05-16-2013, 11:46 PM
Has anyone here ever been in a state of absolute consciousness?
And automatic writing never seems like a good description. Not automatic. Even when we're dreaming, we're conscious of what we're dreaming, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing it. We're never aware of what we're unconscious of. And the problem with word association is that when you say the first thing that comes to mind, that word is interpreted by the analyst's consciousness, and the patterns that make up that conscious world, based chiefly on the standard experiences of the current society. Then, in some subtle way, as if magic, the patient can be convinced of one thing or another by having associations assimilated into some sense of social understanding. Leading the patient into a sense of health and normalcy.
That's a very good thing for society. Not necessarily for the individual. Sometimes, sometimes not.
Poetry uses magic in similar ways.
And the idea "automatic writing" isn't a good description because there are other selves, things, "spirits" "daimons" that are "thinking" within our minds at all times. We just aren't conscious of them until we are. Our collective norms surface, and we piece them together and display them through a persona we call our self.
There are other selves or things or beings in our minds; there are also "antibeings". They aren't things, and they don't think. But those are normally, if at all possible, kept down in our Sewers. At least we consciously hope so.
And automatic writing never seems like a good description. Not automatic. Even when we're dreaming, we're conscious of what we're dreaming, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing it. We're never aware of what we're unconscious of. And the problem with word association is that when you say the first thing that comes to mind, that word is interpreted by the analyst's consciousness, and the patterns that make up that conscious world, based chiefly on the standard experiences of the current society. Then, in some subtle way, as if magic, the patient can be convinced of one thing or another by having associations assimilated into some sense of social understanding. Leading the patient into a sense of health and normalcy.
That's a very good thing for society. Not necessarily for the individual. Sometimes, sometimes not.
Poetry uses magic in similar ways.
And the idea "automatic writing" isn't a good description because there are other selves, things, "spirits" "daimons" that are "thinking" within our minds at all times. We just aren't conscious of them until we are. Our collective norms surface, and we piece them together and display them through a persona we call our self.
There are other selves or things or beings in our minds; there are also "antibeings". They aren't things, and they don't think. But those are normally, if at all possible, kept down in our Sewers. At least we consciously hope so.