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JAN’S DAILY FRESH NEWS

August 14, 2001.

A father said to a son: “To really get this adventure moving,
not only stop pretending to know things which you do not,
but also stop pretending that you are dumber than you are,
for you already know quite enough in your everyday mind to get the job done.

Never underestimate the value of ordinary consciousness,
for that is all that anyone has, or will ever have.

A curious thing is that your ordinary consciousness will argue this,
and insist that you (it speaking for you) have been in other states
of consciousness (either self or drug induced)
which were certainly far removed from your ordinary one --
a claim that at first can appear difficult to refute -- and yet,
everyone has but one state of consciousness, and whatever episodes
of increased pleasured & heightened insight you have experienced
came out of your ordinary state of consciousness;
tell me: from where else could they come?
(I rhetorically ask you this my son, on the basis that you have grown past thinking that they have some supernatural source,
and that this entire adventure is somehow, other worldly & metaphysical.
You can put different foods in your body, but not new realities,
regardless of how persuasively thoughts can dream otherwise,
but don’t blame thought -- dreaming IS its primary talent;
blame yourself for not remembering this.)

I doubt that you & I would have ever undertaken this grand expedition to achieve a
new state of consciousness had we been convincingly told at the outset
that our ordinary consciousness was all we would ever possess,
but it is time for you to take this statement of reality to private heart;
to carry it around with you, familiarly fondling it in your pocket;
to force yourself into a direct confrontation with what it says –
in spite of the fact that it sounds impossible.

As you know from experience, those episodes the literature refers to as,
‘having your moment of enlightenment’ are quite unlike your
routine state of consciousness,
and unquestionably, something out of the ordinary turning of physiological events in your brain occurs which clears, or greatly diminishes the background static
usually present in consciousness and normally accepted as a standard part thereof,
but as pleasurable, even validating as such experiences may be,
they are not permanent, any more than sorrow or rage becomes a permanent neural state no matter how deeply felt, at one time they were.

No my boy, what you are doomed to live with on a day by day basis
is your ordinary state of consciousness,
but it is not a, 'doom’ doom -- it is a liberating, life-giving-doom,
and in this instance: language is up to the task,
for, ‘doom’ means both, ‘to destroy,’ and also, ‘destiny,’
and if you do not properly comprehend ordinary consciousness --
it will destroy your chances of ever reaching our goal,
but if you understand that no thing has a destiny outside of what it physically is,
this realization will set you free from the non accomplishing dreams which now cloud your inner world, and cause your disorientation.

Whatever may be the actual make up of the extraordinary,
periodic times that some men experience of, enlightenment --
it came from his own ordinary consciousness;
I ask you again: from where else could it come?
A genii suddenly flew into your head and left it there?
The gods finally recognized your astounding value, and sent you a reward?
Out of the entire universe, some type of mysterious, new age-old age
metaphysical force (unknown to science) sought you out as a recipient for a trial testing of a potentially advanced state of neural consciousness?
..............(And son: don’t make me laugh when my mouth is full.)

No adult close to the trunk of our family tree entertains such notions;
anything that happens in your brain -- originated in your brain:
again: where else?
Anything that occurs to your consciousness was caused BY your consciousness;
by the only one you have -- by your ordinary one.
You do have two hemispheres to your brain,
but you do not have two consciousnesses;
I am aware that even I continue to use the terminology of us either being in
a sleeping state of consciousness, or in an awake one,
but on your own you must make the slight effort it takes to understand that in the beginning of a new journey the first thing a map must establish is:
‘You are here, and over, there is where you want go’:
(translated): You are presently, here -- in a sleeping state of ordinary consciousness,
and your goal is, over there -- some where -- in a different, awakened state,
but this is only necessary directional, finger-pointing to get you to take the first step, and not a conclusive, description of how things are ---
once you get -- over THERE.

Wherever you end up -- your ordinary consciousness will be with you;
whatever it is that you now imagine will get there --
it is your ordinary consciousness that will do it.
It is easy to make your ordinary state of consciousness THE villain in all of this
(and with initial, pragmatic reason)
but it is also the only hero available in the whole affair;
your only guide, defender, and source of wisdom.
Collective man is arranged & programmed to think that wisdom is to be had from sources outside of himself; from other men;
from his culture’s rituals; from books, legends, myths,
but it is all a mass glutinous dream that serves to hold together,
the civilized human herd,
it however is a confusing fog to those few individuals trying to get off
on that private, Great Straying From The Horde,
for what you need to know -- to properly stray -- only you can say;
only your own – ordinary consciousness -- knows what you need
to be -- Un ordinary in your consciousness,
and the sad, exciting truth is that: it does know.............and has.........for a long time.

Your ordinary (sleeping, if you must) consciousness,
knows what to do to be Un asleep;
it knows, it knows, and -- it knows;
the question is: So why don’t we do it?
and the most obvious response is that we are either too weak & lazy,
or else too much the victim of life long habit -- but my lad,
there is a third door -- and a door with a window you can see through;
and the sight to be seen through that window can open that door,
and that sight is: your ordinary consciousness -- out there -- looking back at you,
and my boy, if THAT don’t wake you up -- nothing will.”

All in all, that other consciousness, dreamed of by so many,
is closer to your ordinary state than it is a fantastic one.

The father stood, to leave, and in parting said:
“If you are alert enough to really be a part of me,
you will now never again underestimate the value of your ordinary consciousness,
for I have told you truly -- it is all you have or will ever have;
you believe that you are an exception because you have ME --
-- but where do you think I came from?!”