Kategori: psykologi

why we celebrate ”christmas” here in the north

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In contradiction to what christianity had led us to believe, and later materialism, and shopping addiction, I suggest that Santa Claus origin is rather to be found in the northern folklore figure of Väinämöinen, the hero creator of our world anew. And in the stories about him where he is viewed as the bringer of conciousness. A seer and creator. A bard, and the spirit of chants, songs and poetry.

Väinämöinen is thus very far from the figure we invigorate our children with today. And he has nothing to do with our present day view of Santa Claus or its Christian substitution Saint Nicholas. But still, I think the exaggerated search for, and the original purpose of Christmas gifts can become understood in a new way again through old northern beliefs, because it reveals another meaning to the procuring and giving of gifts. Since this old view got distorted and lost, the original intention of acquiring them was turned into materialism and greed. However, no wish list can ever replace the connection that has been lost to our original whole.

Väinämöinen is connected to the foundation of the world pillar, also thought of as the “world tree” that was thought to rest on the Pohjantähti or the North Star holding up the world. This is the very star that we put at the top of the christmas tree.
The north star and its position in the sky is also what guides the tietäjä’s, and noadi heroes to seek marriage with the daughters of Pohjola. Here in Pohjola the female Louhi is the powerful and evil witch Queen ruling over this northern realm with her ability to change shape and weave mighty enchantments. She appears as raw Nature, a Queen of great powers and she request a payment for the hands of her daughters in marriage. She seduces us into pretending to be her daughters. But it’s her way of being enchanting, hiding who she really is. It is deception through imagination, by magic. Being aware of this is the entrance to our psychic reality, our soul. Without payment she will not reveal who she really is. We have to give something up for her to change, to show herself. Louhi also sets difficult to impossible tasks to perform in order to claim such a prize, which leads to the forging of the Sampo.
The sampo is one such payment, a magic mill of plenty which churns out abundance. And abundance is what we feel when we are connected to this axis or tree holding up the sky. Separating out a conscious space between her world and our instincts. Its churning lid have also been interpreted as a symbol of the celestial vault of the heavens, embedded with stars, revolving around a central axis. It can also be seen as the eternal sum of all time and our experience of being in its constant course, the relentless circling around its axis and the churning of our inner work, observing the timeless forms revealed to us in the ordeals we have to go through to enter her world in between. Her name Louhi also refers to this space as it is connected to the modern word “lovi” which in Finnish means cleft or crevice. And giving her gifts, like the sampo, can be seen as an act of being attentive in our personal work, of sacrificing ourselves and subjecting ourselves to the experience of her in the space where we will get to know her true character. We have to earn her acceptance before she gets visible to us and show us some of her benevolent and helpful aspects. The hero or Tietäjä has to give something up for his transference to gain entrance into Pohjola. To be able get himself this kind of a wife. Which is done with chants, songs and poetry. By developing his creative skills. Otherwise her magic influence will seduce him by using his own imagination. Which is what true magic is all about in our everyday life. But if he can cope with this, she might come to his support, and give up some of those magical abilities in return for the efforts as he get access to the celestial world of the heavens through her. But first the noadi hero must help to keep the world up on its pillar by some sacrifice. Because if there is no pillar, there is no wife. And there certaintly is no world.
There is also a good reason for doing all this at the time of “Christmas”. Christmas is celebrated on the winter solstice when the pillar seems to be at its weakest, and almost broken on the longest night of the year. Christmas was originally a ceremony linked to the winter solstice. It is a recognition of rebirth, of creating and balancing up the world again with the help of the spirit of Väinämöinen. We are trying to assemble back the lost gift. The Sampo that has been lost when stolen by Louhi, and broken into pieces. Which we can see as our fragmented mind. Our psychic consciousness that has been lost through her magical ability in her use of our imagination. On the winter solstice we want to show that we have submitted ourselves to the search by bringing back the pieces of the sampo in our giving of Christmas gifts, to help the spirit of the noadi/tietäjä/hero to enter into this purely abstract place, a foreboding forever cold land far in the north. And to meet with Louhi. To get our souls back, and find our way back to a world of psyche.
By celebrating Christmas, we are actually trying to bring back her magic, the abundance of her shared space, to access what is inside it by putting the lost and broken pieces of our soul back together again, and go through the trials required in trying to work with Louhi in a ceremonial way. We do not celebrate “christ-mass”, we pay tribute to the sun and celebrate winter solstice. We are asking the spirit of Väinämöinen to help us find our way back to nature, to her and to our soul.

about leaderships and its wars

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Once again we find a man who gathers his influence and self-proclaimed greatness behind patriotism and the sufferings of others. It’s about our male ego. About reinforcing it, because its total dominance in the sense of its control over our moods and emotional life is threatened. It will oscillate between an inflated sense of omnipotence and a sense of being constantly questioned by self-pity, and of an excessive need to control everything and everyone. It does not know that it is questioned from within. From our individual need of psychic birth. How many times can we allow this to happen to us before we understand what we are giving up on in ourselves. It is our lack of character, and the pain of psychic ignorance. That lack in ourselves which creates the leaders we get. It is what we neglect and fail to recognise in ourselves that we support in people and leaders around us. This is how we create our own sufferings. It is about our own reality. What we want it to look like. Is this it? The commitment to grow and mature falls heavily on each and every one of us and our conflicts reflect what we hide behind our naive ways of relating to our psychic reality, what we do not want to see, and what we force others to submit to in our place. How much suffering do we have to inflict on others and go through before we have had enough? Before we pay attention to our own psychic ignorence.

We come to a point in our lives, in our teens, where Sarakka calls out to us. She is also called the “woman divider”. She comes with a sense of separation, where our inner sense of the whole we have been in is separated from our outer life and forms our first experience of the whole we are in as something both of an individual experience, as a common calling, and a collective one. Our ego itself can no longer maintain it as part of our external physical reality. It must give it up and face it as an experience in itself, as an intervention and a requirement for participation, as psyche. The conflicts the ego creates are what happens to us when we do not find a way to go through with it. When we do not find the psychic courage to face Juksakka’s direct intensity and powerful natural authenticity. Because she absolutely demands it of us. Either we meet her terms or our ego goes to war with itself. We desperately need to put the bear inside of us at rest. In historic and psychic time this is the traditional ritual context where the bear hunt found its meaning. As a result of negotiating with our instincts it makes Maderattje visible to us as the source who provides us with our primordial psychic environment, beyond our fathers and external authorities, and maderakka embodies it as its relation to our life. As an extension of this process, radien-niejta appears as a psychic consciousness experienced both in the extent of her outer bright energetic aspect, as well as in her dark reclusive side as saivo-niejta. Her appearence connects us with our inner companion and its relationship to the original cosmic totality with all its living forms and elements of potential life. Something whose source makes itself felt within us at the same time as it is everywhere, in everything around us. A dream I had tells me about this; I am behind an electric fence that consists of two thick cables. Out of an sami hut made of earth, earthmother comes out in the sunrise and greets it with her arms in an angle, palms up. I cut the thick cables in the electric fence and step out on the other side. From a mountain side I see two people coming down towards me. I walk ahead to meet them. It’s a young couple. I show them my packing on the snowmobile trailer that I have. Some time has passed since I had this dream. But I now realize when some time has passed and I am writing this, that what this dream was tryng to show me, what it meant was that I still had some work to do with what my packing contained. But the couple who came to meet me were radien-niejta and radien-giedde.

we are simply just not in there

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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from the literature of the whole world –all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their souls.”

.. But this attitude, pervasive throughout the world, has resulted in “neuroses and similar illnesses,” the loss of meaning in life, “mental epidemics” and the “restriction of consciousness” which leads to emptiness in life.
Jung warns us that our denigration of the soul has left us “alone and you are confronted with all the demons of hell,” showing up as “anxiety neurosis, nocturnal fears, compulsions,” and all of this due to the fact that our souls have “become lonely;”
“Without soul, spirit is as dead as matter, because both are artificial abstractions; whereas man originally regarded spirit as a volatile body, and matter as not lacking in soul.”
— C G Jung

Our content must come from somewhere, experiences are not only formulated by our surroundings, they have once emerged from the formless events that appear in ourselves. By not acknowledging this origin and the content that our bodies are carriers of, and the inner organization it conveys, we cannot formulate the living influence it has on us. We can only look at and confirm what we see in a materialistic sense. But we do not feel more involved in our lives or the nature we are a part of and embody as psychic beings in that way. Some of us may even call it psychology to deny ourselves the individually experienced content that formulates what we are. They cannot see what they are when it is formulated spontaneously, and must be interpreted and understood, by and in themselves regardless of the prevailing perception as of how we should look at ourselves through our surroundings. Or in our time only by the material composition of our body. We can say and do things, but not with substance. With a relation to it, because it questions how we want others to think about ourselves too much. We must then constantly repeat our denial of the validity of others’ relation to their own content as formulated by them, and compulsorily make others an image of ourselves. Something we repeat in how we ourselves have been traumatized, and then traumatize our own children. They do not suffer from a mental illness just because they oppose it. They’re just not you. That’s what they and we oppose. But we will destroy both each other and the world before we accept this, what we have been exposed to and never dared to question within ourselves.
If we expose ourselves to what others are going through by letting ourselves face our own experiences of it together with them, but without taking care of what it is in them, then we are often considered insensitive. We live in a kind of spiritual exchange culture where no one should have their own relationship to our psyche without someone else’s involvement. But if we do not expose ourselves to what we are experiencing there, we are not involved in how our life affects us. And if we replace our own experiences with others, we deny others of having their own. But if we acknowledge its common origin, then we have in common that we formulate the content of that of us that we perceive individually but which is psychically common and shared with all. We do not share any experiences in itself, but we share the impression of a background power in our psychic organization that makes us have them. I think that’s what Jung is talking about when he refers to the soul. To our Nature.

about our psychological survival

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If people could only conclude that what we call culture has always been a world in which our individual imagination creates our social reality, and that our personal experience of what we are, creates a perception of our being out of this in itself. And that this distinction between the two, is about the survival of both our inner and outer world. From all of the reality that we can choose to create, we choose the one with a distorted view of how our source of raw nature is related to culture.
We seem to have lost contact with this, and the primordial ancestors we carry within us as a psychological reality. And that has become our social reality.

about the eternal child

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Wthin our mind this child form is with us all the time. It is part of what we are. And he or she, is the one to bring us to the source of our being. To handle its messages. This is its true function after adolescence.
In this place we can also sense its absence in all directions, everywhere and in everywhen. We cannot disregard its mental form when we sense it without severe punishment from its objection to our ways, and a constant feeling of it being a disturbance to our normal patterns of behavior when we are not paying attention to its activity.
In its externalised form our senses constantly bring repulsive evidence of how the relation to it works in the world. Don´t take my word for it, words are always insufficient to experience. They can never describe the absolute immediacy of this relationship.
But true to this pre-formed beingness, I am deeply convinced that it is by a loss of this relationship we have come to shape the present day world around us.

Vine Deloria on education

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Education in the English-American context resembles indoctrination more than it does other forms of teaching, because it insists on implanting a particular body of knowledge and a specific view of the world that often does not correspond to the life experiences that people have or might be expected to encounter.

Vine Deloria. Spirit and Reason

Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind

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The mind is form, form is body.

These forms and nature seem to be one and the same thing, but seen from different perspectives: ”while the mind is being the world as seen from within, and ’nature’ being the world as seen from without (C G Jung)”, they both seem part of the world of forms as we try to imagine them.

We take counsel with ourselves in the realm of imagination wether we acknowledge it or not.

In Inuit mythology, Silap Inua (‘possessor of spirit’) or Sila (‘breath, spirit’) was, similar to mana or ether, the primary component of everything that exists; it is also the breath of life and the method of locomotion for any movement or change. Sila is believed to control everything that goes on in one’s life.

Sila is a deity of the sky, the wind, and of weather. Though identified as male, he is never depicted, and thought to be formless. There are very few myths in which Sila is a character, because he is not thought to have many personality characteristics. Sila is also the substance of which souls are made of.

The word [siˈlʲa] has meanings like “universe”, “outer world”, “space”, “free space”, “weather”.

Sila is the spirit that all things are made​​ off, the wind Indweller. Silap inua, a great spirit, he lives in everything and keeps everything separate and yet together. Silap Inua is the spirit of the sky and the master of life who gives anirniq, the breath of life, to all living things, and can take it away. In fact, the term sila has many meanings: it is intelligence, it is the order of things, the atmosphere, the world itself.
Sila is just like a casing around the earth. It is as though the earth is inside Sila.

“If the elementary particles in the realm of potentiality wouldn’t form a coherent whole, the empirical world that is emanating out of the cosmic potentiality would be chaotic. However, the visible isn’t chaotic. Rather, it always appears to us as a coherent system. Thoughts usually appear in a conscious mind. Thus, the appearance of thoughtlike forms in the cosmic potentiality suggests that consciousness is a cosmic property. The universe is conscious and our thinking is the thinking of the cosmic mind, which finds consciousness in us!”

Traditions embody forms and make them a living reality to the mind.

Read the full article here: Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind

Reflections and dreaming

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After grinding it emotionally and having thought about it for a long time before writing my last post, following that, I then dreamt this.

I am watching a large crowd, and people in front of them are standing on crosses as they are taking turn in climbing up on them to imitate being crucified. There where no nails or ropes. No whipping. Everybody was clothed and being as they where in their every day life. After they had been standing on one of crosses for a while they stepped down and some other individual from this large crowd climbed up to take its empty spot. This is what everybody seemed to be doing.
My dream ended with a little boy happily climbing up on one of them just to watch what they where doing up there. He smiled at the person on the cross standing next to him as it was some kind of a play and he smiled back at the young boy. Here i woke up.
This dream confirmed to me that people of the christian faith really are crazy. They just seem to continue to do the same thing they always has been doing without thinking of why they are actually doing it.
I have always thought of this as kind of a game. An invisible social gameplay. Often just comical, but most of the time it creates unbelivable dramas in the real world.
The strange thing for me is that the majority of people always seemed to be unaware of it. They have completely lost their connection to nature.

A mask of fiction

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Without any access to my primordial side, to this living connection of psychological ancestors, I will easily fall prey to shallowness and become completely preoccupied with the opinions of others.
In another sense, i will just become a walking fiction, an externalized character of what my imagination has made of conformity, the personality I have learned to be.

About leaders and followers

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We know that there is something wrong with the world when we learn by a process of indoctrination, and not by having elders as teachers and leaders that are the best living examples of what the end result of our education and life experience should be. No human, in any human society, can really flower until they understand what individual components their human personality contains in a context to its society.
Right now it is more than evident that we try to accomplish this with a shattered experience of what we are, and without any unifying experience that can guide us in our psychic life.
We train professionals but not human beings. And we learn by indoctrination something that is quite different and apart from the reality of how we experience our life.
Ethics flow from the members of the ongoing life of a society, and as such is indistinguishable from its customs. It is from memorising this, we introject and copy our behaviour.

My participation in the theory of evolution as life

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There is this one continuous uninterrupted stream of life from the point of view of both my psyche and my biology, when I am looking at it in a linear fashion and involving the creation of all life on earth. I habitually associate this with the idea of evolution. But the thing is, I am related to every part of its life, and to all of its various forms of biological patterns and structures. It is what I’m composed of. I am not something differentiated from this as the term species suggests.
I am both an evolutionary component of nature and an inherent psychological potential of it.

One example of my biological relation to evolution is put forward by professor Jordan Peterson, of the University of Toronto. Like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies and have a nervous system attuned to status which “runs on serotonin”. The higher up a hierarchy a lobster climbs, this brain mechanism helps make more serotonin available. The more defeat it suffers, the more restricted the serotonin supply.
According to Peterson, hierarchies in humans work in a similar way – we are wired to live in them.

It is quite likely that biology in this sense is available to all life as universal structures and biological patterns inherent in the evolution of the physical world. And that we share common characteristics with many different parts of life. In this case as Peterson points out, we have a relation to lobsters.
Another simple example is that with our lungs we share breath with the photosynthesis of trees. And of course, the idea of evolution itself as an aspect of the world within because it is originating from that immaterial substance we call psyche in the first place. Which somehow has the ability to create itself out of matter. Here it is formed as a concept of evolution from its continuous and uninterrupted stream of imagination that we are part of as our common experience of culture and our collective mind. This is not something that has to be specific to just one species.

The original flow of ethics

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If you take the manifestation of a personal experience from its local and individual context and make it a truth applicable to all time and places, you have what politics and religious psychology have of trying to imprint experiences on people and cultures where it doesn’t make any sense.
This is feudalism of thought.
Instead of relying on the purity of expression as revelations within a living structure of recognitions, of relationships from people and their immediate environment, we endlessly repeat some historical significant dictates of past experiences with no connection to the present. And we try to permanent them. But universal time is something to be interpreted as a continuous communication with insights of additional knowledge about the nature of the world. And our ethics flow from that.
It does not flow from trying to permanent historical ideas or events.
The secularisation of any society is always this. The secular doctrine of permanency.

What history is made of

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History is the rational concept we use, to be able to put ourselves in ideas and events at the expense of experience, and to describe the actions of people dressed in an intellectually fixed reality, externalised in the substitute personality of a collective.
That is why history in the western and christian sense, may better be described from an individual and human perspective, outside of conceptual history, as a personally experienced horror of reoccuring psychopathic patriarchs, completely absorbed by the ruling principle of power. Something that is more than obvious in the grandiose imagination of globalisation and in the history of economic empires.

How do we choose our world?

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Outside of time we just are. We are subjectively motivated, and we follow an internal logic with its own reference to norms and value systems.
We alone are the sole witnesses to our impressions. To our experiences. Our being here precedes time and also coexists as a source outside of it. We exist in that as that exist in us. It is my original beingness. And that is something that is more valuable to me than any of the collective ideals we prefer to babysit with our ego.
Right here we are also provided with the means to participate in something that is bigger than ourselves.
It is where we reconnect to nature. To the directness of our oldest eternal settings of the psyche.
It has always been there, and we often unknowingly choose to acknowledge it by assigning transcendental values to the generalisations of someone or something at the expense of its, or his or hers individuality.
And to our horror, looking at the world, the ones least respectful of being is also the ones we seem to choose as our leaders since the shape of this world is determined by who we follow and what their relationship to being is.

About cultural appropriation

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Cultural appropriation is about psychological relations. It is about watering down a living relation to certain psychological contents and then converting that content into a conceptual reality. It is something that is done when we think we can access its content by rational means only. By omitting the relationship to a genuine psychological experience.
Our rational mind can only follow the natural flow of psychic life as it passes through us. But it is not from rationality it originates, it is not its source. And we cannot access that flow outside its own reality.
That knowledge is shared to us as we are going through the difficulties that surrounds it.
It is not something that is done by how we are dressed, or what attributes of a collective we identify ourselves with.
Cultural appropriation is the act of turning a psychological relation to life which does not belong to you, into an intellectual concept.

Logos is not spiritual reality

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No political ideology. No literal religious belief. No -ism what so ever. Or any philosophical view, can offer any metaphysical nourishment without femininity.
It is just conceptional reality disconnected from the source of life.
We are merely babysitting some of our collectives most cherised thoughts with excessive rationality in the same sense that excessive femininity can end up with collective statements as unconditional and literal truth.

Our way of life

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We have been manipulated to live less and less in tune with our own impulses, and in the intellect for so long that we now live our lives almost completely inside a conceptual reality.
Our human nature have been slowly distorted through generations of grinding in the mechanical demands of a system. The economic system, the employment system, the political system, the “justice” system, the educational system. So we no longer have any relation to our own nature. Let alone the experience and perspective of the greater attunement of our inner nature to our planet, to earth.
We are so chained to christian capitalism, to the wheels of commerce, to servitude, to this unrelenting systematic social machine, that when we look at the violence in this world, the wars, the deforesting, the filth and pollution, the injustice, the abuse and brutal violation of indigenous people and other atrocities created by our culture, we fail to see that we are also looking at ourselves. Our repressed native life. Or life close to nature, far from the mind of citylife.
We are really looking at our own anger, our own rage over being captives. It is an individual outburst of rebellion. This is how our spontaneous life rebel against the onesidedness of our rationality.
We just fail to see that it happens inside ourselves, apart from the collective. So unknowingly, we make sure it is going to happen out there.

About elections and remote decision making

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There is this great strategy. And it works all the time. No matter where and when.
You take part in anything that may be argumentative between people and then just choose side, make it political.
Fuel the opposing extremes and then claim as many votes as you can as you obscure the issue by heated generalisations. Promote their automatic behaviour.
People in the northern part of Sweden have a genuine dislikeness for the remote rulings of Stockholm. So any such strategy here is really clever. It will make people forget that the bottomline, what it is all about, is the decision making made on their behalf. On regional things that they have in common, agreed upon or not. And that it is not up to any outside part to jump to conclusions. But here they are, and they are getting played to secure popularity votes that is not going to benefit them in any way, and certainly not in any forseeable future. This has nothing what so ever to do with any local interests in this region. Its about getting influence in Stockholm. And claim votes wherever it is possible to secure this influence.
So let them squabble between themselves.
Fuck strategy.
Why should we bother about the army of the dead?

National day

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Today is the day we should together derive our individuality from a combination of collective identity; sex, race, social class, vocation and nationality. For some its about our beliefs, political and religious. And today we should lump it all together as nationality.
But I already have this one sense of personal identity, and it is derived from only one context. The sense of place.
So instead of crowding I think we should celebrate the land by go out watching and listening to a wonderful sunrise instead. Get in true contact with earth. With place. And really get to meet a beautiful landscape and gasp together with it in a breath of wonder and amazement.
That is what makes me feel part of something that is much bigger than me.
It is what I am sharing with my family everyday.

The entry of my being

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We all belong to a place. We can feel it in our bones, when on vacation. Or watching a sunset. When we are ovewhelmed by a landscape. My sense of identity is related to such a place as a lineage to its metaphysical origin. As being part of that which has existed before me, I am this place of origins unique entry in time and space.
I am also this origins particular set of qualities and characteristics.
A collective source, like a pattern of coded forms organized in a specific expression of life.
That is the essence of my personality.
And if something in that place somehow get transferred, exploited or in any way treated in a destructive way.
It is done to me too.

A reflexion about genders

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By being observant of myself and people in my surroundings I do support the psychological view that a mans impulses is by nature guided by the influences of his personal feminine. And a womans impulses is guided by the impersonal and rational distinktions of her masculine assumptions.
By nature this impulsiveness shows itself to us as having the character traits of our contrasexual side. This is how it behaves to us. And it is also how it appaears to us in dreams.
This is also shown in studies of the extremes as pointed out by psychologist Jordan Peterson. There is of course little difference in people who in their personality shows almost no differentiability. Which seems to support the experince coming from personal developement. Were developent in this sense is absent, as with children, or undifferentiated adults that show almost no distinction between themselves and others. Here, the gender differences are small or overlapping and the differentiability is experienced and believed as being small. But in the extremes were the personal differentiation is well developed and specific personal psychological character traits are domainant, as have been shown in studies of aggression as referred to by Peterson, gender differences are very evident. And they are also experienced as dominant.
But the thing most obvious to me in all the discussions about gender, seems to be that the part are always taken as the hole by the ego in its relation to this subject.
As individuals and on our own, we do have to find our way in this, as in how to relate to them both, because they play such important part for us in the total reality of our being.

The effects of life

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Every one of us are both descendants to our ancestors as we are ancestors to our descendants. What we do here and now will have an affect on them both, because we are them. We embody them.
If we don’t take care of the effects our collective life has on them now, this is what it’s going to be.
It does not go anywhere.
It is us. Our life.

The world we live in

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We all have a unique and individual expression of our being embedded in our dna. And some part of it is also inherited from a cultural conditioning behaving as a connection to a cultural past. When it unfolds in our spontaneous expression of being it will have its own pre-established way of presenting itself as imagination.
Its in our blood. And it is really not in the physical world. The struggle we have with this are within ourselves.
It also constitutes an individual form of danger when we by a collective, by corporations or governments, without a connection to our being allow ourselves to live out all kinds of interior worlds of imaginative self interest onto other people. We will then become a danger both to people, and to the world.
What we are doing to each other then, to this otherness, is trying to mirror and replace the within in other people, with that of our own, and then try to morally justify our actions by the submission of other people. As if a loud voice or forcefulness was an argument in itself.
And if they do not agree to this. We bring our war to them.
This will now become our world.

The father of our civilised world

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Imaginary speaking, I find myself living in a society which is compelled to act this figure in the cloud out with the ruling it has over everybody´s apprehension. They don´t seem to know it, but they are supporting him by continuing his old formal character, making his outworn presence felt in everyday life in terms of rules and regulations, in dogmas, and in a distant dead behaviour coming out of it. They are upholding a system of absence in their lives by trying to fill themselves up with a sense of responsibility and duty towards social and religious convention. Which they also force onto others. They believe in some principles of normality. Not in the experience of transpersonal reality. And nobody seem to be questioning this cloud figure rulings there. They just see themselves as a single part of his organisational maintenance.
It is almost incomprehensible what this is doing to them, and to our environment.
His tyrannical madness is what makes them all crazy.

Mother nature

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She is the growth and eternal renewal of all life. She carries and nurture the source and generative power of life. She embeds it and cares for its forms coming to life. It is the very spirit of life which is brought to her for her to carry. And she is what makes it all possible, because she brings whatever shape given to her, its physical body. When they are given to her she will nourish them. She will provide for them, and she will care for their wellbeing. Without her there would be nothing, our physical life will not exist at all. Life will no longer have its beingness. It will disappear from the source of individual life.
Life will be deprived of its purpose, it will have no meaning.

About authority

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We seem to have mixed up senses about what the meaning of power and the meaning of authority is. Power is the sun, the growth of nature. Authority is the interconnection of all life cycles beyond individual life. Authority is that existential knowledge which cannot be transferred from one person to another. That which has to be learned anew by each and everyone of us, by ourselves, alone.
Authority is respect for that which will help us on our way.

The reality of being

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“In the spiritual sense of reality you’re connected to everything, you know you’re connected.
But in the religious perception of reality, you committed a crime for being born, and in order to be – to justify being here – to get to stay – you had to submit yourself to an authoritarian system. You had to submit to the male dominator chain of command.”

— John Trudell

About our personal double

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We have been led to believe that we have to use a substitute for ourself. A not us to be used as a separate personality, and to be lived out as some kind of a non-connected representative of words rather than the experience of what we are. An attitude to be expressed as an alternative to individuality outside of our true being as an adjustment to how we think others want to perceive us. But even if we then somehow believe it is us, it is still going to behave as something separate from us. No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise, it is going to generalise and depersonalise our actions in the world we live in as that other. And by using it in that way, we will then come to blame an act of what we are doing on the role we are playing. Even if our actions still are our personal doings.
It is quite telling when people do awful things to other people or to our earth, and then look completely dumbfounded to the responsibility when confronted with it.
They don’t even sense it as something of their own. Its that “other one”, the surrogate personality.
It has become a separate personality acting on its own.

Maybe, its true or proper use is to help us personify all that we have of that inside of us, which can act as us and be as us from within, and make that better known to us in its own rights through our energized experiences.

We seem to have more in common with the aboriginal stomp dance in the light of a campfire than is apparant to the eye.

About leadership today

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Being directed by, and unaware of the patterns of behaviour that flow from the organizing structure of a certain collective itself, rather than the individuality of its members,
is getting us very close to how people have come to appreciate the political, financial and corporate leadership of today.

The inferiority complex game

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Is Trump completely out of it playing the inferiority complex game helping his counterpart to strengthen his position by exchanging the threats he uses to drum up support for his sense of significance to his people.
No matter which version used. They are both working the same complex on their own people.
Are people really that stupid?

Origins of personality?

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When every private emotion and personal ambition have its origin in public opinion and the media. We are simply being reduced to the expectation and the illusory goals of an eager and excited collectivity.

Participation mystique

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“Most connections in the world are not relationships, they are participation mystique. One is then apparently connected, but of course it is never a real connection, it is never a relationship.”

– C G Jung

“In a situation of participation mystique, the locus of the guiding will and consciousness is, in a way, outside and separate from the individual members of the group. Like a colony of ants or bees, each member is directed at an unconscious level by patterns of behavior that flow from the organizing structure of the colony itself, rather than the individuality of its members. In fact, in participation mystique each member becomes like an appendage, or cell, to the larger body of the group. This can create a mystical high for those who participate in it (hence the name). However, participation mystique is also the underlying mechanism of mob psychology. Its overall result is a decrease in the level of consciousness and autonomy among the group members. The individual’s perspective is suspended in favor of a group consciousness (or lack of consciousness, to be more exact).”

Victim addiction

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It is almost too obvious that people like Trump and extremists of all kind, appears as childish victims to us. It is all about opposites, separating everything into either of two extremes. Unconscious about it they retaliate on everything they perceive as the threat they must provide themselves with. They have become addictive to the process of having aggressors. And by trying to turn others to agree with them by oppression, they create their aggressors if they do not agree. Everything in their world circles around this polarity. Victims and aggressors need each other to exist.

And this is what media exploits. Its not a healthy symbiosis.

Om minnet

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Med minnet återskapar vi hela vår värld. I detta ögonblick. Hela tiden. Här och nu.
Genom minnets oavbrutna upprepningar i återskapandet av våra individuella upplevelser, får vi en värld där den yttre världen och den inre psykiska världen blir en gemensam integrerad helhet i medvetandet.
Detta pågår ständigt och överallt, inom oss och över oss. Det är oändligt.
Med vårt språk skapar vi sedan meningsfulla symboliska behållare för våra personliga erfarenheter så att vi kan hålla kvar dem över tid.
Det är det här vi kallar mening, och det är här allting får ett sammanhang.
Vi kallar det stundens ingivelse.

Om medvetandets natur

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Medvetandet gör inte någon skillnad mellan det inre och det yttre. Det är existens. Det är.
Inga föremål eller händelser är i medvetandet åtskilda från våra känslor, från våra önskningar eller projektioner.
Detta gäller alla aktiviteter både i den inre skapande processen av föreställningar och i våra handlingar i den “yttre världen”. I bästa fall uttrycks de där ceremoniellt och med avsikt.

Mening och information överförs inte över avstånd och tid i medvetandet. De är en integrerad del av medvetandet som uttrycks i rummets eller landskapets utbredning och i rummets former och de föremål vi beskriver i det.

Medvetandet är det nuvarande, det är här och nu och det upplevda oändliga som tillsammans tar fysisk form i varandet.

Landskapets utbredning förenar därför i sig en samtidig symbolisk beskrivning av psykiskt innehåll med betydelsen av de meningsfulla sammanhang detta skapar.

Ngurra – sense of place

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Our sense of personal identity is derived from this one context, the idea of place.

Not from combinations of collective identities: sex, race, social class, vocation, nationality, or religion.
It is existence itself, the present moment physicalized as place.
Of just being aware here and now.

Ngurra is a word that contains both physical and metaphysical connotations.
A sense of place.
We call on it and it calls to us.

It spreads over our whole life.

Thus the aboriginal ngurra describes both the physical place where they return to share food, dance and sleep, and the metaphysical act of “dreaming” their country into existence.

The question of identity, of who I am, is resolved in the Aboriginal consciousness by knowing the full implications of where I am.

Vår härledda natur

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Vi lever i en värld och i en natur som existerar av sig själv, i sig själv och helt oberoende av om vi människor befinner oss i den eller inte. Den fanns där innan vi var i den och kommer att finnas kvar där långt efter det att vi har försvunnit ur den.

Var och en av oss lever också i vår individuella värld vars natur finns där oberoende om vi kan uppfatta den hos oss själva, hos andra, eller inte alls.
Den fanns där innan vi kom till den, och den kommer också att finnas kvar där hos någon annan av oss långt efter det som vi uppfattar som oss själva inte längre finns kvar här för att kunna förnimma den.

Vi kommer därför bara att kunna hitta meningsfulla samband mellan oss själva och andra genom en delad medverkan i vad som till sin natur måste vara härlett. Vi har inget annat sätt att kunna nå fram till den, eller till varandra.

Det är bara där, och på detta sätt som vi kan dela det som för alltid är åtskilt och unikt. Eller så kan vi ta allt för givet och som barn välja att leva i en “magisk” värld.

Hur kan vi någonsin göra annat?

Hur relaterar vi till varandra och till våra ideér?

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Vi är nästan i stånd till vad som helst för att få ett erkännande och bli bekräftade av andra i våra yttre roller. Vi låter också detta helt styra vårt beteende där.
Vi anpassar till och med vår moral efter detta.
Men vi har också en inre personlighet som skapar relationer till vårt inre och som styr vårt beteende i förhållande till oss själva.

Det är nog bara där, i detta något mitt emellan dom, som det är möjligt för oss att kunna hitta något som liknar äkta relationer.