We’re All Insane! Second Edition: Contents

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• Title
  • We’re All Insane! Second Edition
• Subtitle
  • Six Reasons Why You’re Insane
• Copyright
  • Copyright © 1991, 2012 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
• ISBN
  • ISBN 978-1-878693-27-3
• Dedication
• Description

Reason One: Thought-Knowing

• Thought Cannot Know the Thing
• Reasons Against Thought-Knowing
  • Knowing
  • To Know, Sense
  • Perception Points to Sensing
  • 3 and 6 Levels of Reality
  • Test Yourself on Thought
• Definitions of Terms
  • Reality
  • Energy
  • Sensation
  • Objects or Things
  • Sensing
  • Perception
  • Thought
  • Memory
• 8 Levels of Reality
  • 26 Levels of Reality
• Reliable Knowing
  • Standards of Measurement Vary
  • Verify Sensing with Perceptions
  • Science Is Faith-Based
  • To Trust or Not to Trust
• Limits of Knowing
  • Partial Perception
• More Reasons Thought Cannot Know
  • Confusing Thoughts with Perceptions
  • Thought Limited
  • Nothing to Thought
  • Signpost Not the Destination
  • Thought Is Dualistic
  • Thought Is Two-valued
    • 2 Four-Valued Steps
  • Grey Is Black and White
  • Insecurity Caused by Thought-Knowing
  • Thought Is Fragmented
  • Thoughts Are Stairs
  • Thought-Knowing Prevents or Perverts Knowing
• Thought-Knowing Reality Levels
• Conclusion One

Reason Two: Thought-Doing

• Thought Cannot Do the Thing
• Reasons Against Thought-Doing
  • Thought Claims, Never Demonstrates
  • Thought Cannot Undo
  • Thought Won’t
  • Thought-Doing Causes Addiction
  • Thinking of Gardening Is Not Gardening
  • Thoughts, Not Actions
  • Thoughts and Perceptions Differ
  • Collections Not Equal to the Whole
  • Thought Occurs After Reality
  • Thought-Doing Causes Stress
  • Thought-Doing Causes Distress
  • Intrusive Memories from Thought-Doing
  • Limit Thought’s Meaning
  • Correlation Is Not Causation
  • Miscellaneous
• Thought-Doing Reality Levels
• Conclusion Two
  • 5 Times Insane
  • Do Humans Function?

Reason Three: Thought-Being

• Thought Cannot Be the Thing
• Reasons Against Thought-Being
  • Levels of Reference and Representation
  • Thoughts Point
  • Identification as the Identified
  • Levels of Thought
  • Sensing Reductionistic
  • Observations all Different
  • Senses and Things in Flux
  • Things Change
  • Thoughts Are General
  • Thoughts of Nothing
  • Body, Not Perceptions
  • Reified Thoughts
  • 3 Arguments Against Thought-Being
    • Map Not the Mapped
    • Whole Not Sum of Parts
    • Nothing Exists in Isolation
  • Being Requires Integrity
• Thought-Being Reality Levels
• Conclusion Three

Reason Four: Self as Thought-Knowing

• You’re Not Thought-Knowing
• Reasons Self Is Not Thought-Knowing
  • Thought Cannot Know Things or Beings
  • If You Don’t Know Self, How Can Thought?
  • Thought of the Past, Self of the Present
  • Choose Thought or Self
  • Denial of Difference
  • Nothing Ever Repeats
  • All Things Changing
  • Change Not Caught
  • All Things Are Complex
  • Do You Live Only in Your Mind?
  • Can Thought See Self with Self?
  • Nonverbal, Not Verbal
  • Thought Doesn’t Think
  • Parts Not Wholes
  • Thought Not Perception
  • Does Changing Experience Change Self?
  • You’re Not God
  • Only You Are Real
  • Self Cannot Be Judgments
  • Thought, Not Observing
  • Experience without Thought
  • Knowing Is Senseless
  • Labels Are Static Fragments
  • Self as Court Games
  • Identities Are Claims, Not Facts
  • Mad Thought
• Conclusion Four

Reason Five: Self as Thought-Doing

• You’re Not Thought-Doing
• Reasons Self Is Not Thought-Doing
  • Thought-Doing a Goal of Ego
  • 2 Ego Conflicts
  • Thought Cannot Undo
  • Thought-Doing Causes Looping on the Past]
  • Thought as Effort Is Failure
  • Choosing One Side Creates Both Sides
  • Thought Ends Understanding
  • Thought as Law Causes its Opposite
  • Thought-Doing Ruins Health
  • Thought-Doing Causes Negative Stress
  • Using the Problem to Fix the Problem Fails
  • Inner Voice as Thought Is Failure
  • Miscellaneous
  • 6 Levels of Insanity
• Conclusion Five

Reason Six: Self as Thought-Being

• You’re Not Thought-Being
• Becoming Supports Thought-Doing
  • Who and What Seeks Self?
  • Stage One Becoming
  • Stage Two Becoming
  • Stage Three Becoming
  • Stage Four Becoming
  • Stage Five Becoming
  • Perversion Caused by Becoming
• More Reasons Self Is Not Thought-Being
  • Dehumanize People as Thoughts
  • If You’re Not Words, Then You’re Not Hurt by Words
  • No System of Selecting Thoughts as Self
  • Thought Turns Beauty into Lust
  • Coveting Thought-Being
  • Labeling Requires Time to Stop
  • Labeling Requires Isolation
  • Thoughts Have Variable Meanings
  • Thought Is General, and Beings Are Unique
  • Definitions, Not Human Beings
  • Thought Is Fixed, and Self Is Fluid
  • Miscellaneous
• Conclusion Six

Sanity Is Silent

• Conclusions about Six Reasons
  • Thought Reality or Perception Reality?
  • Conditioning Is Reality?
• Twelve Reasons You’re Insane
  • 4 Good Reasons Self Is Not Thought
• Knowing, Doing, and Being
  • Right Knowing
  • Right Doing
  • Right Being
  • Right Non-doing
  • Right Self Knowing
    • 4 Stages to Destroy Human Beings
  • False Solution of Self as Body
  • Upside Down
• 4 Kinds of Knowing
  • Fourth Kind of Knowing
• Ego and Memory
• Thought as Instinct
• 2 Tests to Avoid Mistakes
  • 6 Rules for 2 Tests

Postmodernism

• Constructivism
  • Abstract
  • The Pros of Constructivism
  • The Cons of Constructivism
• Postmodernism Is Idealism
  • Start Is Fine
  • Problems that Come with Non-Sequiturs
  • Mental Games
• Quotations Related to Postmodernism

Appendixes

• Diagrams of Thought
  • Images of Perceptions
  • Thoughts of Thoughts
  • 6 Levels of Thought
  • Thought-Knowing
• Diagram of Yin and Yang
• Question Thought
• Miscellaneous Thought Facts
• Descriptors of the Way
  • Doing
  • Experience
  • Freedom
  • Identity
  • Intellect
  • Intuition
  • Ownership
  • Present
  • Reality
  • Responsibility
  • Seeking
  • Sensing
  • To Thy Own Self Be True
  • Work

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