June
13, 2001.
THE NICEST THING AN ORGAN HAS EVER DONE FOR A HUMAN,
OR:
EVERYBODY’S
TRYING TO WAKE-UP BUT JUST DOESN’T REALIZE IT.
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(Part 1 of a conversation.)
A son came into his father’s
library, and as he removed headphones from his ears said: “Why have some
of the world’s most revered composers written their most impressive works
for the church
when many of them were known
to be generally indifferent to religion? Something spectacular seems
to often happen when otherwise
quite worldly men turn their
efforts to the praise of a deity;
I know that the religious minded
would say the extraordinary
artistic output was God’s reward
to the artist for his efforts of tribute, but there is surely something
else going on that I am missing.
Would you, Pa Pa, grace me with
your insight into the matter.”
His father stopped what he was
doing, and replied:
”Man’s creation of the idea
of a God is without doubt
the nicest thing he has ever
done for himself,
and understood aright --
the most potentially enlightening.
Now son, in what I am going to
say to you
I could keep referring to, MAN
as the creator & sustainer of
the idea of a God,
or be more literally accurate
and say, THE BRAIN,
which undeniably is the ultimate
source of all that man invents,
but if you have noticed in our
past conversations of this ilk,
if I continually speak of THE
BRAIN as the responsible party for what is going on in man’s secondary
world rather than saying, MAN is,
your mind tends to become strained
& your hearing labored --
have you noticed this tendency
in yourself?”
The lad pondered the query for
a moment, then said:
“You are right. Looking
back, I am aware that I prefer you to speak of, ‘man’ doing this-or-that
thing, rather than his, 'brain'
having been responsible, (even
though it surely is).
I obviously do have a prejudice
against hearing the brain talked about as the responsible entity in human
affairs rather than man.”
The boy paused, and looked off
for a bit, then spoke again:
”That is strange. Why
is that?”
"That would be a whole other
conversation;
what you specifically asked
me about concerned the exceptional influence the idea of God appears to
have on men’s
creative endeavors,
but if you stay alert, perhaps
insights into your other question
will reveal themselves as I
speak.
The nicest thing that any organ
has ever done for man
was in the brain inventing the
idea of a God,
for what it actually did, (and
continues to do), via the notion of God,
is to indirectly: marvel at
itself;
plead to itself for help,
and sing its own praises.
To commence your realization
of this most pregnant affair,
every time you read or hear
anything that opens with the
salutary tribute cum plea: ‘Oh
Lord’, or, ‘Dear God’
simply substitute the words,
‘Oh dear brain,’ and you’re on the way.
Man is no fool,
he knows what has brought him
this far;
made him top dog of the planet;
enabled him to bend the environment
to his wants;
improved his health; extended
his life -- his brain;
not his muscles; not his feathers;
not his fins, nor scales, but his brain.
As with all life,
man pursues a course that promotes
life:
the brain is what brung him
to this fancy dress ball,
and it is the brain who he will
continue to ask to dance.
Man understands precisely
where to turn for help – the brain.
When his liver is ill, he does
not ask the liver for suggested treatment,
he asks the brain;
if larger creatures threaten
his well being,
he does not ask his stomach
what to do,
he unhesitatingly calls upon
the brain to formulate a plan of safety,
(and on & on, infinitum
sidum).
Man knows fully well from whence
all help comes in life -- the brain.
When terribly ill, and he consults
a doctor,
a man is not consulting another
equally, prone-to-be-sick person --
no, he is consulting that person’s
brain;
it is the brain that always
discovers how to reverse some previously
terminal malady, and it is the
brain alone that can get man out of
all but the crudest of jams.
Now consider the ever present
examples of men’s:
attitude-toward & prayers-to
-- God.
In all religions, men attribute
to their deity the same qualities:
he is all knowing; all powerful,
and all forgiving.
In their minds, men speak &
pray thus:
‘Oh Lord, as you know:
I am quite ill;
the doctors can do nothing more
for me,
so I call upon your incomparable
mercy to help me.’
There it is -- right out
in the open:
man pleading for extraordinary
assistance to the only source OF
extraordinary help --
the brain -- but
the brain has caused him to
call it by another name.
Men also ask God, (their brain),
to assist them in matters ranging from
finance to romance,
making verbal note --
in their head -- to their brain
that they have done all that
they know to do;
are at the end of their rope,
and in dire need of, supernatural assistance, which is to say:
a new plan from the brain to
fit the intractable circumstances.
And in a way, what the brain
does is “supernatural” --
in the sense that, (for instance),
the treating of cancer with radiation
is nothing that man would have
naturally, by physical instinct alone,
ever done.
Compared to how the body, (left
solely to its own devices),
would have dealt-with, reacted-to
such a misfortune,
what the brain came up with
is
-- supernatural --
and literally so to all that
is non conscious & unable to have thoughts.
Take specific note that in addition
to men attributing all power to the God idea concocted by the brain,
they picture him as the fount
of all knowledge --
and what could be more obvious
and expected than that;
it is only via
the brain’s ability to think, and manipulate symbols theoretically that
radiation treatment was conceived,
and the machines to deliver
it, constructed.
If there is anything you want
to know -- anything! --
there is only one place you
can look -- the brain.
Also note that men say one of
God’s other outstanding,
superhuman, (read: super-ordinary),
qualities is his
ability to forgive
---
to forgive men of all their
mistakes;
to relieve them of the greatest
non-physical ill they suffer -- guilt.
They say in the head, in prayer
to God:
”I so regret the way I treated
my mother, and now that she is gone
I cannot tell her so and ask
her forgiveness,
so I come to you, Dear Lord,
the sole source of all understanding
and compassion,
and ask for your supernatural
intervention and forgiveness
in this most troubling matter,”
and men do come to the right
and only source of forgiveness
for anything they have done
about which they now feel guilty,
feeling, ‘guilty’ being:
‘having-thoughts-about-something-which-bothers-you’
--
-- no thoughts --
no guilt,
and the source of all thoughts
is?……(you got it!) -- SO:
the only place to look
for relief, (forgiveness), is -- the
brain.
No one but the brain can forgive
you of anything;
for who can stop you from having
the thoughts that remind you of
the regretted deed --
but the brain.
So you can certainly say that
there is a God, and that man could not be closer to him --
his brain.
Indeed, indeed,
as marvelous as be other organs,
(such as the heart & pancreas),
nothing can aid men in living
physical lives superior to that which they would instinctively --
but the brain;
in a quite physical sense, compared
to all other somatic features:
it is: all powerful; all knowing,
and all compassionate,
but in the mental realm or man’s
secondary reality is where this matter is of specific interest to the few.
Men are so
impressed by what the brain can do
that they want it to do even
better;
provide them with even more
benefits, both physically and otherwise
and thus, unknowingly: Everybody
is trying to, WAKE-UP,
which is another way of saying
that:
Everyone wants their brain to
-- DO BETTER.
At the cruder levels, men want
it to help them do better financially;
have a more enjoyable social
life;
appear more intellectually impressive;
all quite ordinary human desires,
but behind it all stands, (mostly
un stated),
men’s hunger to understand with
ever greater clarity,
what this, ‘being alive thing’
is,
which more accurately put is
to say that it is the
brain’s hunger to understand
itself,
(which is factually what the
other statement is actually saying.)
The brain struggling to understand,
even reasonably, comprehend itself, and having only
itself as a means thereto,
is akin to a ladder trying to
climb to a roof on itself,
but along the way in this apparently,
impossible endeavor,
is where the brain has conceived
of cures for deadly ills;
improved nourishment; profitably
altered natural conditions,
(and so on) --
SO:
the effort has not been, nor
is it now, futile,
for man-the-collective
ultimately benefits by all extensions of
the brain’s abilities.
In ordinary men’s desires to:
live longer; be less ill;
be more comfortable; have more
fun --
they are urging their brain
to even greater exploits,
the supreme one being: The brain’s
comprehension of itself;
thus all men are unknowingly,
inadvertently & indirectly --
-- trying to WAKE-UP
their brains --
make them conscious of ever
wider possibilities & realities.
In talking to God,
man converses with what is best
in himself -- the brain;
it is arguably the nicest, most
intelligent thing a man can do for himself.
……But for some reason,
the brain seems unable to directly
confront what it is up to --
ergo its idea of having man
call it, God;
then it can speak freely about
the wonders, plans & possibilities of
this other entity while never
making any mention of itself."
The father then leaned over his
desk, closer to the son and said:
”My boy, what the brains in
our family have long been involved in
is a more direct dealing with
their situation.
What I have talked to you about
all these years, such as :
‘waking-up,’ ‘being-enlightened’
and the like,
is about nothing other than
the brain attempting to comprehend itself -- which would be its coupe
de maitre --
the reality behind the idea
of: a-man-seeing-God;
it would be the highest achievement
the brain can imagine.
Toward what greater goal could
we be aligned?!”
The father ceased talking, and
all was quiet for a while as the son obviously pondered what he had
heard;
then after a bit, he said:
”My first reaction is that this
seems a significant exposè,
but you are my own brain
telling me all of this --
-- to what end do you do so?!”*
J
*"Plus,
how are you able
to tell me these things which you yourself do not yet know?!"
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