Raw Nonfictional Magic
Part of the Problem I used to have with thinking about my Characters as Personal Archetypes was trying to Perceive myself as each one and fusing them together in a formulaic system leading back to my entire self.
Why, though?
The original concept was that my Characters are based on parts of myself, but working my way up from the bottom of that structure to understand myself is wrong thinking.
The reason? I was right to begin with, and I didn’t need to mess with what I was doing. The only way to think about everything at once in some form of balance is to not think at all.
Zen. Non-Thought. A Lack of Focus.
Relax, and stop caring. As Mark Manson related in his book, “Don’t try”.
This is why I listen to Audio-books. My razor-sharp focus is getting in the way of my learning because the point of conscious awareness is to filter what gets into my Mind and what doesn’t. It’s a bouncer, letting in only those who are on the list.
I can remove the bouncer, and let everyone in. I can passively not-listen to audio which is absorbed into my subconscious.
Once all that new data is in my subconscious, it gets digested/processed by my brain during my REM Dream-state, and all the Data is reconciled into Useful Information in far better and more efficient ways than if I picked apart every little bit of it through conscious pondering.
That’s why Zen is the Art of Getting out of your own Way.
Christians call this “Let go and Let God.”
I’m not denying that what you interpret as God is speaking to you.
I’m just interpreting it in my own way.
What is happening during that Subconscious Process of Data Digestion is beyond Human Understanding while happening inside the Human Head.
That is Raw Nonfictional Magic.
