People ask me, they say: ”Hubert  --
--  is spending your life trying to --
--  GET THE UNDERSTANDING --
a 'serious' thing, or
not a serious thing?”
and I say to them:
“Do you consider cancer serious?”
and when they say, Yes, then I say:
”Do you consider you not having, 
THE UNDERSTANDING
serious?”
and when they say, Yes, then I say:
”Do you figure that what goes on in your mind now
is what keeps you from THE UNDERSTANDING?”
and if they say yes to this, then I tell them about the
specialized diagnosis of thoughts being a viral infection of the brain, and if they pass out from hearing this --  I revive ‘em, and --  Bingo! --
                         --   they’ve got it.
 
 

It’s Saturday here at the Mayo-PaNaze Clinic,
where a gaggle of the world’s better known,
better self promoted experts in the subject of:
”How To Seem To Yourself That You Might Be 
More Consciously Knowledgeable By Reading -- 
--  By BUYING My Book 
Than You Were Before, 
…Though Never As Conscious As ME.”
will be presenting a day long series of lectures.
We are assured that each speaker’s comments 
will be:
hard-hitting,
eye-opening,
insulting to the other speakers,
and in all other ways --  Unbelievable! --  Marvelous!
and mentally  --  Breath-taking!
It is nice that you decided to join us here today --
although little exertion is required……in that 
it will all be taking place inside your mind.
 

What a day!
What a game!
What a sport!
 

Do you take sports seriously?
Do you take neuro-juices seriously?
Do you take emotional memories to be bacteria,
and do you wash your mind after shaking 
mental hands with the contaminated,(which is to say):  with the uninvited thoughts trampling thru your brain.

What a day!
The schedule says that in one room will be lectures
that are formatted; with a stated,
and logically pursued topic,
while in another room will be free form commentaries
in a less structured form.
Oh --  and out by the pool they are expecting the world’s foremost expert in all of this
whose name, appearance, and subject matter 
is not known,
so it’s gonna be like -- every-man-for-himself
to try and recognize him when and if he shows up.
(You haven’t already forgotten that I told you this will all being taking place inside YOUR mind, have you?!)

                        Okay, here they come.
 
 
 

Consciousness is everything;
conscious IS man;
you are what you think;
you think what you think;
you feel what you feel,
and you also think what you feel:
feeling is everything;
facts from an angry man are bile;
directions from fearful man are uncertain;
opinions from a porcupine are prickly.

Consciousness is everything;
consciousness is whatever temperament is;
temperament is genes;
you are your genes;
your consciousness is a child of an  X-Y-tango;
the temperature of your thought patterns
trace your DNA’s dance steps;
when you’re hot your ideas soar,
and when you’re chilled, conception shrivels.

Those who KNOW --  know thought;
those who KNOW --   know feeling;
those who KNOW --   know about temperament,
and those who KNOW 
know it is their genes which know.

Knowing is voltage; knowing is hormones; 
a little potassium, a little sodium,
all the same as consciousness --  same as feeling,
same as looking at a porthole on a rocking ship,
and thinking a moving horizon.

An angry man gets THE UNDERSTANDING angrily,
and a timid man gets it timidly;
those with tall cells accept tall guests,
and those with short ones take in their own kind.

The squinty-eyed see squintily --
the squinty-eyed’s temperament is constricted,
and their cellular sight sees appropriately.

Consciousness is everything  --
--   except when known –
      --  then it is fog on a london night,
           with feeling always  --    the paris forecast.

You think you live where you’re consciousness,
                    but you live where you feel.
 
 
 
 

Phew!   What a day!
To be in the sun, and then  --  for this to happen!
………wait --  another one is upon us.
 
 
 
 

Those who say they KNOW --  do not know, 
                                                                 and 
those who know more than one thing – do not know, 
for there is only one thing that can be known --
           --  only one thing to know to know everything. 
 

Reading one book takes you one step from knowing;
reading two, takes you two steps away,
and listening to three lectures about knowing
moves you three days from the goal,
and entertaining your own thoughts on the matter
positions you a lifetime away from knowing.
 
 

You cannot know, and say that you do;
you cannot know and even think about your knowing;
these facts alone --  pursued to exhaustion --
                                              --   would lead to knowing.
 

Those who say they want to know -- 
--  and who do not take such a course --
whistle down a neural road to a roundhouse.
 

 
                   Those who KNOW, know --  “knowing”;
                         there is nothing else to know.
 
 

                                      JAN