“Wherever you end up, your ordinary consciousness will be with you. Whatever it is that you now imagine will get there, it is your ordinary consciousness that will do it. It is easy to make your ordinary state of consciousness THE villain in all of this, (and with initial, pragmatic reason), it is also the only hero available in the whole affair. Your only guide, defender, and source of wisdom.
Collective man is arranged and programmed to think that wisdom is to be had from sources outside of himself; from other men; from his culture’s rituals; from books, legends, myths, but that is all a mass glutinous dream that serves to hold together the civilized human herd. It all, however, is a confusing fog to those few individuals trying to get off on that private, Great Straying from the Horde. What you need to know to properly stray only you can say – only your own ordinary consciousness knows what you need to be. Un-ordinary in your consciousness, and the sad, exciting truth is that it does know…and has…for a long time.
Your ordinary, (sleeping, if you must), consciousness knows what to do to be Un-asleep. It knows, it knows, and it knows. The question is: so why don’t we do it? The most obvious response is that we are either too weak and lazy, or else too much the victim of lifelong habit. My lad, there is a third door, and a door with a window you can see through. The sight to be seen through that window can open that door, and that sight is: your ordinary consciousness out there looking back at you, and my boy, if THAT don’t wake you up – nothing will. All in all, that other consciousness, dreamed of by so many, is closer to your ordinary state than it is to a fantastic one.”
The father stood to leave, and in parting said, “If you are alert enough to really be a part of me, you will now never again underestimate the value of your ordinary consciousness, for I have told you truly – it is all you have or will ever have. You believe that you are an exception because you have ME – but where do you think I came from?”
J.