If you know-what-is-going-on, you can look at a fresh litter of any pack species, and tell which ones will be subservient and which will be dominant. (In more human terms): which ones will be followers and which one will display originality.
People, like other animals, come with such traits, and those born passive cannot be turned aggressive, nor imitators made creators. Thus, cannot all people become boxers, nor awaken to what-is-going-on. The latter being an obscure art that requires a special originality and creativity that cannot be taught – with which a man must be born. There is no more visible rationale to this than there is one person being short or shy, and another tall or assertive. But there it is all the same, and so too is it in the invisible realm of mind. Some are by nature followers, emulators who want to fit in to the pack, and do so by taking their cues from the actions of others, or from a dominant leader. Natural followers do not see themselves in a negative light. Zebras do not feel that their stripes make them inferior to the leopard with his spots, and the world of both beasts and men is made up mostly of followers and few creators.
In the animal world it is non-thinking, physical aggression, requiring no originality, that marks the leader of any pack. While same is certainly not absent in the mortal one, the instant interest is in a type of human non-follower for whom the demands of creativity are paramount, if he is to succeed in his quite private enterprise.
Trying to rework the conscious operation of your brain, (or your understanding thereof, better put), is not a pack activity. Groups do not awaken; prides do not achieve enlightenment, and even twins do not discover The Fact – not without the dispatch of one. Seeing-what-is-going-on is strictly a solitary endeavor. You cannot follow anyone else and do it; you cannot submit to anyone or anything and do it; and you cannot use any of the materials common with the pack to do it.
Seeing-what-is-going-on is entirely an act of original creativity. That is why the Great Secret Fact is so difficult to find. You cannot find it because it does not exist for you until you create it. And you might think: “How can I be so creative?” As noted: originality and creativity cannot be taught. You either have such talent or you do not. It can be latent in you, needing but to be utilized, and how will you ever know without you attempt it?
J.