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September
7, 2002
©
2002:
JAN COX
No
one can tell you what you should be doing -- including you
-- because:
when
this occurs -- there is no you
doing it.
No
one can tell you what you should be doing -- including you
-- for:
at
every instant you are either being the you
that you can create,
via the conscious, moment to moment holding of your mental energy,
which
turns it into a you,
or
else that mental energy is telling you what you should be doing.
The
non conscious operations of your body do not tell you what
you
should be doing -- they make you do them;
--
with
no need for internal comment, instinct directs you to take
appropriate
actions to stay alive –
only
in the verbal brain do messages appear which tell you what
you
should be doing -- communiqués which observation shows
to not be
the
equal of instinct in importance.
The
mental energy (the electro-chemical activity occurring in the cerebral
cortex,
thought producing
area of the brain) which flows as regularly and constantly
as does blood through the heart and air through the lungs,
for
the most part stays engaged in a never ending process of planning-&-review;
reminding
you of what you have done in the past, and telling you what you should
do, come the future -- all quite the norm –
but
for the person wanting to see what is going on
this
ordinary mental activity keeps them from being
the person they must be
to ever see.
The
innate, normal and automatic activity that goes on in a
standard
human’s brain can never see what is actually going on --
not
in the sense meaningful for the certain man:
it
does a good job in seeing what is going on in the world outside itself
(the technology
of man being astounding witness thereto),
but
it does almost no job of seeing what is going on in its own inner domain
(the place
of interest to the certain man) –
but
that is not the focus of today’s News;
the
physiological, thought-the-medium, mental energy flowing continually through
man’s brain is at every instant in one of three states:
either
assisting instinct in some survival matter,
or
planning-&-reviewing -- telling you what you should be doing,
or
is bundled up into being a you.
The
first condition automatically overrides all the others,
and
renders anything else said about the mind, (including anything here),
irrelevant, but setting aside that, consider what is left:
the
second state prevents the third as the third’s presence prohibits the second.
There
is a bedeviling slipperiness to this such that only perhaps one man of
every million or billion can ever grasp in a manner sufficient for it to
become functionally useful to him.
If
any normal person is asked: “Do you have a,
you
in you?”
they
will reply in the affirmative,
and
at the very instant the question registers in their conscious brain,
there
appears -- just for that instant --
an unquestioned impression of there being a you
in them,
and
in fact is what is responding to the question.
That
is simply how thought's "I" maintains
its residency:
whenever
someone (an idea) knocks on its door & asks: “Is
anyone home?”
the question makes someone be home -- just for an instant.
In
the brain: there is no you
unless your thoughts are thinking, you
--
and
if they are thinking that -- they are thinking nothing else,
a
state of mental affairs totally unnatural for the human brain.
This
state however, is precisely what a man with the want to see needs;
the
magically-appearing, automatic flowing of endless thoughts through
everyone’s
brain/mind cannot -- will not ever see what is going
on,
and
thus be able to tell you what is;
turning
this mental energy into you
-- makes you see.
For
the certain man: the possibility is always:
it
is entirely up to you what gets done about it.
It
does not matter what your thoughts know
if
there is no you
outside of them to make use of it.
“Knock, knock! -- is anyone there?”
J
"Hey!
-- let me out of here!"
"That is a bit premature, my boy -- there is no one in
here yet."
JAN'SDAILYFRESHREALNEWS
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