding of a Pantheistic Universe but also calms reality into a far more manageable position of acceptance.

Ample spiritual philosophies encourage the loss of ego and recognise the Universe as a single entity with oneself included. If this idea resonates with you, please pursue it. But Janthopoyism is less demanding with its suggestions because permanent ego death will melt a person into an ineffective blob whose physical body may end up in a psychiatric hospital. Claiming you've merged with the energy field and viewing yourself as one with everything sounds oh-so enlightened, but you can still get hit by a car, quickly enforcing the proof of separation. Hence, we 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 personalities have evolved into partitions for whatever reason, and while Janthopoyism considers much of these material segregations to be false, it is an unignorable facet of current existence. We all view the world from a personal perspective, and that is something we can honour and utilise rather than desperately attempt to escape.

Outside your scope of supreme energy there is zero value in treating the Universe as anything more than one. The External Universe is a lone force reflecting you. Each human, animal, plant, and object is the same electricity in an identical electron duplicating itself for infinity. Accordingly, the delivery of conflict is that very electricity placing you under the spotlight, 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.

The External Universe will enter your Internal Universe with varying degrees of urgency via The Bridge of Receivings. We have named it such, as you are receiving this information, duh. Granted, the image of a bridge is not the most accurate analogy, as this reception is more akin to absorption on a molecular level. But the metaphor works due to the singular entry points into your perception (usually 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? 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 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 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 instead of anything specific. Even if the conflict cripples you, you've still solved the question that the Universe has shoved into your unique fingerprint of consciousness. It wanted your answer, and you answered. After that, the film continues on its tale, leaving you to deal with this new path you have dropped into until next time.

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

Looking back, we sympathise that Janthopoyism paints the evolutionary system as an apathetic process squeezing answers from whichever 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. Your contribution is programmed to function 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 move with 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 precisely.

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. Consequently, 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 an air of peace with every decision you execute, 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 while teaching that nothing can cause your mind to suffer except for your mind alone. 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 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, ultimately, it's about burning down the bridge until your presence falls into the water, flowing with the chaos by riding on instinctual feedback, eradicating the desire to influence anything whatsoever.

But one step at a time.