He who says he knows what is going on, and then expresses concern therewith, has no idea what is going on. Mountains and mitochondria know what is going on and have nothing to say about it. Priests, politicians and your crazy-Uncle-Harry-up-in-the-attic, talk about it constantly. Question: Who is the smartest? To which would you entrust your life?
Consciousness is programmed to talk. Without it consciousness would be a washout; a non-starter, an accordionist’s beeper. And when it is directly involved with the rest of the brain in survival related activity, its speech is intended for internal use and is totally focused on the essential matter at hand. But when it is not so engaged, it begins to babble, both to itself – not to other areas of the brain but to itself, and eventually to other humans as well. This inner prattle is the set construction for the dream drama that is ordinary men’s so-called, personal lives. Their pancreas, platelets and privates live silent, real-life lives, while their thoughts and words float mainly in fairy tales.
Those who know what is going on have no comment thereon – “no comment” in the sense of critical ones, which are the only persistent, serious statements men make about life, in that ordinary minds are not moved to comment on a matter unless they have some objection to it. For human benefit, consciousness may wish to change the course of a river, but it does not condemn the river for its present one. Minds will plot ways to resist hurricanes, but they do not get angry with the winds. Only when off duty, recreational consciousness turns its attention to affairs, in the non-physical, second reality, not native to the planet, products solely of its own creation, does critical commentary commence.
Men do not perceive ugly mountains, only ugly sculptures. They find no offensive brooks – only offensive books. No evil natural, physical actions, (such as gravity or evaporation). All actions labeled evil by man come strictly from man, and those most passionately denounced are the actions of his consciousness and speech – not his behavior.
No sane man would take seriously a proffered dispute over whether oaks or elms have the right approach to life, yet will, wrangles regarding god’s correct name. Consider the fact that men see no conflicts worthy of notice or mention occurring in the natural, physical world outside of them. Whereas, in the non-physical, cultural world, which in essence exists inside of them, in their thoughts, conflict is its life blood.
J.