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(Misemotion means an emotion or emotional reaction that is inappropriate to the present time situation.) Pain, misemotion, unconsciousness, insanity—all result from causing things others could not experience easily. The reach–withhold phenomenon is the basis of all these things. When one sought to reach in such a way as to make it impossible for another to experience, one did not reach, then, did he? To “reach” with a gun against a person who is unwilling to be shot is not to reach the person, but a protest. All bad reaches never reached. So there was no communication, and the end result was a withhold by the person reaching. This reach–withhold became at last, an inability to reach—therefore, low communication, low reality, low affinity.
Communication is one means of reaching others. So, if one is unable to reach, one’s ability to communicate will be low; and reality will be low, because if one is unable to communicate, he won’t really get to know about others; and with knowing little or nothing about others, one doesn’t have any feeling about them either, thus one’s affinity will be low. Affinity, reality and communication work together; and if one of these three is high, the other two will be also; but if one is low, so will the others be low.
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