Having touched very briefly on the matter of agreement(s) and the power they exert in a man’s consciousness, or over it, let us consider it a bit further. It is, after all, one of the faculties or functions of consciousness in which we all engage often most unconsciously; but by which we proceed. This matter of trust and its placement originates in the confidence of ourselves, and indeed that we are in the singular sense, we ourselves.
We trust ourselves to be our self and there, for purpose of such power we believe is for gaining are made willing to extend this trust toward others (consciousness) in, and for, agreement. Again, as being so convinced this working is so fundamental, rudimentary, ubiquitous, and irrefutable it is simply another thing too plain as to be rarely noted or considered. That it touches such matters as power and apparent gaining that may seem tangential at first glance; we may find these are so, and no less, bound up in it, and to it, that such also will bare consideration at their proper time. Our quest for power (such as it appears in the mind of consciousness) should not be so foreign nor strange to any. Nor should the “why” of it; the hungry seek food, the thirsty drink, the weak, powerless and vulnerable…seek power. And man’s consciousness is all bound to its own preservation (even in food and drink) and even expansion that is is not difficult at all to understand. There is a compelling in it and to it, a strict binding to matters of preservation and expansion that simply, until seen, are not seen. But, once seen (as with most every matter) cannot be unseen.
The baby cries in all subjection. It is (at least as to us) first response made plain to us in our exchanges on the physical plain and is no less considered a sign of health, a signal of healthy normality. Indeed the more vigorous and active engagement in it is believed and received to a relief of other possible concerns as might accompany in contrast; that is to a listless and barely active newborn. Clenched hands shaking and legs kicking while filling the room with wailing speak a rightness to us as other behavior and circumstance might not. Does not.
Here, crying and wailing as signal are most welcome and, if absent, sought. We may speculate as to what level of consciousness the baby is in experience of, does it “know” of its relatively sudden transition in a from to a to (a warm and fully climate controlled womb not unlike a sensory deprivation tank to a place of sudden and overwhelming sensation) where even a need to do a something previously all unnecessary presents…to actively support itself in breathing. The now of demand upon it is probably greater in experience than all other things we remember. (For thence we have no less come)
Memory, consciousness, these intangible matters that are only made real from one to another (if in fact they are) only come by what? Communication. I hope to not belabor by every step I might describe of entrance into this first tutelage and training, but, and also because, I am convinced it is so easily recognized when considered. And, no less, how agreement is actively and progressively being pressed to an individual in such discipline. The imposition of language is so very great a matter of molding, forming, and structuring a mind in consciousness that in some ways it easily lends itself to being described as severe. But it does not take much consideration nor imagination to understand how a one individual gains power in submitting to it. And agreeing to its constraints. It can learn to express itself of needs.
How this progresses is also not beyond our apprehension or appreciation. What seems one of the most fundamental needs, that is of an individual expressing one’s self, is so facilitated by language and words that it is easily understood as matter of advantage to itself. In fact there is some measure of frustration or discomfort when one finds them self unable to “put into words” some matter of mind. The mind has adopted by agreement to a certain matter, but also finds in it some hobbling.
The discipline of it, and its far reaching consequence(s) in mind may be rarely considered, but they are there. How often do you “think in words”? I have little doubt you hold images, vague and gauzy concepts, ideas that sometimes flash through like meteors in a night sky whose origins and destinations you seek to trace, but…how often do you think in words? Something from “out there” has been so very firmly internalized. And so much so there is often an internal labor to fit one’s thoughts…into them. And we, by agreement to them (though introduced long before concept of agreement could at all be understood well enough to “put into words”) were enlisted to them. We were fed words and language as surely as milk at mother’s breast. And they become to us and in us what they are, no less as tracks laid down by rule to follow. And we grow in what could be called linear reasoning…a thing with beginning, middle, and end. Not unlike the sentences we form for other communication. And we agree to this.
Much has been built…one might even say the whole of a world of edifice that appears to reach upward (as such we assign as progress) but whose foundations are shakiest of all for any with sight. For what has been built upon the agreement of man and men holds in it that worm forever eating away at it; that none are ever in the fullness of agreement no matter what bonds are sworn to. And the worm always has a way of showing its work, the self and selves of men made to be different in their sameness assigned (as each no less holds many division(s) in himself) that will and must be demonstrated as selves express…themselves. We may look for some sameness…for likeness and the attendant like of affection, but each self holds an inherent hostility to every and any other self.
Do you ever wonder about vows and oaths? Their “why”? Agreements and contracts? Their why? Man is forever looking to establish himself by the something “outside” of himself, not knowing of the bind he is already in.
His own and total vulnerability and flux to circumstance.
He knows it, but somewhere deep, somewhere he’d prefer to not explore and cannot because it is all of dark to him. The very possibility of his not being (of which he takes so for granted) is off limits and set off limits by a self manifest in consciousness that forbids his going there. The unspoken codicil or addendum of “I am” is “therefore I must be”.
But who could bear their own mustn’t?
Is there a being, (or form thereof) and/or a consciousness that is not “because” dependent?
Just…is…with no because?
Someone said a man could come to the place, not where he would wish, hope, or find some comfort or solace in this matter…but that it would be better for him had he not been born.
Who could believe that?
Doesn’t a man have to be born…to even believe…in “better”?
Who could say such a thing? Knowing of what is better, apart from any necessity of any man’s agreement? Even knowing no man would, or even could, agree?
What manner of self is in expression there?
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