Well the insane people are the only genuine ones. Most people are crazy once you get to know them. Society is all about hiding this. Statistcally, eccentrics live longer. I guess the stress of confrming, gets to the "normal" people.
I don't think that I am an eccentric, but I know that as a rule I don't care what other people think of me. There are exceptions, of course, but usually this is true.
I created this page to explain my ideas on why I don't normally care what other people think of me. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
Certain kinds of genius involve altered mental states. Superhuman feats of creativity are available to anyone who manages to trigger a "vision quest" or "Uberman sleep schedule" mental state. Or perhaps certain people more easily get into such states because of life events or genetic brain structure. One can then encounter mental vistas nobody has ever seen, or perceive full-blown complicated answers to problems that have never been solved before. "In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure-dome decree" was supposedly received all at once and complete, as if pre-written by the subconscious and there awaiting discovery. Wouldn't you love to have such things dumped suddenly into your lap while you were half dreaming on Opium? (Would you take credit for creating something that just suddenly... appeared?) But those kinds of mental states contain pitfalls. Your "monsters of the ID" become available, as do pathways into delusions of grandeur, or mania, or suicidal depression, or probably any mental illness known.
I guess it's a bit like wilderness rock climbing, but all performed inside your head. If you want to see from a high brain-peak that's never been scaled, or bring back gold from mental locations never before visited, then you need to pass through the walls surrounding the "small safe town" where nearly all humans normally live. But sometimes mountaineers get injured. Or sometimes they never find their way back home, or they fall to their deaths. Going way out of the box, while avoiding going out of your mind: it's high risk, high reward behavior. And that's one aspect to the nature of that thin line.
People pursuing the "genius" mental state can stumble into insanity. Or of course people going insane for other reasons can stumble into the "genius" mental state. It's possible to learn safe practices through personal experience. Or, some shamanism or Eastern religious training is designed to teach safe "mountaineering" techniques.
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Well the insane people are the only genuine ones. Most people are crazy once you get to know them. Society is all about hiding this. Statistcally, eccentrics live longer. I guess the stress of confrming, gets to the "normal" people.
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I don't think that I am an eccentric, but I know that as a rule I don't care what other people think of me. There are exceptions, of course, but usually this is true.
I created this page to explain my ideas on why I don't normally care what other people think of me. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
www.bethebroccoli.com
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Shriek!!!!! I LOVE that!!!
Shame it's just the one page. I'll be looking forward to more I hope!
For certain kinds of "genius..."
Certain kinds of genius involve altered mental states. Superhuman feats of creativity are available to anyone who manages to trigger a "vision quest" or "Uberman sleep schedule" mental state. Or perhaps certain people more easily get into such states because of life events or genetic brain structure. One can then encounter mental vistas nobody has ever seen, or perceive full-blown complicated answers to problems that have never been solved before. "In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure-dome decree" was supposedly received all at once and complete, as if pre-written by the subconscious and
there awaiting discovery. Wouldn't you love to have such things dumped suddenly into your lap while you were half dreaming on Opium? (Would you take credit for creating something that just suddenly... appeared?) But those kinds of mental states contain pitfalls. Your "monsters of the ID" become available, as do pathways into delusions of grandeur, or mania, or suicidal depression, or probably any mental illness known.
I guess it's a bit like wilderness rock climbing, but all performed inside your head. If you want to see from a high brain-peak that's never been scaled, or bring back gold from mental locations never before visited, then you need to pass through the walls surrounding the "small safe town" where nearly all humans normally live. But sometimes mountaineers get injured. Or sometimes they never find their way back home, or they fall to their deaths. Going way out of the box, while avoiding going out of your mind: it's high risk, high reward behavior. And that's one aspect to the nature of that thin line.
People pursuing the "genius" mental state can stumble into insanity. Or of course people going insane for other reasons can stumble into the "genius" mental state. It's possible to learn safe practices through personal experience. Or, some shamanism or Eastern religious training is designed to teach safe "mountaineering" techniques.
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