Saturday, May 26, 2012

Unity, Separation and Reunion

     It seems to me that the "nature via nurture" of Internity is, in one way or another, formulated by conscious and unconscious sensations of unity, separation and reunion.  I mean, all Potential is discovered through complex and continuous circumambulations of what it means to be individually ("the hero's journey") and collectively ("participation mystique") unified, separated and reunited.  All Relationships are expressed via the internal joys and sorrows created by a sense of unity, separation and reunion (dependence-independence-interdependence-intradependence).  All Experiences are imagined and stored as emotional memories, feelings/values and beliefs/thinking patterns (oppressing or freeing) and connected in every way to unity, separation and reunion.  And all Perceptions are emotionally meaningful in terms of how they relate to unity, separation and reunion (fearful desperation creates the emotions of fight, flight, freeze or dissociate; and the fulfillment of desire creates the emotions of having, feeling, acting, loving, speaking and being heard, seeing and knowing).  The factors and influences of genetics, family, "the interiorization of community," peers, education, environment, temperament and calling (whoever is telling the story) all become "How I Am" schemas that get played-out in the theater of unity, separation and reunion.  Likewise, the purposeful behavior of "Being Human" - physiological health/survival needs, psychological health/safety needs, social health/belonging needs, mental health/fun and learning needs, emotional health/power needs and spiritual health/freedom needs - are all motivated by Internity's conscious and unconscious responses to unity, separation and reunion.  It also seems that consciousness, challenges, choices and changes are all evoked by and then result in fluctuating awareness and truth of unity, separation and reunion.  Additionally, the original, sexual, imaginative and mortal realities of personal and collective humankind are all part of the Life-Death-Rebirth mythologies that empower ideas of unity, separation and reunion.  The Love and Grief of "How I Am: Being Human," therefore, both center and revolve around the possibilities of Life's "participation mystique" with the "nature via nurture" realizations of one's Internity.  In effect, always and everywhere, sensations and formulations of Internity (conscious and unconscious), create purposeful and internally motivated behaviors in response to the safe or unsafe Potentials, Relationships, Experiences and Perceptions of unity, separation and reunion.