Friday 28 February 2014

' The Navigator ' Review: Sketch 7 & 8: Dominance, Dependance & Flow cycles...

SKETCH 7: Dominance & dependance?

Why Does dominance catalyse dependence?

Dropbox gesture catalysed a perceptual frame via individual choice which in turn channeled certain learned behavioural reactions...........? (manipulation?)
Context: Within our class a shared dropbox file for literature was suggested as a way for the group to collborate and gather literature
Working together was the desired goal and interest of myself...the suggestion was accepted and the group than responded in a conditioned way that allowed a conditioned pattern of behaviour and with it a power dynamic to emerge... 

External construction patterns:......desirable particulars for self interest fuelled the reality construction being which were acquired by certain moves that manipulated the group...........

E.g. persuasion to encourage submission and relinquishment of responsibilities......

POWER WAS GIVEN AWAY...THROUGH TRUST...

Framing methods of reality?

(Link to dropbox digestion sketch)
Sketch 8: Concept - FLOW Cycles: Climate for change

Individual change/growth requires seeing the self, trusting and accepting criticism, digesting and exchanging energy through interactions and adapting through modification.....learning...
Life is change...
Energy is always flowing...moving...
 
 

Thursday 20 February 2014

' The Navigator ' Review - Sketch 5 & 6: Choice, Subjectivity and Media Activity

 
So in the context of constructing our reality.......

how many choices do we all have....?

are they infinite?

Surely only a certain amount of choice fits into the boundaries of social acceptance (acceptance as a channel of love) i.e. norms ??

Foucalt - bio power: self governing systems, the panoptisk.....?

People power - as we wake up we are wanting more quality..............making more choice......(Awareness Expansion)

of course the social System needs demand.......bottom up.........
But there must also be provision......top down....

Perception......?
 
SKETCH 6 - 
 
Media - generates curiosity.......

and if allowed directs collective attention......(energy)...demand...

Responsibility of the media of course is a big part of this......?

People - Digesting positive news? Why can't we do it right now?
 

Thursday 13 February 2014

' The Navigator ' Review: Sketch 3 & 4 - Identity Construction & Reality Construction

So a flow of random thought streams beginning within the frame of peace and conflict studies and one person ruling over many began this sketch...all of it is included...
(The motive for all of this of course is to merely ' MAP IT ALL OUT SO THAT OTHERS CAN THEN CHANGE IT...........') 

Sketch 3 - Identity construction:

One persons method, subscribed to by millions = national identity.

Cultural conditioning......countries influencing each others interface specifications......e.g. westernisation....

Critical realism - constructed reality (the pieces, national ontologies....) Evolving toward a unified reality........harmonious

Persuasion, influence, favourability...... Cultural patterns.......

E.g. National Persuasion..... USA.....selling 'freedom'(cultural universal valued by all...) It encourages creativity.......innovation........exchange....evolution.......movement.......flowing evolution...... that is in theory........

China....? Extortion (excessive, distorted western mind set...........gross national output.....) HUMAN RIGHTS ?

BUT....

What are peoples needs: ..?

safety/security.....??

The constant crisis culture (climate of fear_)......(peter.magnussen)

we place trust in others externalising them to do the right thing in a crisis, relinquishing responsibility, power and control over the situation/our lives.

This explains how people can lack the responsibility to take action for themselves 'the grey face/zombie' living pattern. It is the "someone should do something" vs. "I should do something" dilemma......

Paralysis: Giving away the power/control and responsibility has lead to a hunger for external drama (News/TV) through a spiritual paralysis.........

EXTERNAL DEPENDANCE

Why do we give away that responsibility and power/control......??

Desperation(cocktail?) / Fear / Laziness....?

People need to be loved....to be accepted (up phase)......forgiven (down phase)....so they may grow freely.......learn, develop, evolve......move........through..... --->


ENERGIC ECONOMICS

(studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law,custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of....... energy..)


Natural Flowing Evolutionary cycles (golden ratio): (see F.L.O.W. concept notes) (physics/energy) these cycles must be engaged with......(natural law of life)....natural patterns of motion (there frequency/vibration will catalyse degrees of harmony).....should be the result of balanced interaction and exchange...... (political economics - trade patterns)

.... interactional economics??

shortcuts = distortions --> HEURISTICS (via discourse) employed to speed up processes (impatient, lazy, destructive)

But.....

(Social Psychology)

Society is currently operating on externalised and conditional heuristically driven terms not upon reciprocal (feudalistic roots?)free flowing trust founded exchanges.......these conditional terms are rigid in structure and patterns because of varying degrees of fear which emerge from the application of good bad judgements via thought based evaluation and analysis.............
Fear based heuristic thinking patterns follow the trend that something rigid is more reliable.........and reliability can foster a form of trust....trust then allows feelings of security and safety to develop.... (is this why we have constructed this current version of reality? because of fear?)

why construct anything? what about balance/harmony..........why force things?


because of conditioning via a misinterpretation of influential and persuasive constructors of ontological knowledge = Marxist / Hegelian and also Darwinistic conditioning -

There patterns of thought that are rooted in pursuit of perfectionism (Hegel), clashes of supposedly necessary opposing forces (marx) & darwinism - survival of the fittest interpretation of a theory about adapting to change as the only paths that will 'maintain' (?) progress. (dryzek, 2010 p.81) (does progress not occur naturally?)

so...... PSYCHOLOGICAL MATHS.............COCKTAIL

(Marx/Darwin - Dominance/competition) Necessity of Opposing forces (jung followed this idea also) pattern --> Unhealthy levels of competition

+

(Hegel) Perfection pattern --> Desperation for progress / improvement (more, more, more)

=

Desperate Competition --> Existence hinging upon constant external based evaluating in order to be able to measure (compete) rather than accept (love).....

External dependence emerges....

Unreasonable Expectations: this element of our current psychology may also have partly grown out of this ccktail, however expectations can help to encourage growth and stimulate developmental impulses if applied within reason.....

(Issue --> Define 'unreasonable') ???


POLITICAL SCIENCE: Feudalism societal structure --> initiated an imbalance of resources in the shape of a surplus which suggests the beginning of a destructive mixture of psychological elements........

The 'Am i good/doing enough' psychology....? --> anxiety, worry, doubt, uncertainty........

This underlying current of fear currently has us all scrabbling around for resources and subjecting ourselves to a form of torture.......because we lack the clarity and stillness (still clear water analogy) of mind to listen to our hearts and souls........

Our needs have changed through our mastery of our means to produce..... but sufficient acculturation has not occured.......

These modern living pressures encourage us to submit, give away our 'authentic power' (G.Zukav) and relinquish responsibility allowing heuristic processes to be catalysed.......(rely on others)............

also through this submission meaning in our life can become diluted..........sometimes leading to a feeling of dis-empowerment

but why do we make this choice.........

Climate of Fear - Fear based living (conditioned heuristic patterns?)
Why? Unbalanced Exchanges of matter? UNEQUITABLE TRADE (exploitation)........

ECONOMICS:                    Opportunism, asset specificity.......imperfect competition.....  

MALNOURISHMENT PSYCHOLOGICALLY?

Inequalities???

Ideally there should be a naturally occuring and mutually supporting fairness level within give and take exchanges (Equitable trade) of all kinds......a naturally occuring balance through free flowing exchange..........uninhibited by fear......... and without one sided dependance....

..but.........

Greed, desire, power, need for control, dominance, success through competition (western mind set) because of fear and insecurity.... unbalances things from naturally flowing......and encourages a certain degree of defensive rigidity and inertia. (poor circulation)....... In turn restricting movement.......and natural cycles of flowing growth.....naturally if something does not feel right you defend against it but people nowadays are having choice stripped away from them because they have to survive......they know instinctively within that things are not right but they have to move against these instincts toward exhaustion and slavery.......

How? Why?

PSYCHOLOGICAL HYGIENE: (internal/external balance)

Lack of Awareness: excess thinking, psychological trauma -->forgetfulness........

Those holding onto the power that has been relinquished through our choices appear to be only aware of material/tangible matter or forces, those that Marx said could move history (dryzek, 2010).

The intangible deeper and unobvious forces of a transaction are not usually perceived.....

E.g...?

This heuristic shallowness when perceiving allows a channel where a mode of perception can be constructed that uses uncertainty, doubt, worry, fear.......

This chosen mode of perception, employed by the individual subjectively through choice allows a perceived/constructed degree of unfairness.......to emerge from the inner depths (that have been ignored by a lack of solitude, self analysis, introversion) through the use of fear based perceptual content...........this allows the possibility of a perceptual distortion to emerge during the trade/exchange process...........

distortion =heuristically driven and superficially unbalanced thinking/feeling economy........when there are too many thought (water disruption, cant see through to truth) they begin constructing things.....coagulating.........clotting catalysing rigidity and inertia........unnatural existance.........

Distorted cognitions catalyse fear (? or is it the other way around ? fear catalysing distortion ?), insecurity, uncertainty..and allow notions of deceipt, betrayal.....to become feasible...which in turn develops patterns of unequitable trade.........

(Using fear -Manipulation/control - commonly each side of the trade may use fear to try and manipulate or control the trade so that it benefits them exclusively ........resulting in imbalance -----> and then inequalities.

WIN WIN is more difficult then WIN/LOSE --> thats heuristic patterns emerge.......

The western mind set geared toward dominance through value and judgement based competition could again be summoned on charges here......)

OLIVER E WILLIAMSON (1975, 1985)

Economics behaviour --> cites Opportunism (SELFISH ADVANTAGE OF CIRCUMSTANCE), (fostering trust?) asset specificity.......imperfect competition climate...........as the 2 important dimensions of business behaviour........




Issue --> define distortion? Unnatural perception? VS Natural Perception? What is natural? People have forgotten..........

Why is there this superficial approach to life?

(was Marx religious? spiritual?)

Contact with the intangible...... depths of life....(essence) is feared...............

We distract ourselves heuristically from gazing inwards, exploring, and gathering control over our feelings.............EXTERNALISATION (heuristic short cut) pattern

Why?

Role of Religion/History:

God/devil....voices in my head/coming from within?...'but god is not within you' he resides in heaven so it must be the devil..........

These ideas encouraged the naturally emitted voice encouraging loving patterns of the heart and soul to be rejected.........limiting access to the deeper parts of life and its equitable essence..........

Divine/pure cognition: Contakt with spirit/divine/universal........people are unsure/unclear what is happening when this type of experience occurs.......thought overrides feeling and the experience is commonly rejected.........as a result the depths of life and its natural methods of functioning remain unclear...........
People remain unsure of How life works, flows....and moves.........in its natural state........

Without this deeper connection.....parallel/alignment/inner voice.......fear can emerge as a tool when constructing our own realities and discolour parts of our chosen realityunnecessarily........... Leading to degrees of inequitable (unfair) imbalanced existence...........

Thought traditions - Configurations of the mind...........(PSYCHOLOGY)

Evolutionary psychology - Emergence of the ego configuration? - thought filled, no feeling (imbalanced)......no clarity or depth of contact with the source/soul.....?

When did external existence emerge as a pattern and gain dominance over the subtle equitable flow of nature? Did it emerge through a misinterpretation of darwinistic, hegelian and marxist ideas......?

Common thought tradition = threats are always external ----> superficial perception.........

The real threat comes from within.........if we are not able to manage the internal mechanisms that channel energy as it moves through our system.......then we are slaves to our........??..........'unconsious'.....?


BUBBLING UNDERCURRENTS........(psychology)

Bubbling fear (produced by external interactions)that is not dealt with......precipitates a condition of constant crisis which in turn initiates the externalisation of trust......and relinquishing of responsibility.......power, control and most importantly the extinguishing of inner faith.......faith in the self.......faith in the oneness of it all..........in the flow, balance, harmony and natural resolve of nature.........

This is currently resulting in the various degrees of fragmentation and division that is operating within our current collective reality.........

It is causing us through desperation, worry, uncertainty, anxiety and doubt to disrupt the natural forces in operation throughout the world...........


How should we deal with the bubbling fear?

Is externalising trust a bad thing?
Handing trust to another = BIG STEP

ROLE OF THE MEDIA?

Bad news sells........we are conditioned to frame by the media..........

Spiritual Paralysis: Need for stories - Desperate for drama.......but also transformation, change and resolve.......hopefully happily........

(archetypal entertainment themes)

How to repackage the positive....?

SKETCH 4: Identity Construction & Reality Construction......? Sketching..........

Bhaskar -----> mind based reality reaching (evolving) toward a universal reality.........?

does our inner configuration........externally project? the external construct (identity/persona) compensates the inner dynamic........maintaining an equilibrium..........

rough analogy ----> Inner world........(movie strip)........projecting out onto the screen (persona/identity? which is viewed by others(social audience/peers....influences peers constructions and in turn shifts the collective construction..........


Society: Collective constructs of identity's all projecting together and then shifting together, like waves on the energy ocean........

creating a collective external 'reality'.......that compensates the collective inner dynamic of energy...........

for example.....right now the outer dynamic is a darkened one suggesting that there is an inner dynamic of brightness about to emerge........

...... :) <3

A theory that serves to embed hope, optimism, inspiration and motivation....... :D

Thursday 6 February 2014

'The Navigator' Review - Sketch 1: The Nature Of Interaction... & Sketch 2: Constructing Reality

So off we go...

Sketch 1: The Nature of interaction

It all started with...
Thoughts, questions and ideas currently swimming around in the old think tank.....

How does energy behave? (Physics......)

How is our energy being used psychologically?

How does it move and flow when we interact?

What are we constructing on an intangible level?
(developmental psychology, ego, persons, identity construction, peace education)

Does this 'constructing' process involving reality link to Bhaskar's theory of mind based reality evolving/transcending toward a more universal reality...?

What mechanisms do we use to interact with one another? (ego? Persona? - depth psychology..... )

What is the fundamental nature of our social interactions? (social ontology)

And was followed by...
CONSTRUCTING REALITY...
How do we do it? --------> (ideally) Choice driven energic relational (social) construction......? 

Without egoic self interest/agenda......(cultural conditioning/mind configuration?)

Building upon Immanuel Kant who proposed a "Copernican Revolution-in-reverse", by saying that:
Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but ... let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition.
He argued that human concepts and categories structure our view of the world and its laws, and that reason is the source of morality......... 

1) Perceptual Construction

Things within our world (perceived events) can be placed or framed subjectively through choices into a perceptual arrangement that creates a reality but how?

(awareness determines the degree of choice we can make when constructing, and awareness is developed through self analysis....etc)

Current knowledge (REF's??) suggest that chosen 'frames' or pathways for received perceptual data such as thought streams, beliefs systems, judgements, opinions, stereotypes and prejudices, assumptions......are constructed by....
decisions and value judgements deriving from the chosen valuation of worth (valuing) and analysis of the received data......commonly done through the method of comparison.........

Valuation habits and patterns of analysis (or ethical pathways) for perceived data can be created or learned.....(conditioned).....e.g. prejudice, stereotyping, assumptions.......

These perceived events having been subjected to appraisal habits and patterns of analysis and evaluation are processed and then placed through choice onto subjective pathways of representation. In summary all the data that is received is arranged into an pattern which subjectively constructs.......our reality..........

(see sketch 5 choice & Subjectivity)

2) The Construction Process

This reality (like a cloud around us) emits a certain energy signature, frequency/vibration.....modulating and fluctuating from moment to moment as a result of energy flowing through us that is altered via internal and external interactions (e.g. bodily processes, socialising, environmental conditions....expand further......).........which in turn are guided by our choices. The degree of control over these choices hinges on our level of awareness...........(link to vidar - energy thresholds ----> energy casting model as well perhaps.....?)

Role of the mind....? (an energic channel?) 

(KANT: In simple terms, Kant argued that our experiences are structured by necessary features of our minds. The mind shapes and structures experience so that, on an abstract level, all human experience shares certain essential structural features. Among other things, Kant believed that the concepts of space and time are integral to all human experience, as are our concepts of cause and effect.[5] We never have direct experience of things, the noumenal world, and what we do experience is the phenomenal world as conveyed by our senses. These observations summarize Kant's views upon the subject–object problem.) 

The mind projects (independently?) a momentary reality via feedback from interactions which balances the introverted and extroverted energies of the individuals energy cloud with the energies of the collective cloud (society)....(collective cloud = sum of all external feedback, the collectively constructed mind based reality, individual cloud = the individuals constructed mind based reality.)

Differences in the perceived collective and individual reality if integrated successfully result in realization, actualization, change, growth, expansion.....

If differences are not reconcilable then "madness" paths can emerge......boxed, people can be contained for fear of threat to there version of reality which has been constructed.......

The mind: undisturbed it is a serving homoeostatic energy channel.......it organises energy received from others, the environment and that which is self generated into a mind based complimentary configuration of reality which relates to natural reality in some degree. 

HARMONIOUS MOTION

Degree of harmony in our methods of being both collectively and individually is linked to the awareness and the amount of energy received that is actually useable...........(able to be processed)........   

Our choices (degree of control of these is determined by awareness) in this process which can alter the signature of energy being expressed determine the level of harmony or disharmony which is achieved with the world....... (E.g. social alignment through norms - conforming - destructive/false harmony authentic individuation - productive harmony)

Our entire system, energy wise, requires choices. (link to sketch 24 - nature of life) From the fuel that is chosen (diet) to the way in which we interact (socialising)...verbally and non verbally...all is energy. It is all one stream flowing through us.......

The Stream: 

A universal stream of energy (intuition, creativity) enters from the top down , a earth stream (in some way nourishing? (detail needed) If the earth was healthy..) enters from the bottom up, the momentary contents of our system (bio, psycho, social) mixes with both of these and results in an aggregated momentary output. This aggregate is then cast out onto whatever our attention is directed at..... The mind as a channel releases this energy out into the world...ideally without interfering or distorting it...........so that harmony between the natural and the constructed is found

Mind configurations: 

The egoic configuration of the mind is a mode that is conditioned externally by society encouraging obsessive interferance (constant doing) and distortion to the natural flow of being and existance through excessive thought generation and constant valuation and comparison.......externally......
With sufficient levels of internal awareness this configuration can be altered........ through internal reflection.......

Toward a heart based reality.....?

( Link to Sketch 10 - Psy Cocktail, Sketch 17 & 23 Social OBS )

As the stream of energy flows through our beings we can choose if we want to do anything with it...
The level of choice that we exercise links to our level of awareness
..... Our overall awareness of possibilties for channelling energy develops and grows with our ability to introvert energy, to let it move inwards and nourish the spirit (self reflection, analysis, solitude, stilling the mind).....rather than sending it out to nourish constructed external things......
Analogy - roots under the surface (the introverted world:spirit) branches above the soil (the extroverted world - materialism)
Both parts must be nourished equally....!

The more nourished the internal sub surface roots of the tree are the more widely the external branches can grow and the more fruit that can be supported....


This egoic external mode of existance encourages so much energy to be used externally on objects that our inner health suffers..........without stilling the mind so that energy finds its way inwards.........our clarity upon matters will suffer and abilitiy to make choices and direct energy in a balanced way when constructing our reality will always be compromised........

.heuristics argument.....

Because this excessive outflow of energy onto our materialistic object orientated (mind based) existance occurs to such a degree our subject, inner spirit and clarity are compromised. Not enough energy is being allowed to flow inwards.

This limits our ability to assess and reflect inwardly upon our actions......inner awareness is currently being forfeited and so the degree of choices available when directing our energy is currently reduced.........

ISSUE: inner awareness? External awareness?

External & internal valuation/analysis?


Differences?

Deliberate chanelling of energy

Mindfulness - being aware of the mind and what it is doing with the energy stream in terms of constructing.......

This level of awareness allows the mind to be employed deliberately to direct energy.......

This concentrates energy and improves efficiency......

At this stage responsibility becomes very important....in terms of the consequences of what is built......


CONCEPT: Construction Methods --> Reality

Materialist Methods........Static, rigid, unresponsive, no feedback mechanism or active revision processes.......

superficial nourishment.......no nourishment of the roots.......