Father continues, “No my boy, what you are doomed to live with on a day by day basis is your ordinary state of consciousness, but it is not a ‘doom’ doom – it is a liberating, life-giving-doom. In this instance: language is up to the task, for ‘doom’ means both, ‘to destroy,’ and also, ‘destiny.’ If you do not properly comprehend ordinary consciousness, it will destroy your chances of ever reaching our goal, but if you understand that nothing has a destiny outside of what it physically is, this realization will set you free from the non-accomplishing dreams which now cloud your inner world and cause your disorientation.
Whatever may be the actual makeup of the extraordinary, periodic times that some men experience of enlightenment – it came from their own, ordinary consciousness. I ask you again, from where else could it come…a genie suddenly flew into your head and left it there? The gods finally recognized your astounding value and sent you a reward? Out of the entire universe, some type of mysterious, new age-old age metaphysical force, (unknown to science), sought you out as a recipient for a trial testing of a potentially advanced state of neural consciousness? And son, don’t make me laugh when my mouth is full.
No adult close to the trunk of our family tree entertains such notions; anything that happens in ‘your brain’ originated in your brain – again: where else? Anything that occurs to your consciousness was caused BY your consciousness – by the only one you have, by your ordinary one. You do have two hemispheres to your brain, but you do not have two consciousnesses.
I am aware that even I continue to use the terminology of us either being in a sleeping state of consciousness, or in an awake one. On your own you must make the slight effort it takes to understand that in the beginning of a new journey, the first thing a map must establish is: ‘you are here, and over there is where you want go’. (Translated): you are presently, here, in a sleeping state of ordinary consciousness, and your goal is, over there, somewhere in a different, awakened state,. This is only necessary directional, finger-pointing to get you to take the first step, and not a conclusive, description of how things are once you get over THERE.”
J.