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Most of your pleasures and happiness are experienced through emotions. And the final moral purpose of all human life is rational happiness. Moreover, negative emotions are reliable warning signals that you are acting irrationally or contrary to your nature, well-being, and happiness.
Emotions deliver your ultimate rewards and penalties. Such emotions depend on the life you choose to create and live. Your emotional content will be either happy or unhappy, depending on the extent which you reject or accept irrationality, which I often call mysticism. Mysticism steadily destroys the happy emotional self, destroys the pleasurable gratification of the mind, and destroys psychuous sex. Rejecting mysticism means accepting sole responsibility for understanding and dealing honestly with reality.
"Excuse me," my father said. "I don't mean to interrupt. In fact, I am fascinated by this new Psychuous Sex breakthrough. But, before you go on, I have to stop you and ask you to explain what you mean when you say to reject mysticism."
Mysticism is defined as any attempt to use the mind to create reality rather than to identify and integrate reality. Mysticism is a disease -- an epistemological disease that progressively undermines one's capacity to think, to identify reality, to live competently. Mysticism is also a collective disease that affects everyone who looks toward others, or the group, or the leaders for solutions to his or her own problems and responsibilities. The symptom of mysticism is jumbled or nonintegrated thinking -- leading to mind-created "realities". The mind is a reality integrating organ, not a reality creating device.
Mysticism is a disease of the mind that blocks integrated thinking and brings stupidities through mind-created "realities". But mysticism is also the tool that neocheaters use to justify or rationalize the use of force, fraud, or dishonesty to usurp values from the producers. For example, mind-created "realities" are used to create false standards and guilt designed to beguile you into surrendering your earned values, power, and happiness.
Mysticism is the only disease of the conscious mind. But as with drugs and alcohol, mysticism is seductively comfortable, like a warm, old friend -- until the destructive consequences and hangovers manifest themselves.
Mysticism is based on a false and destructive idea: the primacy of emotions over reality. Mysticism is the opposite of Neotech. The mind-created "realities" of mysticism eventually render all life unto death. ...You must resist, must fight mysticism both from within and from without. Those who surrender -- quit resisting, quit fighting -- allow mysticism to take over their lives. When that happens, they become a part of the unhappy, dishonest world.
"OK, I understand now. Neotech means integrating reality -- as fully and as honestly as you are able. Mysticism, by contrast, means NOT integrating reality, but rather creating 'reality' in your mind, often through emotional whims. Neotech and mysticism are opposites." My father now was more than satisfied, in fact, he had in that instance just seen deeper into human life than in his entire four decades. My father knew he had learned something powerful and profound by understanding mysticism, its mind-created "realities", and its potential to control others through, for instance, the media that often creates "realities" far different than reality. But before asking more about mysticism and its influence, he decided to stay on the topic of love today. As if the mountain could read his mind, just as my father started to ask another question about psychuous sex, the mountain continued, on the subject:
You must reject mysticism to effectively perceive and integrate reality -- to effectively solve problems of growth and develop the competence needed to earn prosperity, power, and love. That, in turn, delivers the self-esteem and emotional content needed to experience abiding well-being, psychuous pleasures, and romantic love. ...You control your wide-range emotions of being fundamentally happy or unhappy through your constant, volitional choice to be honest or dishonest -- to act through honest thinking or through mystical thinking.
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