June
11, 2001.
"EITHER SHUT THAT THING OFF,
OR OPEN IT UP AND SEE WHAT'S MAKING IT PLAY!"
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(Voices: Part 5)
The voices are man’s ultimate
caregiver, and prison guard.
It is the voices, (of consciousness),
that enable men to
recognize and deal with problems
to which just their instincts
would be blind, and non compos
mentis.
The voices are your supreme caretaker
& overseer,
but they also act as a strict
restraining device,
and as long as they keep you
mentally looking at anything but them,
you will be normal, never satisfied,
and will never realize what
is really going on.
The voices are everyone’s friend,
(as always, for comparisons,
we only speak here of ordinary
people, not anomalies),
the voices are also the friend
of the few who live their inner life attempting to cut through the natural
fog & din,
but the voices also prove to
be something besides a friend to these solitary adventurers, and it soon
accomplishes little to think of it
in terms of them being your
enemy -- for that is not so --
-- which should be obvious,
in that life is in no wise suicidal,
or psychotic.
When people undertake to make
any change in themselves,
it is predicated on the fait
accompli that their present condition
in that area is not serving
their best interest,
and that its discernible manifestation
is indeed an enemy:
(alcohol, anger, depressing
daydreams, a gluttonous appetite).
And those few who hunger for
that extraordinary goal
which is not so describable,
also must begin with some picture
of an opposition to their desire,
and once you get past the kindergarten
stage of thinking it is
from a supernatural curse placed
on man, or the circumstances of your life, you are left with but one choice
-- the voices.
What clearly seems to stand in
the way of any change in your consciousness is consciousness itself;
it is the relentless running
of the useless & redundant voices
in your head which put you into
a semi hypnotized state,
and distract your attention
to your detriment.
You have not even begun this
adventure for real until you have personally & privately come to the
conclusion that the only thing
you have to actually struggle
with in the entire universe is:
the voices naturally occurring
in your own head.
BUT --
if you never get past that necessary
point-of-departure
you will ultimately be no better
off than when you started.
The voices of consciousness,
(and specially that certain-voice
among them that you think of as “you”
thinking-about-this-matter,
in those odd moments when you
do think of this matter),
are the only real help available
to you,
(another person’s words &
ideas about the matter offer
illusionary assistance and simple
entertainment);
only the voices in
you can lead you to that astounding destination,
(even though from one view,
it is they who keep you from it).
The reason your voices seem of
so little help is because of their own nature -- which is to look
at life -- not themselves.
They do engage in a form of
harmless play wherein they
will ponder the contents of
the thoughts for which they are a medium;
examining certain conversations
& images that repeatedly pass
through them for hidden significance
& explanations for the person’s
psychological discomfort.
This kind of self reflection
is in fact taken as a sign of superior intelligence, but it serves no purpose
other than to fortify the voices.
To maintain their functional
position in collective man
the voices keep people looking
at anything but the voices themselves; fixing men's attention on
the content of what they say & picture,
but never directly on the voices
themselves,
in the attempt to determine
their source & nature.
As long as they keep you rummaging
through their contents,
making you believe that if you
find the source of why
you have angry daydreams about
car salesmen, priests, or your mother,
such will be highly enlightening
& liberating, whereas,
vis a vis the goal of the few
-- it accomplishes nothing;
it reveals nothing, and indeed,
chasing such concerns
keeps your attention far from
where it could profitably be.
What the voices of consciousness
say in your head is of absolutely no significance to your awakening from
that detested, dream-like state
in which the rest of the world
peacefully lives.
What you hear in your head has
no relevance whatsoever
to your state of individual
consciousness & dissatisfaction;
it is not WHAT
the voices are saying -- but the voices themselves.
You will never catch-on
to what is going-on
as long as your attention remains
fixed on what the voices are saying rather than on the voices themselves,
and what makes this such a tricky
maneuver is that
the voices have ears --
and in hearing themselves speak,
the sensation is created of
there being two seperate entities in you:
you, and the voices you think you hear -- which is ridiculous,
there is clearly only ONE of
you, and the voices ARE you.
And right there it is
-- the
secret
is out!
That is precisely why things
are arranged so that most people
never give any thought to thought
itself:
they will talk about the things
they think ABOUT --
but never about thinking
-- their voices won’t let them –
their voices never even mention
the subject.
It is not an evil plot, or conspiracy
against man,
it is simply how it is
-- yet not so simply realized.
If the voices are all you have
for consciousness,
and they don’t want you looking
at them,
then who can
look at them?
Who else is there in your head to look at them?
That is THE
question, of which a thorough investigation will reveal
everything you and the rest
of humanity has -- Always-wanted-to-know.
There is no “answer,”
and you will not find “the
source” of the voices,
but that will not keep you from
waking up -- only not
looking will.
Dedicate yourself to looking
AT the voices, (that is),
attempting the near impossible:
trying to force the
voices to look at themselves,
and, “force” is the proper
word.
All you have is enough energy
for an eye-blink-effort -- once a minute, to pull it off.
But -- Sweet
Mavis Staples!
--
what the culmination of all
those eye-blinks eventually reveals.
It is so simple & obvious as to be totally astounding.
..........(How can
a human ask for more fun than this?!)
J
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