The mind you were born with is like a little person in you who thinks for you. In this matter, everyone desires change. The ordinary want to educate, improve and refine him while the few want to replace him.
Contrary to the common view life imposes on man, you came into this world with a mind as preset in you as was the size of your ears or the color of your hair. The overall structure of the intangible little person in you who thinks for you was as genetically certain as any part of your visible anatomy, and at birth, his emotional disposition was already as in place as was, physically, that of your digestive and respiratory systems.
Life has men’s consciousness so arranged that to standard consciousness this cannot be proven. No matter what evidence you marshal in support thereof, consciousness will always easily find a verbal way out. It is literally impossible to make the consciousness every man is born with realize that it is a purely mechanical activity that every man is born with.
Consciousness is genetically programmed to perceive of itself as un-programmed and malleable, and at any time during its life, if asked, will sincerely say that it is in a continual state of change and growth. But the readily observable fact is that the individual consciousness, (personality), children begin to visibly display in their earliest days is the same one ordinary people have at death. Life causes men to claim otherwise, and to live and speak as though the opposite is true. Having no external standard by which to judge affairs in this universe, there is no way to conclude this arrangement is amiss. All that can be said is, that is how it is.
So, all normal, sane humans believe that the little them in their head that thinks for them, (and which they unquestioningly take as being them), can and should be transformed from what he is and as they find him to be when they become conscious enough to be aware of him. (In the right hands, the preceding sentence alone would be sufficient to lead the few to what they seek.)
J.