The desire for “Enlightenment” is a longing for a unified view
in a world of fragmentists. 
 

Modern science has been accused of knowing more & more 
about less & less,
thus presenting a body of knowledge that is increasingly
fragmented into isolated areas of specialization,
but the attack is misplaced in that it is the human mind 
that by nature operates in such a fashion, 
and is responsible for the form in which men possess “knowledge.”

The unique talent of the mind is to conceive of tangible
realities in an intangible context, and thus abstractly divide physical wholes into more mentally manageable parts.
This ability to intellectually manipulate real objects has proven most efficient for man’s actual manipulation of his physical environment 
to better suit his survival needs, and comfort, 
but it has left an impotently diagnosed deficiencly in his 
knowledge of certain non-physical matters:
matters such as the mind, and knowledge itself.
 

The desire to “Wake up” is a craving for a 
unified knowledge of things in a world of fractionalists.
 

Men studying psychology do not really want to know 
the human mind,
they want to know, “Psychology.”
There is nothing wrong with this, and at some time they likely did
have an interest in the questions of consciousness,
but the ordinary minds of ordinary men simply do not 
want to know what’s really going on in life, (which is to say):
they are not actually interested in understanding 
the nature of thought.
 

       The common mind has no interest in itself.
 

 What knowledge men say they have of the mind,
(you will note), is as fragmented as that in any other 
intellectual/scientific area, but in that new statistical findings, 
and theories are being continually added thereto
there is the illusion of movement toward a 
comprehensive understanding of consciousness.
But such is not actually life’s intention via men’s creation & study of 
psychology and its related disciplines.
Life has arranged it so,
(or else has allowed it so),
that only a scant number of people have an 
irrepressible --  almost, savage hunger to know what 
being-alive-with-thoughts is all about 
beyond the unsatisfying knowledge & theories commonly available.
 

      The desire to know, “The Great Secret” 
      is a thirst for coherent sight 
      in a world of piecemealers.
 

Ordinary minds will pretend to believe that a passionate love affair
has come apart because of the parties’ conflicting political views, 
(or taste in  movies, music, etc.),
while everyone cellularly knows that sexual desire alone 
initiates every passionate coupling, 
and that only its absence will terminate it.

Ordinary minds will pretend to accept the notion that a man will commit murder due to his relationship with his mother,
or that one group despises another because of their religion,
(and the list is endless),
yet the brain cells responsible for conscious thought,
(and thus responsible for such disjointed spuriousness),
know that no such explanations are expansive,
and only serve to keep men’s views of things
sectionalized like separate slices of a pie;
good for inventing indoor heating -- 
terrible for mentally seeing life as it is.

To open your eyes & clear your head:
pay no attention to any view of life 
that has a beginning and an end, 
and ignore all explanations that contain the word, “because” 
 
 

No one can teach you a unified view,
and none of your thoughts with which you are already familiar 
can help you.
First you must look open-headedly around you and realize
objectively for yourself that what is accepted by collective man
as being “knowledge” is at best, separate pieces to a puzzle,
and a puzzle in fact, in which ordinary men have no real interest.

All knowledge not directly related to survival
is knowledge that is a hobby --  a pastime, a plaything,
a way to pass the mental time.
Again: nothing amiss here, but you need to recognize it 
for what it is and thus cease choking on it.
 

If you argue with the fragmented --  you become fragmented.
If you think about what the piecemealers say --
--  you become piecemealed.
And as always: take everything I have said as applied solely to
your mind
for it is the fragmented thoughts that life passes through your head
that do the most damage in your attempt to 
see for yourself what is actually going on.

Minds of disconnected views see life as being like this
or life being like that; 
life being fair, life being unfair;
life being fun, life being a drag, and so on,
but there is only one thing that can be accurately said about life:
It is ALL of that.      That is the unified understanding of life.

Reality consists of everything you can think about it --  INCLUDING
your thinking about it.

There is no way in --  and,
no way out.

What could be fairer or simpler than that?!
 

                                                     JAN

P.S.  I have recived much mail regarding yesterday's posting,
and here is my response to the overall tone of concern 
expressed there about.


First, remember:
      Nothing is true until it is true for you,
but go ahead and imagine for the moment that it is true that 
there is nothing you can do to change what you ARE,
then picture the tremendous amount of useless effort 
you would save by such a realization,
and the great relief it would bring. 

I am not saying that it is true --  but,
rather than being disturbed by even the mention of the possibility,
consider instead,  if it were true,
what would be its totally suprising, & throughly delicious benefits.



        The facts lurking behind Enlightenment
        are never what a man expects or can imagine.

                                                 j