George vaillant, spiritual Evolution. modern neuroscience has also allowed us to appreciate that we have more than one brain. If there.....

George vaillant, spiritual Evolution. modern neuroscience has
also allowed us to appreciate that we have more than one brain. If there.... are important differences between ideas and emotions, there are differences in the parts of the brain most important to their appreciation. If there are important differences between lyrics and music, there are differences in the parts of thebrain important to their creation. To oversimplify, the left-brain hemisphere specializes in details and articulates and understands ideas, words, and component parts. The right brain specializes in inarticulate music, visual images, and wholes (gestalts). The limbic brain specializes in emotion. Cognitive ideas can be expressed in
words and controlled voluntarily, and for their expression ideas are powerfully dependent on the Homo sapiens’ cerebral hemispheres—the neocortex. Emotional feelings are equally dependent on our more mammalian subcortical brain—the limbic system and the hypothalamus.

Our place tonight. Pics

The best of us have been and remain cancer. The exceptions prove the rule. My dad, and to a....

The best of us have been and remain cancer. The exceptions prove the rule. My dad, and to a... degree my mom, are among the most good people I've ever known personally. My dad the most good. We were malignant cancer. We bore no malice toward the rest of creation, we had positive feelings. We religiously consumed thousands of times more than our share, thousands of times more than is sustainable. The body functions, the body is healthy, because every cell devotes each nano second to the well-being of the body. My god, we did the opposite with few exceptions. The exceptions prove the rule. America is based on this madness, Western civilization, capitalism, materialISM. Since it's inception but accelerating greatly in the last 70 years or so. America is based on this cancer. Of course it is dying. It is painful when cancer dies, but it is not necessarily bad. Somewhere in the future the surviving cells, the surviving humanoids, they have an opportunity to begin a new.

Spiritual Evolution, George vaillant. "By 1990 modern science fully accepted the reality of emotion, but to many, positive emotions remained unmentionable. Consider>>>

"By 1990 modern science fully
accepted the reality of emotion, but to many, positive emotions remained unmentionable. Consider... that in 2004 the leading American text the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, half a million lines in length, devotes100 to 600 lines each to shame, guilt, terrorism, anger, hate, and sin, thousands of lines to depression and anxiety, but only five lines to hope, one line to joy, and not a single line to faith, compassion, forgiveness, or love.9 By contrast, organized religions—somistrusted by the French and Bolshevik revolutionaries and by twentieth-century social scientists—focus intently on the positive emotions.

Our place tonight

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, let me sow forgiveness;… Where there is doubt, let me sow faith; Where there is despair, let me give hope…. Where there is sadness, let me give joy; O Master, grant that I may not so much to seek compassion but to give compassion. —“The Peace Prayer of St. Francis”

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, let me sow forgiveness;… Where there is doubt, let me sow faith; Where there is despair, let me give hope…. Where there is sadness, let me give joy; O Master, grant that I may not so much to seek compassion but to give compassion.
—“The Peace Prayer of St. Francis”

Progress today and plans, Outlook. Detail

Study has returned front-and-center to each day, thankfully. Efficient and effective cycling has been mastered for this vehicle it seems so attention can go to today's study of the must-read must-read must-read George vaillant spiritual evolution. Second reading. Just finished is the must-read Robert sapolsky, behave. Today was a light 20 miles, 800 calories. Thursday replacement bright warning lights for the vehicle arrived 33 miles ahead, 43 energy miles, in Monmouth Lakes. Tomorrow morning advice will be sought on a quick diversion into Yosemite.

Light travel, 900 calorie day, cloudy afternoon. Details

Thankfully study is now back front and center. Indeed cycling this vehicle has been efficiently and effectively mastered so attention can be on study. Today reading the must-read George vaillant spiritual Evolution. Must read. Yesterday or the day before finished first reading of Robert sapolsky, behave, must read. Bright replacement safety lights arrive in Mammoth Lakes 33 miles ahead, 43 mile energy equivalent, Thursday. Tomorrow morning will determine whether there is time to divert into Yosemite Park briefly.

No really, the elites Run the World, and the non Elites, we are simply impediments to them. They have>>>

No really, the elites Run the World, and the non Elites, we are simply impediments to them. They have.... no systems in common with us, their own legal system, their own economic system, their own government, their own infrastructure, their own neighborhoods. It is Elysium.

Some beauty remains. Photographs

Please, who is this guy? Vid

No particular rush but this is the plan for today, or maybe today and tomorrow. Probably too ambitious for just today and there are places to stop about halfway.

A note of goodbye to my dearest friends, today, for now.>>>

I would far rather be paranoid than to Place those I especially love in jeopardy. I seek the truth, not whatever luxury paranoia might provide. I don't know the truth but I spend more time than most trying to understand it on the essentials. The khashoggi affair has been particularly alarming to me. There are not multiple different human rights for different populations. It only seems that way. There is only one human species and therefore only one set of Human Rights. Saudi Arabia because of their money will be allowed by the elites of the world to get away with the dismemberment of a living human soul. Scanning this article it captures things fairly well.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/22/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-murder-cynics-analysis-intl/index.html

And then this headline this morning from the individual I have for many years now described as the most important intellectual writing today, Chris hedges. Perfect is he? No. Sadly he has a strong tendency to wallow in depression. However, as the clearest most informed Visionary of our age maybe he is to be forgiven for that because he has seen more clearly and sooner than anyone and more deeply the unfolding cataclysm.

The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Either Tyranny or Revolution

Dearest friends, the close communication and contact we have been in recently has been an inexpressible Joy To Me. You know that. The way things are headed in the world and this country it is not at all inconceivable that I will become a Target and those associated with me a Target. When I open my email I yearn to see one from either of you. But no longer. I will continue to write and publish at my blog. My direction will go on as I articulated in the rather long document I shared with you both yesterday. Attempting to breathe life into soul. https://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2018/10/to-be-completed-to-gooden-human-soul.html But I will cease participating in leaving a trail between us that could be used to put you in danger.

Do you take even a 1% or a 5% chance of bringing those you hold most dear into Danger? I do not.

I am open to changing my view of things. I study such things continually. And if my understanding of things changes I will let you know.

Hugs. James

AIDS, auto immune deficiency syndrome, is deadly because the infection can't be fought. The tidal wave of evil ascendant in the world is demonstrating that the human species of 2018 does not have the ability to fight it. The outcome is virtually certain. The speed and exact form and course is not as certain. For pity's sake, stop having children

AIDS, auto immune deficiency syndrome, is deadly because the infection can't be fought. The tidal wave of evil ascendant in the world is demonstrating that the human species of 2018 does not have the ability to fight it. The outcome is virtually certain. The speed and exact form and course is not as certain. For pity's sake, stop having children.

James, I hope your mood Has Lifted, you spoke of depression yesterday. My reply

Yes, my mood has lifted. The world to my eyes is an ocean of festering increasing evil but if I hold fast to the (water skiing) tow rope of trying to make things better I stay slightly above it, with some Joy, much peace, and am able to travel on. Rarely do I get distracted and lose my grip on the tow rope but sometimes it happens. Yesterday and the day before it happened, because of a severe distraction to do with potential safety of the vehicle and that it might actually be marooned where I was parked or substantially damaged if extracted. Pictures were posted of This Magnificent site along the river, far enough from the high-speed road that road noise was at a minimum and visibility of the cars was at a minimum. Right along this River it is very Rocky and some sand because of the spring flooding that obviously occurs. To get from the highway over to the river, only about a hundred yards, a third of the way there there is a Gully and it caught me by surprise tired in the evening as I traveled in and my mind's eye saw it as quite severe. In a split-second I decided to increase the speed of the vehicle down one side of the Gully and up the other on the basis that too little speed and it would get stuck and unable to climb the other side. It worked and shortly Camp was being set up over by the river. Wide awake I found myself in the middle of the night all of a sudden, and in my mind's eye the Gully was very deep, and I realized all of a sudden that 0 thought had been given to whether the vehicle could make it back out to the highway. And in my mind's eye the answer was very very possibly no. This raised serious issues about what to do, a tow truck could be called after walking several miles down into town. But that would be a significant expense and could the vehicle survive the strain of being towed? There is no place on the vehicle where a strap or rope can be attached without damaging the vehicle. Laying there among the tasks in my mind was how to rig such a thing temporarily and how to do such a thing more permanently in the future. And much thought was given to the fact that I just didn't think ahead. Very inflexible. I knew I wanted to get to that spot. I knew of no good options. But never would I have done so if I had taken just a moment more to realize that maybe the entire vehicle was being put at risk. It has been a long time since I've faced such a situation and my skills have gotten Rusty. I didn't stop to think of the consequences. I'm very grateful for that lesson. A little bit more sleep was gotten in spurts by me and then there was enough light many hours later to go out and inspect the Gully. It was not nearly as severe as my mind's eye had captured. Some risk but with a little care it was likely we could get out, and we did, without any apparent damage. Anyway, all of that distracted me from the tow rope and it need not have to the degree that it did. But it did. And hence the depression. Another lesson. In what seems like my more sane moments where it even occurs to me that sometime this fascist government May first torture and then kill me. Probably not but it's not out of the question. So far that doesn't distract me. It helps me remember I am a soul, I care about the soul, mine and that of others, and they can't damage that unless I let them. And that puts my body at peace and keeps me from depression.

All confidence in the church has been lost by me, I said. You'll be standing right along Jesus in the end, he said. Details

The nice looking couple a little older than me were parked by the side of the highway obviously hoping that I would stop and speak. That's quite a rig, how are you today? Not well, I replied honestly, I'm watching everything decent on Earth be destroyed. They nodded, surprised, but in some sympathy with what I said I think. I went on, what keeps me going is trying to breathe life into a soul here or there. It kills me that I can't do more but I can try to do that so I do. She said, do you speak at churches? All hope and confidence in churches has been lost by me, I said. As a matter of fact, I believe that the same was with Jesus. My understanding is that he refused the church group of his day, the synagogue, and he refused the entreaty of his biological family and apostles to form a new one. This is why he never stayed in one place more than a day. He refused to join or form a group, a clan, a club, because that would mean leaving his real family, all of creation, all human beings. While relating this I watched their faces and would gladly have stopped short if I saw distress. I saw surprise but not distress. But do you feel peace, the man asked me? Yes I said, and all the pain of the world right in my chest. You will be standing alongside Jesus in the end he said. Neither of them seemed at all like religious zealots in any way.

Plan and progress today.

Our place this morning, and last night. Pictures.

Monumental importance. Quote from Spirit, George vaillant, recent book.>>>

Only recently have scientists rediscovered that the compassion, joy, and unselfish love so important to religion and to the Neolithic mind are not irrelevant to science. You see, the Neolithic (hunter-gatherer) mind that “natural selection built” was more like that of a four-year-old—all images, animism, magic, and emotion—than like that of a modern, highly educated adult. Dependence on the written word and the use of the scientific experiment to verify imagined cause and effect were still far in the future by the time that natural selection had completed the “hardware” of the Homo sapiens brain. Moreover, ever since our invention of new “software” like the printing press and the scientific method, we have had less and less respect for the superstitious, mystical brain that natural selection built. The task of a thoughtful future humanity m...