Even though man is memorably more talented than all other creatures on this planet, and to his knowledge, singularly so universally,
he still can only do two things: talk and act;
his consciousness talks; the rest of him acts,
and consciousness continually makes vows of action
which his acting does not keep,
indeed many promises which man cannot meet.
This ceaseless cycle of consciousness promising to take, or refrain from
certain action in the future and routinely failing to do so
is (by ready observation) a condition normal to man,
and in fact one which obliquely contributes to his creation and constant improvement of the non natural environment he has fashioned for himself,
but it is also an arrangement which (though not seen in this light)
much disturbs the minds of a few and drives them to undertake
uncommon inquiries and odd practices.
 

Not being able to fulfill promises they have made regarding their behavior,
is a condition so familiar to man as to be a chucklable cliché;
how quickly is a diet undertaken, abandoned;
a pledge to stop smoking, forgotten, and so on,
it is simply the nature of a man’s consciousness to make endless pronouncements concerning promised changes in his behavior which not only are never realized,
but are routinely forgotten as soon as they are said;
ordinary men are made to condemn these in themselves failures,
and to pretend that they suffer over same,
but it is observably a natural part of their ordinary existence,
and not an anomaly (it can be seen as indirectly encouraging him to “do better”
in areas wherein the unthinking, unspeaking rest of him would never venture).
 

Crudely, but not invalidly put: the mental imposition of guilt
spurs man on in activities in which his sensual interest is near nil.
The neurons that constitute his consciousness look in a mirror,
and a man declares: “I must lose weight” --
an action that no other cells or parts of his body have any interest in whatsoever;
his consciousness says in his head that he looks lumpy and dumpy,
with all descriptions of physique (favorable or not),
being meaningless gibberish to his physique.
His consciousness made a promise which, via its unique ability,
it may be able to impose on his stomach --  for a while,
but in routine men, when decisions made by their consciousness
conflict with the temperament of their instincts  --  consciousness loses;
that is the nature of that situation,
about which nothing further need be noted to the bright eyed/”I-ed”.
 

What is of specific and uncommon interest to the few is how this arrangement between the brain’s consciousness and all of its other vital operations,
which never enter the arena of thought,
work on a man regarding the activity of: promises made but never kept,
not concerning behavior --  but consciousness itself;
not that: “I will stop smoking” --  but that: “I will stop consciousness from drifting” –
not just a whole new ball game, but one moved into hyper space.
 

Consciousness can conceive of a condition in which it can decide that
the man it inhabits should lose weight,
but one in which his stomach will not cooperate to that end:
it is understandable --  it makes sense,
but such a condition is inconceivable to consciousness --  literally –
regarding decisions it makes about itself,
after all: if consciousness decided to never again think of weight –
who is there to stop it from doing so?  --  not the stomach,
it does not care what consciousness thinks about;
and there is nothing else in man that has any interest in,
indeed, even any awareness-of what consciousness thinks about,
(as long as it does not concern survival),
so consciousness can change ITS behavior any way it wants to --
--  with no interference by anyone.
 
 
 

                                                Another problem solved;
                                  another vexing question neatly resolved –
                                                so what’s stopping you?
 

                                                                 J