Once Upon Another Time

And now from our "Once Upon Another Time" storybook comes this little tale:

 Once upon a time there was a man who decided that he'd talk about another state of mental awareness potential in man to those so interested, but knew in advance that people would expect to be given some specific method by which to achieve the state, while also knowing quite well that no matter what directions he might give, and no matter their good intentions and efforts, few would ever succeed...So, that being the case he considered not offering any directions at all.

 And ultimately, there he sat, pondering which would present the least possible distraction: giving specific instructions, which they expected, and which he knew the limitations and high failure rate thereof; or telling them nothing in particular to do, and watching their irritated squirming lead to similar numbers of dropouts. De End Again.

Long ago it was said that, "Argumentation and disputation are proof of unclear thinking." But let me update and clarify it for you, "Thoughts are proof of unclear thinking."

One disarming talent of the mind is its ability to keep the reality of something at bay by a ceaseless "thinking-about-it."

J.