While wising-up will save you from shark bites,
you may still be nibbled by minnows.

Don’t sweat the sweat if it no longer comes from 
fleeing imaginary foes.

You can stand your nerves being on edge
if the edge is not something that requires thought 
to support it.

Feelings-via-temperament are not the same as 
emotions-in-support-of mental movies.
Realizing what the herd is faced with will 
release you from shark attacks  
--  but minnows may still nibble at your heels.
                                Big deals.
 
 
 
 
 

A person with an ordinary comprehension of life, 
man, and their self
is a person who, in their movie-running-head,
continually feels  under-a-special-pressure.
The more time you spend in your head,
(as opposed to your stomach, muscles or genitals),
the more of this minnow-threat pressure do you feel,
(and though primary head-dwellers tend to 
ignore the fact,
most of the world’s people still spend most of their time in the above noted other regions of their body).
 
 

All areas of your being & body, save one,
live in the instant moment &  present place;
their pleasures & responsibilities exist here-&-now only;
the stomach cannot enjoy tomorrow’s meal,
nor the genitals the caress of someone who is 
somewhere else;
nor can the body overall be threatened by any forces
that are not present, right here --  right now.
Any pressure a person feels beyond the clear confines
of the physical, here-&-now
are pressures of that special-sort.
 

These out-of-time-&-place, special-pressures
common to man are a major part of what keeps mankind’s
common existence together.
Without these displaced special-pressures 
man would have no art, no politics, no religion, no literature, no mythologies, no civilization in general,
and no man would be particularly distinguishable from the next man, other than for his size & strength.
 
 
 

Time outside of man runs at a speed different from 
the one in him that is under this special-pressure;
this is obvious even in relative terms if you observe the
contrasting tempos at which head-dwellers,
and the otherwise live,
(between sophisticated people, relying on their wits, 
and the bucolic, still dependent on their muscles,
[and as always in all situations describable by man,
this arrangement also exists inside of each man]).
 
 

This special-pressure is the source of all conflict between men that you cannot put your finger on – LITERALLY!
If there is a dispute among people which cannot be set down before them, and they able to 
touch with their hands,
then the dispute --  no matter the verbal description given it --  is caused by the escaping fumes arising from the special-pressure extant in the participants. 

There are no political disputes --  
ones over land, perhaps;
there are no religious disputes --  
ones over access to mates, perhaps;
and there are no ideological disputes of any sort --
only the differences in language as spoken by the stomach, and the head.
People who act as hacks for all forms of fault finding
are outlets for the special-pressure life has built up in humans alone,
and those few people who sincerely hunger for an alternative inner condition vent this pressure back onto themselves.
Unless they get stuck at a childish stage,
they get over turning the pressure onto their own stomach, sex organs, or physical self in any manner,
and direct it at their non-physical self --  and properly so,
(although they are given to labeling it spuriously as:
heart, soul, & spirit whereas this other self is nothing but another purely physical operation taking place in 
their head).
But if in pursuit of satisfying their unique longing 
they do finally focus correctly on the activity going on continually in their own head, and do not imagine it to be anything other than what it clearly is,
they get down to a bare knuckle, winner-take-all
unsanctioned slugfest carried on entirely in their own head, and between combatants who can be but vaguely, and expeditiously identified.

Those who come this far, for a long time unanalytically
believe that they know who the competing figures are:
their sleeping mind and their would-be awakened one,
but they believe in error.
No man has two heads  -- everybody has but one,
but everybody does have one head that is under   
special-pressure,
and the realization & understanding of this is the release of the annoying pressure…..which somebody somewhere once called…uhhh?!….uhhh?!, oh yeah --  enlightenment.
 
 
 
 

Everything that bothers & confuses you about life, 
yourself and other people is due to the special-pressure present & natural to all men;
it plays an observably important role in the well being of the human herd, but a solitary cow, here-&-there,
shaking off the pressure, is never noticed,
and harms no one.
He then holds up his part in the compelled 
collective life of the herd only as minimally required --
which does not -- which does NOT include 
him taking the herd’s life seriously.
 
 

     For the life of the human herd that is unique to man 
     is fueled entirely by the special-pressure to which a 
                        wised-up-person 
                       no longer pays any attention.
 

                                              J