--- In [email protected], "John M. Knapp, LMSW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In cognitive therapy attributing thoughts, feelings, and motives to > others is called "mind reading." It's considered a "cognitive > distortion." It's thought to lead to pain and > dysfunction for a lot of people.
Can you elaborate on that? Its a key point that appears to me to be a root of the negative harping that occurs here. In life also, but I find an unusually high ratio here. And are you had formal training in or involved with cognitive therapy professionally? Any thoughts on why those connected to TM and TMO past or present still have these tendencies -- and perhaps more so than average relative to the larger population? Education doesn't appear to diminish it -- surprisingly. I wonder if the feeling of knowingness brings greater gullibility and confidence that one actually cann accurately thoughts, feelings, and motives of people that they have never met, have no serious information on background etc. All from some posts. Greater than average gullibility may be a common characteristic of long termers in the TMO. I wonder if that characteristic -- if it is actually greater than "normal", contributes to that SIMS assuredness and even arrogance that one actually knows another's thoughts, feelings, and motives without knowing the person well (and even then its quite iffy). > Or do you find yourself becoming angry, even unhappy? When some are told their Kreskin like abilities to remotely read the minds of strangers is corrected by the "subject" -- anger does seem to arise -- name calling and even more mind reading -- imputing more and deeper motives or internal ills to the person.
