Writing Between the Lines

According to Gestalt Theory, the Mind fills in the discontinuities of experience. For example, a sequence of dots on a page gets perceived as a line, and, since the dots are actually there, the contribution of the Mind is the connection between them. Likewise, 'reading between the lines', is, on Gestalt Theory, more accurately 'writing between the lines'. Hence, in a moment of Insight, the Mind itself provides what has been missing in a manifold of phenomena, producing a coherent sequence of events that is the object of cognition at the completion of the process. But, the provision of the missing piece and the cognition of the produced totality are different phases of the process. In other words, essential to Insight is what might be called 'Ingression', an active, though not necessarily explicit process, not to be confused with Whitehead's use of the term.