It's easy enough once you know how, but the trick is to remember to do it at all. Just couldn't help but notice that some of your experiences parallel mine, and this could be a help. Hope so, anyway.

.....Actually, what I've tried to do, and it seems to work, is to just act as if I'm driving around in a video game.    Somebody does something stupid on the road, I just try to adopt the video game mentality.   You've played video racing games, I'm sure.......well, when you're playing those games, you don't get mad when other cars and obstacles get in your way as you drive through the game....cause you know it's a game.   It's supposed to have obstacles.    !    So that's the mentality I try to adopt with idiot drivers who cut me off, veer over into my lane without checking their blind spot first, jump out in front of me instead of waiting 2 more seconds until I pass, slam on their brakes because they think they want to turn but then change their mind, etc. etc. etc.    It's all a game!    It usually works about 3/4 of the time too.    I try to assume that half those people probably aren't real anyway...or else, aren't fully conscious of what they're doing......so in that regard, it really and truly is no different from a video game if you think about it.

Iyra~

This is exactly how I aim to see ALL OF LIFE....like your video game analogy! I want so much to see the world as a computer program-virtual reality or something. Sometimes this works while I am driving, too. If I could just remember to practice this more. What I have done is pretend that I am stationary and that the scene is moving all around **me** and this can be so relaxing when I am doing it effectively. Your video game perspective is one I will try as that one might work better for me while in the car. A minor difference but contributing to a major shift in how all is seen, even when I just imagine it from where I am stationed at my computer.

If we are really experiencing life via "God's dreaming" and/or it is simply a 3-D hologram then these ideas could very well be stepping stones to a greater awarenss of this way of experiencing.

The most challenging moments to accomplish, this, I find, are during chemical upsets/imbalances in the body, emotional stresses with my boyfriend when they occur, family challenges and the like. So I guess basically, when dealing with people that matter the most to me and when my physiology is off kilter. At times this is happening all at once. How I feel while I am navigating the world is such a huge part of it. Cutting out or decreasing  caffeine and sugar helps. The rest of the answer will come, I pray. Anyway,  these kinds of moments are when I most need to adopt a video game/holographic prespective, I know........Iriana

As to those Support Our Troops or those W stickers, here's a better one for
a bumper sticker:

     SUPPORT OUR
   CORRUPT LEADERS

In red white and blue, of course.

TP

whats funny is that, back in my psychadelic days, it would REALLY seem like a video game when i drove U.T.I. !!

oops!

eh,  i feel like im going off into a irrelevant tangent here so ill stop.

z

I think that's exactly on topic....   After all, I did mention button pushing stuff when we're out in the world, and what you described definitely sounds like that.    I'd have to say that "idiot drivers" is probably one of the few that I have left.   Actually, what I've tried to do, and it seems to work, is to just act as if I'm driving around in a video game.    Somebody does something stupid on the road, I just try to adopt the video game mentality.   You've played video racing games, I'm sure.......well, when you're playing those games, you don't get mad when other cars and obstacles get in your way as you drive through the game....cause you know it's a game.   It's supposed to have obstacles.    !    So that's the mentality I try to adopt with idiot drivers who cut me off, veer over into my lane without checking their blind spot first, jump out in front of me instead of waiting 2 more seconds until I pass, slam on their brakes because they think they want to turn but then change their mind, etc. etc. etc.    It's all a game!    It usually works about 3/4 of the time too.    I try to assume that half those people probably aren't real anyway...or else, aren't fully conscious of what they're doing......so in that regard, it really and truly is no different from a video game if you think about it.

these are tests. i can understand the danger factor of automobiles, and is partial reason for me getting defensive, but even a law abiding car with a "W" sticker will test my nerves. even those "we support our troops" ribbons are annoying to me.

see what i mean?

today i tried something out: everytime i saw one of the cars, i would try to send love out towards it, towards its operators. i must admit it felt sort of fake when i tried this, so maybe im not doing something right ...

eh,  i feel like im going off into a irrelevant tangent here so ill stop.

z

Yes, Lyra, you are right on target with the  > find the nearest vector and send him to mess
with her and push her buttons< thing that the MCS does. 
One of the tricks the MCS does with me is to activate every 2 to 4 year old who can
have a screaming fit or tantrum at that instant in my presence or within earshot.
That's why I wear earplugs when I go shopping. 

TP

Huh.....would be interesting if people started paying attention when they're out and about, see what kind of button-pushing incidents they encounter, and see whether there's a pattern, if it's consistantly the same type of incidents.   Could suggest that something else is behind it.   Then, see what happens if one no longer gets worked up by these button-pushing incidents.  Would they suddenly stop happening around you?    I don't know, just an idea....

But hey, Coleridge!  Whoa!

"Like one that on a lonely road
   doth walk in fear and dread.
    And having turned 'round once, walks on,
      and turns no more his head...
        for he knows a frightful fiend
          doth close behind him tread."

from The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner

Sorry, got distracted there. 

TP

TP

This marvelous poem by Shelley was interrupted by some
idiot selling insurance, who is forever accursed in the annals
of literature, because Shelley was never able to find the
thread of inspiration to finish the poem!

Errr ... you mean Coleridge, right? 

Just remember that evil will try to distract us with anything and everything it can get its grubby little hands around. Will try to trick us into all forms of separation -  from internalized self hatred of our own culture, "race" or religion, etc.,  to the hatred of and/or belief that others of these "categories" that appear different than us as individulals on the outside are less than what we are. This kind of distraction can be so effective if we are not careful...it can feed on the limitations of perception that we ourselves may have [ about our perceptions and beliefs of others ] and are working to heal within us.

That's a very good point, Iriana.   Because if I'm going to make the claim that this was STS interference, which to me it so obviously was, then I have to acknowledge that that particular person was chosen as the avenue for attack, for a reason.   Out of everybody who could have wrong numbered me, why them?   Why the whole bizarre racial thing?   A black person acting in the lowest of all possible ways, talking unintelligible ghetto speak, calling me, a white girl, a "nigger".............there could be another layer to this, more to it than what meets the eye.  My first assumption was to think that "they", the STS manipulators, look around and see who's the most asleep and easily manipulated into doing something....much like a puppet, you could say.  Then they work through them, and in this case, it was to get them to dial the wrong number and then carry on the way that they did.    That person who called me just happened to be the easiest to pull the strings of and work through.   That's what I figured, and kind of what I still figure.    But again, there could be another layer to it all.   I'll be honest here, and I know this could throw me in the hot water pot, but oh well, people can just deal with it because this is reality, welcome to the real world,  but after living 2 1/2 years in South Florida, let's just say that people of color who carry on in a ghetto way became one of my HUGEST pet peeves.    People who act respectably and normal, I don't care what your skin color is, it's awesome.    People who carry on like trash, I don't care what your skin color is......it was NOT cool for me.   White, black, green, purple, if somene is carrying on in a loud, obnoxious, ignorant way "talking" in unintelligible slang, yelling, shouting, carrying on like fools, disturbing people around them, I can NOT deal with that, and unfortunately, we were absolutely SURROUNDED by that in South Florida.  It's EVERYWHERE, and it'll turn even the most tolerant person a little "racial".   I never even had racial issues before moving to South Florida.   By the time I left, I was frazzled.   The only time I've ever been physically "annoyed" you could say was by a black punk thug there in Ft. Lauderdale.  It was the reason I had to go out and buy myself a keychain canister of military issued Tear Gas / Pepper Spray from the Army Navy Store, which I keep with me to this day.   

Thing is though, whatever the STS manipulators were doing that day to me on the phone, it didn't work.  It didn't trigger the "racial" button, because I see through it, I saw the incident for what it was.    There's more I could add here, but that's a good summary I think.    So, they're a day late and a dollar short.         Try that on me last year, sure, it would have worked.   Now?    Don't think so.    

And thanks to everyone else too for their replies.   Zonabi......no phone?    Cool!   I have no TV, so join the "No Techno Gadget" club!   

The use of the "N" word is a sure sign that the STS's were trying to get some form of reaction from you from one side of that spectrum or the other. They were trying to get an evolutiuonary 'base' reaction from a higher minded [ and spiritual ] being.  In my own humble opinion I see it as a feeble attempt, at best, to try and get the ire up of someone that is more aware than they would like to accept. So, well done, you, for seeing the reality of what was really happening as it was happening. Never give in to the lie.

Blessings