I am standing today 
where construction is under way
on the world’s largest telescope.
While men continue to look outward, and back into time
as they seek to understand the origin of the physical universe, 
I have come here to highlight the fact that you already 
have within you the most astonishing 
investigatory instrument ever known   -- 
--  human thought --
but one not normally turned inward 
in the effort to understand the origin of its own intangible universe.

A certain discovery awaits here
that will change entirely 
a man’s understanding of reality,
and shake awake his thinking –
--  as though from a dream. 
 
 
 
 

There was once a brown planet.
Everything about it was brown  --  nothing but brown.
And originally all of the creatures thereon 
saw things only in brown.

Gradually however,
one eye of one species began to see things in blue,
and through this talent were able to make their lives 
on the brown planet more agreeable;
but everything there remained as it was
originally  --   only brown.

Eventually these creatures’ lives were based on a combination of 
one eye seeing brown, 
and the other eye seeing blue,
and everyone forgot how it had come to be so. 

No one remembered how things were originally;
no one noticed that everything was still 
physically brown,
and that it was just the nature of one of their eyes to
see them as blue.

 
One of the creatures did not fully forget, 
nor fail to notice that something was going on, 
and after studying the situation realized that
while everything on their planet was still brown,
and that their brown-seeing eye had never seen it as otherwise,
their blue-seeing eye could not seem to comprehend
how brown everything still was,
nor recognize the unique nature of its  seeing things in blue.

He could not get anyone else to see how things really were,
and could scarcely accomplish same with himself.

This is my latest story regarding the literal core, 
and reality of what it is to want to,
“wake up,” or to, “be enlightened,”
and it tells all. 

I again try to point directly at the matter which is, 
from almost every reasonable perspective  --
--   an impossibility.
People obviously find it more agreeable,
and interesting to hear the matter described in 
terms such as, “waking up,”
and, “being enlightened” 
than they do to hear it spoken of bluntly.
I understand fully why this is,
but cannot make you see it directly any more than I can
make you see objectively out of both eyes.

Inherent in the blue-seeing eye is a lyricism –
--  a poetic view of life.
The brown-seeing eye has no ear for symbolism,
not even the physical ability to hear same,
but the contribution that the blue-seeing eye
makes to your life & conception of reality
depends entirely on its world view in which,
“Symbolism IS the substance.”
 

A man with the desire to change the 
state of his consciousness
is a man in whose cerebral cortex 
there are cells trying to construct a telescope 
through which to study, 
and understand their own origins,
and the thoughts you have 
that make you say 
that you want to,“Wake up” 
is the telescope of those cells. 

Until a man recognizes this
he will keep looking in the wrong direction  -- 
--  away from himself.
What those neurons in your frontal lobes are searching for
is not in anyone’s books,
not in anyone else’s ideas --  it can’t be.
What they seek to know is
about themselves,
and what they seek to know about themselves
is in their past  -- 
in the awareness of the origin of
your blue-seeing eye.

What those consciousness-producing brain cells want to know
regarding their origin can also be found in the present,
in the study of contemporaneous thought. 
The small problem being that
the cells only have thoughts to study them with,
and telescopes are notoriously difficult to
point at themselves.

To turn any investigatory instrument on itself 
in the physical world is impossible,
and to do so in the non physical, 
is close behind. 
I say that the literal reality behind the desire to,
"wake up,”  “be enlightened” and so on
is literally an impossibility, (that is; 
it is not possible to know more than you know),
yet I also say to you that the words, “an impossibility”
does not QUITE cover the matter completely,
the evidence being, (if you need any),
that the brain cells behind all of this can even 
CONCEIVE OF it being possible 
sufficiently to form the thoughts in your mind that 
THINK about it being possible.

When you realize this for yourself
you will know why I have noted that anyone who
says that they are awake --  is not.
They do not understand at all what it is about,
or else they would never say such a thing.
 
 

So --   I have put out words once again that attempt
to turn your telescope in the direction of that 
almost-impossible-to-make-out
corner-of-the-universe,
and get a brief taste of that 
two eyed neural experience that verges on the,
damn-near-impossible!

…..damn-near, but   --   not quite.
 
 

                                                             JAN