Thoughts as long (or short, even very short) pins stuck into “the voodoo doll of the brain”– (oneself is that which is symbolized by the brain doll)– “my brain is the doll of me” — “my brain is the doll of my body.”
Alternatively, it is the brain that is the witch doctor and the consciousness that is the doll, but it is a living doll. The witch doctor thinks it’s hurting or helping what resembles the doll, but in fact it is hurting or helping the doll.
[It is reality that is the witchdoctor, the brain that is the doll, oneself whom the witchdoctor antagonizes by these means]
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