Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Ideas

      I've been writing about ideas - ego and Self; reflections and revelations; Potential, Relationships, Experiences and Perceptions; etc., etc.  I've come to understand Life in the cyclical sense of mythological Calling, biological birth, psychological birth, the experience of being alive, biological death and psychological remains.  The constant theme is Internity.  The core idea is that one's Internity is always and everywhere in participation with always and everywhere. 
     Such an idea is fluid, subject to change and open to suggestion.  The diagram below is another one of the symbols I utilize to help me formulate ideas of Potential.  My unscientific name for what's inside the circle is "The Stuff of Life."  It's a mirror.  The top half and the bottom half continuously reveal and reflect the emotional components of one's Life.  The Violence/FEAR side and the Self-respect/SAFETY side are each generalized responses.  These responses, all of which have a core emotional element, then become personally specific formulations known as characteristics and schemas.  My conviction is that in the beginning of everyone's Life the Potential for "How I Am: Being Human" is either sabotaged by Violence/FEAR or encouraged with Self-respect/SAFETY to one degree or another.  However, regardless of developmental sabotage or encouragement, neither side is an unmitigated determinant of one's genuine Internity because the forces of Life are always presenting new Consciousness, Challenges, Choices and Changes.  
   


(I think and hope that you can click on the image to enlarge it.)
     
     The real determinant of Internity is whether or not one fully comprehends and practices the connection between total Freedom and total Responsibility right Here and Now!  This relationship between Freedom and Responsibility is unbreakable and non-negotiable.  It demands reality based Consciousness of purposeful behavior as it relates to and impacts the Challenges, Choices and Changes of self and others!  Unfortunately, most people believe Freedom and Responsibility are opposing ideas.  Such beliefs are actually a diffusion of Freedom and Responsibility.  And such diffusion is being demonstrated as detached and reckless behavior all over the World.  
     The focused intention of Internity, on the other hand, understands how the Freedom of Responsibility is what brings forth the genuine Self in Relationship with all otherness.  This focused intention transforms the meaning of Life into the act of finding and aligning with one's Calling regardless of anything!  In the words of James Hillman, "The task is to find the gold in the volcano."  Joseph Campbell sums it up by saying, "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."  Not settling for the beliefs of who you think you are (ego) but finding the core of who you really are (Self).  When All is said and done in this Life the psychological remains, created as emotional memory within others, will mirror one's awareness and practice of how Freedom and Responsibility mirror each other as the same idea.   

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