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Sunday, 30 March 2014

' The Navigator ' Review - Sketch 13 & 14: (policy?) Combining Realist & Liberal perspectives.......... &

Sketch 13: (policy?) Combining Realist & Liberal perspectives..........
 
Political Science, Psychology and Critical Realism........

Hypotheses = Egocentric and conflictual nature has been learned it is not innate (as the defeatest realist theory suggests).

Liberal Perspective:

Fusion:

Liberal Realism - A freely regulating reality........

Total freedom can lead to anarchy. Even our degree of choices have there boundaries for we are not the largest force in operation within this universe.

There should be a balanced self responsibility and self regulation when exercising one's rights in terms of freedom.

The correct degree of responsibility when exercising freedom should result in win win scenarios.

50/50 blame balance

Self and others should benefit within all transactions but perhaps in varying degrees or at worst staying the same.

If the transaction is not meant to be taking place there will not be a win win option and so the pursuit should be delayed, abandoned or postponed.

Rate of activity: Timing is usually the issue if a win win transaction is not available. Patience and flexibility should be employed in this instance not heuristic (short cut) based, impatient, forced solutions driven by desperation ( pursuit of perfection -see sketch 10: PSY Cocktail ).

The goal here is to avoid acting when the psyche's naturally emerging energic wave based cycle's move into its down phase. This time should be used for stillness, inaction, recuperation, reflection, solitude, seperation and self analysis. (alignment, reception expansion (enhanced awareness levels) via stillness through mindfulness practices (self awareness).

LINK to sketch 43 - practicing consideration

Matters should never need to be forced. The practice of heuristic, self interest (egoic) fuelled co-ersion should be avoided at all costs.

If the natural rate of universal motion is being followed through harmonious action than transformation and actualization via authentic realizations will emerge effortlessly on a collective level.......

Inaction: The times of stillness and inaction (the down phase) require degrees of faith to be initiated.....life rewards faith.....trust in that.

Through this approach we can always guarantee stillness or progress rather than inflicting damage through unnatural methods of motion/progress catalysed by seeking, desire and desperation.

The cycle of our evolution must still fluctuate but in less drammatic up and down motion (think amplitude of the wave lessening)

We have a responsibility as a race to move and develop at a harmonious pace, one that is in parallel with nature......and sustainable in form.

Unfortunately right now.......

Our mind based reality is currently dominated by competitive self interest (egoic tendencies)

SEE SKETCH 10 - COCKTAIL (Conditioning trail)

This appears to be encouraging desperate levels of seeking and profiteering alongside destructive levels of competition and the mythical pursuit of perfection......

There is no attention being paid toward universal laws of being........e.g. win-win interactions and mutual reciprocation..... Balanced means of sustainable living....
 
Sketch 14: Our Nature must be Nurtured
 
Our Nature must be nurtured........?

It is not beyond our control........but we only have limited tools (choice, logic, reason....etc) with which to craft ourselves........?

There is no rigid answer.........we are born with a certain degree of our being configured through inheritance and evolution. This can then be nurtured by the input that is received and the ways in which we learn and choose to process it........

Favourable conditions for growth, development, realization and self actualization must be cultivated with the tools we are given...............

There are no difference in the tools that we are all given, all men are born equal, the only differences are in the ways we choose to perceive our circumstances and the degree of responsibility we choose to carry........ with every + there is a - & vice versa......... 
 




Tuesday, 11 March 2014

' The Navigator ' Review: Sketch 9 & 10 - Means of Relating (how do we engage with one another) & The Psychological Cocktail (observing some patterns of societal interaction / energy exchange)

Sketch 9: The Means (methods) by which we relate / interact with each other
Means of Relating (Successful Relationship Product = Reciprocal Love) --> Balanced Means of production...?

(Internal Fusion / Dualisitc (mind and body) Synthesis / balance )

A level beneath the means of production.......(See previous post - abstract)

At this level it appears that access and awareness to our energies becomes available.....
Sketch 10: The Psychological Cocktail - Sketching an Overview of some societal patterns of relation / interaction...(energy exchange) 

HYPOTHESES:

Egocentric (self interest/desire fuelled), Materialistic, superficial, patterns of Humanitarian behaviour are a result of learned (conditioned/socialized) patterns of thinking.......it is not innate....

CO-existing, peaceful conditions can be created (Energically constructed) through careful choices and desireless decision making. (Self Control?)

The products (output) of our existence......war, terror, fear are the result of our perceptual methods of reception (input), our appraisal methods (Lazarus & Folkman, 1974).

Conditoned psychological cocktail patterns = hobbes, machiavelli, hegel, marx

Externalisation -

Relinquishing/giving away self control/self responsibility/power over self........product of democracy  which is a dysfunctional means of relation.....? 
Or does it encourage placing faith and trust in others.......? See Sketch 39

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan ----> States that Human Aggression cannot be controlled individually.......... (no)
He also states that desire (wanting an outcome) motivates all human action.......(yes)
Argument: can we not learn to control our desires.....?

This also contradicts machiavelli's notion that we are in control of nature, our own progress and our future...........?

How responsible should we be with Self control?

(Also see - Seville Statement of Violence)

LINK TO SKETCH 23 social obs -- > People and Boxes..........and sketch 2 relaity construction & sketch 3 identity construction.........also link to social obs note 17.........

Also link sketch 38: survival instinct - evolution and self interest


Competition.......

when did it start.....?

Resources, food, survival......but why is it still happening?

Means of production have become very efficient now so that we need not compete......?

We are evolving past the notions of Machiavelli and the necessarily innovative and spirited style of conflict generating existence.
Our needs have changed, our methods and means psychologically have not...... 

A distinct lack in evolution psychologically......? Not enough ACCULTURATION

Because of psychological malnourishment caused by materialistic and superficial living patterns....

Perfection.....

Unbalanced rate of evolution has emerged from the pursuit of the myth that is perfection.....

Desire has been fuelled by Marxist & Hegelian ideals....causing an imbalance in societal interactions (inequitable exchange).....and is burning us to the ground........

Machiavelli also encouraged an innovative and energetic style of being..........citing war as anecessarycondition for progress
is there a lack of reflection on our methods of interaction, decision making and habitus formation ......?

at what rate should we be progressing? should it not be harmonious in method and sustainable in nature?

Motivations......

Material profiteering......

Marxist ideals..... "Material objects moving history not ideas"......

- Clashing of opposing forces (Neccessary - Hegel).....according to hegel..... (making War necessary?)

could this have catalysed our disregard toward nature and our surroundings........? 

The ideal of progress as the sole aim of politics and civilization (Machiavelli) rather than balance and harmony.


Resulting in EXTERNALISED EXISTANCE "MATERIALISTIC" n nature.... A COLLECTIVE DISTORTION.............fuelling a perceived necessity for unregulated dynamics of competition and opposition.........

Constant Outflow of energy........which is HEURISTICALLY tarnished because of the lack of inward attention (SELF RESPONSIBILITY/reflection).....

No inward flow.....

Energic Imbalance.........

Unatural state of being - we are in control of our own future, we control nature and our own progress........

This results in a poisonous cocktail being belched out of humanity collectively.........
and constructs a constant battle fought with an illusory materialistic enemy
(the projection of our unconscious selves)

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