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A vacuum however is different than a hole. A hole still has *something*(air) and is not a true vacuum. It doesn't produce a force. Wallowing in a sadness puddle doesn't manifest happiness because the hole you want filled is flooded with sadness.

Courage is the force that allows a vacuum to be maintained at stronger and stronger forces. For knowledge concepts, there's a very tangible mental barrier when encountering a subject that makes you feel dumb. (Math again is a good example here.)

Being curious about something requires courage because curiosity KILLS. (I only have 6 lives left) All curiosity is curiosity about the Unknown Other and all Unknown Other's are bits and pieces of the Great Unknown Other of Death.

To be extremely curious is to seek death, to find the piece of information that shatters your world view and forms you anew.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1326993364827324416 …

This isn't always pleasant. e.g. "Wait, am *I* the asshole??" "Am *I* the one that's insane?"

Freedom is a *very* interesting thing to be curious about. Searching for it is akin to contorting your beingness into various shapes and forms trying to attract it into your life.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1331215166961188864?s=20 …

In many spiritual contexts, freedom is associated with lack of an "I". The previous painful examples of asshole/insanity realization don't "hurt" as much when there is no "I" that is linguistically stressed.

Because "Maybe I'm the asshole" feelings are manifested more easily, this leads to increased freedom. E.g. if I want to become a good pianist, first I must go through the phase of being a bad pianist and to get to that I must first manifest the "absolute idiot at piano" state.