July
20, 2001.
A SERIOUS FAIRLY TALE:
WITH A HIDDEN MESSAGE, & SERIOUS PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
(NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY THOSE WITH
MIGRAINES, CHEST PAINS, OR IMBECILIC MINDS;
[YOUNG CHILDREN & DOGS ARE OKAY -- THEY KNOW BETTER])
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Everyone has a little man inside
of them who runs their lives.
In simpler times he was thought
of as a representative of God,
or conversely, an agent of Evil;
others referred to him as, Nature,
or instinct,
but what he is is --
a little man -- a little, “you,” if you like;
the template & archetype
for the larger, visible you.
Although his handiwork &
influence in every man’s life
is everywhere evident,
his presence is ignored &
never spoken of;
judged by men’s most intimate
references to themselves --
-- the little man does
not exist.
There is a semi exception to
this,
in that while men take all credit
for their accomplishments,
they will admit to a renegade
cousin of the little man
who is responsible for their
failures,
(“I can’t explain why
I did such a terrible thing,”
”I don’t know what came over
me,” ”The Devil made me do it,” etc),
but the verbal conjuring of
such ad hoc scapegoats does not a --
-- full-time, all-knowing, all-powerful,
“Little Man” make --- no,
only when the little man is
trying to shift blame from himself
does he cause his host human
to engage in such
vacuous verbal finger pointing
as the above;
turning your attention, under
threatening conditions,
to something apparently extrinsic
to you -- and to him --
is in fact, one of the ways
that the little man keeps his
permanent presence unacknowledged;
he has things arranged so that
if all is going well,
he allows YOU to take credit
therefore,
but when they go sour, he begins
to cry out about the sudden,
unjustifiable intrusion into
your life of
overwhelming nefarious forces,
which alone, are responsible
for any & all
unprofitable or condemnable
moves you ever involuntarily make.
(The little man is no idiot.)
The little man’s omni presence
in everyone’s life
explains everything.
It explains why you can feel
one way about something,
and inexplicably say something
just the opposite;
or why you want to do a certain
thing in life,
but never have the energy to
even try,
or why you will engage in activities
that you clearly recognize
as being detrimental, and also,
(of specific interest to a few),
it explains why you can decide
to arrange & manage your thinking in a certain physically feasible
fashion,
but are never able to carry
through with the plan;
it is all -- ALL explained by
the existence of the little man
inside of each person
who runs their life.
The reality of his existence
& power resolves all questions
concerning the extreme difficulty,
nay -- near impossibility –
of a person changing.
The little man does seem somewhat
amenable to slight alterations in the way his human host conducts their
physical life:
he will permit them to change
their diet so as to lose weight,
or alter other behavior to save
their life,
(apparently even wee ones are
not without vanity & fear),
but go beyond matters of the
body into affairs of the psyche,
and a dramatic shift occurs:
the little man then evidences
no tolerance whatsoever for change --
-- not where HE lives!
(Even just rearranging the furniture
is out of the question.)
When faced with threatening physical
realities,
the little man may make his
human host stop using drugs,
but he does not collaterally
stop him from thinking about them;
so too, a man may want to stop
using his consciousness in a certain way, but in this instance, the little
man will not allow it,
at least in no wise as readily.
The little man will permit
-- indeed, direct you to
make changes in your life that
will physically extend your life,
but he has no interest-in, or
even observable tolerance-for
you making any changes that
might extend your conscious life,
(is there something about that
possibility that frightens,
or is even a threat to the wee
one?!?!)
A fat man can shed pounds; a
drunk can abandon booze,
but a man with one certain state
of mind
is not allowed to materially
tinker with it:
men’s consciousness is
his home and pure domain,
and he brooks no changes therein
which HE does not authorize –
-- and HE, (apparently
in everyone, regardless of what he may
allow them to say to the contrary),
is quite satisfied with how things are in everyone’s consciousness.
Thus we have people who sincerely
want to change their
present mental state of X, to
that of,
what they are sure would be
an improvement, state Y -- but no go;
the little man inside of them who controls
their mental process
will not allow it.
The
above explains everything about man, and specifically,
the
staggering difficulty of a human attempting to change the way
their
consciousness operates.
Yes,
the existence of a little man in your head,
with
the powers above noted, would explain everything --
-- except for one small problem;
figure out what it is for yourself, and your consciousness will be forever
changed.
J
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