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The Outlier's Guide In Inner Fire walking
 OCTOBER 28, 2004                                                                 © 2004: JAN COX



“Listen!” the voice rang out throughout every place that has a throughout,
“This is an ongoing investigation  –   so prepare yourselves accordingly.”
(Which is somewhat humorous inasmuch as if people were able to
suitably prepare themselves, an investigation would not be necessary.
    “Pa pa: but isn’t everything, somewhat-humorous!?”
“It sure is in our world.”)
 



Two brothers engaged in a private quiz game:
“What is a metaphor for all metaphors?   –   empty space.”
    “So why didn’t you just say that to begin with?!”
“Fact: No one will listen to empty space in the beginning.”
    “And later?”
“Oh  –  it’s almost 9:30.”
(Ignoring the apparent temporal reality Life senses in this Universe via man’s consciousness, an investigator could initially take an expedient approach thus):
In the beginning before there are thoughts, consciousness is empty
(at least so it seems to itself) and also devoid of any illusions and torted impressions,
(in other words): it is unfit for its ultimate work;
then thoughts appear in consciousness and it functions as is normal for man
(at least from its perspective), complete with life saving insights and delusions;
what a few people have always referred to as man’s ability to awaken from
an unrealized dream in which he ordinarily lives, is a private, individual rearranging
of this situation.

 

   
First thing he does every morning when he opens for business is to post the sign: “Close Up When You Leave  –  Or: Leave When You Close Up.”
A reminder that for some reason does not sit well with his thoughts.
    (“But father: sooner or later doesn't everything not sit-well with men’s thoughts?!”
“For sure in their ordinary world.”)
 
 
 

Confessional writing is not writing at all  –  it is something else,
same as vocal confessionals do not represent any actual thinking.
    (“See!  –  and you say that emotions can’t talk  –  so even if you’re right,
       they’re still smart enough to get someone else to do it for them.”)
A father said to a son:
“Personal anecdotes prove nothing – especially whether or not you are a real person.”
     “I would have expected you to say that the mere telling of such episodes
       would be the definitive proof that you are no such.”
“You’re right of course.”
 
 
 

Says one guy: “My consciousness is superior to any politician running for election
in that consciousness doesn’t have to promise anybody anything to get in power;
unnoticed, it simply takes over  --  like the epitome of a tyrant.”
 


When one man did finally realize that he was his own-best-friend, it so affected him that he turned to a life of drink, sex and dissolution.
(Some years later he got around to thanking his self.)




Riding Along (As Best You Can).
From Life’s perspective: The Universe is a tricycle.
 
 
 

The kid looked up from the book in his hands and said to the ole man:
“Hey pop, listen to this,”  and he began to read:
“ ‘Courage consists not in simply overcoming fear, but in studying its many faces
and carefully planning for its defeat’  –  now tell me, o wise father:
Can the same be said regarding the relationship between the mind and ignorance?”  And the elder replied:
“Not unless you are the sort who will believe anything they read or hear
from other humans”  --   a response that initially baffled the young whifflehead.
But later that day it suddenly hit him that what the ole man had subtly done was present what ordinary men think of as ignorance as being an illusory punching bag;
the ultimate tar-whale: as long as you fight it – you can’t get away from it,
and the longer you hang around it – the more likely you are to be consumed by it  –   and all of it occurring solely in your mind:
the very implement by which you believed you could overcome ignorance.
All in all, by bed time the kid considered it a day double-well spent.



Being sentenced to die at noon is not all that bad  --
as long as no one comes by to remind you of the time.




 Driving along during the early morning rush hour, one man noted to his companion: “My consciousness is like Interstate 99, (the North Link): crash free.”
    “But that section of road is still unfinished.”
“Exactly!  –   same as my consciousness.”

 
 

Conversation.
“Is knowing-what’s-going-on anything like not knowing anything?”
    “You could say that.”
“Really?”
    “Yeah  --  but you’d be wrong.”
 


Definition.
Dreams: Hormones’ attachment to thoughts.
(“Mush!  –  you hearty words  –   onward!”)


   
The people in a party going on in the basement en mass decided:
“Those who live primarily in their head are satisfied with man’s intangible reality,”
(and under their collective breaths muttered): “They better be,
just like us red-circuit ones are content rolling through the fat of the land.”
Fact: Every dog has its day: some species have Mondays and others, Saturdays,
but the man hip to canines has a special day every day: No Leash Day.
    “I expected you to say a: No Dog Day?!”
And you see the distinction as being what?
 
 
 

Pharmaceutical Update.
For best results: Continue taking until there is no more.
(This is actually a trick-prescription in that the time never comes
when there is no more. )
    “But if you stop taking it, isn't that the same thing as there not being any more.”
Precisely: which is why the man-who-knows knows to never stop partaking.
    “Jeeze! – you gotta admit: sometimes it’s really hard being a patient of ThisThing!”
Fact: A real-deal-man doesn’t have to admit anything (in fact): Fact Fact:
A man who will  admit anything announces that he understands nothing.
 
 
 

At a dinner party the mayor of one city was overheard to say that he found the arts
to be incivility-made-manifest  –
and with impressive price tags attached for the effort.
Fact: Gazelles only survive because lions are there to kill them.
 
 
 

Today’s Tale.
One man says his life long spiritual-quest reached its climax when,
while traveling through the high mountains of Gurkistan,
(under the blistering influence of some low life drugs) the realization suddenly hit him:  that the term: “metaphysical-consequences” began with the same letters as
the name of a pole dancer he’d met in Morocco in ‘84: Margo Culhane.
 
 
 

When he got his drink and slid to the far end of the bar,
a man found this message written in the dust:
“A man’s consciousness is like a little feller who’s been placed on top of a
real high dam and put in charge of looking after the thing  –  but given no instructions, (plus, no one ever comes to relieve him).”
 
 

Every person has a doppelganger  –   and you don’t have to go looking for him.
(Sniffs one chap: “Not having a backyard OR dog of my own  –
I have nothing to say on the matter.”
He must be one of those people who live in: DYW  –  Don’t You Wish.)

 

    Any time an inner rebel is not being entertained by life’s available data  –
he’s not a rebel.

 
 

J
 
 
 
 

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While going through boxes of his late father’s writings, a son found a large notebook covering a period of many years in which his pater had put down precepts he had personally developed and apparently intended solely for his self, and which the progeny (knowing the elder as he had) realized were behaviors & attitudes his father had found conducive to his life long aim of expanding the scope of his consciousness, but after discovering them, the younger now perceives them to be a legacy
the old man subtly bequeathed him for his own use.
What follows is an excerpt from those papers.

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Do secret mental imitations of people for whom you have an automatic dislike.

Don’t think of yourself as being either like this, or like that.

Make your consciousness constantly scan.

Do not accept, handle or pass on useless currency.

Never offer an excuse or give an explanation for what you did.

Don’t believe that you have anything to hide;
don’t be such a fool as to believe that you can hide anything.

The voices that came with your brain are not personal.

Think universally  –  not locally.

Give all ideas the possibility of life.

Don’t think of ordinary people as creatures who think.

Real thinking is never prejudiced.

Consume, digest, then transcend all opposites.

There’s more going on in men’s ordinary lives than any ordinary man realizes.

Do not allow yourself to become a noun.

Abandon all forms of mental entanglements with your parents.

You can’t be a conduit for ordinary forces.

Make Life your ally.

Keep an unnatural inner spin on yourself.

Beware of the b-chain (the because chain).

If you don’t have an undying commitment to The Aim  –  you don’t have the aim.

Don’t draw unprofitable attention to yourself.

Learn to think without examples.

Examine your emotions locally  –   and realize their irrelevance universally.

Don’t let yourself be captured by words.

Never look back.

Let none of the native voices in your brain speak for you personally.

Don’t laugh aloud at anyone’s beliefs, and ignore their so-called thinking.

Always smile.

To cure a situation that displeases you:
change your actions just enough that you’re aware of it.

Use the opposite hand.

Illness is not a hobby (nor an interesting personality trait).

Be prepared to do anything the voices don’t want to do.

Starve emotions of the word-energy that makes you feel you’re on a sinking ship.

Engage in no rear-guard actions.

The mechanical “you” in you should never be listened to.

Constantly consider the ordinary.

There are no solutions to intangible problems.

Find the unseen spaces between ideas, between mental inhalation and exhalation, where things new and astounding can be found.

You don’t learn to be tolerant  –   you just are tolerant.

Do something that is non rehearsed.

No one can provide you with understanding.

Don’t wander around out of focus.

Be an active supporter of Life’s continued good health.

It’s up to you to do everything that it’s up to you to do.

Fuck the past.

If you put a name on it  –  you’ve misnamed it.

No form of criticism leads to understanding.

Something’s wrong if Life is more mature in any area than you are;
at minimum concerning any matter, you have to be as awake as everyone else.

Pretend you know-what-you’re-doing; don’t say you do; just pretend.
 
 



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