JAN’S FRESH REAL NEWS

                       © 2001:Jan Cox
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October 23, 2001.
 
 
 
 

           TWO CONSCIOUSNESSES: PART FOUR
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                                            (Cont. from 10/22/01)
                                             
                                                                             
 
 

When primary consciousness is not fulfilling its primary commitment to man's survival it will loose this dedication in two possible courses:
commitment to external ideas or activities, or turn the force of commitment internally;
under calm and calamitous conditions alike, ordinary people will claim to feel
a commitment to something other than their own mere physical survival.
 

When not under siege and with no imminent threat to thwart,
the force of primary consciousness' programmed commitment to survival
will automatically transfer to some other non essential outlet,
(in the external course, most commonly as commitment to some religion,
political party, or social cause, [or with the less head-oriented, to a hobby, a sport,
or recreational sex]);
such commitments to intangible ideologies, being unwittingly driven by
the very force of survival is what makes their supporters so often irrational fanatics, their enthusiasm of the cause bearing no reasonable relationship to
its possible importance.
 

Opponents commonly say they are bewildered by the ferocity of their
adversary's commitment to the cause in question,
but once the matter is understood, bafflement vanishes,
for there is nothing to match the fierceness of the survival instinct,
no matter how it is disguised and redirected.
 

Men do not protect a political or religious ideal because they are committed to the idea, but rather they are driven to seem committed to it because their
primary consciousness having nothing presently better to do
has latched on to the irrelevant idea as an outlet for its irrepressible energy.
 

Once you turn your attention in this direction,
the matter of men appearing to have commitment to impertinent external ideas as a substitute expression of the radical and real commitment to survival is readily realized;
the second course in which this powerful, instinctive commitment can be redirected is a bit more complicated, (can easily take up to five or ten seconds longer to see),
and that occurs when primary consciousness turns this energy internally and assumes within a man a commitment to the proposition:  "I am right  --   others wrong" --
now this is where this repositioned, unstopped force of nature really begins to cook, and indeed is the foundation of all of its other transferences.
 

When operating at its primordial, pristine best, primary consciousness' unspoken attitude IS: "I am right --  I am always right;
there is no possibility of me not being right" --
thus, non verbally thinks a lion's primary consciousness
as it prepares to consume a gazelle;
its survival consciousness, through its instinctive actions in essence says:
"I am right to kill and eat this gazelle;
and it is not wrong because she has a fawn and life of her own;
whatever I do to survive is right, and anything that interferes therewith is wrong; ergo," says silently the lion's primary consciousness, "Everything I do is right" --  and indeed,
he is correct, (just as is the view of the gazelle's primary consciousness
concerning whatever it does to survive).
 

Whatever living things do to survive is right for them,
and from any minimally intelligent perspective,
in the non human world of physical survival,
the whole notion of "right & wrong" is lucidly ludicrous.
But when this, "I-am-always-right"  commitment to physical survival is redirected into the world of ideas......well, it becomes Pee Wee's Playhouse in constant re runs,
(except that the otherwise infantile humor can turn deadly).
 

When a man's primary consciousness is fully engaged in this internal,
avocation variation of the survival instinct, the details are irrelevant;
it does not matter whether the ideological subject is temporal, spiritual, cultural, philosophical, artistic or academic,
it will, by birthright, unconditionally assert --  in your head --
that its thoughts on the matter, whatever it is, are right,
and any in opposition  --  wrong --  period;
and there does not even have to be a subject involved in which you have a view;
your consciousness can hear someone else's make a statement regarding some matter that you have no interest in, and yet it will instantly, to you and to itself,
declare the speaker: "Idiot!  How can one man be so wrong?!"
 

It is powerful, though overlooked anti medicine;
look inside and see the validity of what is being described, then just think about:
you, (with your primary consciousness acting as you) --  you are always right!
Even in instances when you do not even care about the subject involved, or know enough about it to recognize whether others are wrong in their assessment  --  you're still right!
 

There is the beauty of it: no matter what --  you're always right;
that is the power of primary consciousness' blind,
instinctive commitment to survival when its energy is directed some place other than the external world --  to man's mental one;
that is, from the view of the few, its bittersweet beauty,
for although this arrangement is the norm,
the select few have always despised the name, Norm.
What they long for is the other-consciousness
that is there in everyone's brain, but which is not committed to survival,
and which seems to serve no particular purpose,
and thus is not a part of ordinary men's lives;
it is  --  "just there"   --   and at a vague level, everyone is aware of its existence,
but that is as far as it goes in the lives of collective humanity;
"Of what use is something if it has no use?!" (although routine people never even pursue the matter far enough to make such a statement:
the apparent non essential nature of the other-consciousness simply makes it ignored),
but this is precisely where an unusually hungry man with extracurricular interests should be devoting his best attention;
another consciousness always present in a normally un utilized area of his brain;
a consciousness which is not only not committed to
scaramouch causes and quixotic crusades,
but one which clearly sees through such in primary consciousness.

Simply put:  by nature --  the other-consciousness has no commitment to --
nor even leaning to  --  ridiculousness;
it does not believe in anything, nor does it disbelieve in anything;
it supports no idea, nor does it deny any;
it knows ideas for what they are --  and that is all that is needed,
(hell, that is all that is sane).
 

It is verbal misspeak to say that the other-consciousness, "knows"
or "thinks" anything --  for it does not,
but it is aware of the knowing-&-thinking of primary consciousness,
and is aware of:  what it amountsto,(in non crucial matters).
In one quite genuine, (but inapplicable to precise description):
the other-consciousness is too smart to stoop to mere knowing-&-thinking;
it operates at a more refined level:
it is:  consciousness-without-dependence-on-thought;
it is aware of what is going on without the distorting interjection of the running-commentary-of-committment-to-always-being-right
that is an inescapable feature of primary consciousness.
 

Step over to that other-consciousness
and you have instantly walked away from a slave labor camp into freedom;
out of a stress filled inner environment wherein you are constantly forced to
listen to the camp commandant's declarations of:
"Our ideas are right  --  the ideas of others are wrong";
this arrangement certainly continues to build the routine world's River Kwai Bridges,
but submitting thereto eventually drowns the few.
 

A man committed to anything other than staying alive and staying alert is a fool:
he is ordinary, sane and normal; he is your family and  friends,
but from the secret, silent perspective of those who realize what is going on,
all non essential commitments are foolish and totally without meaning, and passively subjecting yourself thereto will do nothing save keep your sight distorted.
 
 

                                                             J
 
 
 
 
 

(Note: the message of the last few days is not that there is:  nothing-you-can-do,
but rather that there are some things you can do something about and some you cannot,
and to encourage you in the most efficient use of energy possible for the maximum enjoyment of this grand adventure.)