Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Psychological Remains
The idea and reality of psychological remains are both created by the inevitability of Death a well as the fact that all any of us leave behind are the Relationships we bring to Life. The sooner we all understand this idea and nurture this reality with intentional awareness the sooner we will all realize (make real) the natural discovery of Potential, expression of Relationship, connection to Experience and meaning of Perception. When one's time on this Earth is finished, no matter if it lasts for minutes or decades, he or she will leave behind psychological remains that have been affected by people from the collective and personal past and will then ripple outward to affect the lives of people in a future one will never know. In effect, the positive or negative behaviors toward self, others and otherness during this Life on this Earth is what creates the emotional Experience of an afterlife within the lives of others remaining on this Earth after one dies (regardless of any and all religious beliefs about an eternal afterlife)! It seems obvious, then, that fully comprehending the idea and reality of psychological remains must become the guiding force of one's consciousness, challenges, choices and changes toward all Relationships in this Life!!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Love and Grief
I think intentional Relationship with the natural calling of one's Internity is what makes Life meaningful. I also think this Relationship with calling is Experienced as a limitless combination of Love and Grief. Obviously, the word "combination" implies that Love and Grief are separate. But the reality is they are inseparable because they each create and define the other in a symbiotic union, like a lake and its shoreline. And long before one's individual beginning, onward into unknowable future generations, Love and Grief call us all to awaken the emotional consciousness necessary for a full participation with "Being Human."
The nurtured ego-consciousness of "How I Am" (i.e., the Potential factors and influences that form ego), also plays an essential role in awakening one's Internity of Love and Grief. Put simply, the ego's Perceptions and Experiences are made-up of the discoveries, expressions, connections and meanings formulated by the emotional feedback circle of Relationships. These integrations and complexes (positive and negative) then inform ego-consciousness and facilitate one's life-long interactions with the personal and collective unconscious. In this way Love and Grief are always in a dance with mythological calling, biological birth, the psychological birth of ego, the Experience of being alive (conscious and unconscious), biological death and one's psychological remains. This is why a healthy ego - the images, symbols, behaviors and emotions of individual consciousness - is so important to both the present moment and a Life well-lived. Essentially, the longings and fears that comprise every individual's ego are always and everywhere participating with the ancient collective callings of Love and Grief.
In a previous post I describe Love as conditional and active in the context of being partly an emotion that results in safe behavior but mostly a behavior that results in safe emotions. Under such circumstances, the intensities of Love grow in a trust for physical, psychological, social, mental, emotional and spiritual safety. So, wherever there is safe behavior and emotion (e.g., the self-disciplined kindnesses of home), the healthy identifications of ego that are necessary for the Love of self, others and otherness are made possible. The Perception of Grief, under these circumstances, is Experienced as a wave of longing and calling for the joyful Relationship that was created by safe behavior and emotion - Love! Such a loss and its intensely emotional memory of well-being and a Life well-lived will fill one's heart to the breaking point. But this fulfillment of Love then lives on with the power to open and transform Grief into a spirited awakening of discovered Potentials, expressed Relationships, connected Experiences and meaningful Perceptions.
Emotional Experiences that result in unsafe behavior, as well as behaviors that result in unsafe emotions, are nonetheless subject to the intensifications of Love and Grief. Under these circumstances, however, Grief comes not only from the ancient callings associated with losing people, but also from a sorrowful intuition that one failed to Experience the Potential of genuine Love in the first place - safe emotion and behavior. In my estimation, this intensely negative and intuitive ego-awareness is the result of physical, psychological, social, mental, emotional and spiritual Experiences found in domestic violence. Such unnatural and stressful angst then results in the wounded behavioral responses of withdrawal, manipulation, rebellion or compliance. In effect, if one's ego is nurtured via unsafe behaviors and emotions he or she is likely to Experience Internity and the natural longings associated with self, others and otherness as unpredictable, insignificant or even dangerous. Love and Grief, under these circumstances, become colored with the added intensities and complexities (conscious and unconscious) of shame. And I am convinced that anytime the heart's natural desire for emotionally safe Relationship is sabotaged by the nurtured shame and fear of violent Experience the resulting intensifications of Love and Grief cannot help but reveal and reflect some level of violence toward self, others and otherness.
It seems obvious that the chronic violence of Oppression, Addiction, Trauma, and Shame (the OATS we sow in united states of consciousness), are all founded on the obsessive belief that Love must include some level of unsafe behavior and emotion. Take for example our righteous insistence on equating the punishment of children with discipline. Such a blatant misunderstanding of the difference between punishment and discipline has no other outcome than unsafe behavior and emotion at some level of consciousness. And yet, after thousands of years righteously using "the rod" to prevent spoilage we sit in the Grief-stricken Hell of oppressed, addicted, traumatized and shameful self, others and otherness thinking we should have been using a bigger rod all along. But sowing such O.A.T.S. only creates emotions that result in unsafe behavior and behaviors that result in unsafe emotions! I think these historically rooted circumstances have vandalized the Internity of Love and Grief and are now being revealed and reflected everywhere one looks [e.g., the individual refusal of calling and general loss of imagination and creativity; the rejection of sacrifice and demand for instant gratification; the spiritually empty literalism of religions that are then forced by faith to refuse their historical companionship with science; the misreading of emotional desperation and consequent medication (self and prescribed) of its symptoms; the insatiable efforts to find fulfillment with nutritionally empty and sometimes utterly poisonous food and drink; the objectification and consequent pricing of self, others and otherness; the compartmentalization of education and its consequent removal from servicing the community's interior; the sexual and violent indoctrination of children as the accepted norm of socialization, economics and entertainment; the chronic diffusion of personal responsibility and its manipulations of freedom; the contrived resistances to adulthood, maturity and aging; and the systematic destruction of nature to support the whole dis-eased process; etc., ad nauseum].
I think all of this points to the fact that the human race can no longer fear and avoid Internity's Relationship with the symbiotic union of Love and Grief. The nature of human Life, which is Love and Grief, demands individually conscious choices to fully participate with the realities of mythological calling, biological birth, psychological birth, the Experience of being alive, biological death and one's psychological remains! We can no longer ego-maniacally avoid participation with Love, Grief or Internity! Therefore, it seems the challenge of our time is to change how we nurture the "How I Am" emotional ego-consciousness of Internity so we can then choose differently how to participate with the nature of Love, Grief and all Life. Penultimately, I think it's time that our personal and collective egos learn about protection, empathy, nurturance and sustenance through the safe actions and emotions of Love for self, others and otherness! Ultimately, if one safely awakens the natural qualities of Internity, I think he or she will hear the emotional callings of Love and Grief but then answer all Life with full consciousness and intentional participation in the challenges, choices and changes of "Being Human."
The nurtured ego-consciousness of "How I Am" (i.e., the Potential factors and influences that form ego), also plays an essential role in awakening one's Internity of Love and Grief. Put simply, the ego's Perceptions and Experiences are made-up of the discoveries, expressions, connections and meanings formulated by the emotional feedback circle of Relationships. These integrations and complexes (positive and negative) then inform ego-consciousness and facilitate one's life-long interactions with the personal and collective unconscious. In this way Love and Grief are always in a dance with mythological calling, biological birth, the psychological birth of ego, the Experience of being alive (conscious and unconscious), biological death and one's psychological remains. This is why a healthy ego - the images, symbols, behaviors and emotions of individual consciousness - is so important to both the present moment and a Life well-lived. Essentially, the longings and fears that comprise every individual's ego are always and everywhere participating with the ancient collective callings of Love and Grief.
In a previous post I describe Love as conditional and active in the context of being partly an emotion that results in safe behavior but mostly a behavior that results in safe emotions. Under such circumstances, the intensities of Love grow in a trust for physical, psychological, social, mental, emotional and spiritual safety. So, wherever there is safe behavior and emotion (e.g., the self-disciplined kindnesses of home), the healthy identifications of ego that are necessary for the Love of self, others and otherness are made possible. The Perception of Grief, under these circumstances, is Experienced as a wave of longing and calling for the joyful Relationship that was created by safe behavior and emotion - Love! Such a loss and its intensely emotional memory of well-being and a Life well-lived will fill one's heart to the breaking point. But this fulfillment of Love then lives on with the power to open and transform Grief into a spirited awakening of discovered Potentials, expressed Relationships, connected Experiences and meaningful Perceptions.
Emotional Experiences that result in unsafe behavior, as well as behaviors that result in unsafe emotions, are nonetheless subject to the intensifications of Love and Grief. Under these circumstances, however, Grief comes not only from the ancient callings associated with losing people, but also from a sorrowful intuition that one failed to Experience the Potential of genuine Love in the first place - safe emotion and behavior. In my estimation, this intensely negative and intuitive ego-awareness is the result of physical, psychological, social, mental, emotional and spiritual Experiences found in domestic violence. Such unnatural and stressful angst then results in the wounded behavioral responses of withdrawal, manipulation, rebellion or compliance. In effect, if one's ego is nurtured via unsafe behaviors and emotions he or she is likely to Experience Internity and the natural longings associated with self, others and otherness as unpredictable, insignificant or even dangerous. Love and Grief, under these circumstances, become colored with the added intensities and complexities (conscious and unconscious) of shame. And I am convinced that anytime the heart's natural desire for emotionally safe Relationship is sabotaged by the nurtured shame and fear of violent Experience the resulting intensifications of Love and Grief cannot help but reveal and reflect some level of violence toward self, others and otherness.
It seems obvious that the chronic violence of Oppression, Addiction, Trauma, and Shame (the OATS we sow in united states of consciousness), are all founded on the obsessive belief that Love must include some level of unsafe behavior and emotion. Take for example our righteous insistence on equating the punishment of children with discipline. Such a blatant misunderstanding of the difference between punishment and discipline has no other outcome than unsafe behavior and emotion at some level of consciousness. And yet, after thousands of years righteously using "the rod" to prevent spoilage we sit in the Grief-stricken Hell of oppressed, addicted, traumatized and shameful self, others and otherness thinking we should have been using a bigger rod all along. But sowing such O.A.T.S. only creates emotions that result in unsafe behavior and behaviors that result in unsafe emotions! I think these historically rooted circumstances have vandalized the Internity of Love and Grief and are now being revealed and reflected everywhere one looks [e.g., the individual refusal of calling and general loss of imagination and creativity; the rejection of sacrifice and demand for instant gratification; the spiritually empty literalism of religions that are then forced by faith to refuse their historical companionship with science; the misreading of emotional desperation and consequent medication (self and prescribed) of its symptoms; the insatiable efforts to find fulfillment with nutritionally empty and sometimes utterly poisonous food and drink; the objectification and consequent pricing of self, others and otherness; the compartmentalization of education and its consequent removal from servicing the community's interior; the sexual and violent indoctrination of children as the accepted norm of socialization, economics and entertainment; the chronic diffusion of personal responsibility and its manipulations of freedom; the contrived resistances to adulthood, maturity and aging; and the systematic destruction of nature to support the whole dis-eased process; etc., ad nauseum].
I think all of this points to the fact that the human race can no longer fear and avoid Internity's Relationship with the symbiotic union of Love and Grief. The nature of human Life, which is Love and Grief, demands individually conscious choices to fully participate with the realities of mythological calling, biological birth, psychological birth, the Experience of being alive, biological death and one's psychological remains! We can no longer ego-maniacally avoid participation with Love, Grief or Internity! Therefore, it seems the challenge of our time is to change how we nurture the "How I Am" emotional ego-consciousness of Internity so we can then choose differently how to participate with the nature of Love, Grief and all Life. Penultimately, I think it's time that our personal and collective egos learn about protection, empathy, nurturance and sustenance through the safe actions and emotions of Love for self, others and otherness! Ultimately, if one safely awakens the natural qualities of Internity, I think he or she will hear the emotional callings of Love and Grief but then answer all Life with full consciousness and intentional participation in the challenges, choices and changes of "Being Human."
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