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MY NEWS FOR JUNE 4, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
FACT: WHEN YOU ARE IN A NON-STANDARD STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS YOU DO NOT, IN YOUR THINKING, UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HAPPENED — AND:
FACT: WHILE YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO ACHIEVE THAT NON-STANDARD STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS USING MEANS THAT YOU BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND IN YOUR THINKING, YOU WILL NEVER REACH THAT OTHER STATE,
ERGO: WHEN YOU ARE “AWAKE”, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE STATE IS – AND: WHEN YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO AWAKEN, YOU WELL NEVER SUCCEED,
IT IS FROM BEGINNING TO END — A COMPLETE MYSTERY, AND ONLY IN THE BEGINNING DOES A MAN THINK OTHERWISE,
CONCLUSION: DO NOT KEEP TRYING TO ACHIEVE THAT NON-STANDARD STATE BY USING METHODS THAT YOU THINK YOU UNDERSTAND,
THAT ALTERNATIVE STATE IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE A TOTAL MYSTERY TO YOUR THINKING, AND WHENEVER YOU ARE IN THE STATE, YOU NEVER, IN THOUGHT, UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS OR HOW YOU GOT THERE:
YOU MAY HAVE SOME WORDS YOU PRIVATELY EMPLOY TO INDICATE – NOT EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS THAT YOU SEEM TO DO AND FEEL, (WHEN YOU LEARN TO DO IT), THAT MAKES THAT SWEET, SOFT INTERNAL SHIFT OCCUR, BUT YOU WILL STILL NEVER IN YOUR THINKING, UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS THAT YOU HAVE DONE,
JUST PONDERING THIS FACT SINCERELY SHOULD ASSIST YOU IN DISCOVERING HOW TO MAKE THIS NON-THINKING MOVE FROM DISSATISFACTION & AGITATION TO QUIETUDE & PEACEFUL, MYSTERIOUS SURRENDER,
EVEN THOSE MOST ANXIOUS TO CHANGE THEIR STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS ARE AS MUCH GIVEN TO HABIT AS THOSE MOST ORDINARY & ASLEEP.
AND THEIR APPROACHES TO OBTAINING THEIR GOAL ARE BY NO MEANS EXEMPT,
THE MIND, (IT WOULD SEEM), IS QUITE CONTENT WITH ITS OPERATIONS,
WHICH ARE ENTIRELY BY INSTINCT & HABIT, AND IT IS EVEN QUITE SATISFIED TO GO ALONG WITH “YOU, (WHATEVER, “YOU” MAY BE),AT THOSE ODD MOMENTS WHEN “YOU” COMPLAIN ABOUT IT.
THOUGHTS ARE THE OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF BEING WISHY WASHY, FICKLE, AND UNDEPENDABLE, SINCE THEY WILL GO ALONG WITH WHATEVER IS FOR THE MOMENT BEING SUGGESTED, (OR AT LEAST BEING INFLUENCED THEREBY, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER).
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CONSIDER THAT NOT FIGURATIVELY, BUT PERHAPS LITERALLY,
AS REGARDS HOW YOU CAN MAKE THAT SUDDEN, SOFT INTERNAL “MOVE” THAT BRINGS ON THE STATE SO DESIRED BY MYSTICS,
THAT THERE IS TRUTHFULLY, NOTHING THAT CAN BE SAID.I..OR THOUGHT,
THERE IS SIMPLY ITS GRAND, MYSTERIOUS SUBTLETY,
IT IS SOMETHING LIKE THIS: THAT EACH PERSON MUST FIND FOR THEMSELF SOME WORD, SOME SHORT DESCRIPTION, SOME VERBAL PICTURIZATION THAT, FOR THEM SEEMS TIED-TO & REFLECTIVE-OF THIS MOST SUBTLE INNER SHIFT, AWAY FROM THINKING, TO (FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD), FEELING,
AND SINCE THIS “FEELING” IS, (COMPARED TO THINKING),
SOFT, CALM & QUIET,
WHATEVER PRIVATE DESCRIPTION YOU MAY COME UP WITH REGARDING IT
SHOULD BE OF A SIMILAR ILK ALONG SUCH LINES PERHAPS AS:
“MYSTERIOUS…TRANSCENDENTAL SPIRITUAL…HEARTFELT, OR WHATEVER,
BUT CERTAINLY AN EMOTIONALLY FELT,PICTURE-IN-WORDS THAT WOULD :BE
NON STANDARD FARE FOR YOUR THINKING AFTER ALL,
YOU ARE IN AN AREA FOREIGN TO THINKING,
ONE THAT NO PERSON UNDERSTANDS MENTALLY,
SO YOUR “VIEW” OF IT SHOULD SO REFLECT, AND IT NEED BE MEANINGFUL ONLY TO YOU,
IF THE NAME YOU PUT ON THE SHIFT FEELS RIGHT TO YOU,
THAT IS ALL THAT IS NECESSARY:
THE WAY THAT YOU (QUOTE) “THINK ABOUT” THIS MOVE IS AS STRICTLY PRIVATE & PERSONAL TO YOU AS IS THE ACTUAL SHIFT ITSELF.
THIS MOVE IS NOT AS NOISY & DRAMATIC SEEMING AS THE ONE IN THINKING WHEN YOU SUDDENLY INTERFERE WITH THEIR NORMAL RUNNING AND BECOME
CONSCIOUS OF THEM:
THIS MOVE I REFER TO FEELS MUCH GENTLER, SOFTER, QUIETER, MORE SUBTLE, AND ABOVE ALL: JOY-BRINGING.
(QUESTION: WHAT IF THIS EXTRAORDINARY JOY BROUGHT ON MY THE MOVE IS
JUST THE PLEASURE EXPERIENCED BY YOUR THINKING WHEN IT IS ALLOWED TO REST?!)
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QUESTION: WHY, AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE USED AS A DESCRIPTION FOR THE SHIFT, THE TERM, “THE BELOVED”, HAS IT BEEN SAID THAT:
“DISCOVERING & CLEAVING-TO THE BELOVED WILL MAKE YOU “LOSE YOUR MIND”? …COULD IT PERHAPS BE MEANT LITERALLY ?!?!
(REGARDING A MOVE OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE GRASP OF THINKING?!)
WHAT FOLLOWS ARE EXCERPTS FROM A MESSAGE FOUND ON AN ANCIENT AND MYSTERIOUS WALL, (SOME PLACE, UNSPECIFIED):
“TIME SLOWS DOWN WHEN WITH THE BELOVED,
THINGS BECOME QUIET WHEN WITH THE BELOVED.
HOSTILITY & FEAR DISAPPEAR WHEN WITH THE BELOVED,
CONCERN FOR TOMORROW AND THE PAST ARE ABSENT WHEN WITH THE BELOVED,
INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF LIFE IS EXTINGUISHED
WHEN WITH THE BELOVED,
FEELING OF SOLEMNITY REGARDING BEING ALIVE DEPART WHEN WITH THE BELOVED,
ALL DESIRE TO ACHIEVE-A SUPERNATURAL STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS SUDDENLY GONE
WHEN WITH THE BELOVED, AND THERE IS NOTHING THAT I WANT OR NEED.
ALL-IN-ALL, (I SAY TO YOU DEAR PASSER-BY WHO MAY READ THESE WORDS): WHAT A SIMPLY SCRUMPTIOUS WAY TO GO ABOUT PURSUING THIS GOAL,
AND WHEN YOU FIND THE BELOVED, YOUR INSIDES — ‘LIGHT-UP’!”
THE ANCIENT IDEA THAT: “THE KNOWN EXISTS ONLY BECAUSE OF THE UNKNOWN.”, IS SQUANDERED WHEN TAKEN TO MEAN THAT A GOD, AN EXTRASYSTEMIC FORCE IS BEHIND ALL OF CREATION)
A MYSTIC WITH-THE-BELOVED, RECOGNIZES THIS TO BE A POINTING TO
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE ILLUSIONARY REALITY OF THOUGHTS, (THE KNOWN), AND THE EXQUISITE REALITY OF FEELINGS, (THE BELOVED))
WHICH IS THE “UNKNOWN” — THE, (IN FACT), CREATOR BEHIND THINKING,
THE RUNNING-AROUND-IN-CIRCLES, ENDEMIC TO MYSTICS
IS DUE TO THEIR LOOKING TO THEIR THINKING TO FIND THE WAY OUT OF CIRCULAR RUNNING.
IN THE BEGINNING IT IS THE DISSATISFACTION THAT CAUSES THE SEARCH:
THEN LATER IT IS THE SEARCH THAT CAUSES THE DISSATISFACTION —
— THE MISDIRECTED SEARCH:
THE CONTINUED LOOKING-TO-THINKING FOR THE ULTIMATE RELIEF
WHEN THE SOUGHT FOR COMFORT IS WITH THE BELOVED — WITH YOUR FEELINGS.