12-17-2017, 12:00 AM
Yeah, I think the notion of doing away with mental constructs altogether for now and forevermore is silly....but I guess its anyone's choice, ultimately. And, to be fair to CC and DJ, that really wasn't what was encouraged. I remember DJ saying, at some point to CC, that the key wasn't to vanquish the rational mind altogether. The key was simply to put it in its rightful place.....to be able to "put it on the back burner" as he described, to give one perceptual options beyond the fixation of the "habitual position of the assemblage point". The issue is that, for the bulk of humanity, the mental construct solidifying the current sense of consensual reality was so predominantly emphasized that its become fixated and hardened to a state that it requires enormous, perpetual effort to loosen those moorings......if, of course, one wants to perceive something different....a different position of the AP......or even to feel the tinge of "strangeness" and magic associated with minute shifts of the AP. In that respect, inner silence....the capacity to suspend the compulsive drive to uphold the current mental construct....was emphasized over and over again.I think the degree of emphasis depends on one's degree of inherent fixation. For some of us hard cases, the emphasis to silence and suspension must be along the lines of a near continuous boot camp for years...maybe decades! For others who are inherently already flexible and have loosened AP's...well, maybe the notion of cohesion (as Serloco mentioned) must be encouraged. Rules of engagement....depends on the gamer