(Extenuation of 4/7)
 
 

                              THE ENDLESS SELF-REFLECTION
 
 
 
 
 

In addition to the previously proffered models of:
man’s unrealized, Common Language, and the Great Conversation,
there is a view of life itself that can be most revealing to consider  --   wherein,
via man’s consciousness and the two supra activities,
life can be seen as engaged in endless, self-reflection.
From the certain man’s unencumbered perspective,
all of the ideas that come into a man’s head & all of the words that go out of his mouth that do not refer to physical affairs,
are nothing less, more, or other-than, life’s version of self-reflection.
If you can mentally position yourself to gain this vista,
all the complaints men have with one another’s ideas and expressions,
and with their own are understood in a fresh and explanatory way.

When men speak of material matters, neither they, nor life,
through man’s consciousness, are doing anything other than making practical observations of the environmental realm on which both life, and perforce man,
depend for their survival,
but when men talk about those many incorporeal subjects which increasingly occupy their  mental life, what is enunciated lacks any pragmatic significance,
(the less must you daily struggle to find food, the more time you have to think about god, justice,  metaphysical truth, the conflicting schools of twentieth century
classical music, and the meaning-of-life).

Men themselves are not seriously speaking about phenomena that exists solely in their imagination,
life rather (by vent of man’s consciousness) is talking to itself about itself  --
attempted meditation on its own nature.
The noise-that-never-ends, flowing into men’s heads and out of their mouths,
is impersonal to men;
men are made to perceive themselves as talking constantly about themselves  --
but they do not,
(which is what makes their efforts at self analysis and of each another,
inefficacious and inane);
the sounds they hear in their own head and from other men are life talking to itself  --  pondering its own place in the universe  --  struggling to comprehend its own nature.
 

As with everything connected to the-realization-of-what-is-going-on,
this cannot be made visible to 99.99999% of humanity;
life has man’s standard consciousness so genetically wired and programmed
as to be unable to recognize that it uses his consciousness as its private chat room, meditation hall, place-for-personal reflection;
when men believe they are trying to tell someone else, what-kinda-guy-they-are,
it is life searching for something enlightening to say to itself about itself;
this (if you can directly hear) is what makes men’s efforts at self revelation
so tedious, and empty,
for they are in truth engaged in no such personal activity --
their consciousness and speech is merely a medium  --  not a message.

Ordinary men do not understand themselves because they do not reflect on,
nor study themselves;
they are not active researchers, but are the public announcements and writings
OF the real one  --   life.
 

A shoot of life has developed into human consciousness,
which it employs for two purposes:
foremost is to help life stay viable in this universe,
and secondly is as a forum for it (in its free time) to think about things not tied to
its physical survival in its own physical, cosmic environment.
When men are thinking about what they call, God,
life is thinking about itself (or pictured at a lesser level:
men’s consciousness is thinking about itself);
every individual feature of human culture, spirituality, and non scientific education
is nothing more than a manifestation of life reflecting on itself,
as best it apparently, presently can,
using man’s mind as its medium (and by all observations, its only available one);
thus seen, what the minute portion of The Great Conversation that constitutes
yours and everyone’s normal consciousness
says is foolish and erroneous in other men’s words and ideas
can finally be recognized for what it actually is  --
not meaningful, insightful criticism of mortal mentation,
but life engaged in endless self-reflection via man’s consciousness.

If you can find the talent latent in your own brain to move your thought-based perception of life even slightly outside humanity’s standard collective one,
what has above been put into lifeless words will become friskily obvious,
and the questions, curios, confusion, and paradoxes of man’s normal thoughts,
and words are seen in an entirely new context,
wherein everything is instantly cleared up.

Men  --  quite ordinary, intelligent, sane men  --  whose only experience of consciousness is their insignificantly small connecting line to The Great Conversation,
have absolutely no sense of what has been herein modeled,
nor will they ever (unless, you might speculate, life ever suddenly
DOES understand itself --  wakes up to its own true nature,
which would remove from men’s minds the job of serving as a platform for life’s  self-centered meditations, but that is not how matters now stand);
only a man with the mutant genetic ability to experience consciousness in his brain, outside the standard area, can achieve the perspective needed to reveal what is actually going on in man’s collective consciousness regarding all matters intangible,
and to recognize that this activity is not personal to the man in whom it occurs,
and indeed is not truly personal to humanity as a whole;