Everything hangs together; mind’s primary job (witnessed by science & technology) is to separate things into parts; the task of a man trying to get to the bottom of things is to see how they all hang together.

It does nothing to say that you know: “Everything hangs together” -- indeed, when you personally see it and not just say it -- you have nothing to say -- there is nothing you can say -- without separating things into parts. Being a parts-seer is normal -- can even be a sign of expertise, but being a parts-seer is to be forever unclear about the whole of what is going on; it cannot be helped -- it cannot be otherwise.

The mind brain comes with cannot see that everything hangs together – it cannot take in the whole; brain is whole; brain all hangs together; mind is but one of its parts; mind comes in parts; mind works in parts; mind sees in parts; brain understands this -- mind does not; sky sees clouds, but not clouds, sky.

Men think with mind; the mind they are born with is in parts; what men think is likewise in parts; part this -- part that, part (they think), true -- part (they think), not true; the whole will have none of this; how can a dot be false to the circle surrounding it.

Men feel in parts; sometimes good -- sometimes not good; brain knows feeling is whole -- mind interprets it in pieces -- the result:
in normal consciousness, men do not recognize that feeling all hangs together, mind instead says they feel in part -- like this, and
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feel in part -- like that. Only a peach is a peach -- a slice of a peach is no longer a peach, although a part of the tongue will say it is peach; “it is peach” and being a peach are not the same.

Men behave as a whole -- when mind comments on their behavior,
(not being able to take in the whole) -- it does so by parts: it describes his behavior as in part, a little of this, and in part, a little of that; there is no little of being alive; to survive, the behavior of all things -- hangs together.

The life around man -- all hangs together; all plants, all animals, all elements and dirt; man separates them to use them; they eventually separate him and all returns to the whole, to -- hanging together.

Man’s greatest asset is mind’s separating of things; creatures who get no where in life, take it as a whole; men who get somewhere in that special endeavor succeed by the way other creatures fail.

There is no need for mind to see that everything hangs together;
brain understands it; behavior lives by it; life is made by it – mind has its own veggies to slice & dice; only those with that peculiar interest have a brain that will accommodate the appearance of a post natally produced mind capable of seeing that which standard versions cannot. No man needs to see that everything hangs together except those who need to.

Many more hear, adopt and promote this idea than ever realize it is so, but nothing you can say or think about it is of any consequence whatever; your words about it may fascinate others, and they may believe you see it – but if you have anything to say about it -- you have never seen it. No mouth is large enough to describe itself – the whole does not speak of itself......................that is not true – it does – to those with that certain hunger. Normally the whole can say nothing about itself – not without parting itself -- which is the job of ordinary men’s minds, but the few have a brain with an inchoate area capable of perceiving the whole, and receiving direct images of: everything-hanging-together.

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This potential must be nurtured and developed -- but you cannot be taught how; those who have done it understand it cannot so be, and those who have not -- will teach you.

This possibility lies in virgin neural territory; anything you can be told by others is whore talk -- damaged goods; no old part of any person’s mind can tell you how to reach this new part; the old areas do not even know for a fact that the latent one exists; they may have heard that it does -- accepted it in theory and even now teach it as fact, but only those who have moved their heavy furniture into this new room understand its construction and layout, and from experience know that every nervous system housing is different -- every brain distinct, and everyone’s untouched neural spot, accessible only to them.

The best can be said is: Abandon-all-present-locations –
everywhere you go in present mind is a place of parting-out -- a mental chop shop where a once roaring Ferrari becomes a collection of unmoving pieces; parts of the whole will not move -- nor will they move the mind perceiving them. Whatever pieces your mind naturally thinks in -- eschew; do not argue with it -- debate it, or try to enlighten it; crows instructing asses become asses.

Even one who knows and sees cannot point to the whole and make you see; the whole cannot be pointed out -- we are part of the whole – where to point?! -- what to point to?! -- over there?!........ over there?!........over everywhere? – yes, that would be about the best possible: extend your arms expansively to take in the entire universe........and yet, ordinary mind would still whisper: “Yes, but what specifically are you pointing to, and talking about?” --
-- nothing else can the routine mind do.

The experience of seeing that everything hangs together is unlike anything else that can ever happen to a man, and if you are not hard after it -- it will never happen to you, and any thought going through your mind at this moment that you have had before is useless to that end -- but there are no other thoughts that can be
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told you to profitably replace your present ones -- the only thing useful to be said is: all of your current ones are junk -- unmoving bits and pieces of bumpers, wheels, fenders of a whole, hung-together racing machine the likes of which your mind has never seen.

You cannot be told by someone outside yourself, how to get to an uncharted place inside yourself, but someone who has gone there in their self can see that you are not there in your self, and at least make note of that to you.

The question then is: do you have it naturally in you to ever realize that you are sitting in the floor of a mental chop shop, amidst the lifeless parts of an actual, rip roaring whole -- and that the only thing (Boy, what a joke: “The only thing”!) keeping you from realizing it is everything your mind presently says it realizes.

The whole thing is a mental game -- not only one of great fun, but for the few -- deadly serious.........................................(but still great fun).

J

P.S. Hinteroonie: the way you can tell you are close to seeing that
everything-hangs-together is that internally, you begin to hang more together, and the way you realize that you are beginning to hang-more
-together is that – you hardly ever anymore think that you have anything important to say to anybody.