Ordinary Everyday Consciousness

The web of life
 Let me try, from the first, to indicate the point that we're aiming at
 The point is this
 That human consciousness is—at the same time
 As being a form of awareness, and sensitivity, and understanding
 It's also a form of ignorance
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 And because of this, it leaves out things that are terribly important
 It leaves out things that would, if we did know them
 Allay our anxieties, and fears, and horrors
 And if we could extend our awareness, you see
 To include those things that we leave out
 We would have a deep interior peace
 Because we would all know the one thing that you mustn't know
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more (Than it takes in)
 According to the rules of our particular social game
 The one thing you mustn't know; that's really not allowed
 That is the lowdown on life and that the lowdown
 On the one hand, means the real dirt on things
 But the lowdown is also what is profound
 What is mysterious, what is in the depths
 And the something left out
 And our everyday consciousness
 Screens this out in the same way that, when you say you have weaving
 You have say, on this rug here in front of us
 When the black finishes here, the black threads will go underneath
 And then appear again over here
 Then they'll go underneath the white
 And they'll appear again over here, you know?
 So that the back will be the obverse pattern of the front
 Now—the world is like that
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 Our sense organs are selective
 They pick out certain things; they are receptive
 For example, we have a small
 Small band of what you might call a spectrum of light, of sound
 Of tactile sensation, and so on
 To which the human organism is sensitive
 But we know that outside that small band
 There is a huge range of vibrations
 To which we have built instruments that are sensitive
 Things like cosmic rays, ultraviolet rays
 Gamma rays, hard x-rays, and so on
 They're all outside the band of our spectrum
 And obviously
 There are things that are outside the range of our instruments
 We may build new instruments someday, which will evoke
 Bring into our consciousness, other orders of vibration altogether
 That, as yet, we don't know about them
 So you could imagine, you see
 The universe as a vast, vast system of vibrations
 And has infinite possibilities
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
 Leaves out – more
 Than it takes in