Ordinary people
feel most at ease
when imitating;
the few most ill at.
Those born with that certain-hunger to see more clearly than others, never speak of what they perceive to be the primary impediment to increased vision as, “imitation.” But nonetheless, it is what is at the bottom of their vexation well. They know they are dissatisfied with the way their consciousness operates in allowing only certain data in to be processed and accepted. They know that they feel frustrated and trapped – not physically. Every creature is “trapped” physically in the world by the laws of physics, trapped and confined to a small, all-too-familiar inner place.
The root of their frustration is that while a collateral effect of the imitation gland is to keep most people from making any distinction between thinking, and imitation, in the few – it fails. Even if they never say or think it in these exact words, what so bothers them is that everything that naturally passes through their mind, and which everyone else in the rest of the world accepts as being “their thoughts,” the few recognize as an error in identification. Generally, even they never get around to a precise understanding of what they vaguely sense, and thus flail about taking half-hearted swings at pushovers and tankers, without ever getting in the ring with the real heavyweight champ – imitation.
It is stupefying enough to have your mind dominated by its imitation of other people’s thoughts. But the near-brain-death condition for the few comes from their acceptance of their mind’s imitation of the thoughts that life sends through it, pretending that they are its freely chosen own. (Put more simply, or perhaps not so, but nevertheless). The frustration that drives that certain-hunger comes from a man’s thoughts imitating themselves. Like The Invisible Man continually pointing to himself, (we assume), and constantly reaffirming: “Yeah, this is me – right here, yeah me…right here!”
If you ever expect to see for yourself what is going on in life, then ignore completely what other people say about life. What they say about things is neither correct nor incorrect. It is worse; it is useless and totally meaningless for your aim. It matters not the subject, the source nor the number of people who insist it is correct or not, indeed, the more who support it, the more useless it is.
J.