Martin: >Nah, I often think I'm going mad/insane too, just didn't want to >admit it to the rest of the group.... ooops! *cringe* Let me know if >you want to start a mad-as-a-hatter Bardonists group ;-) Any other >takers?? Just found a phrase in an essay ("Distractions") by Aldous Huxley relating to this. He writes about "circumventing the tricks of the imbecile whom we carry about with us as a secondary personality". I guess my comment was about suddenly seeing more clearly that part in me which is dross, noice, static. Not rationalism, not passions (they still have an aim and direction), just pure (or rather, dirty) imbecilities. Stu