that absorbs information rather than consciously learning it. Ideas and solutions seem to 'surface' rather than actually being worked out and this process of 'mental osmosis' sometimes causes you to be unsure about whether it's your own mind that's doing the thinking. If you're happy to let your mind be a kind of nozzle, which directs the stream of pictures and words that issues from your fertile imagination, then you'll be happy with what you do and say. If, however, you have the notion that you must be in logical control of your thought processes, you become adept at poking at the blind-spots and irrational ideas of others - because they seem to threaten your own concept of mental order. But, sooner or later, your imagination will demand its due; that you express your dreams and confront your own doubts in a creative or honest way - otherwise you'll be driven even further, possibly to suppressing them unhealthily with drugs or alcohol, or with an even fiercer rationality. |
