The mind you were born with is like a little person in you who thinks for you;
in this matter, everyone desires change:
the ordinary want to educate, improve and refine him --
                                        the few want to replace him.
 

Contrary to the common view life imposes on man,
you came into this world with a mind as pre set in you as was the size of your ears or the color of your hair;
the overall structure of the intangible little person in you who thinks for you
was as genetically certain as any part of your visible anatomy,
and at birth, his emotional disposition was already as in place as was physically, that of your digestive and respiratory systems.
 

Life has men’s consciousness so arranged that to standard consciousness
this cannot be proven;
no matter what evidence you marshal in support thereof,
consciousness will always easily find a verbal way out.
It is literally impossible to make the consciousness every man is born with
realize that it is a purely mechanical activity that every man is born with.
 

Consciousness is genetically programmed to perceive of itself as
un programmed and malleable, and at any time during its life, if asked,
will sincerely say that it is in a continual state of change and growth,
but the readily observable fact is that the individual consciousness (personality) children begin to visibly display in their earliest days
is the same one ordinary people have at death.
Life causes men to claim otherwise, and to live and speak as though the opposite is true,
and having no external standard by which to judge affairs in this universe,
there is no way to conclude this arrangement amiss;
                       all that can be said is: that is how it is.
 
 

So, all normal, sane humans believe that the little them in their head that
thinks for them (and which they unquestioningly take as being them)
can and should be transformed from what he is as they find him to be
when they become conscious enough to be aware of him.
(In the right hands, the preceding sentence alone would be sufficient to
                                           lead the few to what they seek.)
 

The mythologies imprinted in men’s brains across this planet
all tell of a hero (consciousness) who dies in one condition,
then returns in an improved one;
his nature transformed from carnal to spiritual;
from ignorant to enlightened,
but always a matter of the old consciousness being replaced by a new.
 

Again, in spite of the species wide, innate support of this view, it is not true;
the reality of what occurs in ordinary people’s lives does not match the words
they use to describe what occurs:
a man converts to religion X: his sinful self dies,
and is reborn as a self proclaimed X-er,
yet everyone, including him, clearly realizes that his old self has not disappeared, and actually been replaced by a new X-self;
in momentary lucidity men will admit: “No, I am not truly an X-er,
no one can actually meet the standard; all you can do is try;
profess your allegiance thereto --  then do the best you can.”
           Simply and demonstratively  --  that is the way things are.
 
 

The few, with that special, intensified hunger,
who search outside the common religious and psychological structures
for a way to transform the little person of consciousness within them
also think – un analytically --  in terms of replacing him,
of being presently in a sleeping, dark state of consciousness,
but of achieving an awakened, enlightened state to replace it --
                                                  but this is not what occurs.
 
 

The consciousness you were born with cannot be eradicated;
it will always be with you;
a new consciousness that a few do somehow produce in their brain
does not replace the old one  --   it competes with it:
that is the first transformation (awakening, enlightenment, liberation),
and this is as far as most of the few ever take it.

However it happens,
one day their consciousness suddenly realizes something
which causes it to realize that the ways it had always thought about life
were totally out of order,
and this new consciousness will never see life in the old ways,
but the appearance of the new consciousness does not spell the end of the old,  their different views now simply compete;
sometimes you are awake and aware of how life really is,
and sometimes your natural-born, original little man of consciousness
is back in charge and he sees things no differently than he ever has.
 

Unless the extraordinary few humans who ever somehow stumble into
having this situation come into being in their brain, press on after this,
they can never admit to themselves the truth of their situation;
no matter how judicious they attempt to be in their descriptions of themselves and what has occurred in them, their conception is still reflective of that mythological paradigm imprinted in men’s brains
which says that a real change in consciousness,  not just minor refinements, consists of replacing the old with a new,
thus will those with that first extraordinary, eye opening neural experience
say that, “Yes, I am now awake and enlightened” --
--  a statement that only a man’s old consciousness would make --
and thus they try to believe they now fully possess knowledge and freedom --
                                but it is only relative and spasmodic.
 
 

Should a man push himself on even after having accomplished
what he seemed apparently after, that is:
he now has --  in competition with his old deluded consciousness  --
a new consciousness which, when it is momentarily in control,
understands what is really going on in life,
(at least compared to his old, natural born one),
he faces the fact that his original sleeping, torpid consciousness is still alive
and with him  --  will always be with him --
and that it has not changed or been enlightened one iota.

At this extended stage, by no longer trying to deceive himself
regarding his condition, a man stops suffering over having within him a completely ordinary, opinionated, prejudiced, provincial, obstinate, repetitive consciousness with which his hard won, more insightful one must compete,
and indeed, merely compete, it ceases to do.

At this far from routine condition, a man’s new consciousness is not competition to his old one --  but a complement to it.

The new, fully comprehending consciousness completes his original one;
it takes the one sided, restricted views of his old consciousness,
and turns them into open ended, universally expansive explosions of
indescribable enjoyment.

These interpretations by new consciousness
of old consciousness’ various takes on life
produce a neural pleasure that readers, movie goers, and routine day dreamers have not even a suspicion of.

An analogy could be that of a man (new consciousness) who knows the full plot of a story and yet can still enjoy unraveling little twists of its telling along the way.
 
 

All in all, at this second, seldom reached stage, the two consciousnesses:
the old common and the new enlightened, live side by side, complementarily,
with one constructively feeding off the other,
even in a sense, learning from the other,
but above all  --  thoroughly enjoying its juxtaposition to the other.

What would be the point of being awake
if you were not still in bed with a sleeper;
where’s the fun of being able to see if you are not with the blind?!
 
 

You can never get away from you;
you cannot destroy the consciousness you were born with.
Asleep & confused --  all are born,
and asleep half the time --  even the awakened remain,
but even when original, dense consciousness is momentarily center stage,
a man with a self produced new consciousness is never fooled;
he knows it is all just a play being acted out on the stage of his consciousness
and his new consciousness never loses awareness of itself as a hip audience
who no longer takes the merely entertaining act seriously, as does everyone else.
 
 
 

So, all of the few inescapably initially believe the goal is
to do away completely with their old, sleeping, unenlightened consciousness,
and replace it permanently with a new awakened one;
then, have they had any success in the matter,
one day a non standard consciousness suddenly appears in their brain
which sees exactly what is going on in itself --
--  which explains everything that is going on in life,
then the two compete for time in control of the operations in the brain
which produce thoughts and result in overall consciousness;
then sometimes a man is awake  --  and sometimes asleep;
sometimes in the dark again  --  sometimes in the light,
but always still struggling, and always bothered by not being able to
completely do away with the inferior consciousness;
his head tells  -- then listens to and accepts  --  self deluding stories
that purport to explain away this unacceptable conflicting condition.

But if he would persevere --  far beyond any point he has ever heard about
in descriptions of this wild adventure --
he might discover a place wherein the “dumb” lion still lies down next to the “enlightened”  lamb, but now the wooly one wallows pleasurably in the situation,
and indeed benefits from its proximity to the beast in a way no man can describe.
 
 

                                     From attempted replacement,
                                     to being in competition,
                                     to complementing one another,
                                     and thus completing a man’s consciousness.
 

                                                      J