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In Picture 1, confidence is big enough for Perceiver knowing to work.
In Picture 2, confidence is weak enough for Mercy 'knowing' to operate.
In Picture 3, Perceiver thought will be uncertain about the fact.
Similarly, a fall in the overall level of
Perceiver confidence will cause the mind to
lose its ability to think rationally and will
give emotional experiences the power of
defining 'truth.' I suggest that this is the
mental mechanism responsible for panic
attacks. Both phobias and panic attacks
create similar feelings of uncertainty and
emotional inundation. However, unlike a
phobia, a panic attack is not caused by any
specific Mercy incident. Instead, it occurs
randomly, striking out of the blue. This is
because it was a drop in the overall level of
Perceiver confidence which caused the mind
to slip into the threshold of uncertainty. The
Mercy experiences did not change, but
Perceiver thought lost the ability to deal with
them.A
We looked earlier at the relationship between common sense and
mental escapism. I suggest that if today‟s entertainment continues its
present course, then panic attacks will become increasingly common in
western society. Each time we are emotionally shocked by a movie or
computer fantasy, we destroy another fragment of the Perceiver confidence

A Perceiver facts and Mercy experiences create the mental structure which

is responsible for phobias and panic attacks. However, I suggest that it is
Exhorter and Contributor thought which produce the actual behavior, and
that the drugs which are taken affect the operation of these composite
modes.

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Perceiver Mercy Unsure

Knowing 'Knowing'

THRESHOLD OF UNCERTAINTY

P M P M P M

Knowing 'Knowing'

THRESHOLD OF UNCERTAINTY

P M P M P M