First Level of Confusion Is in Thinking About Yourself, the Second and More Captious Is in Thinking About the Way in Which You ‘Think About Yourself’
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MY NEWS FOR JULY 30, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
A POEM:
OHHH YOU CAN: THINK ABOUT THIS — OR YOU CAN:
THINK ABOUT THAT — BUT:
NO “YOU” CAN’T,
THERE IS NO “YOU”TO DO SO,
THERE’S ONLY YOUR AUTOMATIC, FRONTAL LOBE ACTIVITY.
…OKAY NOW, LET’S DO IT RIGHT: A POEM
OHHH YOUR FRONTAL LOBES CAN: THINK ABOUT THIS — OR THEY CAN:
THINK ABOUT THAT — AND:
THERE’S NOT A DAMN THING “YOU” CAN DO ABOUT IT — EXCEPT! WHEN YOU GET THEM TO HAVE THE THOUGHT:
“HEY, I WANNA STOP THIS AUTOMATIC FRONTAL LOBE ACTIVITY!”, AND AT THAT INSTANT THEY DO STOP THE THINKING THEY HAD BEEN DOING, AND THERE IS BUT THE THOUGHT: “HEY, I WANNA STOP THE AUTOMATIC FRONTAL LOBE ACTIVITY.”
…THEN WHEN THAT THOUGHTS “GOES THE WAY OF ALL THOUGHTS” (I.E.: GOES AWAY),
THE FRONTAL LOBES ARE RIGHT BACK AT THEIR USUAL, AUTOMATIC ACTIVITY.
SO! — HERE IS THE POEM DONE UP RIGHT, (OR AT LEAST, MORE RIGHTLY):
THINKING GOES ON IN MY FRONTAL LOBES, THINKING GOES ON IN MY FRONTAL LOBES, THINKING GOES ON IN MY FRONTAL LOBES — AND, NOTHING CAN STOP THEM BUT THEM –
…AND “THEY” CAN’T ACTUALLY “STOP THE THINKING”,
ONLY SWAP ONE THOUGHT FOR ANOTHER THOUGHT,
A SIMPLE AND POINTLESS ACT,
BUT ONE WHICH A FEW PEOPLE TAKE TO BE OF EXTRAORDINARY SIGNIFICANCE.
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ONE MAN DIVIDED HIS THOUGHTS :[NTO SEPARATE CATEGORIES: “THOUGHTS”, AND, “RECENT THOUGHTS”,
AND NOW TRIES TO LIMIT HIMSELF TO JUST THE LATTER CATEGORY.
…(OR PUT ANOTHER WAY):
ONE MAN WHO WAS NAMED ZACK, PRETENDED HIS NAME WAS JACK.- AND:
ONE MAN WHO WAS A NATIVE OF HUNGRY WOULD SING ONLY HAWAIIAN SONGS — AND: ONE MAN WHO WAS FROM YESTERDAY ACTED AS THOUGH HE WERE FROM TODAY,
DO YOU GET IT9′ CAN YOU PULL IT OFF?!, (THAT IS):
BE: WHO YOU ARE,
FROM WHERE YOU ARE, AND,
ONLY EXISTING, “RIGHT NOW”.
ONE MYSTIC, AFTER A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HIS BRAIN, CAME TO THIS CONCLUSION: “INSTEAD OF STRUGGLING AGAINST THEM,
I WILL WORK WITH MY FRONTAL LOBES.
…YES! — THAT’S IT!
(NOW ALL I’VE GOT TO DO IS LOCATE THE ‘I’ WITHIN ME THAT MADE THAT DECISION, SO THAT IT CAN CARRY IT OUT.”
…AND AFTER A PERIOD OF RUNNING AROUND IN INTERNAL CIRCLES,
THE MYSTIC REVISED THE WORDING OF HIS ORIGINAL CONCLUSION:
“INSTEAD OF FALLING INTO THE INFINITE TRAP OF THINKING THAT I CAN ACTUALLY, ‘STRUGGLE AGAINST MY FRONTAL LOBE ACTIVITY’, WHEREAS ALL SUCH NOTIONS ARE BUT MORE, ‘FRONTAL LOBE ACTIVITY’:
MY INTENTION WILL BE SIMPLY TO GET MY FRONTAL LOBE ACTIVITY IN THE HABIT OF BEING AWARE OF WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES,
AND KEEP AWAY,,THE DISTRACTING. DELUSION THAT THERE IS AN ‘I’ WITHIN ME INVOLVED IN THIS:
THE LOBES THEMSELVES WILL EITHER DO IT, OR NOT DO IT.”
THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SEE AN INVISIBLE MIRROR IS THE INVISIBLE MIRROR
ITSELF. AND EVEN IF IT CAN’T,
IT’S STILL THE ONLY THING THAT EVEN SEEMS LIKE IT CAN — SEEMS LIKE IT CAN.
ONE MAN WAS ABLE TO GET HIS RECORDING MACHINE TO PLAY BACK THE MESSAGE: “THIS IS NOT A MESSAGE FROM A RECORDING MACHINE.” — MY GOD!!, HOW DID HE ACCOMPLISH SUCH A FEAT?!?! —
IT’S UNBELIEVABLE’ NO?!.
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THERE ARE TWO LEVELS TO A CONDITION I CALL:
“APPARENT CERTAINTY, BASED ON CONFUSION”,
(WHICH SOME REFER TO AS THE STATE OF “SLEEP”):
THE FIRST LEVEL OF CONFUSION IS IN:”THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF”: THE SECOND, MORE CONFUSING AND CAPTIOUS LEVEL IS IN:
“THINKING ABOUT THE WAY IN WHICH YOU, ‘THINK ABOUT YOURSELF’.”
IN THE APPARENT STRUGGLE TO AWAKEN OR ENLIGHTEN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
THERE ARE BUT TWO POSSIBILITIES:
YOU ARE EITHER: ON-THE-JOB, OR NOT,
AND THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS THAT WHEN YOU THINK THAT
YOU’RE ON THE JOB — YOU ARE,
AND YOU’RE NOT ON THE JOB WHEN YOU’RE NOT THINKING THAT YOU ARE
AS PER HOW YOU THINK ABOUT NOT,HAVING BEEN THINKING ABOUT BEING ON THE JOB
THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK -. “NOW. I’M BACK ONJ:THE JOB”.
XXX
YET ANOTHER DEFINITION OF A MAN AWAKE TO REALITY:
A PERSON WHO, AFTER YEARS OF TRYING TO WEAR A YELLOW SUIT,
(WHILE EVERYONE ELSE WAS WEARING BLUE),
FINALLY UNDERSTANDS THAT COLORS HAVE NO OBJECTIVE EXISTENCE
INDEPENDENT OF THE EYE THAT VIEWS THEM,
AND THAT IN FACT,
ALL OF THE SUITS THAT MORTALS WEAR ARE THE SAME COLOR.
A POEM
IT’S ALL THE SAME, IT’S ALL THE SAME, I FINALLY WOKE UP AND, IT’S ALL THE SAME.
XXX
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THE SPIRITS OF ZOROASTER AND BUDDHA WERE TALKING AND Z ASKED B: “:[F THERE’D BEEN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE BRAIN IN YOUR DAY HOW DO YOU FIGURE IT WOULD HAVE INFLUENCED YOUR TEACHING?”,
AND BUDDHA REPLIED: “I FIGURE I PROBABLY WOULDN’T HAVE HAD ONE.”, (AND BOTH OF THEM HAD A SLIGHT URGE TO LAUGH —
BUT THE OLDER AREAS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR.)
NOTATION: THE ONLY THING EVEN RESEMBLING “KNOWLEDGE” THAT CAN BE OF ANY USE TO PEOPLE LIKE US
IS OF THE SORT THAT TENDS TO BE, “KNOWLEDGE DESTRUCTIVE”.
BOTH BORED DOGS AND FRONTAL LOBES WILL CHASE THEIR OWN TAIL: ONE. OF THE POSSIBILITIES, FOR A FEW,
MIGHT BE OF MORE SIGNIFICANCE THAN THE OTHER,
NOTATION: NOTHING IS OF ANY REAL SIGNIFICANCE EXCEPT STAYING ALIVE, AND AS LONG AS THAT’S GOING ALONG OKAY,
YOU DON’T THINK ABOUT IT,
AND THUS IT’S NOT OF ANY “PERCEIVABLE” SIGNIFICANCE AFTER ALL.
XXX
A SCIENTIST, AFTER HEARING A MYSTIC DESCRIBE WHAT HIS SEARCH WAS ABOUT,
SAID: “THE STATE YOU CALL, ‘BEING ASLEEP’ SEEMS TO ME TO BE
EVERYONE’S NATURAL CONDITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS,
AND WHAT YOU SAY THAT YOU’RE AFTER, AND REFER TO AS, ‘BEING AWAKE’,
SOUNDS UN-NATURAL.”, AND THE MYSTIC AGREED:”YES, I GUESS IT IS.”,
AND THE SCIENTIST ASKED: “THEN UNLESS YOU LEAVE THIS UNIVERSE OF REALITY,
HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO EVER :BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING THAT IS NOT NATURAL TO IT?!”
…THE MYSTIC, (HAVING A FAIRLY COMPLEX FRONTAL LOBE LIFE),
AFTER PONDERING THIS FOR A MOMENT, COULD NOT IN ALL HONESTY REPLY.
OKAY, I’LL ANSWER FOR HIM: AS CONCERNS THAT NORMAL FRONTAL LOBE ACTIVITY MEN CALL, “THINKING”,
THERE ARE THEREIN NO DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN THOUGHTS THAT ARE “NATURAL”, AND THOSE THAT ARE “UN-NATURAL”….OF COURSE WE ALL KNOW THAT THOUGHTS HAVE VERBALIZED SUCH A DISTINCTION, BUT IT AMOUNTS TO NOTHING MORE THAN THE SOUNDS THAT THE WORDS, “NATURAL AND UN-NATURAL” MAKE WHEN SAID, AND WHEN LISTENED TO AND TAKEN AS MEANINGFUL.
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THE FRONTAL LOBES, (THE SITE OF ALL CONSCIOUSNESS),
IS EITHER RECEIVING, AND ANALYZING SENSORY INFORMATION,
AND SENDING OUT APPROPRIATE MUSCULAR AND GLANDULAR DIRECTIONS,
OR ELSE IT TURNS INWARD ON ITSELF AND ENGAGES IN STORY TELLING
BASED ON THE MEMORIES, CHEMICALLY STORED IN ITS CELLS,
AND THE MOST DIFFICULT THING TO KEEP SIGHT OF IS THE FACT THAT
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITS SUPRA NOTED,RESPONSIBILITIES AS AN
OVERSEER OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM,
EVERYTHING ELSE — EVERYTHING ELSE IT DOES IS JUST STORY TELLING.
…THOSE WHO ENJOY THE FANTASTIC NOTIONS OF THE METAPHYSICAL AND SUPERNATURAL HAVE NO INTEREST IN REALIZING THIS,
XXX
ONE MAN WANTED TO DESIGN A FOOL PROOF BURGLAR ALARM SYSTEM FOR HIS HOUSE:
THE MAN HAD A GENIUS IA., BUT NO MATTER WHAT PLAN HE DEVISED
IT INVARIABLY HAD A WEAK SPOT —
A PLACE WOULD ALWAYS APPEAR IN THE SYSTEM THAT WAS PLAINLY VULNERABLE;
A PLACE WHEREAT AN INTRUDER COULD PASS THRU THE SYSTEM
WHICH WAS ALWAYS THE LAST PLACE WHERE AT SOMEONE WITHIN THE SYSTEM
COULD GET OUT AFTER ACTIVATING THE SYSTEM,
AND ALTHOUGH HE FAILED IN THE ORIGINAL GOAL
HE BENEFITED NONETHELESS IN THAT HE WAS ALSO ONE OF OUR SORT,
AND THE EXPERIENCE GAVE HIM A NEW INSIGHT INTO THAT ACTIVITY IN HIS
FRONTAL LOBES CALLED, “THINKING”.
REMEMBER THE MAN I TOLD YOU ABOUT WHO HIRED A ROBIN TO AWAKEN HIM
IN THE MORNING, THEN HIRED A CAT TO AWAKEN THE BIRD, THEN HIRED A DOG TO
AWAKEN THE CAT, AND HIRED AN ALLIGATOR TO AWAKEN THE DOG,
WELL, I DIDN’T TAKE THE STORY ANY FURTHER THAN THAT AT THE TIME,
BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THE MAN THEN HAD TO HIRE THE SUN TO AWAKEN.
THE ALLIGATOR BUT DON’T YOU SEE: THAT BEING THE CASE,
HE’D A’BEEN JUST AS WELL OFF USING THE SUN HIMSELF TO AWAKEN HIMSELF WITHOUT GOING THRU ALL THAT OTHER RIGAMAROLL.
…IT SURE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN AS ALLEGORICAL AND METAPHYSICALLY SOUNDING, BUT IT STILL WOULD’AVE GOTTEN THE JOB SURGICALLY DONE.
…BUT THERE YOU ARE AGAIN: MEN WHO LIKE TO THINK ABOUT_LIFE IN METAPHYSICAL TERMS ALWAYS PREFER POETS TO NEUROLOGISTS,
NOTE: MOSES STARTED OUT GIVING LECTURES REGARDING AN INTERNAL, “PROMISED LAND”AND ENDED UP AS A GEOLOGICAL SURVEYOR.
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REGARDING: CAPTIVITY AND THE DREAM OF FREEDOM:
THERE IS NO SLAVE LIKE ONE WHO THINKS HE CAN GET FREE.
“FATHER, TELL ME AGAIN HOW’AN ENLIGHTENED MAN IS A HELPLESS MAN’.”
“CERTAINLY MY BOY: ONLY THE HELPLESS ARE ENLIGHTENED.”
“IS THERE ANY MORE TO IT THAN THAT, DEAR SIR?”,
“YES MY SON,THERE IS: ONLY THEY ARE ENLIGHTENED
WHO ARE HELPLESS — (SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE) — BUT
WITH SOMETHING ADDITIONAL INVOLVED.”
“AND YOU’RE NOT GONNA TELL ME WHAT THAT ‘SOMETHING’ IS, ARE YOU, PA PA?1”
ONLY THE ORDINARY WORRY ABOUT THEIR RIGHT HAND NOT KNOWING WHAT THEIR LEFT HAND IS DOING:
OUR SORT SHOULD BE CONCERNED OVER THEIR FRONTAL LOBE CONSCIOUSNESS THINKING THAT IT DOES KNOW WHAT IT. IS DOING.
YOU SEE: ROUTINE “IGNORANCE” DOESN’T MEAN ANY MORE THAN DOES
ORDINARY “KNOWLEDGE”, IN THAT NEITHER OF THEM HAVE REAL SUBSTANCE,
BUT PEOPLE OF OUR ILK STEP INTO EVEN DEEPER IMAGINARY DOO DOO
IN THINKING THAT THINKING-ABOUT YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS,(ONE WAY OR THE OTHER),
IS THE EXCEPTION AND INDEED DOES HAVE SUSTENANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE.
FACT: ALL STORY TELLERS — ALL STORY TELLERS —
BELIEVE THEIR STORY TO BE THE EXCEPTION TO ALL LAWS GOVERNING STORY TELLING.
THE ONLY WAY TO EVER WAKE LIP TO WHAT LIFE AND THIS KIND OF INTEREST
IS ACTUALLY ABOUT IS TO SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT THE “I” WITHIN YOU THAT
HAS THIS INTEREST IS THE SAME THING AS THE INTEREST
…IS MO_MORE AND NO LESS THAN THE WORDS THAT PASS THRU YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
THAT DESCRIBE THE INTEREST.
BEING AWAKE, AND TRYING TO AWAKEN ARE TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS:
WANTING AND TRYING TO AWAKEN ARE NOTHING BUT INTERNAL “SOUNDS”
THAT YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS MAKES AND ACCEPTS AS MEANINGFUL SYMBOLS OF
SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL,AND SOMETHING APART FROM ITS THINKING OF
…AND IT IS NOT!
…TO ANY OBJECTIVE, SCIENTIFIC EYE, IT CANNOT BE.
IN THIS INSTANCE: THE EYE DOING THE APPARENT SEEING IS IN FACT
THE THING THAT IT BELIEVES IS BEING SEEN.
THE REAL MOTTO OF A MAN AWAKE IS: “THERE’S SIMPLY NO WAY AROUND IT”.