inner self and discovery: Ann Racuya-Robbins: "inner voice" as mutifaceted experienced interface between usual awareness and subtle identity as vaster awareness: Rich Murray 2008.07.18 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/messages/82
As an analogy, after decades of viewing plays, TV, and movies, we often find ourselves attending to the reality that actors are following carefully evolved scripts, with skillful editing weaving together shots into complex narratives that entice the viewer to create their version of the story and its meanings. The show can be recorded into our computer and be reworked entirely, faster, slower, different background music, different languages, scenes switched about, or related shows added in a window. The "how" of the show invests the "now" of the "snow-job" of the show. Our awareness of this background reality deepens our appreciation and gives us more freedom of choice as to whether to be "sucked in" or indoctrinated into a loss of freedom, in dealing with such questionable elements as focus on sexuality, fear, violence, conflict, protecting the physical body, its tribe, its nation, or rather limited, stereotyped characterizations of death, or acceptance of addiction to tobacco or alcohol. "Inner voice" is a similar deepening awareness that reveals unlimited inner perspectives that intimately and radically illuminate the convincing dramas that arise as ordinary personal awareness. Our friendly network accommodates a remarkable, shared openness to cooperative dialogue among very different varieties of personal awareness. In mutual service, Rich Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-501-2298 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/messages/1 Lively Communion: Invoking Mutual Meditative Exploration 2001.06.22 [FRIAM] inner self and discovery -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ann Racuya-Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:06 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [FRIAM] inner self and discovery I feel confident that there is a whole world (science, art, mathematics, visualization, unknown) of the inner self most particularly the inner voice. The World Knowledge BankR currently has a call for knowledge out on What is the nature of the "inner voice"? How is it possible to hear the "inner voice"? What is the physics, psycho acoustics of the inner voice? Can the inner voice be amplified? How? The question of the nature of the inner voice is both physical and metaphysical and very old indeed. In the Upanishads the inner voice is described as the "ear of the ear" and each one of us has one.maybe many species' individuals have one. I have a number of ideas and systems on this subject myself and want to encourage this conversation. I think the philosopher Suzanne K. Langer and her works Feeling and Form and Mind" an Essay on Human Feeling are good groundings and starting points for this discussion. Among her insights is that, I am paraphrasing, music in general gives or is a form of time. A particular musical composition tells us, informs us as to what time feels like. Other art forms tells us other things, such as visual art tells us how space feels. This is a revolutionary way to look at the world and brings the ambient and feeling world within our human capacity to understand and discuss. My take on Langer is to see that if there many ways to feel time and space, there are many kinds of sciences, many kinds of mathematics. Rather than learning a pedagogy of science our job is much more complex and rich, there is a plurality of possible sciences emergent from human feeling (expressed through art). I feel that we have seen over the last hundred years a slowing of fundamental insights emerging from science. The voluminious literature focuses on smaller and thinner nooks of (standard) science. The human spirit is often confined and frustrated by minucia not able to explore freely and anew. So now we have new dimensions emerging 3,4,15...? What? Isn't every dimension in a way a new science. ============================================================ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
