sometimes highly intelligent people become stuck in mental (logical or emotional ) structures (obsessive compulsive fixations)
a crude example of a logic trap is Rothko’s basilisk
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
more complex thought traps are sometimes called “world views” or “belief systems;” materialism/Marxism is a very effective one. Once the premise “all value comes from labor” is accepted then the adherent interprets everything, explains every active force, every principle in the environment in terms of the system.
A lot of our knowledge is of the "thought trap" nature.
A re understanding of the relationship between abstract and material reality is overdue.
We think of the imagination as not real – "imaginary" things are unreal, they’re “fantasy” in materialist terms.
Other cultures think differently.
The Mundus Imaginalis is what the Persians call imagination, and it is recognized as the place where the abstract and immaterial intersect and influence our 3D material reality. The Mundus Imaginalis is a place between the real and not real.
We imagine the structure of benzene, an internal combustion engine, or the principals of computation.
That’s not unnatural, or artificial – our thoughts are how God acts through us.
The human mind, specifically the imaginative capacity, is the source of all wealth, grace and light. Everything human civilization achieved or will achieve is the produce of the imagination. Does that sound like a place that doesn't exist?
Materialism is only one of the traps installed, but to understand the others we must first understand that all wealth comes from mind, and that we have been conditioned to think in a way that is calculated to block that realization.
Boum, Bohm, Boom.