awareness through movement

44 AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT
Primitive modes of thought tend to oppose good to bad, black to
white, cold to hot, light to dark, and to see in them opposition or
conflict. More developed thinking can hardly attribute opposition to
them in any real sense. Dark and cold, for instance, are by no means the
opposites of light and heat: where there is no light it is dark; and the
relationship between heat and cold is even more complicated.
Reversible and irreversible phenomena
The link with the centers of emotion is considerably weaker in this
third system compared with the stronger links of the two previous ones.
Strong emotions, such as anger or jealousy, interfere with the operation
of this new, delicate system and confuse thought. But thought that is
not connected to feeling at all is not connected to reality. Cerebration
itself is uncommitted or neutral, and can deal equally well with contradictory
statements. In order to select a thought there must at least be
the feeling that the thought is "right," that is, it corresponds to reality.
The Tightness in this case is, of course, a subjective reality. When "right"
objectively corresponds to reality, the thought will be of general human
value.
Cerebration alone cannot decide between the two statements: "It is
possible to get to the moon" and "It is not possible to get to the moon,"
for both statements are acceptable in themselves. The experience of
reality alone endows a thought with the property of "right." For many
generations reality disproved the former statement, and to "live on the
moon" was said to indicate that the speaker's mind is divorced from
reality.
Where pure cerebration is concerned, most processes could as easily
be reversible as nonreversible. In reality the great majority of processes
are irreversible: A match that has been struck and burned cannot revert
back to a match; a tree cannot revert back to a sapling.
Processes connected with time are irreversible because time itself is
irreversible. Indeed, few processes of any kind are reversible, that is, can