Of concern here is the few – not the majority. It is a quite small number of people, with an innate dissatisfaction and the lack of permanency, in consciousness. They have applied to it, many strange and grasping names, since what they are disturbed about in consciousness, everyone else accepts to be the natural state of consciousness. The majority, if they hear of the few’s interest, find it perfectly bewildering.
Seldom do even the few put their fingers-of-mind directly on the spot that is bothering them. But this is what it is: consciousness produces nothing permanent in the mind – it endlessly produces thoughts, but the thoughts are not permanent. The few’s ancient and ongoing, so-called struggle to awaken-from-a-dream-in-which-man-normally-lives; to find-enlightenment-amidst-a-world-of-ignorance-and-confusion; to achieve-liberation-from-a deadening-inner-captivity, are all expressions of the same desire – to produce something permanent in consciousness.
The stories the liver tells are all the same. The kidneys have but one story to tell. In any given area within man, the story-telling taking place is consistent and therein is its permanency. Deviation therefrom, equals illness. The brain’s consciousness is the exception. It consistently produces thoughts, but the thoughts are not consistent. They lack permanency and are just minimally dependable.
Consciousness is most reliable and consistent in matters in the physical world. At its peak, when they relate to survival, (consciousness will permanently remember the way to plant corn; start a fire; find water). But in the non-physical world of man’s second reality, consciousness lacks anything resembling permanency. The health of his cultural world in fact depends on a lack of permanency.
All humans eat the same food, drink the same water; breathe the same air, but all worship different gods; follow different customs; call different things art. The only thing permanent about man’s second reality is the permanent sensation within each man that there is a permanent him inside of him who is experiencing it. (You might note that this constitutes a closed-system whose nature cannot be recognized by anything within the system.)
J.