Consciousness is a natural story teller. The most important ones it tells you are about the world outside of you. It tells you these continually, verbally and otherwise, when its vocal ability is not otherwise engaged. It still tells you stories, but no longer about the world outside of you, but rather tales about itself.
Consciousness does not identify these autobiographical yarns as such, but relates them to you under a variety of various titular guises. Thus is this causing you to believe that you are constantly hearing stories, about a multitude of extrinsic characters and events; when all the time, consciousness is narrating naught but fantastic fables and speculative stories about itself.
Throughout history in all urban areas, man’s greatest public works project has always been, the fight against boredom. This has become a challenge, in that fully civilized men have two lives: the one that their body actually lives, and the one in their head that they think about. In most urbanized/mentalized people, the life in their head is more active than the one of their body, which results in that unique human phenomena – boredom.
As long as his consciousness is involved in telling stories that are directly related to and tracking some significant activity of the body, a man is never bored. But when his consciousness is not so naturally engaged in its primary form of storytelling, it will continue to speak, now having no subject to talk about that is outside of itself. There is only one other thing that it has any knowledge of – itself. Thus, since it cannot shut up, it weaves fantasies about itself, though never labeled as such, and ordinary men live out their days unaware of what is going on right there in their own heads, (leastwise they do a good job of pretending not to be).
These never ending, around-the-campfire-story-fests, (just you and consciousness, which of course is actually just consciousness and consciousness, but why quibble over bibbles), have consequences of specific significance to those few mental loners. For those who would like, (if you don’t mind), to have the campfire all to themselves, this is based on the principle that the fewer people who are around it, the more light-to-see that there is for you. The consequences of direct pertinence to the development of unusual, inner sight sought by the few are these: consciousness unidentified story telling about itself creates the illusion that it knows something about itself, totally forgetting and ignoring the plain fact that it is engaged in a pure act of fiction.
J.