Metaphor Of The Tale Of Human Consciousness. Famous Castle

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

There was a castle in one famous place. It stood at the crossroads of many roads and deep rivers. At the foot of high mountains, surrounded by green meadows and flowering gardens. Thousands of birds were singing in the shade of huge trees, shading numerous springs with crystal clear water from the sun.

Every day, trade caravans loaded with goods from all over the world moved along the roads leading to the castle. Pilgrims were walking, expecting to see the castle - a wonder of the world, stories about which, excited their imagination for many years. The gray cloaks of wanderers, among the strangers they could be distinguished by the ornate staffs in their hands, now and then caught our eye under the walls of the castle in the motley crowd of visitors. Day and night there was a lively fair and entertainment shows at the walls of the citadel did not stop. Magic tents dazzled next to the tents of visiting scientists. Wandering sorcerers, fortune tellers, healers, astrologers, heralds, circus performers of all stripes, curing all diseases, literally besieged the castle.

Along the perimeter, the castle was surrounded by high and strong walls of wild stone. From above, it resembled a pentagon, at the corners of which were watchtowers, with well-known names: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. At the base of the towers there were entrances - the city gates, through which those who wish could enter or leave the castle.

The watchtowers were interconnected by a signaling system. The system was arranged in such a way that the information about everyone entering and leaving the castle became known to the ruler. The signal service was carried by swift messengers - reactions. Information reports were images, emotions, sensations …

Steward

The ubiquitous ruler-ruler ruled in this castle. Everyone knew him as a Thought. Thought has ruled the fortress for a long time. So long ago that no one could remember when her reign began. The steward could never be found on the spot. From morning until night, thought rushed about its possessions, solving, at once, several cases at the same time. She cared about everything. Nothing in the castle was left without her attention. It was rumored that the powerful ruler, even in a dream, did not interrupt his honorable work, continuing to clarify especially complicated cases that remained unresolved during the day. The whole existence of thought was associated with the castle. She had no time for her personal life. If, with its seething energy, the thought irritated any of the locals or visitors, this fact was forgiven her. The inhabitants of the castle have long been accustomed to their ruler and did not even dream of a better one.

The thought, indeed, could be proud of the fruits of its many years of labor. So it was from what. The structure of the castle amazed the imagination of anyone who entered the city. Take, at least, amazing, in its forms, architecture. The elegance and subtlety of the decoration of buildings and streets was amazing. The structure of everyday life in the castle was thought out to the smallest detail. Plumbing, lighting, outbuildings, bridges and roads; the engineering genius of thought created unthinkable devices that made the life of the inhabitants of the castle as comfortable as possible. Quays and bakeries, storehouses and city squares, streets and neighborhoods, all were arranged with love and care. Numerous theaters, libraries, exhibitions - it was a fairy tale. Thought did not stand still, each time adding and improving what it created.

In a word, the inhabitants of the castle were lucky with a steward - a thought.

Safety

Thought ruled the castle, on behalf of and under the guarantee of security. True, no one had ever seen this guarantor in person and did not even know if he had this very face. At the same time, everyone unconditionally agreed that the task of the castle ruler could not be more important. The mistress considered her mission to protect the safety of the fortress walls and residents of the city as sacred.

Acting in the name of safety, thought faced many challenges. Still, the castle economy was considerable and hectic, and the preservation of security required her close attention and presence, literally, on each specific occasion. The highest skill and energy were required. The task was not an easy one.

The known and the unknown

The thought-steward considered her most important purpose to preserve the castle and its inhabitants safe and sound. The slightest change did not escape the watchful eyes of thought. She thought as follows: “I manage to keep everything that I already know under control, and the cause of troubles and misfortunes is something I do not know, which means that from here comes the task - to do everything possible so that the unknown to me becomes known and everything that contrary to my knowledge, must be expelled from the castle forever."

Without interruption, not for a second, the thought closely followed everyone who entered and left the castle. I found out what consequences it can lead to. In everyone who came under the castle walls, the thought saw a potential security threat. That which with such difficulty was created by thought during the years of its reign, all this, overnight, could be destroyed by a new and unknown to it. One single mistake could cost the castle and its inhabitants dearly. So thought thought.

Automatism

Thought constantly issued decrees and attached to them detailed explanations regarding the work of the inhabitants of the castle, which was repeated from day to day. Guard duty, street cleaning, construction work, food and clothing making. All everyday actions were to be described in detail and followed exactly. The decrees greatly simplified the life of the thought-ruler and freed up a lot of valuable time for its pursuit of more essential things. After all, no matter how hard the steward tried, all activities could be ordered in advance.

Limitation

To recognize a security threat, thoughts had to be on the spot, meeting an unknown person face to face. Her experience, more often than not, was enough. But this, for her reasons, was not enough to foresee the emergence of threats. To know in advance about the appearance of alarming signals was what the thought was trying to achieve.

For such a task, personal experience was clearly not enough. Everything that was at the disposal of thought was needed for the solution. The very thought had only memories of events that took place within the boundaries of the castle and stories of those who came under its walls.

The fact is that the ruler of the castle had one significant weakness, which she preferred not to talk about, fearing for her own power and authority. Thought was not able to leave the castle, it was beyond her power. She moved freely within the castle walls, but going out of the gates, into the unknown - it was beyond her strength and capabilities. The thought has long understood that it was born in the castle and here it is to die.

With little knowledge of the world surrounding the castle, the thought was in dire need of external information. This need made her gullible for all kinds of stories and storytellers coming from the outside world. The thought was ready to listen to stories for hours and believe everything that did not contradict the knowledge that it had already accumulated.

Time

With envy, the thought looked in the back of the wanderers leaving the castle. After all, the outside world awaits them ahead, which they can see with their own eyes, touch with their hands, hear the smell, taste. All that thought was deprived of. Aware of her weakness, she built a vault in the most fortified place of the city and placed in it all her personal memories, as well as the stories of alien wanderers, whom she believed as herself.

This storage was called in the city by a well-known name - memory. The ingenious invention of thought allowed her to turn to memory services whenever she needed to answer a security question. With a similar need, thought sent a request to the memory archive about the existence of similar situations and cases that occurred earlier.

Over time, next to the archive-memory, it was necessary to build another building, given to astrologers and fortune-tellers. There, the thought placed its predictions about the events that it expected not now, but with the passage of time. The future - this is the name of this strange time and, at the same time, the astrological building. Later, both buildings were merged into one. For the convenience of archival workers of memory and astrologers-predictors of the future. So it was more convenient for them to carry archive folders and forecasts to each other.

Hope and Faith

Soon, the tower of the future was overgrown, in a circle, with countless buildings. Day and night, dreams, hopes and faiths wandered around there. All of them awaited the onset of their finest hour, when they would be fulfilled, and, with honor, were invited to the building of the future.

Thought considered them idlers. All they could do was wait. This greatly offended those who were waiting and they formed their own union, calling it "waiting." The union was obliged to protect their interests. Explain thoughts of the appropriateness of expectation and explain that this is hard and honorable work. In the end, reluctantly, the thought was forced to agree to such a neighborhood, occasionally organizing round-ups on the most presumptuous and lost all conscience of the members of the community who were waiting. Although this was of little use, they returned from exile and took over the old.

The quarter with the past and the future, which thought was so proud of and spent most of its time, in the castle was called "time". And, so as not to be confused with real time, calculated by the change of day and night, they called it psychological time, to which none of the townspeople, except for thought, had access.

Performance

A large economy of thought - the ruler, who was unable to leave the castle, helped to support the ministers - the presentation. It was a forced measure of thought. Outside the castle walls, thought was surrounded by life that it needed to get an idea of, albeit from the words of others.

Not being able to independently form their own idea of the world around them, the thought was forced to establish a council of ministers of the castle. In her council, she selected representatives from among its inhabitants and foreigners personally verified by her. Each of the representations - ministers, had knowledge of a specific thing and the phenomenon of the world surrounding the castle. Each of the ministers had his own judgment about his subject and was considered an adviser of thought in this matter.

As a result, there were so many performances that they had to build, on the main square of the city, a luxurious multi-storey building with a huge meeting room. The building was adjacent to the psychological time block in order to speed up the moment of decision-making. Each time, the thought consulted with certain advisers - ideas before acting. The meetings of ministers and thoughts, now, there was no end. The council was charged with the responsibility to form a joint view of future events, guided by the known from the past, and to identify the unknown, before it was admitted to the castle, as a threat or opportunity for the castle.

Having created ideas about the world and time, the thought sighed with relief. She decided, as it seemed to her, her main task - to know everything about the world! And, therefore, to ensure complete safety from threats from the unknown.

The weakness of the concepts was in the simplicity and incompleteness of what they knew. Most of them, who puffed up their cheeks from realizing the magnitude of their own knowledge about the subject, found themselves in a difficult situation when checked by reality. But they were in no hurry to admit it. On the contrary, the experts unanimously asserted, pointing to the unknown - this is heresy. That which contradicts the existing ideas. Although, further verification by reality, invariably revealed the fact that the adviser knew not everything about his own subject, but only a small part.

Thought, was forced to constantly purge the ministers and send them to study, so that they gain more knowledge. It cost a lot of work. Since each of them resisted the fact of their own ignorance to the last, preferring to study the protection and strengthening of what is already known, or even an aggressive attack.

What a ruler, such are ministers.

Inevitability

Such was the life of the castle and its inhabitants, governed by thought. Outwardly, it could be called flawless if this were the case, in fact. The thought that created the council of ministers - representations and the system of psychological time serving the memory that shapes the future - was aware of its powerlessness and defenselessness in the face of the present unknown.

The ruler, looking for security guarantees in everything, was horrified in the face of an unknown person who, from time to time, came to her castle. The unknown unhindered stepped over the high castle walls and numerous guards. It appeared at the most unexpected moment and dealt a devastating blow to future expectations of absolute security. Neither thought itself, nor its ministers, nor the apparatus of the time, frankly speaking, could foresee what awaits the castle even in the next minute. At the moment when the formidable unknown, nevertheless, will come.

All the tricks of thought turned out to be useless in the face of the inevitable. This fact was confirmed by numerous proofs from the history of the castle. The worst thing is that the inhabitants of the castle knew about the powerlessness of thought, before the inevitable, and those who came to it, most likely, guessed.

And then, the thought acted brilliantly, as it seemed to her. She created a Higher Power. On this higher power, she blamed for everything that happened in the castle and did not fit into the official picture of the expected future. The inhabitants of the castle, guessing about their defenselessness, were asked, in order to avoid mass riots, to consider everything accidental, unknown, unknown and threatening - the result of their own actions. For which, she, thought, does not bear any responsibility.

And in order to consolidate and consolidate their power and position, the inhabitants were promised, of course on behalf of the Higher Power, that their good deeds will be taken into account in the future. The promise, under oath, was confirmed by all employees of the management of the future. Thus, thought, and moved away from threatening consequences and got rid of their own doubts and self-criticism regarding the real quality of their own knowledge.

Having no idea what kind of power this is? Tired of giving her names, at every new security crisis, a higher power, by city decree, was declared: unknowable, unmanageable and without a name. It was immediately said that a higher power acts in relation to the inhabitants of the castle solely from good intentions and let them not be confused by misfortunes falling on their heads. This is the way in which power shows its highest favor to them. The order was sealed with the castle seal with the coat of arms and announced publicly, in all areas of the fortress.

The ingenious idea of a higher power, further strengthened the power and authority of thought in the eyes of the inhabitants of the castle. Now, most of them were even afraid to think about what would happen to them if, if not bring the Higher Power, the thought got sick or dies. The cult of the personality of thought, so, the most fearless free-thinkers called the position of the castle community. Secretly. In the kitchens. In conversations with each other.

The very thought, having strengthened and consolidated its own position, was subject to a fatal illness, which, like the inability to go beyond the castle walls, was kept in the strictest confidence. This disease was all the more strange when you consider the tremendous efficiency of thought - the manager. The more there were ministers - representations, the larger the archive of memory became, the longer the conferences lasted, the longer the clarifications, the more the thought took possession of an illness - fear.

Fear, before the threats of the new, which were predicted by ministers - representations. Messages from memory archives. Predictions from the future. The thought was numb before fear, longingly recalling the time when she was still young and young, when she had no ideas and predictions and she made decisions instantly, at her own peril and risk.

At times, she almost dared to get rid of all these ministers and predictions with memories, if not for one thing. Thought remembered well what had enabled her to occupy her present high position in the castle.

The fact is that the history of the creation of the castle was nothing more than a fantasy. A dummy for its inhabitants. There was, in the history of the castle, a period unknown to its inhabitants. At least the thought did its best to forget about him. For this, she hid, in the archive of memory, all references to him.

In ancient times, the castle was not a castle at all. It was a flourishing city devoid of walls and guards. A city that joyfully greeted everyone who came. Its inhabitants communicated freely and moved around the world. Then, in the free city, there was another ruler - the mind. He was not a ruler, but the laws created by him did not need to be protected and supported by force and fear.

It seemed that the mind was in all places in the world at the same time. He knew everything about the world, and the whole world knew him, willingly following the laws of reason. But the mind’s view of safety was different from the mind’s view of the ruler. Thought, in those days, was in charge of the economy of the city. Guided, together with all, the laws of reason. Thoughts were not clear on what basis these laws were built, why they should be considered reasonable, and most importantly … the thought was horrified by the statements of reason regarding the safety of their city:

- Understand, - I listened to the thought, the arguments of reason, - your idea of security comes from the fact that you and your city are the most important in the world. For the sake of security, you are ready to sacrifice everything beyond its borders. At the moment when you are in danger, you are able to sacrifice everything in order to save yourself. This is your nature. You are not able to see the world in all its manifestations. Your ideas about him are false. They are due to your limited position and are built on the separation of yourself and the rest of the world. This is wrong. Illusion. You are part of the world.

- Our city can disappear at any moment. This is not as tragedy as you imagine. You just do not see further than the walls of the last buildings of the city. You will not understand that the world is endless and every death is birth.

- As long as you are doing what is for the benefit of your free city and the whole world. But give you more power and the city will not be the same again. Freedom and peace will leave him.

At that very moment, listening to the arguments of reason, the thought was horrified by the very thought of her possible death, about which she knew nothing. At that moment, her plan was born to remove the mind from the management of the city. From conversations with the mind, she learned one thing - he will not take care of safety as much as she herself can.

Thought made the plan come true. She created the future and the past, in which she fenced off from the mind. And with her ideas about the world, she replaced it, which remained behind the high stone walls of the castle.

From that moment on, thought and the castle controlled by it ceased to live in reality. The mind, whose wrath thought so feared, remained outside the castle gates, never making an attempt to enter it again. So thought thought.

Although, over the years, she became more and more strengthened in the fact that he never went anywhere, that he was all this time, he was in the castle, leaving the thought to decide for itself when she should return everything to its place.