Madness Need Not Be All Breakdown. It

Schizophrenia Is The Name For A Condition That Most Psychiatrists Ascribe To Patients They Call Schizophrenic.

The Fountain Has Not Played Itself Out, The Flame Still Shines, The River Still Flows, The Spring Still Bubbles Forth, The Light Has Not Faded. But Between Us And It, There Is A Veil Which Is More Like Fifty Feet Of Solid Concrete. Deus Absconditus. Or We Have Absconded.

Before One Goes Through The Gate One May Not Be Aware There Is A Gate One May Think There Is A Gate To Go Through And Look A Long Time For It Without Finding It One May Find It And It May Not Open If It Opens One May Be Through It As One Goes Through It One Sees That The Gate One Went Through Was The Self That Went Through It No One Went Through A Gate There Was No Gate To Go Through No One Ever Found A Gate No One Ever Realized There Was Never A Gate

To Mystify, In The Active Sense, Is To Befuddle, Cloud, Obscure, Mask Whatever Is Going On, Whether This Be Experience, Action, Or Process, Or Whatever Is "the Issue." It Induces Confusion In The Sense That There Is Failure To See What Is "really" Being Experienced, Or Being Done, Or Going On, And Failure To Distinguish Or Discriminate The Actual Issues. This Entails The Substitution Of False For True Constructions Of What Is Being Experienced, Being Done (praxis), Or Going On (process), And The Substitution Of False Issues For The Actual Issues.

Even Facts Become Fictions Without Adequate Ways Of Seeing "the Facts". We Do Not Need Theories So Much As The Experience That Is The Source Of The Theory. We Are Not Satisfied With Faith, In The Sense Of An Implausible Hypothesis Irrationally Held: We Demand To Experience The "evidence".