A man long interested in the certain matter reported on here daily one day reflected:
“Even though the word has an honorable tradition amongst those similar to me, is it perchance a disservice to think of this activity as transcendental,
for should we expect a microscope to ever see outside the periphery of its lens,
or a volt meter to ever register anything other than electrical current,
or an eye to see outside the visible spectrum?
Why then presume that what is possible for the human mind is something other than mental and human?
Does the use of such notions as transcendental serve to keep these possibilities
that a few such as I feel sure exist, far from the minds of ordinary men;
the ultimate in this being: men calling their consciousness, god?!”
    (And there is this other chap who says he underwent something of an
    initiatory-shock when he realized that the deities of the insane
     are different from those of everyone else.)

Those who say that the great corner-turning-experience in this endeavor
can’t possibly be either: this-or-that --  have never had the experience,
and those who say that is either: this-or-that --haven’t either.
Corollary.
Those who, about the grand thing insist: “It can only be found:over-there!”
belong themselves: over there.
    The land of light exists wherever the lit-up are.
Or: A ship familiar with its sea is satisfied with whatever positive movement
it daily makes no matter its ultimate consequence.
And a son said to a father:
    "That is one thing you never talk about: the ultimate consequence?!?”
“I trust you are not waiting for a response to that,
for what more is needed beyond your observation itself.
Being aware that what the ordinary mind calls the transcendental is never seen, should itself show the certain man everything he needs to know there about.
Understanding why no one ever reaches Oz, nor realize that they don’t,
makes for the few, the road leading there give up all its secrets:
this is the unknown corner the rebel finally turns whereby the path he believed he has been traveling explodes in his consciousness  --  pushing it outward in all directions, and which is the forgotten archetype and inspiration for the word: transcendental.
The great inner, personal experience for those of our family line is certainly beyond any known to ordinary men  --  yet it is not supernatural:
it is consciousness pushed (in our case) simply to its ultimate natural size.”
 
 

There is nothing more ordinary than the words of ordinary men
attempting to explain man.
 

Travel Tip.
If you go where you were meant to go: reservations are never necessary.
 

Sheep will believe anything.
 

A man who has written esteemed biographies of numerous famous people was asked what he had learned about himself from his study of their lives,
and he immediately replied: "Nothing."
(This was our Doke For The Jay. [His name by the way is: Teller Likesheis.])
 

For a man who understands life, nothing is more uninteresting than talk about him.
    “Even more so than talk about other people?”
If that’s possible.
(Footnote: Even if they at first resist: ordinary men can always easily be nudged into talking about themselves.
[Neat as sheep, huh?!])
 

Prison Photographer’s Posing Advice.
Look tough  --  be tough:
be stupid  --  look stupid.
 

One man realized: “Even if in looking back on my life I did manage to figure out
why I did certain things I did  --  it’s too late now to be of any use.”
    “Unless you want to talk about it.”
“Yes.....that of course.”
 

Conversation.
“The greatest thing one man can receive from another is information.”
    “About farming, you mean?”
“Yes.”
    “Anything else?”
“No.”
One Man’s Proposed Moral: “Would that all my private conversations so went.”
 

One chap (while apologizing in advance for the crudeness of his imagery)
says he finds men’s common attempts to explain why men are as they are
(those of experts and layman alike)
to be like watching shit trying to climb back up somebody’s ass.
    ("Well, Loctor Divingston: clearly nothing here to do with thoughts,
       so we can be back on our way.")
 

Sheep will believe anything;
this is not a pejorative statement;
their natural willingness to believe is what makes sheep sheep,
and their lives (to them) worthwhile                (in a sheepish sort of way).
 

The Theatrics Of It All.
Educated adults think of life as a drama.               (Little do they know).
 

One man was so adamant in his refusal to talk about himself
that he would not even admit he had ever been any younger than he is now.
 

Dialogue.
“Consciousness does not find any human situation worthy of attention
that does not contain conflict.”
    “Exempting that of the real-dealer?”
“Yes, that of course.”
 

Men employing their natural born consciousness in the attempt to understand
their past is almost equal to a flow trying to grasp a brook.
The Cueen’s Qrochet Game might go better if nouns would stop trying to ride verbs.
    (“Not to mention man’s attempts to comprehend life, huh?!”)
 

All cows want to speak a language that other cows find hip;
question: have you ever seen a hip cow?  --
can you even imagine one?
Yes: that is the benefit of staying with your kind:
you always seem in at least minimal fashion.
    “You’re talking about ideas now, aren’t you?!”
 

A man who will defend himself is full of holes.
    “Same for ideas, no?!”
 

One man’s advice to his son (and himself):
“Just because you’re coming apart is no excuse for coming-apart.”
    Tough enough  --  flexible enough;
    flexible enough  --  tough enough.
 

How To REALLY Get By In Prison.
Smile --  and forget completely about whether what you’re saying is true or not
(this is in fact the kind of approach that could get you elected mayor, or town rabbi).
 

The consciousness of the real-deal-man going about its special business
is like a cop on the scene of an incident who holds back a crowd of people/thoughts who say that they saw what happened, but he says to them:
“Stay back and be quiet while I investigate.”
 

Also you might be interested to know that part of the basic repertoire of
all city dwellers is a tune entitled:
“There Is No Difficulty In Dealing With Other People’s So-Called Problems.”
 

The way to tell for certain that someone is not awake is if they say that
everyone should be awake.
 

One man says he has decided he will not say anything else about the nature of man until he understands fully the motivations and thinking of his cells.