Set the stage.
Lights.
A Stage.
A player.
An Audience.
It all opens the door to Imagination. And I reach out my hand and invite you in to my mind. People ask me why I wear the crown. I smile and I say, “To remind me who I am. And To remind myself how I am to be treated.”
And in that moment I have taught them who I am and how I am to be treated.
I watch them change before my eyes, and I know that I have just shifted their perspective.
I feel their perspective shift from suspicion, to accusations of Crazy, to respect. And then, I listen. They tell me their stories. “They did this!” “They did that!” “He said this!” “And then they did this!”
I hear the disbelief in their tale. I hear them trapped in a constant cycle of disbelief, incomprehension, lack of understanding.
“I can’t believe what they did!”
They play through the details. They relive the story as if they are following the threads of events to a clear, decisive conclusion that they can comprehend, but which never comes.
“And then they called me crazy! Can you believe this?”
I’m leaning now against the door, picking my nails, almost bored. And I shrug. “Yeah. You’re in Wonderland. What did you expect?”
They try again. They retell their story. They tell another story.
“Maybe you don’t understand…”
I give them no surprise, because I am not surprised, because I understand.
“And they called me crazy!”
I nodded. “Yes. You are in Wonderland.”
They blink at me, confused.
How many of you have been called Crazy?
How many of you have been called Insane?
How many of you wonder still… “Am I insane?”
How many of you question your own Sanity?
What is reality?
what is the right reality?
What is real?
We all have Cognitive Processing where Information enters our Minds, and we evaluate this information using the Five Stages of Grief… Shock and awe and then Negotiation… which is really… Fact Checking.
But you cannot “Fact Check” Insanity.
“That doesn’t make sense.”
“She did what?”
“That doesn’t make sense.”
“She did what?”
“That doesn’t make sense.”
Mental Illness is when the Logical Mind is not capable of understanding the madness of Insanity.
Insanity is when an Individual gets stuck living in a Mind… A Perspective… a Dimensions…. that is not their own.
Acceptance is when you recognize the Madness from the Logic… and you can UNDERSTAND IT.
Accept the fact that they are Insane.
They are Insane.
That is why you can’t figure it out.
That is why your Cognitive Core is stuck for all eternity in Logical Processing. Because You are logical to your Dimension, and they are insane.
And the moment they called you crazy, was the moment they projected their own insanity onto you.
The projected their insanity onto you. The moment they called you crazy.
Imagine you are a King or a Queen and you have your Kingdom. Imagination. And at your side is the Jester of Insanity. And this Jester loves to Advise. And this Jester loves to declare themselves the King of your Throne. But this is the Jester of Insanity and you are the Queen of Your Kingdom. The jester takes your crown and makes Laws to rule without Justice so they can control their kingdom of Insanity.
They weave their madness around you, declaring that their madness is reality. Declaring that YOU are insane all while wearing your crown and playing Advisor to your realm.
But a crown is not Authority. It is the Position that is the Authority. It is the “I” of your Imagination.
“Get the fuck out of my chair,” you say to the Jester of Insanity. And the Jester says, “You know what you should do! You should give him another chance! You should take that job! You should marry him. You should break up with him! You should…”
But the Jester’s life is Insane. Is the Jester really qualified to Advise and rule your Kingdom? Remember… The Jester of Insanity is the King of Insanity.
Who is the true Authority of your Kingdom?
Insane is the world where you arrive to work 15 minutes early, but stand in line for 20 minutes to clock into their system where you then clock in late and they punish you for being late because of their system.
Insane is the world where you sell your most rare and valuable resource, your time, for bottom dollar… LESS than the living wage. Insanity.
But you are logical.
You feel the Insanity. You feel the madness. And you believe the Jester’s lie. That you are insane. When in fact, their accusation of your Insanity was a Projection of their Insanity in disguise.
We often confuse Accusations with Projections.
Stop trying to rationalize the irrational.
I am Queen of my own Dimension and I walk among the Insane. Now you tell me how I, with my logic, can walk among such insanity?
Well… I give them the Insanity they want. I give them the crazy that they expect… I meet their expectations so they feel safe. This is called Forward Giving… Forgiving for short… It is when you give your own Vulnerability to another to make them feel safe. Because you Empathize with their Madness. That is forgiveness.
I don my crown and declare that I am Queen and I disguise myself as a Jester of Insanity. I use Reciprocity and mirror their own madness back to them. And now their guard is down. They open their imagination to me, and unsuspecting they invite me in. But the crown does one more thing.
I know the mind of Insanity. I know when they see a crown, they subconsciously know how to treat me. And without even thinking about it, they are calling me “Your Highness,” and they are treating me like royalty… all because I wear a crown on my head.
I don a red, wool coat that flows… Or one of purple… and their Subconscious Mind straightens their back, and they bow and say, “My liege.”
How else, can you safely walk among the insane who are so crazy, that they think their own insanity is real?
We all are forced to wear their blinders
“Put these on!” They say and they cover our eyes with Rorschach Prints.
The Jester of Insanity shows me a mirror. “Look!” He says. “This is the mirror of reality!” he cries.
And I gaze upon a picture taped to the mirror of a wild goose, sticking its tongue out at me… and googley eyes have been placed on the mirror. “Reality is…” he screams at me. I have no idea what he is saying because I remind myself that he is the Jester of Insanity. And I know that the mind is a Perspective, which is only My Dimension of Reality of which I am the Authority.
And I am logical. I know that your Reality is Your Dimension where You are King or Queen. I know that Insanity is when the “I” of Authority has been made the “You” of Jesters so that the “You” of Jesters can steal my “I” of Authority.
But… Authority is a role. It is a Position that each of us holds within our own Kingdom of Imagination. And that Reality is the Dimension of “I” where “You” has no power.
We are not meant to live in the Reality of Others.
We are not designed to live in the Reality of Others.
Mental Illness is when an “I” gets trapped between the Reality of Others and their own.
Insanity is when an “I” gets lost in a Dimension of Reality of Others… an “I” forced to live out their days as a “You.”
Stop trying to rationalize the Madness of Jesters of Insanity.
Put down the ball of tangled threads.
Accept the nonsense.
Accept that their Accusation of your Insanity was in fact a PROJECTION of their own insanity.
Put down the ball of tangled madness and close the door on their Wonderland.
Understand now that YOU are SANE and they THEY are MAD. Because the “You” has taken your “I.”
Only YOU are qualified to be QUEEN or KING of YOUR KINGDOM.
Now you tell me, How do I pass through this message through masses? How do I find my people? How do I sort. the Madness from the Logical. The Logical “I” lost in a sea of Insanity? How do I gain their trust so that they may open their minds and Imagination to me? I give them the Insanity that they want and expect from me.
I tell them story. I delight them with my magic. I soothe them and make them feel safe. And when they step into my Mind, I show them that I know them and that I understand them.
So…
You are a King or a Queen… you are an “I” of your own Logical, Emotional, Imaginative Reality and they are your “You’s” … the Jesters of Insanity. The King and Queen often summon the Jester to court for amusement, entertainment, and delightful joy and fun. But I cannot begin to tell you how important it is that the King remembers that he is KING. And the Queen REMEMBERS that she is the Queen. And the Jester of Insanity, the “You” who is guest in your Kingdom projects his insanity onto others through lies, deceit, and accusation is still just the Jester of Insanity.