4. POLITICS 101, pt. 3

POLITICS 101, Pt. 3: 'Unconscious portions of the self are what are really in control. Your ides of the unconscious are so linked to your limited ideas of personhood as to be meaningless. It is as if you used only one finger of one hand and then said: "This is the proper expression of my personhood." It is not just that there are other functions of the mind, unused, but that in those terms YOU HAVE OTHER MINDS. You have one brain, it is true, but you allow it to use only one... station, or to identify itself with only one mind of many. It seems evident to you that one person has one mind. You identify with the mind you use. If you had another, then it would seem as if you must be someone else. A mind is a psychic pattern through which you interpret and form reality. You have physical limbs that you can see. You have minds that are invisible. Each one can organize reality in a different fashion. Each one deals with its own kind of knowledge. These minds will work together to keep you alive through the physical structure of the brain. WHEN YOU USE ALL OF THESE MINDS, then and only then do you become fully aware of your surroundings: You perceive reality more clearly than you do now, more sharply, brilliantly, and concisely. At the same time, however, you comprehend it directly. You comprehend what it is apart from your physical perception of it. You accept as yourself those other states of consciousness native to your other minds. You achieve true personhood.'