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What are you trying to prove?

Art is a humanoid activity. It’s about creativity, inspiration, making other realities,
seeing differently. Its target audience can be human or humanoid. I think of Jerry
Springer as the ultimate in TV for humans: it encourages polarity, useless fighting,
no sense of oneness, and as much judgement as you can possible work up.
Often, art made for humanoids is attempting to uncover humanoid truths from
under the muck of human givens. To me it’s beautiful to see humanoids diligently
unmucking, perceiving deeper truths, creating new realities.

Last night I saw the movie “Proof” and found just such a case. The story (based on
a play by David Auburn) focuses on mathematicians, who live and die by proving
things. Their ability to prove determines their value, and they believe their ability to
be great is gone by the time their 27 years old. In the movie, the Anthony Hopkins
character has just died. He was a genius mathematician who, with his proofs, had
major and lasting impacts on several fields. He was also mentally ill. His
daughter, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, had put her life on hold to take care of him.
She is also a mathematician, and she also believes she has inherited his mental
illness. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a student of her father’s, who becomes her lover in
the days after her father’s death.

Ultimately, the movie (based on a play) is about proving. Jake finds a brilliant
proof in the dead man’s study, but no one can prove whether he or his daughter
wrote it. She, on the other hand, is focused on proving that she did not inherit her
father’s mental illness. How can either of these things be proven?

As the Gwyneth character focuses on the question, “Am I crazy?”, I was in the
question, “What are the infinite possibilities?” This is the problem with deciding
we know who we are: we shut out possibility. The daughter has lost days and
years to this question, one that ultimately has no meaning. It’s just a distraction.
Crazy or not, good person or not, good friend or not, good American or not, good
father or not: what are the possibilities for your life today? What insanity causes
us to focus on ‘knowing ourselves’ at the expense of living, being present, being
connected today and in this moment?

Access encourages us to create this in our worlds every day: “I destroy and
uncreate everything I was yesterday, and revoke all the decisions I made about my
reality. Who am I today, and what grand and glorious adventures will I have?” As
infinite, amazing, limitless, capable beings, we do not need yesterday’s definitions
of ourselves; we need no definitions at all. The Wright Brothers knew people had
never flown, and that everyone believed it was impossible. Everything in our world
we have because someone destroyed and uncreated everything they knew about
the world yesterday, took a fresh look, and asked, “What else is possible?” The
Wright Brothers certainly could have sat around asking, ‘Are we crazy to know this
is possible?’ Instead they got off their butts, and today, large buildings can fly.
With people inside them.

What’s YOUR flying building? What amazing invention are we not seeing from
you, as you sit focused on what a limited, powerless, uninteresting, talentless
piece of crap you are? ‘I could never do that, because. . .’ ‘I’m just a simple
person, just trying to get by. .’ ‘I don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ no . . . genius into
the world.’ Your focus on these or other definitions is no different that the Gwyneth
character sitting around all day wondering whether she’s crazy. In fact, it’s exactly
the same. You can certainly sit around and do that all day, but please recognize
that it’s a CHOICE. Orville and Wilbur could have made that choice, too, and it
might have felt easier. The genius in you is no less than theirs.

Access is all about getting rid of thoughts and beliefs about our limitation, our
frailty, our lack of capacity. The tools are offered, and they’re available to use 24
by 7. Every second is a choice to use them, or not. Do you want to be free? Are
you willing to be the most brilliant creature the universe has yet seen? Would you
truly rather just sit there and eat worms? “Our greatest fear is not that we are
inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that
frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?” (Marianne Williamson)

In the movie, it’s the Jake character who offers a hand out of the muck, saying
something like, ‘I can’t prove that you’re crazy, but I can prove what you’re not.’
This is the key that unlocks the vicious torture of proving things. It opens the door
to infinite possibilities of what she is not. It reveals that lists of descriptors can
certainly be made, but are pointless. It’s still couched in human definition, but you
perceive how it unlocks her in the movie. And frees them both from proving.

If you are busy proving that you are caring, you are not BEING caring. The proving
of something looks very different from the being of it. If you’re proving something,
you’re proving it to the human world; in the humanoid world, there would be no
point. What would it be like to stop focusing on being a good person, and just
start being who you are, fully?

What would it be like to stop devaluing yourself by proving caring to others? What
adventures would you have if you were choosing for you?

What reality would we create if we all just stopped believing that we know who we
are, and started being present with each other?

What transformation would come to your life if you stopped trying to convince
everyone around you that you’re not crazy, and embraced ALL your gifts?

The conscious world is waiting for your brilliance!! What will it take for you to shed
the limitations, and step up? It’s not a rhetorical question. I invite you to spend the
day with it.