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MY NEWS FOR JULY 2, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
PICTURING THE GOAL OF THIS ACTIVITY AS BEING A JOURNEY OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM ONE INTERNAL PLACE TO ANOTHER,
(SUCH AS A METAPHORICAL TRIP ON THE METAPHYSICAL, ORIENT EXPRESS
FROM THE MUNDANE CITY OF PARIS TO THE ENLIGHTENED ONE OF ISTANBUL),
IS A FLAWED VIEW IN TWO CRITICAL ASPECTS WHICH A WOULD-BE TRAVELER MUST EVENTUALLY CONFRONT,
FIRST IS THAT THE EVERY-DAY CITY OF PARIS IS CONSCIOUSNESS’ NATIVE HOME, AND NO AMOUNT OR TYPE OF EFFORT WILL EVER TAKE IT THEREFROM,
AND SECONDLY IS THE FACT THAT ISTANBUL IS NOT SOME DISTANCE FROM PARIS, BUT IS IT FACT RIGHT UNDERNEATH ITS STREETS,
FROM YOUR VOICE IN CONSCIOUSNESS YOU CAN SAY WHATEVER YOU LAKE
ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS:
YOU CAN SAY THAT THE PROBLEM WITH CONSCIOUSNESS IS “THIS”, OR “THAT”:
YOU CAN SAY THAT CONSCIOUSNESS SHOULD NOT BE “HERE”, BUT RATHER, “THERE”,
ANYTHING THAT ANYONE CAN SAY ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS, (AND THEY WILL, REMEMBER,
BE. SAYING WHATEVER IT IS FROM CONSCIOUSNESS)
ANYTHING THAT ANYONE MIGHT SAY CONCERNING CONSCIOUSNESS WELL,
FROM SOME VEEW, SEEM APPLICABLE,
WHILE, AS REGARDS OUR ESSENTIAL, NON-CONSCIOUS SELF
NOTHING CAN BE FACTUALLY, ACTUALLY SAID OTHER THAN: “IT LIVES.”
IT EATS, BREATHES, SLEEPS, MOVES ABOUT AND — LIVES.
COMPARED TO WHAT MEN BELIEVE THEY “KNOW” ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS, NOTHING IS REALLY “KNOWN” ABOUT THEIR ESSENTIAL SELF — FOR NOTHING NEED BE “KNOWN”.
KNOWING IS THE JOB OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
KNOWING, GUESSING, FIGURING, SPECULATING, THEORIZING, PLAYING, “WHAT IF?”,
AND CEASELESSLY TALKING BOTH TO ITSELF AND TO OTHERS.
THIS IS WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS DOES —
DOES NATURALLY,
AND DOES INCOMPARABLY, (IN THAT IT IS ALONE IN WHAT IT DOES):
AND, (WATCH THIS NOW), WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS “DOES” REQUIRES NO
CONSCIOUS ATTENTION BE GIVEN TO IT
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PONDER FOR A MOMENT THE INHERENT RAMIFICATIONS HEREIN:
CONSCIOUSNESS — THE VERY ATTRIBUTE. OF MAN THAT HE CONSIDERS DISTINGUISHES HIM FROM THE UN-THINKING, NON-CONSCIOUS CREATURES,
AND THAT RAISES HIM ABOVE THE LEVEL OF A MERELY INSTINCTIVELY DRIVEN ANIMAL —
THIS FORCE — CONSCIOUSNESS — IS ITSELF NOT DRIVEN BY CONSCIOUS FORCES. THUS, CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF CANNOT BE SAID TO BE, “CONSCIOUS”,
DOES ANYONE BEGIN TO GET A FULLER PICTURE OF ALL THIS?!,
ONE THAT LIES JUST OUTSIDE THE VISUAL RANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS?!
I REPEAT: ONCE YOU BEGIN TO SEE FOR YOURSELF.
WHAT’S GOING ON IN THIS REGARD,
THE GOAL OF ALL THE EFFORT IS REALIZED TO BE:
NOT TO “SOLVE SOME PROBLEM” INVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS,
BUT RATHER TO FINALLY RECOGNIZE THE REALITY OF A SITUATION
INVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS,
WHEN A MAN “AWAKENS: ACHIEVES ENLIGHTENMENT: GAINS LIBERATION”,
(OR MORE SIMPLY PUT: “REALIZES WHAT’S GOING ON”),
HIS CONSCIOUSNESS DOESN’T “GO ANY WHERE” —
— HIS MISUNDERSTANDING OF CONSCIOUSNESS DOES,
IT GOES AWAY,
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WHAT I HAVE JUST DESCRIBED COULD, IN A THINKING PERSON,
PRODUCE SEVERAL INTRIGUING AND PROFITABLE QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:
ONE: IF CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOTHING MORE THAN WHAT IT DOES,
AND WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE, THEN HOW CAN IT EVER “SEE” OR UNDERSTAND ITSELF?
FACT: IT CAN’T,
AND ANOTHER POSER: IF CONSCIOUSNESS CONSTITUTES THE TOTALITY OF WHAT
I ORDINARILY THINK-OF AND ACCEPT-AS BEING “ME”,
THEN WHAT OTHER KNOWLEDGE EXISTS OF “ME” THAN WHAT I ALREADY KNOW?
FACT: NONE,
WHICH UNCOVERS ANOTHER QUANDARY: IF IT IS MY CONSCIOUSNESS AND IT ALONE
THAT HAS AN INTEREST IN ALL SUCH QUESTIONS AS THESE,
AND CONSCIOUSNESS CAN NOT SOMEHOW, “GET OUTSIDE OF ITSELF”,
THEN WHY SHOULD I EXPECT THAT IT WILL EVER FEND ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION?
FACT: YOU SHOULDN’T — THE ACTIVITY ITSELF IS JUST ANOTHER UNRECOGNIZED
EXAMPLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS DOENG, IN ITS FREE TIME, EXACTLY WHAT IT IS
SPECIFICALLY CONSTRUCTED TO DO: SOLVE PROBLEMS, AND WHEN NONE ARE
CURRENTLY PRESENTED TO IT, IT WILL ENGAGE IN A KEND OF,”PRACTICE FOR”,AND
“STAYING-IN-SHAPE-FOR” REAL PROBLEM SOLVING,
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WHICH IT DOES IN WAYS QUITE FAMILIAR TO MEN,
BUT WHICH THEY FAIL TO CORRECTLY UNDERSTAND,
WHEN CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT INVOLVED IN TRYING TO SOLVE SOME
PROBLEM RELATED TO ITS HOST’S SURVIVAL, IT LAPSES INTO WHAT MOST
PEOPLE THINK OF AS, “DAY DREAMS” — THE MIND SIMPLY WANDERING ABOUT
AUTOMATICALLY, WITH NO APPARENT PURPOSE OR AIM
AS IT ENGAGES IN SUCH THINGS AS:
COMPLAINING, PLOTTING, AND PLAYING WITH THEORETICAL CHALLENGES,
AND ONCE THESE ARE ALL RECOGNIZED AS BEING “MAKE-BELIEVE”,
AVOCATIONAL VERSIONS OF THE REAL JOB OF ACTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
THERE IS NO BASIS FOR ANY QUARREL WITH WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS DOES,
DAY IN AND DAY OUT, WHETHER ACTUALLY ON ITS REAL JOB,
OR JUST HARMLESSLY PASSING THE TIME IN THE ONLY WAY POSSIBLE FOR IT,
WHEN YOU HAVE REALIZED THIS “SO HEAD ON” AS TO BE UNABLE TO EVER FORGET IT, THEN ALL OF THE ENERGY YOU HAVE BEEN USING IN CONDEMNING THE LIFE OF PARIS, AND IN TRYING TO ESCAPE THEREFROM
IS FREED AND NOW AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR OTHER NEEDS.. …… SHOULD THERE
BE ANY (191) WHAT D’YA THINK?!,
YOU FIGURE THAT AFTER YOU REALIZE THAT
THAT THERE’RE BE ANYTHING LEFT THAT YOU NEED?!
…AND PERHAPS, PERTINENT TO NOTHING, IS THIS:
IF YOU ASK CONSCIOUSNESS FOR PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE,
IT ALWAYS SEES — “TROUBLE AHEAD”. ….(AND,
MAY I ASSUME THAT WITHOUT ME TELLING YOU THAT YOU SEE THE SOLUTION
TO THAT ONE?!’ ….AND ALSO I TRUST THAT ON YOUR OWN YOU’LL
REALIZE THAT CONSCIOUSNESS HAS NO OBJECTIVE INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN QUESTIONS REGARDING ITS PREDILECTION TO DIRE PREDICTIONS?!
..THE TRUTH IS YOU’RE GOING TO EVENTUALLY HAVE TO FACE. THE FACT. THAT
CONSCIOUSNESS HAS NO INTEREST OF ANY KIND IN ITSELF,
— SO WHY SHOULD YOU?! —
ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT “YOU”,
THE “YOU” THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT IN ALL OF THIS,
IS NOTHING BUT YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS.
TAKE A MOMENT AND PONDER AGAIN…AND DEEPER:
CONSCIOUSNESS CAN”T CHANGE DOESN’T NEED TO BE CHANGED,
AND YET WE CAN MAKE IT EXPRESS BOTH A DESIRE TO CHANGE,
AND ALSO THE BELIEF THAT IT CAN DO SO.
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THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT —
YOU THINK YOU HEAR A NOISE —
YOU GET OUT OF BED TO INVESTIGATE —
YOU FIND A GHOST RAMBLING ABOUT, BUT AS SOON AS YOU EXPRESS ALARM,
IT IS INSTANTLY BY YOUR SIDE,
CONCERNED OVER YOUR DISMAY, AND
READY TO HELP IN ANY WAY.
— AND DON’T SNICKER TOO SOON AT THIS SCENE,
THE REAL HOWLER IS IN THE FACT THAT THE DISTURBING INTRUDER WAS,
(AS I SAID),
AN — APPARITION TO BEGIN WITH.
SO, THE SILLINESS IS NOT SIMPLY IN ACCEPTING THE OFFERED ASSISTANCE
OF THE INTRUDER WHO HAS INVADED THE SANCTITY OF YOUR INNER ABODE —
— ONCE YOU HAVE CAUGHT HIM!,
NO, THE SUPREME MISPERCEPTION IS IN TAKING THE INTRUDER TO BE SOMETHING
OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF THAT HAS INTRUDED,
AND THAT IT IS “REAL”, IN THE SENSE OF IT BEING ANYTHING OTHER THAN,
YOU YOURSELF — YOUR OWN CONSCIOUSNESS,
IT’S JUST THAT YOU DON’T RECOGNIZE IT WHEN YOU’RE THINKING THAT
YOU’RE NOT IT,
IF THE AIM OF THIS ACTIVITY IS SAID TO BE:
TO SATISFY ONE’S CONSCIOUSNESS BY MAKING ONE WHOLE,
THEN I PUT THIS STRING OF WORDS TOGETHER AGAIN:
IN TRYING TO PULL OUR SELF TOGETHER,
WE TEAR OUR SELF APART,
THE INNER DISSATISFACTION SUFFERED BY THE MYSTICALLY INCLINED IS NOT DUE TO SOME PROBLEM REGARDING CONSCIOUSNESS
WHICH NEEDS TO BE SOLVED:
ALL THAT IS REQUIRED TO DISSOLVE THE INTERNAL UNEASE IS THE FULL FRONTAL REALIZATION OF THE SITUATION,
THE PURPOSE OF MY, “LOOK AWAY” METHOD IS TO KEEP A PERSON FROM CONTINUING TO LOOK INTO A MIRROR AND BE FRUSTRATED OVER THE FACT THAT THEY ALWAYS SEE: “THE-SAME-OLD-THING”.
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IF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, (THAT IS: WHAT YOU, IN CONSCIOUSNESS,
TAKE TO BE “YOU”),
WAS THE ACTUAL SITE OF WHERE YOUR SOUGHT-FOR CHANGE MIGHT OCCUR
THEN YOU WOULD BE IN FOR A REAL DISAPPOINTMENT,
FOR CONSCIOUSNESS WILL NEVER BE: “RAISED, EXPANDED, AWAKENED,
OR ENLIGHTENED”,
AND THINKING THAT IT CAN CONTINUES TO MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT “YOU”
ARE FAILING IN YOUR ATTEMPTS TO BECOME SO,
SINCE IF “YOU”, (IN THE SINGULARLY, “HUMAN” SENSE),
ARE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND NO ONE’S CONSCIOUSNESS CAN BE CHANGED,
THEN THE “YOU-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS” LIKEWISE IS BEYOND ALTERATION,
MOST WHO BECOME INVOLVED IN THIS ACTIVITY
DIE BEFORE,EVER REALIZING THIS:
I SAY THIS TO ENCOURAGE YOU
BECAUSE IT IS THE SIMPLICITY OF IT THAT KEEPS IT FROM BEING REALIZED,
AND IF THERE’s ONE THING THAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT,
THAT’S — SIMPLISTIC,
AND IF THERE’S ONE THING THE EYE CAN NEVER SEE — THAT’S ITSELF, AND IF
THERE” SOMETHING THAT THE FOOT CAN NEVER STOP STEPPING ON —
THAT’S ITS OWN SOLE.
NO ONE CAN FIND FAULT WITH CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS LIFE, BUT CONSCIOUSNESS, AND NO ONE CAN FREE IT FROM THIS FOLLY BUT YOU,
AND AS LONG AS “YOU” FEEL YOURSELF TO BE BUT THE YOU-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS, ….WELL, SURELY YOU SEE THE PREDICAMENT THAT PRESENTS, AND ONCE YOU DO SO, IN A MANNER UNCONDITIONAL FOR YOU, THEN THE MATTER IS CLOSED.
…OH, YOU MAY STILL PERIODICALLY FALL BACK INTO A MOMENTARY,
TOTAL IMMERSION AND DISAPPEARANCE IN CONSCIOUSNESS,
BUT IN THE OVERALL PERSONAL SCENE
YOU NO LONGER SUFFER RESIDUAL, IMAGINARY EFFECTS FROM SUCH IMMERSIONS,
…THEY BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN AN ADULT STICKING THEIR HEAD INTO A CHILD’S ROOM FOR A SECOND AND OBSERVING IT IN HARMLESS PLAY.
…ONCE YOU SEE THIS FOR WHAT IT IS — THEN YOU’RE DONE LOOKING -THEN YOU CAN SIMPLY, “LOOK AWAY” …AND NONE THE WORSE FOR IT, OTHER THAN HAVING SPENT POTENTIALLY “MATURE TIME”
WATCHING A “CHILD’S ACTIVITY”
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ONCE A MAN IS FULLY REALIZED HE WILL LOOK BACK ON THE YEARS WHEN
HE CALLED HIMSELF, “ASLEEP AND DELUDED”
AND REALIZE THAT HIS ONLY ERROR WAS IN NOT UNDERSTANDING
WHAT THE TERM ACTUALLY SIGNIFIED,
AND WHAT IT WAS IN HIM DOING THE SIGNIFYING,
REGARDLESS OF HOW I MAY PHRASE THINGS IN MY EXPEDIENT REMARKS & WRITINGS,
YOU SHOULD NOT EVEN THINK IN TERMS OF,
“CONSCIOUSNESS SAID,”SUCH-AND-SUCH” TO YOU”,
OR THAT YOU HAD A CERTAIN ATTITUDE TOWARD CONSCIOUSNESS
IN THAT IT IS ALL A COMPLETE ILLUSION
INASMUCH AS THERE IS NO YOU APART FROM CONSCIOUSNESS
FOR CONSCIOUSNESS TO SPEAK TO,
AND NO CONSCIOUSNESS APART FROM YOU FOR YOU TO HAVE ANY ATTITUDE TOWARD,
AND FROM THIS FLOWS THE ADDITIONAL FACT THAT YOU ERR WHEN YOU THINK,
“I WAS JUST ASLEEP AGAIN, BUT I CAUGHT MYSELF AND NOW I AM NOT.”
WHEN WHAT REALLY OCCURRED WAS THAT CONSCIOUSNESS SAID:
“I WAS JUST ASLEEP AGAIN, BUT I CAUGHT MYSELF AND NOW I AM NOT.”,
AND NOTHING WHATSOEVER IN CONSCIOUSNESS HAS CHANGED DURING ALL OF THAT,
IT WAS JUST SOMETHING THAT CONSCIOUSNESS SAID,
AFTER AN IMMENSE,
SOME TIMES EXCITING,
BUT ALWAYS CHALLENGING — IMAGINARY JOURNEY THAT HE HAD TAKEN WHILE BLIND,
A MAN RETURNED HOME,
REMOVED THE COVERING FROM HIS EYES,
BLINKED A FEW TIMES AND SAID: “WHAT A RELIEF!”