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

Questions and Answers & exercises / 61
and enneagram typing sees mostly, if not only,
similarities, which represents an undifferentiated
nervous system, which means greater and greater
abstractions and farther away from “what is.”
So, on a neurological level and psychological
level we could say, “The greater the degree of
differentiation the greater the health.” Why?
Because no labels, descriptions, or inferences
are “NOW” in this moment of space-time, and
“closer” to “what is.”
The less the differentiation of the nervous system,
the more it gets into categories, frames, lenses,
boxes, and, in short, the nervous system trying
to make everyone the same as everyone else, thus
the further away from “what is.”
Student: Where does intention come in?
Wolinsky: I do not trust what people declare their intentions
or motivations to be because they are always
honorable. There is a therapy, which says that
all thoughts, etc., have a positive intention or
useful purpose.
That’s bullshit. The thoughts at a physiological
level are survival driven because they are
manufactured by the body and nervous system
to survive, including the concept that all thoughts
have a positive intention or useful purpose.
If we slowed down the process, we would discover
that all verbalization is cortical and it appears
after the fact, only to justify and explain.
Student: But in my experience by asking, “what is the
positive intention or useful purpose of a thought
or action,” it always has a positive intention.