Forget your books and papers

Here is what most people fail to realize, for two very important reasons  perhaps mentioned later. They fail to realize that ALL THE BOOKS and stuff and nonsense that has ever been available to the public - for many hundreds and nearing thousands of years - has ALREADY been ingested and digested by the people, by the human species itself, and was wired into the nervous systems of those self same beings, and passed on to their "followers" (family and friends and strangers down the genetic line.)

This can't be proved by modern-day science, but Think Clearly and you may have a realization about this, that it couldn't be otherwise. As if... "God created the world for YOU, just YOU, and the universe consists of all the reincarnated versions of YOU up and down through time." Or, put another way, there is just The Creator and the created. Or, additionally, you may interact with a "version" of yourself in the past or the future - though each would be oblivious of this - but Nervous Systems are always UP-TO-DATE.

What people don't realize, is that joining any group of other people (no, not dogs, or cats, or chipmunks, or even apes or dolphins) - like a Buddhist group, or Christian group, or Gurdjieff group, or general-purpose "spiritual/philosophical" group, or any other similar kind... you know in the "higher consciousness" variety (hey, take your pick, we don't care) - puts each regular participant in front of the greatest source of information IN CONTEXT with life as lived by (and here is the important bit) 21st century "strivers after Truth, the unvarnished and Whole Truth." One needs to look NO FURTHER than in this case, Facebook and Yahoo (singled out for their humongously large membership in these "h.c." varieties.

One reason for this is that information of all kinds enters the nervous system in a variety of ways, but primarily through the eyes and ears, and embeds therein, changing the user in ways quite unknown to most, but the user now sees, hears and experiences everything from now on, in context with the information contained within, and without. A person is NOT a singularity, an island in the infinite ocean, but a drop with an infinity of other similar drops - all wet and clear with all others. Pluck one out of the ocean, and inspect it carefully, and you are looking at the Whole Ocean in Eternity. You know...

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower; 

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - Blake.

Consider this final note: do you really believe the following list from here or here or here contains ANYTHING of greater value to you, than what fills that five-inch gap between YOUR ears, extending down and out far beyond your skin? And if so, we've got nothing to talk about... but if you truly comprehend this serious question,

Gimme five, dude(tte)
You contain and have access to all of human history.

Okay... for the reasons... 

• Our 21st century nervous systems are open-ended, too open-ended in fact, to perceive the Truth. Just look at our species, family, friends, strangers, media people, EV-RY-WHERE, and what do you see and hear? Argument, conflict, confusion and chaos. NOISE at deafening levels. But what do you see in the non-human species, whose nervous systems are closed-ended...? Silence, sweet, sweet silence.
• The human species "learned" to develop a personality, and that personality controls our language-using capabilities, and, as such, the rule is this: When you can't "English" (or pick your favorite mother-tongue) something (perception, apperception, gut feeling, etc.) you can't THINK or SPEAK about it intelligently. Mankind needs to think and speak something, fairly coherently, before they can begin to accept it, and until then, it is all just "more bull-stuff and bull-nonsense."

That is what the Systems, Teachings, and Instructions of the Mystics and Masters of old attempted to teach their favorite pets... I mean students, followers, acolytes, etc. How to activate "higher parts of centers/circuits" which can interpret the silence of the world - including themselves - and discover the way to Think and Speak about it... just as those Mystics and Masters did so very well.