Conclusion Regarding Truth.
Any fixed cognitive "truth" that can be made available at any moment is the product of a lapse in perception. Filters of perception create these cognitive distortions. The process of thought that creates a fixed mental image is taken for granted. These are the decaying logs of the house that collapses, no different from the Sinking House. Usually, a stubborn neurotic tic coupled with participation mystique will construct such a house, built upon repetition. The illusion of Sanity perpetuates it with Absolutism in search of a Certainty that cannot be attained, for certainty is the futile project of the Directed Process. Assuredness need not even be made conscious of itself with any kind of "clarity" that could be clung to. Nothing is "true" if no one knows it.
The mind that tries to grab a truth, either to affirm an illusory flash in the pan (on the part of Directed Thinking) or to convert its heartfelt, unseen Assuredness into "certainty", whether or not it knows that that is its subconscious intent, dries up. This is one instance of the Sinking House problem.
The other instance that the Sinking House appears is in the enactment of the "transcendent" function that Jung refers to, which is a general definition used clinically to describe the process of Change and unsettling transformation in a human being when an established house of "truth" is about to be either deconstructed or to sink into the marsh.
dm.A.a.
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