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26. The Chronic Emotional Syndrome (Female)

The identification and alleviation of CES

Logic itself is the only thing I know about that doesn't require any proof. Just demonstrate logic and it is understood. Once you demonstrate to a human that an object is here and not there, he gets it. This is true for any age (beyond infancy), any language, and any environment; demonstrate it and humans understand it. All logic is that way: inherent.

The informal use of logic, to state the obvious, enhances our fun & games. To win her learn-to-tie-a-shoelace-game, Susie has to reason it out. Once learned, she gets the emotional kick of success, and she goes reasoning on to her next game. I think the capacity and ability to use logical reasoning also proves our Spiritual nature. That ability certainly doesn't originate with our Bodies; bodies with their survival-Minds don't need, and hardly use, logic at all. That leaves the only other part of the Spirit/Human 'sandwich', one's Spirit. (See Guide-Definitions) Ergo, reasoning is spiritual stuff.

Please consider the probability of this idea: I say being free of a survival-Mind and hanging out with my friends in Heaven permits only high-toned emotions (from simple contentment to rapture/ecstasy) and reasoning to exist. What do you think? I say only good feelings and reason describe completely all heavenly activities. You don't have to use your reasoning ability, it would seem to me, not even in Heaven. You would still be a free-choosing part of God and you could, presumably, stay blissed-out and enjoying wonderful emotions. However, to expand your spiritual viewpoint you would have to reason, alone or with your heavenly buddies. Anyone's reasoning capacity, in heaven or anywhere else, is limited by one's storehouse of experience. Even comparing feelings and emotions needs the experience of those feelings and emotions. And so you might want to set up for more Life experience(s), maybe even here again on Earth. (This rosy scenario is an absolutely logical deduction, dear friends, because: God is everything-->You exist-->You are a 'part of God'.)

Below are some uni-sex practices that will help to dissipate CES because our Body-Mind, the source of it, is put into the background. They work because of who/what you are (See chapters 10 and 13).

Focus on what you are doing. It doesn't matter what you are doing from making a bed to brain surgery, to playing soccer or Hamlet, just focus completely on the task at hand.
Meditate, either formally or otherwise.
Amuse yourself with a bit of casual reasoning. Mentally calculating sums, driving a vehicle, sailing, and preparing a meal are my favorites.
Decide to do something and do it. Deciding to do anything and then doing it automatically lifts one's spirits. My all time favorite decision is to take a shower: bathing stimulates the skin, brings you back to present time and you get the bonus of a clean body.
Take a short nap.
Take a short walk and look upwards at trees, clouds, the tops of houses, etc. (See Chapter 43)
Write down your fear-producing thoughts.

My wife insists that I better put in somewhere that I admire the opposite sex. I do. (I thought it was obvious) Please, opposite sex, consider me a sincere admirer of you all. Just having the capacity to bring a new life into existence must be absolutely intoxicating. And actually having and nursing a baby is an experience only women can have. No man can do this and, in truth, I have (especially as an artist) long envied women their capacity to produce such internal bliss.

But reproduction, birth, and nursing don't seem, to me, to require a great deal of logical analysis (while rearing a child, whenever that begins, most certainly does) and is, in my opinion, how the CES (F) originates. Using logic dissipates CES. Young girls, because they have 'the nurturing gene', usually relinquish their (slight) logical edge over boys around puberty. Boys tend to keep practicing their reasoning and tend to be more comfortable using it. (See Guide - Chap XI) but there's no magic or mystery involved: practice is all that it takes. Any activity that requires reasoning (any sport, especially team sport, any game, especially no-luck games like chess, checkers) promotes and makes comfortable the use of logical analysis.

Since there is no earthly certainty, reasoning out probabilities is how we go about our fun & games. Reasoning in an emotional state is almost impossible and becomes tough indeed when you're morose, angry, giggling or dreamily blissful. (In all competitive games a classic winning technique is to get your opponent emotionally upset.) But reasoning is the only way one can appreciate what's under your nose as well as the joyful bigger picture. Both sexes have CESs' (viz. the testosterone madness of men) but I think that just by recognizing it humans can almost eliminate it. (See Guide-Chap XI)

One important reasoning device to evaluate probabilities (since there is no certainty) is something called logical extension (or logical deduction). Logical extension means, because something is known, something else can be known. One can extend out one's knowledge from something already known but only if you agree with the premises. "God is everything, we exist, ergo we are part of God" is an example of logical deduction. The rules are: if you agree with the major premise and if you agree with the minor premise then the conclusion must follow.

Take the statements: All men are mortal-->Aristotle is a man--> Aristotle is mortal. Analysis: Are men mortal? Agreed. Is Aristotle a man? Agreed. Ergo, Aristotle is mortal. Notice that the conclusion follows in a direct sequence; it is a sequitur, (Latin: 'in sequence'). Because the major premise is agreed to be true and the next step, the minor premise is agreed to be true, then you must agree that the conclusion is true. You can now logically say, "Aristotle is mortal" and leave out the middle part, the minor premise. Again, we are evaluating what is probable, not what is certain.

Take the statements: Is Sam fat?-->Does fatness come from eating -->Sam over eats. Analysis: Is Sam fat? Agreed. Does fatness (probably) come from eating? Agreed. Ergo, Sam (probably) overeats. You can now logically say, "Sam (probably) overeats" and leave out the middle part.

Women seem to shy away from this kind of reasoning by not agreeing with the minor premise. They want to substitute 'he is unhappy', 'he has a glandular disorder', 'he takes 'fat producing medications, 'he eats the wrong food', etc., all of which might be connected but they are not as probable and are not as directly connected. (They are 'non-sequiturs'). Funny non-sequiturs are a mainstay of comedy routines and I love 'em, i.e., buying a car in Europe to drive to America. Continually using non-sequiturs just ain't funny and yet women fight fiercely for the right to use them, be illogical, and remain emotional. Why? I think what they are trying to do is protect their necessary non-thinking time. I think they overly fear some male moron's totally illogical criticism of that short time when they must be overly emotional. What other reason could explain the eternal and worldwide conclusion, by both sexes, that women are too emotional? (Most American women today will not vote for a female President.)

When a woman is anywhere near her childbearing time any sane man will forgive her all kinds of emotional judgments. They recognize the seriousness of the situation, i.e., the future of a Life is at hand. When a woman hangs on to this identity past when it is appropriate (5 plus months?) or when it's not appropriate at all, i.e., past the childbearing age, or in all other arenas of activity, everyone loses. There is no charm or attractiveness in being overly emotional; it is lovingly supported when it must be supported. But much joy goes unrealized when this happens.

What is this joy? It's the joy that comes from meaningful communication that can (and should) flow from peers that love/like each other. And only in the area of reasoning can the sexes communicate equally and meaningfully. Only with reasonable communication can the ordinary problems of everyday living be shared and solved, as well as the major problems of our world. Those communications can minimize, maybe even extinguish the aching loneliness that is part of being a totally unique human. (I like my uniqueness, love it to pieces, but being ignored, depreciated or 'tolerated' by women because I tend to think logically is a net loss for me and for them.)

Women are, thank God, now successful everywhere. They 'arrived' solely because of their inherent reasoning ability not because they are women. Happy successful women are everywhere because they slowed down their CES and speeded up their ability and judgment. Their numbers will increase as it becomes obvious that logical women, devoid of their CES, are admired by both sexes. Please remember, opposite sex, the original Feminists (not the NOW variety) had the life long support, admiration and love from their husbands and male friends too. There is, plainly stated, a great yearning by men for women to increase their reasonable thinking.

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