Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. It does not require many words to speak the truth. Stimuli are events, sights, sounds, smells, movements, which put in motion processes of sensation and perception. Stimuli set off (neural) impulses. These impulses have effects. By effect what we mean is the activation of other (neural) impulses—usually more central ones in language we have used so far, that is further away from the original stimulus. By “classification” we mean a process by which an event has the same effect whenever it occurs. Events which produce the same effects belong to the same classes. For instance, o activates x; o belongs to the class x. And if o and p activate x; they belong to the class x. Any impulse, therefore, which activates a subsequent impulse X thus belongs to class X. Some of these impulses may also activate a subsequent impulse Y—in that case they belong to class Y as well as class X. This can be further complicated in many ways. For instance, not only may each individual event belong to more than one class, but is may also contribute to produce different effects if (and only if) it occurs in combination with certain other events. #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

The connection we are here looking at could be of cell-assemblies or phase-sequences or phase-cycles. These can build up into concepts. And concepts are classifying processes, classes for short. So we can write the o is part of the class (that is, the concept) X or that o is part of both the class (the concept) X and the class (the concept) Y. A logician and neurophysiologist would arrive at exactly the same position. The transmission of impulses from neuron to neuron within the central nervous system, which is conceived as constituting the apparatus of classification, may either take place between different neurons carrying primary impulses, or between such neurons and other (“internuncial”) neurons which are not directly connected with receptor organs. In the former instance, the same event may occur either as the primary object of classification or as a “symbol” classifying some other primary impulse. All impulses, whether primary or secondary, are likely to be subject to further classification, and therefore appear both as instruments and as objects of classification. For instance, a, b, c are objections of classification. D is the instrument of classification. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

Picture D as being a point, like the Sun and a, b, c, being planets that receive light from D, making D like a nucleus. D stands for a, b, c. D is a symbol for a, b, c. If we incorporate D with other galaxies, when can then make D an object and instrument of classification because D is now drawing energy from a source greater or equal to itself, but a, b, and c, are only drawing energy from D. Now, a, b, c contributes to concept D, and D contributes to the higher-order concept J. So stimuli (in the external World) set off impulses, and because the patterns of stimuli affect the patterns of impulses, a subtle classification-system comes into being, with many connections and interconnections. The network of these connections will reproduce a sort of record of the past associations which any particular stimuli have had with other stimuli acting on the organism at the same time. The word classification scarcely conveys an adequate idea of the almost infinite wealth of variety and graduation of the discriminations which can be performed by this apparatus. Since it is not merely a question of a particular impulse either belonging or not belonging to a particular class, but also of its belonging to more or less strongly, it would be more appropriate to describe these complex processes by some such term as evaluation. #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

And so we have arrived by a new route at the idea of central dominance. The gradual evolution of the mental order involves thus a gradual approximation to the order which in the external World exists between stimuli evoking the impulses which represent them in the central nervous system. In discussing the relationship between a network of connexions and the structure of external events which it can be said to reproduce, it will be useful sometimes to employ the simile of the map which, in a somewhat analogous manner, reproduces some of the relations which exist in certain parts of the physical World. This map reflects the relationship between various events in the external World, relationships which the linkage gradually produce in the higher nervous centres. The map consists of connections between concepts. It must not be thought of as flat and two-dimensional like a geography map, however; it is multi-dimensional, defining the relationships of everything to everything else. At the beginning of life there is no map; it is in process of construction from incoming experiences, all new. However, as the system becomes more and more complex, and more and more firmly established, any new events is less likely to affect the general system of interlinking concepts to any marked degree. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

We must now consider the manner in which the many impulses proceeding at any one moment can mutually influence each other. The centres at which such impulses arrive are never to be found in an inactive state. As the impulses ascend to higher and higher levels, they will be less and less likely to evoke specific responses. Increasingly their function can only be to modify behaviour in the light of the whole situation, which is represented not only by other impulses arriving simultaneously but also by the whole retained representation of the environment. Regarded from this point of view, the map will be seen as a relatively enduring structure, steering the organism in terms of past experience. The patterns of information coming in at any particular moment make a sort of representation of the environment at that moment. This representation is a model of the environment, which will enable the organism to take account of the environment at the moment. This model, which is formed at any moment by the momentarily active impulses, must not be confused with what we have called the map, the semi-permanent connexions representing not the environment of the moment but the kind of events which the organism has met during its whole past. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

The map is a representation of all that has happened to the organism. The map is timeless. Because it is composed of memories, it is a map of past experiences. Because it is a map from which the current position (the World) can be read off, it contributes to a model of the present situation. On the map there is no sense of a flow from the past to the future via now. This is a formulation of the unconscious. By providing a model of the environment as it is now, against a background of all previous information, the organism’s reactions are adjusted to those elements in the environment which are active just now. In so far as the present model and the past experiences produce attention, the map contains at least an expectation of what the future could hold. It is therefore not fanciful to call this whole organization of map and model an instrument of orientation, like a gyroscope. We all feel that we are fully at home only in one language, and we call that one our mother tongue. We may have learned a few foreign languages as well: French, Russian, Italian. However, we forget that we all speak one other language, and that is the language of dreams. This language is a remarkable one. It is a universal language that has existed in all periods of human history and in all cultures. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

The dream language of primitive humans, the dream language of Pharaoh in the Bible, the dream language of someone in Stuttgart or New York—they are all almost the same. We speak this language every night. Although we usually forget what we have dreamed and therefore think we have not dreamed at all, we do dream every single night. What are the characteristics of dream language? Its most obvious characteristic, of course, is that it is a night language, a language of sleep? It is as if we could speak French only at night and did not understand a word of it during the day. Furthermore, dream language is a symbolic language. We could say that the language makes use of visible, almost palpable things to express inner experiences in concrete form. That is just what literature does. If a writer says: “The red rose warms my heart,” no one understands that to mean that the temperature has risen. The writer is referring to a feeling, an experience, that one expresses in the form of a concrete physical process. Perhaps I can use the very example of a very interesting dream to show what I mean here. Dr. Sigmund Freud has this dream and then related it afterward. It is his dream about a herbarium and that the herbarium has a dried follow in it. That is the whole dream. Dr. Freud had some idea of what it meant. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

The flower was his wife’s favorite flower, and his wife often complained that he never gave her flowers. Then, too, the flower was in some way linked to cocaine, of which he had become aware at just about the same time that its medical uses were being discovered. The flower in the herbarium was a symbol, but it was rich in meaning. It revealed something about one of the most important aspects of Dr. Freud’s personality. Flowers are symbols of love, of pleasures of the flesh, the living. However, this flower in the herbarium is a dried one whose only remaining value is as an object of scientific scrutiny. It can be studied as an object of research but not experiences as something blossoming, living. If we look a Dr. Freud’s attitude toward love and pleasures of the flesh, we in fact find that although he made pleasures of the flesh an object of scientific study, he was in his own life a rather shy and prudish man. When he was in his early forties, he wrote to a friend once that he was surprised at how attractive he found a woman he had seen. That is just one example of Dr. Freud’s attitude toward life at an age when most men would not be the least surprised over such an occurrence. #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

 Thus, in this little symbol of a dried flower, a symbol that can be sketched in just a few words, we find clues to Dr. Freud’s character that would oblige us to fill many pages if we were to attempt to spell out in detail everything that was implicit in the symbolic language of that brief dream. Another important quality of dream language is that we know more about other people and ourselves when we are dreaming than we do when we are awake. We may be more irrational in our dreams—and I will be coming back to this point later—but in a certain sense we are much wiser, much more perceptive. The example of Dr. Freud’s dream shows this, too. As we know from Dr. Freud’s own analysis of his dream, he was hardly aware of the aspect of his character that the dream reveals. However, in this dream he could clearly recognize his equivocal attitude toward that the dream symbolized. Related to this aspect of dream language is still another feature that most discussions of dreaming do not adequately acknowledge. Most people (I say “most people,” but we have no stastics on this, so perhaps I should be more cautious and just say “many people” or, better still, “most of the people I have seen in my practice as a psychanalyst”) are creative in their dreams to an extent they never would have thought possible in their waking lives. #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

In their dreams people who, when awake, would never mange to do anything of the sort, not even with the greatest effort, become creators of stories, poems, myths. I do not know how many dreams I have heard that could be published word for word and that would give many a short story by Kafka a run for its money. And yet when that same individual is awake one would look at you as if you were mad if you were to say to one, “Well, now, write me a short story in Kafka’s style.” In fact one would be unable to write such a story. However, in one’s dreams one is a poet, an artist, this same person who has no artistic capabilities at all when one is awake. To sate my point in extreme form, we could say that a creative artist is someone who is creative even though one is awake. During the day we live in the context of a given culture. What we say in the daytime depends to a large extent on where we were born. It is obvious that an African who is a member of a hunting tribe will speak about other things and make use of other terms than we do. What we say is partially determined by our society. However, in our dreams we speak a universal language. Our daytime language, whether our mother tongue or a foreign one, is always a socially determined language. Dream language, however, is a universal language, the language of all humankind. #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

What is the explanation for this capability? Let me begin with something that may seem complex but is actually quite simple: the difference between waking and sleeping. We spend our lives in two modes of existence that we take so much for granted that we are often not even conscious of them. We spend part of our time awake and part of it asleep. What does it mean, though, to say we are awake? When we are awake we are in a state that requires us to tend to our lives. We have to work, we have to acquire the things we need to live; we have to defend ourselves against attacks; in short, we are absorbed in the struggle for existence. And that struggle influences what we do and what we think. It influences what we do because we have to conform. We have to behave the way society expects us to behave so that we can produce, so that we can work. However, more important still, this struggle strongly influences our feelings and the categories in which we think. During the day we look at things the way we have to look at them to manipulate them, use them, make something out of them. We have to behave reasonably, and “reasonably” means the way other people do, so that they will understand us but also will like us and not think: That is a totally eccentric or insane person. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

We think and feel what “common sense” and so-called ordinary human decency tells us we should think and feel. We all think and feel that we love our parents, that they and all other authorities not only want the best for us but also know and do what is best, and so on. We feel happy or cheerful when the occasion demands, or if the occasion demands the opposite, we feel sad. In reality, we may not feel anything at all, but we think we do simply because we have assumed an appropriately happy or sad expression. And we do not think what strikes us as absurd because we assume that things that ought not to exist do not exist. Anderson’s fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes illustrates that principle beautifully. The emperor is naked, but all the adults think he has gorgeous clothes on because that is what they expect. Only the little boy, whose thinking has not yet been pressed into the mold of most adults’ daytime minds, can see that the emperor is not wearing any clothes at all. When we are awake, we do, feel, and think what others expect of us. Do you view God as an ogre who has set before you an impossible code of conduct you cannot keep or do you view Him as your divine Heavenly Father who has accepted you and loves you on the basis of the merit of Christ? #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

In other words, in terms of your acceptance with God, are you willing to rely solely on the finished perfect work of Jesus, instead of your own pitifully imperfect performance? There probably is no other passage of Scripture that suggests more starkly the contrast between living by grace and living by works than does Romans 7.6. Paul intended the contrast between serving in the new way of the Spirit and the old way of the written code to represent the contrast between the believer and the unbeliever. All believers have died to the law, whether we recognize it or not. However, the sad fact is, many believers do not recognize it or are unwilling to accept it because, to them, it seems to good to be true. All too often we who are believers living in the realm of grace, live out our daily lives as if we were still living under the bondage of the law. And to the extent we live that way, we are still serving the old way of the written code and not in the new way of the Spirit. I am convinced that the sinful nature still present within every believer tends toward a legalistic spirit as much as it tends toward sin. The sinful nature despises the righteousness that comes by faith in Jesus Christ as much as it despises the ethical righteousness that comes from obeying God’s law. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

If we are going to serve in the newness of the Spirit, we must resist the legalistic spirit of trying to “live by the law” as vigorously and persistently as we do temptations to sin. Sanctification brings about radical change, through God, in the heart of a person who trusts Jesus Christ as Saviour. It is the passing from spiritual death to spiritual life. It is the beginning of a new creation in Christ and the writing of God’s law in our hearts. It means a new relationship to the law of God and a new attitude toward it. And all this is from God. It is a gift of His grace just as surely as is the gift of justification. God does not bring us into His Kingdom then leave us on our own to grow. He continues to work in our lives to conform us more and more to the likeness of His Son. “And it came to pass that I, Nephi, spake much unto them concerning these things; yea, I spake unto them concerning the restoration of the Jews in the latter says. And I did rehearse unto them the words of Isaiah, who spake concerning the restoration of the Jews, or of the house of Israel; and after they were restored they should no more be confounded, neither should they be scattered again. And it came to pass that I did speak many words unto my brethren, that they were pacified and did humble themselves before the Lord. And it cam to pass that they did speak unto me again, saying: What meaneth this thing which our father saw in a dream? What meaneth the tree which he saw? #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

“And I said unto them: It was a representation of the tree of life. And they said unto me: What meaneth the rod of iron which our father saw, that led to the tree? And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction. Wherefore, I, Nephi, did exhort them to give heed unto the word of the Lord; yea, I did exhort them with all the energies of my soul, and with all the faculty which I possessed, that they would give heed to the word of God and remember to keep his commandments always in all things. And they said unto me: What meaneth the river of water which our father saw? And I said unto them that the water which my father saw was filthiness; and so much was his mind swallowed up in other things that he beheld not the filthiness of the water. And I said unto them that it was an awful gulf, which separated the wicked from the tree of life, and also from the saints of God. And I said unto them that it was a representation of that awful hell, which the Angel said unto me was prepared for the wicked. #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

“And I said unto them that our father also saw that justice of God did also divine the wicked from the righteous; and the brightness of thereof was like unto the brightness of a flaming fire, which ascendeth up unto God forever and ever, and hath no end. And they said unto me: Doth this thing mean the torment of the body in the days of probation, or doth it mean the final state of the soul after the death of the temporal body, or doth it speak of the things which are temporal? And it came to pass that I said unto them that it was a representation of things both temporal and spiritual; for the day should come that they must be judged of the work, yea, even the works which were done by the temporal body in their days of probation. Wherefore, if they should die in their wickedness they must be cast off also, as to the things which spiritual, which are pertaining to righteousness; wherefore, they must be brought to stand before God, to be judged of their works; and if their works have been filthiness they must needs be filthy; and if they be filthy it must needs be that they cannot dwell in the Kingdom of God; if so, the Kingdom of God must be filthy also. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

“But behold, I say unto you, the King of God is not filthy, and there cannot any unclean thing enter into the Kingdom of God; wherefore there must needs be a place of filthiness prepared for that which is filthy. And there is a place prepared, yea, even that awful hell of which I have spoken, and the devil is the preparator of it; wherefore the final state of the souls of humans is to dwell in the Kingdom of God, or to be cast out because of that justice of which I have spoken. Wherefore, the wicked are rejected from the righteous, and also from that tree of life, whose fruit is most precious and most desirable above all other fruits; yea, and it is the greatest of all the gifts of God. And thus I spake unto my brethren. Amen,” reports 1 Nephi 15.19-36. Almighty and everlasting God, have mercy on all Thy servants, and guide us according to Thy clemency into the way of everlasting salvation; that by Thy grace we may desire what pleases Thee, and with all power may perform it; through our Lord. O God, though I am allowed to approach Thee, I am not unmindful of my sins, I do not deny my guilt, I confess my wickedness, and earnestly plead forgiveness. #RandolphHarris 17 of 18

May I with Moses choose affliction rater than enjoy the pleasures of sin. Help me to place myself always under Thy guiding and guardian care, to take firmer hold of the sue covenant that binds me to Thee, to feel more of the purifying, dignifying, softening influence of the religion I profess, to have more compassion, love, pity, courtesy, to deem in an honour to be employed by Thee as an instrument in Thy hands, ready to seize every opportunity of usefulness, and willing to offer all my talents to Thy service. Thou hast done for me all things well, hast remembered, distinguished, indulged me. All my desires have not been gratified, but Thy love denied them to me when fulfilment of my wished would have proved my ruin or injury. My trails have been fewer than my sins, and when I have kissed the rod it has fallen from Thy hands. Thou hast often wiped away my tears, restored peace to my mouring heart, chastened me for my profit. All Thy work for me is perfect, and I praise Thee. O Christ, my Creator and Redeemer, Almighty Lord God, forgive all their sins to all who are joined to me by friendship or blood, and for whom I am desired to pray, or have resolved to pray—and to tall Thy faithful people. Deliver them from all evil, preserve them in all good, and bring them everlasting joy. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

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