JAN’S FRESH REAL NEWS
                      © 2001: Jan Cox
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October 20, 2001.
 
 
 
 

               TWO CONCONSCIOUSNESSES: PART TWO
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                                        (Cont. from 10/19/01)
 
 
 

The model of consciousness presently offered distinguishes itself from the usual one employed by those who seek an outside-the-herd view of life in that the latter
pictures man's ordinary consciousness as being flawed, asleep, confused,
and in need of repair, awakening and enlightenment,
where as the instant one paints quite a different neural landscape:
one in which there are two separate consciousnesses:
one being man's primary consciousness;
the one everyone is equipped with;
the one that answers directly to survival instincts;
the one that runs your everyday affairs and is the source of your vocal personality
and sense of having a self, an "I",
and it is the consciousness that men normally believe is in need of fixing.
 

In the routine world, the psychologically inclined diagnose man's consciousness
as having been damaged by social mishandling and needs, through therapy,
to be rehabilitated,
while the religiously given say that man's consciousness
(commonly labeled spirit, or soul) suffered a self inflicted curse from which
it now requires redemption,
and the other main group who shows interest in the matter
(philosophers and mystics) have generally settled on describing
man's ordinary consciousness simply as not being fully awake and employed,
but that through certain unorthodox efforts
can be aroused to a more expansive state of awareness & insight.
 

These and all other common models are based on there being but
one consciousness in a man,
and thus if a man is disturbed by his --  the proper course of action is to try to change it;
psychiatric analysis & counseling:
religious instruction & conversion;
mediation & the various mystical disciplines,
but this primary consciousness
(taken by the above to be the only consciousness)  --  cannot be altered;
it is not broken, thus cannot be repaired;
it is not asleep, thus cannot be awaken;
is not captive, thus cannot be freed, and above all:
it is in no way ignorant and thus cannot be enlightened,
the everyday consciousness you wake up with each morning
knows exactly what is going on,
if it did not, you would have killed yourself by now via accident.
This consciousness, being under the direct control of your instinct to survive,
knows what to eat and drink; what to approach and what to avoid;
recognizes which words & knowledge are beneficial to survival
and which are mere noise.
 
 

No matter what they call it, (enlightenment, awakening, liberation),
what the few seek is something that is already there in their brain:
the other consciousness, and trying to tinker with or bulldoze
the primary one is an irrelevant and unconnected activity
(though granted, for quite a time it seems otherwise, and in truth:
for those born-with-the-aim, the relentless, singular pursuit of almost
any unorthodox inner activity can eventually get you there,
but the different approach possible via this new limning of the internal situation
can save significant time and ultimately, less than maximally efficient effort).
 
 

Your, I-wake-up-with-it-everyday, primary consciousness
is completely committed to activities for which it is inalterably programmed --
forget about it --
it doesn't need you --  it is you, in the most radical sense;
if you are truly one of the few to-this-born
what you really seek & what will satisfy your hunger is all
there in the other consciousness,
its primo characteristic is that it is -- uncommitted to anything;
non-committed-consciousness is precisely what you yearn for;
consciousness with no inherent agenda;
one not limited to pre arranged programming,
and all of that is exactly what the other consciousness is.
 

Every verbal attempt to say what "being awake, or enlightened"
might be in essence, describes the above, but not so directly;
a more enlightened man (or mind) would be one which could look at anything --  fresh;  with no built-in opinions, prejudices,
or meaningless preferences;
a consciousness that is not always talking to itself about what it sees;
not constantly accepting & rejecting;
not continually arguing with life as it, in its greatest refinement,
reveals itself, measures itself, and plots its own existence --  through man.
 

This other consciousness is there in everyone,
but un noted or used by hardly anyone in any meaningful manner,
but whenever someone attempts to "still-the-mind" -- or,
"self-remember" --  or
"control-attention" by mediation, prayer, or chanting,
they are unwittingly trying to bring the other consciousness center stage
to replace their primary consciousness,
while toiling under the assumption that they are attempting to bring on
profitable alterations to the inalterable primary one.
 
 

Instead of struggling to stop thought; to calm and clear your present consciousness,
just make an effortless shift in the area in your cerebral cortex where your consciousness is at this moment, and right there is what you have been looking for;
just shift  --  and it does not matter in what direction,
for any shift will take you out of primary consciousness to the other one,
since those two are all the consciousness that there is.
 

The right man could ultimately arrive at the-understanding
by doing almost anything, (trying to push a mountain over;
attempting to think of the absolute largest number, or trying not to have thoughts),
but why not be as efficient as possible.
 

                                                        For some reason,
the people who have pursued this special-interest throughout the annals of man
have not seen their inner situation & their challenge in the observably valid terms today employed;
for some reason life has always caused these few people to think
of their objective as being to change their ordinary consciousness
into another-kind-of consciousness
when the other-kind-of-consciousness  is sitting right there next to the one
                                                     they struggle with.
 
 

Rather than trying to topple Everest, or harness the wind,
just take an effortless step sideways in your head and the same goal is reached.
 
 

Nothing can stop a dedicated man from struggling needlessly,
but neither can anything cause a man who
realizes the two consciousnesses
to any longer needlessly struggle.
 
 

                                                                              Ole!
                    J