Factor X revisited.

"Absence of the normal, presence of the abnormal" -  are my senses telling me that something is not happening which would normally be occurring, is there anything that is happening which wouldn't normally happen in this given moment?

The point of finding the 3lack 3ox is to understand why the plane flew into the mountain. The plane may have developed a fault, and the pilot was fully aware of the peril. He tried so, so hard...but the mountain was too high and the plane too low. Everyone was fighting and struggling, praying together, to keep the plane flying.

Or, perhaps the pilot chose to commit suicide, and to murder the 144 passengers and six crew (two pilots and four cabin crew members)? What could make a person do that? To enable this awful and terrifying deed he had to provide enough compelling explanations to hide Factor X. And these compelling explanations, so loud in his head have now brought him to the place where no one can stop him. 

Afterwards - the dialogue is replayed. 

The sound of the co-pilot banging on the locked, cabin door.

The passengers..

An image of the last moment forms in the investigators' minds and the many voices from the electronic and mechanical processes are added to those of the dead. The content of the 3lack 3ox is contrasted against normal. Slowly a story emerges; and within that story the investigators seek to extract Factor X; the intrusion, the disruptor, the deviation within function; the wrecking agent.

What would make someone do something so awful?

"He had set the autopilot to descend to 100 ft (30 m) and accelerated the speed of the descending aircraft several times thereafter.."[+]

I see the pilot's conscious intention as a bridge that allowed Factor X to rule the show. Psychosis is one catastrophic outcome of Factor X - oh no, I've just renamed Freud's Id! Psychosis is primal emotion, and it creates compelling explanations closer to poetry than anything else, symbols catch fire, the dead return as zombies. Thought forms materialise. The emotions are archaic and horrible, poisoned...

Exploration one.

OK, lets say that Factor X is always going to be a deeply embedded emotion related to the most primal experiences; birth, sex, death; libido and Thanatos.

What is a sub-psychotic manifestation of Factor X?

1. Desired outcome - Avoiding the presence of one's very powerful emotions..
2. Critical condition - the perpetrator dare not name or define their primal emotion.
3. What happens - their compelling explanation doesn't ring true //They will do almost anything to hide the true nature of their forbidden primal emotion.
4. Pure Freud!

Exploration two.

Factor X acts as a hot potato, as described by Fanita English.

1. Desired outcome - the powerful passer of the metaphorical potato gets a whoosh of relief and excitement if they succeed in making the victim feel the feelings that the perpetrator can't hold within himself. 
2. Critical condition - There must be an imbalance of power. 
3. What happens? -  Red-hot, feelings are passed from the more powerful, to the less powerful person. 
4. https://thecoronaborealis.blogspot.com/2025/04/bad-therapy-2.html
5. https://thecoronaborealis.blogspot.com/2025/01/factor-x-part-2-full-circle.html

Exploration three - relating to Kit's Factor X.

• Using Grof's descriptions of universal primal memories.
• I propose that Kit was experiencing BPM 1.
• POSITIVE - profound peace and a sense of belonging.
• NEGATIVE - entrapment, oppression, and existential angst.

Freud leaves the stage, Jung begins to analyse...

Kit's avoidance of emotion and image, and his remarks about Rogers and Gloria, and Good fathers, made me feel Tideland. (Terry Gilliam's film). The therapist's anima as an immature girl; extremely clever, lacking in wisdom, wilful and immature. This is reflected in the failure to treat the Shadow as an integral and valuable part of the self.

1. Desired outcome - therapist seeks release by emancipating the client via therapy from the inner, bullying parent. 
2. Client sees therapist as a kindly father - client is able to 'grow-up' and head out into the World.  Good father therapist has 'killed' bad father (this is actually a part of the client, the client's Shadow).
3. Critical condition - Client agrees to accept the therapist's theory and to reject their inner bully (visualised as their parent with a capital P).
4. Outcome - a refusal to name or explore the Factor X (primal feelings) that underlie the compelling explanation. The client has a new set of compelling explanations, but nothing has changed.

My husband?

Well he poor lamb was in BPM III - themes of conflict, struggle, and the eminent possibility of death, juxtaposed with the promise of rebirth. And I assume that once he got far enough away from our reality he was in BPM IV;  themes of resurrection, renewal, and a profound appreciation for life!

I think the big ones, the deep compelling Factor X experiences, such as 'my man of stars' and 'Eleusis' are potentially devastating and catastrophic, and transformational. Transformation can be for the good, or for worse. No guarantees! But when a person is within one of these transformational events the experience will be deeply weird, full of sparking energies, so much so it can manifest as poltergeists and odd, odd, twists of fate. 

These experiences should be, must be life changing; this is what they are for. The tectonic plates of our selves are shifting and we ride the waves, or die in the attempt - because the penalty for not trying is worse...That isn't to say that I forgive my husband, I certainly don't forgive him.

But, I get it.