“The Truth Is Out There”–The X Files<\/p>\n
“The best place to hide the truth is between two lies”–The X Files<\/p>\n
“Everybody lies”-House<\/p>\n
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The attorney says that “no one can cover all their tracks”.<\/p>\n
The attorney is pouring over a desk full of documents–pleadings, statements, and other pages.<\/p>\n
The attorney is looking for the lies.\u00a0 The attorney knows they are there.<\/p>\n
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But how do you discover lies, let alone the truth?\u00a0 And it is easier to discover lies or the truth?<\/p>\n
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I remember seeing an old British movie.\u00a0 It was black and white and had a title like “The Three Lies”.\u00a0 It was the story of a psychiatrist who dies and his three patients.\u00a0 The three patients are eager to see what is in their files.\u00a0 As if their psychiatrist’s file contained the truth about them.<\/p>\n
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I recently read a story about a young man that lied his way into Harvard.\u00a0 What was the ability he had? \u00a0What makes a good lie, a good liar?<\/p>\n
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WR Bion proposed that a lie requires a thinker, but the truth does not.<\/p>\n
Bion also proposed that Keats’ Negative Capability, “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after facts and reason”, was the road to discovering the truth.<\/p>\n
And finally Bion wrote that truth is unknowable, but it could be experienced.\u00a0 In other words, what one “knows” about the the truth is merely an approximation, if that.<\/p>\n
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But if the truth is unknowable, then facts and reason will not lead us to the truth.\u00a0 There will always be a gap.\u00a0 A caesura.\u00a0 Between an unknowable truth and what we think we “know” about the truth.<\/p>\n
And what about lies?<\/p>\n
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Perhaps what the attorney was looking for in searching for lies was the absence of any gaps.<\/p>\n
Perhaps lies can be detected because they are constructed to be without gaps–to be logical and reasonable.<\/p>\n
Perhaps our conscious minds operate to fill-in the gaps and see things as whole and continuous.\u00a0 Gestalt psychologists postulated that perceptually our minds see things as wholes.\u00a0 So when we see a tennis net we see the net, not a collection of holes joined together.<\/p>\n
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Perhaps the only way to discover and experience truth is the find the gaps.\u00a0 (At which point the patient asks, “But what will I do with the gap?”)<\/p>\n
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Dr. Brody<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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