Hiisifits Commentary

Sometimes it is best to not know. While writing Hiisi fits I first employed concepts of psychology to explain the insidiousness of a sociopath with multiple personality disorders. Each time I would re-read what I had written it fell sorely short on what I learned of Mika’s character. On the fourth attempt I chose to relate the character through myth and only then, according to Anna, did it begin to portray the true character. I dared not get any closer to the complexes that operated in Mika for to truly Know the mental functions of the individual one must be able to think like them and to think like them, even for a short time, one is at risk of falling into the depths of madness. One must lose love and compassion as well as reason to enter that space. First of all it is an impossible task for a normal functional person. Normal, because that is difficult to define, I mean fully functioning emotion, sensation, thought and intuition because we cannot step into that space where there is an absence of these characteristics. Secondly, if it were possible to enter the madness of such a mind, one would be forever altered to some degree and perhaps there would be no return. Kaleo advises, “Do not seek to know, seek only for intellectual knowledge and listen to intuition. We must be satisfied with this understanding.”

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