Inaugural Post
A bit of Dune recurs in my mind often. What better to occupy the blank page of a new blog? It’s not from my head, but it’s certainly always in it.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
And to that, I add:
I am the nothing
February 3, 2009
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2 Responses to “Inaugural Post”
I always found it interesting that this artificial pain and fear of said pain pushed him to a point where he would remember a litany and repeat it in order to get through the “traumatic” experience. what i mean is that obviously there was nothing in the box, the pain he felt was merely his brain telling him that he was in pain. he anticipated the pain, and feared the pain that everyone had told him would be there and he would be tested on, so his mind helped create the pain that he expected. but when the mind experiences said extreme emotions or overflows of stimulus it tends to shut down, or recede or repeat things that they are familiar with. aka “though i walk through the valley of death i shall fear no evil” etc. interesting how the mind is so “helpful”
~ Linnea Harrison (freshman GA)
Reply to Dhiel
Comment from Linnea Harrison above is the most stress-releiving thing I’ve read in a long time — “this artificial pain and fear of said pain [...] obviously there was nothing in the box, the pain he felt was merely his brain telling him he was in pain”. That’s what my life has been like lately.
In order to add something to the discussion, I’ll mention I felt a comparable though lesser emotional release when reading the last line of Queneau’s “Saint Glinglin”: “…weather of everlasting excellence”. (More meaningful in context, I know.) That book is another fine example of the way “we” (socio-culturally as well as individually) create (subject to initial and other conditions) the emotional worlds in which we live…
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