Coach Ted talks about the veneer of reality and how complacency allows you to be stuck.
The Veneer of Reality
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The Veneer of Reality
Season 3/Episode 12
November 9, 2021
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0:16 Jon
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill program. Today we're going to discuss the veneer of reality.
0:24 Ted
So, we started this a couple week ago now talking about fractals. So, you can look at the veneer of reality as a fractal of the general framework. So, I define the veneer of reality as our individual operating system within the framework, which is your primary worldview.
0:43
... and we've talked about some of this. And I would bet that 95% or more of your daily life is consumed by your consumption of things that you rarely, if ever, question. So, if 95% of our actions are taking this is just what I do, then I'd also venture to say that it's highly likely that when you have an inner voice, or even aloud smack on your head, saying, it's time to make a change that this is exceedingly difficult. The veneer of reality is the way we see our tiny slice of the framework that we've been fed. So how do we remove the veneer and begin to operate outside of our cravings and obsessions?
1:20 Jon
Oh boy. The thing about the veneer of reality is that it's so ingrained in us that it's tough to at first, just discern, let's first identify it on a practical level. So, what you mean, in that veneer of reality is these are all of the things that we accept within our framework. There's the framework that we're fed, and then there's what we accept of it.
1:44 Ted
Yeah, it's our little bit of it. It's the job that we have. It's the kind of relationship that we hold. It's our political beliefs.
1:51 Jon
It's the thing that goes beyond the broader into a fractionalized series of events. It's a self-similar repeating pattern.
1:58 Ted
So, you know, I often refer to this as the viscous glue that we live in. I say that it's like a fly on flypaper. And we may wiggle back and forth a little bit to get free, but the gravity of the stickiness is just too much for us to venture off the paper until we slowly die there. And I know that sounds a little bit morbid, but that's really what happens. Most people are in pre-programmed, habituated states that say so firmly tied to their individual slice of reality, they never even question it. So, the habituation of this programming reaffirms the very system most people are plugged into on a daily basis, yet this experience of life is a tiny fraction of perhaps 1% of reality. Now, it's as the tiniest fraction of 1% of reality. So, this fractional sliver is the veneer of reality, which is what the framework addresses.
2:50 Jon
Hmm. I have a practical example that we've seen repeatedly. And I don't know how much you've observed this, but there are many of us, I say us, who at some point had to make the admission to you that we are in a job that we just hate or it's not serving us for one reason or another. We're in a job that's not serving us. And then you have the excuses. The yeah buts. Yeah, but I really need the money. Yeah, but I got a financial obligation, I got mortgage to pay, I got this and that. I'm not sure if you're keeping score about this, but there are several of us, in our community. To whom you have said, well get rid of it.
3:37 Ted
You know, I was just thinking this when you were saying that we had someone come in one day says man, my job... asked him how you doing? My job is killing me. Cool. Get a new one.
Never came back. That's how strongly we argue for our limitations. So, in the Emotional Sobriety curriculum, we call that the enemy of the ego. I am frequently the enemy of the ego.
4:01
The ego being the things that we define as ourselves. And that we like to challenge all the time at Diablo.
4:09 Jon
Yep and we in ourselves have hold so much value in that definition of self so much value in the ego that that would drive that person to instead of taking the advice of you, you told that person he ought to get rid of a thing that he said was killing him.
4:28 And rather than jettison the thing that is, by his own admission, killing him, he decided no, I can't listen to that guy. He's a crackpot. I'm going to go back to it!
Ted
going back to it.
Jon
allow myself to be killed some more
4:42 Ted
killed by it!
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill program. Today we're going to discuss the veneer of reality.
0:24 Ted
So, we started this a couple week ago now talking about fractals. So, you can look at the veneer of reality as a fractal of the general framework. So, I define the veneer of reality as our individual operating system within the framework, which is your primary worldview.
0:43
... and we've talked about some of this. And I would bet that 95% or more of your daily life is consumed by your consumption of things that you rarely, if ever, question. So, if 95% of our actions are taking this is just what I do, then I'd also venture to say that it's highly likely that when you have an inner voice, or even aloud smack on your head, saying, it's time to make a change that this is exceedingly difficult. The veneer of reality is the way we see our tiny slice of the framework that we've been fed. So how do we remove the veneer and begin to operate outside of our cravings and obsessions?
1:20 Jon
Oh boy. The thing about the veneer of reality is that it's so ingrained in us that it's tough to at first, just discern, let's first identify it on a practical level. So, what you mean, in that veneer of reality is these are all of the things that we accept within our framework. There's the framework that we're fed, and then there's what we accept of it.
1:44 Ted
Yeah, it's our little bit of it. It's the job that we have. It's the kind of relationship that we hold. It's our political beliefs.
1:51 Jon
It's the thing that goes beyond the broader into a fractionalized series of events. It's a self-similar repeating pattern.
1:58 Ted
So, you know, I often refer to this as the viscous glue that we live in. I say that it's like a fly on flypaper. And we may wiggle back and forth a little bit to get free, but the gravity of the stickiness is just too much for us to venture off the paper until we slowly die there. And I know that sounds a little bit morbid, but that's really what happens. Most people are in pre-programmed, habituated states that say so firmly tied to their individual slice of reality, they never even question it. So, the habituation of this programming reaffirms the very system most people are plugged into on a daily basis, yet this experience of life is a tiny fraction of perhaps 1% of reality. Now, it's as the tiniest fraction of 1% of reality. So, this fractional sliver is the veneer of reality, which is what the framework addresses.
2:50 Jon
Hmm. I have a practical example that we've seen repeatedly. And I don't know how much you've observed this, but there are many of us, I say us, who at some point had to make the admission to you that we are in a job that we just hate or it's not serving us for one reason or another. We're in a job that's not serving us. And then you have the excuses. The yeah buts. Yeah, but I really need the money. Yeah, but I got a financial obligation, I got mortgage to pay, I got this and that. I'm not sure if you're keeping score about this, but there are several of us, in our community. To whom you have said, well get rid of it.
3:37 Ted
You know, I was just thinking this when you were saying that we had someone come in one day says man, my job... asked him how you doing? My job is killing me. Cool. Get a new one.
Never came back. That's how strongly we argue for our limitations. So, in the Emotional Sobriety curriculum, we call that the enemy of the ego. I am frequently the enemy of the ego.
4:01
The ego being the things that we define as ourselves. And that we like to challenge all the time at Diablo.
4:09 Jon
Yep and we in ourselves have hold so much value in that definition of self so much value in the ego that that would drive that person to instead of taking the advice of you, you told that person he ought to get rid of a thing that he said was killing him.
4:28 And rather than jettison the thing that is, by his own admission, killing him, he decided no, I can't listen to that guy. He's a crackpot. I'm going to go back to it!
Ted
going back to it.
Jon
allow myself to be killed some more
4:42 Ted
killed by it!
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