"Direct Connection"

"While it probably seems that humans have a 'direct connection' to all parts of their 'being'", they don't, and the evidence is overwhelming, particularly in the higher ends of their nervous system - the most recent forebrain particularly - wherein thoughts, that can be acted upon with attention for an extended period are occurring all the time, even while sleeping (i.e., 24-7-365-75+/-). As for the rest of the nervous system at the middle and lower ends - the body proper and all of its instinctive functions and operations - almost all of it is automatic and mechanical, and thank goodness or we would not be able to live here for very long.

Becoming "conscious" (awakened, enlightened, etc.) opens the "direct connection" so that one can learn to utilize ALL the features of being human that, for most people, are locked up as if in a high-security prison, stifling their every effort to open the connection and keeping it open, and in most people it remains closed for a lifetime. Circumstances, of course, can result in the connection opening - death of family members, near-death experiences, extreme emotional and physical events - but they are NOT ENOUGH to keep it open permanently, for after a few hours, or maybe a few days or weeks, it closes again, and the person is left trying to reconstruct memories, to compose stories and descriptions of "what happened", and then - even worse - telling, and re-telling, to anyone that will listen, "My story" (yawn!)

Herein lies the secret to the SUCCESS that only a few, here and there, know fully. Life does not need your help to describe anything. Life already knows quite clearly what is going on here, in you, outside of you, all around you, before you got here, after you're long gone, and it leaves its imprint upon your nervous system second-by-second-by-second, so that you MAY - if lucky, or talented, or skillful, or crafty, or sly - make and maintain a "direct connection" to all the aspects of being human (or better, the Human Species as a whole, or even better yet, Life Itself). What is more likely, of course, is: probably NOT.

Yes, there are people who suggest otherwise ("Hey, I'm connected! Have been since 1993!"), but they are fooling themselves while trying to fool you. One's life imprint only seems personal, unique to you alone, but it isn't. Life is imprinting all humanity all the time, so your efforts to OPEN and maintain that "direct connection" to your being, the Human Species, Life Itself, literally changes, enhances, expands and extends the highest ends of the nervous system wherein thoughts, that can be acted upon with attention for an extended period, including Speaking and Writing. When that finally occurs - connected, open, permanence - all chit-chat and chest-thumping around and about "My Story" evaporates in a puff of smoke never to be seen again... and all those around you that have had to endure it, issue a collective sigh of relief... "aaahhhh"