Consciousness is Everything

Just as: clever, cultivated, cultured, educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, scholarly, well-educated, well-read, is NOT necessarily a manifestation of "consciousness (as in awake)" - though it might be - it is not necessarily a manifestation of "not consciousness (as in asleep)", either...

...anymore than: ignorant, illiterate, shallow, uneducated, uninformed, unlettered, unschooled, untaught, unthinking is a manifestation of "not consciousness (as in asleep)" - though it might be.

From the outside in, nobody can really tell for certain.
However, from the inside, everybody has the ability to tell for certain, though that ability must be developed before it can be of any particular benefit to one.

Just being "awake" is of no particular use except when the person understands something about that, and the "other thing", and why they are usually the "other thing", and hardly ever - if ever at all - "awake".

Once a person begins to learn from experience what's going on with their own evolving consciousness - from that of a child, to that of an adult, to that of an Awakened Man - they will very often find their use of language steadily improves with age, though their willingness to waste time and resources employing it will generally decrease, sometimes by "leaps and bounds". What that may mean is that, though useless and pointless internal chatter will decrease, hugely, their intentional output of "useful and pointed" discussion will increase. But, that is subjective of course. Your mileage may vary.

Now, of course, the Race or the Game can begin for Real - and one can leave the ordinary level of simplistic imaginary pursuits, worldly facts, figures and fake ideas, and enter the higher level of more complexity, more integration, more sophistication, more intelligence, and the most important of all - More Fun of the non-serious kind. Almost as much, if not more than one experiences during ordinary bodily sex, given the scope and magnitude of "epiphanic mind-music" generated by such personal examples (best, un-reported) that one might begin to accumulate on a regular basis. The Symphony is beyond the beyond.

Mixing metaphors for fun and profit

Ask anybody, even yourself right now: When you are not *thinking* - there are no words coming out of your mouth, or onto your keyboard, or banging around inside your head so that you can *hear* them (which means you are NOT watching TV, listening to the radio, reading a book or email - just sitting there, not *thinking* about anything) what's going ON in there?

Do you immediately reply something like, feeling, or sensing, or whatever is left of you, in there, when you are not thinking? What word would you here use?

Fact is, there IS no time when you are not thinking, except thinking is the wrong word here, it's a huge mixed metaphor.

That is, the metaphor, "thinking" is used by 99% of the planet to describe as best they can their inner mental chattering, daydreaming, etc. But they've totally mixed up their metaphors.

That is, there is a word that much more precisely describes what is going on in there, and if people would only start USING that word, instead of the wrong word (thinking), they'd discover a new reality. What word would you then use?

But, sitting around thinking about what that *other* word is, or waiting for someone to actually tell you the word, is precisely like opening your mouth and waiting for a roast pigeon to fly in it.

Good searching, er, uh, thinking... yeah that's the ticket.

S-uper EX-erc-eyes

(with thanks to JC and GG)

Overlay Jester/Gram onto Man-in-Balance at Line-Level
And then attempt the exercise, sans thought.
Note the flow of energy from 1-4-2-8-5-7

and the Three Eyes 3-9-6.

Energy flows from
Lt.Ear to inner eye to outer eye to Rt.Ear to inner eye to outer eye
and round and round and round.

Three Circuits tightly arranged and connected at Six Points. 

Each Crossing is like a "beat on the drum".

There is no sound there.

Thought can be heard there.

Hearing leads to thinking leads to speaking.

If waking up for REAL was easy...

...then everybody would be doin' it, right?

If it was a natural outcome of making it to at least 15 or 20 years old, with one's brain on full-functioning-mode, and possessed by a fully-operational "mother-tongue on board" (that is, Language - could this be a play on, "baby on board?") and ready to rumble... (though mostly, stumble) then everybody would be doin' it, right?

If everybody was doin' it, wouldn't this planet be a "god saved" Heaven on Earth, a Paradise, a Garden of Eden beyond the dreams and imaginings of literally EVERYONE alive today or in the past (who most certainly are NOT doin' it, being quite DEAD!) Well, of course it would!

Hey, maybe NOBODY IS DOIN' IT! With the possible exception of me and you, right now in this very moment (are you checkin'?), as I write with MY "head brain", and you read with YOUR "head brain", though I personally don't use that term anymore, preferring Intelliigence (with three "i's" - could this be a play on, "Third Eye?").

Intelliigence goes far beyond ordinary worldly intelligence, which has become - due to certain evolutionary "requirements" few know about (known by those "of Intelliigence" of course) - totally consumed with "facts" and "figures" regarding "people" and "things", which (pointing just for a second back to those "requirements) has contributed both to the dumbing-DOWN of even ordinary human perception and comprehension, but to the increasing incapability to reverse this problematic situation. That is, waking up for REAL is simply NOT in the cards and never was, because civilizations capable of managing exploding human populations (where there are NO predators) would be impossible, thus self-defeating for Life's greater interests. (Of course, for one or twenty or a few more in any generation to wake up for REAL, is quite alright, and useful, because they will be able to talk and write about the "possibility" so it is not totally forgotten even by the masses.)

Hey, really, you can't teach old people new thinking. Once it becomes TOO LATE, it's TOO LATE, so if all this talking and yammering on is no longer seen by you as the most significant thing your MIND does on this planet, even above your gardening, going to movies, working "for da man", playing baseball with your son, or even - dare I suggest it - SEX with your loved one (though that's a stretch, I know) - then I have one suggestion:

Stop trying so hard. Stop Thinking about all this waking up bullshit, and move into your own Future wherein lies "Conscious Intelliigence above words". That may be the only thing left for this planet of human boob-tubes, wasting space and cluttering up the place.

The S-upreme EX-perience

"S-EX" is also known as the "little death", in almost the same way as "sex" is known as the "little death", and for similar reasons. (Confused much?)

We humans are in the same relationship to the fleshly version of "sex", as we are to the neuronal version of "S-EX" - if that slightly arbitrary distinction can be drawn.

• The fleshly version of "sex" can not usually be fully appreciated until the virgin (in this general physical, tangible context) has reached a certain age where the "sex act" achieves climactic orgasm with a partner of at least similar desire - and almost every human is capable of this due to the explosive use of the most refined fuel in the organism at the time, prepared by the healthy body simply by being alive. All the other lesser versions, shower-room and elsewhere masturbatory sessions, that many such virgins experiment with, never result in a "little death" of anything, just a reasonably pleasurable release that causes a certain degree of enjoyment, enough so they continue experimenting. 
• The neuronal version of "S-EX" can not usually be fully experienced and appreciated until the virgin (in this specific non-physical, non-tangible context) discovers the possibility of redirecting certain finer energies that are part of the primal flow circulating through us all the time, that would normally contribute to ordinary sexual release, to areas of their intangible "world of the mind" they are already privileged to experience to some degree, and now strongly desire more refined pleasures of "bliss and enjoyment" that may transcend even the best "physical sex" they may have ever had before.

But what "dies" in these two highly subjective experiences that can rightfully be termed "the best things about being human", with or without clothes? There will be no attempt here to describe the subjective experiences of either kind of "sex" because that would be silly. However, the notion being pointed to here, has to do with the "sense of self" that does seem to be so tightly integrated into all aspects of simply being alive, that it is like the "white" on rice, or the "sweet" in sugar, though it CAN under certain circumstances "disappear" from the scene. 

• Great bodily sex (physical and usually requiring another human present) tends to allow one to uniquely experience "becoming one with another person", in a moment that can last many, many moments - seemingly "moments without end" (until they inevitably do of course) - without snapping back into one's ordinary desire for a smoke, or some other distraction so as to "come down" into ordinary life. ("Boy, that cigarette never tasted sooooo goooood!") 
• Great mental sex (non-physical and never requiring another human present, even your "ordinary self") tends to allow one to uniquely experience "becoming one with the universe", or more precisely perhaps, "becoming one with one's higher self", or even more precisely, "becoming one with Life Alive", but all these are just words falling so far short of anything useful as to be use-less... except to those few people who already have a certain sense about The S-upreme EX-perience, and their extraordinary DESIRE outstrips all other bodily desires by orders of magnitude.

This "skill" (of dying to oneself) starts as "craft" (of language usage - correct spelling, grammar, syntax, etc., and regularity and consistency of exercise - being able to think and speak with certain precision). It may soon move into "talent" (of concept creating, connecting, weaving, becoming almost automatic and without unnecessary fits and starts). Eventually it may arrive at "ART".

The ART of energy transformation and transmission without thinking about it; merging left & right sides of the brain, merging higher emotional and higher intellectual circuits, revealing a new-found ability to channel the "Big Guy", and sometimes even to the higher "ideal" speculated by some, written as: "Chanting the World".

NONE OF THIS happens mechanically. It requires the same thing anything useful requires - EFFORT of a certain kind and for a long time, without giving up due to simple-mindedness, and opposite-thinking and negative-thinking and making inane excuses for doing nothing. Mankind in general has only evolved to the level at which they have acquired language, and this is where most are still now imprisoned - in their heads, full of thoughts spinning and spiraling out of their control - and where they have long ago lost even the DESIRE to escape.

Life chooses your body-suit before birth

Can you handle it? Or will you be "handled by it"?

If you haven't yet learned to laugh at yourself - your antics - as you oscillate between variable-length FITS of fretting and strutting, depression and exhilaration, joy and sorrow, and the thousands of other states beFITting your particular body-suit, then always remember there is someone out there, someone you know, who never forgets to laugh at you... is laughing now.

But simultaneously remember, if you are able - and you should be once you've achieved that capability often and everywhere - this is STEP ONE to getting off the Fickle Finger of Fate wrapped around your spine and up and up, deep inside and out to the edges of your brain, feeding you a specialized cocktail of sweet/sour/salty/bitter juices throughout all your "fleshy parts" and not-so-fleshy "allotted years" - if that, and if you are lucky - until either:

• a) you are no longer needed for the "Work of the Hand" (Life's "Hand-I-Work"), or 
• b) you don't need IT - that is, you have achieved that level of true independence pointed to by the mystics of old, and some even today, including herein - and can STEP AHEAD (into the highest ends of the nervous system in the HEAD, into the Third Eye.)

Remember that way over nine-tenths (99.9%) of the suited-up creatures on this planet have absolutely NO confusion about their FATE, and their POSITION, in the Great Scheme of Life. It is only the .1% or so of the Life's finger-puppets who have reached that level of UTTER CONFUSION (i.e., ordinary thinking about oneself, ad infinitum) that some actually imagine:

• a) they personally are NOT subject to the Great Scheme of Life, or 
• b) they can STEP AHEAD any time they choose to do so (like right now, eh? how's that working for ya?) 

Realize too, that the chances of getting free from the firm grip Life has upon one - from long before one's birth - are about the same as the percentage of UTTERLY CONFUSED finger-puppets making up silly stories about themselves until everyone is blue in the face from boredom (.1%)

This is why is it called - by the mystics of old, and new - The Work. 

And if it wasn't Work, everybody - 100% of the .1% born in bondage - would already be free.

Elastic Stories

Time is elastic, and don't you forget it... as if, right? Like forgetting that you just won the recent 600 million dollar Powerball lottery, or that you just received your 3rd opinion from yet another renouned oncologist that you have about 3-4 months of breath left, if you're really lucky.

The "second" - that peculiar instant of time we all "know" so well, or not so well... depending - envelopes you like a 3-sizes too-small cheap suit, or white on rice, but it is elastic, it can expand and contract, but always (until the balance shifts, being the particular thrust of this communiqué) due to external circumstances of very great, or even sometimes not so great, emergency or calamity or some other instinctive or emotional upset, like the sudden death of your near-and-dear loved one, or a near-fatal and near-death (often) automobile collision, to name just a couple.

We've all heard the story about a guy, any guy, tooling down the interstate in his 2-seater top-down sports car, that is run off the road, and while losing control begins a couple wildly exciting - for the occupant, and spectators alike - counter-clockwise 360's in the middle of the road, only to be flipped over the highway, ejecting the occupant across a couple lanes of traffic, who lands backside-against a tree, yet not even knocked unconscious, who, upon hearing the sound of his - to him - quite out-of-place-for-the-surroundings radio still blaring in the overturned, windscreen-sheared sports car, gets up and casually turns it off, and returns to the relative safety of his new-found-friend, the tree, awaiting whatever is to come next.

No concussions, no broken bones, no contusions, no bleeding, yet from the perspective of every witness, a scene which would most assuredly be a tangled mess of broken glass, twisted metal and bloody body parts, "Uggh! I thought that guy was most definitely a G-O-N-E-R, so you can imagine my amazement to find him alive, whole, and lucid!"

The story the guy tells, is actually more interesting than anything the spectators could recount, but he is almost loathe but certainly reticent to detail it, for fear the information imparted to him then could be diffused, dilated, leaked out or even lost.

But, to hear him tell it, "Time is Elastic, and the second expands, to be filled, fully filled, by consciousness, giving it more than enough time to consider the situation in detail, from many angles, even as those 3 or 4 seconds (from the vantage point of the spectators) seemed like 30 or 40 at least, if not more."

What if, one could do this for oneself at will - create such circumstances internally that the second could expand, or contract, as desired... much more information would be available and potentially extracted than is ordinary in the non-elastic time we usually live. Information is Energy, but that is for another time.