In a desire to participate in things New Age
one man announced that he was going to channel for himself
but no one was interested and, after a bit, neither was he.

A kid looked up from his reading and asked his father: "What's the difference in these so-called 'more conscious men' and everybody else of reasonable intelligence?"
And the old man answered: "Seems to be that, when the first group walks through a freshly fertilized flower garden, they recognize where both the pleasant & pungent odors come from."

The simple worry about being physically imprisoned,
while the more sophisticated are troubled over notions of intellectual restraints
only those of expanded awareness are concerned where it matters,
that is, over the fact that thought itself is the supreme captor.

One day the king sat and pondered: "Should I go to war, on whom should I want to depend -- my philosophers and astrologers, or my generals and infantrymen?" And, while the answer immediately seemed obvious, he was further moved to wonder just what sort of warfare he actually had in mind.

Now for Thursday's tip from our "Field Guide To Emotional Birds":
How To Spot The Religious -- They're the ones always pissed about something.

Basic human thinking is still, by necessity, structured so that it initially overlooks the obvious. Were things not so arranged, man would not have even progressed intellectually to the place where he is now.

It is understandable why so many outside the activity see the hunger for a "transcendental state of consciousness" as a desire to return to some previous condition (and not infrequently is this view shared by those apparently inside).
And once more are you open to the interesting issue of: How can progress be both progress and non progress -- and why do binocular visioned creatures only see depth correctly when they use two eyes? No more -- no less.
And while the "no less" seems childishly obvious, the "no more" appears patently foolish... except to those more conscious, with broader sight.

Lacking real understanding,
the simple will take
local examples and personal anecdotes as proof of
whatever needs be proved.