Psychological Freedom

Yes sure I think^ I experience moments in which psychological time is mostly or fully absent. But my ‘default’ state is be in time: thinking, imagining, daydreaming. You?

^ How would I know?

Thought is usually reflexive, reactive, which means every thought needs to be examined to see if it’s repeating and sustaining presumptions and prejudices, or expressing something new. Awareness of and interest in what raw, naked thought reveals is the self-knowledge that makes one wary of publishing unexamined thoughts.

Would you say you think coherently about your incoherent thinking?

It’s possible to think, speak, and write in coherent sentences that amount to a coherent theory about what, exactly, the human condition is. If I grokk K’s teaching, reason (adherence to coherency) is a step in the right direction, but is not The First Step, which is the last.

Are there steps to the The First Last Step, or does stepping just end?