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Thoughts inseparable from feelings
Mind itself can’t govern Reality-Creation under the law unless it has, itself, a “sixth sense.” A source of what we experience as insights. Tied to the laws of cause and effect that Spontaneity with Order enacted with Definition. So that Mind ruling Creation from the top down with willfulness can never happen.
Insights – thoughts inseparable from feelings that come to us of their own accord. Little bits of awareness. Why not big bits? Too big and they would overwhelm us. The human psyche can only take in so much at a time. Big bits would also take away Free Choice by not letting us think for ourselves. The function that the one Mind we all share will, hopefully, perform in Creation someday. That is, if at least one of us here learns to get it right.
Sharing insights is giving, receiving, and giving back. Saying thanks to love the giver by passing on the love. You’re not handing me a cheat sheet? No. Insights from others’ perspectives help by stimulating free inquiry and expanding our perspectives. If formulated answers to questions are misused to evade learning then all that cheat sheets “stimulate” is laziness. Character-corrupting. Besides, insights from one perspective in its unique circumstances can’t be answers for another perspective in its circumstances. They’re only useful as questions.
Helpfulness
Where do insights come from? What triggers them? It can be the way a personality type open to sixth sense forms a particular perspective from its circumstances. Context that needs help dealing with it appropriately. Humanely, in line with the way things are in Reality, not in an animal kingdom of appearances — unreality.
Insights come to choice but not from choice if to be free it must be free to choose incorrectly. They come from Definition that can’t be mistaken, communicated to Child Free Choice through its Relationship with Mind-Parents Love-Logic.
Temporarily diverted to human-apes while the Child recovers Self-Awareness. Lost when it chose in error, couldn’t differentiate between real and unreal, and was misled by its own implied opposite, a reverse mirror-image reflection, into a reversal of Reality. From one Mind Free Choice to animal herd mentality opposing choice. Insights communicated to human-apes who require a bilingual messenger, a trusted interpreter conversant in the language of the dream. An animal kingdom, but not itself an animal. Not willfulness.
Harmful “insights” come from predatory animal instinct. Willed rather than spontaneous, invasive rather than respectful of boundaries. From wart hog mentality dependent on one five-sense perspective. On what is – the way things are — implying what isn’t – the way things aren’t. Recorded in a lifeless code of reverse-reality. Made “real” in a topsy-turvy dream — virtual reality.
Homeward bound
The personality type, a version of self-unawareness seeking supremacy and protection in perfection, can’t listen to insights like these because it can’t hear them. They’re willed out of awareness. By willfulness, a beast that must always be king of its own make-believe hierarchy. A kingdom of beasts.
What do tyrants do but manipulate everyone in their orbit into following their script? Either by the lures of belonging, by the menace of force, or by both. Wart hog contented to live in its little world of its own, unconcerned with a bigger picture. Untroubled by anything outside its immediate vision. Making certain to imitate the behavior of other members of its species lest unsociability attract criticism and an end to belonging.
Mind-Creativity takes every precaution to prevent its being mistaken for a wart hog. Beginning with the Truth that it’s one Mind, not a tribe of body-brains. And its Child, an extension of one Mind, isn’t either. Human-apes at “home” in an animal kingdom of herd mentality, capable of mob violence, can’t be home. They belong in a different state of Mind. Self-Awareness.
So, if I set these pages on fire to light my cigar you’ll conclude that . . . No amount of makeup can disguise the face of a cigar-smoking herd of snorting, farting wart hogs. This definitely requires more field research. Where would I find a nice patch of underbrush? Let the grass grow outside your front door.
Herd mentality menace
What makes wart hog mentality dangerous? First, being limited to one perspective by its five senses. Personality types not attracted to minds open to another perspective through Mind’s sixth sense but afraid of it, opposed to it. Denying it by arrogance free to manipulate thinkers and thoughts, Truth and facts. By force of will. Trouble-making tyrants and warriors in our midst.
Second, motivated by the psychology of number two. Irrational resentment fueling animosity. A consequence of definition of what a function is necessarily preceding its definition by what it isn’t. The way things are in reality that must be defined first before the way things aren’t can be implied in unreality.
“Justifying” a tirade against injustice that’s nothing more than the logical order of things: one preceding two. Horse before the cart. That if it weren’t defined as Real and its opposite unreal they would co-exist. An impossibility: reversing Creation and returning Mind to a state of inactivity.
Third, motivated by the psychology of reflection. Demanding a reality of its own making where every inhabitant will be a reflection of itself. Giving it what its beholder has that it doesn’t: a self with a reflection. Ending its “victimization” by unfairness.
Fourth, the psychology of ape resenting its overthrow by human-ape, willing it to be dehumanized by reversing evolution.
The hole in animal kingdom’s defenses
Why must insights be spontaneous? If they weren’t their source would either be pampering us with room service like a servant or a tyrant deciding for us what we’re to know and not know. Willfulness objectifying and manipulating us as if we were pieces on a chess board. Diminishing our self-worth.
Spontaneity puts everyone on an equal plane and respects their individuality.Affirms their self-worth and freedom of choice instead of taking it away. Because it can’t be attributed to willfulness. When an insight arrives out of the blue, our first thought isn’t we’re being monitored or judged by higher authority. It’s we just received a free gift out of nowhere. Like winning the lottery if the insight was that helpful.
Spontaneity is prevention of, or liberation from, the condition that accompanies willfulness. Hierarchy. The structure that ape was born into and human-ape after it: a “kingdom” of animals. Beasts, where every relationship bears the mark of hierarchy: king-on-top, subject-below. Ruler on top, ruled below. Our world of competition among individuals and tribes. Not to be friends among equals but winners or losers among competitors. To be number one and devil take the hindmost.
Making spontaneous insights from sixth sense an anomaly in an animal kingdom ruled by a wart hog’s five senses. A hole in our earthly kingdom’s defenses against questioning from other perspectives.
“Realists” in the underbrush rooting around in unreality
That personality types drawn to five-sense willfulness and opposed to sixth-sense intuition seek to disable by any means possible. One-perspective realists, arrogating to themselves exclusive rights to set the rules, write the script, and tell the story of their animal kingdom. By wholesale manipulation. Of inhabitants and facts however they wish, so long as they stay on top and their opponents on the bottom.
Some personality types distrust anything their five body senses can’t detect, thinking from a source they can’t understand or control. Rooting around in the underbrush? Yes. “Realists.”
Unaware of a basic truth about their “reality.” That while what is is definable on the upper side of Definition, what isn’t on the underside can’t be definable. It’s implications derived from what is: opposites and alternatives that only “exist” by implication. Impossibilities consigned to a state where anything is “possible” and therefore undefinable.
The state human-ape and its animal kingdom are in. Where physics and psychology have been trying to define the subjects of their respective fields so far without success: the universe of spacetime-matter and the psyches of different personalities. They’ve identified principles and patterns here and there but not the immutable laws required by definition.
The verdict from physics and psychology
Acknowledged by Nils Bohr over a century ago with quantum mechanics’ Copenhagen interpretation. Proven by Albert Einstein’s failure to capture the universe in one grand equation. And now proven by another wild goose chase: physics’ quest for quantum gravity. Reconciling two bodies of “laws” – relativity and particle physics — that become less lawful the more we learn about them.
Not acknowledged by Sigmund Freud but nevertheless demonstrated by the failure of Freudian psychoanalysis to deliver on its promise. To cure psychopathology rather than merely alleviate its symptoms. Premised on a “realist” absurdity: that nothing can exist that isn’t body-brains and their physical environment. Debunked when Freud’s showcase “success,” the first patient to declare herself cured, announced later that she wasn’t.
Clear evidence that neither guilt-ridden body-brain psyches nor their material-temporal environment belong on the upper side of Definition. Where things can be understood. They belong on the underside with implications. With apparitions. Bizarre dreams that defy understanding.
Inner moral compass
By imagining that we’re having a conversation you’re not manipulating me? If my intent were ruled by animal instinct, to make a friend a reflection of myself, prey that I could rule as though I created and owned it, sure. It happens.
The wart hog is a visual of the animal brain that we all have. The amygdala, and this is how it behaves. Like a predator. We can try to keep it entirely out of human-ape behavior, out of our relationships, but it’s inconceivable. Especially when the conceiver is a wart hog. The price we pay for being animals. Good reason to do what we can to become something better.
By taking advantage of human-ape’s talent that ape doesn’t have: to differentiate and choose. With awareness. Seeing things from perspectives not dominated by body-senses. If our friendship isn’t manipulative it’s because it’s in my nature and yours to choose and be chosen rather than to will and be willed.
To be guided by the light of our inner moral compass. By awareness instead of misguided by unawareness. Limited by its one perspective, whatever it wants, to make its way in the darkness without an inner moral compass. Rooting around in the underbrush. So be it.
Love unconditional
My first experience with conscious choice was a turning point. Potentially an example of how one personality type’s perspective writes its life story with spontaneity.
I was around five or six when an insight came to me. I was out back by myself when my dad drove down the driveway in his car. He wasn’t looking in my direction. Something in my mind said I loved him.
A thought accompanied by a feeling. Out of the blue. Not that I needed his love or he wasn’t there for me emotionally, but simply that I loved him. As if I’d been wondering and this was the answer, except that if I’d been wondering I wasn’t aware of it.
Though my dad’s been gone almost 60 years I’m still processing the friendship we never had. Reassured to know that, down deep, I loved him. Certainly for all the good that a good man did, but also because the friction between us wasn’t intentional. It came from our personality types. Hard even to be aware of let alone manage.
Parent and child were still connected by love even if in some ways they didn’t like one another. Which made possible what happened only a year ago. Understanding the point of my insight, that my dad, and mom too, were loved unconditionally. And me? Most definitely you. A feeling that I didn’t will. To be held close to my heart and respected. Because it’s just there.