All life come in cycles. Most of what we call science includes a study of these cycles.
So what about the cycles of man?
We live in relatively short cycles. As a comparison, a pine tree may live up to 800 years.
For us to preserve something of our inner being beyond the time of individual cycles, we must have some sort of tradition. Early traditions enforced our individual sense of perception outside of time. They offered people a set of existential instructions from our ancestors, passed over to the descendants about the development of individuality and its extension above all cycles. Because if we ever was to loose these set of instructions, we would only know and live in this present one. And we would have no knowledge about anything beyond it. We will loose our connection to the cycles of life existing all around us. And we will be confused about our being here.
So, if we get lost in our own cycle, and in our relation to the cycles of life, we will not know how to receieve it’s teachings, how our own cycle gives us its instructions. We cannot hear the voice.
The connection will be lost.
And we will become repetitive in our way of life no matter the need for us to change.
We will become governed by the circles of commerce, with the latest products, trends, and with the repetition of our behaviour in the latest news that never change.
Etikett: natur
Who we are?
If we define our personality through our belonging to a collective or a group, or an organisation, or a country, and then only by what we do accept as that, we give in to a world were our sole reality becomes defined by what we are not.
We are going to be a people of constant personal neglection, and collective criticism.
And since we then have to redefine ourselves constantly to the ever changes of life, we tend to hold on to only a preferred and limited set of collective beliefs for a personality. This is how we want others to see us. But what we do not accept here, the restrictions we put on ourselves, will be what others must learn about us to be able to reach us. We do not allow it in any other way. This is what we are going to make other suffer with us. And since all we do from now on must be good, it will never occur to us, or even enter our mind, that we are the personal cause of any bad things that we inflict upon the world, both individually and as a collective. Because there can be no moral responsibility now, everything we do can only be of good.
There is no longer that being inside us as in human being. We have not come to that yet.
We have lost our morals.
Look around.
Globalisation
Globalisation is the word we use with corporations and banks to get to exploit every local resource available at no cost, to maximise the profit where it is not responsible to no one, anywhere.
It is the ultimate disconnection from earth.
About relationships
As humans we must never break the relationship to being. Being is always, it is our relationship to life. We are descendants of being and will become ancestors in layers of this relationship.
There is no blame or guilt in this, it is a kind of personal responsibility.
Breaking this connection is lack of moral itself. A breaking of our connection to place.
And to earth.
Whose reality?
Looking at this world, I also have to recognise i live i a world that is completely existential.
No words cant do it justice. And it doesn´t matter how much i try to document it, or try to reach it by my rationality. It is existential. It creates my sense of existence out of this non-rational experience. And as such it is also beyond me. But I am very much inside it. It is my living present. The right here and right now.
A container of what we make of our reality. All ideas we try to create out of it.
We even call it reality.
The quest of morality
When constantly being hammered by the conflict of public moral code and the contents of morality in itself, i am painfully questioned of what is psychologically valid in a personal sense.
About politics
All politics are about moral conflicts. And there are no general answers effective in moral conflicts.
They are individually suffered and no preaching can touch it.
If there is one single thing that reflects our world back to us, making it an image of ourselves and blackening out the rest.
It is this.
Democracy and how to go about it.
Maybe it is our parliament, and our gouvernment itself who need some adjustment.
What we see right now is that one part is missing in that equation. When considering the present situation, it is obvious something in our gouverning is not there, the parliament do not really answer to no one. The people they are responsible for is not really there, so they don’t have any real counterpart.
Just think about that for a moment.
Because right now they just answer to themselves. And this is not good democracy.
Who is taking care of our wealth. Were is our leadership of wealth. Who is taking care of our water. Our nature. Who is looking after our common good. Obviously, wealth is very much dependent on how new money first should be spent into the economy. But there is no true counterpart in parliament for that.
Our leaders badly need this. They should have to answer before the leader of wealth to be able to make good decisions for the people.
Right now, our parliament here in Sweden, as in many other countries, are divided among themselves, and arguing full time about who should be its leader. How parliament should be led, and in what direction. And with our media fully occupied by reporting on this disagreement, good decisions going out the window.
And this is currently built into the system by the absence of a real working counterpart.
For that to change, we need them to answer to someone on the basis of a working democracy, and that should be accomplished through a leadership of wealth.
With such a counterpart, our parliament then have to change its priorities to be only of concern to the wealth and wellbeing of its people.
We should even consider having a pre election on candidates where only women can vote. And after that we can all vote on the outcome of their election.
Our ambassador on Island suffered heavy criticism for it, but he is not too far from the truth, intuitively thinking democracy is being ”dismantled” by its current constitution in Sweden.
By thinking about it anew, we may actually adjust our parliament closer to its original vision, and maybe, we can then make our parlament the true working heart of democracy we want it to be.
So now you know who you are?
There is this a kind of realm for itself. Not out there, nor in here, yet both. It is not really a reality of a concrete kind. It is something that is happening to us, making my experiences mine, and also a bridge and an entrance to a psychic reality common to us all were we meet.
Its obvious entrance is through nature. Without it we would not be here.
This is illustrated with warmth by Oren Lyons in his story on being high on learned knowledge and its distant rationality coming back home after graduation.
About indigenous people
There is one thing we can learn from our indigenous people.
It has nothing to do with becoming them, mimicking or stealing their culture, or expropriate intellectual rights. It is about their presence, and to be able to change.
It is listening to ourselves to get a sense of the world.
To really sense the true force of its living inside of us.
On human encounters
Human problems are not something people have but something people are.
– James Hillman
What reality
Most people today live in only one single perpetual reality, measured and explained, beyond the perceived one.
How can we meet?
About an inner calling
A wonderful way to handle knowledge.
In times of a society in stress there is a call from a past mind latent in the present one to pay attention to its content.
We don´t have any elders in our society, just youth.
The west we made of ourself
When i put the west i see in my mirror, i sense the image after which we have made ourselves.
This sadistic, melancholy one sided anxiety ridden paranoia of an omniscient rationality and omnipotent ruler through abstract principle of justice, morality and order. Enraged when not followed or his will is crossed. Our consciousnes is reflecting this image. Most often as cold, distant and ruthless, but as an ideal he is old, bearded and distant. A god of manhood. Even women identify with this image. This is how we all think we should appear if we want to rule, or show decisiveness. We think conquering is relating. Not surprisingly, this image we have of ourselves then, is also a wifeless one. It´s an ideal of manhood, and it has no woman beside it. There are no traits of compassion. Or true generosity. It suffers a complete lack of the feminine.
No wonder there is a problem with the nature of earth and personal feelings. And in our views on women.
This is what we force upon the world. This is our image. The very image we present ourself with to the world.
Authority Experiment
This testperson is our views, our beliefs, -isms and political ideologies.
What if they are our leaders and the person submitted to the electric shocks are us.
Conformity Experiment
We are that testperson, and the others are our beliefs, our views, -isms and political ideologies.
A base of reflexion
Daily life
Our actions are episodes constantly spinning out of our sleeping ancestors dreaming.
Do you think that’s air you’re breathing?
It is not we who imagine, but we who are imagined.
The mind is in the imagination rather than the imagination in the mind.
– James Hillman –
Memoria
Tank, load the jump program.
Reality as my fiction
Am i not a being whose reality comes wholly from my imagination and the beliefs that imposes.
Isn’t this what I perform and name with the mask of my behavior.
I am enacting and miming a reality that is completely a fiction. And this is were the drama and horrors we create and call everyday life comes from.
It is also what we call news.
Alisvaggi July 2017
Tjäktjavagge July 2017
About leadership today
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.
Imagination as individuality
When we try to describe something to someone else, we use our imagination trying to coordinate the personal inner stream of images and events into a coherent and living picture. There are times when we have to use someone else’s imagination, and we will also use both our own and others mixed together to be sure to get understood by what we are trying to describe in a certain context. But we also have a tendency trying to make them more believable by telling others that they should take them literally.
And we are even saying that since other people do take them literally, we should take them for granted if we want to get listened to, or get acceptance from others without being scorned at.
We are all using our imagination as individuals to express the experiences we have of ourselves here and now in our present environment.
And it is a true nightmare that we use some of them in a literally fashion, and as a collective to reject, or even repress the individuality behind them. We are actually getting shaped into a new internal coherence by our imaginations.
Once we have written ourselves into a particular fantasy with its expectations, typicalities, its character traits, what it offers for recognizing oneself. We then begin to shape our life into a caricature of that imagination.
About power
When we as individuals confuse knowledge with power, we magically exaggerate our importance in relation to our self with the unconcious capacity for wisdom.
This creates the true sense of the word evil.
Revolt
All revolt is important because it leaps out of time and bring our image of history, or permanent truth, into a personal sequence of transition.
History is an attitude
I am caught in the present history as a problem of attitude between father time and eternal youth.
Indigenous knowledge from the north
”There is knowledge that cannot be acquired through anyone else. It cannot be transferred from one person to another. Every single person has to recognize it anew within himself. And by himself go through the trials that surround it.”
Origins of personality?
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.
Smaug
Mossman
Wild Boar
The face of a tree
The expired father
Imaginary speaking, we find ourselves acting out this figure of a heavenly father ruling over our apprehension. We are supporting a sky god character that has long since expired by continuing his formal character and making his outworn presence felt in everyday life in terms of rules and regulations, in dogmas and in dead ritual behaviour. We are upholding a system of belief by trying to fill us up with a sense of responsibility and duty towards social and religious convention. To something of the past. But by questioning his ruling, we might become something more than just a single part of his organisational maintenance. We have other ways to experience inner life as individuals.
We can actually become sensitive enough to become humans.
Forest wizard
