Have you ever made decision based on your gut, and your mind never really signed on, but your mind was wrong? I call this 'the second mind', and I don't mean the often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts ;-) To me, this the observant, contemplating mind that underlies - perhaps, overlies - the frenetic, anxious mind, which simply cannot attain enough distance from the noise to be sound. The notion of 'the observer' and 'the observed' is already a well known concept in Eastern Philosophy, so this is not an original idea, but, perhaps, an original observation that these 'gut-over-mind' decisions may very well be the only encounter we have with our 'observer selves' - at the very least, those of us who are trapped in the ever-present 'thick of thin things'. Thus, it might be a good idea to muse over these kinds of decisions a bit, and figure out how to connect with this 'second mind' more often. I sure as fuck haven't been able to.
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