September 20, 2003                                                               © 2003: JAN COX
 
 
 
 

The difference between the troubles men experience in their first reality,
(the physical one into which they are born) and the second reality,
(which their minds have created)
is that while nothing can be done about those in the first,
men imagine that something can be concerning those in the second.

Though in man’s first reality he finds troubles a plenty --  and serious as hell,
such as death, illness, and natural disasters,
he yet is not really bothered by them  --  he doesn’t take them personally  --
more with an attitude of: “What’re ya gonna do!”  --
but the troubles he perceives in his second reality
(wherein there are none anywhere as serious as in the first,
or even serious at all compared there to)
bother him greatly, and the more civilized are the conditions in which he lives  --
the more is he bothered by man’s second, mental-only reality
than by the hard-rock universal one,
and while his instinct is to not get mentally entangled with the troubling inevitabilities in the first, physical reality (not wasting his brain’s time)
he likewise by nature is driven blindly into a full frontal headlock with
matters that trouble him in his second, intangible reality,
and while ordinary men do not mentally fool themselves into believing that
they can avoid illness and death, or eradicate earthquakes and tornadoes,
their minds do say they can drastically alter, even cure troubling features of
that world commonly shared by routine humanity
that exists only by virtue of their mind saying that it does.

Thus this situation: in their mind, men know they will eventually die:
a trouble they can accept
(as witnessed by the fact that this knowledge does not drive them mad);
men also know in their mind that there are other men who disagree with
what comes out of their mind, but this being a trouble they can do something about: you can convert a man from his religion or political party to yours;
make men see the errors in their thinking;
cause them to recognize your worth and not think so poorly of you, and the ultimate: change your own thinking to suit god and he will bring you back to life
even after you die.

Man’s first, physical reality is harsh, unyielding to human desire,
but his second one, although populated by its own sorts of troubles
(people disrespecting you; holding fallacious beliefs)
at least is malleable and open to change  --
and here is the grandest illusion in the universe:
that any change the mind can say it perceives occurring in a mental-only reality
means anything:
the idea that you have progressed in understanding, spirituality, or in any other way
by going from believing that god is short to picturing him as tall:
changes in things that can be changed by the mind at will are nothing but...
....how can this be said so's to not upset children and the mentally challenged....

A man says: “Only one time period interests me: the post second reality era."
(Reminder: As always [for a man to-this-sport-born]:
everything just said above is equally true the other way around.)
 

In the city (home base of second reality)
men believe (in spite of in-their-face-proof  to the contrary)
that the news they receive today is the permanent news.
 

Man’s second reality, while solid and real to ordinary minds, is a structure of
interlaced straws from which the removal of but one will cause its collapse;
ergo the running of a single idea to its absolute end,
(such as: Anyone who will say they regret certain things they did in life  --
has no understanding OF life)
will awaken the certain man to the truth about everything.
 

An old timer told a new employee at the factory:
"One thing to remember kid: when they blow-the-whistle
it means one thing: it's whistle blowin' time  --  that's it!"
 
 

A man asked a sage:
“What is the most embarrassing thing men do?”
     “Better yet: I'll tell you the funniest:
       claiming to believe that someone: died-for-your-shortcomings."
       (as determined by those fronting for the alleged die-ee).”
“Jeeze!  --  that’s not funny.”
   “See!  --  there’s the humor: you not seeing it.”
 

A young lad put his mouth to the woof-woof microphone,
and began broadcasting his voice throughout the school:
"A man serious about second reality is only half of a real person...."
and was suddenly cut off by some overpowering, intruding force
pretending to be an adult.

"Daddy: why are grown ups all the time telling kids to shut up?"
    "Ah, shut up!"
 

News Of Real Mental Health.
Everyone hears voices  --  but only the awakened man recognizes them as such.
 

One man continually read medical reports, took pills, gave himself shots  --
staying constantly on the lookout for symptoms (as he put it): “Just in case,”
‘til one day his partner said: “Just in case of what?”
and he groaned: “I knew someday someone would ask that.”
 

Mental Health Definition.
Telling Personal Anecdotes: Cheap self-help for those too cheap to find out
what’s actually going on with having a brain that talks.

Conversation.
“A cow alone  --  cannot think.”
    “But cows in a herd can’t either.”
“Yeah, but they think they can.”
In a herd: individual cows don’t think  --  the herd thinks.
(Yet another benefit for the lazy man to living in the city.)
 

The fact that most humans agree on something (the existence of a god for instance) doesn’t mean it’s true  --  but it means something;
ordinary people don’t care what it really means  --
that leaves the field completely open for the certain man.
(“Hey! --  if it was crowded here  --  who’d wanna do it!
I could've stayed with the herd and had my hooves shit on the rest of my life.”)