Untethered Mind Our thinking, typically, is purposely “logical,” or linear, and as such it is limited: it permits us concrete exposure to only three dimensions and five senses. Discovering that logic is limited, we logically limit our reliance on it. How is one to function in an irrational world, as long as one depends on rationality? Is thought a product of the mind, any more than the mind is a product of thought? Does the brain think—or is it thought which alleges that the brain thinks? Thought being limited, does it fail to recognize how utterly limited it is? In the same way that the accuracy of words is established only by other words, the legitimacy of thought is confirmed only by thought. “Reason” is whatever reasoning says that it is. Originally, the words think and thing were related. It is “things” which “think,” and it is things that are thought about. There is no tomorrow, without thought; but the thought of tomorrow is not tomorrow. In the same way that we attempt to name every object (”thing”), we attempt to name every event (”think”); whatever we name, changes— and so we name the changes. This is “reasonable,” or “logical,” we suppose. We have come to believe that the event or change was isolated, in form, before we named it (”tomorrow”). What do you need to know, in this very moment? Thought, knowledge, information could lead to truth only if truth was a conclusion. Though truth might be said to be a fact, all the facts in existence, added together, do not total
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