On Reality.

On Reality.

 

 

Nothing is permanent. How can it be? If we attribute Reality to the world as it appears as represented by consciousness when our basic philosophical foundations upon which conscious values are established ignore Uncertainty and Impermanence, then we suffer.

 

Reality is determined by what we attribute Meaning to. Loss aversion, or attachment, as Buddhists call it, is the tendency to cling to an existing conscious set of values. The pressure to do this is great in a society wherein Freud is prevalent. Where the ego is defined as the Reality principle and its absence is defined as insanity, the latter of which is condemned and punished with the hostility of an Inquisitorial staff, ego-death is avoided at all costs.

 

Yet, for the neurotic conscious of his or her own neurosis to escape the trap of questioning her sanity, she must let go of what she values as Sanity. The alternative is to withdraw into subservience to dogma and metaphysics that will only worsen the neurosis.

 

Insanity is not a fate but a process. Sometimes, if an illness runs its course, it will heal the psyche. The notion of a “hopelessly” insane person may be phony and absurd, representing only the condition of an immensely Liberated and/or Individuated person whose condition passes the understanding of the observer.

 

Only by falling through the net of what Reality appears to be to the Ego can we arrive at another constant. There is a superior solace in embracing Uncertainty if we can attribute Reality to this Uncertainty. Once the hole in the net has been torn, the net disintegrates, as does the World as it appears from the perspective of the old Ego, given time. Yet the World Itself does not disappear. By virtue of the Unconscious and the Second Subject, we are still HERE, and we are at peace in the process of Change. We establish an expanded frame of reference. The cycle begins anew.

 

Dm.A.A.