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Sunday, 18 September 2022

What the next thought will be is not known, neither is it known where it will come from, but when it as come you immediately recognise it as your thought together with a sense of its provenance, which you could expand in most cases quite considerably. What is clear is that you are the type of person who would have such a thought. Whether you were also this same 'type of person' a moment ago, and whether you will be so for the next thought that comes remains unknown. at the level of such 'types of person' there may be considerable discontinuity in time, the range of possibilities being very large in spite of a certain family resemblance. There is apparently no faculty for monitoring continuity or discontinuity at this level. All of this seems essential to your condition, which entails that you can disavow or detach from any thought that comes, as if the place where freedom acts is in the choice of degree to which you take up each passing thought or reflected piece of experience. So, while a large part of your mental process involves these unconscious processes, the now being far to small to accommodate all the ancillary mentation, nothing belongs to experience unless it passes through this same now.

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