Is my apparently anti-rationalist position an act of evil, as I try to tease out a more intuitive understanding of our susceptibility to emotional illness, rather than a need to confirm the consensual harmony and its normal psychotic illusions of rational objectivity? As Rollo May pointed out, cowardice is not a failure of Courage, but a need of Conformity. An unconscious attachment urge which like gravity, keeps us stuck in an established homeostasis? What Im trying to do is push the envelope of your established, by way of life experience, comfort-zone. Trying to show you how your mind functions by way of affect/image and how you need to imagine in your minds-eye, the affects needed to self-regulate, internal visceral states. Which is why The Polyvagal Theory changes everything, and states quiet clearly that reciprocal influences between body & brain are responsible for your states of mind whether normal or abnormal. Hence the notion of a continuum of human experience, rather than a fearful assumption of Madness on the one hand, and Reason on the other. Consider, more info about Kabbalah Tree of Life: Tzimtzum is the primordial cosmic act whereby God contracted His infinite light, leaving a void into which the light of existence was poured. This new doctrine of Isaac Luria in the 16th century gave a new organization of the previous Second-Temple and Medieval Kabbalistic concepts of Angelic hierarchies and descending Worlds. The primal emanation after the Tzimtzum in Lurianic Kabbalah led to an initial catastrophe called Tohu (Chaos). This was reformed into Tikkun olam (Rectification) of our spiritual realms, described in previous Kabbalah, becoming Atzilut (the World of Emanation), from which the three lower Worlds, Beriah, Yetzirah and Asiyah, descended. This corresponds to the reorganization of the Sefirot into the Partsufim described in previous Kabbalah. The Tzimtzum reconciles the infinite simplicity of the Ein Sof with the finite plurality of Creation. From the subsequent catastrophe stems the possibility of self-aware Creation, and also the Kelipot (impure shells in Medieval Kabbalah). Among other problems with interpretation of the Hebrew Kabbalah, there is that concerning the origin of evil. This problem conceives evil as a quality of God, asserting that negativity enters into the essence of the Absolute. In this view it is conceived that the Absolute needs evil to be what it is, i.e., to exist. (Piero Cantoni, Demonology and Praxis of Exorcism and of the Liberation Prayers, in Fides Catholica 1, (2006.) Am I playing Devils advocate, perhaps?
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