Jan Cox

There is nothing “wrong” with playing word games, engaging in mental entertainments, but recognize them for what they are, and do not take them to be any more than they are. 

The mass of the mortal universe is aligned against you.  If you have a thought which heard the heart of what was herein today noted – then it is you and that one thought against the whole world.

Keep the conflict to yourself and you can win, for that one thought in a few which wants to do This Curious Thing is smarter than every other thought men have normally ever had put together, for it is their revealer.  That one anomalous thought in a few, understands more about all of man’s institutions than they do about themselves, for that one thought sees them for what they are, which they can never do.

That one thought – the one that vibrated with singular excitement when it first heard the strange ideas of: “Awakening-from-a-dream; Stepping-from-shadows-into-light; Going-from-captivity-to-a land-of-freedom,”  that one thought in the few is the only thing in man’s entire mental world that does not take itself to be more than it is – and that thing, dear reader, is what will take you home.

J.

If people who love literature did not feel that there was more to it than there is, literature would not be loved.  Same with music, morality, politics, religion, reputation, and every other thing that exists in the lives of men, and which does not exist in their lives physically.  They are one and all treated by man as though there is more to them than there is – that they have a significance beyond even that which to them men verbally attribute – which is all they have from beginning to end anyway.  But this normally un-admitted additional weight given thereto is the key pickle that keeps the barrel rolling.  A child does not just say that they saw, “a ghost” – it is always a ghost, “twenty feet tall, with eight eyes and a hundred arms.”

A man whose consciousness consists of naught but the thoughts life normally provides to everyone, cannot be made to see what is herein being noted – it is simply not possible.  He can interpret it as being an attack on some specific area of man’s cultural world, with which his thoughts may mechanically agree or disagree.  If he hears it as an assault on religion, he/his thoughts may say:  “I do not believe in God either,” or “The comments are wrong.  There is a God.”  But it makes no difference whether your individually provided thoughts approve or disapprove of any feature of the second, mental reality – all that matters is that your thoughts are in-the-game; that your thoughts take the matter seriously – that it is serious whether a man believes there is a God, or does not believe.  Your position in the question is not important, just as long as your thoughts treat it as worthy of having one.

From the goal of developing clear sight, if you play the game you lose.  It does not matter which team you are on.  If you play – you lose.  If you let your consciousness, chase after the same balls as everyone else’s – you lose yours, (your potential potent ones). 

If your consciousness is restricted to thoughts which take the question of whether God exists or not, or whether there is Life after death, or whether Good will eventually triumph over evil; truth over falsehood, Sociology over Psychology, Socialism over Democracy, Impressionism over Abstract Expressionism, et roll on, you are forced to treat the questions as though there is more to them than there is – but there is nothing to them.  They are words; sounds with accompanying, personal mental images.

J.

Not only does having thoughts cause men to feel that there is more to them than there is, thoughts also make it seem like there is more to life than there is, which may be the easier of the two to initially see.

It is quite tricky to get thoughts to realize that they contribute a factually overblown impression of a person to a person.  Since their activity is constructively unrestrained, they have no conception of literal limitations, and thus are struck non-plussed by statements concerning their contribution to men’s overall sensation of themselves.  How do you tell a mirage that it is overdoing the illusion bit?  How can you convey to an intangible the concept of:  How-much-is-too-much? That without physical substance is not constrained to acknowledge the limitations of that which does?  Thought’s view of man is not the same as his body:s.  One is not right and the other wrong; they are simply different, inasmuch as thought has responsibilities distinct from anatomy, one of them being to create in him the impression that there is more to him than physically there be.

This role of thought extends outside individual men, and affects entirely their intangible world of culture, and makes it seem that there is more to it than there is.  Thought is not only the creator of this second reality, but also its unrecognized unflagging huckster.  It not only produces the parade’s balloon figures, but overfills them as well.   This is easy to say but hard to see. 

It is not that thought is engaged in a nefarious activity of exaggerating the importance of particular parts of man’s cultural reality, nor is it involved in overblowing the overall significance of this intangible realm to man’s harm.  The way in which it achieves its end in this matter defies ready observation, in that it is an integral component of this whole world from its inception.  Man’s cultural reality comes overblown.  It is born exaggerated; its natural state is hyperbolic, and as always: when a situation is understood, no matter how apparently askew, it presents no problem to the few.

If you but coldly look upon any of the things that occupy part of men’s lives, which they cannot touch, (and you are truly one of the few), you will somehow begin to see/feel/sense/realize beyond any description, the plain fact that men treat such matters as though there is more to them than there clearly is; that even though they have no substantive existence to begin with, they are afforded even greater recognition than many things which do.  This is no attack on man’s cultural world, nor denial of any particular aspect’s significance; merely a calm limning of the territory.

J.

A sip and a grunt, father speaks:  “What men tell you about their lives, tells you nothing. Only the life they live does.  People cannot tell the truth about their life, only the life they lead can, and the one you lead inside can be seen only by you, and it cannot be seen by any of the thoughts which normally comprise it.

From today’s expedient perspective, the historic struggle for awakening, enlightenment, liberation, is a rebellion against the sensation that there is more to you than there is.  But the thoughts that make you feel this way are what make man unique, and what make the few fret and fume.  But who can fight Hercules?  How can you fire Cinderella?

Obviously, to our kind you can’t.  There is no way to lose that ten pounds of illusionary fat other than by leaving town for a while; traverse the universe, then come back around from the other side of town, slipping up on your old fatty self before it/you has time to realize what is going on.  Stealth!  Surprise!  Unfairness! Those are the keys to success, my lad, now spread that jam and let’s get down!”

“But Papa, what about the second headline: ‘Trying to awaken is the attempt to make something out of nothing’?” 
                 

“Hey boy, weren’t you listening?”

J.

Looking over his coffee cup, father says, “The thoughts normally passing through normal people’s minds cause them all to live with a never analyzed, overall sensation that there is more to them than there is, and normally with no way of realizing it.  Thus have they not even a scintilla of interest in the matter.  When thought is certain, it is certain of its certainty.  That is how it can turn manipulations of symbols of the physical world into profitable action, while it’s playing with symbols representing nothing but itself and lead to nothing but distracting dreams.  No planet, no matter its intelligence, confined to this universe can know its true size, having nothing xenolithic by which to compare itself.

Thought is sure that it knows what it says and feels itself to know, but thought does not know what it knows, and normally has access to nothing outside itself which could make it so aware. A tree born into solitude can feel itself to be seven feet tall; forty feet tall; the tallest tree in the world or any height imaginable.  That is thought’s position; useful for everyday existence – a dangling shoelace for anything else.”

The son started to reach for a danish, and father reminded him of the family’s dietary restriction regarding modifiers.  “Having thought always present in your consciousness gives you normally the unavoidable feeling of being more than you are, a sensation, which when useful, is useful. When not, is why we had to bury your Uncle Olaf so early on. Thought, in our family photos, adds at least ten pounds of fat – and at the worst possible location.

Having thought makes all people feel that they are more than they are, and with our kin this ‘feeling-that-you-are-more-than-you-are’ thing, translates into making them feel that they are asleep, in the dark, confused and stupid.  All feelings that everyone else calls by other names, and accepts as their normal mental condition.”

J.

To son, father said: “Can you believe that it is already a new week again?”    And son thought: “Hell, I can’t believe I am still me again,” but did not say it. It was not necessary…not between them.

“So, my lad, what can you make of these two post weekend news flashes fresh off The Few’s Select Wire Service: 
     Having thoughts make men feel that there is more to them than there is, and
     Trying to wake-up is the attempt to make something out of nothing. 
Are the two related?  Antipodal?  Unconnected?”  They poured up a glass of juice, toasted a new week, and commenced the neural roasting.

“How can a thing feel that it is more than it is?  All the sensations of living things are validated by experience.  So how can a sentient thing even have feelings about itself, which it has never experienced…which would have to be the case involving it feeling that there is more to it than there is.  That would be as impossible as a snake feeling it had legs.  How could it even succumb to such an illusion without first having had some experience with what legs are?  Even the best of dreamers cannot dream scenes, no matter how fanciful, that are not composed of things they have actually experienced.  Still, men do this routinely.  It is an inseparable component of their normal life, and yet of it – none take note, because of the fact that: that which does it is also the only one who could take note thereof.”

A pause and continunation:  “The way the presence of thought in man causes him to feel that he is more than he is, is so all encompassing that he is blind to it.  Not realizing it is part of what he is, he independently recognizes it no more than can a lemon its yellowness; nor can an acre lot with eyes to see outward comprehend that its own personal reality is limited to its own boundary lines. 



Having thoughts make men feel that there is more to them than there is, and no thought they will normally ever have will apprise them of this.  No ordinary thought is capable of realizing it – such would be, to such thoughts – counterproductive.  If you have Cinderella doing your laundry, what would be the benefit in exposing her fictional condition?”

J.

Once you know what is really going on all you have to do from then on is just remind yourself of it.  (Psst, one man claims that everybody already knows what is going on, and the whole thing is that they do not want to think about it.)

One father, who was especially hard-on, or informative-to, his son:
 
According to the view you choose, he told him:  “Cut to the catch and face the total fact. You are asleep if you will talk to anybody.  That’s it!  (Including yourself, don’t forget.)

”

One guy was presented the censure:

“You certainly are loose with the way you use language.”
He replied:   “Ah, but I am equally loose in what I intend it to mean.”

And yet another telling of what This is:

It is the subject about which everyone has thoughts, but about which no one actually gives thought.

One man pondered: “I wonder if waking-up initially feels something like
you’re having a mini stroke?”

J.
 
 

Someone is always superior in talent to you physically, artistically and in specific mental areas, but only you can best yourself in the matter of consciousness, (that is to say, thought-trumps-thought).

One guy’s persisting comment to himself: “Be dumb on your own time.”

In the Final Analysis – there is no final analysis.

After doing something dumb that he had done before, one man would often say aloud to himself: “Am I ever going to learn?” And one day surprisingly, (but perhaps finally), replied: “Can you spell – ‘never’?”

 
 
    …and The Ultimate Explanation for everything – is silence.

Everyone’s shtik originally wears thin – except the Shtikman’s.

J.

In case you have any doubt that you know what you’re doing, here is exact instruction regarding “How to Be Asleep”:  Think how badly life is going, or think how nicely it goes – either one will get the job done.

Always in man’s second reality – what is macroly true is microly too.

The more civilized you are the more you mentally coast.
The safer you are; the more predictable you are.
The more readily do you mentally go along
with what is mentally going on around you.

Those who talk about yesterday were the original model for zombies.

Re Humans’ Slacker Side:
Most people have nothing to flaunt but their body, and most people don’t even have that.

J.
 

Xenophobia is an instinctive defensive reaction to potential disruptions to local collective thought by the appearance of non-local.  This is true macroly outside of you, and also microly, in your own brain – in a manner involving only you.

The Analysis:

The apparent analysis that ordinary thought continually makes of life
is totally meaningless and a complete waste of time.

At times when conditions appeared to have put people around him into states of shock, distress and upheaval, one guy would think to himself:  “Jeeze!  It’s just life!”

The more principles you have to live by – the less you understand.

If by nature you are clumsy, no amount of mental activity directed thereto will change it; what you can do is become more mentally alert of your body and surroundings, but your inherent physical temperament and characteristics will always be with you.

J.