In one quite genuine, but inapplicable to precise description, the other-consciousness is too smart to stoop to mere knowing-and-thinking. It operates at a more refined level. It is consciousness-without-dependence-on-thought. It is aware of what is going on without the distorting interjection of the running-commentary-of-commitment-to-always-being-right that is an inescapable feature of primary consciousness.
Step over to that other-consciousness and you have instantly walked away from a slave labor camp into freedom. Out of a stress filled inner environment wherein you are constantly forced to listen to the camp commandant’s declarations of, “Our ideas are right and the ideas of others are wrong,” this arrangement certainly continues to build the routine world’s River Kwai Bridges, but submitting thereto eventually drowns the few.
A man committed to anything other than staying alive and staying alert is a fool. He is ordinary, sane and normal. He is your family and friends, but from the secret, silent perspective of those who realize what is going on, all non-essential commitments are foolish and totally without meaning, and passively subjecting yourself thereto will do nothing save keep your sight distorted.
On the physical level: commitment is full consciousness. On the mental level: commitment is blindness. Why stumble about when sight is possible? All you have to do is just move a bit to one side in your head.
(Note: the message of the last few days is not that there is nothing-you-can-do, but rather that there are some things you can do something about, and some you cannot, and to encourage you in the most efficient use of energy possible for the maximum enjoyment of this grand adventure.)
J.