Friday 8 May 2015

The story may not be true, its substance is.
Someone told the man he was neurotic . Every thing he heard sent him in ire. He thought it was a personal attack on him which he often assigned to an attack on sentiments, at times religious but at others that he himself failed to name.
He refused to swallow the suggestion that he was neurotic , but silently conceded to himself, he would have himself examined.
He got his brain scanned. That led to an amazing discovery.
To understand that bewilderment, it is necessary to switch to another story that the man himself underwent , like most of us , while in school, attending a science (physics). The teacher imparted lessons in 'pin hole camera', displaying on the blackboard, how the inverted image of Palm tree formed on the screen of the camera. The teacher also explained that human eye was likewise a pin hole camera which caused the image of all that we see to form inverted on the retina.
Before the teacher could conclude, the period was over as the bell rang.
Next day, the teacher resumed but incidentally the student in question has absented. He missed the concluding portion of the imparted lessen. That was about brain capability to invert the inverted image registered at the retina. That explained how man would see things as straight as it stood outside.
However, deprived of this concluding portion, the student-now-turned man, turned crazy as he , from that time onward, started auto-correcting his sensory perceptions, seeing everything in its inverted form, unaware that the brain has already done that and that his auto-correct mode was , in reality, an auto-wronging, mode.
Thus the neurologist found that the man was not neurotic in fact, as there was no neurotic shortcoming in the man. The shortcoming was, in fact, psychotic, requiring psychiatric therapy instead .
It is worth self examining , whether there is some kind of psychotic aberration that turns one negative, to every thing that is positive?
Sensitivity and hyper-sensitivity are the two mental conditions , we find pervading all around, somewhat virulently .
These two mental conditions are poles apart, in its fundamental characters. One is normal, the other is not.
(More to follow)

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