There can be no non-physical pleasure that comes anywhere near the exhilaration. The almost unbearable joy and excitement which the sane few feel, when they first run across a sentence in the context necessary and appropriate for them; which boldly declares the existence of a generally unknown fact whose knowledge instantly explains everything and transforms the knower.
As soon as such a person reads this, they immediately feel: “That’s IT! That is what has been bugging me all this time, which no one else understood or could explain to me. There is a fact about life that everyone does not know, and apparently most are not interested in knowing, but now that I know about it, I have got to have it!” And whether they realize it clearly or not at that moment, their life in their head will never be the same, and for the true few of the few, it is around the hunger for this fact that the rest of their life will revolve.
But no one the person can find seems to know what the fact is, not even the one who wrote or edited the book in which he discovered the revelation of their being the secret, all-elucidating fact. The commonly run course is for the person to align himself with one of the several so-called, “mystical systems” which have historically claimed to have the key to the door which hides the transforming information; which are always, unavoidably based on behavioral change.
Sit motionless ten hours, two hours, twenty minutes a day, or pray constantly to a supernatural, metaphysical power. Dance ‘til you drop; chant a meaningless phrase ‘til you’re batty. Do not eat green foods on Fridays; give half your wealth to a guru; do not have sex; do not wear warm clothes; do not sleep more than…etc. But where else can a person start?
What else can a person do to “accomplish” something. You must “do” something – something! “I am doing something! I have come a thousand miles from home, given away all I owned, am sitting here in silence and freezing while going crazy trying not to move a muscle. Too little food, too little sleep, is this not ‘doing something?’ Surely I will be rewarded for such efforts and sacrifices; people have been doing this for thousands of years, so it must eventually pay off. The one here in charge has so assured me, and those others struggling here likewise believe it. It cannot be a mere sham. There must be something to it, my efforts will surely one day reveal to me the secret fact, (or some variation thereof).”
J.