THE REALITY OF A CERTAIN ILLUSION.
 
 
 
 

                                     You are both: 
             what-you-are, and: what-you-think-you-are --
                  and not alternately, but concurrently.
 

Those who not do fully understand the deal
derive obvious pleasure in claiming that man lives in a world of illusion;
that everyone save the speaker is deluded 
regarding the true nature of life and themselves 
by exotic nefarious forces which by and large
now dominate man’s original pure, insightful essence.
 

The religious see it in terms of a contest between 
good and evil; the sociological as between 
wealth and want; the psychological as between 
conscious desires and non conscious needs;
the political as between the past and the future,
and the would-be understanders conceive it to arise-from and be centered-around the normally unnoticed, unutilized potential of the brain to produce
states of consciousness which seem to itself to be
sufficiently distinct from one another as to 
merit discreet designation.

While deitists believe they can be either: 
saint or sinner, and humanists-psycho-sociologists-cum-whatever-else-is-left  believe that men can either come to acceptable grips with their inner demons, or no,
a man with the understanding sees the same 
internal landscape in the context of it consisting of 
what can only be called, from a human perspective: inalterable reality -- it is what a person really IS.
 

But floating, omnipresent above the genetic landscape
is an atmosphere composed of another form of reality,
which, comparably speaking, 
seems neither physical, nor immutable;
and just as external to man,
the Earth and its surrounding atmosphere can be  classified, and studied as separate entities --  and yet:
the two are composed of the same elements 
that make up everything in the universe;
the two are obviously at all times in direct contact with one another at every point on the globe,
and the two are known by all to be engaged in
constant interaction, activity which produces the weather of this planet, be it fair or foul, 
and internal to a man can be seen a strikingly 
similar situation between, not Earth and atmosphere,
but between: what-you-are & what-you-think-you-are -
--they seem different enough to be called by different names, but their relationship matches the major ones between Earth and air, supra described.
 

All routine people who say they are committed to “changing themselves” apply their attention predictably to their internal atmosphere, (that is):
to the area of what they THINK they are,
but no matter what is done here, (and to even
verbally acquiesce to the belief that anything therein 
ever gets actually, “done” 
is herein merely a linguistic time-saver, 
the truth of the matter being easily obvious to
a right-wired-man who takes the time to take objective note thereof -  but neversomeless),
even if a person could alter the make up of their 
inner-atmosphere, this alone would not  --  COULD not result in anything beneficial, or permanent;
just putzing around with the atmosphere alone 
will never change the nature of your internal weather -- any moron can recognize this, (if any moron wants to), but such is precisely what all systems for getting-the-understanding are about, (including the one you’re gradually formulating for yourself).
Plus, you can effect no useful, controllable change in your internal weather and overall planetary conditions 
by trying solely to alter the terrain of your 
cellular planet, (via drugs, starvation, 
sleep deprivation, or other folly),
for even if you externally level a particular mountain,
any change in the weather that may occur will be confined to that specific locale, and will by no means be predictable, permanent, world wide, or advisable,
but still the salient point being that even if you could directly alter the condition of either your internal landscape, or your atmosphere,
doing so with one, (which would consume a life time), 
would have no overall, desirable consequence,
and trying to do so with both simultaneously
is not only beyond mortal ability, but is outside your mental talent to even thereof operationally conceive,
in that even if you could undertake & sustain such a 
two pronged effort
with each alteration you made to one, (the land),
you would have to immediately make some unknown
appropriately related one to the other, (the atmosphere, and vice versa)  --  no, such is not how it is:
here is how the matter pragmatically stands:
you cannot get results by working either on just your atmosphere, (what you think you are),
nor just on your landscape, (what you are, 
[as operationally improbable as that be anyway]),
and you cannot profitably attempt to change them both concurrently, since your mind does not have the capacity to calculate every possible reaction one of the two could have to every possible change in the other….plus men do not live long enough to even try every possible combination….plus you simply can’t do it;  it is not a job that can be literally accomplished from the-inside-out), 
so --  what is left?  --
to see the situation as it is --  in you  --  for yourself,
and then wash your hands of any more futile efforts,
and meaningless concerns.
 
 

Every person is both: 
what-they-are, and: what-they-think-they-are
and to ordinary minds they are separate, and distinct,
while in fact the two are inseparable,
and endlessly interactive, 
while the latter is totally beholding to the former.
 
 
 

You can’t change dirt, 
and you can’t alter your atmosphere without directions   that could come only from your dirt.
 

               Men  paying homage to gods
               is the second acknowledging the authority of
               the first. 
 
 
 

Who but an idiot kicks dirt to teach it a lesson, 
or curses the air to make it change course?! 
 
 
 

      The big understanding = 
               The recognition of the  big inevitable, 
but not the “inevitable-word” spat out by 
the deranged, nor the one whimpered by the mousy.
What a man with the understanding understands 
has nothing to do with the “inevitable”
any more than it does with the evitable.
 

Such a man’s hands are filled with matching weight; 
both his lobes are fed by the same voltage,
and his inner earth and atmosphere are in 
natural harmony... just as they have always been….
even before, during and after 
he finally became aware thereof.
 
 
 

Man is whole: there is only a unified you in you;
you do not have an awake mind & a sleeping mind;
you do not have an enlightened consciousness,
and an everyday one,
and you do not have a separate internal earth, 
and atmosphere -- 
together, they constitute you -- the total you, 
which consists of:
what-you-are, combined with: what-you-think-you-are,
and thinking that things are otherwise is to be captive of:
everyday consciousness, and a sleeping mind.
 

                Why put up with this condition
                                     now that you know better?! 
 
 

Oh yeah, the illusion refrerred to in today's headline is that of you
             seeming to be the you that you think you are.
                                         J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To routine minds, the inner world is one of multiple & separate forces,
but it only appears thus because your consciousness works so slowly
   that you do not see life to be the unified blur that it actually is.