The Thinking Thing

The Thing about Thinking, is that it ONLY occurs in the past about the past, or about the future, but never in the NOW. Thinking is not a property of the NOW, only of the past and usually about oneself. Therefore, humankind can never stop thinking (in the ordinary bullshit sense of lamenting over the past and planning for the future). Thinking outside the past and the future is a function, NOT a feature, in that once harnessed, it can produce an exponential increase of power and intelligence in one, yet, until it can be harnessed - which is rarer than reliably predicting the WINNER of the next US Presidential Election results - it's all just the geometric expenditure of nervous energy and decrease of power and intelligence, and limits the possibility of using it for higher purposes. (Just look at all the news shows and social media pages - never-ending talk, talk, talk, and more idiocy in one place than you ever find elsewhere!)

But, dig this: EVEN IF one knows this with the mind, one will still willingly participate hourly, daily, for the rest of one's life, actively engaged in this kind of ordinary thinking, because people, as they are, do not know HOW to disengage before dying (when one is finally and completely disengaged... death is a still and silent place).

Ok, Here's a hint why we can't now and don't disengage on our own (spoiler coming, don't read UNTIL you've come to your own HINT...) Engaging in the activity of ordinary thinking (i.e., when nobody is home - the key feature of ordinary thinking and ordinary human life) and listening to the continuous commentary being live-streamed into your own and everyone else's nervous systems by good ol' Life Itself, activates YOUR OWN brain, in that part which translates the energy into understandable concepts, that in turn activates other parts of the brain, in a progression that is, frankly, ENTERTAINING and FUN, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes thought-provoking, and activates hormones and other chemicals that vibrate sympathetically... which is also, fun, funny, sad, depressing, anger-producing, etc., which makes people feel, if only momentarily MORE ALIVE. Partially alive to be sure, but certainly NOT Fully Alive as can be only a Fully Conscious and Aware Human Being. And... oh yeah, we are not supposed to disengage, because we humans serve a higher purpose, and that is to "be pumps" in a larger machine that requires the movement of a certain kind of partially rarified energy throughout, which is not completely unlike the way a combustion engine requires the movement of gasoline, a highly rarified form of crude OIL, which requires igniting, pushrods, pistons, crankshafts, cams and other bits and pieces not named here. And, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, humans have something similar going on, though who can figure that one out?