{God at the Centre}[2nd July 1988]

[Redbook5:202][19880702:0914c]{God at the Centre}[2nd July 1988]

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*So (says the Scientist) he is exchanging one delusion for another: pushing inwards the borders of his insanity.

Well, of course, if you define insanity by restricting perception to what you yourself can perceive, as I believe some psychiatrists do, half the world will seem mad to a greater or lesser degree.

For myself, I have the ability to switch from one point of view to another, which enables me to approach problems with whichever mental tool seems most appropriate to finding a solution; and gradually I seem to be fusing these points of view into a workable synthesis. But although at times this enables me quite deliberately to experience the bleakness of a World without God** – nevertheless, my vital Uncertainty*** is centred on a fall-back position whose inner strength I have only recently begun to appreciate: when at rest, I am aware of God** at the Centre.

*[See last previous entry]

**[See next entry]

***↑ [e.g. [Redbook5:124-125][19880527:2240c]{Uncertainty[: The Presence of the Moment]}[27th May 1988];

& cf [Redbook5:126-127][19880527:2240e]{The Burden}[27th May 1988]]

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