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 September 10, 2002                                                               © 2002: JAN COX
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Today’s news ties together several previous stories (to wit):
the need for invention in achieving the realization;
the production of me in the mind,
and the matter of knowledge vs. practice in the special pursuit.
 

Re what you know:
the need for originality is not for the purpose of being different,
but because without it  --   you can never invent up all the stuff you need
to achieve the realization of what is really going on.
Nothing anyone else can tell you will assist you after the initial stage of
your entry into the chase;
to ever get close enough to see what is actually going on in life
requires you get there via facts, views, insights and stuff you personally created;
only by looking at everything through the views original with you will
life become unnaturally clear and self revealing;
past the primary phase  --   there is no knowledge, secret or otherwise,
that exists outside of you that is of any practical use whatsoever;
it can be entertaining  --  but never useful;
what every person must know in proper pursuit of the realization  –  they must create;
once you suspect enough to be at least partially walking on your own  --
the full burden is then on you;
you can, discover new explanations for things of which you have never heard,
but eventually you need recognize that, discover, learn and make up
are all the same in the inner world of man's mental reality
(only Sam Spade can crack the case of Little Miss Muffet  --
forget about Elliot Ness or J. Edgar Hoover  --  they are useless here;
it must be Sam [to be more specific: Sam’s grandson, you know,
the new investigatory tool you made up]).

Concerning practice, in contrast to knowledge (that is):
the doing of what must be done to make use of the knowledge
you have invented for yourself:
the certain man does not feel besieged from without, and thus does not think:
“It is either me or them,” but rather knows it is from within, and sees the situation as: “It is either me or it” --
“it” being the ceaseless torrent of thoughts which normally flows through
every human’s brain in absence of efforts contrarily.
Even if you have reached a place in your own mind whereby you depend not so much on learning from others, or even discovering new facts on your own,
but more on the understanding that you must invent the info necessary to
take you the final distance to full realization;
this recognition, even with the extraordinarily enlightening new views
you have concocted will not reach pragmatic velocity if you too much still stay in
the familiar, comfortable arms of your brain’s routine thought barrage
at which times there is no you extant  –
and this being essential for all sight beyond man’s collective norm.
You cannot see while totally lost in thought  --  even that of your own creation,
and in the most fundamental sense appliable to the certain few:

What you know  --  even the great, necessary stuff you made up to get you in proximity of the goal will go unused if there is no you which you, moment-by-moment also create by giving up the automatic, effortless thoughts life constantly is sending your brain:
you swap the thoughts for a you:
when ordinary people say: “It is either me or them” they mean,
one of two entities will overcome the other,
while in the certain man’s special case it means that at any instant,
only one of the two parties can exist: each at the expense of the other's existence;
so, once you see this absurdly simple, yet impossible for six billion people to see, fact --  it is then all up to you:
is there going to be a you in your brain  --   or programmed mish mash? --
are you going to create a you in your brain that can make use of
the knowing that your self-invented you has made up in previous times  --
or drift another sixty or forty years on a never ending, never significant current of magically appearing thoughts, and what others call, knowledge --