Showing posts with label integration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label integration. Show all posts

15 May 2015

Conglomerating Concepts


Abraxis. Sublimating Sol et Luna. Yin and Yang. Full understanding / awareness of the self. This leads to the possibility of changing what you desire to change; to integrate as you see fit.
Of course, before you begin to change and integrate, the highest degree of wisdom and knowledge is preferable so that you may change and integrate in the optimal way. Information gathering is crucial for this, but so is the ability to integrate said information in a useful and lucid manner. Clarity of mind allows you to have the requisite mental resources available to apply to both the gathering and integrating of information. This 'integration' involves the analysis of information being received both in terms of itself as newly received meme and in the context of its relationships with all the other concepts which are part of your personal ideosphere. This pondering over new and old concepts will lend to some form of integration even as it may disintegrate previously extant memeplexes in your mind. To do this well, you must be intellectually honest, at least with yourself. Your ego will destroy you if you let it. Whereas I am presently unsure about the theories surrounding the 'self', I currently view it as a desired state of optimally conscious evolution, the fully transmuted alchemist of the mind, if not the body as well.
In the realm of terra mensa one may find both previously visible and occulted 'demons'; those detrimental aspects of one's psyche which if left to 'themselves' will continue to negatively affect the individual's life through their arising in given situations. In other words, the metaprograms that steer one's behavior and thought processes may be redirected for positive, preferable results as opposed to harming the individual. There are multiple mehtods to employ in the achieving / achievement of mental clarity most are successful, or more successful when exercised in tandem with one another. These may include, but are not limited to, different forms of yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy, NLP, and physical exercise.
Once one gains the ability to clear the conscious mind of the constant mental banter which keeps the mind from true, effectively focus then the task of self-analysis is made simpler, though not necessarily easier at all. The ability to clearly focus on all necessary aspects of oneself is a must if one wishes to attain anything near a fully developed self in preparation of the realization of the desired outcomes of the self as opposed to the short-term, puerile desires of the self. The previously mentioned gathering of information is so important for this.

22 June 2009

The Abyss of Freedom

Writing in terms of style hinders your writing altogether. 'Style' implies delimiting factors with parameters and confines within which you / your piece must stay. All else is verboten and thus your piece is denied anything which might enhance it if it falls outside this prefabricated construct. Style, in my approximation, is best employed in the capacity of inspiration. I.e., a blues-inspired section or piece; an impressionist-inspired piece, etc.

This advice would go for all forms of creativity. Everything from musical composition to cooking; film-making to interior design.

As in all aspects of life, specifically, creative endeavors, strictly speaking, to 'left brain thinking' or 'right brain thinking' is missing a whole world of possibilities – the key whole-brain thinking: applying all of the intellect that one has developed throughout their lifetime, but also conjuring and incorporating all of the experiential / emotional factors which make up what one is.

Just as culture benchmarks ideas, individuals benchmark concepts that over time become fragmented and disorganized. 'Reflection' is an important practice and can be energized if used as a period for reintegration of all the concepts one has accumulated – a sort of defragging and reorganizing of both gained concepts and emotionalized experiences. This, once again, conjures whole-brain thinking – combining the intellect and the emotions; left and right brain.

'With all the possibilities at [Debussy's] disposal, and conscious habits blocked, he came to confront what Stravinsky later called “the abyss of freedom.” Thereafter he complained of a paralysis of the imagination. In 1909 he wrote to Caplet, “No, it is not neurosis, or hypochondria either. It is the sweet sickness of the notion of having to choose among all conceivable things.”' -Music in the 20th Century, W W Austin p.33.

-A definition of information overload in the creative process?