Jan Cox

To be of ordinary and sane thought is to believe that to varying degrees you do understand what is going on in the unique, non-physical realm about which most of man’s speech is devoted.  Once watering a field is explained, that’s the end of it.  But explaining god, death, evil, stupidity, (country music), is never ending.  Why does not that fact alone suggest something quite telling to you regarding man’s routine mental and vocal life?

If you are ignorant about mining and yet offer explanations you will readily be found out.  But you can present explanations about anything at all in man’s intangible reality and never have your ignorance uncovered, (even to yourself).  Your explanation may be countered by someone else’s explanation, and they may accuse you of being ignorant in the matter, but they are as ignorant as you. 

There exists no objective act by which ordinary minds can perceive true ignorance.  They indeed wrangle over their explanations, but none are capable of recognizing that anyone’s explanation of any subject unique to man, that has no tangible reality is a vacuous, meaningless, moot, hubba-hubba explanation – none mean anything, and any is as good as the next.

Anyone who offers to explain man’s intangible, spiritual, cultural world to you has no understanding at all of what life is about.  You don’t know and they don’t know, for if they did, they would not be presenting “explanations.”
 

In the realm unique to man, all explanations are cover ups for ignorance. A fact of which all explainers are ignorant.  It is questionable whether life itself could explain what is going on, and that’s why it keeps its mouth shut.

J.

All explanations are cover-ups for ignorance.  Regarding the physical world, this is not true. Therein do thought and speech fulfill their basic purpose by the constant proffering of explanations.  It is ultimately through such that man is able to rearrange his physical environment to his improved accommodation.  But the smallest step into his mentally derived second reality, and all explanations for what is going on there, are out and out cover-ups for ignorance.

A man in need of food would be a fool not to heed explanations of plant cultivation.  But he becomes an even greater fool, when he hearkens to any explanation of any non-tangible matter. Explanations of material matters can result in actual and beneficial change, while explanations of intangible affairs can never result in anything substantively meaningful.

Men are not given to offering explanations concerning the physical world without solicitation, whereas everyone is anxious and always prepared to give their explanation of any matter on which hands cannot be laid.  (This is why agriculturists are paid more than priests; engineers better than psychologists, least wise in über rational universes).

Explanations of things in the physical world usually cost, while explanations of things in man’s mental/spiritual/cultural world are free as can be.  They are in fact forced on you, (if you are not nimble).  Notice that normal unlearned men will readily confess their ignorance of material affairs, (mechanics, electronics, physics, farming), but will not admit so regarding god, morality, reality, or metaphysical truth.

When it comes to things which men cannot physically hand to one another – everyone can explain the thing.  Everyone in the world has an explanation for it, and no one in the world understands it.  (An ordinary, sane mind will thoroughly refute this blanket statement, and immediately identify itself as an exculpatory example.)

J.

This truly extraordinary urge to force one’s consciousness to arouse itself, as it were, from a sluggish, fanciful dream world of thought to a more accurate and informative state of unprejudiced awareness, is so different from any other thought a man will ever have.  Its singularity gives it a patina of quantitative substance that demonstratively is not there. The only thing that is there – the only thing standing between you and abject ordinariness – is that one thought, the: “I want to wake up” thought.

You have not been called by the gods, nor selected by The Great Secret Himalayan Brotherhood, to achieve enlightenment.  It is not your duty; it is not your curse.  It is just a thought whose potential was part of your inherent wiring, and which got activated, but has always been, and will always be, but one thought out of the many hordes that endlessly sweep across the steppes of your mental geography, and which, like any face in the crowd, must struggle for attention.

It is not hard to wake up because everything in life is arranged to oppose it.  The difficulty comes not from your personal weakness or stupidity, (though you may be both).  The problem is that you only have one thought out of all the others that wants to change the very conditions in which all the others operate. 

It is one-against-many.  It is indeed, one against a potentially limitless number, and not a single one of your other thoughts has the interest.  Some can lend a passive ear when the one thought is yacking about it, but none of the others will ever join in the struggle, and neither will, nor can any of the thoughts of other people ever assist.

J.

This truly extraordinary urge to force one’s consciousness to arouse itself, as it were, from a sluggish, fanciful dream world of thought to a more accurate and informative state of unprejudiced awareness, is so different from any other thought a man will ever have.  Its singularity gives it a patina of quantitative substance that demonstratively is not there. The only thing that is there – the only thing standing between you and abject ordinariness – is that one thought, the: “I want to wake up” thought.

You have not been called by the gods, nor selected by The Great Secret Himalayan Brotherhood, to achieve enlightenment.  It is not your duty; it is not your curse.  It is just a thought whose potential was part of your inherent wiring, and which got activated, but has always been, and will always be, but one thought out of the many hordes that endlessly sweep across the steppes of your mental geography, and which, like any face in the crowd, must struggle for attention.

It is not hard to wake up because everything in life is arranged to oppose it.  The difficulty comes not from your personal weakness or stupidity, (though you may be both).  The problem is that you only have one thought out of all the others that wants to change the very conditions in which all the others operate. 

It is one-against-many.  It is indeed, one against a potentially limitless number, and not a single one of your other thoughts has the interest.  Some can lend a passive ear when the one thought is yacking about it, but none of the others will ever join in the struggle, and neither will, nor can any of the thoughts of other people ever assist.

J.

Trying to reprogram your consciousness, (wake-up, be enlightened), is the supreme act of individualism.  The ultimate one-against-the-many, in that there is but one voice among the many in you which wants to, (plus the minor feature that everyone else in the ordinary world unwittingly resists your efforts by their natural indifference and inertia). 

This is not a discouraging scene, but a factual one, which when grasped gives a more objective picture of the actual, working conditions under which your enterprise must take place.  The desire for a differently operating consciousness is not worldwide in you – not all inclusive. Your gross anatomy has no knowledge-of, nor interest-in, your goal.  It is confined entirely to your brain, and even there, to one specific area, and even there to but one particular neural firing, one voice, one thought.

In the few harboring this non routine thought, its allure is so powerful that it is felt to be a much more substantial entity than it is in truth.  Its impact on them is so strong it is taken to be the sun in their mental solar system, but it is in fact just one planet among what is theoretically an unlimited number of such in one’s consciousness.  Based on the natural depth of the port in which the thought is docked in a person, its influence in his life ranges from minimal to decisive.

Some people can placate the thought-desire to reorganize consciousness by reading about it; others by listening to live lectures about it; and many are satisfied with simply daydreaming about it. The minds of a minuscule few, however, are overwhelmed by it – every other thought known to man swept away by the one.  It is these alone who profit from the full recognition of the neural situation being herein noted today.

The history of those professing involvement in this matter, is for them to feel, believe, say and accept that this one thought, whose sole interest is in radically altering the lives of all the other thoughts in them, is some sort of mystical, metaphysical “calling” – something quite distinct from the rest of their everyday consciousness, (not a surprising reaction…perhaps at one time…like maybe: June 3, 5002 B.C.).

J.

As always, in these daily reports, my words are addressed to a self-selected few, and have no relevance to ordinary people and their ordinary lives.  To them, obviously, what I just said is insane, and simply not so.

The seeking of advice and instruction, and the discussion of personal problems is a vital adhesive to binding together the herd of humanity.  For the few with the irrepressible taste for freedom and inner individuality, it’s another story, (the one we cover here).

Facts:
1. The world you can’t touch – man’s mind made up.
2.  Any problem had is also – made up.
3.  Any solution any man has to any such problems is – made up.

    There may be nothing wrong with his solution, it’s simply made up.  How can there be anything “wrong” with something that is – MADEUP?!

“I say there, I don’t particularly care for Prince Charming’s attitude, or Snow White’s political views, or Muhammad’s description of god.”  (What, are you nuts…are you this stupid, or do you just pretend to be like all the ordinary cows?)

Fact: 

In the realm of imaginary matters, there are no experts, and even if there were, their expertise would be in matters imaginary.

Senior Fact: 

No one is an expert in altering consciousness.  Believe me when I tell you this for I am an expert in the matter.

J.

Dismiss all talents you do not possess.
Anticipate constantly looming catastrophes and share your foresight.
Analyze your past endlessly to others gives an added dimension.
Search continually for new ways of getting sympathy.
Announce that you know the world is full of people trying to con you,   but that you’re too smart to fall for it, or else so angry already that they shouldn’t even try.
Attack those who seem mentally weaker, dumber than you; that’s what your superiority is for.
Describe yourself in unending, unlimited detail.
Never ignore an insult.
Answer all criticism.
Seek attention relentlessly.
Tell everyone how you feel about everything.
Brood privately if necessary but publicly if possible.
Spread sarcasm where it is needed and will provide the maximum benefit.
Replay past games in your mind; future winners always plan.
Identify the sources of your psychological wounds.
Never forget – even for an instant that most humans are idiots.
Always make note of irony when it pops up   and how its recipients deserved it.
Ridicule others before they can you…and most importantly of all:  Keep nothing to yourself.

(Also known as: “How To Be Normal” and “How Not To Disturb Yourself.”)

J.
 

Life has arranged the neural connections of ever increasingly civilized, collective humanity to see things differently.  The more civilized you are, the more do words which mean nothing, mean something.  In savage conditions, where living literally is a day to day survival existence, everything people would say would mean something.  In cultured circumstances, the more civilized you are, the less do any words you utter mean anything.  That is simply how it is, and even ordinary minds, if the matter is mentioned, can momentarily drop life’s enforced pretense and acknowledge the truth.  But the rest of everyday cultured existence is a flat out, verbal betrayal of this knowledge.  Men’s words are mercilessly driven to brazenly proclaim their efficacy, in a realm where there be naught with actual authority, to straighten them out.

Hence are humans able to engage in that great sport unique to them – arguing.  All there is normally to oppose, refute any word’s claim, is another word, and what grand entertainment this provides – passionate grappling bouts and no one physically harmed.  There are vigorous struggles and no one leaves actually defeated.  No one wins and no one loses, and no one seems to notice!  This is how the faux contests are able to be re-staged anew, day after day as though nothing out of the ordinary had occurred, in all of the previous encounters.  Like choreographed, meaningless wrestling bouts about which the audience retains no memory from one day to the next.  Vicious X wins the belt tonight from Ferocious Y, but everyone understands it was scripted and has no permanent or substantive meaning.  They treat the next day’s apparent contests as unencumbered by such, and this is how words manage to survive with their ipsidixit reputation for significance intact.

A person born somewhere genetically outside the general neural bullpen of collective humanity, with the corollary desire to see that which others show no interest in, must sooner-or-some-time-else see words for what they are, or their frantic arm waving and mass popularity will poke out all of  your potentially good eyes/I’s  –  and keep ‘em poked out.  Do not listen to words, no matter how seductive they seem – even when they speak to you about learning how to see those special things you so long to see and understand.  Words only point to themselves; words only talk about themselves.  Listening to words in your attempt to wake-up-from-the-dream is accepting directions from Alice on how to get out of Wonderland. There is something in man that a few can listen to which does not speak, and it knows the truth for which the few so passionately seek.  Only thing is, it does not know that it knows anything in particular.  You have to keep digging around in there until you suddenly see what it is that it knows – then you’ve got it.

J.

There is always a voice somewhere insisting that “words mean something,” which is almost entirely incorrect.  In essence they mean nothing, and in practice, very, very little.

The apparent power of words rests in the fact that they exist in a realm all their own, alone with nothing to check, counter or oppose their assertions, except other words.  No cats to keep rats in line; no mountains to keep valleys honest.  Without the presence of an extrinsic, interrelated entity, a thing can go wild, and in this case the thing is words.  They do indeed run out of control right under everyone’s nose – and no one seemingly knows about it.

Men do not individually appear to be aware of this, but collectively their behavior clearly shows otherwise.  The only exception to words not meaning anything entirely, is in their mass-agreed-upon specific significance in men’s second reality.  Within the framework of his invented judicial institutions, a necessary support to civilization itself, men collectively and arbitrarily agree that certain words represent certain unambiguous desires cum decisions of the collective. The ignoring of which carries certain specific consequences, to be executed by the collective.

The group declares:  “One man will not take another man’s food, and if he does, we will collectively appoint someone to cut off his hand.”  Under these conditions alone can words be said to actually “mean something.”  The rest of the time, in their ceaseless, everyday use, they mean nothing.  This does not keep people from believing, (whatever that word means), that they do.  A man will physically attack another man because, (he says), of words the other man spoke and so words must mean something!?

To a mind from which the remnants of childhood oatmeal have been wiped, (and in actuality, at the substantive level for everyone), the only words that by their own nature “mean something” are those whose only purpose is to represent an object or activity in the physical world.  But easy observation reveals that less than 2% of human speech is so involved.  The rest of the time the words which flow from men’s mouths, represent nothing that actually exists, and thus they mean nothing.

J.