{'He is dying....'}[18th June 1988]

[Redbook5:173][19880618:2242c]{'He is dying....'}[18^th June 1988]

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*On the edge of (going to) sleep … I 'heard' a voice say: He is dying'. I felt that I had heard this before, recently in a similar state;** but although it caused me concern, I did not take it as necessarily applying to me, or meaning literally what it said, at the time.

I don't now think that it necessarily mean anything at all. However, there was a time – last year and/or the year before, I think – ***when images and ideas of death occurred frequently. This could, I suppose, be a 'radial resonance' of those.

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– &/or a circumferential resonance around the return Ͻ .#

The point is, of course, that at this stage anything in my own mind which tends to confirm the pattern may well do so because the mind is conforming to its own pattern simply because it has invented it, not because the pattern has any independent validity.#

*{cf I.[ref not found] 260A [Possibly [Redbook1:265A,297A-I;2:1A-1G][19730501:0000][The Wind, the Edge of the Sea, and Fusion Child][To 1st May 1973], especially the first two poems/sections, which are inserts and have been moved around as between the ms and the ts.]}

**{& [[Redbook5:164][19880617:1949]{Schizophrenia & Manic Depression (3)}[17^th June 1988]] p164fn [Presumably, the main original footnote now #***]}

***cf III{.[[Redbook3:28-30][19870326:1543j]{Recurring Image: Death and Dismemberment}[26^th March 1987] ] 28 (1986)}

****{[[Redbook5:164][19880617:1949]{Schizophrenia & Manic Depression (3)}[17^th June 1988]] 164fn [Presumably, the main original footnote now #***]}

#{Similar to the way the Mind will make other phenomena conform to its own pattern.}

[In the ms the Ͻ is curved so that the open end is more downwards.]

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