The tip of the spear**

There is only one thing of which you can be conscious: consciousness itself. But there are two states of it: 1) the ordinary state of distracted, clouded awareness of a personal "you" having personal thoughts and interacting with its objects, or 2) unadorned consciousness of consciousness.

(Thought experiment: at what age could you have read the above and it "seemed to make real sense to me"? Consider that even a 7- (or even a 10- and sometimes even a 30-)year old could read the above, but have no personal connection to it at all. "WTF does that mean?!?" Also, how YOUNG one was is of no importance at all! Only, that one finally feels the "tip of the spear".)

Ordinary consciousness is full of collective concerns, the on-going never-ending business of the bunch that keeps them quite occupied mentally, emotionally, physically, for their entire lives, but which are ultimately of no real direct consequence to the individual's higher nature - his "essential being", "what he IS" - and so, living always at the superficial level of distracted, clouded awareness, life, for humans everywhere today, is just "one damn thing after another!" And, "oh yeah, then you die!"

What more needs to be said, REALLY? All the stuff about forces, and energies, and features, and centers, and circuits, etc. - just to name a few in a list that numbers in the many hundreds if not thousands - are just things to focus attention upon, to think about, but what can be gained in the ordinary state of distracted, clouded awareness? (The state often termed, "sleep".)

The simplest statement that could be made here, perhaps, is that if there are OBJECTS, THINGS, involved in one's conscious perceptions, and there is nothing conscious of that consciousness, then one is ASLEEP. Stay AWAKE to the running of the machine throughout its daily activities, and stop always justifying, rationalizing, and becoming negative at apparent failures. Begin again. Simple.

**Tip of the Spear. The sharp pointed part that does not necessarily do all the work but, without it the spear itself is not a spear but a blunt stick. The tip is the first to go in, the part that starts the process for the rest of the spear to do its job and bring down the prey.