When mental suffering occurs, in the first moments of recognising this, there is a drawing back of consciousness into a personal frame. You and your needs, as experiencing and embodied being, immediately override all other formations and can determine the context of all the immediately ensuing moments. The rule appears to be that out of all possible interpreted realities that one which will have the most marked effect on the future must be managed by the executive system most cognate with it. This rule and the hierarchy of realities implicit in it is seen as natural and as operative at all times, although in a latent monitoring capacity when not actively engaged. The hierarchy of realities, and the corresponding internal agents or executives dedicated to these, are not determined by metaphysical deliberation, or by any sort of deliberation, but by the placement of override switches - how they were so placed appearing as a given. Any version of the world not at the top of the hierarchy has a provisional nature, and however developed it may be, however rewarded, however much mental space it has managed to colonise, it is not able to take itself entirely seriously. Hence perhaps the common feeling of being an imposter, although in other respects not taking oneself entirely seriously is a virtue. Still, to awaken or to detach, you need to go straight through the heart of these personal overrides, not to undo or reverse them, but to see that they are not the expressions of an enduring authority. This is the opportunity in suffering, but it is not always seized. The masters of reality have far less mastery than is thoughtlessly assumed, but it is a mistake to replace them with other masters.