10.28.2018
Loevinger asks us to focus on three sequential adult stages: the conformist, the conscientious, and the autonomous. In Loevinger’s... >>>
Loevinger asks us to focus on three sequential adult stages: the conformist, the conscientious, and the autonomous. In Loevinger’s conformist stages, morality is evaluated in terms of concrete externals rather than in terms of emotions. You love a woman if you give her an engagement ring. You can be trusted to have a child when you have a valid marriage license. You were admirable if you enlisted in the United States Marines in January 1942. Russiais “the Evil Empire,” and the American
flag is emblazoned with colors that don’t
run. Most laws and most religious
dogma work at this level. So do the
minds of a lot of devout patriots in all of
the world’s nations. If you are not with
us, you are against us.
As individuals mature, they reach
Loevinger’s conscientious stage. Love
means you put your mate’s needs above
your own lust. You can be trusted to
have children when you are able to care
for them properly. You learn to entertain
the possibility that a man might still have
been admirable if in 1942 he preferred
jail as a conscientious objector to killing
other human beings. You value
ecumenical religious services, andsometimes you support the United Nations over your own country’s interests. You learn to differentiate your emotions and master Piagetian formal operations. Loevinger believes, and I agree, that
some, but not most, adults evolve further into what she calls the autonomous stage. By autonomous she means trusting others to be autonomous. Rather than giving the hungry a fish, you teach them how to catch fish themselves. Defining love becomes more difficult than just the
My religion is the soul, the heart, in charge of the head and flesh.
My religion is the soul, the heart, in charge of the head and flesh.
You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body and a computer. Anonymous. Detail
Regarding James being absent from Facebook. Detail
And it is like being an addiction counselor, and opioid addiction counselor, in West Virginia. People there want their opioids, they don't want to be rid of them, although they probably Like to talk about being rid of them.
Or like Harriet Tubman experienced, I could have saved a thousand more if they had understood they were slaves.
Regarding my inactivity on Facebook now, I must avoid enabling with chatter those addicted to head and flesh in charge, and continue the work of preparing myself to help the occasional soul that is dying to be rid of the addiction.
In the historically unlikely event that an individual is dying for such help, they can subscribe to the daily update from this blog, study the blog and the materials that it points to, painstakingly accumulated over the years, and contact me directly.
10.27.2018
... For millennia, theologians, largely male, have suggested that spirituality was about basic intellectual questions like “Who am I? Why am I here? What happens to me when I die? How can I please my God?” These dry, cognitive questions are about patriarchal gods and “me.” In the last century, however, cultural anthropologists (such as Margaret Mead), ethologists (such asJane Goodall), and neuroscientists (such as Andrew Newberg) have been more likely to suggest that spirituality reflects limbic questions about love, community, positive emotions, and the feeling of “being one with the universe.”... Vaillant
For millennia, theologians, largely
male, have suggested that spirituality was about basic intellectual questions like “Who am I? Why am I here? What happens to me when I die? How can I please my God?” These dry, cognitive
questions are about patriarchal gods and “me.” In the last century, however, cultural anthropologists (such as Margaret Mead), ethologists (such asJane Goodall), and neuroscientists (such as Andrew Newberg) have been more likely to suggest that spirituality reflects limbic questions about love, community,
positive emotions, and the feeling of “being one with the universe.”
Over the last two thousand years literate humans “forgot” how to think with the brain with which they were born. The more humankind learned to think rationally, the.... Vaillant
Over the last two thousand years literate humans “forgot” how to think with the brain with which they were born. The more humankind learned to think rationally, the more estranged they became from their innate emotional spirituality. Since the Enlightenment, this divorce between emotion and reason has become complete for many in the West. As I have already noted, until the penetration of neuroscience, cultural anthropology, and ethology into the culture over the past fifty years, the positive emotions were virtually abandoned as a focus for respectable scientific research.
While the cultural memes of compassionate religions spread throughout the globe, the simultaneous spread of literacy overthe last two thousand years made possible the gradual evolution of science at the expense of spirituality. Vaillant
While the cultural memes of compassionate religions spread throughout the globe, the simultaneous spread of literacy overthe last two thousand years made possible the gradual evolution of science at the expense of spirituality.
Vaillant.... The “Way” of Confucius led neither to Heaven nor to Yahweh’s favor,but rather to a “condition of transcendent goodness.>>>
In a China torn to pieces by tribal
strife, Kong Qiu (551–479 BCE)—whose name in the West is Confucius—worked out the moral principles of the New Testament 500 years before Christ and 2,500 years before Schweitzer and Gandhi. The “Way” of Confucius led neither to Heaven nor to Yahweh’s favor,but rather to a “condition of transcendent
goodness.
..... What mattered to Confucius, Socrates, Christ, and Isaiah was not what you believed but how you behaved. Show me, don’t tell me. “God” was the experience of loving compassion, not an all-powerful, judgmental, and often angry patriarch.....
In Armstrong’s words, “The Axial Age pushed forward the frontiers of human consciousness and discovered a transcendent dimension in the core of their being, but they did not necessarily regard this as supernatural…. If the Buddha or Confucius had been asked whether he believed in God, he would probably have winced slightly andexplained—with great courtesy—that this was not an appropriate question.”22 What mattered to Confucius, Socrates, Christ, and Isaiah was not what you believed but how you behaved. Show me, don’t tell me. “God” was the experience of loving compassion, not an all-powerful, judgmental, and often angry patriarch.
Cultural evolution, mediated by language, has been as important for human survival as brain complexity mediated by genetic evolution has been for mammalian survival. Cultural evolution, after all, is faster and more flexible than....>>>
Your life is the profound opposite, the profound antidote potential, to the status quo or you are part of the problem, not hope for a better world. Status quo lives or anything close their to is destroying everything decent quickly.
Your life is the profound opposite, the profound antidote potential, to the status quo or you are part of the problem, not hope for a better world. Status quo lives or anything close their to is destroying everything decent quickly.
Cycling 900-pound ebike payload technique . detail
1. 100%, all, the entire power is in the scissoring, pumping, knees / thighs, and especially in the smooth complete high-stepping rise of each knee and thigh with every stroke. Everything seems to be set up by this. PUMPING IN ENERGY FROM DIRECTLY UNDER THE Vehicle at very low cadence, to a substantial angle forward depending upon the speed of Revolutions of the crank.. the angle is absolutely critical but quite clear if one thinks about it at a point in time as a function of thrust power and Cadence.
2. Operate within, as part of the machine, not acting on the machine. After hours of effective technique the body seems to find an extreme efficiency and Effectiveness space between easily staying part of the machine centered in the knees with low force and then adding just enough force that the full perimeter of the machine can be kept entirely throughout every rotation but substantial Force applied every centimeter of the stroke 360 degrees.
3. 100% limp, The Shins ankles feet. Completely counterintuitive. Their limp purpose is to give 100% freedom to the knees / thighs to circle, scissor, with in their full range of cycling /pumping. Miraculously, it works.
Additional considerations.
Relax fully in the stroke, as frequently as needed, to feel the extremes and limits of the range of travel of the knee thigh levers. Then gently but firmly add pressure within that full range.
Seek to pull energy into the vehicle with every inch of that full range, with every inch of travel.
This post will be updated as needed.
Practically 100% of my posting in the future will be on my blog, not on Facebook, Facebook being irresistible temptation for people to vent without actually becoming more of a soul, becoming more of a soul the only Revolution, the only hope, the only joy.
10.26.2018
Overthrow of the head and flesh by the Soul / heart, the only true Revolution possible. Pic
We have a Triune Brain, Reptile (Flesh, selfish), Homo Sapiens (Head, selfish), Mammalian (Soul, Heart, Altruistic, Otherish, Altruistic). This is the science, neuroscience, ethology, primatology, psychology, anthorpology.
The only possible revolution is to put the Soul, Heart, in charge.
The Titanic we, WE, are sinking, is the necessary certain result of the Head and Flesh in charge. They DO NOT KNOW, CAN NOT CARE ABOUT, future of creation. DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. THINK ABOUT IT. Only the Heart, Soul, is designed and capable of CARING for the future of creation. This is what my life, and this site, have been about for the last 10 years.
The proof of the head and flesh (Reptilian brain) in charge. Trump and his hoards are the Reptile people. No?? The Democrats, Liberals, are the Head... Silicon, Cerebral, gutless, heartless, intellectual people. NO?!?!?!?!?
THE Revolution, Soul/Heart in charge, HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED. Jesus tried to start it and BEFORE HIS BODY WAS COLD, his 'followers' genned up a Religion of Head and Flesh under his brand. The exceptions prove the rule.
Why wage this Revolution?
1. Waging it is the only Joy.
2. Waging it is the only possibility of Joy for those you can influence.
3. Waging it is the only way to possibly provide a good future for future generations, though ecocide, armageddon, is now beyond avoiding, but the survivors....
Get on with it.
For more, click on the 'tags' below for more posts and information. Explore this site, posts at the right timeline, tags at the bottom left.. I am a pitiful instrument, but am 40 years ahead of the 2018 science. I know what I'm talking about. Ignore this at your peril, a the peril of all whom you influence.
Regardless, never say I didn't do my best for you. I have, and will continue to do so.
My life remains devoted, every breath, to this revolution. Subscribe at the upper right, to the daily email summary. Or not. I cannot do your part, nor will I anymore try. You can lead a horse to water....
James
You cannot do both, join a religion, or join the divine. One or the other.
You cannot do both, join a religion, or join the divine. One or the other.
10.25.2018
10.24.2018
Only those Dying For Life can be given Eternal Joy, Maybe, and life keeps teaching me this. By wasting my life on those not yet Dying For Joy, I prolong their living death, and dilute my work of getting ready. Can my soul become good enough that I stop this betrayal?
However, it is far easier to talk about happiness than joy. Joy is all about connection with others; happiness is all about drive reduction for the self. Must read George vaillant, spiritual Evolution. Now.
10.23.2018
Hear me. The conservatives have no opposition party. Democrats just another party of selfishness. Fundamental otherishness would be the opposition. It has never been tried or seriously considered. Not since Jesus proposed it, and was killed for it.
Hear me. The conservatives have no opposition party. Democrats just another party of selfishness. Fundamental otherishness would be the opposition. It has never been tried or seriously considered. Not since Jesus proposed it, and was killed for it.
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.
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>>>
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.
10.22.2018
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”
—“The Peace Prayer of St. Francis”