WORLD OF THE STORYBOOK PLANE: Through the Looking-Glass

We are always looking. What are the subtleties we are subconsciously looking for? What are the glasses that you are always wearing that is hindering you from LITERALLY perceiving the real you and real life, Absolute Reality? 

Through the Looking Glass, the story of Alice in Wonderland. In this image we see 'what IS' a person in front of a Looking Glass which is just a mirror (our thinking mind), real life, Absolute Reality. When we believe the reflection in the mirror is real (what we see in the thinking mind) instead of what just is (a reflection), then we begin to judge the reflection which will look at the other reflections within the mirror. The reflections are not part of reality but what we add on top (juxtaposed) of who we are and what is. The reflections now control us, reflections within a reflection within a reflection within another reflection, etc. as we move inside the Story World of the mirror (the thinking mind, the thinking mind world we live in, which holds beliefs we have to cope with). We move deep into this world, we can no longer see the surface of the mirror, we do not even know that we are inside. This is the Rabbit Hole. The 'World of the Storybook Plane'/the 'World of the Mental Plane'.  

We forget we are the person just looking at a mirror. 

“If you are a dreamer, come in,

If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,

A hoper a pray-er, a magic-bean-buyer,

If you're a pretender come sit by my fire,

For we have some flax golden tales to spin.

Come in!

Come in!”

- Shell Silverstein 

The Story

Once upon a time as a child, we learn that there is a 'good for the I', which encourages praise; and 'bad for the I', which encourages punishment. Then believing that a 'good for the I' will earn praise and a ‘bad for the I’ will cause harm, we begin to look into the thinking mind as maybe that is 'WHO I am' since we have to cope with the strange beliefs system of the world, parents, teachers, society ...  Of course that would mean that we would have to lie about who we actually are  --  in order for the thinking mind to create its own stories within the Adventure, that will make us fit into how the world is supposed to be. Of course it would have to be a story apart from what is really happening in real Adventure life. But now we are puzzled by this dreadfully confusing situation. Since now we have to keep up with these ... made-up stories, but of course, that's because we need to safeguard our peace and therefore happiness, you know.  We will forget about who we really are, real Adventure life --  just for now and go with the story of the beliefs of the world. After all, we will have to return at some point. Errr .....

The 'I' in this story is 'born'. 

The story world within real life Adventure begins. It forms its own Storybook complete with a series of chapters and stories. It will include what you believe the Story World to be, what you see the world to believe, your own beliefs juxtaposed on top of the world beliefs, how you suppose your story's character to be juxtaposed on top of who you really are (the ego: real life definition and also this post The Ego, The Soul, and The Illusion), your judgements, your past, your fears, frustrations, and desires, and of course all of those fun, strange, and quirky characters who do such things as to tell you who you are and how things are supposed to be -- a whole Storybook within the Adventure. 

We begin to separate the Self into parts, causing a split from Absolute Reality (real life) and into the lone Storybook. This disconnects us with real life and we become confused. Remember we are just pretending ..... as The WHOLE, obviously, doesn't need fixing, it is perfect. We just need to be safe in this strange ways of Story World, as we go along with it.

But now in real life, this is INNOCENCE LOST as we shall now see ...

So in your original story in real life -- the real Adventure -- you began to create stories of Storybook of 'I' to fit into the Story World: which narrates your past, your fears, frustrations, and desires, and a who's who. We first experienced the pain of feeling guilty which caused us to begin blaming. We do this to ourselves and to protect the Self. We then look at our own thoughts and begin to take them personally by analyzing them as either 'Good for the I' or 'Bad for the I' instead of just a thought. 

But now we have to manage this Confusion so we need to appoint a judge to manage our happiness and safety (from blame and  guilt) in the Story World. So Judge Pride, the Opinion Master, is now in charge of all the judgements in the Story. It will manage the 'I' of the story. The judgement will either be a 'good for the I' or a 'bad for the I'. Pride tells you who you are, what to do, where you stand, and where to go -- not in real life for Pride doesn't exist in real life -- but in your own Story World. Pride is neither a 'good' nor a 'bad', we have just given responsibility over to the thinking mind to manage our happiness, which it is not able to do so because it does not have a conscience.

Then there is something eery happening in the Story World. We react to the judgement! Emotions are just ... the piano keys of the body. But! Now the emotions reacts to Judgment Pride! We begin to take emotions personally as we lose control of the piano keys. And then we tumble down the rabbit hole of the thinking mind. We then begin to believe emotions are 'WHO I am'. For example you will say 'I AM mad' instead of 'I feel mad'. The nervous system will naturally be affected and then you think it is all real, that the story is real. You will believe your nervous system is 'WHO I am'. We now believe we are the actual belief instead of just a belief. The story now is a Law (belief) of our 'I' world and we mistakenly give life to all these separate things by becoming (making each one 'alive') all the things we believe is WHO I am. 

So we are separating the parts of the Self as if each part needs fixing because we have lost control of emotions. We lose control because of our reactions to the judgements of the reflections in the Storybook, our thinking mind. The emotional reaction will give the story an inflictive verdict: love it, fight it, hate it, get angry with it, sabotage it, get depressed with it, feel guilty, feel superior, vanity, get offended, etc etc. This now becomes a Law: the belief being WHO I am along with corresponding thought stories and emotions. You are in self-doubt because of confusion as to what is real, the Story World (what the thinking mind is telling you, the World of 'I') or you and real life, Absolute Reality? So much confusion and self-doubt you can't remember if you are just pretending anymore ....

'Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'

'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. 'Explain yourself!'

'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see.'

'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.

'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'

'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.

- Through the Looking Glass: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Story continues to grow as it eventually takes full control over you and dominates over your being, the real person. You become addicted to the Storybook. Now, you will believe WHO you are is the Story (and not the person) and the Story Narrator will tell you who you are and where to go, you are coping with trying to find your Self, you are coping with Pride, the 'I'. You are automatically making choices according to the Story by which will look to either 1. enhance/inflate the 'I'/Exaggerated, Blame others, dominating others, trying to hold on to a story by chasing it; or 2. deflate/make the 'I' insignificant/Self-Doubt, Blamed, being dominated, being chased by a story ....... as you keep the story moving. Either way you are still being dominated by a Story, the false internal control of cause & effect (as cause & effect only exists in the physical world):

• Being dominant in the Story, APPEARING like you are dominating others in the Story (everyone else is to blame) and not Absolute Reality (inflation, enhancing, dominated by the story), NARRATED by you looking at the mirror (looking at the reflection in the thinking mind), the reflection being 'good for the I', and judged by Pride as right, which we react with an emotional verdict, and therefore affects our nervous system -- it is just a reflection, just emotions, the story is not alive, it is not real, it appears real because our nervous system is now affected; losing literal sight of real life (Ego/Absolute Reality/Whole) because you are dominating the reflections in the mirror. It is the exaggeration of the Self. It is trying to hold onto a story which you just can't hold on to because it's just a story (not tangible), just like in a dream. A story in your life holding these characteristics can be extremely subtle or very obvious.

• The 'I' being dominated by what is happening by separating you from Absolute Reality by APPEARING like you are blamed (deflation, insignificance), NARRATED by you looking at the mirror (looking at the reflection in the thinking mind), the reflection being 'bad for the I', which is judged by Pride as wrong, which we react with an emotional verdict, and therefore affects our nervous system -- it is just a reflection,  and just emotions, the story is not alive, it is not real, it appears real because our nervous system is now affected; losing literal sight of the real life (Ego/Absolute Reality/Whole) because you are overwhelmed and dominated by strong emotions of the dream-state, whereby you feel you have self-doubt, lost control of your scary emotions as they dominate you. It is trying to runaway from a story like being chased but you're just being chased by a story (not tangible), just like in a nightmare. A story holding these characteristics in your life can be extremely subtle or very obvious.

This gives rise to all afflictions such as pride, anger, jealousy, depression, delusion, guilt, blame, denial, vanity, superiority, power, and on and on, etc. All afflictions and things we take personally (to be WHO I am) are related only to the Story and does NOT exist in the real world, Absolute Reality. 

So the choices we are making are being made by something that is not alive, it does not have a soul nor conscience. It is an Illusion. It is just a story. You are the one that is alive, you have the soul! Remember? Your Ego has the conscience and peace. But the real world seems to be in some far away land that we will return to, but for now, let's go back to the Story World..... 

By Cause & Effect, this is an internal struggle causing the outwards struggle which is:

Our Story and the emotions now controls our behavior and actions are looking for the ‘bad’ and ‘good’ out in the world such as other people’s behavior or actions that either inflates or deflates the 'I'. We will also need to self-defend our Story from others because Pride needs to KEEP THE STORY ALIVE.  But how can a story be alive, if it's just a story?  

There is now a whole of list of things we are now taking personally (WHO I am) and Queen Pride is what keeps the Story in order: the Reflection of the Story is looking at you/judging you and the Reflection of the Story will look at others/judge others which will Cause the illusion of Separation. So we first separate with our own Self when confusion gave rise to the 'I', then we separate with others causing more confusion and the more that we take to be WHO I am, be it an emotion, to a thought belief, to a story, to a person all the things we take personally, feeds the illusion of separation. We look at others as stories instead of real human beings. No thing is REAL anymore because we are only looking at stories. We each tumble down the rabbit hole and into the thinking mind, being pulled by an emotional dream-like state. We are now viewing our world from inside the thinking mind and not the real world which contains the real essence and language of real life. The stronger our connection to our Storybook is, the stronger you are pulled in its direction, the more you 'think' you have restricted choice. The Storybook and all the emotions that comes with it, you see, now begins to chase you .... 

This. Is. Happening. With. Every. Person. 

This is why NO ONE IS TO BLAME. This is why there APPEARS to be Bad in this world. But in reality there are ONLY Bad Choices. In Absolute Reality there is only GOOD. The Stories (the Separation from Absolute Reality) controls us and the World.  We are in a dream-like state as long as we are in the 'World of the Storybook Plane', the Story matrix. Everyone is confused and that is why everyone has their own opinion on what the world is and what is going on, because in this world Opinion is always right! We are the fish swimming in the ocean. The fish will not know it is in an ocean until it is out of the ocean. We are forgetting that real life is just there and has always been there, there is a whole world out there.

This is the Grand Illusion. 

We must let go of our Story 'I' to cease separating the Self into parts and become Whole again. It is like playing every single instrument in an orchestra which does nothing but cause chaos. Although all are a part of the orchestra, none of the parts (each instrument) can tell you WHO you are as you are the Composer (the Ego, please read the definition of this here because there is confusion on what this means:ego) of the orchestra. We must return the separate parts back to the Whole in order to cease confusion and return peace and harmony back into our lives. This is our INNOCENCE RETURNED.

We are in a Story World and we are the 'I' in our own Storybook which is an emotional dream-like state, it will give rise to physical and mental perceptions that will literally blur our world; It will blur what is true and what is false and create what is true and what is false according to what exists in the Story World. It has several reflections that you will need to remove in order to see Absolute Reality, the Looking Glass. 

The first and foremost reflection has on: 

• The "LOOKING-TO-Inflate the I-LENS" and "LOOKING-TO-Deflate the I-LENS". This LENS will cause further reflections to sprout that will now be looking for the following:

"Off with their heads!"

- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass: Alice's Adventure in Wonderland 

BLAME: “There it is!”

• A reflection has the "LOOKING-FOR-BLAME LENS"

The following can be extremely subtle or very obvious so carefully contemplate without judging your own self, because you know, it's only Pride:

The thinking mind is looking to blame and point fingers to what it thinks is ‘bad for the I’ be it a thought, an emotion, a person, an idea, an experience, a story, a phenomena, etc. ‘There it is!’ It is the lens we layer over what just IS (Absolute Reality), as we go through life. So it acts as a filter in Life but it does not exist in the real world, it is Separate, that’s what is meant by ‘layer on top’ of what IS. The only thing that is Bad is ONLY Choice (full stop!!) that we make. We can make a bad Choice (by itself!) but not one no thing is ‘bad’ in and of itself. We have on a LENS, so it is only an appearance.

Edward Scissorhands

We can capture someone one and say, 'ok so that’s the bad guy, that’s how bad looks like!’ And then we are satisfied. But it is only an appearance. We are satisfied for now, until we have a new culprit! That’s the bad, there it is! So that’s what bad LOOKS like. However others that see it may not see it as Bad. If others don’t see it as bad, if it’s supposed to be SO obvious then EVERYONE WOULD KNOW that it is Bad! That’s where opinion comes in, it is confusion of what’s real or not, based on what APPEARS to be bad. So this ghost called Bad is what everyone is doing pointing fingers and going in circles, chasing after a thing that is nowhere to be found. It causes PARANOIA! It is found nowhere because of the Law of Cause & Effect. There are reasons within reasons within reasons within more reasons ….Like the endless children’s game 'Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.' What cookie?? We just keep going in circles putting the blame. It only APPEARS like there is ‘bad’ but in the Absolute Truth ‘bad’ is nowhere to be found. Bad cannot be pinpointed! If we keep looking for it, then someone, something, any thing will have to be Blamed; and then someone, anything will have to be Guilty; if this can't be determined a war ensues, denying the other. One will eventually be defeated as the other will conquer.

This happens in the world because it is the Effect from its Cause, which is the internal struggle! We do this to our Self all the time (extremely subtle or very obvious) all the while forgetting who we are, denying the true self because the reflections is busy at war. This war is a continuous, perpetual cycle within us. Veni vidi vici. 

This is the inner struggle with Blamer-Blamed-Guilt, and through Cause & Effect, it causes the outward struggle towards the world. Blame causes all kinds of Anger, Guilt, Depression, Sabotage, Jealousy, and Suicide. We do this to our Selves and others because ‘that’s the ‘bad’ guy’. ‘There it is’. When we remove the 'Looking-for-Blame-LENS', Guilt and Anger within us automatically disappears and the war is over.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

We are so obsessed  with ‘good’ and ‘bad’ that we will need time to fully comprehend this. We have that layer, the LENS that we are using as filters of perception when it comes to living life day in and day out ... remove the "'LOOKING-FOR-BLAME' LENS". 

Don’t expect to understand ‘there is neither ‘good for the I’ nor ‘bad for the I’ now especially if you have never contemplated it before! 

Curiouser and curiouser ....

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where –"

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”

- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

WHERE is ‘There’?

• A reflection has on the "THERE-LENS"

Life will be a series of internal story chases, past, people, situations, desires, frustrations, beliefs, etc etc : You either chasing after a story because you either want to hold on to it; or you will be running away from the story. You will always be running either way and where are you running to? It is just a story, which is not tangible. The inner chase is like Tom & Jerry. The story is always the same and the chasing and being chased never ends. The story is just a story which is subject to change because it is in the physical world (Cause & Effect). You can change the plot once you see that it is just a story. The person is still just standing HERE. 

So let's explain this internal struggle another way:

The 'Clothes' Do Not Make the Man

Human beings are not homogeneous, otherwise we would be robots. This is why we do not look like each or have the same character. Because we tend to 'think' we are supposed to be homogeneous is why we will always fail and remain confused. This is because we can not change our core character (ego) as that is who we are. Because we attack this by thinking it is the enemy (blame), is the reason for all destruction and afflictions we see abnormally happening in such an astounding universe today. We are a wonder as we each have a unique character, it is the color of the self-awareness. It is what makes us creators, it's what gives us humor, it's what gives us drive. No one and no thing and no beliefs and no situation nor surroundings nor past nor upbringing nor where you are from can tell you WHO you are, as they are not 'alive' and can not add or juxtapose things onto your real identity, this includes your thinking mind thoughts and beliefs. Every thought you have that you take to be WHO you are is an Opinion which puts together a Belief story to explain whatever you are thinking about. The belief becomes 'real'. The more thought you think is you, the more stories begin bridging together and begin to seem real and then we think the story is WHO I am. We have to understand that these thoughts are just a story. The story is not WHO I am as it is not alive, it is separate from what just exists. It just appears to be real as it is just a story. It is the juxtaposition you add on top of what IS. There is nothing wrong with this. They are just the clothes you put on reality. It is simply just a distraction. It does not exist in the real life.

If you were shot into outer space, where no one and no thing can no longer tell you WHAT you are, all of those things will mean NO THING! The 'clothes' do not make the man. All of these can only serve to show you WHAT you are NOT. That they are just clothes. This is neither 'bad' nor 'good', only GOOD since peace offers us freedom of Choice. WHO you are is HERE, right now which means real time, in the very moment, no where else. You are here to explore your spark and to express this spark through exploration of the Ego (the spark!) in the manifestation and beauty of the human body. We are the most beautiful garden, with so many beautiful and unique flowers sharing the same garden. You can see this spark in little children, every child has a unique spark. It cannot be changed because that IS who they are. If you try to change this INNOCENT character by defiling your self (deep subconscious of blame-guilt), all afflictions arise and we experience guilt, suicide, jealousy, anger, offense, pride, self-doubt, depression, .... all afflictions. <------- Confusion.

Vincent Fantauzzo's Portrait of Heath Ledger. The reflections can not add or juxtapose anything on to WHO you are, as they are all illusions. Looking to Blame. A reflection is then automatically blamed but it is the center that experiences Guilt because the real person is being Denied. But the real blame is because he can't 'see' due to Confusion. This is why he looks Confused. While this chase is happening, the real person (in the middle) is being Denied (not acknowledged). Situations, people, things can not ADD on to you because you are JUST here. They can only serve to show you WHAT you are NOT, and with joy (free from shackles of blamer-blamed-guilt), gives us the freedom to BE the Self. 

So when it comes to WHERE you are, "There" is nowhere to be found. It is the result of separation when the mind splits. This is why we procrastinate, this is why we say ‘when I get there’, we are looking at the future, this is why we chase. What are we chasing for? We keep looking for who we are, searching. This is why we are running. Where are we running to? Where is ‘There’?? The reflection is always looking for ‘There’. ‘There' is NOWHERE to be found. There is only HERE. A reflection of your real self, a LENS, will always be searching for a story to hold onto so that it can identify you, you will never be satisfied, because it will never find 'There' as long as you are Here. This should be contemplated and observed in order for you to see the real meaning behind this. It is causing your reflection, the story of your Self to never be satisfied. It is IMPOSSIBLE to attain peace and happiness if we are always looking ‘There’, which cant exist because there is only NOW.

We need to remove these reflections, these LENSES: 1. "Looking-to-Inflate the I -LENS" 2. "Looking-to-Deflate/Make insignificant of the I-LENS" 3. "Looking-to-Blame-LENS" 4. "There-LENS"

This is what it looks like when trying to find "Blame", "There", and your story (the past):

2010: Mandelbrot Odyssey 

It is NOWHERE to be found!

Other LENS includes the emotional afflictions that Pride inflicts and all has to do with our Story and seeking to please and satisfy the 'end-game', which is emotions (by fixing and replacing due to the loss of control) that accommodate it, and not the real person: "Looking to want-LENS" in order to please and satisfy emotions; "Looking to know-LENS" in order to please and satisfy emotions;  "Looking for more-LENS" in order to please and satisfy emotions; "Looking to Self-Satisfy-LENS" in order to please and satisfy emotions, "Procrastination-LENS" in order to please and satisfy emotions; a LENS can be any attachment/addiction you have such as i.e. a person, smoking, etc all are because we are dominated by trying to please and satisfy emotions within a Story and NOT the real person and real life! So we are forgetting about WHO I am and real life. We are hinging our real character on the conditions of Story, and therefore 'lose' WHO I am because we are trying to please, fix, replace, and satisfy emotions instead.

Continue contemplating the LENSES you wear, so that you can collect the evidence for removal.

'You've begun wrong!' cried Tweedledum. 'The first thing in a visit is to say "How d'ye do?" and shake hands!' And here the two brothers gave each other a hug, and then they held out the two hands that were free, to shake hands with her.

Alice did not like shaking hands with either of them first, for fear of hurting the other one's feelings; so, as the best way out of the difficulty, she took hold of both hands at once: the next moment they were dancing round in a ring. This seemed quite natural (she remembered afterwards), and she was not even surprised to hear music playing: it seemed to come from the tree under which they were dancing, and it was done (as well as she could make it out) by the branches rubbing one across the other, like fiddles and fiddle-sticks.

'But it certainly was funny,' (Alice said afterwards, when she was telling her sister the history of all this), 'to find myself singing "Here we go round the mulberry bush." I don't know when I began it, but somehow I felt as if I'd been singing it a long long time!'

- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 

Denial of the Self (because of Blamer-Blamed-Guilt)

What / Who is alive? 

In the film 25th Hour, Montgomery Brogan's (Edward Norton) is looking at the mirror, he sees his reflection as he narrates what he is seeing. He sees the reflection in his world, inside his 'I' World, he is talking to the reflections, telling them what to do, telling himself what to think of the reflections, and the story in the mirror controls his moves, and choices. It blames everyone and everything, it is looking everywhere but Here, as he narrates the entire Storybook, the reflections are alive. Until he can finally see all reflections culminating into the simple (and shocking) truth, the Grand Illusion is unveiled: he sees only himself standing alone, quiet looking at a simple reflection. At the culmination, his ghost of pride drops, he sees his  real self, who was listening to the stories in the mirror, which seemed very much alive with thoughts and emotions, and all those characters, and so much noise, a circus in his mind. All of these are juxtaposed onto what just IS ....All is silent as he sees the simpleness of Absolute Reality, it was just a reflection he was analyzing, it is not alive. He sees all reflections (illusions) collapsing into one, the 'I' World drops its curtain:, the true self, the Ego, the real (alive) person in real life is on the other side of the mirror. Then he understands the tragedy. 

Blamer-Blamed-Guilt has only to do with the Story (mental plane), and does not exist in Absolute Reality, that is what is meant by Denying (not acknowledging) that the Self is HERE (not in the mental plane). It is because you believe story is WHO I am and therefore Blame is WHO I am and therefore Guilt is WHO I am, all the while not acknowledging real life, real you. You must comprehend that you are NOT your story (the clothes you are wearing, is just clothes, just a story, just a reflection in the mind) so you can stop blaming the SELF who is just standing around, while the circus of Confusion is going on. The only 'thing' that needs to be 'blamed' is just because you can't see due to the fact that there is Confusion which is why we feel 'guilty': you under the shadow of 'thinking' Pride is WHO I am, for pride is just an opinion-maker and seeks to justify a judgement over what actually just IS so we can stop trying to please our emotional verdicts. Pride (due to confusion) puts a shadow over our being and that is why we can't 'see'. Release pride (the 'I think', which is the thinking mind is WHO I am) because it and the thoughts and emotions (that we lose control of) are not alive it is blameless and therefore you can release the story it is chasing around: everything that exists in the mental plane, in the mirror which APPEARS to exist in real life. You no longer have to feel Guilty that they are WHO you are. That is all the chase is about -- WHO, WHAT, and WHERE you are NOT. Release all as they are ALL NOT WHO I AM, and then the chase in the mirror (in the thinking mind, which is all 'There') disappears with the comprehension that you are NOT the thinking mind. The thinking mind will then stop putting together its own false mental and visual perceptions to reveal Absolute Reality, where all is true, since now you hold the truth. The true Self, which just IS, is standing in real life NOW, HERE, where the AM exists. You can breathe a sigh of relief, the chase is over.

So .... "There-LENS" is the Denial of the Self! It is the APPEARANCE of Separation from the whole. But in fact all is part of the whole! After all, scientists -- the people who we supposedly go to in order to let us know what is really happening! -- is now understanding this, the quantum physics of existence. 

Separation causes the Denial of the Self. 

If you believe you are the 'I' ..... then, well, you are in a Story World. 

The reflections control us. We are narrating and judging what we see in the reflection. If you are talking out loud, why would you (subconsciously) say 'You' to a mirror? Why would you say 'I' inside your thinking mind, like you are describing and explaining your self and your world, like you are reading your own story AS IT IS HAPPENING in your 'world', like an echo? That would mean that all the stories that you take personally, to be WHO I am, are being seen from only inside your mind -- the inner mirror of you and the world -- as you are trying to narrate, judge, and react emotionally to what you see (these can be extremely subtle to very obvious). You are just analyzing what it is by seeing how it fits in to your Story. Do that multiple to thousands of times and then you will realize that it will eventually begin to bridge together everything that you take personally until your whole world is now being seen like a storybook. From only the 2-dimensional mental plane. Some people's connections to their story are stronger than others. This is the World of the Storybook Plane/World of the Mental Plane.

But! Of course every good story has a good ending: The true self, YOU, the Narrator, is on the other side of the mirror and will always be there. If you try to meditate your way out, you will not do your self any good because you are going back inside the mirror, which is INSANE! If you try to get out of the mirror by going to a psychiatrist, they will do nothing for you but make you go back inside the mirror to analyze it! That is INSANITY!

It may be easy to understand all of this in the world of the mind but it takes ONE person to see it -- so YOU must have the Courage to step out of the mental world/plane and into real life! So first thing you do is begin to question the mirror. In order to do so, you need to stop pretending you are Judge Pride! (drop your pride and know what Pride is here: Pride: The Heart of Darkness)

We are Denying the real Self and real life (not acknowledging real life), Absolute Reality because it is painful, it feels like fear, it’s the part of you that resists certain things about yourself. We resist the pain like vampires in the sunlight. We get Angry BECAUSE it is painful! It is painful because maybe the Storybook is not .... real, after all? But no the Storybook is real because the Story World is still going on and I just know it, I just feel it, because look: Judge Pride says it's the law and all the other Judge Prides with their laws say so! 

Pride is inside the mirror, it is the Ruler of the Mental World that causes all Confusion, the 2-dimensional world. It uses prejudice (extremely subtle to very obvious) for your eyes and ears to only see 2-dimensional, even if everything 'appears' 3-dimensional. YOU are on the other side just looking at a reflection (where there is nothing to fear). Drop all judgements and fears. We must walk through (not escape or runaway) our 'I' World (mirror world) which will awaken the third eye to literally 'see' the other side of the mirror -- you 'pop' to the other side of the mirror -- and witness in all its shining glory the 3-dimensional Absolute Reality which contains in its magnificence the mysterious language of Essence, it is 100% real. The Essence exists in all things and all things are CERTAIN -- It is the Real World, Absolute Reality.

Until then we will remain in the mirror, 

Outside-in: expressions move inwards. Dissection of the Self into parts. Separated. We are controlled by the laws of our own Storybook. The strings are emotions that control us.

- The Outside-In inversion of our selves, being controlled by the illusion of internal cause & effect, which is the separation and dissection: analyzing emotions, analyzing thoughts, analyzing thinking mind, analyzing stories, analyzing beliefs, analyzing others, analyzing your past, analyzing your world, and analyzing the world around you, each separately being WHO we are, the nervous system gets affected .... this is like trying to play every single instrument in an orchestra -- it is endless effort, causing disorder and chaos; We are internally creating our actual 'world' by letting emotions blanket over what IS, we create the world to our Self. Which just IS. We have to ADMIT that we do this to our Self by allowing the Self to be CONTROLLED by a story being WHO I am. I am telling my Self a story which is created by corresponding emotions with loss of control and then thoughts being WHO I am to support the emotion, and the thinking mind to tell me what my world is, the 'I' World. We are believing this to be the 'I' World which IS AN ILLUSION.  We are putting our emotional story of our daily lives over what just IS. It is an ILLUSION! Let. Go. Of. Story. Being. WHO. I. am. We do this to our OWN Life. Stop telling the Story. We TELL IT TO OUR OWN SELF WHICH IS JUST LISTENING AND WATCHING STORY LIKE WE ARE SITTING ON A CHAIR WATCHING OUR OWN MOVIE/HOW THE STORY IS GOING TO GO BECAUSE WE UNKNOWINGLY ALLOW THE MOVIE TO PLAY BY ITSELF. Allowing the thinking mind to tell us (we are under its control) a story.

Inside-Out: the expressions move outwards, to BEING. The Whole. the Ego is free from internal laws. Free from being emotionally controlled.

- Instead of Inside-Out: Ego is WHO you are and emotions, no internal cause & effect and freedom to internally choose for the physical external cause, thoughts, thinking mind, story are under its expression ... although all are a part of the orchestra, none of the parts (each instrument) can tell you WHO you are as you are the Composer of the orchestra, the nervous system now functions normally. Everything now moves from Inside to emotions expressed OUTWARDS like shooting a rainbow (instead of inwards, putting a shadow over the rainbow) ---- it is effortless, 100% humility, you are in PEACE & HARMONY ----> The Whole. We are a human being, I just AM. We are in AdventureLand -- where EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE, it's an Adventure, we are interacting with the Adventure, the LAND of Open Adventure -- and NOT A '"Story' World", which is just narrating the mirror, narrating the rear-view mirror, WHAT YOU 'THINK' (using thinking mind as WHO I am) YOU SAW (in the ocean; past); and WHAT. YOU. 'THINK'. (using the thinking mind being WHO I am). YOU. WILL. SEE. (using the thinking mind to set a story; in the ocean; future). It. is. narrating. the. past. and. future. (through stories in the mirror). which. you.are.doing.in. the. NOW.Therefore. you. are. inside. your. thinking mind Story. Which. is. NOT the same Reality as The NOW (out of the ocean). Outside of the thinking mind and onto The Open Physical Interaction Adventure, Absolute Reality! The Wonder Land! You are INSIDE your Story Ocean. We need to 'swim' using our physical awareness (3D) out of the ocean. Break out of the Rabbit Hole to see the surface where Light is, what has ALWAYS BEEN THERE, always available in The Right Here & Now.

Alice in Wonderland: the chase 

And if you are finally tired of the Story World, tired of running, tired of being chased, well then .....  STOP RUNNING.

Simple. Turn around and face them all, your Storybook and the Story World. Stop taking all personally, to be WHO I am. Stop the Confusion. They are, after all, just stories. 

Go to the mirror, look at the reflections, with no echo (pride/judgements/assumptions), so be mindful and do not 'think' it but listen to what you see, what is just there, with full physical presence using the physical, question the laws that allow you to be run by your own Story: all the emotional stories, beliefs, judgements, your past, how you want things to be, how you don't want things to be, all those strange, loving, and quirky characters in the mirror telling you WHO you are and HOW it's supposed to be, and you seeing them as HOW you want to see them and how they are supposed to be, everything that your world is like, with all the trumpets and all the violins and all of the cymbals crashing together ...

SURRENDER!!

Stop pretending. 

Let ALL the stories come together. Accept, take everything that you see knowing that it is all a reflection and can not be YOU, no more Blame and no more Guilt. So you Accept the Whole without identifying your self with any part of the reflections. Zero effort.
Accept all with humility, even the confession of the 'bad' Choices, with total acceptance and understanding. Understand that it is only .... who you thought you were; Understand that it is the world you thought you were in. The reflections can not tell you WHO you are, it can only show you what you are NOT. Understand it with empathy. It will APPEAR scary. BUT! When we understand it for what it is, we will no longer have a reaction to it, as Judge Pride is no longer there. We win our kingdom back, we are FREE.

*POP*

What is happening is you are returning the separated parts back to the WHOLE, back to the real world -- just as it is painful when a mother and child separate during birth. 
And, since there is no one to blame, there is no need for forgiveness. It is true freedom to just BE. It was all just in your thinking mind. There is peace, stillness, tranquility on the other side of the mirror, WHO YOU REALLY ARE, just looking at a reflection :). Here & Now. You have the Real Power and freedom to take control of the Adventure. All is GOOD.

Innocence has returned.

And then you live Happily Ever After .....