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FANS OF FAMILIAR THOUGHT
FAN THE FLAMES OF FLUMMERY
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  April 19,  2003                                                                        ©2003: JAN COX
 
 
 
 

If there were some pristinely sane, and stone-cold keen-eyed
amongst humanity’s ipse dixit philosophers, mystics and psychologists,
they would not allow their mental investigatory powers to be squandered
in the pursuit of the arcane and scientific arts;
a man with the native interest in getting to the bottom of things, and the necessary neural stability to prosecute same, needs no ancient metaphysical tomes,
nor contemporary psychological syllabi as reference material,
he is inescapably awash in everyday activity any one example of which, if studied down to its core would, by itself, lay bare the trick linchpin that holds together
both the singularity of the human experience, and man’s mental  concept thereof.

Dilettantes in this matter are entertained-by, and satisfied-with
reading and thinking about the surely transcendental  significance of the fact that
if you multiply the height of the Great Pyramid by a certain number
it will equal the distance to Venus,
or that if you ask enough people who say they feel depressed
if they had problems with their mother, a statistical pattern will emerge,
or that there is an endless supply of personally-vouched-for anecdotes
attesting to the common appearance in men’s lives of supernatural forces,
but the man born with that certain hunger soon knows by feeling in his marrow
that such things are but wispy smoke of some unknown fire;
the mind’s quite crudely conceived images of something it has never actually seen,
and his focus is turned elsewhere: to the mundane life all around and in him –
the piece missing to make mortal mischief make sense is to be found
not in what men (great and small) have said is going on with life, but in the
private survey of what men say they are doing, vis a vis what IS clearly occurring,
and there is a delicious example from an embarrassingly bountiful selection:
a far reaching actuality, as obvious as can be,
which normal men aren’t allowed to acknowledge,
but one after which you see it fully for yourself  --   nothing is ever the same;
your personal reality, and mental perception of life are forever altered (and it is this):
                        in the physical world  --  you can make problems go away;
                        in the intangible one   --  you can only create them.
 

Via the mind, gigantic problems in the physical world can be done away with:
a river which regularly floods an area in which men want to live can be diverted therefrom by the mind’s ability to first picture in its unique realm how such an extraordinary thing could be accomplished, and then to direct men's muscles
in the correct execution of the plan;
men have, by virtue of their thinking, achieved equally astounding results in
diverting from them, deadly diseases;
there may be no limit to the mind’s ability to make things which men find to be problems in the physical world  --  go away, (in thumbnail, a defining of civilization).

Man lives not only IN a physical world, but in a non physical one as well;
indeed, the more civilized you are --
the more does your individual sense of you live therein;
it is an intangible realm that originates and exists solely in man’s brain
(though through his construction of material monuments motivated thereby [cathedrals, courthouses, colleges, museums etc.]
he unanalytically speaks as if it is otherwise),
and an absolutely distinguishing mark of this unique sphere is that therein
men also find what they adjudge to be problems,
but problems here cannot be done away with --  all you can do is create more of them.

As always the situation in this special investigation:
99.99999% of humanity is not programmed to mentally see it thus,
but in fact to the contrary:
quite soon after the arrival of thought in the brain, and men’s realization of its amazing ability to make problems in the physical world go away,
they “discovered” (in quotation marks, or: their-thoughts-created, without the marks) problems IN their intangible world
(‘tis only after men have arranged things in the physical to have a dependable food supply that they develop a spiritual/mental life, and immediately upon its appearance, find it to be full of heretofore unknown, problems).

Men now say they have problems that afflict their soul;
trouble their mind, disturb their spirit, and so on;
beset by problems which exist not outside of them in the physical world  --
but IN them, in non physical places.
The mind operates however, as though there is no radical difference between these two types of problems;
mind speaks as though the problems it experiences in its domain,
it can do away with same as how it has dispatched those in the physical one.
There can be no grander example of the lives men’s minds say they lead in their intangible world, and the clearly observable reality of what actually goes on there.

Upon the discovery that they had problems in their mental/spiritual world, men’s minds were able to instantly come up with ostensible methods to do away with them:
applications to gods; consultations with priests;
counseling from psychiatrists, the advice of friends, and the wisdom-of-the-ages,
all amounting to the same thing:
that talking and thinking about intangible problems can make them go away
(well you plainly cannot do so with them physically as you did a flooding river
with a dam, or an appendicitis by an appendectomy:
physical problems are expelled by physical action  --
non physical problems by non physical means).

All standard humans by nature have thoughts that say, incontrovertibly,
that the physically untouchable problems they find in their inner world
CAN be eradicated (just not in the same manner as those in the physical);
all normal people say this, and insist they believe it, and know it to be so
from theirs and humanity’s collective experience;
their minds are made to say this in unhideable contradiction of five thousand years of evidentiary history, and the plain facts as they still are at every second.

No thought or word has ever done away with an intangible problem;
no type of counseling, no amount of reflection has or will ever accomplish same,
yet every ordinary human on this planet will
reflexively and firmly dismiss such a notion as insane;
every normal, sane mind meandering this orb knows absolutely that
through either professional counseling, private conversations, or personal reflection, the problems men experience non physically inside themselves
can be done away with,
indeed to insist that no such thing is remotely possible would be a salient sign of
one’s mental abnormality;
man collectively is clearly programmed and intended to perceive it thus
(and as always: in the land of turkeys, gobbles are The Truth).

Howsomever: a point, quad-zero per-center has a nervous system
whose genetic programming somehow allows him to see this matter from a
totally different perspective (which is to say:
to see what it is compared to what everyone else SAYS it is);
a man with unnaturally focused mental eyes/I’s --  with no great effort  --
realizes that the intangible problems unique to man can not be done away with  --
they can only be created;
you cannot destroy intangible problems  --  you can only create more,
and their number is added to by the very methods everyone else says
diminishes them  --   thinking and talking about them.

The larger and more complex a problem in the physical world,
the greater may be the thought and discussion required to do away with it,
but all thought and discussion of problems in the intangible world
does nothing but create new problems;
there is nowhere in the realm of the mind to which a problem can be permanently expelled (no place in The Grimm World to which Rapunzel can be exiled).

By birth, man’s mind is given no choice but to say that the problems it “finds”
within its world can be done away with,
and in one verbal/mental sense, by so saying  -- it IS so  --  whether it BE so or not,
(remembering that what sayeth a turkey in gobblerland is incontrovertible);
ordinary men indelibly believe that their intangible problems can be banished,
and in that (substantially speaking), the problems do not actually exist to begin with  --  how can they be determined to have NOT been so proscribed?!
(as with mind in regard to all matters exclusive to its domain,
it is always a: win/win affair).

This being  man’s norm  --  no harm of any sort comes to him there through;
the thoughts that effortless and magically appear in his brain declare that the problems they find therein can be done away with  --
all normal men accept and repeat this idea,
and trains continue to run, teams still play,
and medical diagnostic technology a tempo improves;
the factual speciousness of the situation bothers no one, save the certain man --
none even notice but him,
and (as always) his cure is as close to hand as his fingers:
the head-on recognition of what is actually going on, totally apart from
what everyone’s mind (including his natural born one) SAYS is going on.

Until you personally see it for yourself in the privacy of your own head,
you have no conception of how many confusing areas of mortal existence
are instantly cleared and explained by just the realization that:
                          in the physical world  --  you can make problems go away;
                          in the intangible one  --   you can only create them;

if you understand this  --  there will be nothing left that you do not.

J










There is but one thing that can entertain a man who knows: his own thoughts.
 
 


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