Let us suppose a hypothetical line, below which our consciousness is in chaos, and above which it is ordered. Call it F. Let F=1. Above the line all experiences contain the possibility of bliss. Below the line, all experiences are processed as good or bad.
Clearly, we order our worlds through the actions that flow from our consciousness. At the same time, crazy things still happen, and many people enter the adult world in profound confusion, such that the effects of their consciousness show little order.
Either way, in states of profound disorder, we are happy when “happy” things happen, and sad when “sad” things happen. Since this system is fundamentally chaotic, so is our emotional state, which goes up and down the more things we label good or bad.
Here is what I want to posit, which I believe was done explicitly by the Buddhists, who thought everything through well: all experiences should be treated as theoretically equal. Clearly, there is a qualitative difference between making love to a woman you love, and being killed slowly by a torturer or by hunger and thirst.
The question of how one could make them equal, though, is a practical one. It is an empirical one. We have no means by which to say this transformation is, a priori, impossible. It is a question of how one trains ones consciousness to find in all experiences the possibility of salvation through joy.
Logically, true order only emerges once the outcome is the same regardless of the input. We can’t control the operation of the world fully, but we CAN and SHOULD control the operations of our consciousness. This is harsh logic, but I get a hint from time to time how one would do this.
The goal is freedom.