I believe that people are largely unconscious of what they feel. This means that people have feelings that they are not aware of, not that they have no feelings. The implication and result of this fact is the phenomenon of projection. People think that others are feeling what they don't realize they are feeling. But it goes deeper. The fear of getting hit by lightning in an electrical storm is the result of guilt and self hate. You deserve to get hit. Somebody is watching because, actually, you are watching. The world is full of spirits because we are unconscious of our feelings and animate the world with our projections. We also think by the process of associations. The human mind is a gigantic association machine. I think about wishing my Mommy was dead and she dies. I did it. I killed my Mommy. I call this magical thinking. This was the world we lived in for a million years, the world where there was no boundary between what we feel and what happens. It is the world we still live in as children.
Humans have abilities. They can feel like happy chimps. That is how we are born. Happy chimps who like bananas, smile when they taste those sweet sweet treats. We are puppy dogs without tails. We wag inside. We have big toothy grins. Swinging through the trees, the aerial dance is joy. We were meant to fly through space. Aheeeaheeeeah.
When you take this happy brilliant chimp and crush him, teach him words like, 'you miserable piece of sh!t' why can't you be like DeadFred next door, you teach him to hate being a happy chimp, because being a happy chimp always leads t trouble. So we become deadmonkey, the little engine that could, but won't ever again.
So what happened to HappyChimp who died almost before he was born? What would have become of him had he lived? He gets projected too. He is what we call God. He is want we could have become.
Once in a while, for various curious reasons, HappyChimp comes to visit. He has a great big toothy grin. He will bring a wisdom that we will hate to hear, because no matter what, we don't ever want to think about HappyChimp again. He will say things like, 'He who looses DeadChimp in my name shall find HappyChimp swinging in his jungle.' Or 'The jungle is within you,' You can never tell. He might say that under all your pain is a bunch of bananas, or if you have a pumpkin I'll give you one and if you don't I'll take it away.
Now HappyChimp, to my knowledge has never called himself HappyChimp. That's just this monkey's way of talking about something he heard from a fellow with a very big toothy smile.