That Thing you do...

You people, that is.

With language, that is.

You start wars for no good reason, and then later end them.

You create families and tribes, and then later rape, kill, and exterminate them.

You build villages and cities, and then later pillage, plunder, and burn them down.

What a special breed humanity is, and all of this is done - you know this, everyone knows this - with Language. As soon as humanity was able to talk to themselves, they started concocting all manner of schemes, plans, strategies to first gain the upper hand on the natural world of plants, animals, and weather (that's right order of course), and second, others of their own clan, or group (that can be right order too, depending), and third, those NOT of their own clan, or group (that may not be right order at all, but it has become ingrained, if not hard-wired into our species.)

Out there in the rest of the natural, non-speaking world - sans language - there is perfect order and harmony, as there has always been even from the very beginning over 3.5 billion years ago. 

Out there in the rest of the human, speaking world - with over 7,000 different languages - there is no seeming order, only extreme chaos, confusion, disruption, pain and suffering. All because of Language, and specifically because the species being USED by that language (yes, being used) has never learned the hows and whys and wherefores.

Enter the Ways.

If all humans RETAINED the "Original Teaching" they were given pre-birth (yes, pre-birth - at the time of their mystical sperm and egg hookup), all of the difficulties mentioned above, and countless others, might have NEVER gotten so out-of-whack with each and every succeeding generation. The Ways teach one thing, and teach it well - "REMEMBER YOURSELF" (but not just the "self", per se, the ALL and Everything)

One could imagine that humans are still not quite fully capable of retaining the "O.T.", but only in the "beginning stages", even today. That, coupled with their ever-increasing numbers - breeding like rabbits as they do - and the utter lack of skill, talent and understanding in most humans in general, their innate capability to RETAIN the "O.T." was virtually bred OUT OF succeeding generations. If that is indeed the case, perhaps humans have "DEvolved", rather than EVOLVED. Here it is, second decade of the 21st Century - and over Six to Ten Thousand Years or more in total - and neighbors are STILL killing their neighbors; cities, states and countries are STILL destroying other cities, states and countries, including - in too many cases - their own!

Language has a "mind of its own" - or certainly SEEMS to, the way it runs roughshod over everyone. People say and do the strangest things; more often than not, it is against their own self-interest, and without even realizing it, even AFTER being told about it by those they should really have been listening to all along. 

People are not the problem, per se. 

Rather, it is that people everywhere are being USED BY  language, 

and they lack the skill, talent and understanding to 

monitor and control themselves "just in time."

The Ways not only teach "remembering", they teach children how to THINK, and how to SPEAK, so as to maximize the usefulness of their higher intellectual circuits which were MADE to RETAIN the "Original Teaching." Oh, in case you didn't already know, the "O.T." only consists of about four little words. You heard them. You felt them. You sensed them at a deep, deep level. They literally ignited the highest, newest, freshest part of the neural circuitry where Language eventually resides in one. BUT, you and everyone else too, forgot them almost before you were born. 

The Ways teach one how to remember, 

how to retain, how to realize,

RIGHTLY.