The sense in of senses for us is being the information input system for taking decisions. Decisions like which direction to turn to, or decisions how to act towards a circumstance.Good decisions, if possible. Actually, I would wonder if anyone would go out and tells he is out for making bad decisions. Such, I am tending to primarily assume that the intention might mainly be for good decision. Just that 'good' is relative in the way the term can be used. Anyway, let's assume this.
Our senses are the interface to the world outside - of us.
To me, this would be decisions which contribute to our evolution, to a qualitative base for well-being, and well-being of the planet we are in charge of. Plus all its inhabitants, small or big, who altogether form one organism as none of us can continue living without any of them and none of them can continue living without us - we humans who are so influential on all that happens.
Biblical spoken .,, we have sovereignty. We, humans, are sovereign.
Sovereignty at the same time means that we are charged to care, and if we want to rule and guide, we got the duty to do this to the well-being of all that is possibly affected.
And please remember, our animal we inhabit is a predator. A high level predator with potentially the ability to think by being equipped with the most complex neuronal system which allows us all sorts of playing around within (and without) these options. The senses of this predator are developed to the finest, over millions of years.
During the ways we are living for quite a while already, seems our senses got lost and the instinct has stayed. And most likely for likely the most, also sense has perished on this way. Certainly you are firm with the needs according to the Maslow explanation, read it up anywhere - or read it up here, referring to 'Maslow and Beyond the Beast', if you like so.
If the first stage refers to caring for one's own direct needs, we may consider this stage to be the reptilian, Add a direct need for shelter aka housing these days, a being may survive. If it does so successfully until the stage of sexual maturity, the need (and drives) for breeding evolve more or less automatically.
If you like so you may call these drives the '3F'- or 'food-flat-f**k'-Triangle or ... -Trinity.
And now look how many people mainly are hanging around these basic needs. The food might be finer, the breeding is masked with fancy ideology, nevertheless it is not more than this.
At the same time, many people all over the globe are daily fighting for these three.
Next step is to, as I have learned it, to assure that all this will still be there tomorrow, more or less. In Maslow's pyramid this is what is called 'safety needs'.
This is where hoarding starts, and you may again see, hoarding is an attribute almost always connected to Dragon. In some cultures, Dragon is admired and kind of worshiped still for these functions. It makes sense when you understand it this way. The point is that you must understand it this way, otherwise you won't catch up how this affects all the rest. See it neutral, just for what it is. For example, greed is a need, placed in us first to make it to survive.
It's all logical, as otherwise our species would not have survived and none of us would be here.
Neither me to write nor you to read this.
What in Maslow's then is called 'Belongingness and Love Needs' and placed in row 3 over the two described as before, in reality is
Well, mammals is what we are.
Probably everyone knows about the experiments where human children and in other experiments, monkey babies (see e.g. Harry Harlow) have been isolated yet fed well.
Every, and literally every! mammal needs emotional care, otherwise it becomes psychotic or heavily depressed. Most what we call cultural achievements are directly related to what a human being learns about healthy emotions, about caring for the health of its own emotions by reflecting the emotions of the carer. Thus, we develop very sensitive senses, for ourselves, our needs, but also our environment, other people, other beings and at last to see, how finely and complex everything is connected.
Social isolation or emotional deprivation kill any sensitive being including the ability to use their senses. Slowly it will undermine the being, not the organism though. As an organism, the individual will still look like a whole, let's say, 'human', while deeper within it is not at a bit all. Basically equipped but then not activated respectively deactivated, it becomes what we call a Zombie then - or a Golem, as ancient books name it. A being in human shape and made from human flesh, just lacking the inner self which connects though its senses with the outer world or environment.
Thus the animal is the fundamental emotional context in charge of developing our senses. It also is the first stage to connection.
All mammals need to connect and literally 'starve' in isolation.
Neither a wolf puppy nor a lion nor a mouse or kangaroo will make it without this connection.
To move on any further as with esteem needs or beyond, is kind of useless - because here is where the major problems already occur. We as civil societies have not moved much further than these fundamental needs, even if we tend to look like it was different.
If we want to keep on believing in mankind, at this level we need to address the problems we may see. If we see them in a majority of people, it gets hard to impossible to ignore them.
I enjoyed in some discussions with friends whom I very much cherish, both at a high philosophical stage, one from the 'brainy' ivory-towery side by multifaceted high level education, the other with roots deep in the ground of intellectual tradition. As mentioned, I highly cherish them both and yet, I did not come any nearer to my answers or could agree. The quest was about whether every human being at this moment on this planet is equipped with 'soul'. Both of them answered with 'yes, of course', one of them extending it to that he believes in the chance of insight in everyone.
And yet, I doubt. I see so many - and if I say 'see' it means that I 'see' - acting like humans but there is no humans inside. I am not all the time running around in this mode of seeing - it just occurs like flashes at certain points, in certain moments, where out if the sudden you see what someone really is.
Throughout my life, I always was wondering about how people do or why people do - the latter question often enough useless, many have no 'whys' and are just reactive, like by reflexes, which is far from being 'active' or processing information by using a kind of mind.
It is the senses, these senses passed on by the reptile to mammal evolution which provide me with exactly this input.
It does by no means mean that we follow all kind of instincts which are plainly set up to allow us to
a) survive, on a physiological/biological basis
b) connect, which also means to feel and interact with beings as we are ourselves.
It means, too, to have a mirror of own kind.
The Human Mammal is our vehicles, our bodies, our framework we live in and, in best case, we can work with.
If you can't ... feel your emotions, as is on the reptile stage, you also won't be able to feel anyone elses's emotions, too. Some call it 'rational' which is a nice lie; it is simply neglecting that we are further developed beings. Empathy-lacking 'rationality' which usually refers to linear, duality based perception, is reptilian - what ever the beings who apply and use it as an argument might state. And of course they will state the superiority of such thinking, as this is all that is within their very own experience. Similar a valley-inhabitant who has never been out of his valley, might assume the valley is the world. Or take any other appropriate picture to understand this way of thinking.
If you feel your emotions, as is the evolutionary stage of the mammal, you will also at a point and via reflection feel anyone else's emotions - and this might confuse. It might require more capacity to deal with the now accumulated or multiplied amount of information. Be happy, our brains with their amazing plasticity provide everyone with the ability to grow beyond anything that we before thought throughout all lifetime and to yet not imagined degrees.
The reptile senses let us sense and know what is around from the 'me'-perspective.
The mammal skills allow us to connect and work and live in groups, connected.
So many people, despite it all looks so different, have not at all reached mammal stage which includes realizing the emotions of the 'other' just next to oneself.
Means, move back one step: It is reptile. But abused.
Now damned, we have it all.
We live on a planet of sheer abundance and yet we need to ask: Why?
Why do people with all these abilities, all the information provided, all capacities to process the information, continue to behave as if only they alone would exist?
Obviously many things are going wrong at early stages, and the cultural systems we live in do their very best that this happens. I recently learned about the term 'Cultural Trance' which I find very applicable. As in a group of individuals connected, the information flows as frequencies but yet the strongest ones - or even strongest ones which might connect within the connection, take over. They just overrun and override the more fragile, more sophisticated frequencies like the hammering of a steam engine will override the sound of a piccolo flute no matter which of them plays the more appropriate piece of music.
So let's jump from mass evolutionary ideas to individual evolution which includes the definitely relevant aspect of emancipation.
Emancipation literally means to become free of (hu-) man-ly ownership.
If you now look at all our self-built cultural systems and look to which extend those strive for instead of positioning strongly against human bodies and minds being owned.
Look where this is the most the case.
Look at the requirements of states and organizations.
Look at educational systems and what they imply, and who 'makes it' in such and by which means.
Look at how resources and power over others are being distributed, by whom and to whom.
And look who gets attacked when hinting at only some little parts of these contexts, by whom these (often blurred) attacks are performed and in which ways, and then ask and why. The ways are manifold and therefore so difficult to unveil as they all are born into human shells and 'look like' humans. Often even the performers are not themselves aware of that they do and what they do. And this is because they are disconnected, not only from themselves and their fellow mammals but also from reality.
The question is whether WE sense it.
If we refuse to sense, sooner or later technological sensors will take over - by far less effective and certainly extremely error-prone compared to any human inborn sensors ever can be but a result of human denial and ignorance of their very own development of capabilities.Not only do we need a brain but also the connection to the outside world which is supposed to deliver information to deal with.
Or whether we are at a stage of non-sensing.
Sense deprived.
Means: Sense-less.
Industries work and rely on it. It will all go its ways. We are sovereign, you know?
Maybe all this was a little blurry but anyway, have a good day today. Don't forget that we are all a little brainwashed - and those who refuse to know are actually the most.
So maybe forget all that I have just said.
The sense of senses is to sense.
(So simple and easy. As always.)
Literally,
Lyn
PS: I don't think the Planet will be able to endure 11 billion reptiles whether in disguise or not. As entertaining this might occur. Nevertheless, the following presentation is impressive and I would like to share it with you, and leave the rest up to your senses. See Prof Hans Rosling:
I also don't believe billionaires who claim computers at least won't contribute to murder (as in the wrong hands, they and their output and derivatives do and have plenty of proven so) and who engage in 'beneficial' research, in this case to abandon malaria in some African countries, while at the same time being stakeholders of Monsanto, one of the nuisance of gen-tech companies which over and over and by tricky means insist on overruling populations' strongly exclaimed wills to refuse their 'blessings'. Looks more like market growth without respect for the humans to be affected in the cloth of 'humanitarian'.
The truth will always show at a point. Not your truth, not my truth, just the very plain truth itself.
And sometimes we can challenge it a little, to make it show itself ;)
(Seems I have a subscription.)
Our senses are the interface to the world outside - of us.
To me, this would be decisions which contribute to our evolution, to a qualitative base for well-being, and well-being of the planet we are in charge of. Plus all its inhabitants, small or big, who altogether form one organism as none of us can continue living without any of them and none of them can continue living without us - we humans who are so influential on all that happens.
Biblical spoken .,, we have sovereignty. We, humans, are sovereign.
Sovereignty at the same time means that we are charged to care, and if we want to rule and guide, we got the duty to do this to the well-being of all that is possibly affected.
And please remember, our animal we inhabit is a predator. A high level predator with potentially the ability to think by being equipped with the most complex neuronal system which allows us all sorts of playing around within (and without) these options. The senses of this predator are developed to the finest, over millions of years.
During the ways we are living for quite a while already, seems our senses got lost and the instinct has stayed. And most likely for likely the most, also sense has perished on this way. Certainly you are firm with the needs according to the Maslow explanation, read it up anywhere - or read it up here, referring to 'Maslow and Beyond the Beast', if you like so.
Physiological ... Survival Drives
- or The Three Fs
If you like so you may call these drives the '3F'- or 'food-flat-f**k'-Triangle or ... -Trinity.
And now look how many people mainly are hanging around these basic needs. The food might be finer, the breeding is masked with fancy ideology, nevertheless it is not more than this.
At the same time, many people all over the globe are daily fighting for these three.
We all own all senses and drives to achieve these objects of desire.
Next step is to, as I have learned it, to assure that all this will still be there tomorrow, more or less. In Maslow's pyramid this is what is called 'safety needs'.
This is where hoarding starts, and you may again see, hoarding is an attribute almost always connected to Dragon. In some cultures, Dragon is admired and kind of worshiped still for these functions. It makes sense when you understand it this way. The point is that you must understand it this way, otherwise you won't catch up how this affects all the rest. See it neutral, just for what it is. For example, greed is a need, placed in us first to make it to survive.
It's all logical, as otherwise our species would not have survived and none of us would be here.
Neither me to write nor you to read this.
Psychological Needs:
What in Maslow's then is called 'Belongingness and Love Needs' and placed in row 3 over the two described as before, in reality is
as much necessary as physiological needs for any mammal.
Well, mammals is what we are.
Probably everyone knows about the experiments where human children and in other experiments, monkey babies (see e.g. Harry Harlow) have been isolated yet fed well.
Every, and literally every! mammal needs emotional care, otherwise it becomes psychotic or heavily depressed. Most what we call cultural achievements are directly related to what a human being learns about healthy emotions, about caring for the health of its own emotions by reflecting the emotions of the carer. Thus, we develop very sensitive senses, for ourselves, our needs, but also our environment, other people, other beings and at last to see, how finely and complex everything is connected.
Social isolation or emotional deprivation kill any sensitive being including the ability to use their senses. Slowly it will undermine the being, not the organism though. As an organism, the individual will still look like a whole, let's say, 'human', while deeper within it is not at a bit all. Basically equipped but then not activated respectively deactivated, it becomes what we call a Zombie then - or a Golem, as ancient books name it. A being in human shape and made from human flesh, just lacking the inner self which connects though its senses with the outer world or environment.
Thus the animal is the fundamental emotional context in charge of developing our senses. It also is the first stage to connection.
All mammals need to connect and literally 'starve' in isolation.
Neither a wolf puppy nor a lion nor a mouse or kangaroo will make it without this connection.
Animals we are, born into animals', precisely a predator's body, empowered for interacting with our environment via exactly these 'animal' skills and senses.
To move on any further as with esteem needs or beyond, is kind of useless - because here is where the major problems already occur. We as civil societies have not moved much further than these fundamental needs, even if we tend to look like it was different.
If we want to keep on believing in mankind, at this level we need to address the problems we may see. If we see them in a majority of people, it gets hard to impossible to ignore them.
I enjoyed in some discussions with friends whom I very much cherish, both at a high philosophical stage, one from the 'brainy' ivory-towery side by multifaceted high level education, the other with roots deep in the ground of intellectual tradition. As mentioned, I highly cherish them both and yet, I did not come any nearer to my answers or could agree. The quest was about whether every human being at this moment on this planet is equipped with 'soul'. Both of them answered with 'yes, of course', one of them extending it to that he believes in the chance of insight in everyone.
And yet, I doubt. I see so many - and if I say 'see' it means that I 'see' - acting like humans but there is no humans inside. I am not all the time running around in this mode of seeing - it just occurs like flashes at certain points, in certain moments, where out if the sudden you see what someone really is.
Throughout my life, I always was wondering about how people do or why people do - the latter question often enough useless, many have no 'whys' and are just reactive, like by reflexes, which is far from being 'active' or processing information by using a kind of mind.
It is the senses, these senses passed on by the reptile to mammal evolution which provide me with exactly this input.
It is a matter of recognizing and connecting, not of denying what we are.
Our bodies will react in the very same ways if we abuse them, if we deny needs and not educate them both the reptile and the animal, in loving, respecting ways.
It does by no means mean that we follow all kind of instincts which are plainly set up to allow us to
a) survive, on a physiological/biological basis
b) connect, which also means to feel and interact with beings as we are ourselves.
It means, too, to have a mirror of own kind.
The Human Mammal is our vehicles, our bodies, our framework we live in and, in best case, we can work with.
If you can't ... feel your emotions, as is on the reptile stage, you also won't be able to feel anyone elses's emotions, too. Some call it 'rational' which is a nice lie; it is simply neglecting that we are further developed beings. Empathy-lacking 'rationality' which usually refers to linear, duality based perception, is reptilian - what ever the beings who apply and use it as an argument might state. And of course they will state the superiority of such thinking, as this is all that is within their very own experience. Similar a valley-inhabitant who has never been out of his valley, might assume the valley is the world. Or take any other appropriate picture to understand this way of thinking.
If you feel your emotions, as is the evolutionary stage of the mammal, you will also at a point and via reflection feel anyone else's emotions - and this might confuse. It might require more capacity to deal with the now accumulated or multiplied amount of information. Be happy, our brains with their amazing plasticity provide everyone with the ability to grow beyond anything that we before thought throughout all lifetime and to yet not imagined degrees.
This stage of 'learning to connect' is so much necessary for moving further on.
The reptile senses let us sense and know what is around from the 'me'-perspective.
The mammal skills allow us to connect and work and live in groups, connected.
 |
| Birds do it, bees do it ... and mammals do it either: care. Application and pleasure vice versa may be different in quality though. Pic from imgur.com |
Means, move back one step: It is reptile. But abused.
Now damned, we have it all.
We live on a planet of sheer abundance and yet we need to ask: Why?
Why do people with all these abilities, all the information provided, all capacities to process the information, continue to behave as if only they alone would exist?
Obviously many things are going wrong at early stages, and the cultural systems we live in do their very best that this happens. I recently learned about the term 'Cultural Trance' which I find very applicable. As in a group of individuals connected, the information flows as frequencies but yet the strongest ones - or even strongest ones which might connect within the connection, take over. They just overrun and override the more fragile, more sophisticated frequencies like the hammering of a steam engine will override the sound of a piccolo flute no matter which of them plays the more appropriate piece of music.
So let's jump from mass evolutionary ideas to individual evolution which includes the definitely relevant aspect of emancipation.
Emancipation literally means to become free of (hu-) man-ly ownership.
If you now look at all our self-built cultural systems and look to which extend those strive for instead of positioning strongly against human bodies and minds being owned.
Look where this is the most the case.
Look at the requirements of states and organizations.
Look at educational systems and what they imply, and who 'makes it' in such and by which means.
Look at how resources and power over others are being distributed, by whom and to whom.
And look who gets attacked when hinting at only some little parts of these contexts, by whom these (often blurred) attacks are performed and in which ways, and then ask and why. The ways are manifold and therefore so difficult to unveil as they all are born into human shells and 'look like' humans. Often even the performers are not themselves aware of that they do and what they do. And this is because they are disconnected, not only from themselves and their fellow mammals but also from reality.
The question is whether WE sense it.
If we refuse to sense, sooner or later technological sensors will take over - by far less effective and certainly extremely error-prone compared to any human inborn sensors ever can be but a result of human denial and ignorance of their very own development of capabilities.Not only do we need a brain but also the connection to the outside world which is supposed to deliver information to deal with.
Or whether we are at a stage of non-sensing.
Sense deprived.
Means: Sense-less.
Industries work and rely on it. It will all go its ways. We are sovereign, you know?
Maybe all this was a little blurry but anyway, have a good day today. Don't forget that we are all a little brainwashed - and those who refuse to know are actually the most.
Catch the moment
and see eternity.
and see eternity.
So maybe forget all that I have just said.
The sense of senses is to sense.
(So simple and easy. As always.)
Literally,
Lyn
PS: I don't think the Planet will be able to endure 11 billion reptiles whether in disguise or not. As entertaining this might occur. Nevertheless, the following presentation is impressive and I would like to share it with you, and leave the rest up to your senses. See Prof Hans Rosling:
I also don't believe billionaires who claim computers at least won't contribute to murder (as in the wrong hands, they and their output and derivatives do and have plenty of proven so) and who engage in 'beneficial' research, in this case to abandon malaria in some African countries, while at the same time being stakeholders of Monsanto, one of the nuisance of gen-tech companies which over and over and by tricky means insist on overruling populations' strongly exclaimed wills to refuse their 'blessings'. Looks more like market growth without respect for the humans to be affected in the cloth of 'humanitarian'.
The truth will always show at a point. Not your truth, not my truth, just the very plain truth itself.
And sometimes we can challenge it a little, to make it show itself ;)
(Seems I have a subscription.)
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