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PLENEURETHICS A New Concept in Healing |
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VII
/ Chapter 8 MENTAL MECHANIMS |
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This chapter looks at mental mechanisms, their relationship to brain tension and encumbrance of neural energy reserves.
Pleneurethics interprets mechanisms of thought from the standpoint of the brain and its energy. The manner in which these mechanisms impact upon the neurological resources of their employer in particular and the collective cerebellar resources of society in general, is equally significant in Pleneurethics. Neural energy resources of an entire civilization may be mal-employed by improper mechanisms of thought reflected in law and institutions.
Some mental mechanisms peculiar to the individual will be discussed below. Only a few mechanisms will be examined. With knowledge of how these mental mechanisms operate in the individual, it will be easy for the reader to project prediction of how individuals in mass may act.
The mind and its mentality seek to avoid that which unpleasantly or unprofitably loads the brain or allows the brain to rest too long in idle boredom. The mind also clings to that which pacifies a chronically turbulent brain or stimulates a flagging central neural tissue.
The mind, without hardly realizing it, is intensely interested in the state of the brain and those things which influence brain capability and capacity. The mind may not always be correct in evaluation of those things which impact on the brain, but, given enough time and experience, the truth will come out and be recognized.
The mind, because of limits and vulnerabilities of the
brain, gets hooked on all sorts of things: dope, drugs, rich food, and
intellectual rationalization. The mind is apt to seize on anything that
If the mentality has been structured through instruction to believe that chronic discomfort is, say, a result of God’s wrath and the Holy Spirit’s revenge, then such a person will assign a religious cause to his chronic suffering. If he has been instructed by his psychiatrist that all his chronic difficulty is because of some repressed inner wish of hideous dimension, he will spend hour upon costly hour on the couch seeking ventilation. Or if he has been coached to believe all discomfort resides in the opposite political party, church, gang, association, germ, virus, or other corruption—so will he be inclined to interpret the source of his inner chronic evil. Thus, it is that very structure of mentality, which the mind has permitted to develop, which focuses the mind in its interpretation of succeeding events.
Fear
Fear of failure may actually bring that failure into being. Fear itself produces brain tension. With the increased brain tension associated with fear goes general lowering of competency.
If the pattern of real or imagined weakness follows along a certain line, fear of failure will tend to enhance chances for that failure to occur. Both fear and trying too hard are pathological and yield their own discouragements.
Over-zealousness
Self-defeat often derives from over-zealousness or trying too hard. Success is all the more difficult because of expectant over-anticipation.
The harder a person stews and gets into a dither trying to win, the more tension may be put on the brain by his feverish anticipation. This reduces the amount of energy available for the conquest of the goal itself.
Success is easier to accomplish if a person puts all his energy into the endeavor and avoids anticipation of the rewards of success. Some things of creative nature may never be achieved if a person forces himself or over-anticipates too early.
Invention
Invention of patterns of thought is a mechanism of mentality. People engage in such invention for two reasons. The first is the conservation of energy. Lines of thought or action are invented to save time and energy.
The second is simply to give a person something to do, to relieve boredom or to provide an avenue to show authoritative competence. Examples of the second are legion. Most common nowadays is the student body stampeding in fake rebellion or protest over just about any real or imaginary deficiency that comes skittering across its collective mind. The students either go it alone or permit themselves to be gathered together by hard-core front group leaders in a dance of death prior to the bombing. Another example is the housewife who acts in a glorious outburst of jubilant indignation over some triviality at school or at the market place.
Condemnation
Great joy of life for some persons comes from a brain-tickling emotion developed by mentally condemning anything or everything. For these people sweet condemnation gouges their adrenalin-producing brain control center and bestows a feeling of power and superiority over having stamped out someone or something believed unfit. The younger generation is especially outstanding here.
The less competent people condemn with greater vigor, the better to elevate their low-level capability. Witness the hoards of college students as they arrogantly condemn nearly everything and everyone of the past.
New Insights in Mentality
Unresolved problems plague people until solved or otherwise attended to once and for all. The insight, which provides them with the mental route by which the problem is solved, is valuable. New insights and revelation of solutions for old problems is exhilarating because of the rapid restructuring of mentality, and the consequent elevation of overall neural competence.
However, as in all things, people err if they commit themselves exclusively to the search for new insight. For in the doing of it they in effect abandon the old and the steady and that which has been proven worthwhile.
No single thought can produce happiness or contentment. There are many sorts of thoughts which will produce a flash of ecstasy, a gratifying insight, an exhilarating sense of achievement. However, not one thought in itself is capable of producing permanent contentment and well-being.
By the same line of logic, neither can some disastrous thought have permanent demoralizing impact. All such thoughts eventually lose their upsetting force.
Belief
Belief has a marked influence in the way external occurrences are interpreted by the mind after the brain has palpated them.
If a person opens the hot water tap instead of the cold tap
as intended, the first feeling of the very hot water will be that it is
very cold. Of course, a few moments later the brain report will
Belief is of vital significance in life. How one orients his beliefs impact directly upon his being.Numberless are the ways in which mistaken beliefs may mislead the unwary and the gullible.
Most all actions are executed under the belief that the act will produce a beneficial or needed result. Sometimes the result is to be derived directly from the act or indirectly through a series of interplays emanating from the original act. Thus people eat, take dope, or copulate because the act is calculated to directly fulfill a need arising in the body and expressed in the neural system.
Belief in itself influences cerebellar stress patterns. Belief in the efficacy of just about anything will for a time reduce the total load of brain stress. Thus, belief in the goodness and curative powers of magic or LSD will tend to reduce the loading of chronic tension.This reduction of tension is especially pronounced when the new insight is achieved. However, tensions once again are felt by the sufferer in a few days or weeks.
Debater’s Mentality
The debater thinks that there is good in every debate. Debate for debate’s sake is the order of the day. Even if these people must take an outlandish stand just to create debate, they feel justified. The debater’s mechanism is easily understood if viewed as simply a device to demonstrate authoritative competence and achieve a moderate tension-producing kick to the brain from the heat of the verbal contest. The inveterate debater is, of course, to be discriminated from the person who pursues a legitimate course of action to rectify a wrong.
Are Bright Children the Trouble Makers?
Terrible in its eventual consequences is the malmechanism of
thought that preaches brighter children are the ones who get into
There is a difference between the sort of trouble a bright child gets himself into because of the inquisitive drive of his intellect, and the trouble deliberately precipitated by the dullard to show his spark. Whereas the bright child learns from his innocent escapades, the dullard seldom learns from his clumsily-planned adventure. Also there is a point to the bright child’s errancy, but the dullard commits his errancy in premeditated abandon. Indiscriminate bomb and rock throwers are simply dullards who lack ability for purposeful existence among their peers.
People often do most anything to acquire the feeling that they have done something significant. Very often they are willing to do something deleterious to themselves and to others to achieve this end. This is especially true if they are unable for one reason or another to perform some truly creative and constructive act.
Sexual maneuver elicits massive and intense neural response; hence, it is especially gratifying in evoking a feeling of significant achievement. Youth are especially active here.
Not all persons are predominantly sexually oriented. Some are moderately oriented sexually—hence, they have time and energy for other endeavor.
Most anything which arouses neural participation creates a feeling of significant achievement. This explains the mechanism wherein a person covets or is receptive to pain because it enhances total neural activity especially when coupled with sexual gratification.
Other people deliberately involve themselves in activity that they know in advance is an improper line of endeavor. They do it only because it does stimulate neural tissue, leads to a feeling of fundamental form of involvement; hence, it is gratifying in part.
Smoking various noxious weeds or drinking toxic potions such as alcohol are examples of some of the means which people endorse and adopt to make them feel they have accomplished something significant. Most astonishing, after Pleneurethical correction, the chronic impress of physical harassment of neural tissues is lifted. People are likely to complain for a few weeks after the loss of the cause of their chronic neural involvement—the very thing that was depressing them through the threshold of death.
Perfection
Perhaps one of the greatest mistakes made by people is their belief that other people can be relied upon to act perfectly. People not only expect other people to act perfectly, but they feel they may rightly become angry when others react imperfectly to their own imperfect act.
Campus rioters and building-burners were indignant to the very core of their being when riot squads of National Guardsmen failed to react perfectly to physical and psychological harassment. College students failed to consider, as they gaily pelted poor National Guard troops with bricks and Molotov cocktails and insults about the fidelity of the wives of Guardsmen, that the troops might not stand fast under such cruel and unusual punishment.
If the educated elite and future helmsmen of American destiny behave in such abominable fashion, how then can they rationally expect National Guardsmen with only grade school or high school education to act much better. Not only were the college students and even university professors caught in this snarl of bad logic, but the news media were also mistaken.
There is a news media sworn to uphold the public interest by reporting maturely and fairly. Even they expected the impossible. They expected a group of armed and uniformed youth (National Guard) to act with perfect maturity in the face of derisive immaturity on the part of those who are expected to be examples of scholarly maturity.
Prayer
Prayer operates to reduce tension of the brain and to release the energy laid up in the tension for other perhaps more important tasks. This explains the efficacy of prayer in ameliorating the symptoms of some diseases and tension-producing situations. Prayer is no more effective than any other sincere wish expressed covertly or overtly to an authority accepted to be competent.
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