Consciousness has no interest in the mind and so no interest in bringing the mind's self understanding to a true reflection of itself. The mind can only be what it is through being illuminated by consciousness but it finds its own state so delightful and interesting and with it the belief that consciousness is nothing more than a by-product of its own experiments in self-reflection, that it has no interest in attaining a true alignment with its source. It cannot rightly conceive of such a project since if such a project were to arise it could only be at the vanishing point of all interest. The only way forward is thus for the mind to stumble upon this truth in the course of some motivated researches into its own functioning. Such motives are typically negative, suffering or disillusion, or positive, surrender or love, and exceedingly rarely anything resembling intellectual curiosity.