A pause and Father continues: “How can a thing be frightened and while in such a state, via its own statements to itself, vanquish the fear? It all seems most strange, even doubtful, and yet it works. It works by man’s consciousness creating a mythical history outside of itself, which it then looks to as tangible evidence of its intangible hopes – that of resurrection.
The neural cells that produce thought within a man will cause him to consciously say that he is sure he will not perish when he dies BECAUSE, (and here he will figuratively, verbally point to some extrinsic, physically visible source: a holy book, the utterances of his group’s founding hero, and say), ‘Because so and so assured us that it is so.’ The assurance of resurrection that they– the man, the molecules in his brain responsible for him saying it – embrace – it must be true, for did not he who uttered it, himself return from the dead. ‘The-proof-is-the-proof,’ so say the cells that speak, and since they alone do so – who is to counter? Why should anyone counter? Of what benefit would it be to an ordinary man and his mind-molecules to dissuade them from this belief? None!
Even though the first unit of silent, instinctively responding guards are ultimately responsible for the king’s physical survival, in times of extreme stress the second, vocal unit may try to verbally rally the first, exercising that sensation of freedom, and the ability to mentally plan and foresee, unique to them. In simple terms: ordinary men who feel sad will ‘tell’ themselves to ‘Cheer up!’ A most complex affair on its face, the situation is like in a grandfather clock that is winding down, and causing the sound of the hands’ movements to lag; having the sluggish tick tocks exhort the pendulum to: ‘Pick up the pace! Tighten up your act! Pull yourself together! Look on the brighter, faster side,’ and such.
Do you recognize the inherent, inescapable tomglotzery? And yet, with ordinary men, it is not total tomglotzery, for rather than quickly sinking in the swamp of self-perpetuating dreams of self-referential-impossibilities, men’s minds latch onto the external myths that their predecessors have already put in place. Instead of trying to fool themselves into a state of reassurance by telling themselves that things are not as they know they are, (which is plainly ridiculous), they put such words in the mouth of their founding hero, (or a deity, which is an exaggeration of the hero). Thus do men appear to accept reassurance about matters which bother them mentally, from sources that are not themselves, but which their own minds previously created, and now feign to have forgotten doing.”
J.