Such singularly ravished people look predictably at first to the world outside of them for satisfaction, same as the body is programmed to seek physical nourishment from without, which is the only place it exists. The body cannot consume itself to survive, but the comparison is limited. The exceptionally mentally hungry man does himself in by the infinite attempt to dine and grow on empty word-food extrinsic to himself, (which all such ultimately is). He must realize for himself the absolute need to redirect his search for nourishment.
The brain/mind is the only physical entity that can sanely eat of itself. No other organ can cannibalize itself and survive, much less grow, but it does not come with much of a built-in knowledge of how to go about executing this irrational feat. It is all too easy for the starving minds of the few to latch onto the words/ideas that are the most outrageous, since they are the type most immediately stimulating. But mere mental stimulation via verbal pictures of physically impossible goals, you must surely recognize, when placed right in front of you in plain words, is futile – is a fool’s game.
Only the achievable is achievable, and only the physically possible is possible. Everyone’s stomach knows this, as does everyone’s brain, (and left to that basic level, ordinary men have a more rational view of so-called “extra normal states of consciousness” than do most of its would-be practitioners).
The operational reality and achievability of another, distinctly experienced ”state-of-consciousness” IS a reality only to those who realize it and achieve it. To everyone else, the idea is meaningless or foolish; they do not require such as long as their cell phone works, and tv is still broadcasting. The idiocy of the few is the prolonged search for the “secret” mental stimulation, (called by those who don’t know, “knowledge”), via their own versions of cell phones, sitcoms and mystical tomes. Even among the few, few seem able to push their own cars out of the pit and get them running on the track. This is no censure, but an observable note of how it goes.
J.