Without seeing how the mind continually paves the road just ahead of where it is going, you can never understand cannibalism being its favorite post travel libation.
There was once a band of people who pursued an activity that seemed to outside eyes to have no purpose, but just because this is how it appeared to those not involved
does not mean that is an objective judgment of the matter.
Only cows know what goes on in their stomach,
and only the sleeping don’t realize they’re dreaming.
 
 

Often when he takes a glance at what his brain is endlessly churning out
one man will say to himself: “Who writes this tripe!”
(And one cow expressed umbrage at man’s use of the word tripe in this context.
[“Fuck what a cow thinks!” said one man in mortal response thereto.])

Even though normal minds engage only in activity that is in the best interest of
man’s collective consciousness, to ever awaken from the general mortal snooze,
you must push far beyond this publicly paved part of the endless potential highway.
 
 

Stand Aside Definitions.
Science: A form of encouragement for those who don’t want the merry go round
to ever run down.
Religion: Encouragement for those who fear it will.
Related Explications.
Information (as the outcome of science's study of physical reality)
is the establishing of new synaptic connections,
while entertainment (as native to religion’s pronouncements concerning man’s invisible one) is the activation of junctures already in place.
In a slippery to describe sense: the man determined to get-to-the-bottom-of-things turns the scientifically inclined area of his mind on to the activities of his metaphysically disposed part.
(Aka: Anything that appears in the certain man’s consciousness with the power to get-him-down  –  HE gets down.)
Yes boy and girls, friends and neighbors: There’s no way this is possible  –
but he accomplishes it just the same.
   (One man thinks that for their own good, everyone should be nicknamed, Pinkie.)
 
 

One man’s take on a matter:
“The people running the conspiracy are behind those who publicly proclaim
that one exists  --  and now that many are becoming aware of this,
the real conspirators are also taking charge of them doing so.
(Plus: they may be responsible for me saying this about them.........and for you listening to me.......who knows?!)"
 
 

Men become writers because no one will listen to them talk;
men become singers because no one will read their writing;
men become preachers because no one wants to hear them sing,
and men become bitter...........well  –  for reasons that are obvious.
Another easy way to describe what it is to be awake is that when you talk to yourself, you don’t mistake it for something else.
(Or a reverse definition: Only an ordinary person will answer the question:
“If you could do it over  –  would you?”)
 
 

In one land was a particular area which made the people feel disheartened;
there was another which caused them to be cheerful;
there was yet a third region which produced in them, anxiety and fear,
and still another, bravery and certainty,
and although everyone had lived here all of their days,
none ever saw these as the true source of their sensations,
but rather took them to be self generated.
  The reason that ordinary men do not recognize the more conscious among them
  is that while they may physically live with him, they do not internally live like him.
  Cows of different nervous system feathers do not emotionally stick together.
    If you stand on your front porch awaiting some supernatural sign to direct you
    to the promised land of freedom
    you will look upon the endlessly passing traffic as the cause of your captivity
    rather than your own staring there at.
      As long as your attention stays on imagined scenes outside the prison walls,
      you are assured of forever dreaming behind them.
        (“You know: sometimes  –  just for a second  –  I feel that I almost get it.”
           [Rumor says that nine thousand almost-get-its become equal to actually getting it.])
 
 

It is tempting to conclude that a man’s mind only thinks about things that are
in the man’s best interest,
but if you scientifically study what it is normally concerned with,
you are forced to re examine your concept of what constitutes one’s own best interest.
This highlights again the clear operational reality that the needs of man-the-collective, and of an individual (of a special sort) can diverge in ways never noticed,
or accounted for by the collective.
Though beyond the rational grasp of the congenital mind:
the herd itself is an entity with its own existence and needs quite apart from
the various cows which compose it; seeing this is what awakens an anomalous cow here and there amidst the dreaming multitude.
 
 

Employing methods he had personally developed: one man came to realize
that his mind could entertain at least three different sensations simultaneously:
verbal, visual, and visceral  --  which still does not account for the feature of consciousness that is capable of making such an observation.
“If no one is home  –  then who is it that is aware there is not?”
That sentence exemplifies fully why ordinary men will not entertain this matter
in their mind for even a moment.
     (“Well what kind of nutty cow would make itself deliberately sick!”)
 
 

A father told a son:
“The most important thing if you’re dying is to not let the other wolves know.”
   “But we’re not wolves.”
“If you’re dying you should  be.”