May
28, 2001.
If you had been born in, and
were still living in the wilds,
you would not now be trying
to awaken, nor have any of the
mental concerns collateral to
such efforts.
This is not to say that such
is preferable,
nor encouragement that you should
live that life,
but is raised as a radically
based reflection of the
unexplored topography of man’s
homeland terrain.
Use the mental investigatory
technique of picturing yourself
as a native of a remote area
in a large, sparsely inhabited rain forest
wherein each day’s literal survival
is dependent on YOUR physical
efforts to see to same, via
the acquiring of food, potable water,
and adequate shelter.
Such mere subsistence situations
still exist on this planet,
thus your picturing of yourself
in such is not a feat of pure fiction,
(and internally, [so to speak],
everyone forever lives in this condition).
If every day your life depended
on what you could pick or kill –
-- as harsh as such a
life sounds -- you would not be the tight-jawed,
squinty-eyed, concerned, urban
and urbane person you are now.
Even though each and every morning
of your life
you awoke, facing the quite
real possibility of dying that day,
you would have a certain jolly
attitude, not shared by any of the
physically pampered, and protected
in the civilized world.
(Remind yourself: this is no
assault on wealth, or sophistication,
and is not another attempted
setting up of: this-group-is-right,
and, that-other-bunch-is-wrong
type of thing,
but a non standard survey of
human existence.)
When a man is truly urbanized
& civilized,
he has not been simply physically
removed from feral
conditions of an external jungle,
but also his
internal center of gravity has
been moved:
shifted from his older, more
leisurely, more animalistic,
silent-areas-in-a-dark-forest,
to his newer, more constantly
active, and brightly lit, verbal places,
(in the brain-&-NS);
only when this occurs is a man
really, “up-to-date,”
and in the front ranks of man’s
collective march into de future.
If you were a native in a jungle,
struggling every day to just stay alive,
your brain’s consciousness would
be directly tuned-to,
and most-engaged-in matters
of survival -- YOUR survival,
(and perhaps, children of your
genes),
but YOUR survival;
you would have but one concern
in the whole wide world --
your survival.
Obviously you would not be worrying
about the fluctuations in the long term bond market, nor the growing animosity
between the post modernists, and the post, post modernists,
but the point is not to just
make you consider the characteristics you would lack
as a subsistence jungle native,
but rather a particular one
you would enjoy:
a cellularly-based jolliness;
a condition the antipodal of
“being asleep: living in a dream:
stumbling about in the dark,
and in confusion.”
The few who want to wake up certainly
seem born feeling just that way, and ‘tis not to say that it is unfounded,
or in some manner, imaginary.
No, the scarce, genuine, would-be-mystics-of-the-world
have a concern that could not BE more real to their nervous system,
but it is not a concern about
the conditions of the world-out-there,
it is their nervous system’s
intrigue with itself, (in its urbanized areas).
The overall needs of the body
will always control an ordinary man’s life, and the closer to such demands
does he live, the fewer mental complaints he experiences -- and yet,
by the mere fact of change,
(social evolution, as it appears),
men increasingly are limited
in pursuing such an existence.
In the city you cannot live
simply for yourself,
while in the jungle, that is
the only way you can live,
and here is the trick, (to put
it metaphorically simple):
let your hormones see to survival,
and leave your neurons in a
hammock.
Even an uncivilized, uneducated
man IS civilized
if his hormones & neurons
do not intermingle any more than is
profitable for survival, (on
a situation by situation basis).
Such a person, be they
in the woody jungles, or in the asphalt variety,
has a jolliness, a well founded
-- extremely intelligent -- insouciance.
”Intelligent” in that they lack
all concern for all that is
not relevant to their existence.
”Yes, such a man is dumb: he
has never even heard of
’long term bonds’ so how could
he be concerned over their present
rate of interest?!” ---
But that misses the whole lesson just as surely
as six billion people walk around
looking life dead in the face,
and then pretend that they did
not see a thing.
Correct “stupidity” IS
extreme intelligence.
Hormones know exactly the things
that make them jolly --
and seek thereof;
and neurons know precisely what
things fry-their-ass --
and go after them relentlessly
-- they are supposed to;
it is the training in which
life constantly keeps them;
day-dream-concerns-over-fruitless-matters-
as-preparation-for-future-actual-ones,
(it is mind running-in-place
as practice for upcoming races.)
The front area of a man’s brain
is led to continually be a medium
for worry & concern,
in that solving problems threatening
to him is its primary function,
but consider how many
immediate, life threatening situations you
will be encountering today
--- None! -- hence life encourages you to
imagine
some, (just to keep in shape).
The
civilized have always feared the barbarians -- plus, have always
envied them, (and hated them
even more so for the envy).
To the civilized eye, the jungle
native does not have
the right attitude about life;
he is too laid back;
too unconcerned with the problems
facing the world;
he does not try to better himself,
and get ahead -- and worst of all:
if you explain to him the error
of his ways -- he just smiles.
Hormones, cells & molecules
are always jolly,
(and a quark says to remind
you that every single bit of this is
about the world inside your
head, and nowhere else.)
Even while being native to a
civilized & educated environment,
you too can live a willfully
adopted, “subsistence existence”
which would be the answer to
your desire to “wake up,”
and be enlightened as to the
real nature of life --
-- plus, you can actually
FEEL the
jolliness of your hormones,
a connection that, when established,
cleans out neurons of concerns
of no immediate,
nor
personal significance.
”Being asleep & unenlightened”
can be properly defined as:
Being concerned with the irrelevant.
It does not sound sufficiently
mysterious for amateur mystics –
but none the old less --
there it is, and it is genuine.
Wake up every morning as a hormone
warrior:
a solitary native in an inaccessible
jungle:
no knowledge of where your day’s
food will come from --
but no concern either, hormones
do not have verbal-based thoughts,
thus they cannot think about
what-might-be.
They simply smile about still
being alive, and go on with whatever
small amount of pressing business
they may have,
(for a native, familiar with
his environment, can see to his survival needs with little effort, in minimal
time.)
Then -- To
the hammock!
To the neural hammock.
To dream, (if you wish), about,
“Being Awake.”
It can certainly be great mental
entertainment --
but certainly nothing to make your jaws get tight --
much less make you get up out of the hammock.
J
P.S. Only adult mystics should take this seriously
enough to try to act on it.
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