You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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kill it. This occurs when the nervous system uses its natural
process to find out who “you” are.
The nervous system will use anything it can to continue
its survival, until it becomes differentiated and turns on itself.
Remember, there is no “you” separate from the nervous
system.
It is not that there is a “you,” which judges, rejects or accepts.
It is the nervous system that judges, rejects or accepts.
The “I,” which imagines that it judges, accepts or rejects appears
after the judging acceptance or rejection has occurred.
Then it comes up with reasons, stories, and justifications for
acceptance or rejection judgements, which are even farther
away in time—all this to ensure its own survival.
THERE iS OnlY An AppEARAnCE Of “i, ”
WHiCH AppEARS AfTER THE fACT; THEREfORE,
THERE iS nO pERSOnAl RESpOnSiBiliTY.
REASOnS OnlY BEGET MORE REASOnS.
It is in this way that the ongoing abstracting process continues.
The survival drive of the nervous system demands an
ongoing organization of chaos, which yields further abstractions
and and inferences for survival. In this way, there are no
reasons for events or things, and yet the nervous system creates
reasons, false causes, and false solutions (psychotherapy) as
automatically and as easily as the digestion of food.
EvERY HiGHER ABSTRACTiOn
OffERS An EXplAnATiOn, jUSTifiCATiOn,
AnD RE-EnfORCEMEnT Of THE EARliER
ABSTRACTiOnS, WHiCH GETS fARTHER AWAY
fROM “WHAT iS.”