The brain’s overall message, (without it going into detail), is that the better person within you, will more or less be the opposite of the person you are now, with a corresponding change in consciousness and thought.
Men never achieve this goal of the mind. No one can actually be a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jew, etc. Just as no man can be totally Civilized, the programming in man’s brain to believe that should and can be achieved is nothing less than the energy propelling the dual, interlocking realities of the physical and the non-physical which, combined, make up the life of man. It is the striving that matters, not the achieving. The irrepressible striving to bring forth the better person in your brain, or equally acceptable, the thinking-about-striving with the awareness of when you are not and the subsequent mental regret – this too is the-striving.
No one’s brain knows what the better person it believes is in it is like. Thus do men turn to sources outside themselves and accept their descriptions, life somehow managing to keep their brains from facing the fact that the extrinsic institutions to which they look, (religions, universities, the arts, society), are creations of their own brains. The same brains that did not know what the better person is like in the first place, but since men never achieve the realization of the better person, this does not matter.
If in truth you are never going to be able to leave town, then it makes no difference whether your dream is to go to Siberia or to Santiago. So men’s brains are allowed to imagine that the better person within them is whatever their brain imagines it to be, and no one is ever disappointed or disillusioned, since no one’s brain ever actually produces this NewMan.
Without you comprehending this, even the illustrious, insightful few waste energy and mental time, occupied in a dream-endeavor. Consider the situation fully and frankly. There is a thought inherent in your brain that says, and to which your brain seriously listens, that there is a better person in you. Although it does not note this specifically, it does not know what this better version of you/it might be, and, (as proven by human history and your own life), it cannot produce. Life forces almost everyone to ignore these realities, and pay lip-service-acceptance to the original sensation cum theory.
J.