Doctor, there's a castle in my head (Part Three)
One of the oddities of a personal mindscape is that there are no rules except for the ones you make. There can be mutable laws of phsyics, thermodynamics, space, and time. Once you've established just what you want for your interior world and created a landscape you can step back and look around. This is like a feedback loop within a feedback loop. What does your world say about you? Are you a God? A distant observer or an integral leader? Perhaps you're just a worker in a land run by someone else. Sometimes, as a meditational device I enter the town at the base of my mountain and become a boatbuilder with a small yard and a pier. Even when I am 'the man in the high castle' I have a separate governing body for the port city. I've tried to have it as an accelerated social evolution that is now plateaued around, say, 18th-century Spain. (Minus the ridiculously bad succession of kings and petty disputes that have plagued Spain.) I let everything flow naturally, though I have suppressed some epidemic diseases. I don't let the people worship me, though they try from time to time. I want to mostly be left alone, since I go to this inner world for peaceful meditation and examination of ideas. If I want social interaction, I shouldn't have to invent it, but seek it in the real world. One of the dangers of an intraverse is that it can become more interesting than the real world. I once skipped a class because I was examining the evolution of the ecosystems I had created. I knew then that I had better start getting a life. So, what does this information say about me as a person? Since it is entirely built out of my head, everything within it has something to say about the kind of man I am. Sometimes this introspection can uncover uncomfortable truths about oneself. For instance, I discovered just how completely arrogant a creature I am. This is something I have hidden from even myself. And it is good to know. Not that knowing has exactly changed me.


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