(AN EXTENUATION OF YESTERDAY’S AD HOC MAPPING.)
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To go along with the previous concept of man having two selves: (a mental self, and a non-mental self), 
picture him living in two realities: 
a physical reality, and a mental reality;
they are both real --  but,
one is material, and the other, not.

Matter makes up the physical reality, 
and talk, the mental one;
both are necessary for a man to live an ordinary life;
at any given moment, one may be expediently
more important than the other, 
(although the former is always involved in 
everything a man does.) 

Man’s mental self takes mental reality to be of more importance than does his non-mental self, 
(which appears to be essentially either ignorant-of, 
or disinterested-in the existence of a 
non-material reality.)

Man’s mental self talks about both the 
mental reality, and the non-mental one,
while his non-mental self lives in silence.

Man’s mental self says that it can affect 
his non-mental self,
while the latter is silent on the subject,
(and obviously does not have to comment on its 
possible reversal --  in that it is literally the 
life support system for the former.)
 

Man’s life in the physical reality goes on 
more or less automatically,
although his mental self does not see it this way;
his mental self ascribes to itself 
more or less, carte blanche, freedom-to-choose,
and expands this notion into believing that it can
share this talent with the physical self;
this seems to make sense inasmuch as the 
mental self can exert its will on the physical reality,
(with of course, the assistance of the physical self.)

Thus one of man’s selves believes that within the 
Laws Of Nature & Physics  --  anything is possible,
while his other self lives a life of total routine,
making no comment thereabout.

Man’s mental self perceives clearly that the physical reality favors the status quo;
mountains do not want to move --  
they must be forced to do so --  
with the planning of man’s mental self,
and the labor of his non-mental self.
Man’s non-mental self favors the status quo also,
and left solely to its own designs, 
would move only to meet survival necessities;
actions other than these must be forced by 
his mental self.

Physical reality is what you stub your toe on;
mental reality is wherein you decide to move the 
matter against which toe suffered the painful experience.
Physical reality is where you get hungry;
mental reality is wherein you discuss which 
restaurant to visit.
Physical reality is where you become ill,
and mental reality is wherein you ponder the 
comparative prices of different doctors. 
And physical reality is where you know nothing – AND
are not fooled into believing otherwise --  WHILE
mental reality is where everything that men 
say they know --  is cooked up.

Even though, “physical reality & mental reality”
are themselves merely expedient, made-up descriptions, 
unless you see for yourself
the ever-present, always-working,
inescapable operation on which they are based,
you will never see you, mankind, or life clearly.
You, mankind, and life are all one big, 
unified ball of wax --  but --
men have a special spot in their ball that has a 
blind spot regarding itself, 
and has thus unwittingly, 
developed a dual perspective of the whole ball;
this spot is man’s mental self, and it sees everything
in terms of subject and object;
it is the subject, and whatever it thinks about is something separate from it --  an object.
Ergo, man’s perception of living in dual realities;
one of physical matter, and one of thought-&-talk.

Man’s mental self has made pretty short work of his
physical reality;
he has cured fatal diseases;
revolutionized the production of food;
changed the course of rivers;
gone to other planets;
and seen to the edge of the universe, 
and into the heart of an atom,
and man’s mental self has also made short work of itself --  but not in a sense profitable to a man 
seeking to understand in solitude -- what is going on.

Man’s mental self has classified the physical elements 
of the universe; 
described matter and energy;
charted the planet’s biology, and his own physiology,
but has no conception of itself --  apart from
what it has observed about its own physical reality.
It has continually attempted to expand its scope, 
and do otherwise,
and has gone so far as to give the effort its own name, (variously known as: Psychology, Psychiatry,
even, Philosophy),
but only a man with no personal, 
sighted-man of his own inside
can pretend to accept the vacuous speculations,
and theories presented thereby 
as having any enlightening significance whatsoever.
Only a solitary individual here and maybe, there,
who says he understands nothing about his 
mental self  --   understands ANYTHING about his
mental self,
and anyone who doesn’t understand what their mental self is about 
will never understand what mankind’s mental reality 
is about.

Even though the division being arbitrary and spurious,
if you will look at the life of man, (and in particular, your own), in this light of him living in twin realities,
one mental and one physical,
that which seems inexplicable becomes clear,
and that which you do not understand --  
--  explains itself.
The constant conflicts, bickering, and criticizing that seems so stupid and pointless in the life of man
is revealed as being something else entirely,
and your own personal, inner conflicts, 
and self-incriminations are seen to their root for what they are, and the generally unrecognized purpose 
they serve in the life of the herd.

You clearly have a body and a thing making talk in your head, (the so-called, mind),
and a sincere, even cursory glance seems to show them continually working at cross purposes,
and with the latter always making some judgmental
comment concerning whatever is going. 
All ordinary people --  without  ever thinking about it --
accept this life-long, on-going internal voice-over
as appropriate, 
but if you seriously entertain this noise -- 
--  even though it emanates from your own head --
you are heeding a voice with absolutely no credentials.
You are acting as though you believe that 
one part of your brain KNOWS more than YOU do.

Must it actually be pointed out to you how thoroughly
insane this is?!
In the physical reality it would the same thing as you insisting that you are actually taller than you are.

You live day and night in two realities:
one is a mental reality, 
and the other is a physical reality,
and put quite simply, but accurately:
to suddenly grasp the full unspeakable reality
behind this verbally described situation
is to open your eyes finally to what being a,
walking-around, breathing and thinking human being
is all about.
 

         Nothing less, and nothing less,
         --  for there is nothing more.

       
                          J