I explore All Ways to find the Tao - Omni-Universalism

PREAMBLE: I'm an Eccentic Late-Bloomin' Self-Realized & Actualized TRANS-Asperger's type PERSONALITY. At Best, I posess SNAFU Reasoning conjoined with FUBAR Logic with a "Complicatedly Complimenting Complex" riding Shotgun while Back-Seat Driving Bilocatedly which is (generally) INVERTED cognition compared to AnyThing else that's regarded compos mentis. I'm apt to be rather Digressive so any scribbling left here is subject to Constant Change [OXY!]. Articles will be 'tweaked & twiddled' routinely until I figure out my rules.

I (attempt to) employ Wayist Principles, here's a Creed:

To penetrate the mysteries, to bless with a good conscience, to be great and yet empty, to return to stillness and be forgiving, to be compassionate and to deliver all people, to do good deeds and help people reach the other shore these are the great benefits of our path of cultivation.

To calm people in stormy times, to help them understand the nature of things, to maintain purity, to nourish all things, to respect all life, and to answer the needs of those whose beliefs come from the heart.

These are the services Wayism can offer.

St. Siphor 3d Century CE

Our Five Principles of Faith however goes a long way to defining Wayism but it is not exhaustive since there are many culturally sensitive expressions of our Way. You will find that every expression of Wayism incorporates at least 99% of the Five Principles of Faith. Five Principles of Wayism

1. We believe in One Power, One Source, One Ultimate, One God (or Grand Design). There is only one Force underlying all of creation seen or unseen, matter, or anti-matter, in all universes. This One Force is the Architect, the Source, and the Essence of all. This One Ultimate Power is God, which is thus essentially Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient (& Omnibenevolent). Within God resides the ultimate Yin and Yang, which is the Personality of all Energy.

2. We believe in the Potential Divinity of Humankind. We are spiritual beings created in the image and likeness of God. As children of God we are endowed with creative ability. As children, we are evolving into maturity through the process of theosis. Theosis is the purpose of life for humans—to evolve into being like Christ. Each time we take on a human birth our potential creates a human body and a soul (mind), to serve us during that cycle. It is our explicit responsibility to care for our souls and bodies as a craftsperson cares for her tools. Without proper care, we cannot craft this life to serve us toward theosis. A wasted life is one in which we did not grow into our full potential, and maybe the most severe sin of all. In Jesus the Saviour, whose teaching we follow, we have a perfected Brother at one with the Energies of God our Mother and Father.

3. We believe in finding the knowledge of Good and Evil. One of our purposes in life is to gain the True knowledge of good and evil. In reality evil is anything that leads contrary to theosis and good is everything that leads to theosis. However, humankind's limited rational ability often defines evil according to human likes, dislikes, and current societal vogue. Humans fear pain, death and suffering, and often define these, and everything we do not understand, as evil. To gain the True knowledge of Good and Bad we need to gain the wisdom of it to see it from God's viewpoint. We create by our thinking, and we should learn to create good rather than evil. Sin is any wilful action or thought that, as an arrow shot from a bow, aims to miss the target which is theosis.

4. We believe in the Laws of Nature. By the Grace of God the universes are endowed with natural laws and forces which govern our family's co-habitation in creation. These laws of nature assist stellar systems and molecules to vibrate and move according to their purpose; and help to keep humanity on its path of theosis. We take special cognisance of the following Laws:
• The law of Karma returns to us whatever thoughts, actions and inactions we project into the universes to afford us the luxury to experience first-hand that which we give unto others—and learn from it at some stage.
• The law of Dharma helps us to never forget what our duty and task is for this lifetime. The ‘word of God is written in our souls,” as Scripture says. The law of gravity attracts things to large masses to keep them grounded, similarly within the principles of the law of Dharma are teachers and Light Bearers such as The Saviour brought to our level of cognisance when we are ready for their teaching.
• As the laws of cohesion, adhesion, and diffusion cause some things to be attracted to one another and other things to be kept at a distance—whatever we may do to work against the Laws of nature, in the end, even be it in pain and seeming catastrophe, we will be helped back on the theosis track by the Laws of the universe.
• Metanoia is the most powerful gift God put into our hands. We have ‘free will' because of metanoia. Metanoia is the power to reprogram our souls (minds) to think differently and therefore to create differently. Whatever we think (will), consciously or subconsciously--we create. Unlike microchips and lower animal minds, we have the gift of re-programmability. We have to consciously work to program our souls to will (and create) better circumstances; healing rather than disease, happiness rather than sadness, ecstasy rather than dull existence, and growth rather than decadence. Prayer does not change Good but changes our souls; meditation gives the soul quality time with God's Energies and our angels; contemplation allows the soul to search beyond this realm for answers and guidance in the Source of all knowledge—these vehicles we use to facilitate metanoia. If we will not programme ourselves, the prevailing group-mind will think for us.

5. We believe in Love. Love is a state of being, a condition of soul, and it is an action. Love is thus both a noun and a verb. There is no love present if it is not evident in one's actions and thoughts. Because love is a state of soul, it colours our thoughts and necessarily creates love around us. Only in practicing love do we learn about ourselves and we evolve as human beings. Only in practising love and being in love do we gain wisdom which transcends knowledge—the wisdom of mysticism. Love, therefore, is the higher form of knowledge, the gateway to Wisdom. The Truth can be known by this only, and the Truth shall set us free.

Wednesday 23 July 2014

Poetry. Proverbs, Quotes (some twisted) & Advice

"It's easy to spot flaws in other people but difficult to spot your own" — Arab proverb

But some people promptly point out flaws in others in order to distract them from their own — Cynicism

'Tis better to be Groovy than Grumpy,
some may recall a dwarf in an olde movie
that was named Grumpy,
Groovy was another dwarf in that movie,
but, in the flick, was named Dopey,
(used too much Medicinal cannabis)

Some Advice

The goal of Psychology is to manage the acquired resentment you get from Life (universal) in a way that doesn't bother or harm others (too much), including yourself
(don't be a manure spreader)

Would be nice if (cognitively constipated) @$$holes 
kept their crap to themselves 
(don't appease them with phenolphthalein-laced chocolate either)

Hanging on to your Past for Dear Life 
spoils the Present and can ruin your Future 

— Κόζμω 140820 FINAL

more about 'Groovy', using the same initial line, tend to think Fractal
'Tis better to be Groovy than Grumpy,
but beware of letting your Groove become a Rut,
if allowed to get deep enough,
it can become a Grave.
Also, beware of people offering some Groove, 
(especially when in Rut)
They may want to make Gravy out of you! 

"A government big enough to give you everything is also big enough to take everything you have" — Gerald Ford, 1976
(often wrongly attributed to Thomas Paine, common with quotes) 

A régime that promises the Moon often imposes such a high Tax on the Sun that most are deep in Debt, freezing in the Dark 
— Cynicism  

"Sanity and Happiness are an impossible combination 
— Mark Twain" (but kindly be a Reasonable Romantic)  


Live Well, Be Good & Love Great 
 
 personal tagline for just over a year

Monday 21 July 2014

Androgynous Gospel

Matthew, chapter 19, Scholar's Version (SV)

11 … "Not everyone can will be able to accept this advice, only for those whom it is intended … 
12 … and their castrated men who have castrated themselves because of Heaven's imperial rule. 
If you are able to to accept this (advice), do so." 

Thomas, 114:1, Simon Peter said to them (other Disciples), "Make Mary (Magdelane) leave us, for females don't deserve life" 

The Petrine tradition is notably kind to women.  In the NT the Petrine epistles place women in a subordinate role [1 Pet. 3:1-6])

2, Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males.
3, For every female who makes her herself male will enter the domain of heaven. 

The theological rationale for Jesus' reply is similar, but not identical to the notion elsewhere in Thomas that salvation consists in returning to to the state of primordial, androgynous perfection (Thom. 4:3†, 22:5‡).  Here, of course, the ideal of is not to become androgynous, but to become male".  In other texts dealing with ideas from Gnostic or speculative wisdom, the transistion from male to female is used as a Metaphor for translation from earthly to heavenly existence, from mortality to immortality.  

(There may also be a practical side to the saying, 
as women philosophers often disguised themselves as men).

This phrase is opaque, but occurs more than once in Thomas].  Here, as in 23:2,.  Here, as in 23:2, it designates a kind of soteriological (the study of religious doctrines of salvation) status without further explanation.  In , however it is associated with notion of androgyny.
Some Gnostic groups held that the origin of human sin was the creation of woman as distinct from man, a departure from the sexually nondifferentiated first human, Adam .
Thus the ultimate human destiny was to return to a primordial state of androgyny, the state of divine perfect before the fall.

 †4:3, … and will become a single one. 
 ‡ 23:2, … and they will stand as a single one.

While some Gnostic groups were egalitarian with respect gender, many were somewhat misogynist, identifying the origin of evil and sin in the world with the feminine.

Keep in mind that these texts were drafted in the 1st or 2nd centuries (and Taoism uses similar with the Yin-Yang), some 1800 years prior to Women's Suffrage

Source:  'The Complete Gospels", Robert J. Miller, Ed.  Polebridge Press 1992

Wednesday 16 July 2014

Could our society be contributing to the rise in autism rates?

FRIDAY, 30 MARCH 2012

Could our society be contributing to the rise in autism rates?

According to recent news reports, the number of school children classified as being autistic has risen by 56% in the last 5 years.

This is an enormous number, and controversy is raging over whether the rise is due to parents pushing for a diagnosis to gain extra resources for a child showing only mild traits or if there is an environmental cause for such a dramatic rise.

Studies have indicated that the criteria for autism is now so broad that other developmental disorders (for example language developmental disorders) which, several years ago, would have been diagnosed separately, now meet the criteria for autism.

The widening of the criteria for autism indicates that there is no organizing idea behind the understanding of the condition. From the human givens perspective, we would suggest that what we term 'caetextia' ('context blindness' a chronic disorder manifesting in the inability to adjust behaviors or perception to deal appropriately with interacting variables) is the organizing idea behind autism and Asperger's.

The reason for the rise in autism is probably due to a number of different factors, however there is a possibility that, in addition, the set up of our current culture is actively favoring the development of both left brained and right brained autism (what we term 'right brained caetextia').

As we discussed in a previous post, in Silicon Valley, the technological centre of the USA, there has been a threefold rise in children diagnosed with autism in just a decade.

In the same way, it is possible that in our society as a whole, we are inadvertently encouraging both left brain and right brain autism.

Here is a quote from Godhead: The Brain's Big Bang, explaining the premise behind this idea:

"Another factor favoring autistic behavior in today's workplace is the growth of overly prescribed working practices that remove personal responsibility from people in public services. The management style in HM Revenue & Customs, and agencies focused on education, health, policing and law, suit those who are context blind. (For a person with caetextia, 'responsibility' is just a buzzword - without multiple processing abilities, their attempts to be responsible often lack common sense, which after all is just another way of saying, 'seeing the bigger context'.) 

Alongside the growth of working conditions that favor people with left-brained caetextia, the media may be encouraging right-brained caetextia by randomly generating fantasies and continually stimulating imagination in ways that make it harder for people to stay in touch with reality. Vast numbers now pay a disproportionate amount of attention to emotionalism in music, television, 'reality' shows, computer games and on-screen interaction with one another in ways the inhibit the development of apathy skills and the ability to read multiple contexts. Characters in soap operas become real for them, artificially constructed celebrities infiltrate their mental landscape, and online 'relationships' divorced from empathic face-to-face communication, mimic psychotic symptoms to become delusional substitutes for genuine friendships (which involve mutual understanding and getting innate needs met.) 

Although both types of caetextia occur in society, there is no widespread understanding of what is required for people to hold the middle ground: the flexibility of thought that arises from having equal access to imagination and reason. If we continue to create the conditions that favor both left-brained and right-brained caetextia, either by means of the media saturating the population with emotionalism, or by subjecting people to overly systematized, computer-controlled and rightly prescribed working environments, without valuing the middle position, the end result might be that the window of opportunity for us to evolve further will slam shut."

For more on this topic and references for the above passage, please see the book Godhead: The Brain's Big Bang.

Our course on removing the barriers to learning for those on the ASD spectrum, Demystifying Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: Practical solutions for parents, careers, teachers and other professionals, is available from Human Givens College as an in-house training day in the UK.

http://blog.humangivens.com/2012/03/could-our-society-be-contributing-to.html

Why do some organisations drive us totally bonkers?

Why do some organisations drive us totally bonkers?
January 15, 2010 by beelore
Most of us can relate to examples of when customer service organisations have driven us completely bonkers: being passed off to another department that does not answer your call and drops you into a black hole; getting through to an Indian call centre that has not a clue how to address your problem; orders placed and fulfilled incorrectly……the list is endless.

With the so-called customer relationship being such a fundamental component to the success of any business, why do companies behave in such a maddening way?   The answer may well lie in some interesting new research from psychology.  It describes a model that helps to diagnose the roots of certain common mental health problems but can also be extended to help us understand some of the more general dysfunctions that we see within organisations.

The New Psychology of Caetextia (or Context Blindness)

Recent psychological research in the UK has come up with a new model for us to understand better what is going on with people suffering from a range of mental health conditions such as Asbergers’ syndrome, Autism and schizophrenia.  In summary, these symptoms are best expressed by the inability of people to switch easily between several foci of attention – and to track them against the history and context that relates to them.  This new line of research has been called ‘caetextia’ by the researchers: coming from the two Latin words caecus, (meaning ‘blind’) and contextus, (meaning ‘context’).  Further details can be found at www.caetextia.com.

It would appear that organisations can also demonstrate the symptoms of caetextia (or context-blindness).   Organisational Caetextia (or OC as we will call it from now on) can help us understand why some organisations exhibit a sort of madness when dealing with their customers and employees – yet give us a clue as to why they remain blind to the significant consequences of acting in such a crazy way.

In cases of caetextia in individuals, the new research has uncovered two types of context blindness – and OC can also be observed in two distinct types of dysfunctional behaviour.  Before we look at these two types, though, it is worth looking in more detail at the part of the brain that allows us to process context.

Parallel Processing in the Human Brain

In order for us to have context, we need to be able to see events from different points of view.  Recent research into how the brain works has revealed that all mammals have a part of the brain that can process masses of information at the same time – similar to the new ways that we configure parallel processing in computers.  This part of the brain developed millions of years ago to guage the risks associated by processing multiple streams of information and unconsciously comparing them to previous experiences.  This is something we take for granted today, but millons of years ago it was the key to any mammal’s survival and conserve energy by not reacting to every stimulus that came along.

The research has concluded that this parallel processing part of the brain can become impaired – and this is particularly prevalent in people who demonstrate symptoms on the autistic spectrum.  In such cases the brain cannot do the parallel processing necessary to keep separate streams of attention, switching effortlessly between each of them to assess their relevance to what is actually happening in the here-and-now. This form of parallel processing requires the brain to dissociate: in other words to be able to to review what it knows about something that it has come across before, whilst also paying attention to that something in the present.  It is no wonder that such people often suffer from learning difficulties!

Two types of Organisational Caetextia (OC)

The research has also uncovered two types of Caetextia: front-of-brain or straight-line thinking blindness and back-of-brain random association blindness. What is interesting is that these types of caetextia can also be applied to organisations and can help us understand why some organisations are so disconnected.

The first type can be called “Process OC”.  This is where an organisation processes work in logical straight lines without taking into account the wider organisational implications of doing so.   This type of OC is fixated in the front of the brain.   Examples might be a call centre agent who does not know which person or department to hand-off someone to and simply puts them into a telephone black hole.  Another example might be an agent who says “I am really sorry that this has happened to you, I will get someone to ring you back” – and they never do.

Organisational Caetextia of the process type tends to happen lower-down organisatons (for instance someone in the back-office saying: “that’s not my job, I only process this type of transaction”.   Front line workers will often be encouraged to adopt to this type of thinking with phrases such as “You are not paid to think. Just do what I say”.   This dysfunctionality is exacerbated by outsourcing arrangements where the supplier organisation fulfills its minimum service level obligations and is very much driven by the mantra “if it is not in the contract, then I can do it, but it will cost you more”.

The second type “Informational OC” tends to be found higher-up in organisations. This type of OC is based in the back of the brain.  The symptoms of this type of organisational madness is driven by managers and “leaders” defining a whole world of information they need to run the business that is of very litle value other than to those managers holding their jobs down or playing the politics of the given day.  Often the amount of information needed expands without any understanding on the cost associated with gathering it.   The information is then dressed up as targets to “motivate” those lower down the organisation to stretch themselves to meet those targets and get a bonus.  Vast parts of the organisation chase numbers that have no bearing on the reality of what is actually happening to customers on a day-to-day basis.

In times of stress, the information will often be used to create random associations between the data sets, coming to rapid conclusions to reinforce otherwise illogical assumptions and then finding it rather difficult to justify their decisions after the event.  The whole saga of justifying Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq is a good example of this.  Organisations also use such pools of information to get rid of people lower down in the organisation who are not “conforming”… even if the data bears no resemblence to reality and the people are doing valuable work with customers.

Conclusion

Successful organisations use back-brain (information = innovation) with front-brain (process = delivery) in a combination that drives continuous improvement.  A well-known example of this is Google who allow each employee to spend 20% of their time on their own projects.
In less successful organisations, these two frameworks of OC might be useful in alerting organisations, managers and employees or service workers to the madness that is around them – and perhaps give them a perspective to stop some of the maddening things they are doing at the moment!

References

More on the basic and ongoing research at Mindfields College at: www.caetextia.com

These main ideas in this article first published in an article for the CRM evaluation centre.  Paper can be downloaded by following the link to their briefings.
Why I'm fascinated with
42

It's the 'answer' for Life, the Universe & Everything from Douglas Adams's The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  However, it's an Over-Simplification, in Hitch, to figure out the 'work' to get such answer, you need to create a computer with the complexity of an Entire Life-Bearing Planet. This is similar to my "take the long way 'round' when I'm even asked a simple question.
It's my present age (50) in DuoDecimal (base 12).

This was left in draft form until now.  Have other numbers I'm fascinated with.

My age at this P.S.'s post is 35 in HexaDecimal, most nerdy geeky types will catch quick but I'm a tad dyslexic and the digits for this work for this year.  Switch back to DD when passing 39x
After a 2 year absence, have rebranded and into to place my  thoughts, faves and opinions onto a forum for others to see, appreciate and perhaps further my ideas and aspirations.  

Have got some entries on Urban Dictionary, have ambitions of getting more than one word entered into the OED or Webster's, if Homer can do it with D'Oh!  I think I can do better.  Aware it's my Punk iconoclasm working, but harmless

The Psychological version of his 3rd Law ("for every action… ) of Motion.

Alluded to in Matthew 7:1, "Judge not… "

Unlike Physics, tends to build into a frenzy, akin to one upping & pissing contest, not settle down.
The 'turd' reference is from apeshit, from a the practice of an enraged ape, takes or finds his recent dump and hurling it
Counselors & Priests see plenty of Newton's Turd in action when dealing with marital & relationship problems 

did a web search for this one recently and see a few other blogs picked it up, I've did some polishing from my post there  

Some more

A type of Tea Party roi nek who resemble a noted bigot from a 70's sit-com portmanteau'd with a reptile pun, which refers to their predeliction to spend most of their home time sitting in the easy chair (alphas) or couch (betas) so long that they get bedsores on their posteriors, hence their cranky altitude/disdain for anybody/thing that differs ever so slightly from their ossified paradygm
I think most Liberals find their fathers to behave like ArchieBunkerSoreAssh***?s. the bracketed appendix is a possible Karmic factor for their discomfort (all they do is spew s***). Possible opposite of Anal Rententive (expulsive?) but still likely unpleasant to be around if one has more imagination than a rutabaga. Odd Couple (Republican codependents?).   

With the clip from Wikipedia below, describes a (common) fate for the progeny of the thick-skulled subject above, Irony?

Enantiodromia (Greek: ἐνάντιος, enantios, opposite + δρόμος, dromos, running course) is a principle introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung that the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its opposite. It is similar to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system in order to restore balance. When things get to their extreme, they turn into their opposite

The term has also been applied as a neologism to describe the tendency of a younger generation to manifest the undesirable traits of a previous generation, despite the repudiation of these traits when they were young. In literary themes of utopics for instance, what is initially perceived as a liberating force of utopia often begins to exhibit dystopian traits of authoritarianism.  

In all eras, there has been youth-centered rebellions against authority and conformity, but each successive generation believes they're alway the 1st to be so 

What those "who think how we should think" and if any client varies in the slightest, 
gets treatment that makes the Inquisition look like Club Med. 
Portmanteau of 'psycho-' (mind) & 'orthodoxy' (right opinion), actually a continuation of the Mental Hygiene arm of Eugenics and a possible prophecy of Orwell's 1984 & other dystopias
When you need to see a psychiatrist, you need to be a nice circus lapdog and keep her/him from thinking (if they do) that you're too deviant from their (&/or superiors) Psychodoxy since they have God-like power to make your life (more) miserable, with no appeal, those often make things worse  

1. A derogatory term for fanatical UFO buffs (q.v. ambulance*, for some most? lawyers).

2. an inverted Boilermaker with a glass of beer sitting on a small plate with some Bourbon in it.
A saucer chaser fanatics group went to the pub after a fruitless evening and washed down their sorrows with plenty of their namesakes.