Psycanics: A Science of Being and Life

Fatal Paradigm

The psycanically ignorant person believes that external events cause hir emotions. S/He perceives an event and then experiences an emotional charge: Event→Pain. S/He then attributes the cause of the charge to the event: Event→Pain: Cause = Event. This form of THINK is called the Fatal Paradigm.

This paradigm forces hir to the totally erroneous conclusion that s/he must control the external world = events in order to control hir emotions, to stop pain and to find happiness. This sends hir on the External Quest, the search for pain relief and happiness in the external world. As long as a person is trapped in this illusion, s/he will struggle to control external events to avoid UPS and produce MOPs, and so s/he will never achieve happiness.