Turning a fiction
into personal fact
Any fiction can be turned into a
personal fact. Any lie (or belief) can be turned into a personal truth. How’s it done? The miracle is achieved by means
of full (i.e. @100% = @1 = one-pointed, hence perfect) concentration (or
focussing), elsewhere called flooding. If and when an observer (for instance,
a meditator, read: yogi or yogini) applies 100% (hence all) of her
concentration capacity to a focus, consequently leaving no capacity over from
peripheral accessing (i.e. for off-focus, i.e. background scanning), then
nothing else exists for the observer but the observed. At 100% (= @1 = a
personal absolute) concentration, when even the person as observer has been
eliminated from the focus, the observed focus is experienced as absolutely
real. At perfect concentration, the focus is all (i.e. fills, suffuses,
encompasses the entire universe). Note that @100% (i.e. @total, hence
absolute, because no concentration capacity is left over) concentration, that
is to say, when focusing is wholly fixed (hence frozen/still), the observer
operates in psychasis, hence as a psychotic,
i.e. out of touch with everything (i.e. the wider world) but her or his
focus. Obviously, @100% (hence total, i.e.
absolute = full, hence absolutely fulfilling) is relative between observers.
But it is absolute in the case of each individual observer. And it’s the
absoluteness (indeed absolute limitation) of an individual’s processing
capacity (i.e. his or her concentration capacity) that is the sine qua non
that lets her turn any fiction (i.e. lie) into a fact (i.e. truth). To turn a ‘belief’ (or ‘a let’s pretend
this’, therefore a fiction, for instance, a political or religious metaphor)
into a truth, and its believer into a glassy eyed fanatic, merely
requires that the believer apply and sustain, or be induced to apply and
sustain full concentration. Hence the importance placed by religious
‘let’s pretend’ systems specifically on meditation, i.e. on training in
mental and physical concentration (read: restriction). So it is that Buddhist
jhana (i.e. coma)
meditation, and which serves to reduce concentration spread (i.e. wide angle,
hence peripheral processing) toward nil, thereby condensing concentration to
a single point (for instance, the ‘now’ or emptiness, Buddhist: sunjata) results in (possibly benign = healthy)
psychosis; that is to say, to mental and, consequently, experiential fixation
often resulting, i.e. for those who cannot or will not reduce their
concentration intensity (because addicted to the pleasant (Pali: sukkha)
side-effects), in paranoid schizophrenia. See: The brain as (metaphor) simulator |