On Wed, 25 May 2005, Terry Blanton wrote: > Here's absolute proof our host is insane: > > http://amasci.com/~billb/cgi-bin/instr/instr.html#self
The entry in question was written after at least one hour of typing several pages of random autobiographical material without reference to the personal pronoun. The writing was part of an unmailed letter directed to the local expert on "self," Dr. R. Kohlenberg at the U. of Washington (search: http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22functional+analytic+psychotherapy%22+%2Bkohlenberg ) At the time, the typing became increasingly effortless and blazingly fast, with thoughts appearing on the page without prior internal english/verbal expression, and the strange errors to be noted by the reader appeared intentional/appropriate, as if the words were being translated from some foreign language, therefore they were left uncorrected. At the presentmoment, after just a few seconds of similar "self"-less typing mode, the old familiar feeling returns, and the huge and cold thing which is not "I" begins to take over the keyboard. It notes that the psychological process designated "kindling" has a high probability of applying in this situation; where prior experience of an altered (or even psychotic) mental state will tend to "burn grooves in the mind" and cause future episodes of similar states to become easily accessible or even spontaneous. Such a process is the origin of LSD flashbacks as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and can be usefully employed in amateur attempts at "psychic channeling," although the "channeled entity" most often is a hidden aspect of the individual performing the no-self typing technique. Many religious practices involve attempts to move the "everyday self" out of the way in order that other less materialistic-oriented subpersonalities may take control of the bus. As a "not-doing" practice, the writing of text with intentional elimination of the personal pronoun is neither original nor unusual, although every inventor who taps into the primary creative source will typically ascribe the new idea to their own expertise, i.e. the "I" takes credit for novelties which in fact randomly washed up on the shore dividing the personal self from the regions of larger unexplored obscurity within. The experimenter merely needs to figuratively gaze downwards while beachcombing. Whew, I gotta quit doing this stuff. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
