Going deep

As a writer, I find that one can speak the truth about things only to the degree that one is able to break from ideology and its perspectives. For that, one needs to condition oneself to stay long and hard in what is termed (in respect of its mode of alienation from other social beings) the paranoid-schizoid position. This is like conditioning oneself for deep diving, by the practice of holding one's breath for longer and longer periods of time. After a while, one can dive for up to four minutes, going deep, without the sensation of panicking. There one finds that peace that enables one to hold to one's own truths, indifferent or just seemingly oblivious to the pressures of others.