"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"

He chortled in his joy.

From what can easily be seen of humans, they ALREADY know what makes humanity tick, what makes LIFE tick, what makes "the world go round", but they can't connect all the dots. They notice a dot here, a dot there, a couple of dots around the corner, a few more at their Thanksgiving family gathering, etc., but their memory is too short, too fragmented to be able to connect all the dots and SEE the Picture (for all the dots), the Forest for the trees.

That, let's call it a "partial ability", makes most humans quite capable (even as they were born and raised by normal, ordinary, reasonably educated parents) to socialize well with others, take and keep a job, get married and have children, and reach the age of seniority and Social Security with a couple decades more of life left. But for the other Big Thing - that which must not be mentioned, or even named, yet goes by many names - not even close.

The Big Thing starts with SEEING the whole picture, the whole forest - in the beginning, only in flashes that don't evaporate into forgetfulness the next day or week, but keep getting clearer, and Clearer, and CLEARER... until Voila! or Eureka!

"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"

Even television shows and movies - which today number in the thousands - and cable news shows to some degree, display a degree of comprehension about human life in the 21st century, and how to make it with others and the rest of the world. But, of course, that's as far as it CAN go. Beyond that, everything enters the world of fantasy, strange bizarre beliefs, conspiracy theories, and outright lies. The main issue here is that Those Who Know don't speak about it, while those who don't have all the microphones, and megaphones, and social media dump sites to feed.

One thing that is so clear, after the SEEING, is that there is no more desire or interest in arguing or even discussing the Really Big Thing (that which must not be mentioned, or even named, yet goes by many names), while everybody else - before the SEEING - readily name it, discuss it, engage in arguments about teachers, masters, gurus, methods, techniques, mantras, movements, diets of one sort or another, and on and on.

Fact is, there IS only one thing to talk about anyway - since every other topic is simply about physical life in a human body, and the majority (99%) of what will be discussed will only be of interest TO the human body - and that is, the Human Brain, or Human Mind, and Consciousness, which is either absent or present (since it can't be both at once), and how to understand what is going on in THAT REALM, with Eagle Eyes on the Precious Prize: increasing it (in scope and duration - "wakefulness"), at the expense of decreasing it ("sleep"), since you can't be both Awake and Asleep at once.

The mysteries surrounding all of this are unending, which is part of the joy of consideration: what does it mean to be conscious, what are the signs and clues, how does it emerge, is it omnipresent, does it disappear at death, is death even real, is life even real, and when is it real versus imaginary. There are no fixed "answers" to any of this, but there IS A WAY to approach the questions, without going thereby Fast Asleep in the process. The Big Mystery.