Without self-observation we don't necessarily ever become aware of the bases of our moods and personality. It is taken as a given that we just are, or must just accept, whatever our mood happens to be.
Just a small amount of everyday electricity can be fatal. Yet people survive being directly struck by lightning which is unfathomably more powerful. Energy is deeply mysterious.
With self-observation you see how mechanical thoughts and feelings are. That they just happen and are so changing and fleeting, like gusts of wind. Like for most of the day the mind's a receiver like a radio. Except for moments of flashing insight, self-awareness and silence.
It's so weird how scents and flavours which artificially mimic natural ones can be synthesised from petroleum. We might not know what this oil actually is, it might not be biotic waste. Bizarre how our world runs off the refining of this toxic, kind of foul earth secretion.
Apparently some artists who have suffered right-brain damage have lost their ability to depict full shapes and forms. One artist could not draw an entire clover leaf. Instead he drew the three leaves of the clover next to each other.
From Colin Wilson's book Super Consciousness
Intuitive certainty, when one immediately knows a thing, implies there are levels to the mind, and some are outside space/time. People have insights in peak experiences or drug trips and afterwards can't explain them since they no longer have the consciousness which received them
If a mere drug can induce radically altered perceptions and moods why can't sheer Will? Passivity is subconsciously accepted. Moods and emotions can be made or at least fought for. And why should there be any principle limit to the heights of natural highs and positive emotion.
Esotericism says the noisiness of the mind decreases energy and disables or blocks other cognitions. Ones more associated with intuitive and inspirational thinking.
This is probably what loosh farming actually looks like. Subtle technology which can harvest human energy, and entities influencing people to give off desired emotional emanations. There are stories of even non-clairvoyants being able to see reptilian entities shadowing people.
Eve Lorgen interviewed a clairvoyant who saw a reptilian entity shadowing and taking over her husband during sex. Clairvoyantly she saw a sex worker passed on the entity. She drew her visions of the strip club, which was connected to a craft, cords and interdimensional technology
Just doing things instead of waiting for the right mental state. It can actually be easier to change one's behaviour or what one does before changing one's mind. Since willpower and mind, which is really just a noise that keeps us below thresholds of energy, are different.
Things going wrong makes us appreciate ordinariness, and in turn ordinariness makes us take everything for granted. So easily the mind becomes alienated from the present in states of passivity, without constantly remembering the immensity of every moment.
The subconscious knows the language of awareness. This is why negative thought loops can so easily arise, when bad thoughts are reacted (re-act) to instead of being ignored. The mind must be like a clean, flowing river where things are allowed to pass and drift away.
Because consciousness is always being lulled into a sense of ordinariness the strangeness and incredibleness of things is always obscured by an illusory impression