June
4, 2001,
VOICES:
Part 1
Everyone hears voices;
some believe they come from
god;
some believe they are from the
dead;
some believe they flow from
memories stored in their subconscious;
some take them to simply be
the various mortal voices of
dissent, agreement, expertise,
and stupidity
that issue normally from other
men,
and some call it them talking
to themselves;
some even them, “thinking.”
People do not respond well to
the statement that:
”Everyone hears voices” --
they will deny the assertion in their case,
and insist that it is only applicable
to those who are
mentally deranged --
BUT: Everyone hears voices,
and only the privileged few
who out grow the childhood habit of passively accepting the automatic resistance
their mind continually presents to this-or-that idea ever see the fine
details of life
in clear focus.
A man is not conscious until
he hears voices;
before that he is guided solely
by the silent messages of instinct;
he is not reliable, moral, or
trustworthy,
and is a constant danger to
his neighbors.
Unless a man hears voices,
he is unsettled both physically,
and internally;
if you look in his eyes, there
is an unfathomable emptiness
that is not seen in the eyes
of those who are hearing voices;
there is no detectable persona
behind the poet’s: “Windows-of-the-soul” for indeed, such
a man has no soul:
he has no self
-- for he hears no voices.
The voices that everyone hears
is
a man’s self,
(his uniquely-human, strictly-personal,
purely-individualistic self,
as opposed to simply his physical
body);
these voices constitute, alpha
to omega, what you think of as your,
“you” -- your
private, personal, internal self:
a
bunch of voices.
And you do not even know where
they came from,
or what their purpose is in
being inside of your head.
If you are a run-of-the-mill
person you, if asked,
subscribe to one of the possibilities
noted at the top –
-- which is the overall
reaction programmed into collective humanity,
but any periodically insightful
person periodically flashes on the fact
that none of the explanations
for man’s intangible, internal life
explain anything;
men understand the strange world
of sub atomic matter with much more clarity & certainty than they do
the former, (in spite of their study in that area having a five thousand
year head start).
Everyone hears voices;
everyone knows
that they hear voices;
through various ruses, everyone
denies
that they hear voices,
and none among the normal civilians
have any real interest in the
matter, (even those whose academic
& intellectual area of study
is the mind & brain do not
have the interest therein that
drives the lives of the secret
few, [if they did, their study would be limited entirely to themselves]).
Only a very few children are
born with a natural curiosity about the voices they hear which quickly
seem to take control of their lives,
and whose squabbles create a
constant state of internal
racket & agitation:
it is: ordinary men’s ordinary
state, and,
the mystics’ -- state-of-dreams.
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through this week’s Half Price Sale.)
Not only does everyone hear voices,
they actually think of it as:
“I am hearing voices” –
the voices they hear say: “I
am hearing voices,” and -- Bam-O!
--
-- the deed is done:
from nothing, the voices have
created an identity for themselves –
-- YOU.
This is the full landscape in
which the life-of-dreams thrives;
living mentally hypnotized by
the voices saying: ”I hear voices.”
Once this illusion has taken
over, your view of life, and of youself,
is never again unified, or completely
accurate & in focus;
you then do partially,
live-in-a-dream,
and the dream is that the thing
that says: “I am living in a dream”
is itself a dream -- and you never recognize the fact.
An ordinary man says/thinks: “I have thoughts”
when the enlightened fact is: “Thoughts have me.”
There is no mysticism, truth,
awakening, liberation, or enlightenment beyond that.
J
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