In these daily comments thus far, the mind and thought has been the central topic, but thought does not drive man’s life. Indeed the un-studied, wide ranging acceptance that it does, (or can), is at the core of all man’s uncertainties. Need it be noted that man suffers no physical uncertainties, only ones that appear in verbal form in his brain’s thoughts, which gives rise to the semi-flaccid assertion of thought being the vital force.
But anyone with the-hunger sufficiently intent to be reading such as this, can readily look into this matter, totally within themselves. Though it be tricky, slippery and evasive, thought’s position relative to what drives life and causes you to live the particular one you do, can be grasped, and in so doing will its claim to Chi-dom be exploded.
What men think does not make them live the life they lead. Ordinary thought cannot be told this, it will, in a manner quite intellectually seeming, reject it by reflex. But failure to realize better is the source of all men’s complaints regarding all other men’s periodical “irrationality.” Thought declares that humans would not engage in any form of behavior that it sees as “self-destructive,” if people would only heed the logic of thought.
They thus acknowledge that there is something else vying with thought for the title of “Director of Man,” which the psycho/socio/biologically inclined proffer to be the conflict between man’s animal nature and his human consciousness. The religiously wound step forward to re-name and identify this as God struggling with his anti-god. But none of them know what they are talking about in this matter. From one valid view, they don’t have the slightest clue, and their verbal musings could just as well concern conditions in some other universe. While thought does not energize life, neither does the next common guess, instinct. The word in its fullest connotations explains no more than does the word, thought. Then to say that behind them both stands the specter of Prana, Chi, Tao, God, or the X-Force, and that this is what gives life to everything; is to say that even though the first train did not stop at the station to pick you up, there is another on the way which will. Only the man who has delivered himself far out of town, can look back and see that the impression of the tracks going
J.