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Tying Up The Loose Ends Ever Since The Mind Invented Them
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August 20, 2002                                                                                          © 2002: JAN COX

(May be considered an expansion in part, of yesterday's News.)
 
 
 

Picturing thoughts as figures in a fictional tale can be not only enlightening in itself,
but the effort to do so will also exemplify the problem mind has
entering a certain neural area,
an understanding of which is the doorway to the full comprehension of

what is going on.




Upon introduction to this idea you may think it easy to execute:
picturing all of your thoughts as individual characters in a story,
but many more things do thoughts reflexively say they can do than they can do,
(which is what makes them so suitable for this metaphorical role).
The trickiest feature to master is:

there is no way a figure in a fictional story can ever realize that
they are a figure in a fictional story --
it is most difficult for mind to even make the needed, sense of this,
since on its face the idea seems too whimsical to have any significance,
but a man with that SpecialInterest will do himself much good to stick with this,
and push forward with it in his own mental ramblings and considerations
until its underlying information surfaces for him.
 

Start out with it as simply as ‘tis been put:
try to picture  --  to feel yourself a character in a story,
and someone told you that was what you were  --
what would you make of their statement?  --   what could you make of it?
(You may at first find this migraine-making, but press on;
if you should be dickering around with this sort of thing to begin with --
it is worth the frustration and initial house-of-mirrors effect.)
Use your mind willfully: try to seriously feel yourself as a totally invented
character in a fictional story someone wrote;
one who has dialogue, and interaction with other characters;
with a personal life of relationships and adventures,
and one to whom is attributed, individual motivations,
along with the private monologue in the head  --   thoughts:
you are, literarily speaking: a fully fleshed out fictional figure
with all of the characteristics of a real person  --  that is what you are.
Then someone tells you that this is precisely who you are  --
what possible sense would this make to a fictional figure in a fictional setting?
Here is where you must have the mental talent to do improbable back flips,
and synaptic head spins,
for you must simultaneously picture yourself as a totally invented character
while giving this figure enough of real-person sensibility
that he knows the difference between real people and fictional ones,
now consider: you are suddenly told that you are a fictional character,
and not a real person  --  you understand the distinction,
and you understand what has just been said to you.....................yet still –
even if you try to take what was said seriously  --
what can you do with such a comment?! --
where can you go with this info?!
You were created and born a fictional character into a fictional setting –
it is all you have ever been --  it is all you have ever known --
what can you possibly do with such information --  even if it be true?!
How can you process this piece of non fictional information,
(to wit): that you are fictional in a fictional context?

(Do not slip into confusion here; stay clear and remember that
we are not talking about you  --  but about your thoughts.)

 
 
 

The supreme pay off in this will not be verbalized in advance:
for what you may receive there from as always, will be personalized to you,
but this much can be profitably said again by way of specific, super-hidden,
super-explosive hint:
there is no way a figure in a fictional story can ever realize that
they are a figure in a fictional story;
if this was ordinarily possible  --   ordinary people would not be who they are,
and routine thinking in everyone’s mind would not be as it is.

A man born with that CertainHunger is not acceptably comfortable with this situation --   --  as is everyone else  --  even though they are not even consciously aware of it --
--  and neither is he in the beginning.
What such a person is unwittingly after is the informing of his
fictional thought-figures of their nature --
an effort whose difficulty has taken up all of the space thus far.
None of the figures native to a fiction can ever be aware of their nature –
only a being by nature extrinsic to the fantasy setting
who could enter same would be able to see the indigenous characters
for what they are: works of art  --   bits of fiction.
 

To see what is actually going on in life necessitates having a mental figure
which did not come from the fictional story-land in your brain
with which every human is born;
CatchingOn does not involve the education, or rehabilitation of
the fictional figures (thoughts) natural to your mind,
but rather the creation of  --   development of  --   a new one;
you do not awaken your normal mind from a state of dreams;
you do not cause your routinely befuddled thoughts to become enlightened;
the reality of ThisKindaActivity has nothing really to do with the old;
it is not a cleaning-up-of-your-mental-act  --  but the creation of a totally new one;
it is not a reeducating of your present view of you, man and life  --
but the discovery come formation of a wholly fresh one,
and one constructively having no connection to your old  -- and everyone else’s –

normal view.




The part of the brain that constitutes mind and is the medium for thoughts,
is in everyone  --   by birth  --  a place of fictional characters & fanciful tales;
a few people however, for some unknown reason,
have the potential to create, as it were,
a new area of their conscious brain which starts not off, fanciful,
and thus does not become peopled by fictional figures  --   fictional thoughts;
thoughts which are useless  --   but do ordinary men no harm;
thoughts which are useless  --   and which annoy a ManWithTheInterest
to such a pitch that he will eventually resort to almost anything...............
.........like trying to put to active use what has above been noted.
 
 

You can never completely eradicate the world of fiction from your head –
the trick is to create your own original mental figure
in the neural land of non fiction,
who perforce will always recognize the difference between the two  --
who will quickly realize when he has momentarily wandered into the former,
and will scoot the timely hell thereoutof.
 


It is a self-created, non fictional mental figure who finally  --  CatchesOn.

J






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