[forfuckssake]

Miles? Is that you? lol

You said, "So basically, you see as you think and think as you see."

I think so. From the animated series Animatrix (Kid's Story): "There's some truth to your fiction and some fiction in your truth."

You said, "Wouldn't you like to get out of that cycle?"

I was trying to thank you for helping me see/think/realize or, at least, for helping to emphasize that I was still stuck in that cycle.

You said, "People love to hear stories... personal stories about persons... because they're afraid of the non-person, the impersonal awareness, that we truly are. They want to shield themselves from that fact with personal stories."

I saw you would write that.
You can write stories that are impersonal. I didn't say write something personal. I meant "give it some context or a different angle" to help a potential reader arrive at the impersonal. Whether the reader then misses the point and attaches their attention to the stories themselves being presented is up to them. Of course, some don't need those trimmings and just being told it's all mental masturbation is enough.

You said, "My life hasn't changed! lol!"

then in another thread quoted Don Juan:

DJ said,

"There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself."

If a reader doesn't attach their attention to what they have habituated or agreed to (while reading a book, for example) maybe they can decide to make what is being presented useful to them, if it changes the perception they have of them self and what's around them; as you have been saying, both of these are one and the same.

You could also write a book without the reader in mind. Fuck them. Do it for your own awareness. Or, as I said, don't.

You said, "You know very well that it's a matter of personal power."

I don't know anything.

"Could it be possible that I am already aware of how I am posting, and that I strategically choose to post that way to avoid the personal?"

Anything is possible.

Grateful,
forfuckssake

PS The reply to me was shorter than those to ensonar- much appreciated.