June
30, 200l.
IT’S
SATURDAY: THEY INCREASE THE ALTITUDE
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The father & son had spent
the morning in the mountains, tree walking, and were sitting high up on
a limb, taking a break,
when the elder began to speak:
“There is a psyche-shocking,
reality-rocking, dream-destroying
short cut to, waking
up that I have never mentioned;
want to hear about it?”
and when the younger excitedly
nodded that he did,
the father motioned for him
to hold on tight, and continued:
”It is simple, and fool proof;
it requires no change in circumstances;
no years of study, and discipline;
it requires no one’s assistance;
is done entirely in private,
and on your own;
anyone can master it instantly
-- and it never fails to work.
Can you even take a guess as
to what the method might be?”
and the son screwed up his brow;
ransacked his memory,
but quickly indicated via gesture
that he had no idea,
at which point the father picked
back up his thread:
“Do you not first off find it
interesting, (to say the least),
that even though I say the method
is simple & infallible,
you still cannot even imagine
what it is,
nor have you ever heard of it
before.
If it is fool proof, and anyone
can start doing it -- instantly
--
then why have you never heard
of it, or discovered it yourself?
If my descriptions of the method
are truthful,
then the mere fact that you
have not ever thought of it,
or heard about it before should
itself,
damn near, wake-you-up-to
a whole new reality.
If this method is what I say
it is,
then why do intelligent people,
in their desire to awaken,
abandon normal lives, possessions
& natural appetites
to sit uncomfortably in the
cold by day,
and memorize volumes of special
instructions by night?
Why do not all who hear the idea
that man is asleep, but can awaken,
and instantly recognize the
echo of some basic, indisputable truth,
immediately begin to pursue
the method to which I allude?”
The father paused; looked in
the son’s face again;
the son’s face again registered
a nonplus, and the elder continued:
“The reason you have never heard
of this method, nor even, somewhere among all of your many flights of fantastic
mental fancy,
ever thought about it yourself,
stands right in front of the
door behind which sits
the entire reality of what:
being-asleep,
and, waking-up
actually is:
this is
why you have never heard of it, or ever thought of it;
the method is too close to what
men perceive the problem to be;
it is too close to what the
real solution is:
the method is too close to the
core,
the method is simply, too
close, period,
...(plus there is another serious
problem -- it works).”
The father stopped talking again;
looked down; spat to the forest
floor below, then started back:
“Before I tell you what the
sure-fire method is,
I want you to consider what
I have talked to you about of late,
regarding the verbal operations
of the brain being the sole creator
of all the features of human
life that make human life the singularity
that it is, (which are),
all of the various intangibles
to which man-the-collective pays homage -
-- including the entire
concept of: being-asleep
& waking-up,
and: Being confused & achieving
enlightenment --
it all originates, exists, survives,
and can only be completed in
the realm of the brain
-- (mind, thought, consciousness),
so in light of that, and while
remembering that,
ask yourself HOW that all might
be related to the fact that there is a simple, sure & immediate way
to arouse -- nay, to
force yourself
from your routine, unsatisfactory
state-of-the-head.
It is all
connected -- oh BOY!
is it ever connected!
And I want you to be super
prepared & alert when I tell you what it is,
for just as soon as your brain
hears the four words that fully describe this simple, infallible method
to, un-sleepify-yourself,
it will react violently;
oh, you won’t have a stroke,
or your head explode,
in fact after I say the four
words, you may suddenly feel a quiet calm
in your thinking machine;
you may for a brief time, be
clear & empty headed,
but your brain nevertheless
will be reacting violently to the idea --
it will have no choice;
because of the nature of how
it operates;
which is the actual basis for
the few feeling that they are, Asleep,
and need to, Wake
up.
Even though you, (once the idea
has sunk in),
may break into a world class
grin, and feel extraordinarily excited,
your brain is not going to like
at all what I say,
which actually should not come
as a surprise,
since you should
have by now
realized that it seems disinclined
to be of much direct assistance
in your efforts to alter certain
aspects of its operations for the good.
(And again let me point out
that here is another one of those facts that is readily observable right
inside of your own head,
but one of which hardly anyone
is confessionally aware.
Just realizing that your own
brain acts uncooperatively
in your efforts,
to improve its operations,
should be enough to shake-up
& wake-up anybody.)”
The father stood, while reaching
up for a higher limb to hold,
as the son followed suit,
and just before the elder began
to restart their tree walking,
he stopped, looked at the younger,
and made good his threat:
“Pretend to be awake.”
J
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