what's mental?
A paradigm shift has taken place and alas the cognizance has taken an alternate, if only ephemeral, form.
But enough abstruse dribble, i was never one for didactic tactics, such things merely diverge from the point...which is....
well let me think.
Based on the events and observations i have made over the past 30hours or so let's go with schizophrenia shall we?
Now anyone who has ever allowed themselves to fall victim to the plague of paranoia that encapsulates our planet (ensured by the never ending fear campaigns perpetuated by whichever puppets are leading us at the time) will naturally have wondered about the boundaries of supposed rational thought.
But what one finds upon spending inordinate amounts of time around individuals who have been prone to such behaviour for quite some time now is that what is considered rational by some may be quite irrational to others and vice versa.
At some point someone determined that there was a single intepretation of reality that should prevail, and that within these defined boundaries there were limits to what a person should and could think.
Beyond these boundaries a person is labeled a patient...committed and degraded from full existential and legal status as a human being.
His time is no longer his own and the space he occupies is no longer of his choosing.
After being subjected to a degradation ceremonial known as psychiatric examination he is bereft of his civil liberties and imprisoned in a hospital.
He is invalidated as a human being.
Context and experience dictate any one individuals intepretation of reality, whether it result in mintue subtlties barely noticable to the standard observer or whether it results in a completely different definition depends on the histories of the individuals in question.
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”-Fredericke Nietzsche.
Ah, now here we have something of great interest..
An extract from The Tao of Physics by one Fritjof Capra.
I was sitting by the ocean one late summer afternoon, watching the waves rolling and and feeling the rhythm of my breathing, when i suddenly became aware of my whole environment being engaged in a gigantic cosmic dance.
Being a physicist, i knew that the sane, rocks, water and are around me were made of vibrating molecules and atoms, and that these consisted of particles which interacted with one another by creating and destroying other particles.
I knew the earth's atmosphere was continually bombarded by showers of 'cosmic rays', particles of high energy undergoing multiple collisions as the penetrated the air.
All this was familiar to me from my research in high-energy physics, but until that moment i had only experienced it through graphs, diagrams and mathematical theories. As i sat on the beach my former experiences came to life; i 'saw' the cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pules; i 'saw' the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy; i felt its rhythm and i 'heard' its sound and at that moment i knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of the Dancers worshipped by the Hindus
Energy condensed to a slow vibration...that's it.
That's all there is.
The material universe is a dynamic web of interrelated events interpreted and experienced by the conciousness via the five senses...The extent of this experience is determined by the choice...once again
Fear and love...
The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly-Einstein.
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
Albert Einstein, 1954
Word Alby, word.
But enough abstruse dribble, i was never one for didactic tactics, such things merely diverge from the point...which is....
well let me think.
Based on the events and observations i have made over the past 30hours or so let's go with schizophrenia shall we?
Now anyone who has ever allowed themselves to fall victim to the plague of paranoia that encapsulates our planet (ensured by the never ending fear campaigns perpetuated by whichever puppets are leading us at the time) will naturally have wondered about the boundaries of supposed rational thought.
At some point someone determined that there was a single intepretation of reality that should prevail, and that within these defined boundaries there were limits to what a person should and could think.
Beyond these boundaries a person is labeled a patient...committed and degraded from full existential and legal status as a human being.
His time is no longer his own and the space he occupies is no longer of his choosing.
After being subjected to a degradation ceremonial known as psychiatric examination he is bereft of his civil liberties and imprisoned in a hospital.
He is invalidated as a human being.
Context and experience dictate any one individuals intepretation of reality, whether it result in mintue subtlties barely noticable to the standard observer or whether it results in a completely different definition depends on the histories of the individuals in question.
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”-Fredericke Nietzsche.
Ah, now here we have something of great interest..
An extract from The Tao of Physics by one Fritjof Capra.
I was sitting by the ocean one late summer afternoon, watching the waves rolling and and feeling the rhythm of my breathing, when i suddenly became aware of my whole environment being engaged in a gigantic cosmic dance.
Being a physicist, i knew that the sane, rocks, water and are around me were made of vibrating molecules and atoms, and that these consisted of particles which interacted with one another by creating and destroying other particles.
I knew the earth's atmosphere was continually bombarded by showers of 'cosmic rays', particles of high energy undergoing multiple collisions as the penetrated the air.
All this was familiar to me from my research in high-energy physics, but until that moment i had only experienced it through graphs, diagrams and mathematical theories. As i sat on the beach my former experiences came to life; i 'saw' the cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pules; i 'saw' the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy; i felt its rhythm and i 'heard' its sound and at that moment i knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of the Dancers worshipped by the Hindus
Energy condensed to a slow vibration...that's it.
That's all there is.
The material universe is a dynamic web of interrelated events interpreted and experienced by the conciousness via the five senses...The extent of this experience is determined by the choice...once again
Fear and love...
The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly-Einstein.
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
Albert Einstein, 1954
Word Alby, word.
