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© 2000: Jan Cox 

 
October 14, 2000. The early morning is already quite bright and hot here high in the Ecuadorian Andes.  I am in an area that by myth is claimed to both exist and not exist.  It is a place said to be on no map, but on the minds of a few individuals who appear from time to time in this world.

Man’s myths are powerful; more so than any weapon he has ever devised. A people’s myths will survive even episodes of their mass physical destruction. (Within myths I include all religious texts and any so-called, historical certainties, and fictional literature which have taken on a commonly accepted allegorical patina.)

From the perspective of a man-trying-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-things, (the only profitable one for the investigation of thought, which is the subject of these daily discourses), myths present an unequaled representation of a quite specific facet pertinent to such an inquiry.   

From whatever culture, from whatever era, and regardless of the visible topic, from one view they are all the telling of the same ongoing story.  And curiously, one which had a definite beginning, as noted by the myths themselves, yet one whose sub-visible and truly informative genesis is completely missed in common interpretations of such tales. A failure that is predictable in that a medium, (remember  we are talking about thought here), in that a medium is incapable of self-analysis. The result of this inherent feature of conscious thought is that through myth it searches for its origins, but being only a conveyance, and having nothing  --  being nothing of its own, all comments it attempts to make about itself are automatically projected out into the physical world.  And thus, as far back as goes recorded history, from the Babylonians and Egyptians, the Chinese and Indian, the Hebrews & Arabs, human thought has produced myths of creation, but the words are always about the physical creation of man and the universe. But there is an adventure yarn being told on a totally other level by the cerebral cells responsible for conscious thought that is not about the material realm --  but rather, about its own universe.

The opening lines common to all the various creation myths refer to there originally being either nothing, or else whatever was extant being in chaos.  But then  --  "Came the Word,"  or as ordinary men would have it: "Then appeared God."  And yet all such tales state plainly at the outset that until, "came the word" there was no creation, there was no order, and that indeed, "God,"  and Creation itself are synonymous with, "the Word."  

A person with a rightly tuned ear can clearly hear
the still ringing echoes of man’s early cerebral activity as it reached the critical mass necessary for the production of conscious thought, and suddenly --  DID think  --   almost immediately began asking itself: "What the hell just happened here?  Where did I come from?  How did I suddenly  appear here?"  And how are we, (fully blown somatic humans), to profitably second guess or criticize the stories that our conscious cortical activity came up with in its speculative attempts to explain its sudden "Creation,"  and its, (thought’s), appearance as a manifestation of, "order" amidst the comparable "chaos" of man’s non conscious instinctive self?

It is easy and not invalid to picture those areas in the brain which produce conscious thought suddenly BEING conscious one day, and upon doing a survey of the other activities going on in the human physique, seeing them as being chaotic, and least compared to the relative impassive stability inherent in its operation as a  medium for rational problem solving.
"The Word came forth and the troubled waters were calmed."  Such are the common opening  descriptions of the first moments of creation, which I see as the cellular activity in the brains of our forefathers making note that consciousness, which is, "Creation", in that until the brain has conscious thought it has no idea of a "creation", thus it is thought itself making note that "creation/consciousness" appeared simultaneously with the first word ever heard in this universe.   Not the voice of a God --  but the first word ever spoken by man’s own brain.

The creation myths do not speak to an alert man about a supernatural force bringing physical reality into existence, but rather they reflect the consciousness of his own brain telling of its sudden, (to its way of thinking), inexplicable emergence into existence.

Thus the myths of creation that man’s thoughts weave are not about something that they observed that came into being outside themselves, but rather are comments concerning their own creation.

With thoughts in hand, homo sapiens were now not only capable of abstractly analyzing the world around them, but even more devilishly, their thoughts could also try the same thing on themselves.

The former has proven quite profitable,
while the latter has been a dismal failure.

…..(except for one exceptional activity.)
 

Inasmuch as there is no end to this verbal vista of man & his thought, additions to the above may be forthcoming either today, or at a future date..
But mean while those of you truly interested in the idea of "awakening" could hold on to the picture of your own brain cells struggling to understand themselves, and who, at a level much more radical than that of your conscious thought, are themselves, "trying to awaken to a more expansive state of consciousness." Hold such an awareness up to your thoughts and see what transpires.

                                  Jan