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Chapter Six
THE FIVE MODES OF THOUGHT OF
THE NATURAL MAN—PSYCHOLOGICAL
CONDITIONS OF SATORI
HE psychological consciousness of the natural man functions in five
different ways which form a single series.
Deep sleep, without dreams. The mentality contains no images.
A mode of functioning which is non-functioning.
Sleep with dreams.
Waking with reveries.
Waking with definite thought that takes account of the real
external present.
Waking with pure intellectual thought.
Except in the first mode the mentality contains an imaginative film but
of a kind which differs from the second to the fifth. An imaginative film, of
whatever kind it may be, is characterised in one respect by the nature of its
images; these may be concrete, particular, based on the concrete reality of the
present or not present; or they may be abstract, general (based on general
reality, to which the words 'present' and 'not present' no longer apply). An
imaginative film is characterised in another respect, by the manner in which
the images are arranged in it, the style of their association. Three styles can
be distinguished: symbolical, realistic, pure intellectual.
The imaginative film, or, to put it in a simpler way, the thought of
sleep-with-dreams, is characterised before all else by its symbolical style of
association. In this symbolical style the meaning of the film does not lie in its
form, in its expression; it lies behind the form, and this merely serves to
indicate it. There is a difference between form, which is only a means, and
informal substance, which is its aim (and at the same time evidently its
principle).
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