JAN’S FRESH REAL NEWS

                       © 2001:JanCox
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October 16, 2001.
 
 

                                         The three things about your mind:
                                          it is inseparably tied to man’s collective mind;
                                          it is directly reflective of your genetic temperament,
                                          and it is acutely attuned to danger.
 

There is a common source of all thought,
a kind of collective human mind which supplies each individual mind with its ideas,
and this collective mind has ever shifting sub divisions relating to specific groups of people whereby while one group is being fed certain ideas and a near by group may be receiving conflicting ones, but regardless of the apparent local divisions of thoughts,
the collective mind remains the single source for all,
and no matter who you are or where you are, your mind receives
all of its normal thoughts from this common source for all humanity.
Although the collective mind is not visible,its existence is no subjective theory;
its reality is inescapably manifest everywhere,
and you need do is look --  and if you want to see  --  it is plainly there,
at work, all the time,
and yours and everyone else’s ordinary mind is totally dependent-on & completely captive-of whatever the collective mind sends you.

How your individual mind handles the neural energy that life send you from the collective mind directly reflects your genetic temperament;
thus two people in the same location can receive the same thought from
the collective mind and react to it differently;
the thought may frighten one, and make the other angry,
so while the collective mind is the source of all news,
your own personal temperament is its editorial interpreter,
and you can no more escape your own genes than you can the collective mind.

The third feature is that everyone’s mind is constructed to be acutely alert to danger, and not just actual danger, but especially threats of danger,
the handling of which done exclusively by the mind, not by the instincts of the body.
The mind’s primary purpose (as with everything else in life)
is obviously to assist life in it survival and growth,
and at our level, it does its job admirably,
and during times when the mind is not actively involved in plotting
appropriate reactions to imminent threats,
it is likely found to be day dreaming about such possibilities;
hence man’s innate attraction-to & taste-for bad news of all types:
movies & books with disaster themes; actual news reporting being almost exclusively devoted to the alarming, and most of routine human conversation being about the irritants, disappointments & tragedies in other people’s lives;
with nothing better to do, the mind is programmed to day dream in the realm of potentially threatening scenarios.

These three features of the human mind are clearly in constant evidence
for all to see who want to see,
and they give an accounting for the ever changing, otherwise
un accountable shifts in your emotional state.
A local group of which your are a natural part may suddenly display, by their words,
a general apprehension;
the news & gossip may portend of a coming economic crisis,
or warn of a potential military threat,
either of which may or may not have any objective, material basis --
--  but that does not matter;
for when the collective mind sends threatening news to the minds of a select group, that group will feel threatened regardless of the actual circumstances.
If you are a member of a group receiving such threatening ideas from
the collective mind, you can feel the emotional effect it begins to have on those around you, and if you do not understand it and take appropriate protective measures,
you can feel it begin to creep into your own nervous system
and make you feel frightened & apprehensive,
and for no tangible, immediate reason other than the fact that everyone else is,
and now you are,
(along with the supporting verbal story that everyone else accepts as the cause,
but which can be entirely irrelevant);
if for some reason of its own, life wants a specific group of people to become frightened and feel threatened, it will, via the collective mind, send the group’s local collective mind, frightening and threatening thoughts
and they will emotionally react appropriately.
 

In addition to your mind being inseparably connected-to & fed-by man’s collective one,
its ultimate interpretation and use of the thoughts it receives
is determined by the dictates of your own inherited genetic temperament;
one in your local group may be of such a temperament that the thought of a potential military threat he gets from the collective cache makes his emotional state
become one of anger,
while your genetic temperament may be such that the same thought from the common source turns your emotional state to one of fear.
On no morning does any man know how he will feel when he awakes;
his emotional state could be more or less determined by the prevailing local state
(if there be one),
or in that absence, merely by his own temperamental reaction to a multitude of things, (his physical health, the weather, his meal of the previous night,
his degree of sexual arousal, and so on),
none of which may come to his mind as bearing on his emotional state that morning, and even should such, life has programmed men’s minds to reject any subjugation
to such strictly physical activities, but instead to assert,
(with only itself as the captive audience for the assertion),
its free wheeling dominion over mere “emotional states”
caused by such crudities as anchovies & untimely horniness.
 

It is not that men do not take their own emotional state seriously,
but what they do not engage with is a full frontal nude view of
what is responsible for the states.
Life is arranged so that men’s minds identify conditions as being responsible for
their emotional states:
“I feel fearful because I hear that our group may be soon attacked by another group and everyone around is frightened,”
(unwittingly: the collective mind attribution), or:
“I feel angry that the other group would threaten our group
after all we have done for them,” (unknowingly: his own genetic temperament's interpretation of the collective mind’s feed),
and in neither instance do ordinary men’s minds take into account the easily observable fact that man’s mind is programmed to incessantly,
and automatically think about potential dangers;
that it is its own self-produced source of bad news, both real & imagined.
 

If you are one of the few with that certain abstract genetic wiring
whose temperament drives you to seek escape from the mental crowd, then not realizing the above will cause you endless,
yet needless, “emotional pain & suffering:”
you will by turns (according to your genetic make up) be frightened; angry; depressed, and whatever other undesirable emotional description you care to add;
such emotions are certainly proper and needed when faced with actual threats to your well being, but when their source is coming from only man’s collective mind,
and as finally filtered through your mind in a manner determined by
your own genetic temperament;
                                                  it is not to be taken seriously;
                                                  it is like a fire drill in elementary school;
                                                  a test to see if you are awake & alert.
 

Being frightened or depressed are surely the worst things
a human being can experience:
prolonged, they can cause serious physical ills, but moreover,
these emotional states make life more measurable than any physical ill can match,
and even though their existence in man can be seen as one of life’s general survival tools, their presence in given individual  --   who is aware of what is going on  --
serves no useful end.
 

Excepting you are physically injured:
if you “feel bad” --  you do so from ignorance;
it is such a species-wide commonality that ignorance is not
that right word for it --  but for the few, it is the proper word,
for if you would but consider the above and then apply your own
investigatory sight to the matter, you would see for yourself the sources of your non-immediately-physically-based, “bad emotional states”
and would never again be subject to their extended influence for any reason other than you lapsing back into ignorance, (taking-a-nap, in mystical terminology).
 

There is no evidence whatever that life (the universe) is in danger:
neither from some outside threat, nor from its own self destruction, and yet it has men’s minds constantly
thinking-about & picturing-such as real & immanent possibilities,
but with six billion other humans serving as life’s, Worry Central,
one who sees what is going on,
(which requires almost no effort for those with natural qualifications,
[other than the fact that it takes most of a lifetime to realize how simple it is])
and who subsequently ceases to participate will never be missed.
 

It is easy and natural to feel apprehensive;
being the only creature here being fed thoughts,
we are the only ones aware of our impending death &
unfathomable disappearance (from our own consciousness of our own existence)
which is surely the bedrock of man’s individual uneasiness about being alive,
but save an immediate, personally knowable, physical threat to your own individual well being, there is no actual cause for fear or alarm;
such feelings are always out there;
always around you in other people, even --  in-the-air –
and the ordinary mind you were born with is and will always be
attuned to this always present mist of apprehension that surrounds and permeates
the mind of man --  the MIND – nothing else,
not until it creates IN the mind the so-called negative “emotional states,”
but real (that is, physically based) emotional states
(such as fear sufficient to make a creature flee or prepare to defend itself)
lies in another part of the brain;
it is only in the cortical, conscious and thinking areas of the brain that “thought-about-threats” exist and have influence;
if you refuse to think about a non imminent threat  --  it ceases to exist,
(same as if you don’t think about the boogey man  ---  he can’t come get you).
 

But if you are satisfied to simply slump down
and stay in the ordinary state of mind with everyone else
you will continue to suffer from the same emotional states of mind as they do --
--  almost all of which are but fire drills,
and which do nothing for the few but upset them unduly.
 

(Remember: you can always put upsetting day dreams to use later
when you are locked up in that coffin for eternity;
they’ll give you something to do to pass the time.)

                                                       J