There is something satisfying about having a place to post. It is like doing a painting where you already know where it is going to hang. The flip side to that, as there is always a flip side, is that you already know the extent to which you might be understood or misunderstood.
Years ago I became convinced that despite the political, soc…
There is something satisfying about having a place to post. It is like doing a painting where you already know where it is going to hang. The flip side to that, as there is always a flip side, is that you already know the extent to which you might be understood or misunderstood.
Years ago I became convinced that despite the political, sociological, biochemical strata of evident human experience there was a more subtle and pervasive connection that we experience less consciously. This layer has to do with the quality of thought and emotion. I learned of this in the wilderness survival environment where subtlety is abundant and nature is undisturbed but it was my experience in the emergency department that convinced me. Despite the high levels of emotion people are experiencing they are in crisis and therefore they are not as set in their way. They are more susceptible to influence. Without changing my physical practice I began to pay attention to the thoughts and emotions around me and to interact with them in my personal consciousness with, not an expectation exactly, but an open door to the possibility that it could have an effect. And, it did.
I began to be able to sense how entrenched an individual was in their experience. This entrenchment was independent of the severity of the clinical situation. The more entrenched they were the less I would attempt this mechanism because it simply wouldn’t work. This had no correspondence to intelligence, education, race, age or time of day. It was completely individual in my observation. I didn’t share this with colleagues or patients of course for two reasons. One, anonymity added to the effectiveness and two, I didn’t want to be singled out as crazy. I did mention that perhaps instinct had a role to play in clinical medicine and that it could be trained along with the intellect. As you can imagine this idea had no legs.
I bring this up because despite our letter writing campaigns and our notion of a liberal future or our understandings of how corrupt our leaders always seem to be the progress of recent history is more clearly seen by understanding the manipulations of the advertising industry. This is why big money wins. The effect of advertising through social media, fake news outlets, propaganda outlets and politicians who have a voice because of our insatiable appetite for daily controversy have a palpable effect on the same level of being that I sensed in the ED.
I suggest that this is how the brain washing works. It is not the topic of the day at all, it is the subtle energetic accompaniment that rides all that physical activity like mold on a shipping pallet. Our current mix of media is so much more powerful in this way than newspaper or old style TV that this is now the dominant strata of human experience. So, is it more effective to write a letter to your senators, who are some of the most entrenched personalities I have ever sensed, or is it as beneficial to simply sip your coffee and order your thoughts?
Of course it takes all kinds and the purpose isn’t to rule the day but to guide it toward a future that has a better chance of being pleasant for your grand children. And, for those that see it, a better place for your next life.
I've always considered that my unconscious half is a much more intelligent and knowledgeable than that which has managed to make itself conscious. The instinct that comes from this, and to which i listen assiduously, is, to me, my inner self teaching, training, expanding and directing the outer conscious personality. In combination the 2 can, in my mind interreact with their external non-human environment and other human "consciousness/unconscious combinations and change the course of things.
I agree with what you are saying except that the Jung/ Freud's legacy of separating ourselves into two places conscious and unconscious is limiting. What if there are many more parts than just two?
Oh I would LOVE to pick your brain.... I am starting to research how our instinctual center of intelligence can act in different ways based on core wiring. A lot of what you're saying makes a LOT of sense to me.
There is something satisfying about having a place to post. It is like doing a painting where you already know where it is going to hang. The flip side to that, as there is always a flip side, is that you already know the extent to which you might be understood or misunderstood.
Years ago I became convinced that despite the political, sociological, biochemical strata of evident human experience there was a more subtle and pervasive connection that we experience less consciously. This layer has to do with the quality of thought and emotion. I learned of this in the wilderness survival environment where subtlety is abundant and nature is undisturbed but it was my experience in the emergency department that convinced me. Despite the high levels of emotion people are experiencing they are in crisis and therefore they are not as set in their way. They are more susceptible to influence. Without changing my physical practice I began to pay attention to the thoughts and emotions around me and to interact with them in my personal consciousness with, not an expectation exactly, but an open door to the possibility that it could have an effect. And, it did.
I began to be able to sense how entrenched an individual was in their experience. This entrenchment was independent of the severity of the clinical situation. The more entrenched they were the less I would attempt this mechanism because it simply wouldn’t work. This had no correspondence to intelligence, education, race, age or time of day. It was completely individual in my observation. I didn’t share this with colleagues or patients of course for two reasons. One, anonymity added to the effectiveness and two, I didn’t want to be singled out as crazy. I did mention that perhaps instinct had a role to play in clinical medicine and that it could be trained along with the intellect. As you can imagine this idea had no legs.
I bring this up because despite our letter writing campaigns and our notion of a liberal future or our understandings of how corrupt our leaders always seem to be the progress of recent history is more clearly seen by understanding the manipulations of the advertising industry. This is why big money wins. The effect of advertising through social media, fake news outlets, propaganda outlets and politicians who have a voice because of our insatiable appetite for daily controversy have a palpable effect on the same level of being that I sensed in the ED.
I suggest that this is how the brain washing works. It is not the topic of the day at all, it is the subtle energetic accompaniment that rides all that physical activity like mold on a shipping pallet. Our current mix of media is so much more powerful in this way than newspaper or old style TV that this is now the dominant strata of human experience. So, is it more effective to write a letter to your senators, who are some of the most entrenched personalities I have ever sensed, or is it as beneficial to simply sip your coffee and order your thoughts?
Of course it takes all kinds and the purpose isn’t to rule the day but to guide it toward a future that has a better chance of being pleasant for your grand children. And, for those that see it, a better place for your next life.
I've always considered that my unconscious half is a much more intelligent and knowledgeable than that which has managed to make itself conscious. The instinct that comes from this, and to which i listen assiduously, is, to me, my inner self teaching, training, expanding and directing the outer conscious personality. In combination the 2 can, in my mind interreact with their external non-human environment and other human "consciousness/unconscious combinations and change the course of things.
I agree with what you are saying except that the Jung/ Freud's legacy of separating ourselves into two places conscious and unconscious is limiting. What if there are many more parts than just two?
I certainly prefferred Jung's thoughts on the matter to Freud's.
Many with more esoteric education and tendancies would advance a figure of 7 different entities within the One.
The Apache considered 23 levels coincidently similar to the number of dimensions in combined string theory. Odd factoid category.
Native Americans as ever have much to teach us.
Oh I would LOVE to pick your brain.... I am starting to research how our instinctual center of intelligence can act in different ways based on core wiring. A lot of what you're saying makes a LOT of sense to me.
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