May
14, 2001.
While the popular image of a
person who
has purportedly achieved a non
standard state of mind,
(“mystics,” in common parlance),
runs from the fanciful &
foolish,
to the grotesque & impossible,
what goes unnoted is their radical
similarity to mankind’s well acceptable picture of the
down-to-earth, non metaphysical
Hero,
(both historical & fictional):
the Great
Warrior; the Wise
King;
figures whose behavior stood
them strikingly apart from the ordinary person.
In all cultures, from all eras,
men’s images of the Secular-Hero
are given characteristics which
are the same as are natural for a person who has achieved a Comprehension-of-life
with which men are not naturally
born.
The cellular activity that produces
man’s consciousness everywhere
has caused him to attribute
certain traits to the
Temporal-Hero
which instantly strike everyone everywhere as being unquestionably correct.
They can be counted as numerous,
but are consistently centered
around a core few,
several of which at random will
herein be used as examples.
A Secular-Hero
is never pictured as
whining or complaining;
from an ancient Greek warrior
to a contemporary lead character
in a sci-fi movie,
no one even considers the possibility
that the hero,
in the midst of his adventures,
will begin to whine about all
of the betrayals,
and hardships he has been forced
to suffer;
even has it been so --
it is literally inconceivable
that the hero would
make any comment thereon.
If the Warrior-Hero
is physically wounded --
he does not cry, nor even mention it.
This is not some misplaced,
testosterone-driven,
strictly male bravado,
it is a cellular-sourced, archetypical
reflection in all people’s minds of what a man with an expanded comprehension-of-life
would be like.
”Suffering-in-silence” is not
the point;
the understanding that suffering
is an illusion -- is.
The Mundane Hero does not
whine & complain because the under-conscious activity in his brain
that produces what is seen to be his “individual personality”
makes him behave in such a way,
while the unseen Man-Of-Comprehension
does not do so, simply because it no longer occurs to him,
based on his past extraordinary
experiences of
plainly seeing what is going
on in life,
without the filtration of the
usual brain activity that
constitutes man’s ordinary mental
conception thereof.
Another feature of the Temporal-Hero
is that
he does not brag;
he is not in fact, given to
talk about himself at all.
True again from Indian metaphorical
war lore of 4000 B.C. to Italian spaghetti westerns, circa l960.
Caesar does not trumpet
his own triumphs,
nor Solomon say: “Hey,
am I smart or what?!”
To the Mundane-Hero
is attributed the quality called, “humility”
while the operational reality that supports
this mental concept is simply
a natural,
un-thought-about aspect of a
Comprenhending-Man’s
being.
When you know
what is going on in life,
it never crosses your so-called,
mind to say words about yourself and your so-called, maybe-accomplishments.
Doing so would be a complete,
inconceivable denial
of everything that a man-who-knows
-- KNOWS.
The Secular-Hero
is unquestionably honest, and forthright;
he certainly would not steal from you,
nor engage in any form of duplicity.
Even if he is smarter than others,
he does not
”put them on,” or make
them look foolish,
any more than physically, would
Samson
take on 90 pound weaklings in
arm wrestling,
in some sort of attempt to make
himself “look good.”
You can conjure up from your
own memory & thought many other examples
of unquestionable traits that
the history of man says a true Hero would possess, and see if you do not
instantly recognize that such would also be at the very foundation of a
more expanded comprehension of life;
(if you read these daily news
reports for any reason
other than to increase your
irritation --
you should so easily realize).
Rather than laze in dreams of
what it would be like to be, “mystically - Awake,
or Enlightened”
consider instead the mental
concepts already established in your head of -- The
Hero,
and ponder the assertion herein
that such verbally describable, admirable, and desirable characteristics
would also secretly, and non
verbally outline the
life both externally and inwardly
of a person no longer
captured by the overall cellular
activity that produces
common, human consciousness.
To have seen, and to know for
yourself what is going on in life, (as opposed to what humanity is made
to
think is going on),
will result in you having no
interest in:
bragging, or talking about yourself;
no inclination to whine or complain;
no desire to deal in duplicity
with other people,
to lie to them; to criticize
them, or in anyway,
belittle them, and make them
“feel bad,” or inferior,
no ability to be dishonest,
and take what is not yours
since you have little to no
desire to have any of the “things” that so captivate ordinary people.
Such are some verbally handy,
expedient descriptions
of what would naturally occur
to a person who sees directly into the machinery of human existence;
a person who is an unseen, non
secular hero,
(”hero” to whom, is hard to
say, since he himself never thinks of himself thus, and certainly takes
no actions to try and make it apparent to others).
The popular image of a “mystic”
-
(a person possessing anomalistic consciousness) --
is of a weak, retiring, overwhelmed,
under appreciated, other-worldly
critic of humanity,
yet if you consider this but
briefly,
this describes what ordinary
men’s consciousness’
conceives of as the villains,
and toadies of history;
scum on the pond of human existence.
Ordinary men’s eternal picture
of a Hero is a valid,
external representation of what
is the internal
”reality” OF
one-who-knows,
and you need look no further
for accurate descriptions thereof.
Fact is, Those-To-Wealth-&-Privilege-Born
have a built in cellular story
teller that makes all of this privately available with no need to look
elsewhere.
There is, and has always been
in all men
an unspoken knowledge of what it would be like
to be of freer mind,
with a more informative state of consciousness;
it is just that ordinarily,
men are forced to pretend that such a possibility is outside the realm
of possibility.
J
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