b124 (6.16-2.2025): dreaming dreaming-dreams

i’m dreaming (here) in seconds [i]

by ima dreamer
 
i’m dreaming, here (in seconds), an eternity it seems
in seconds i am dreaming, i am dreaming dreaming-dreams
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·         have you ever dreamt that you were dreaming?  let’s call that a ‘dreaming-dream’.

 
·         i (it seems) can close my eyes and (within seconds) dream that i’m dreaming a dreaming-dream.
 
·         it’s not a lucid-dream, per se… it’s more like dreaming that you are dreaming a lucid-dream (and then waking up into this Dream).
 
 

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[i] martino. j. (6.16-2.2025). dreaming dreaming-dreams. book 124: individuation. copyright 2024 by wellnesseducation.us

  * written within the (Eternal?) Dream, after dreaming a dreaming-dream within that Dream. 

* nickles & dimes

 microsoft wants $$$, or it will delete my cloud storage (that i never asked for).

everybody (every $$$-making organization) wants to nickle & dime you just a little bit more & more & more... it's like waves on the beach.

b124 (6.16-1.2025): sights & sounds [& beers, oh my!]

 
sights & sounds
by soun d. sights
 
solar lights and hummingbirds (no need to whine) and beer
as i look around it seems those sights & sounds are here
solar lights (no drama/fights), a sip of beer (or wine)

come and play on my big deck:
the sights and sounds are fine*
 

*alternative endings:

 

the party ends at nine

the happy deck is mine

a way to pass the time

it must just be a sign

ahead or from behind

a place to be so kind

(a bit beyond their prime)

a kiss is not a crime

a grand attempt at rhyme

a grape upon the vine

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·       In-Spired by a quiet little drink on the back deck… with the best of birds.
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martino, j. (6.16-1.2025). sounds & sights. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us

* pagans didn't know...

...that they were pagan.  

when i was a kid, i was led to believe (by catholic followers) that 'pagans' were bad people -- akin to a 'race' of people or a 'country' -- akin to an organized group or religion.

truth is, there wasn't a religion called paganism.  pagans were just people: rural (e.g. peasants) who believed in more than one god (e.g. the god of the sun, moon, river, etc.).  virtually everybody was pagan.

'pagan' became a name-calling term, a bullying tactic, practiced by those who believed in only one god (the monotheists).  once a monotheist decides upon his own 'right' (good, correct, etc., etc.) god, all others are condemned:

"if you don't think like me, to hell with you!"

the monotheists 'modified' and created their religions out of pagan beliefs, which were very much associated with the earth's cycles.

have you ever wondered why Jesus wasn't born on day 1 (january 1st) of year 'zero'?

uh... there isn't a year zero.

wouldn't that have made everything before Christ "B.C."? 

-that's what i was taught.

if one were to do even the slightest bit of 3rd-grade research, one would discover how the bibles were really written, what we really know about the man Jesus, and how religions really came to be.  

the term "divinely inspired" is a term made by men 
who want you to think that what they preach is of the divine.

it's not rocket science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism 

* you might like yours black

alternative title: black & tan

you might like yours black, sometimes i might like mine frothy

you might want me back (but i want bailey's in the coffee) 

b124 (6.15-1.2025): pre-tender

pre-tender
by a. pre tender
 
i ordered my steak ("pre-tender")
and then i disavowed
that this whole, dirty game (pre-rigged)
especially for the cow
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·       humans might get a glimpse of this if/when we are being raised (inhumanely) as food – by an intelligence that is faaaaaaaaar Super-ior to us.
 
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martino, j. (6.15-1.2025). pre-tender. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us 

* i was never much good at goodbye

 https://joalmartino.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-is-this-song-great.html

* lucky man

 

...but was he really?

b124 (6.14-1.2025): God's entertainment channel

God’s entertainment channel
by enter aintment
 
God’s entertainment channel
tentacular prosthesis
sensor-sensing-senses
Buddha, Beatles, Jesus

ant (and damned mosquitos)
art and stream and tree
occasional mojitos
they and you and me
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·       the relative (‘physical’) world... is God’s entertainment channel.
 
·       sense-ors are we: particularized end-points of tentacular prostheses that are utilized for the channeling of that which is (virtually) physical.
 
some humans pre-tend to channel the Spiritual, but it is actually the other way around.
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martino, j. (6.14-1.2025). God’s entertainment channel. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us
 
* more thoem ideas, inspired by God’s entertainment channel:
-the other way around (also a good title for a book)
-virtually physical
-tentacular prostheses
-chann e. l. ling
-end points

-pre tender

* she said: "tell me...

...are you a Christian, child, and i said: 'man i am tonight'."

-marc cohn, walking in memphis 

b124 (6.13-1.2025): quick 6

 
quick 6
by joal poll
 
quick 6 (there might be more that might be getting in the mix)
there is no #1, so the top 5 are the quick 6
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·       you want her to be available.
 
·       you want to share experiences with her.
 
·       you want her to understand individuation, autonomy, confidentiality, variety, and inter-independence.
 

?

* * * *

* * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * *

*others receiving votes

guidelines: 

• there is no #1, until there's a #1
• if/when there is a #1, there is no (active) poll.
• only the top 10 make it to the playoffs.
• while past performance counts, the most recent game has the most influence.
• any #1 would have to recognize that (in the event of a bad season), the full poll would again be activated.

 
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martino, j. (6.13-1.2025). quick 6. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us

b124 (6.12-1.2025): it's all smoke & mirrors

it’s all smoke & mirrors
by s. moke & m. irrors
 
it’s all smoke & mirrors
the elders question why
the children don’t believe
they think it’s all a lie
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·         of course, one of the first understandings of a child’s life is that of being lied to (to his/her face!) about “being good” so “santa will bring you presents.”

·         adolescents watch as the loving “until death do us part” marriage ends in 'divorce' (or worse).

·         teens expect politicians to lie, and (eventually, as adults) vote for the best liars.

·         everyone knows that the ‘markdown’ was already overpriced.

·         everyone knows that ‘virtual’ is the new reality.

·         anyone who is paying attention learns that anyone with an agenda (including themselves) is apt to taint the truth.

·         reporters create news… for the click.

·         even our own senses lie.  we hold our thumb up to a skyscraper -- and they are the same size.  lightning strikes, and the instantaneous thunder isn’t heard until later.

advertisers?  

gossip columnists?  

used car salesmen?

 
heck, even the author of this thoem is using a pen name, and thoetry is a word that he made-up!  even though he is human, you probably think he used AI for his writings (...which he did not).
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martino, j. (6.12-1.2025): it’s all smoke & mirrors. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us

* fun fact: i'm publishing this to my blog on 6/1/2025 but delaying the 'date' to 6/12/2025! 😁  

* don't need no per-mission

 "you don't need permission to pur-sue your miss[i]on."

-jm

* "mine is better than yours"

https://joalmartino.blogspot.com/2021/09/b103-97-12021-mine-is-better-than-yours.html 

https://joalmartino.blogspot.com/2023/05/b42-58-22005-duality-is-oneness.html

b124 (6.11-2.2025): [k]night ranger

knight/ranger

by a. deep & dark knight

alternative title: strangers

once a ranger (always)
stalker in the night
get the call (no small way) to decipher wrong from right

get the call, then fall: the heart might never know what’s true
once a ranger (all-ways)
me, the knight, and you

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martino, j. (6.11-2.2025). [k]night ranger. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us

b124 (6.11-1.2025): moi-squito

moi-squito

by moi mosquito
 
i am moi (mosquito)
i go about my life
i seek out my nutrition
i’ve got a loving wife

i contemplate the mega-versal G∞dness (in cognito)
i replicate in my own image:
i am moi (moi-squito)
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·       if i happen to be sucking blood out of your arm (and maybe transmitting a virus), please understand that your tiny bit of pain is my life-blood.

·       i’m not intending to hurt you.  i actually love you.
 
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martino, j. (6.11-1.2025). moi-squito. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us

* maybe we (a you-man super-intelligence, relatively speaking) will have more mercy on the mosquito when we become the moi-squito. 

* making sense of senses

 as a moi-squito attempts to make sense of the Infinitely Diverse Sensory (nervous) System, he uses his limited senses (which are sensory not only to him, but also to the All).

b124 (6.10-1.2025): G∞d ex-per-i-ence

G∞d ex-per-i-ence
by m. utual
 
(ex) is what is not
(per) each person (sense)
I (the m[I]e in team)
G∞d ex-per-i-(ence)
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·       every bit of every thing that we sense is part of an infinite, connected sensory (nervous?) system that provides data to the All, which, as No-thing-ness, bursts-into (or Big Bangs, or particularizes) into the apparently physical (uh... Spiritually Speaking).
 

I Am Nothing… makes sense!

I Am Nothing… makes sense!

No-thing is Everything… makes senses.

 

the Non-physical comes before the physical.

 
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martino, j. (6.10-1.2025). G∞d ex-per-i-ence. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us 

* it's All G∞d

"it's All G∞d" is a running theme at wellnesseducation.us.  

the premise is that the All, or the Mega-Verse, God, Oneness, etc. is Infinitely Good, and that Goodness flows through All.

here, in a relative realm (e.g. earth-bound) diversity and variety and differential-ity dictate oppositical-ity which creates the illusion of contrast & drama. 

imagine if every thing in the Uni-Verse is a sensory unit that reports back to Source -- for the Soul purpose of Soul?

what if All just IS, and relativity allows It to ex-per-i-ence?

b124 (6.9-1.2025): mutual good feelings

 
mutual good feelings
by m. utual
 
mutual good feelings
that would be my quest
long-term short-term moments
when we are at our best
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·       what if we (you-man-s) are All-ways at our best?  hear me out:
 
·       what if (considering genetics, socialization, and interpretation of experiences) every, single cell in every, single living thing is doing the very best that it can… constantly?
 
·       what if life’s ‘bad’ things are just the contrast that wakes us up to the good things? 
 
·       what if Heaven is a drama?
 
would you even bother watching a movie with no drama or contrast?  really?  would you pay $$$ to walk into a theater and stare at a blank screen?  if so, wouldn’t that serve as a contrast to that which is going-on outside of the theater?
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martino, j. (6.9-1.2025). mutual good feelings. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us

* what if it's All G∞d?

* if you've got a problem...

 "if you've got a problem with the facts...

the problem isn't the facts."

-richard cooper

* do i want any of my ex's back?

in my mind... maybe they never left.

i'm lucky to have had loving relationships.  i am grateful.  it's not that i don't want someone back, it's that i don't want a committed relationship (with its considerable complications).  i find (as i approach the clubhouse) that my girl friends and i are better off as friends who may-or-may-not want benefits.

i do enjoy the thrill (the 'alive' feeling) of the 'in-love' phase of a relationship.  

i would be friends with every gal whom i've ever shared moments with.  i'd re-live the great moments, and i'd mend the wounds of the tough times (if i could). 

i would strive for what i've always wanted: mutual good feelings.

b124 (6.8-1.2025): are you out of your vulcan mind?

 
are you out of your vulcan mind?
by ima vulcan mind
 
i put up with your bullsh—
this world can be unkind
defend/attack (you want me back):
are you out of your vulcan mind?
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·       one of best star trek lines of all time.  had to get it into another thoem.

i often feel like an alien, on planet earth.  i'm astonished by my observations about the things that people actually believe, here... until i re-member that every, single living thing is opting for self-survival/thrival.

egoic survival/thrival breeds control (which breeds deception, power and the quest for territory). 

back to the thoem: it begs the question: do i want any of my ex's back? 
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martino, j. (6.8-1.2025). are you out of your vulcan mind? book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us

* it is 3:42 a.m.

 ...and i don't care.

* thank you (for being)

 ...my friend.

* why is this song GREAT?

 

1. most of the lines in this song could stand alone, each as a song in itself.

2. the guitar solo.

3. the ending.

4. the whole idea of goodbye.  endings.  death.  relationships.  it's tragic.

5. the idea that this whole thing (called life) is but a dream.

6. as for the video, the dog.  the sunset/sunrise.  the phenomenon of surfing.  the beach.  the ocean.

* it's a pray for prey scheme

 

* EVERYthing...

 ...here (in a relative Univ-Verse) happens because of pressure.

:)

b124 (6.7-1.2025): praying man-tis

praying man-tis

by ima praying mantis
 
my mom told me to pray
she never told me why
i think of her (today), and take a deep breath (and sigh)
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 why don’t we call prayer what it is?  

it’s us, asking for something that we want.

·       when she was alive, my mother prayed daily, and (whenever she could), she told me to pray.
·       she never told me why an Omniscient, Omnificent, Omnipresent, Omnibenevolent God would want us to pray (or need for us to pray).
·       god already knows what’s best for each of us, so praying won’t help there.
·       god made us mortal, and gave us free will, so our lives are going to play out the way that they’ll play out.
·       god knows our thoughts (he sees us when we’re sleeping and he knows when we’re awake), so (essentially) our thoughts are prayers.

·       god doesn’t have an ego (?) so he wouldn’t need us to beg.
·       god doesn’t get involved.
·       but wait… he does get involved (sometimes).  when the baby gets saved in the tornado? god’s hand.  when the other baby dies in the tornado?  everything happens for a reason.
·       but wait… he does have an ego.  the fact that he is a ‘he’ proves that.

but wait… when prayer doesn’t work (e.g. when we don’t get what we want), god gets a free pass (because he knows what is best for us, and he works in mysterious ways, and we could never understand the mind of god).  well, except for knowing what he wants us to do (e.g. pray).
 

as it turns out, my mother made some of the rules up.  

she believed what she’d heard, 

and she modified those beliefs based upon her earthly observations.  

my mother was born-and-raised staunch-catholic,

she lived (with no internet) from 1931-2013,   

she never drove a car, and literally lived over 95% of her life 

within an area half the size of a football field!!  

 
man-made gods are made in the image of man.  man-made gods have egos, they want their churches to have money, and they are very good at control (“do ___ or die.”  “believe, or go to hell.”).
 
all of the inconsistencies (e.g. an All-Loving god would kill innocent babies in a flood) make no sense – until we realize that the stories were told (and sung) and re-told (again and again) and written and re-written and edited re-edited and translated... by men! 
 
stories change.  the stories of the holy books morph as those in power dictate.  think about the people who want you to believe what they believe.  truth is, life is better for them if you believe what they want.
 
shall i pray to an invisible man-in-the-sky because my team needs a field-goal to win? 
 
think (pray/Love) again.
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martino, j. (6.7-1.2025). ima praying man-tis. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us
 
* let’s not forget that the mantis hands are in position, praying for prey. 

b124 (6.6-1.2025): love ends badly

 
love ends badly
by connie ditional
 
love ends badly (how)
love ends badly (where)
love ends badly (why?)
love ends badly (here)
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·       Unconditional, Universal, Love Is… and that is G∞d.  It never ends.

·       but here, in the relative world, love ends badly.

·       it might end during a relationship, but even if it doesn’t, unless you miraculously die together, love ends in death. 
 
love ends.
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martino, j. (6.6-1.2025). love ends badly. book 124: individuation. © 2025 by wellnesseducation.us