Man has been called blind, asleep and in-the-dark. Many enjoy making such accusations, and many more enjoy hearing them, but what is the underlying reality that incites this verbal invective?
It comes about because of a certain condition natural to man, which can be easily described and momentarily recognized by all, but whose significance few human brains are wired capable of realizing via the ability to hold a constant awareness thereof. It is the fact that men have two sets of eyes/I’s; two sources of sight; two methods by which they look at life and themselves. They have their physical eyes, visible on their face which take in the world outside of them, and they have their invisible, mental eyes inside their head which take in the world inside their brain.
The importance of man’s outer vision is obvious. Sight being his primary survival sense, and normally is his inner vision accorded equal status, but it receives same by avoiding close scrutiny of its overall operations.
Man’s visible eyes look at the world; his inner ones look at thought. This is simple enough, and evident. But there is something going on in the latter activity that although clearly observable, has never been part of humanity’s established comprehension. It is an absence which alone has been the eternal source of the various condemnatory descriptions of him being blind, asleep and in-the-dark. The feature is the inner eyes’ incessant self-absorption.
(Reminder: as already noted, the heart of today’s News seems simple on the surface, but even the few have extreme and usually extended trouble getting its intricate and oh so subtle Gordian threads untangled in their own minds. This is due to the fact that the threads are their own thoughts fumbling with the knot. So be alert, on guard, and not overly anxious to jump quickly on conclusions and mash all the life out of the frogs.)
J.