Everyone is born with the awareness of a Big Task  –
it is in man’s genes, and not a learnt cultural phenomena, though in the public arena
(in much diluted form) is where it is pursued by ordinary men.

As with everything else instinctive: its reality is operationally known to
the silent parts of man’s nervous system, which (as in many other instances)
direct consciousness to attempt a telling thereof,
and as always be true in the situation of consciousness (a verbal function)
being given the job of trying to describe something which,
in essence has been conveyed to it in a language it does not understand
(a language without words), the verbal result is not factually reliable.

From an inherent, distorted perspective, the whole of humanity
recognizes the presence in everyone of The Big Task,
and in all cultures is it celebrated, but in highly oblique fashions;
primarily through what are called: initiations-into-manhood,
wherein boys, at about the age of twelve (the on set of puberty),
undergo some tests, hardships, and rituals which ostensibly prove them ready
to physically join the adult world of the culture, but it is in truth the covert recognizing of The Big Task’s presence along with the unspoken understanding that
this ritual will probably be as close as the initiate will ever be involved therewith,
his only even indirect contact from then on being confined to his
perfunctory participation in the tribe’s religious observations:
while such activities are thought of throughout the world as: the-beginning-of-adulthood, they are just as much: the-end-of-The-Big-Task.

Being in their genes, men do not actually forget The Big Task,
but the forms it publicly takes after being filtered through the mind
are far removed in intensity from the original;
in ordinary men’s collective life its uncredited manifestation is everywhere,
from religion, to the arts, to the pursuit of occupational success;
man uniquely is programmed to achieve more than merely survive;
he alone is driven to succeed in matters that have no essential significance:
wealth and fame: the acquisition of surplus resources;
gaining the respect of his peers without his physical domination thereof
(e.g. being accepted as an especially spiritual, artistic or learned person),
but every single facet of mankind’s cultural life is nothing other than
a watered down acknowledgment of The Big Task;
whatever the activity, if it is not the clear effort to gain physical dominance  --
it is The Big Task  --  unconditionally, unquestionably.

This is why nothing about man’s cultural world can be explained  --
art cannot be explained; music cannot be explained; literature cannot be explained; religion cannot be explained; philosophy cannot be explained;
psychology cannot be explained  --
nothing that is part of man’s intangible other reality can be explained (that is to say):
its reason for being cannot be satisfactorily explained, and this is because
nothing in that realm is what the mind says it to be –
ergo: how can things there be expected to be understood?!

At some second decade age, a minor, unnoted divide occurs,
whereby 99.99999% of humanity splits away from .00001%;
the former become: Normal Humanity, and the latter,
the unknown few, whose non standard genetic programming drives them to
undertake The Big Task in as direct a manner as is perceptible to them individually;
they are not wired to be antagonistic to collective man’s conventional
cultural activities  --   their wiring and interest is simply such that
they cannot non physically survive thereon;
they may enjoy poetry and painting, or the spectacle of religious
rituals, but for them: everything there is at best entertaining, and nothing nourishing,
as per the attempt to prosecute and complete The Big Task.

Nothing ever said in man’s collective forum meets the criteria;
the mind is incapable of speaking about The Big Task directly;
it does not know precisely what the term represents:
all neurons know is that it has a reality far beneath them,
and completely beyond their comprehension;
the best that consciousness can do is struggle to give some general indication of
its nature  --   having only non verbal nudges from the silent areas of
the nervous system to go by,
(like a ventriloquist's dummy trying to speak, but whose operator is mute, and all he has to go on are the physical movements of the ventriloquist's hand in his back);
thought tries to give a verbal interpretation of what is non verbally being said
in the nervous system about The Big Task,
but the result is always understandably distorted, imprecise, and unreliable;
only the .00001% are genetically close enough to The Big Task
to make direct sense of it, and thus be able in any meaningful way
to undertake its fulfillment.