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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
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
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:
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?
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 –
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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