related to the Iain McGilchrist book I'm still reading, and the notion of humans having 2 axes of experience - the horizontal of direct experience of the world, and the vertical of examination or rumination of experience - too much of each one necessitates losing touch with the other
I guess we all tend to a certain degree towards the horizontal or vertical, to the exclusion of the other
some of us are so in the moment we fail to examine our experience, and some of us are so fixed up on examination that we fail to experience the world in it's rawest state
when I saw a clinical psychiatrist for my depression, a little over a decade ago, he said that excessive rumination was a major causative factor in my (then) current state of mind
sometimes it pays just to experience the world with your cognitive filters turned down as low as they'll go, and sometimes it pays to reflect upon your experience
maybe the wisdom lies in knowing when to, and how to, flip from one axis to the other
.......being the inane grumblings of a decrepit old punk rocker... whining about life with chronic fatigue, music I'm listening to, books I'm reading and random thoughts about how shit the government are.......
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