Cracks in the Ceiling

One interested party finally reflected to himself, “Why starve the body to calm the mind, is there not, perchance – a more direct approach!?”

A useful tip, via definition, for those forced to take an apartment here for the next few years:

Learned morality: Cracks in the ceiling.

Though certainly never noticed, the purpose behind most ordinary conversation is the attempt by one person to give another person’s mind something to think about.

During times of chill, one man would fill the holes in his teeth with silicone weather-stripping so as to keep the wind out of his brain.

Mundane mystics run the reoccurring risk of trying to catch a rat, while believing that they must first let one in, from without.  One man said to himself, “If I need your help, I’ll ask for it,” and had no response for himself.

J.

Body & Mind

Ponder:

Why does life make local religious leaders dress up funny?
That’s easy, so people won't dare laugh at them.

Query:

Why do you mentally dress up like every day is Halloween?
Oh, I’m sorry – I thought that was a costume! (Oops!)

As soon as his mind came staggerin’ in, it said:
“I know, I know where you’ve been!?”

A viewer submits:

“I cannot agree with your insinuations regarding the nexus and correlation between man’s mind and his routine physical functions, for if this were so, we’d be wearing underwear on our heads.

Yours sincerely."

Note to outlaw channel thugs:

If the connection between your body and your consciousness is as close as the one with your mind, then I must tell you that you're not actually conscious.

“Hey Bert, where’s the tv guide? 

Whatever happened to roller derby anyway, since I banned it from my brain?” 

“Why just look around you, old chum – it is right where it belongs.” 

“No Bert, you mean it is right back where it has always been,"

And now, as we end our broadcast day, instead of the national anthem, we ask you to join us in singing:  “That’s Life.”

J.

Either Do It, or Shut Up!

Just as being more conscious is a private affair, so’s everything else. The true slaying of the ego, (so often spoken of by man), refers not to the vanity of the body, but the prejudice of the mind.

More treptivating trivia:

One of the hardest things to do
 is to make what ordinary people say
sound important.

Encouragement for those who don't want to make any additional effort:

The mind is a dangerous weapon – as long as you live in a vat of peanut butter.

A father said to his son, “Even stupid children are cute to their mothers, which is why you eventually gotta’ become your own parents to escape it.”

After years of mentally dreaming, plotting, and stumbling in the general direction of some increased consciousness, one man finally said to his mind, “Either do it or just shut up about it!”

J.

Everybody Stops Too Soon

In mid-step, a man stopped and thought, “We know what everyone else is waiting for, but what’s holding up a more conscious man....where is he?  What time is it…when will I get here?”

Fact-of-facts:

Everybody always stops too soon.

Math to cause wrath (I was gonna say, “logic” instead of “math”, but nothing rhymes with it):

Only man takes drugs that he makes;
Only man has the mind capable of making drugs;
Only man, having a mind, feels the need to make drugs.
The normal human nervous system is a wondrous thing,
It culminates at the top end either at a bed, a buffet, a church, or liquor store,
or even someplace else...if you can make your own drugs, and never get caught at it.

 “Daddy, are certain drugs a lot like being more conscious?”
“Yes son, that and everything else.”

What can always be useful in attempting to, “boost the juice and expand the spark” is a good dose of fear, and some good old brute force.

Being serious is no crime – taking it seriously is!

J.

More Conscious Than You Think

One fine morning, one man looked directly at the sun, by way of his bathroom mirror, and sang out, “I can eat,      I can sleep, I can screw and run – what more should I ask of ‘being alive’?”  And the skies replied, “Why, nothing my boy, nothing else at all.”

Even on the last day of the week, there are birds who, when frightened by the sound of cats, still turn temporarily religious.

One man’s civil-educated, “mind-body connection” said to him, “Don’t waste your time looking, there's no such thing as a ‘rectal mirror.’”  And the all-star, all-city chorus raised high their joyful voices, “Aren’t we glad!  Indeed, we are glad!”

Fact:

There is no consciousness but “independent consciousness,” all else is simply, “mind consciousness.”

Now time for a short break while we bring you this important announcement:

Everyone’s more conscious than they think.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled News.

J.

The Late Arriver

Religious philosophy distilled to digest form:  We’re all born pea brains, then we slip. 
And a fellow scrunched up his forehead:  “But if I quit thinking about what everybody else thinks about, what’ll I have to think about?”

Definition:

The collective intelligence of man:  Just something else to worry about.

Transcendental quiz time:

Question:  Why, historically, have those who seem to have understanding, eventually said that, “Living for others is the proper course.”

Answer:  Because everyone still needs to have reached some extraordinary level as a hobby.

Yes, true, the mind has a thousand eyes,
to see a thousand sights,
but, life's already seen ‘em all before.

The mind is the end of one of man’s nervous system, man is the end of one of life’s.

Color man: “The late arriver.”

J.

The Juice that Runs Life

A mother told her daughter, “Being dumb is its own reward – if you're stupid to begin with.”

The fact: No talk – no evil.

“Too simple – I don't believe it!” ...(facts are like that, you know).

The way the routinely civilized keep from going crazy is by believing that they must first worry about, and then straighten-out, civilization before ever giving such attention to themselves.
(As long as I’m my brother's keeper, then self-upkeep remains the cheaper.  Or this reprise: 
Bullets to the brain eases paper cut’s pains.)

The juice that runs life – runs man.  But men take it personally.  (Of course they are supposed to,  but…still!)

Another curio from the files of the city:
Many of those in constant sorrow love to sing about being in, “constant sorrow.”

J.

Rats, Diapers & Mystics

There are still many marvelous things a closed system can do, but sitting in its own lap, in a wet diaper, is not one of them.  A man of independent mental means can afford extended connotations for such concepts as: rats, diapers, mystics, and systems.

The herd-conscious civilized believe that a man’s character is his highest point, while a clear mind knows otherwise.  If behavior was the gateway to space, all of the guilty would be in orbit.

An explorer with extraordinary binoculars shouldn't focus in on just one stable, verbal sight.

And here’s an update to a musical story we covered earlier:

Life contacted me to say that while it’s true that man’s main theme song is: “That's Life,” Life’s is: “I did it my way.”

Wrapping his arm parentally around the little nipper’s neck, one father walked with his young son to the very edge of the high cliff, overlooking the city –  to their collective fellowman, local reality itself.  And as they gazed out across the wide sight that lay before them, the old man said to the lad, “Son, if you think life’s dumb, just wait till you get a look at you.”  The sun then leisurely began to set, as they both just stood there.

J.

U.F.N. (Until Further Notice)

Home Owners Tip: 
What need has a man with squirrels in his attic, for a religion!?

Those who don't understand anything, never believe anyone else does either.

One man, who used to shower alone, with commas and semicolons, one morning said to himself:
“Where did all this water come from!?”

“So, in conclusion I’d like to say, ‘See!?’”

Save for the lazzzight,
in his own head,
nothing leads man,
nothing ever did
“See!?”

Foreverness and the more conscious man:

Anything a more awakened man undertakes to do permanently, he does on the U.F.N. Basis, “Until Further Notice.”

J.

You Can Lead A Mind To Consciousness, But…

Although it is not actually the mind that is liberated, one must have the mind to be freed from something.

Some show biz news from out on the plains:

No matter how he’s dressed, |
or what he’s called,
a man without
his own material
is a cow.

City intellectuals: the homeless, deserving of no pity.

Collective intelligence: the homeless who will destroy you.

You can lead a mind to consciousness, but you can't make it understand what's going on,

Quiz time:

A guy looked at life and said, “Okay, I give up!?!”

J.

Auto Pilot

Archaeology unnerved:

In this universe, god's name was originally, “auto pilot,” but it was too long for the marquee.

Tip:  Don't ever assume that your mind is this universe, and that the above could be applicable,
+or, you too could be unnerved.

After decades of quite active consumerism, one day, this one man showed up at the complaint counter of the main store and declared, “I wish to return everything that I’ve ever purchased!” The name of the store was “Collective Intelligence.”

Take a lesson from Rover:  since even dogs will scratch where they don't actually itch, what less can you expect from your mind?

One man attempted to so muse, “Well, if the mind is like a train, and consciousness is like a train station, then why am I tied to the tracks!?”  (This is another example of why the non-professional should not be allowed to handle metaphors.)

The reason that the social sciences (such as psychology, sociology, and economics) cannot engage in predictions with the same degree of success as can their harder counterparts, physics, chemistry and the like, is because, unlike their brethren, they seem unable to see life itself as all alive.

J.

The Thinkers and The Behaviorists

One day a couple of planets were talking and the first one said: “How’s it goin’?”

And the second one replied: “Oh, real nice…mechanical and predictable, just like it should be, how's by you?”

And the first one said:  “Well...alright, I guess.  But I’ve now got these creatures running around who can think, and the main thing they seem to think about is how they shouldn't be so mechanical and predictable.”

And the second world gasped: “Are you serious?!”

In this world are two groups:
the thinkers and the behaviorists.
They're both in favor of change,
but one bunch is shooting blanks.

The proof that the dumb don't know how dumb they are is in the fact that if they did, they’d raise a stink about it.  (Oh, they're certainly major “disturbance-causers” in many areas, but never about this specifically.)

Surprise, surprise, as soon as he awoke every morning, one man found his mind already running full speed.  Wait – you call that a fucking surprise?

One man was his own worst enemy, explaining that under his present financial conditions, it was the best he could do.

J.

It Doesn't Matter What You Are

What the ordinary can’t believe is that it doesn’t matter what you ordinarily are, insofar as how far you might otherwise go.

The above statement is both correct, untrue, fully functional, and inoperable, and a dependable
schedule of coming events and departures.

There are at least two forms, readily available in this reality:

The Collective: “Herd-Consciousness” and,
The Individual, “Head” kind.

If you’re just a routine, pea-brain, life won’t step on you, intellectually.  Sure it will…but if you’re a pea-brain…you’ll never notice.

A little item from the music scene:

One guy's latest release is entitled, “I Can’t Let Life Drive Me Crazy,” which just happens to coincide with life's latest, “Sure You Can!”

J.

Call It Anything You Want

A man asked a genie, “If I gave you one wish, which would I want to be; lurid and merry, curious and sappy, or just be me and still feel crappy?”  (And damn if the fairy didn’t not know!)

One man said to his current “personal self,” “Sometimes I think you're nothing but pretention!”

And it replied: “Hey, heads up -- talk about your, ‘boy genius’!”

The News and More:

Headline: “Musicians from Five States, (including, intoxicated), Are Expected to Attend.”

Analysis: certain expectations themselves can prove disappointing.

Another way to keep from being more conscious:

As long as you believe you’re lost, you'll use up most of your time trying to get back home.
(Hey, don't thank me – it was either tell you that or shoot you.)

And now – this note:

Men can call it anything they want to, but a consciousness that is not independent of thought is not the one that I am talking about.

J.

I Came to Praise the Mind...

Striving for a more up-beat view, one guy offers this observation, “I guess life really likes man – or else, why would it have made him so uncertain and confused!?”

There is only one surety and that is:  the consciousness of a conscious man.

A man reflected, “The problem is that my mind stays in a rut.”

(“Hell sir, the mind is a rut!  Yes, students – the mind is a terrible thing to waste, unless it’s your mind, and you realize how much valuable time you’ve already wasted on it!”)

Becoming conscious anew is at once evolution and revolution, in that it involves both a forward linearity and an upward spiraling.

Even if being more conscious is an illusion, it’s no worse than the ordinary state of illusion.

Soon after birth, all ambulatory creatures begin to search for three things:  food, sex and a safe place to rest.  Man seeks a fourth, and not only can he not find it – he doesn’t even know what he’s looking for.  Pulling his toga together about him to block the chill of the wind, he gazed out across the steps and thought, “Curious, I came to praise the mind, but now seem bent on slaying it.”  (Have you been listening?)

J.

Attempts to Occupy the Mind

A man stood before a mirror and proclaimed, “I am a paradigm!”  And his consciousness punched his mind and said, “That’s me he’s talking about – not him.”

Religion:  Another attempt to give the mind something specific to do.

Expanded Historical View:

Speech:  The first attempt to give the mind something to do.

Mythology:  The attempt to give the mind something specific to do.

Religion:  Another attempt.

Science:  Yet another – and…

Conversation of all sorts:  Still another, and perhaps, ultimate attempt.

Update Regarding Words:

To a more conscious man – all definitions are obsolete.

Do note that, like consciousness, the mind is not a “thing” but an operation.

J.

The Mind's Not Interested

Time for another round of the:  “Answer, Then Question” Game:

Bad blood between them from birth, describe the relationship between a thinker’s mind and consciousness.

A viewer asks:

“Why haven’t you referred to the, “Eve-of-consciousness” and the “Adam-of-the-mind?  Why not?”

The Truism:  “You can’t hit a moving target.”

The Truth:  The mind doesn’t have any interest in thinking about This.

When it might be “helpful” to learn to either run or swim:

If the collective don’t “catch up with you,” your own mind will eventually “weigh you down.”

One man began to privately think of his own neural life as:  “Doing laps.”

J.

Willful Silence

Simply put for the moment:  when more conscious, there is no distinction between the mind and consciousness.

Drawing upon all of his reserves, one man discovered that his reserves were everyone’s reserves.

If you still don’t understand that a certain “willful silence” is important, then consider the fact that a more conscious man wouldn’t even let life know what he was thinking about.

Job Related News:

If you work for consciousness, but are paid by the mind, you’re being short changed.

If a thinker ain’t a Boy Scout, (that is – practical), he ain’t nothing.

J.

Reality is Duality

Intellectually, the life of a pauper and the life of a rich man are the same.  Except, they’re not – and yes they are.  And so what – what’s it to you fatso?

(Viewer Poll:  Was this one still too “allegorical” for you??)

A man’s level of consciousness is his personality, and will determine the extent of his understanding as surely as his height dictates the atmospheric pressure his head will experience.

To the ordinary mind, all reality is duality, but why must you stop there?!

One man tried the approach of remind himself, “It is not my stomach – but life’s; not my mind, but its also.”

A city spiritual advisor inquired of a man, “Would you prefer to be famous or of good health?”  And the man replied, “Tis too easy for you to ask, since neither is in your power to grant.”

(And might I ask of you, why you don’t use some similar approach as regards the many fine-sounding, but ridiculous things the old collective consciousness of man says to you via your mind.)

J.

Thinking without Thinking

One Man Looks At The Mind:

“Commentaries are bad enough, but commentaries on commentaries – hey, give us a break!”

One man had special areas in his house: one where he’d do exercise, another where he’d do his reading, and another place where he’d paint and play music.  Question:  “Do you have such a house in your mind?

You could describe this new state of consciousness as: 
the brain thinking, but with nothing to think about.

A guy says, “Okay, you’ve convinced me, I distrust all object and nouns.  Now can you save me from certain operations and verbs?”

How It Goes – Upstairs:

Any question the mind has – has an answer – and it’s a waste of time.
Note:  You can however, make a meaningful distinction between an “answer” and a “survey.”

J.