The Direct Way

Getting out of the city, where everything is named, is to separate from the hormones driving the mind. Hormonal energy circulating up to but not past the port between the older, non-conscious parts of the nervous system, and the newer conscious parts - the cortex and frontal lobes - is responsible for most, if not almost all, ok 99% of what passes for thoughts, in you and everyone.



Whereas in the world of men and their ideas, everyone talks about everything and everyone, directly - by name, and description, and definition, and apparent personal meaning, in the outback where the explorers dwell, they talk about everything and everyone, indirectly - always mindful of names, but never utilizing them except as ad hoc, in the moment, fuel for further explorations.



Explorers know how to re-burn fuel that has already been spent, turning charcoal into diamonds. (Oxygen, air, burns everything it touches, leaving a charred after-image of itself.)



As we are, there is no separation between the body and the mind, being entirely integrated, and only, for the sake of discussion. But an explorer must create a separation - from the hormonal energies driving him, and keeping him deep in the city, as a mere charred after-image of himself - to leave it with all the diamonds he can carry.



The direct way is a conscious forgetting, until needed, that which is always, unless otherwise, unnecessary - the city. Memories, created by older parts of the nervous system, are the remnants of spent fuel - but only fuel for the explorer, as only the explorer can crack it.



The indirect ways are always a mechanical, non conscious forgetting of experience - into memory. (This is the source in his intellect of such teachings as, stilling the mind, stopping thoughts, remembering oneself - an attempted forgetting on purpose of the present, by "letting it go".)



No one puts a memory into memory - it, that, happens; Life is alive.



Life, the memory of life - short and long-term - wherein mankind dwells, is the source of that energy that awakes the dreamer hibernating in older parts of the human nervous system, and keeping him there. (Men may be Lifes' short-term memory; not that it has another cache to store them, man is the store.)



The direct way is focussing upon that port, or juncture between the older hormonal energies swirling their designs upon your dna, and the newer almost mythical, but certainly mystical neuronal energies just now bubbling to the surface of the higher cortex.



Everything that passes through the mind, unless it's consciously engaged in problem-solving - for either external or internal purposes - is from memories, short, very short, and mid, to long term. What kicks up the dust in that dustbin, are hormones - the physical counterparts of the body on an internal scale (as the flesh, bones, organs on the external scale.)



Everything going on in that way - often just called daydreaming, or living in a dreamworld - is, and can be named, and stored in memory. Each human has direct access to the memory of the race, and at deeper levels, of Life on Earth. And, if he chooses to name something never named before, it doesn't matter whether he knows what he's talking about or not. The name, becomes the thing, for all - of which he is still a part.



The indirect ways, start by talking about everything directly, naming and describing everything, filling copious books in libraries and stores, with the purpose of that thought being to eventually stop all talking and stop all thought - "being present", stopping thought, meditating, focussing on and "living in the now", nirvana, enlightenment - thinking much less than one is ordinarily able (because everyone knows, man talks and thinks too much, so much that it could be said to be a/the source of his spiritual confusion.)



The direct way, must talk about everything - much more than one is ordinarily able - but only indirectly, slightly askew even to you saying it for the first time.



The direct way, is intentional epiphanic mind music generated by the increasing connections between the named and as-yet unnamed. The more that is unnamed in you, the more you live in the dreamworld. The more connections that can be made the more you are awake.



The direct way must be continued, by someone...