The Basic Ritualism of Man Is Repetitive Thought and Word…
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#1459 – 07/10/1995
Notes by TK
Ritual substitutes for effort; thought substitutes for consciousness.
The News
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Man,
By virtue of that unique feature of his, is the only creature who can,
“Distract-himself-to-death”
With out actually dying.
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The ordinary believe that they’re naturally conscious while a mystic knows he’s not unless he’s made himself so.
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If you take your normal “Talking-to-yourself” as thinking — you don’t know what thinking is,
And if you take your “Talking-to-yourself” to be you doing the talking, then you haven’t got a clue as to
what is you.
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“Is he in!?”
Man is the sole creature who can be home and not be home simultaneously.
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Anyone who speaks of them self in the context of their
Race, religion, nationality, or culture
Is too, too normal and bovinian to have anything profitable to convey.
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Auto-thoughts: what men take to be their mind, and ultimately – them self,
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A lad headed toward the city was advised by his dad: “The too-simple,
And the overly-sophisticated
Are little to be trusted.”
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One man had a thing on a leash —
At least some times he had it on a leash -for when he’d think about it, he did, and when he didn’t, he didn’t.
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One man would periodically feel sorry for himself —
But was disturbed by the fact of how much he enjoyed it —
…But after considering how scarce is pleasure in life — he got over it.
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A more intense study reveals that there is no “Mind” -only the endless flow of thoughts;
Proof!?: stop thought, then find the mind.
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All complaints of common man arise from his being common.
‘Tis only in myth
That magical knights
Do battle with pain with no name.
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Everyone is born with a house
And the inclination to live partially out of doors.
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The basic ritualism of man is repetitive thought and word.
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Biography: what men write when they run out of all other forms of fiction.
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Humans; the only creatures who believe that they’re in constant danger of drowning.
Life: the only ocean in which everyone believes that they’re drowning — — yet no one ever does (?)
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See, here’s the unseen hobble:
You can live seventy normal years without thinking about it.
Second verse:
You can live seventy normal years without thinking about it,
Unless someone mentions the fact, and you instantly — just for a moment, believe that you do.
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On one world they had no con men -they didn’t need any —
They had life and each other.
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There are two “you’s” possible: the “automatic you,”
And the, “Thought’s stopped and I’m aware that I am me,” you.
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Those who cry out for salvation, redemption, and deliverance, are one-&-all, looking in the wrong direction.
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One guy says:
“The only hope I have for humanity is that they’re not actually serious.”
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The game theory:
The theory that it’s a game is no theory —
….Unless you’re blindly in the midst of it.
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The simple love-e-e simple surprises — but hate-e-e complex ones.
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Food:
Everything one man ate tried to come back up –
….Then he realized it was his thinking.
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Ritualism’s greatest danger (to those on the great adventure), is its denial of originality, and creativity.
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Gifts and presence:
Nothing means anything if you’re not home to receive it.
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If conscious was only the mind -and the mind was a pail,
Thoughts would be an endless ocean.
Okay, another way around:
If the mind was a pail, consciousness is the Pacific.
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Metaphors you use more than forty-seven times are like peels you try to put back on oranges.
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Knights knowingly staying with dwarfs will themselves begin to shrink.
Yep, it’s true in an individual, neural sense as well.
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The time add-up:
It only takes a moment to realize your interest in the mystical way, then perhaps ten years to find your particular one,
Then another twenty or so to find you.
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How to tell that your thoughts are normal:
They’re always bitchin’ & complain’ – even when you’re by yourself.
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On one world their original symbolism for sin & evil was a carousel -then as they became more civilized and technologically advanced, they changed it to a highway cloverleaf,
And once they reached even higher levels of
Sophistication and theoretical speculation,
They changed it to a mobius strip.
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Progress in the land that doesn’t exist:
One man had an idea —
Then he had two —
Then three!
….Then he went back to just one.
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Life-saving techniques
Anyone who tells you personal anecdotes or uses himself as an example is in the same pool as you.
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The dumb love to talk about themselves
’cause they figure you’re too dumb to notice.
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The reason that, under ordinary circumstances,
Men cannot perceive of what the mind truly is, and is up to,
is the same as why a mouth cannot bite itself.
Advanced scout’s addendum:
It is possible for a mouth to bite itself if time is stopped.
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One man had a sack full of stuff —
And when he took the stuff out, the sack disappeared.
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To some of the mystically inclined, original, non-standard ideas are like addictive bullets.
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One man had the ability to concentrate, but only when he thought about it.
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How to mystically handle talking about your personal life:
Always speak in generalities — be vague, never specific
-better yet — lie, or shut up.
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There’s a magical bird
In the midst of the flock but only is seen
When flight is arrested.
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Reverence — expressed
One guy got it down to one, three word prayer: “Life — you rascal.”
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Travel definition for the common man:
Originality: a foreign land.
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Ships not going anywhere like to fire at others sitting in the harbor.
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One man’s philosophy was finally distilled to these four words: “Life — what a rascal.”
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Mystics: the only people in the world who can know something, and then know it even better twenty years later.
….And better yet, twenty years after that!
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One man ultimately only used ordinary thinking as a “Stunt double” for conscious awareness.
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A real mystic’s motto:
If you don’t do it, nobody will …And even if you do, it’s still iffy.
Whereas, (long about here),
Most men would fold their hand to the sound of: “Read ’em and weep!”
The more-alert, (if they realize it’s gonna make ’em weep) – don’t read ’em!
Since all suffering, unique to man is of a specific incurable variety, what is to be gained from the perusal & consideration of
specious prescriptions!?
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On the planet of hair shirts
When they really want to suffer,
Some will wear men! —
…(Though this is considered gauche in that it’s gross over-kill.)
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One man found the end of a string —
A strange string that lead to “He-knew-not-where” —
But just the end itself was-so-neat that he didn’t care.
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