Another version of the Genesis myth says that when man was driven
From his original birthplace he did not go directly to his present state,
as commonly believed, but rather first passed through another land,
the effects of which journey he still unwittingly bears.

When the time to leave arrived, a father said to the departing son, "Once you're out there, remember this -- whenever someone tells you that you can go directly from here to there, know that they are mislead, and strangers even unto their own kingdom, and understand not its unique topography plainly laid out before them."

The travels of silent beasts are too simple to evolve.
A creature must be able to speak of its journey
to expand the scope of its journey,
and experience that not merely mundane.

"I think, therefore I am,
I feel, therefore I think,
I feel, therefore I feel -- I feel -- I feel."

One man blamed the bottle cap
for his dislike of the drink.

One way to keep from seeing how things really are is to keep talking.

As he felt and behaved in ways not expected, a man with a bottle once mused ;
"There's no predicting the effects of drinking,
nor, for that matter, those of thinking."
...And no need to say "bottoms up" when things are upside down already.

Everyone knows how they look, and what they think,
but who knows how they feel?

As part of his own personal exploration,
one man undertook a very close study of all the implications of the word "how."

From behind the sacred screen the temple oracle said to those there gathered,
"When I first told you of the need to 'know thyself,' why did none of you ask 'which self'?"
...And after they stood silently for a while, letting this sink in, one man finally said to himself: "How were we to know?"
And the mind-reading oracle immediately cried out: "How, how, how! There you people go again, using words and ideas that subjectively to you sound meaningful and knowingly used, but which in truth are but commonly accepted and comfortable noises, little more than a minimal mental version of squeals of recognition between pigs."
What reason would a more realized consciousness have to speak of physical and emotional matters lower than its own level?