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MY NEWS FOR JUNE 30, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
A FATHER SAID TO A SON: “WHEN SOMETHING SOUNDS TOO OBVIOUS TO BE TRUE, AND TOO GOOD TO BE SO OBVIOUS
IS WHEN YOU LEARN THAT, ‘ARACHNOPHOBIA’ DOESN’T MEAN, ‘FEAR OF ARACH’,
YES MY BOY, THE ONLIEST THING TRICKER’AN WORDS IS THE PRANKSTERS WHO USE ‘EM.”,
“LIKE US, HUH DAL?!”, SAID THE BOY AS HE PACKED HIS BAG,
A GENI, AS INTEREST ON A DEBT HE OWED A GUY OFFERED HIM THIS CHOICE: “WOULD YOU RATHER BE RID OF THE TALKING IN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS,
OR RID OF THAT PART OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT LISTENS TO THE TALKING?”, AND THE MAN REPLIED: “AH, GET OUTTA HERE! — THAT’S A TRICK CHOICE, YOU KNOW THAT THEY’RE BOTH THE SAME THING.”
THE DEBATE ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS WILL NEVER BE RESOLVED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW FACTS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS
INASMUCH AS ALL SUCH FACTS ARISE FROM WELL, YOU KNOW THE REST BY NOW,
…AND ONE MAN SAYS THAT HE USED TO TALK TO HIMSELF MUCH REGARDING THE MATTER OF IMPROVING THE LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE OF HIS CONSCIOUSNESS UNTIL THE FINALLY REALIZED THAT ALL THE TIME HE’D BEEN CONVERSING WITH HIS DUMB-ASS CONSCIOUSNESS,
WHEN YOU’RE “LOST IN CONSCIOUSNESS” YOU’RE NOT SIMPLY — “LOST”
YOU’RE SO LOST THAT YOU HAVE NO WAY OF REALIZING THAT YOU’RE LOST.
A MAN WHO KNOWS-WHAT’S-GOING-ON IS LIKE A LAWYER WITH NO ARMS WHO CAN NO LONGER PRESENT OR SUSTAIN THE ARGUMENT WHICH SAYS: “WELL, YES, WHAT WE HAVE JUST HEARD MAY CONTAIN A MODICUM OF TRUTH,
BUT —
ON THE OTHER HAND….”
NOTHING SAID OR THOUGHT REGARDING CONSCIOUSNESS
AND THE SUCCESSFUL REALIZATION OF THE AIM IN ALL OF THIS
HAS ANYTHING ACTUALLY^TOLO WITH,: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SUCCESSFUL REALIZATION OF THE AIM IN ALL OF THIS.
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A PAPA SAILOR SO ADVISED HIS YOUNG SWABBIE SON:
“LET ALL OF THE WORDS THAT ALL MEN HAVE EVER SPOKEN OR ARE TO SPEAK
STAY IN THE DINGHY, FROM WHERE THEY ALL ORIGINATE,
AND YOU STAY UP HERE ON THE BIG BOAT WHERE THINGS ARE NORMAL AND RATIONAL,
…ALTHOUGH CONSCIOUSNESS-IN-THE-DINGHY SEES THE SITUATION IN REVERSE:
IT PERCEIVES THINGS OF THE SECONDARY, DINGHY WORLD AS BEING WHERE THINGS
ARE RATIONAL AND NORMAL EN SPITE OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
TO THE CONTRARY,
WHICH, I URGE YOU TO SEE AND REMEMBER, IS NOT A SHORTCOMING OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BUT IS DUE MERELY TO THE NATURAL CONSTRAINTS IN ITS CONSTRUCTION,
WHAT KIND OF INTELLIGENCE WOULD BE PRESENT IN A FARMER WHO LOOKS DOWN AT A HEALTHY, RIPE CUCUMBER AND MOANS: “OH NO! —
THEY’RE GONNA BE GREEN AGAIN THIS YEAR,
WHERE DID I GO WRONG?!”
ALTHOUGH IN THE REALM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IT DOES INDEED TAKE, “TWO TO TANGO”, THE PRESENCE OF ONE WILL ACTUALLY DO FOR TWO,
ONE TO HEAR ABOUT CHANGING CONSCIOUSNESS, AND ANOTHER TO THINK ABOUT HOW FAR THEY ARE THEREFROM:
ONE TO EAT THE TACO, AND ANOTHER TO LATER EXPRESS REGRET IN DOING SO, AND ONE TO SLEEP, AND ANOTHER TO PERIODICALLY ANNOUNCE: “AH HAH! -CAUGHT YOU SLEEPING AGAIN.”,
BUT WHERE IS THE EYE FREE FROM THE DIZZYING WHIRL OF THE DANCERS
WHO CAN PROPERLY ANALYZE THE STATEMENT: “CAUGHT YOU ASLEEP AGAIN.”,
AND REALIZE THAT THE CAUGHT-ER, AND. THE CAUGHT-EE ARE ONE IN THE SAME?!
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AS CONTRASTED TO YOUR “CONSCIOUS-SELF”,
WHAT I AM PRESENTLY REFERRING TO AS YOUR “ESSENTIAL-SELF” IS IN ACTUAL FACT — INEFFABLE,
IN THAT THERE IS NOTHING WITHIN IT CAPABLE OF ENABLING.
…IT’S LIKE THIS:
YOUR CONSCIOUS SELF CAN’T STOP COMMENTING ON ITSELF, WHILE YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF IS UNABLE TO DO SO.
AND ANOTHER, ALTOGETHER ASTONISHING DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE CAN SEEM TO “KNOW” OUR CONSCIOUS SELF, BUT THE ESSENTIAL SELF IS TOTALLY UN-KNOWABLE,
THOSE WITHOUT THE FULL REALIZATION OF WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT
LOVE TO SAY THAT THE JOY OF ENLIGHTENMENT COMES FROM ABANDONING YOUR
OWN “SELF-WILL”, AND LEAVING EVERYTHING IN THE HANDS OF THE
SUPERNATURALLY DEVINE,
WHICH THEY SEE AS BEING SOME ACT TO ACCOMPLISH,
RATHER THAN WHAT IT WOULD BE:
THE RECOGNITION OF REALITY.
YOU MISLEAD YOURSELF FURTHER TO PERCEIVE THAT THE REALIZATION THAT YOU SHOULD HOLD YOUR BREATH WHILE UNDER WATER
REPRESENTS THE SOLVING OF SOME PROBLEM RATHER THAN
THE UNDERSTANDING OF A SITUATION,
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STRUGGLING TO BECOME A THING NEW AND WHOLE WE FURTHER DIVIDE WHAT WE ALREADY ARE,
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TO THE DINGHY, THE BIG BOAT WILL ALWAYS BE A MYSTERY. GET OVER IT.
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AFTER COMPLETING A GRUELING ILLUSIONARY JOURNEY
A MAN REMOVED HIS IMAGINARY BACK PACK AND SAID: “WHAT A RELIEF!”
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A BOY ASKED HIS FATHER:
“DOES CRITICIZING PEOPLE HELP THEM TO GROW?”, AND THE TALLER OF THE TWO REPLIED:
“WELL, JUST LOOK AT YOUR OWN STUNTED HEIGHT,”
NOT ONLY DOES A FATHER DANCING WITH HIS SON SMACK OF INCEST, IT SIMPLY SCREAMS — STUPIDITY !!!
TO BEA “SLEEPING MYSTIC”
IS TO STILL BELIEVE THAT — SOME HOW — THE DINGHY WILL ONE DAY BECOME A BIG BOAT.
GROW UP GET WISE GET OVER IT.
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AFTER HEARING HIS FATHER USE THE TERM, “LOST IN CONSCIOUSNESS”,
HIS SON ASKED HIM:
“CAN YOU BE EN CONSCIOUSNESS AND NOT BE LOST?”, AND THE ELDER REPLIED: “THE WAY YOU DO THAT IS IN SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALWAYS IN YOU.
…SOMETHING LIKE THIS:
THE DINGHY IS INSEPARABLY TIED TO THE BIG BOAT, BUT NOT SO THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
CONSIDER THIS WAY:
JUST BECAUSE YOU MAY LIVE NEXT TO A SWAMP DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO GO INTO IT,
NOW DO IT?!”,
“CERTAINLY NOT.” NODDED THE NIPPER IN RESPONSE, AND THE FATHER ADDED: “NOT THAT, ‘NOT-GOING-INTO-IT’ WILL CAUSE THE SWAMP TO GO AWAY, BUT,
‘NOT-GOiNG-THERE’ WILL AT LEAST KEEP YOU OUT OF THERE, HUH?!”, AND ONCE AGAIN WAS THE LAD CONFRONTED WITH THE CLARITY OF ThE ELDER’S VISION.
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AND AS LONG AS WE ARE IN THE AREA OF HYDRAULIC SCIENCE,
(AS WE PONDER THE MATTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING ITSELF), LET ME ASK SOME OF YOUR SPECIALISTS:
JUST HOW DOES A SWAMP GO ABOUT — DRAINING ITSELF?!
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NOW ON TO OUR: “WHO’S WHO” DEPARTMENT:
THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO KNEW THE ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING —
— BUT EVERYONE IN THE DINGHY WAS SO FAR AWAY FROM THE BIG BOAT
THAT THEY COULDN’T HEAR HIM GIVE THEM THAT IS,
IF THEY TALKED ABOARD THE BIG BOAT WHICH THEY DON’T,
BUT DOESN’T MATTER ANY WAY, SINCE LIKE I SAID:
EVERYONE IN THE DINGHY’S TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE BIG BOAT TO HEAR ANYTHING EVEN IF ANYTHING WAS SAID,
I DO NEED TO POINT OUT, (AS BEST AS POSSIBLE USING TALK),
THAT WHEN THE DINGHY AND THE BIG BOAT ARE BROUGHT ALONGSIDE ONE ANOTHER, UP CLOSE IN A PARTICULAR FASHION,
A CERTAIN KIND OF NON-VERBAL “WHISPERING”, (LET US SAY), TAKES PLACE, WHICH, (TO SAY THE VERY LEAST), REVEALS SOME ASTOUNDING INFORMATION. (“ASTOUNDING” IN THE SENSE OF A SQUASH LOOKING AT ITSELF AND REALIZING: “MY GOD!— I’M YELLOW AND BUMPY!”
YES SIR: THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE AROUND WHO KNOWS THE ANSWERS TO. EVERYTHING, BUT THEY KEEP THEIR OWN DINGHY-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS FAR AWAY ENOUGH FROM THE: “CAN’T-LIVE-WITHOUT-IT” PART OF THEMSELF AS TO
RENDER THEMSELF SPEECHLESS ON THE MATTER.
(WHICH OBVIOUSLY IS THE. SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE FACT THAT:
THOSE WHO EXPLAIN WHAT THE PROBLEM IS AND OFFER SOLUTIONS.
NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT,
WHILE THOSE WHO ACTUALLY DO KNOW, NEVER SAY ANYTHING.
‘COURSE TO THE REASONABLY INTELLIGENT THIS IS AN ADVANTAGEOUS
SITUATION IN THAT IT MAKES DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THE TWO A SIMPLE MATTER.)
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THINGS ARE ARRANGED SUCH THAT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING:
WHAT DISTINGUISHES AN UNREALIZED MYSTIC IS THAT HE PERIODICALLY KNOWS
THAT HE DOESN’T, BUT
DOESN’T KNOW PRECISELY WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
A SON ASKED HIS FATHER:
“OF ALL THE NUMEROUS METHODS REPUTED TO LEAD TO ENLIGHTENMENT,
(SUCH AS: MINDFULNESS: CONTROLLING-ATTENTION,
THE OBSERVING-OF-ONESELF, (AND SO ON), WHICH IS THE BEST?”,
AND THE ELDER REPLIED: “THE — ‘LOOK AWAY’ METHOD,
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT: THE — ‘LOOK AWAY’ APPROACH.”
IF THE FATHER IS CORRECT IN HIS ASSESSMENT, THEN TELL ME THIS: WILL ANYONE IN THE DINGHY EVER UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT?
AND YOU MIGHT IN FACT BE INTERESTED TO KNOW THAT THERE WAS ONCE THIS ONE CHAP WHO WENT AROUND ALL DAY LONG ASKING HIMSELF: “EXACTLY WHAT IS IT THAT MY CONSCIOUSNESS DOES UNDERSTAND?!”
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ONE MAN SAYS HE NOW PICTURES THAT CONDITION OFWHICH HE SO DISAPPROVES AS: “BEING STUCK ON YOURSELF”,
(AND SINCE HE’S ONE OF OUR KIND, NEEDLESS TO SAY THAT HE’S NOT TALKING ABOUT VANITY.)
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SINCE THOUGHT-BASED OBSERVATIONS REGARDING CONSCIOUSNESS ARE THE MOST MEANINGLESS OF ALL HUMAN COMMENTS,
WHEN PRESENTED, THEY REQUIRE THE MOST EXTENSIVE OF INTRODUCTIONS.
IN CONFRONTING THIS SITUATION, NONE HEREIN IS OFFERED,
AND WE INSTEAD, PLUNGE RIGHT IN ” (WHERE NO ONE BELONGS):
FOOD IS MOOD, AND TABASCO SAUCE HAS MORE TO DO WITH THE STATE OF ONE’S CONSCIOUSNESS THAN DO ALL THE WORDS OF ALL THE MYSTICS.
A CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS IS OF NO MORE SIGNIFICANCE TO A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT’S GOING ON
THAN IS A CHANGE OF DIAPERS TO A DOLL,
AND UNLESS EVERYTHING YOU HEAR AND SEE WRITTEN REGARDING HOW
TO GO ABOUT EFFECTING SUCH A CHANGE IS BEGINNING TO MAKE YOU NAUSEOUS YOU’RE JUST NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
CONCERN ABOUT YOUR STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
IS LIKE A BEET BEING TROUBLED OVER ITS PERSISTENT RED COLOR,
GET OVER IT — GET OUT OF THE DINGHY — PUSH IT AWAY AND:
“LOOK AWAY” — AND YOU’LL — BE OVER IT.
…(AND, “HEADS UP” ON THE TASABSCO.)