Re: Building New Worlds - An OT Parable

In article <1122580392.525339.221230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"zee" <outrider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Don Kirkman wrote:
> > In "The Fifty Minute Hour" [ISBN 1892746247] psychiatrist Robert Lindner
> > years ago presented popularized versions of five cases he dealt with
> > while working for a state agency.* In one case, a young man was
> > exploring new worlds, dreaming of galaxies far away, and designing space
> > craft to reach them--well before Star Trek, Star Wars, and Lost in Space
> > were dreamed of (War of the Worlds, A Princess of Mars, and Flash Gordon
> > were around, however). One by one Lindner tried various psychiatric
> > techniques he hoped might bring the man back to a semblance of reality,
> > but none of the textbook approaches worked. Finally, he decided to try
> > joining the patient in his world. Lindner began feigning belief in the
> > foreign galaxies and the astrophysical scheme that lay in the patient's
> > mind and drawings. Progress was slow but noticeable, and the therapist
> > noticed that as he showed more interest in these new worlds the patient
> > slowly disengaged himself from some of the more emotionally charged
> > areas of the phantom universe. Finally, the critical break came when
> > the patient disavowed the entire subject and returned to the real world.
> > Lindner, however, found that he had moved from feigned interest to a
> > very real attachment to the affairs of the patient's constructed world,
> > and had to struggle to tear himself away from it.
> >
> > * Perhaps best known was "Rebel Without a Cause," which provided the
> > plot line for the movie of the same name.
> >
> > Any volunteers to explore a new world that lies beyond the bonds of
> > physics and astronomy and exists only in a human mind?
> > --
> > Don Kirkman
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> Many. They are called writers, painters, actors, sculptors,
> architects... .
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> Zee

Poets too and I'd include gardeners and Hell yea parents. This of
course has been of interest to many folks for many years. Unified
field theory rubs elbows with the dogma of your choice. The
interesting question to me is what to exclude? No Thing perhaps.

Bill

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/mere.htm


The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought, rises
In the bronze decor,
A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
Without human feeling, a foreign song.
You know then that it is not the reason
That makes us happy or unhappy.
The bird sings. Its feathers shine.
The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.

--
Garden Shade Zone 5 in a Japanese Jungle manner.
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