Reflecting on Rankism, I am getting wonderful insights and I see a problem. Robert Fuller makes it clear that there are illegitimate situations of rank, and legitimate ones.
I follow up with a few thoughts and some quotes from Robert Fuller.
Posting from iPhone by WordPress App
Ok!
Next morning:
I have not been able to get the Postie thing to work with images. But now I don’t care. I can post from the iPhone easily with the WordPress App.
That image was done on the iphone. I have more on flickr: Waltzzz I have an art blog – where I ususally post this sort of thing: Walter Logeman: Art
Blog on iPhone
For some reason the iphone friendly plugin did not work on this blog
so I disabeled it.
Then I discovered that if I went to the blog via the Google reader the
whole thing was formatted for the phone.
Google everything. Scary how so many cloud computing works best
through Google. Email, RSS reader, all hard to beat. An American
advertising corporation. I can feel resistance coming on.
Later:
Not so good though, links don’t work as expected.
Rankism
Rankism Knol article Robert Fuller
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Reading & listening to Robert Fuller got me thinking how he connects to the Marshall Rosenberg NVC, and all the dialogue material. I want to integrate!
Fear of banishment, need to be included, primal, we need to belong to the trib or we die.
Fuller is an expert on this major human need. Understanding needs is vital, and he seems to get this one. Needs are the missing link in psychotherapy – Maslows contribution is major – but it seemed the last word, and was not integrated into any modality that I know of.
This time from the phone
If it worked it means the bit of code to publish of worked as well.
I have also implemented the iPhone friendly theme, still need to see
if that works.
This must be a hobby!
Email Post
If you can see this I have successfully posted by email to this blog.
Later:
But I think the WordPress app does a better job.
Blue pill or Red pill psychotherapy
Perhaps you are almost falling out of the consensus world, and becoming more conscious, challenging those around you in ways they don’t like. Maybe you are getting closer to the underlying truth of your life. You don’t need to obey, and nor do you need to harm others to be who you really are. But you may need to *develop new roles*, it could be hard, unpleasant. Maybe you are not very good yet at getting around in the place where you are more real.
How will therapy help you?
Ease you back into the matrix? Help you into the more authentic world where you will feel more vulnerable?
Which way do you want to go?
I think most psychotherapists will ask you that question – after all sometimes the easier more pleasant path is all you can manage for now. For now… inauthentic life is not really an option is it?
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How do the social scientists measure the effectiveness of psychotherapy? Or more to the point how do insurance people measure it?
Wastes of Asphodel
I like the sound of it: Wastes of Asphodel in the poem in the last post. It is a deep dark place somewhere that I think of as cyberspace, removed yet connected to the world. As more and more people do their banking and blog about their day and so on, as cyberspace becomes more mundane with blinking banners urging us to buy, will these wastes become malls?
Sort of. But not quite. Land is land and dreams are dreams. For all the pixilated neon, it remains virtual. There is a dream world. In Dreams in Late Antiquity By Patricia Cox Miller (Google Amazon) shows how it is the other world, the world of dreams.
A passage from the book follows.
Cyberspace is a group of the living and the dead.
We can communicate with the living online, but their words live on after they die. There are stories of email groups where people reply quite consciously and deliberately to the posts from someone who is dead. Through such services as project Guttenberg the dead poets and novelists have come back with their text more alive than ever as we search, and cut and paste their words into newer living documents.
The last book of the Odyssey begins with an epiphany of Hermes, which may poetically bring to life something of the experience of being in a mind rather than a body space:
Meanwhile the suitors’ ghosts were called away by Hermes of Kyllene, bearing the golden wand with which he charms the eyes of men or wakens whom he wills.
He waved them on, all squeaking
as bats will in a cavern’s underworld,
all flitting, flitting criss-cross in the dark
if one falls and the rock-hung chain is broken.
So with faint cries the shades trailed after
Hermes, pure Deliverer.He led them down dank ways, over gray
Ocean tides, the Snowy Rock past shores
of Dream and narrows of the sunset,
in swift flight to where the Dead inhabit
wastes of asphodel at the world’s end.From the section “The Hermes of the Odyssey” in Hermes Guide of Souls by Karl Kerényi (1942)
We can see how Hermes connects with the disdain for cyberspace we have discussed. The realm can be a Hades, and in our disembodiment we become ghosts.
The idea of ‘archive’ is often used for storing old records. On the net everything at the moment of its birth is archived and thus the latest pop song is as easily accessed as the ideas of people long dead re-published on the Net.
Here is my essay – this one section from it.
New Address for Psyberspace!
Imported my Psyberspace blog from WordPress.com to here: https://psyberspace.walterlogeman.com where I can add plugins, generally have more flexibility. Went fairly smoothly but links go back to the old site. Nevermind, I might do a search and replace thing one day, soon.
The new RSS feed is: https://psyberspace.walterlogeman.com/?feed=rss2