When operating at its primordial, pristine best, primary consciousness’ unspoken attitude is: “I am right; I am always right; there is no possibility of me not being right.” Thus, nonverbally thinks a lion’s primary consciousness as it prepares to consume a gazelle. It is survival consciousness, and through its instinctive actions in essence says, “I am right to kill and eat this gazelle. It is not wrong because she has a fawn and life of her own. Whatever I do to survive is right, and anything that interferes is wrong.” Silently the lion’s primary consciousness says, “Everything I do is right.” Indeed, he is correct, just as is the view of the gazelle’s primary consciousness, concerning whatever it does to survive.
Whatever living things do to survive is right for them, and from any minimally intelligent perspective. In the non-human world of physical survival, the whole notion of, “right and wrong” is lucidly ludicrous. But when this, “I-am-always-right” commitment to physical survival is redirected into the world of ideas…well, it becomes Pee Wee’s Playhouse in constant re-runs. (Except that the otherwise infantile humor can turn deadly.)
When a man’s primary consciousness is fully engaged in this internal avocation variation of the survival instinct, the details are irrelevant. It does not matter whether the ideological subject is temporal, spiritual, cultural, philosophical, artistic or academic. It will, by birthright, unconditionally assert, in your head, that its thoughts on the matter, whatever it is, are right, and any in opposition are wrong, period. There does not even have to be a subject involved in which you have a view. Your consciousness can hear someone else’s make a statement regarding some matter that you have no interest in, and yet it will instantly, to you and to itself, declare the speaker: “Idiot! How can one man be so wrong?”
This is powerful, though overlooked anti-medicine. Look inside and see the validity of what is being described, then just think about you – with your primary consciousness acting as you – you are always right! Even in instances when you do not care about the subject involved, or know enough about it to recognize whether others are wrong in their assessment, you’re still right!
J.