Rational Thinking & Thomas The Talking Train Land Or Intellectualism & The Tele Tubbie No Acid Land

"Children are good examples of spirituality for adults, time and again. It seems to me that spirituality is natural for children. Every child is a mystic; we were all mystics once. It gets driven out when we move into the adult world, and we make so many compromises with the child inside." - Matthew Fox
(Author of Original Blessings, Cosmic Christ, Spirituality Named Compassion)

Here's what ya gotta do . . . . .

How do you solve your problems? How do you increase your articulation, patience, perseverance, tolerance, understanding? How do you grow in insight and wisdom? Most of us are taught to go into our intelligible thoughts, in our analytical mind and scientific mind, our philosophy, theology and reasonings. I think this is necessary, but also there is meditation where you must leave them, let them go and cease to think, temporarily, if you can, at least to the point of imagination and imagery.

Rest in your non-thought consciousness. Then come back. The art it seems of life is a form of acting in all circumstances. There is always an image, a game to play Skill in speech, communcation and expression, it's artistry, never your ideal in congruency, from lack of articulation and expression. It's a lifetime process of continual adjustment.

You don't solve your thoughts, verbals and actions all in thought land, despite it's rationale and very place in solving the problems you are constantly working on to improve, refine and articulate. You must leave this thought land despite it appearing as the only alternative to improvement. You actually have to leave your analytical improvement land/thought land, resting over in the quiet, in the "Thomas the Talking Train Land, in the "Tele Tubbies - No Acid Land" - in the consciousness - and then come back to analytical thought land. And back here in thought land, think yes, but don't start to over analyze. So now you are back, so do your thinking again and subsequent actions, this after the much needed rest in the consciousness/no-thought land and it will always be an improvement, always a

In Tele Tubbie's LonelyHearts Club Band

step towards growth and beneficial change.

You will exist in stagnation when you remain only in analytical thought land because even though you don't see it, thought land is beneficial only to a point where it hits the uncomputable, the paradox, where it needs recharging from the imaginative self, the psyche. You must take continual and consistent rests in your non-conceptual consciousness, in your awareness of symbolism and imagery, which transcends the mind of thoughts even though there are no rational, no logical structured and organized improvements you can discursively interpret there. You simply enter in the restful zone, you simply just "be," just exist. And then come back, leave, come back, do it again and again and again, for a life time of continual and persistent regularity, and you will improve your human potential this way. You will improve even to the point of becoming a wise sage, a master.

You look at this article and say; "Such childish rhetoric this is! Such nonsense! Look at this foolish write up!" And I answer: Childish no, childlike yes. Intellectualism only lives when transcended with imaginative awareness and the naive wonder of radical amazement in the most simplistic existence of life itself, in reverence, awe and gratitude for simple existence. This, without any analytical conceptual frameworks supplying false anthropomorphic reasonings and definitive explanations. No, there is no "truth," no absolutes here, those which only exist in the mendacious and arrogant human confident fragility of illusionary meanings.

In innocence, gray eyed wonder,
A leave drops slowly down,
The smile exists for no reason,
But simply being there.
Watching, waiting, moving, sitting, standing, walking,
And there is no time, no deadline, no clock to check in with.
Joy perhaps, happiness maybe,
I think rather - innocent, timeless existence in clear joy of Being,
Of Existing, of watching -
the internal flow of no-named beinghood in soft whispering kindness of neutral, non-verbal, solitude;
In solitude in silent hermitude of empty existence.
In aloneness, in loneliness, in the self consciousness of simply being.

Its here/now in the city, here/now in the suburb, here/now anywhere.

Its here/now hiking the trail in the wilderness where no other people go, where no voices can be heard, where the errie danger lurks of unprotected aloneness, where there is no aid, no security, no protection. Only the shadows passing by and silent wonder of the timeless moment.

"NOW I'M IN A MORE SERIOUS MOOD" (See Ma, I ain't really that stupid!)

IN DEFENSE OF THE ABOVE WEIRDLIKE, CHILDLIKE ARTICLE:

I could have completely avoided this "Thomas Train" and "Tele Tubbie" analogy, if that is just 'too way out there' for you and confined this to more 'intelligible explanations,"such as used by Richard Carlson's (You Can Happy No Matter What and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff) analogy of the thinking computer mind's differentiation from the restful wisdom of the natural state of mind, or I could have used the Eastern teacher Osho, in his analogy of the mind differing from the consciousness as this same can be found in Eastern teachings and in Western psychology. In this, Osho compares the mind to walking, both verbs. The legs are the noun, walking is the verb in their movement which cease to exist as a noun when the legs become still. And so it is with the mind. When thinking ceases there is no mind, only consciousness.

So I will relate this same find in philosophy, as Jacob Needleman, professor of philosophy (Uh, pardon this interruption, . . . but look Ma! Hee's a quotin' some philosopher man, I told ya he wuz smart!) at San Francisco University and former Director of the Center of the Study of New Religions at Graduate Theological Union, who stated from an interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, in his show (and book) Thinking Allowed,

"There is a joining (of rational thinking and spiritual thinking) from the Enlightenment, but the Enlightenment ideas has, I think turned into a kind of promoting of the best functioning of ordinary intellect. Enlightenment came to mean using your ordinary reason, but consciousness is not the same thing as what we call thinking. This has simply in the modern era in the West has never understood. It is a truth which maybe the originators of the Enlightenment understood; I doubt it, but maybe. But certainly the ancient masters, the spiritual teachers, have always understood that what we call thinking is not the same thing as what you are referring to as a consciousness."

Should I have refrained from “Tele Tubbie” analogy, in favor of Carl Jung, (What I tell ya Ma! What I tell ya! Told ya Ma! told ya Ma!) the analytical psychologist who spoke of the archetypes of the “collective unconscious”? In this Jung relates a world of symbols and images, which convey information in what I will connect to the words of Michael Talbot from his book, Holographic Universe, which speaks of “thought bursts.” Such “thought bursts” act as volumes of information in each thought, as opposed to the single words and sentences we use that only are capable of conveying a minute segment of a limited one-dimensional meaning. It is in the nonverbal, nonconceptual images and symbols that convey volumes of multi-dimensional meanings in a single instant, in each rapid flash of image, far beyond linguistics in a tremedously large volume. Something our reductive, analytical minds are incapable of, the very minds we use for our reasonings, philosophies, theologies and moral codes of right and wrong.

I could also have limited my thoughts to the thoughts of the biologist, Richard Dawkins, who in his books, The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene, (He knows a lot of 'em there books, Ma. I bet ya he's got one of 'em there photo kind of minds, Ma! Told ya Ma, told ya) writes of our physical bodies being nothing more than the carriers of DNA molecules emulated from random mutations and subsequent non-random cumulative-step natural selection. Our bodies then, are equipped with an on-board computer - our minds, which acts as a conscious built-in computation system in addition to the many built-in unconscious regulatory systems that continually keep the body maintained and controlled. Thus our minds act as built in thought-processing systems and cannot be equated with our consciousness. Our consciousness rests in stillness, apart from our moving thoughts of processed thinking. Our consciousness is a noun, our thinking is a verb. If we cease to think, we no longer have a mind – we are left only with our consciousness – our “knowing.”

I could also have ceased the childlike illustration of “Thomas the Talking Train” for the words of the Tibetan Buddhist Lama, Chogyam Trungpa, who wrote,

"When we see things as they are, they make sense to us: the way leaves move when they are blown by the wind, the way rocks get wet when there are snowflakes sitting on them. We see how things display their harmony and their chaos at the same time. So we are never limited by beauty alone, but we appreciate all sides of reality properly.

Many stories and poems written for children describe the experience of invoking the magic of a simple perception. One example is "Waiting at the Window" from Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne. It is a poem about spending several hours on a rainy day looking out the window, watching drops of water come down and make patterns on the glass. Reading this poem, you see the window, the rainy day, and the child with his face pressed to the glass watching the raindrops, and you feel the child's sense of delight and wonder. The poems of Robert Louis Stevenson in A Child's Garden of Verses have similar quality of using very ordinary experiences to communicate the depth of perception. The poems "My Shadow," "My Kingdom," and "Armies in the Fire" exemplify this. The fundamental vastness of the world cannot be expressed directly in words, but in children's literature, very often it is possible to express that vastness in simplicity.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery is another wonderful example of literature that evokes the sense of ordinary, or elemental, magic. At one point in this story, the little prince meets a fox. The prince is very lonely and wants the fox to play with him, but the fox says that he cannot play unless he is tamed. The little prince asks the meaning of the word "tame." The fox explains that it means "to establish ties" in such a way that the fox will become unique to the little prince, and the prince unique to the fox. Later after the fox has been tamed and the little prince must leave him, the fox also tells the prince what he calls "my secure, a very simple secret," which is, "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

But as it stands, this childlike analogy is the basis for the human psyche. Intellectualism and empirical observations are truly beneficial but always stagnated and circular to the extent of being severely detrimental when under total subjectivity. Only in partial rational thinking and limited logistics can our existence can be defined in. There are other chakras, other senses of the body, other dimensions of the self that we do not use, nor have we been taught. When we pigeonhole what true conceptions of reality are and what right from wrong is in absolute formatted schematics then our level of psychical development ceases to expand. But in "Thomas the Talking Train Land," that is where the childlike reality impedes the human psyche to increase it’s development in evolutionary progression towards advanced levels of Beinghood.