(Psychological Paradoxes & Puzzles — 9)

A Paradox regarding Thinking, Depression, & Cheerfulness

A Psychological Angle on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

muirMrs. Muir and her ghost (public domain)

Halloween season is here, and T.V. stations are playing films they feel are relevant to this season which includes films about ghosts. There are a number of romances involving ghosts, and one that stands out for its romantic appeal and not for its ability to frighten is the 1947 classic, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Longer Observation (21): Deep Cures: Traditional wisdom says that the Lord heals, not doctors. In our times, when medicine is charging ahead recording remarkable successes in its crusade against suffering, is there any place for this old wisdom? In discussing this question I will be focusing on psychological suffering.

 

Psychological Exercise 6: The Whole Picture

This is an exercise to demonstrate "the Whole Picture" with respect to perception of colors and to feelings and moods.

The last few pages contain the "punch line" or the "moral" of the exercise.

Each of the next 25 pages will contain an image of a color such as this

 

and also a multiple choice question.

You may choose more than one answer for each.

In some cases, no answer may fit perfectly.

Please feel free to come up with your own answers. That is, please don't feel limited by the choices.

There are 29 pages (including this one), and, for the full effect of the exercise, it is necessary to go in order and not skip ahead, especially not to the end.

These questions are not meant as a quiz or test, so there are no ratings as to right or wrong, correct or incorrect or even a place to record your answers.

The questions are meant only to stimulate self-exploration and thought about the meaning and place of good and bad feelings. 

Short idea (202): It is not necessary to have a philosophy of fear, anxiety, depression, and terror, but it is necessary to have a philosophy of the place of fear, anxiety, depression, and terror.

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