The last program I want to mention is the one which happens most frequently in schizophrenia: exchanging the primary process (like the victim) for the secondary process (like Jesus, the healer), dropping the metacommunicator who, like most censors, may be too rigid to let this altered state happen, and experiencing what the outside world calls a ‘psychotic episode.’ This flip has much in common with the processes of suicidal fantasies, channel blocking, channel switching and accessing secondary processes. Why nature prefers one method over another will be discussed in the next chapter. For the moment, we need to remember that the same process of flipping which creates the episode is the process which can reverse it, and that one of the. many functions of flipping is to avoid pain and to allow secondary processes to come up. We need to remember that belonging to the ‘grower’s club’ means suffering the conflict between the primary and secondary processes and experiencing the pain and conflict which happens when the one begins to transform the other. Nature has provided us with many organic methods of avoiding pain and confrontations between the primary and secondary systems. If we do not learn to follow these processes, then nature does it for us by producing experiences such as schizophrenia and epilepsy. We see how these may be avoided in certain cases through following the individual processes of pain avoidance with expertise and appreciation.
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SCHIZOPHRENIA AND ALTERED STATES: FLIPPINGThe last program I want to mention is the one which happens most frequently in schizophrenia: exchanging the primary process (like the victim) for the secondary process (like Jesus, the healer), dropping the metacommunicator who, like most censors, may be too rigid to let this altered state happen, and experiencing what the outside world calls a ‘psychotic episode.’ This flip has much in common with the processes of suicidal fantasies, channel blocking, channel switching and accessing secondary processes. Why nature prefers one method over another will be discussed in the next chapter. For the moment, we need to remember that the same process of flipping which creates the episode is the process which can reverse it, and that one of the. many functions of flipping is to avoid pain and to allow secondary processes to come up. We need to remember that belonging to the ‘grower’s club’ means suffering the conflict between the primary and secondary processes and experiencing the pain and conflict which happens when the one begins to transform the other. Nature has provided us with many organic methods of avoiding pain and confrontations between the primary and secondary systems. If we do not learn to follow these processes, then nature does it for us by producing experiences such as schizophrenia and epilepsy. We see how these may be avoided in certain cases through following the individual processes of pain avoidance with expertise and appreciation.*67\227\8*
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