Byron Katie - On War.......

Another inspirational quote inbetween heavy study and lecture sessions.......


“As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.” - Byron Katie


This would suggest that it is all a constructed mind based version of a naturally based reality if we were to follow a critical realist perspective of our perception........?

Constructing reality: a sketch - part 1

Climbed the nearby mountain Tromsdalstinden earlier today......well sweated a lot, got half way and came back.......body tired, mind very active so..............

These are some rough ideas from my current knowledge base..........

(Copyright - J.Nicholls August 2013) LOL :p

So how do we do it? --------> (ideally) Choice driven energic social 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 suggests that chosen 'frames' or pathways for received perceptual data such as thought streams, beliefs systems, judgements, opinions, stereotypes, prejudices and assumptions......are constructed by....

decisions and value judgements deriving from the chosen valuation of worth (valuing) and analysis method of the received data......commonly done through the method of comparison.........

Valuation habits and patterns of analysis (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.......reality..........

So how did i do.........? hopefully that helped you in someway..... :)

First week of studies...Joining dots

Brilliant first week........ so many new things to learn........ :)

any of you know any of these areas/topics?


Neuroeconomics

Perception

Evolutionary psychology

Social Simulation

Framing (social science)

Behavioral Economics

Fair trade

Computational Sociology

Interaction Energy

International relations

Acculturation

Metapsychology

Critical realism

Political Science


Cant wait to start digesting and joining all these pieces together......... :)

    

Perception & Choice.........

Today the power of choice is really making itself known to me...................
 
“Usually, we see what we want to see, not what is actually before our eyes. We look, but we may not apprehend or comprehend. We may have to tune our seeing, much as we would tune a musical instrument, to increase its accuracy, its sensitivity, its range. The intention would be to see things as they actually are, not as we would like them to be or fear them to be, or only what we are socially conditioned to see or feel.”

(Excerpt From: Jon Kabat-Zinn. “Arriving at Your Own Door.” Hyperion. iBooks.
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The highest form of education is.........

Been reading a bit about peace education today and found a vey relevant quote by the Bengali Polymath and 1913 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Rabindranath Tagore.

:)

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” (Rabindranath Tagore) 

Looking forward to reading more about peace education and the different approaches when studying starts.....

big hugs

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