what they know about what is going on with their own
body-of-neural-thoughts is a
total mystery.
People know full well how they got here ("born of my parental units"), where they then began living ("604 Euclid Ave, Seattle, Wa"), when they started school ("1972"), how long they stuck it out ("until graduating high school"), their first real paying job ("bank clerk"), and too many other things to be detailed here. (But hey, you know the drill!)
BUT, the only thing people know about their mind - their body-of-neural thoughts, as it were - is that when they open their mouth words come out, and when words are not coming out, thoughts are bouncing around in their head somewhere, and, that everyone on the planet can "do all of that" without even thinking about it! (HAH! People think without even thinking about it!) And, of course, it shows, judging by the extremely low quality of what can be heard coming from the masses, no matter what they do for a living. People are having thoughts, sure, but only under extreme circumstances of effort, will-power, and training, can they compose 6 paragraphs in a row, and show them around to their friends and not get laughed at due to all the errors of spelling, punctuation, grammar, syntax, logic and many other things. (But hey, you know the drill!)
People - even rather young children - can do, easily, and almost without thinking about it at all, what those same People can NOT DO, even with extreme effort, copious eye-squinting, looking up, down, left and right, hemming and hawing, and considerable foot-dragging.
- Proof: ask a person to put an IKEA kitchen room table together without the aid of instructions, and most can do it reasonably well (there certainly are exceptions to every rule, and some couldn't manage that if offered a million bucks!)
- BUT: ask a person to compose a simple written piece (or worse, oral piece) discussing a topic they have never thought about before - particularly one that is pertinent to the AIMS and DESIRES of people reading a blog like this one (hey, you know the drill!) - and you will VERY LIKELY get back nothing but rationalizations and justifications for not doing it.
Building a usable table requires a little thinking and
a lot of precise bodily movements.
Generating a thoughtful piece on something new
requires a lot of thinking and almost no bodily movements
(just a little transcribing.)
What if remaining a total stranger to your own body-of-thought - vis-à-vis, the kind of higher matters pointed to herein since day one and long before in fact - is tantamount to giving up before even starting the Tour (the Magical Mystery one), that involves journeying up the streams and tributaries of your own nervous system, into that fabled place where thoughts (from the Global Thought Sphere) connect to the sounds and twitchings ("heard and felt" in your own tiny head) which are then "used" in sentences (just-in-time) that make enough sense to other humans that they don't ignore you entirely.
What if it is actually necessary to go on the Tour - Alone and quite Awake - so that the Magic of the Mystery can "do its Thing" on you, like a Master Chef preparing a feast for the Gods, that can be expected to kill you if you don't Please Them. (But hey, you know the drill!)
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