The Desire to Awaken Exists Only in Your Own Cerebral Cortex
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COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
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MORE LAB NOTES KEPT BY A CERTAIN MAN WITH THE SAME GOAL AS US WHO SPENT PART OF HIS RECENT VACATION IN A DIFFERENT INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT.
EXACTLY WHAT IS THIS THING WE BLITHELY TAKE FOR GRANTED AND ABOUT WHICH SPEAK SO LOOSELY, THIS, “SELF-AWARENESS” THING?!
TO BE “SELF-AWARE” REQUIRES THAT WE BE CONSCIOUS, (A REQUIREMENT WE SEEM TO MEET), AND,
CONSCIOUSNESS CAN CERTAINLY “BE AWARE” OF THE BODY AND ITS ACTIONS, BUT HOW, PRAY TELL, CAN CONSCIOUSNESS BE AWARE OF ITSELF’?I
….I KNOW FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE THAT IT SEEMS TO SO BE, BUT, ISN’T IT PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE’?I
CANNOT “SEE” ITSELF AS IT CAN YOUR ARMS AND LEGS
AND FURTHERMORE: AS REGARDS THE APPARENT, TWO POSSIBLE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, (THE ONE I CAN CONTROL AND PREFER, AND THE ONE BEYOND MY GRASP WHICH I DISLIKE), AS REGARDS THOSE TWO: WHY CAN THE FORMER BE AWARE OF THE LATTER, BUT
NOT THE LATTER OF THE FORMER?
…WHY IS THE “SELF-AWARENESS” OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS NOT OPERATIONALLY
SYMMETRICAL IN THIS RESPECT?
…BUT EVEN THIS APPARENTLY REASONABLE QUESTION CONTINUES TO IGNORE THE OVERSHADOWING FACT THAT IT SHOULD BE PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS TO “BE AWARE” OF ITSELF IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.
HAVE MEN SIMPLY INVENTED THE WHOLE NOTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS BEING AWARE
OF ITSELF IF SO, FOR WHAT PURPOSE DID THE CELLS IN OLIR CORTEX WHICH
PRODUCE WHAT WE CALL, “CONSCIOUSNESS” LEAD US TO MAKE SUCH A MENTAL INVENTION?!
IS THE REAL DEFINITION OF OUR SORT, THIS: “SOME ONE WHO HAS SERIOUSLY FALLEN FOR THE ILLUSION OF, “CONSCIOUSNESS’ AWARENESS OF ITSELF”, AND SUFFERS THE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF?!
…(I SHOULD MARGINALLY NOTE THAT I USE THE WORD, “SUFFER” IN THIS CONTEXT AS SYNONYMOUS WITH, “ENJOYMENT” AS PER MY PRIVATE LEXICON.)
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YOU CAN STUDY AND THINK METAPHYSICALLY, OR YOU CAN STUDY AND THINK PHYSICALLY,
BUT NEITHER ZEN NOR NEUROLOGY, SUFISM NOR PSYCHOLOGY WILL DILVER TO YOU THAT WHICH SUCH AS WE SEEK,
EN CONTEMPLATING THE MATTER OF AWAKENING TO ANOTHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
IT BEGINS SEEMING FAR TOO COMPLICATED….
…THEN BECOMES PROMISINGLY SIMPLE.
….THEN GETS EVEN MORE COMPLICATED THAN INITIALLY,
“MORE COMPLICATED” THAT IS, IN THE SENSE OF YOU BEING FACED WITH
THE APPARENT FACT THAT NO DISCOVERY OF A PRIMUM MOBILE SEEMS LIKELY,
ONCE I GOT PAST EXPECTING OTHER MENS’ IDEAS REGARDING AWAKENING
TO GET THE JOB DONE FOR ME,
AND GOT OVER BEING CONCERNED ABOUT THIS FAILURE,
MY ATTENTION THEN WENT TO THE BASIC QUESTION I HAD OVERLOOKED:
WHAT REALLY IS, “AWAKENING”,
AND WHAT EXACTLY IS INVOLVED IN MY DESIRE TO ACHIEVE THIS “SOMETHING”
THAT CONTINUES TO SEEM SO INDEFINABLE?!
SIMPLY PUT: ALTHOUGH I HAVE NO DOUBT AS TO THE PERSONAL PROPRIETY
OF MY INVOLVEMENT IN THIS AFFAIR, STILL I SHOULD CONSIDER THE QUESTION: JUST WHAT IN THE”DESCRIBABLE HELL” IS ACTUALLY GOING ON IN THE LIFE OF ONE INVOLVED IN THIS PURSUIT?!
…(AGAIN I FEEL MOVED TO RECORD AN ASIDE TO WHAT I HAVE JUST NOTED AND POINT OUT THAT NOW, DURING TIMES WHEN I AM NOT MORE SPECIFICALLY ACTIVE IN THE PURSUIT,
PLAYING MENTAL CATCH WITH MYSELF REGARDING SUCH QUESTIONS
IS MORE FUN THAN I FIND OTHERWISE AVAILABLE.)
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OH, AND HERE IS ANOTHER OF THOSE PRIVATE QUEERIES I FIND SO PLEASURABLE,
AND PROFITABLE:
THE REAL “QUESTION” IS NOT: “HOW CAN I BE WANTING TO MAKE CONSCIOUSNESS
MORE AWARE OF ITSELF AND NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT AWARENESS IS”?! — NO,
THE REAL QUESTION IS: “HOW COULD I FOR SO LONG NOT BEEN AWARE OF NOT KNOWING?!
…NOW THERE’S — “MY KIND OF INQUIRY!”
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IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ONE SUGGESTIVE DEFINITION OF AN “INTELLIGENT MYSTIC” WOULD BE THIS: “A MAN WHO EXPECTS NOTHING,”
AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT HERE IS ANOTHER QUESTION WITH REAL ALLUSIVE POTENTIAL: “MIGHT IT NOT BE WISE & WORTHWHILE TO FIND AN APPROACH TOWARD OUR GOAL
THAT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY ENTAIL ANY CONDEMNATION OF YOURSELF?!”,(THAT IS): A WAY TO GO ABOUT THIS ACTIVITY THAT DOES NOT CARRY AN UNDERLYING SENSATION THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS SOMEHOW, “FAILING”””
…PUT YET ANOTHER WAY: IF WE ARE BY NATURE, “ASLEEP”
AND YOU CONDEMN YOURSELF EACH TIME YOU CATCH YOURSELF SO, HOW CAN THIS BUT NOT CONTRIBUTE TO SAID STATE OF SLEEP?!
AND FURTHER STILL: CONSCIOUSNESS CAN PLAINLY CONDEMN PHYSICAL THINGS A MAN MAY DO, BUT TELL ME PLEASE,
HOW CAN IT CONDEMN ITSELF? HOW IS THIS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE?
AS I SIT HERE ALONE IN THE LAB, GAZING ABOUT AT MY MANY PAST EXPERIMENTS
I AM ALSO MOVED TO PONDER THE QUESTION:
“HOW CAN A MAN APPARENTLY UNDERSTAND THOROUGHLY WHAT THE STATE OF,
“BEING ASLEEP” IS AND YET NOT BE CAPABLE OF KEEPING HIMSELF
PERMANENTLY THERE OUT OF?!
I MARVEL IN THE DELIGHT OF BEING ABLE TO FORM SUCH QUESTIONS TO MYSELF, EVEN WHILST AWARE OF THEIR LIMITED VALUE…BUT THEN YOU MUST ALSO CONSIDER THAT OUR LIFE ITSELF IS OF LIMITED VALUE IN THAT DEATH BRINGS IT TO AN END, AND MY EXPERIENCES OF NOT BEING ASLEEP PUTS THE FINISHING END TO ALL OF THE IMPOSSIBLE QUESTIONS I HAVE SO FORMED,
THE BALANCE, BEAUTY AND JOYFUL MENTAL JUSTICE OF IT ALL IS WITHOUT EQUAL. -,,,,IF YOU CAN PERSEVERE, ALONE IN THE LAB LONG ENOUGH,
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I HEARD OF A MAN WHO MADE THIS SACRED PROMISE TO HIS SAINT BERNARD:
“I WILL DO ANYTHING TO AWAKEN’ EXCEPT, (APPARENTLY): GIVE UP
THINKING ABOUT IT,” — “ARF,” THE DOG IMMEDIATELY REPLIED, AS HE SAID TO HIMSELF:” IF I COULD THINK, I’M SURE THAT I WOULD UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU
MEANT AND AGREE WITH IT, ARF!, (OVER AND OUTM BIG GUY),”
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AFTER A CERTAIN LAD HEARD HIS FATHER SAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT:
“YOU CAN NEVER KNOW WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS ACTUALLY IS.”, HE FINALLY WHINNED: “BUT I DON’T WANT TO KNOW THAT I CAN’T KNOW —
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS!”, AND THE FATHER HUFFILY REPLIED: “SO OKAY — GO ON — KNOW ALREADY .”
THIS BRINGS TO MY MIND A RELATED SOMETHING: ALL OXYMORONS ARE BASED ON “THOUGHTS BEING UNABLE TO CONCEIVE OF THEIR OWN PARENTAGE.”
WHICH STIRRED UP THIS IN MY HEAD: ALL IRONY RESTS ON THE FACT THAT
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE THAT THOUGHTS CAN PERCEIVE BETWEEN WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE IS THE DIFFERENCE IN THE SPELLING OF THE TWO WORDS.
WHICH REMINDS ME OF A GUY WHOSE MOTTO WAS: “IF YOU DON’T THINK ABOUT A THING
THEN YOU’LL NEVER LATER HAVE TO TRY AND UNTANGLE YOURSELF FROM IT.”
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WHY DO MEN NEVER ASK THEMSELVES THIS: “HOW AM I ABLE TO SIMPLY OPEN MY MOUTH, AND A COHERENT, (EVEN LENGTHY AND COMPLEX), GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT SENTENCE COMES FORTH WITHOUT ME KNOWING IN ADVANCE WHAT IT WILL BE”?!
OR TAKING THIS WHOLE AREA OF DISCUSSION BACK TO THE MATTER OF US EITHER: “BEING CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OR NOT”: PONDER THIS FACT: WE CAN BE AWARE OF WHAT IS IN OUR CONSCIOUSNESS,
BUT NOT AWARE OF WHAT PUT IT THERE –
…THUS IT REMAINS IN ERROR TO SAY: “I AM CONSCIOUSLY AND KNOWINGLY ‘AWARE’ OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS.”
(AND ONE MAN THOUGHT: “IF I COLLECT JUST ONE MORE OBSERVATION ABOUT MYSELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS I DON’T KNOW WHERE I’LL FIND ROOM TO PUT IT!”
AND I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT HE MEANS, AND YET WE ALSO REALIZE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO THOUGHTS: THERE IS. ALWAYS ROOM FOR MORE,
WHICH MEN DO NOT ORDINARY TAKE NOTE OF BUT WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT “THINKING AND STUDYING ABOUT AWAKENING” IS SUCH AN ALLURING SNARE.
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WHEN A CERTAIN SQUIRREL SAW A CHIPMUNK CAUGHT IN A RAT TRAP, HE SAID: “BETTER TO BE AN ANOREXIC IN A LAND OF LARD ASSES THAN TO BE A SUMO WRESTLER
ON A BLIND DATE WITH JENNY CRAIG.”, AND THE TRAPPED CHIPMUNK SPAT BACK: “WHAT IN THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?!”, AND THE SQUIRREL CALMLY REPLIED: “WELL, WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE, A PHILOSOPHER OR SOMETHING?!”
AND THE CELLS IN A CERTAIN MAN’S CORTEX THAT WERE THINKING UP THIS SCENE
WITH THE CHIPMUNK AND SQUIRREL SUDDENLY STOPPED — LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER AND ASKED THEMSELVES: “WHAT EN THE HELL DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN?! -AND HOW MUST IT BE EFFECTING THE POOR MAN IN WHOSE HEAD WE’RE IN?!”
(IT’S NICE TO KNOW THAT AT LEAST SOME OF OUR NEURONS HAVE A HEART.)
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IN MOVING TOWARD AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION :”WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS”, ALL PROGRESS IS INCREMENTAL,
NOTE: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS, “INCREMENTAL PROGRESS” IN THIS AREA,
THE CONTINUAL HANDLING AND POLISHING OF A MIRROR MAKES IT NO MORE PROBABLE THAT IT WELL EVER BE ABLE TO SEE ITS OWN,REFLECTION IN ITSELF,
ALSO NOTE: WHILE THIS EXAMPLE OF THE MIRROR MAY SEEM TO OFFER THE
FINAL WORD ON THIS PARTICULAR MATTER
REMEMBER THAT, WITH THOUGHTS AND MENTAL PICTURES, THERE IS NO “FINAL WORD”;
….THERE IS ALWAYS — “SOMETHING TO FOLLOW”,
AND HE WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THIS ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
WILL NEVER GET PAST THE FUTILE ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND CONSCIOUSNESS
USING ITS OWN CONTENTS,
WE SINK :DEEPER INTO A COMA BY TAKING AS MEDICINE, OUR OWN SLEEP,
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A MAN HUNTING LIONS WILL TAKE NO NOTICE OF FOXES WHO COME WITHIN HIS RANGE, AND A MAN HUNTING FOXES WELL TAKE NO NOTICE OF GOPHERS WHO COME WITHIN RANGE, QUERY: WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE YOU’RE HUNTING?, AND WHAT DO YOU TAKE NO NOTICE OF
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EVERYONE ENGAGED IN THIS SPECIAL SPORT OF OURS SHOULD HAVE AS THEIR PERSONAL WEAPON: A SMILE. BEFORE EACH AND EVERY EFFORT YOU MAKE OR THOUGHT YOU THINK
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THE WORDS, THOUGHTS & PICTURES GOING ON IN YOUR BRAIN WHICH PROVE THAT
CONSCIOUSNESS IS STILL ALIVE ARE, UNDER ROUTINE, NON-PRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES,
LIKE A REHEARSAL FOR A PLAY:
IT’S ALWAYS: REHEARSAL,REHEARSAL, REHEARSAL:
GOING OVER YOUR LINES AGAIN AND AGAIN, FOREVER
IMAGINING HOW YOU WILL ACT IN THIS OR THAT SCENE;
LIVING MOST OF YOUR MENTAL LIFE IS A STATE OF CONSTANT – REHEARSAL.
MY GOD! — LIFE IN THE THEATER — DON’T YOU JUST LOVE IT?!
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PEOPLE WITH INTERESTS LIKE MINE SUCH BE WARNED NOT TO TAKE
“WAKE UP LESSONS” FROM ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT
“BEING AWAKE” IS:
ONLY TAKE ADVICE FROM ONE WHO SAYS THAT HE’S FOUND WAYS TO GET OVER BELIEVING
THAT YOU CAN KNOW,
IN OTHER WORDS: ROACHES SHOULD NOT TAKE SURVIVAL INSTRUCTIONS FROM
AN EXTERMINATOR, BUT RATHER FROM ONE WHO DOES NOT ACCEPT THE ILLUSION OF
AN EXTERMINATOR TO BE OTHER THAN WHAT IT IS.
..IN FURTHER OTHER WORDS: YOU ARE NOT AWAKE, BE YE MAN OR WOMAN,
UNTIL YOU ARE TOTALLY, FULLY, COMPLETELY AND UNQUESTIONABLY AWARE THAT
IT IS YOU THAT IS STEPPING ON YOUR OWN DICK-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS,
AND THAT THE FOOT WITH WHICH YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING THE
TREACHEROUS TREADING IS IN FACT YOUR DICK-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
THE MYSTIC’S LAST PRAYER, (PERHAPS), MAY BE:
“HEY YOU — GET OFF OF ME!”, FOLLOWED BY THE RESPONSE: “‘HEY YOU’ YOURSELF — I AM YOU, (YOU PINHEAD)!”
….(SOUNDS RIGHT TO ME.)
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HOW NOT TO DROWN IN YOURSELF: NEVER THINK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE AS, “PEOPLE”, (HEM, HER, OR THEY), BUT AS:”CELLULAR ACTIVITY IN THEIR BRAIN”:
WHEN YOU REALIZE THIS AND CAN HOLD IT IN YOUR OWN CONSCIOUSNESS YOU WELL NOT FALL INTO THE CHURNING, MURKY WATERS OF YOUR OWN CORTICAL CELLS’ MECHANICAL RUNNINGS, AND BE IN THAT STATE CALLED, “BEING ASLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN”.
N T E IDEA THAT PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE.
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I BELIEVE ANOTHER LOOK IS EN ORDER REGARDING THAT VEXING OBSERVATION I HAVE PREVIOUSLY MADE THAT SAYS:
ALL STUDY-OF, READING, THINKING AND TALKING-ABOUT EITHER,
“BEING AWAKE” OR “BEING ASLEEP” CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A STATE OF SLEEP,
THERE IS NO WAY TO GO FROM THE STATE YOU DON’T LIKE TO THE ONE YOU DO OTHER THAN BY “DOING IT”:
THERE ARE NO METHODS, SECRET WORDS OR IDEAS THAT WILL CARRY YOU THERE:
THIS PARTICULAR “MOVE” IS PROBABLY THE CLOSEST THING THERE IS TO SOMETHING THAT CAN ONLY BE REALIZED BY DAMN-NEAR — “NOT TRYING TO DO IT”,
AND WHILE THIS IS CERTAINLY NO VERBALLY SATISFYING DESCRIPTION
AN ALERT EAR CAN THEREIN DISCERN AN EVOCATIVE POTENTIAL.
CONSIDER IT LIKE THIS FOR A MOMENT:
IF THE EFFORT IN WHICH YOU’RE ENGAGED — AS YOU MENTALLY PERCEIVE IT -IS FUTILE, AND THUS CONTINUALLY LEADS TO A SENSATION OF HAVING FAILED, AND FEELINGS OF SELF DISAPPROVAL,
THEN AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT I MEAN BY, “DAMN-NEAR NOT TRYING TO DO IT” WILL FREE YOU THEREFROM — FOR:
DO YOU NOT TRY — YOU CANNOT FALL, AND:
SHOULD YOU LEARN TO ABANDON THE IMPOSSIBLE, YOU CANNOT FAIL BUT TO BENEFIT,
YOU CAN ADOPT A MYSTICAL VIEW OF THE ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE CONDITION OF
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, OR YOU CAN ADOPT A SCIENTIFIC POSITION:
YOU CAN TAKE A SPIRITUAL VIEW, OR A PSYCHOLOGICAL VIEW:
A ZEN VIEW, OR A SUFI VIEW: A YOGA VIEW OR A TANTRIC VIEW:
YOU CAN TAKE ANY VIEW KNOWN OR ANY THAT YOU CAN INVENT, BUT
NONE OF THEM ARE OF ANY CONSEQUENCE…EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT:
ANY AND ALL OF THEM WILL KEEP YOU STEADFASTLY SNOOZING YOUR LIFE AWAY,
YOU MUST — AND CAN ONLY — “JUST DO IT”!, AND BY THAT I CONTINUE TO MEAN: “BY DAMN-NEAR NOT TRYING TO DO ANYTHING.”
MAY I MAKE NOTE AGAIN OF A PREVIOUS OBSERVATION, (TO WIT): THAT THE PROPER
DEFINITION OF AN “INTELLIGENT MYSTIC” COULD BE:
“HE WHO EXPECTS NOTHING.”,
WHILE THOSE MYSTICS WHO NEVER. CATCH ON
CONTINUE TO EXPECT SOMETHING.
…(A MOST TELLING DISTINCTION.)
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WITHOUT ANY DOUBT.; TAKING UP THE EFFORT TO AWAKEN IS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT WOULD OTHERWISE BE,
YOU STRUGGLE TO GET FREE FROM A CONDITION WHICH, BY YOUR DECISION TO MAKE SUCH A STRUGGLE, STRENGTHENS THE POWER OF THE CONDITION,
WE UNDERTAKE TO MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR OURSELVES,
AND THROUGH DOING SO, MUDDY THEM LIP EVEN MORE SO UNTIL WE FULLY
COMPREHEND WHAT THE WHOLE THING IS ACTUALLY ABOUT,
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT TO BE A TRUE MYSTIC IS TO ALTERNATE BETWEEN BEING A GENIUS AND BEING A SIMPLETON.
…(“SIMPLETON” IS PERHAPS NOT THE RIGHT WORD…”LAZY-ASS” MAYBE….)
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YOU ALWAYS SERVE YOURSELF WELL TO, (AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE),
REMIND YOURSELF THAT THE DESIRE TO AWAKEN EXISTS NO WHERE BUT IN YOUR OWN CEREBRAL CORTEX,
AND THAT THERE IS NO SIGN OF IT ANY PLACE ELSE EN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
AND I ALSO HAVE RECENTLY HEARD OF YET ANOTHER MAN WHO FOR MANY YEARS.
HAD BEEN TRYING TO AWAKEN AND WHO, IN HIS OWN MEND NOTED:
“I HAVE MADE ENOUGH OBSERVATIONS ABOUT MYSELF TO EITHER: CHOKE A HIPPO,
OR ELSE SUFFICIENT TO AWAKEN A DOZEN MEN,
SO WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW TO GET THIS JOB OVER AND DONE WITH?”,
AND THE ANSWER OF COURSE IS FOR HIM TO GIVE LIP THINKING ABOUT IT, AND DO IT,
WHILE UNRAVELING WHAT I MEAN BY “DAMN-NEAR NOT TRYING TO DO IT”.
EN EACH PASSING SECOND HE SHOULD REPLACE WHATEVER HIS CELLS MIGHT WANT TO THINK, RELATED TO DOING IT, WITH THE INSTANT ACT OF, “DOING IT”, WHILE DAMN-NEAR NOT TRYING.
THE ANSWER IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ALMOST TOO SIMPLE TO BE PERCEIVED, FOR IT IS EXTREMELY — NO, UNIQUELY DIFFICULT TO
EXPLAIN TO A MIRROR WHY IT CANNOT, OUT OF EVERYTHING ELSE IN CREATION, EVER SEE ITS OWN REFLECTION IN ITSELF.
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IT HAS FOREVER BEEN ACCEPTED BY ALL MANKIND THAT WE HAVE TWO MENDS:
THE RELIGIOUS SAY WE HAVE A GODLIKE ONE, AND A DEMONIC ONE: PSYCHOLOGISTS SPEAK OF A CONSCIOUS ONE AND AN UNCONSCIOUS ONE, WHILE NEUROLOGISTS HAVE TAKEN THE MATTER DIRECTLY TO THE BRAIN AND HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THE TWO HEMISPHERES OF THE CEREBRUM REPRESENT
IN FACT OF FUNCTION, TWO DISTINCT BRAINS, (OR MINDS),
PUTTING THEIR PHYSICAL, NON-MYSTICAL FINDINGS IN SIMPLE TERMS PERTINENT TO THOSE MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THOSE SUCH AS ME: IT CAN BE SAID THAT THE CELLULAR ACTIVITY IN THE LEFT HEMISPHERE IS ENDLESSLY ENGAGED IN VERBALLY ANALYZING AND PLANNING,
WHILE THE CELLS OF THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE SILENTLY. MONITOR OUR PRESENT SITUATION AND CONDITIONS,
SO: ONE OF OUR “BRAINS” IS CONTINUALLY MAKING VERBAL REPORTS REGARDING NOT ONLY THE PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT IS COMPARING THEM WITH PAST ONES, AND MEASURING THEM FOR POSSIBLE USE IN THE FUTURE,
WHILE OUR OTHER “BRAIN” (MIND) IS STANDING AS A STEADFAST, SILENT SENTRY OVERSEEING OUR BASIC PHYSICAL WELL BEING:
USING THIS AS A VERBAL-BASED SPRINGBOARD FOR ADDITIONAL THOUGHT I COULD SAY THAT TAKING THIS SPLIT BRAIN/MIND VIEW THAT:
THE REALITY OF BEING MORE “AWAKE” WOULD BE EN A CONDITION WHEREBY WE HAVE NO SENSATION OF THERE BEING TWO SEPARATE BRAINS INVOLVED WITH OUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE RUNNING OF OUR LIFE,
FROM ONE PERSPECTIVE ON THIS MATTER WE COULD SAY THAT THE LEFT BRAIN
SEES THE RIGHT ONE AS A MUTE SUBORDINATE
WHILE THE RIGHT BRAIN SEES THE LEFT AS AN ALIEN,
BUT WITH A CERTAIN “BALANCE”, PRODUCED BY YEARS OF ATTEMPTING TO “AWAKEN”
THEIR VIEWS BECOME COMBINED AND EQUAL. THE STATE. THAT WE SEEK.
….(WERE A MAN WITH MY INTERESTS TO BECOME MOMENTARILY ATTRACTED. TO
THIS AREA OF BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY & ANATOMY, I WOULD REMIND HIM MOST VIGOROUSLY TO TAKE IT FIRST AT ITS LITERAL, PHYSICAL LEVEL, AND THEN, METAPHORICALLY, (BASED ON HIS OWN OBSERVATIONS REGARDING HIS OWN CONSCIOUSNESS), AND
THEN TO COMBINE THE TWO INTO A SEAMLESS WHOLE, THIS IS THE ONLY WAY
BYWHICH THINKING ABOUT THIS AFFAIR CAN EVER BE OF ANY POSSIBLE VALUE.)
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GOING ON EVEN FURTHER, MAKING USE OF THIS SPLIT BRAIN, NEUROLOGICAL
VIEW, WE COULD PROPOSE ANOTHER THOUGHT-EXPERIMENT IN THE FORM OF A THEOREM
RELATED TO OUR SPECIFIC AREA OF INTEREST:
THEOREM: “BEING ASLEEP” IS MAN’S NORMAL CONDITION WHEREIN THE TWO SIDES
OF HIS BRAIN ARE CARRYING ON WITH THEIR DIFFERENT RESPONSIBILITIES
WITH NEITHER HAVING ANY OR LITTLE AWARENESS OF THEIR SPERATENESS AND
DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS,
A SITUATION THAT A FEW PEOPLE SOME HOW CAN “SENSE”, AND WHO FIND IT ANNOYING,
SO FROM THIS THEORETICALLY ASSUMED VIEW, TO “BE ASLEEP” IS TO BE
BOTHERED BY A NORMAL ACTIVITY BASED ON A CERTAIN ARRANGEMENT IN THE BRAIN
WHICH OTHER PEOPLE NEVER TAKE NOTE OF –
…WHICH LEAVES THE STATE OF “BEING AWAKE” SOMETHING LIKE:
“SAILING YOUR BOAT A BIT CLOSER TO THE WIND THAN EVERYONE ELSE
EVEN WHEN SUCH IS NOT NECESSARY,
INTHAT EVERYONE WILL GET WHERE HUMANITY IS HEADED ANY WAY —
OVER THE EDGE OF THE EARTH INTO THE GREAT CELLULAR RECYCLER;
BUT AT LEAST THE CONDITIONS ABOARD SHIP OF THOSE MORE AWAKE
IS LESS HURRIED AND HARRIED: MORE CLAM AND QUIET,
FOR LIFE DOESN’T SEEM TO CARE PERCISELY HOW NOISY AND FRANTIC THINGS ARE ON ANY ONE VESSEL,
IF YOU DO CARE, THEN WELCOME TO THE STEELY-EYED & STUBORN, SOLITARY SAILOR’S SECRET SAILING SOCIETY
WHERE OUR MOTTO IS: “WE DON’T HAVE ROOM ON BOARD FOR A MOTTO: WE JUST “DO IT” — WE JUST SAIL ON WITH NER’EE A SOUND.”
AND ONE MAN NOTED: “OFF TO ONE SIDE I HEAR: TALK, TALK, TALK, WHILE ON THE OTHER SIDE I HEAR NOTHING:
…BUT I HARDLY EVER REMEMBER TO PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THAT SIDE
FOR SOME REASON I WONDER WHY?!”, AND I COULD POINT OUT TO HIM THAT:
TO THE AVERAGE HUMAN, TALK IS MORE INTERESTING THAN SILENCE, NO?!
IN LATE 1999, HERCLILE ERBERHART, (A LIFE LONG EMPLOYEE OF THE “TWO SIDED COMPANY”), SUDDENLY — NEVER SHOWED UP FOR WORK AGAIN, AND WAS QUICKLY CLASSIFIED BY THE PERSONAL OFFICE AS: M., A.A.”, “MISSING, ASSUMED AWAKENED.”