Personality, Essence, Soul (metaphysics)
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These are three latencies in the completing psychological totality, manifesting as three 'rings' of behavior patters.
1. Personality -- latent 'ring' of expected daily interactive behavior. "A compromise formation between "I" for others, to satisfy social expectations, and "I" for oneself, who is not exhausted in "other" interactions." (Jung) "A tri-partite Super-Ego, Ego, Id agency-psychodynamic, rolled into One" (Freud)
(Ex. "I knew you'ld say that" Judge Dredd ) Mostly formed by age 6.
2. Essence -- latent 'ring' of behavior traceable to what is in the DNA, the biological, blood basis of personal identity. This acts as an inner constraint on personality; without a sense of inner essence, nothing resists any factor desired to complete the personality that comes along. Essence awareness becomes verbally conscious (which is not necessary for personality) as "racialism." A person's essence is what manifests in latency toward racialism (tribalism. ethnicity, ideology) -- instinctive affirmation of one's blood-being. However, the factors completing development of personality, mostly acquired by age 6, followed by the latency period, then puberty, provides a sendary ring of factors that 'coat' the essence-instinct. A 'second nature' of acquired habits, perpetuating, unless acted upon from without.
3. Soul -- the essence of essence. Plato: The latency awakened by the completing factors of visual connection with the furthermost external bodies ("seeing the stars"; "seeing stars", "seeing stars"). The latency of the higher-blood-in-the-liquid-blood, the 'etheric' aura of a behavior identifying 'types' (and the 'Christ', where present, as Essence-Light); latent bonds to the Oxygens required for higher being-bodies' warmth.
"The Soul" is that which is born into a body as a latency of these three kinds. The metaphysics can be provisionally taken as Aristotellian. It is not a fully formed homunculus at conception; abortion isn't murdering a little baby; only arresting a latency, as we cull weeds and such around the tomato plants for best growth.
When the tri-partite structure of the inner 'rings' embedded in external behaviors is compared with the tri-partite structure of the eye (see Ziggarut thread on Eye of Horus), The Soul corresponds with the pupil, the essence with the Iris, the personality with the cornea ('rolls eyes').
When the Aristotelian metaphysics of Soul as "second grade actuality of that which has life potentially within it" is broken down, through consciousness, into the three-being brain levels, head, spine, solar plexus ('gut'), the level of Gurdjieff cosmological analysis is reached. Each "brain" is a material organ resonating to different frequency levels, according to the flow-of-process through them, and there are three stages of such levels emanating from the Holy Sun Absolute: Etherokrilna, particles smaller than those of light; Okhadonock, light particles; Orgone/Libido, pro-creative love particles.
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Friday, August 17, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Pegs 'O My Heart (soul talk from Plato..)
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PEGS 'O My HEART
The Atomic Molecular Theory of Sign-use applied to Soul
(Commentary on Plato's Timaeus)
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html
"When the creator had made all these ordinances he remained in his own accustomed nature, and his children heard and were obedient to their father's word, and receiving from him the immortal principle of a mortal creature, in imitation of their own creator they borrowed portions of fire, and earth, and water, and air from the world, which were hereafter to be restored-these they took and welded them together, not with the indissoluble chains by which they were themselves bound, but with little pegs too small to be visible, making up out of all the four elements each separate body, and fastening the courses of the immortal soul in a body which was in a state of perpetual influx and efflux."
Thesis: the "little pegs" attaching the soul, as medium between the unchangeable and indivisible (content of the upper triad: S*, Consciousness, Thought) to the 'body' (content of lower triad: perception, phenomena (organized sensation), psycho-neural energy quanta, are the binders between External and Internal factors of the person (individual man or woman) as a totality, through the completing factors of the soul as a totality. The factors are completed successively, as stages (or stations, as 'points of deflection' after transition through a stage is completed.), and also hierarchically by one building on the prior to the next, as in the ratios 3: 2, 4 :3 9: 8 , disruption of which disconnects the soul from its cosmic envelope, flips it out:
"...(The connecting lines) were twisted by them in all sorts of ways, and the circles were broken and disordered in every possible manner, so that when they moved they were tumbling to pieces, and moved irrationally, at one time in a reverse direction, and then again obliquely, and then upside down, as you might imagine a person who is upside down and has his head leaning upon the ground and his feet up against something in the air; and when he is in such a position, both he and the spectator fancy that the right of either is his left, and left right. If, when powerfully experiencing these and similar effects, the revolutions of the soul come in contact with some external thing, either of the class of the same or of the other, they speak of the same or of the other in a manner the very opposite of the truth; and they become false and foolish, and there is no course or revolution in them which has a guiding or directing power; and if again any sensations enter in violently from without and drag after them the whole vessel of the soul, then the courses of the soul, though they seem to conquer, are really conquered."
Taken phenomenally, this describes "the Drunken Sailor" soul. It is a state in which the intellectual pegs*, sign-uses bonding the content of vision, hearing, intellect, necessary truth and sense perception together through the thinking center, become disconnected, the lines they demarcate twisted, tangled up, with loss of the sense of self-experience in the world as a container.
The image for "properly pegged" souls is the earth revolving on its poles, generating time, in the circle of the different, even as the stars, planets, sun and moon generate time at the place they are locally observed. The core of the idea of a perfectly pegged soul is this image: the 7th 'motion in its own place', the center, around which the six directions of motion relative to the body radiate-and-constellate external S* constructs ("rings and strings").
In Christian terms, the Drunken Sailor's state is that of lost soul; if there is no possibility of return a state of equilibrium. as a default position, the soul is permanently lost as a completing factor of the psychic totality. The insistence on second birth as a necessary condition for such completion is provision of a Shock from 'outside' (i.e., the token side of 'out', still content of the upper triad of consciousness), initiating transform of soul potential into essence. This completing force is the Holt Spirit of the Christian Trinity. "God" is the Token Completion of the upper Triad of conscious content through sign-use stabilized by the thinking center, which is why 7 is "His Sacred Number," As "He" stabilizes the motion of all bodies revolving on themselves in the cosmos, so the soul, as the second being body-center of the three-brained being that a human is, when it is circling God, brings in the higher-level energy passing through the perpetually encircling cosmoses.
. The pegs binding the upper triad are the necessity of thought sign-uses whose objects are wholly contained in a present act of awareness, Ex. "the circle" drawn on a blackboard as prop to illustrate: the parts (circumference, center, diameter, radiua); number ratios, possible motions by continuous lines drawn on grids as coordinates, etc..Each elaboration on the circle completes it as a totality consciously related to in different ways. It's sign, 0, encompasses: the Atom, Unity of Totality, The One and, by application to the 6 directions in three dimensional space, its center, as the 7th.
(Plato)
"Such was the whole plan of the eternal God about the god that was to be, to whom for this reason he gave a body, smooth and even, having a surface in every direction equidistant from the centre, a body entire and perfect, and formed out of perfect bodies. And in the centre he put the soul, which he diffused throughout the body, making it also to be the exterior environment of it; and he made the universe a circle moving in a circle, one and solitary, yet by reason of its excellence able to converse with itself, and needing no other friendship or acquaintance. Having these purposes in view he created the world a blessed god."
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"The body of heaven is visible, but the soul is invisible, and partakes of reason and harmony, and being made by the best of intellectual and everlasting natures, is the best of things created."
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"Time, then, and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order that, having been created together, if ever there was to be a dissolution of them, they might be dissolved together. It was framed after the pattern of the eternal nature, that it might resemble this as far as was possible; for the pattern exists from eternity, and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time; and when he had made-their several bodies, he placed them in the orbits in which the circle of the other was revolving-in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon in the orbit nearest the earth, and next the sun, in the second orbit above the earth; then came the morning star and the star sacred to Hermes, moving in orbits which have an equal swiftness with the sun, but in an opposite direction;.."
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"Of the heavenly and divine, he created the greater part out of fire, that they might be the brightest of all things and fairest to behold, and he fashioned them after the likeness of the universe in the figure of a circle, and made them follow the intelligent motion of the supreme, distributing them over the whole circumference of heaven, which was to be a true cosmos or glorious world spangled with them all over. And he gave to each of them two movements: the first, a movement on the same spot after the same manner, whereby they ever continue to think consistently the same thoughts about the same things; the second, a forward movement, in which they are controlled by the revolution of the same and the like; but by the other five motions they were unaffected, in order that each of them might attain the highest perfection. And for this reason the fixed stars were created, to be divine and eternal animals, ever-abiding and revolving after the same manner and on the same spot; and the other stars which reverse their motion and are subject to deviations of this kind, were created in the manner already described. The earth, which is our nurse, clinging around the pole which is extended through the universe, he framed to be the guardian and artificer of night and day."
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..."but with little pegs too small to be visible, making up out of all the four elements each separate body, and fastening the courses of the immortal soul in a body which was in a state of perpetual influx and efflux. Now these courses, detained as in a vast river, neither overcame nor were overcome; but were hurrying and hurried to and fro, so that the whole animal was moved and progressed, irregularly however and irrationally and anyhow, in all the six directions of motion, wandering backwards and forwards, and right and left, and up and down, and in all the six directions."
PEGS 'O My HEART
The Atomic Molecular Theory of Sign-use applied to Soul
(Commentary on Plato's Timaeus)
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html
"When the creator had made all these ordinances he remained in his own accustomed nature, and his children heard and were obedient to their father's word, and receiving from him the immortal principle of a mortal creature, in imitation of their own creator they borrowed portions of fire, and earth, and water, and air from the world, which were hereafter to be restored-these they took and welded them together, not with the indissoluble chains by which they were themselves bound, but with little pegs too small to be visible, making up out of all the four elements each separate body, and fastening the courses of the immortal soul in a body which was in a state of perpetual influx and efflux."
Thesis: the "little pegs" attaching the soul, as medium between the unchangeable and indivisible (content of the upper triad: S*, Consciousness, Thought) to the 'body' (content of lower triad: perception, phenomena (organized sensation), psycho-neural energy quanta, are the binders between External and Internal factors of the person (individual man or woman) as a totality, through the completing factors of the soul as a totality. The factors are completed successively, as stages (or stations, as 'points of deflection' after transition through a stage is completed.), and also hierarchically by one building on the prior to the next, as in the ratios 3: 2, 4 :3 9: 8 , disruption of which disconnects the soul from its cosmic envelope, flips it out:
"...(The connecting lines) were twisted by them in all sorts of ways, and the circles were broken and disordered in every possible manner, so that when they moved they were tumbling to pieces, and moved irrationally, at one time in a reverse direction, and then again obliquely, and then upside down, as you might imagine a person who is upside down and has his head leaning upon the ground and his feet up against something in the air; and when he is in such a position, both he and the spectator fancy that the right of either is his left, and left right. If, when powerfully experiencing these and similar effects, the revolutions of the soul come in contact with some external thing, either of the class of the same or of the other, they speak of the same or of the other in a manner the very opposite of the truth; and they become false and foolish, and there is no course or revolution in them which has a guiding or directing power; and if again any sensations enter in violently from without and drag after them the whole vessel of the soul, then the courses of the soul, though they seem to conquer, are really conquered."
Taken phenomenally, this describes "the Drunken Sailor" soul. It is a state in which the intellectual pegs*, sign-uses bonding the content of vision, hearing, intellect, necessary truth and sense perception together through the thinking center, become disconnected, the lines they demarcate twisted, tangled up, with loss of the sense of self-experience in the world as a container.
The image for "properly pegged" souls is the earth revolving on its poles, generating time, in the circle of the different, even as the stars, planets, sun and moon generate time at the place they are locally observed. The core of the idea of a perfectly pegged soul is this image: the 7th 'motion in its own place', the center, around which the six directions of motion relative to the body radiate-and-constellate external S* constructs ("rings and strings").
In Christian terms, the Drunken Sailor's state is that of lost soul; if there is no possibility of return a state of equilibrium. as a default position, the soul is permanently lost as a completing factor of the psychic totality. The insistence on second birth as a necessary condition for such completion is provision of a Shock from 'outside' (i.e., the token side of 'out', still content of the upper triad of consciousness), initiating transform of soul potential into essence. This completing force is the Holt Spirit of the Christian Trinity. "God" is the Token Completion of the upper Triad of conscious content through sign-use stabilized by the thinking center, which is why 7 is "His Sacred Number," As "He" stabilizes the motion of all bodies revolving on themselves in the cosmos, so the soul, as the second being body-center of the three-brained being that a human is, when it is circling God, brings in the higher-level energy passing through the perpetually encircling cosmoses.
. The pegs binding the upper triad are the necessity of thought sign-uses whose objects are wholly contained in a present act of awareness, Ex. "the circle" drawn on a blackboard as prop to illustrate: the parts (circumference, center, diameter, radiua); number ratios, possible motions by continuous lines drawn on grids as coordinates, etc..Each elaboration on the circle completes it as a totality consciously related to in different ways. It's sign, 0, encompasses: the Atom, Unity of Totality, The One and, by application to the 6 directions in three dimensional space, its center, as the 7th.
(Plato)
"Such was the whole plan of the eternal God about the god that was to be, to whom for this reason he gave a body, smooth and even, having a surface in every direction equidistant from the centre, a body entire and perfect, and formed out of perfect bodies. And in the centre he put the soul, which he diffused throughout the body, making it also to be the exterior environment of it; and he made the universe a circle moving in a circle, one and solitary, yet by reason of its excellence able to converse with itself, and needing no other friendship or acquaintance. Having these purposes in view he created the world a blessed god."
****
"The body of heaven is visible, but the soul is invisible, and partakes of reason and harmony, and being made by the best of intellectual and everlasting natures, is the best of things created."
****
"Time, then, and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order that, having been created together, if ever there was to be a dissolution of them, they might be dissolved together. It was framed after the pattern of the eternal nature, that it might resemble this as far as was possible; for the pattern exists from eternity, and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time; and when he had made-their several bodies, he placed them in the orbits in which the circle of the other was revolving-in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon in the orbit nearest the earth, and next the sun, in the second orbit above the earth; then came the morning star and the star sacred to Hermes, moving in orbits which have an equal swiftness with the sun, but in an opposite direction;.."
****
"Of the heavenly and divine, he created the greater part out of fire, that they might be the brightest of all things and fairest to behold, and he fashioned them after the likeness of the universe in the figure of a circle, and made them follow the intelligent motion of the supreme, distributing them over the whole circumference of heaven, which was to be a true cosmos or glorious world spangled with them all over. And he gave to each of them two movements: the first, a movement on the same spot after the same manner, whereby they ever continue to think consistently the same thoughts about the same things; the second, a forward movement, in which they are controlled by the revolution of the same and the like; but by the other five motions they were unaffected, in order that each of them might attain the highest perfection. And for this reason the fixed stars were created, to be divine and eternal animals, ever-abiding and revolving after the same manner and on the same spot; and the other stars which reverse their motion and are subject to deviations of this kind, were created in the manner already described. The earth, which is our nurse, clinging around the pole which is extended through the universe, he framed to be the guardian and artificer of night and day."
****
..."but with little pegs too small to be visible, making up out of all the four elements each separate body, and fastening the courses of the immortal soul in a body which was in a state of perpetual influx and efflux. Now these courses, detained as in a vast river, neither overcame nor were overcome; but were hurrying and hurried to and fro, so that the whole animal was moved and progressed, irregularly however and irrationally and anyhow, in all the six directions of motion, wandering backwards and forwards, and right and left, and up and down, and in all the six directions."
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The Grammar of Soul
THE GRAMMAR OF SOUL
-WHY WE CALL IT by one word EVEN THOUGH HARDLY ANY TWO THINKERS MEAN MEAN THE SAME THING BY IT.
Plato - Formal Essence of the Rational Faculty
("that which knows through reasoning")
Aristotle - Blend* of 1. formulable essence 2. material nature in: => 3. 'enmattered formulable essence'. De Anima, Bk. 1)
=> 4. Bk. 2 The actualization of that which is alive (functioning) in a potentially living thing. ("vital essence" of individual members of the natural classes of infima species: that which animates the particular man, dog, horse, etc..)
Aristotle's survey of his predecessor's views characterized soul* (*the term under discussion) as:
A. the moving principle in self-moved things; itself self-moved (like fire).
(cf. Plato's "7th (perfect) motion in the Timaeus.)
B. the cognitive faculty: that which thinks, reasons, knows experience through causes
=> In his synthesis, these become
C.
D. This is mirrored in the formula "God is thought thinking thought": the force of creation-by-attraction that constrains all things existent in the universe into being, through formal essence-love (of their own, of its peerage, of God, the eternally stable center of the perfect spiral motion (The Great I AM resonance))
Christian
Apart from particular New Testament passages or patristic teachings, the doctrine that a Personal Creator I AM incarnate in a historical individual, completing the totality which the natural kind called "humanity" on earth by a single member if that infima species....(this doctrine, with ramifications) is the revelation TO that humanity of what their soul is. Although Christians who follower the tradition of Thomas Aquinas readily weave together this supernatural soul with Aristotle's three grade natural soul + active reason, as thought totalities these arise from different sources and complete their unity* (*7-phase cycle reducing to => 6 + 1) in different ways. However, there is a great affinity. The yet deeper affinity, when the metaphysical affinity of these are matched ("faith completes reason"), can be shown to lie in Gurdjieff's system (below). But that is OK. Truth is older than religion, and there is a lot of it that didn't make it into The Bible, especially the further back, and outward, one goes.
Descartes (Modern)
Kant (Critical)
tbc
Freud, Jung, Reich This initial Triad defined the metaphysics of Depth Psychology, replacing the where the grammar of "affections of the soul" once reigned. These men were scientists, following an empirical method; their work could not in principle begin by assuming a supernatural soul any more than empirical biology could begin by positing 'entelechies' to explain developmental material causes. However, science and metaphysics don't run along the same rails. (Not just my idea; its what religionists alway say about scientists: "you only study effects, not ultimate causes".)
FREUD
Used four models of psychic functioning at different stages of theory, roughly following the order of development of psychoanalysis as a discipline:
1. neurogenic process mediated by synaptic interactions: the Systems model (conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious; superceded later).
2. Instinct theory. Libido -- the energy of psychic process (later: Jung's "interest") motivating the sex drive. Its appetitative character explains the all-pervasive telos of the psyche to find in Conscious Perception that, and only that, which is desired. Subjectively, desire is for pleasure; hence the acme of pleasure during the involuntary orgasmic reflex response ("ejaculation") is an instinctual telos, nature's gratification of her own desire for joy of being. The Pleasure Principle: that which organizes what is perceived does so in a way that satisfies a conscious or unconscious wish.
Freud later notoriously abandoned the Libido theory as a monadic theory of psychic energy, introducing the notion of a "death-drive", "Thanatos", that begins to gain ascendancy after mid-life, when the expansive vitality of youth begins receding. Under its sway, the psyche lives to see death. At first Freud thought the masochistic (self-hating) manifestations he was seeing in humans was a vast sexual perversion, the result of internalizing sadistic aggression with energy of libido converted into anxiety over sex-punishment ("feeling so good is bad"). But the sheer amount -- quantity of some sort -- of obsessiveness with death led him to posit a separate strand, thus suggesting a cadaseus visual for instinct theory.
Extroversion/Inversion of libido" directions of flow, outward or inward, toward objects of desire. Outward: in "object-cathexis"; desire gratified by relating to an external object. Inward: in "narcissistic cathexis": desire gratified on the own body (can also be the basis of narcissistic object-cathexis)
3. Developmental-Dynamic model. Related to instinct theory as stages of development of psychic organization, beginning with birth trauma as prototype of neurogenic anxiety. L. deMause established that birth, itself, is the culmination of an entire formative period, retained in affective- reactive memory as "a previous life", transited by a Cosmic Battle (the source of the anxiety, later replayed endlessly by repetition-compulsion -- the 'soul-band' on the grammatical template through which flows the Etherokrilno.
The polymorphous, oral, anal, Oedipal, post-Oedipal (ego-centric) organizations of flow-of-libido overlay the material sealed from direct memory by the trauma of birth, spawning Great Fantasies in tiny just-awakening imaginations, then and later (in 'flashbacks'). This is the material of perversity when mal-adaptive adult consciousness blocks normal object-subject routes of cathexis, and 'loops up' one of the split-off contents of the Original psyche. We all go through the same stages of development, as different types of individuals-to-be, blending own-gratifications with others as "we", in states of regression, return to these original Archetypal contents. Also affecting development are the "vicissitudes of instinct", or (in G. terms) what is provided by external circumstance for the nourishment of our being-blood and the quality of completing factors of individual totality.
The theory of repression of instinct belongs to the dynamic model. Its mechanisms include denial, reaction-formation, projection-reversal, activated in the interest of preventing contents incompatible with the conscious attitude (accusatory voices cathecting guilt) from gaining entry to it. Blessed be the man who need not avoid the contents of their own unconscious.
4. Personality Theory. Freud arrived at the tri-partite Ego, Super-ego, Id division of basic factors analyzing individual personality after publication of The Ego and the Id in l923. His analysis of the Ego dissolved what had previously been assumed a unity of its own into a variable determined by its intermediate relation to an instinctual "active" (libidinal) drive, and "NO-saying, watching, Punishing agency" -- theoretical descendant in Freudian theory to the notion of "Ego Ideal" (what the ego desires to be, expects of itself), transformed into the main link to Thanatos (which has no hesitation in asking for its death -- which is why the Ego has got to keep its head out of its ass) .
JUNG
Jung paid psychosemiotic respect to the Greek Intellectual tradition by retaining the term "Psyche", associated with Latin Feminine Anima (=>Athena, Athens) as a category of explanation. "The Soul" he takes as the feminine side of the Psyche, whether the personal gender is male or female. Thus philosophy, defined as "tendance of the soul" is for either.
This is the metaphysical "right wing" of Freud. It de-sexualizes psychic energy and took collective dreams as expression of historical eras. A Mystic, The Hierophant, True Captain on the Sea of Being.
REICH
The Orgone Energy Ocean is breathed into our body through the nose, lung, pores of the skin -- in states of dilation, lugubrious sensuality; then discharged. It is a purifying act of communication through matching active-passive elements of the Omni-Present-Okidanokh. This is the metaphysical left-wing of Freud, following the libido theory.
Gurdjieff
1. The Emotional Brain Center.
There is that which manifests through the second being brain of three-brained beings. (individual persons); this, as the Neutralizing
force in respect to the head-brain, Active, and spinal brain, Passive, is required to complete the totality of functions of the person. .
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This second being-brain is not. like the head-brain and tail-brain (spine), located in one spatially contained material organ. It does have a physical, that is to say functional anatomic basis, however, in locales distributed over separately organized parts of the body. When experienced as a totality, these locales are brought together on the token side of sign-use, in the solar plexus, or 'gut'. Otherwise, separately experienced, they are felt as in the chest, ('heart'), loins, 'hot spots', and so forth; each of these ways of experiencing the flow-of-impressions by feeling is a Completing Factor of the soul-totality. The flow of feeling itself is the Completing Factor for the functioning of the three-brained being as a totality. The myth of the Egyptian God Osiris whose body was cut into 14 parts by Seth and distribute up and down the Nile may be seen as reflecting the original human soul template, as an external objective correlate of the subjective completing factors: Our Soul scattered along the Nile (back when it still flooded). Isis re-assembled the parts; Thoth substituted a virtual for the real phallus to impregnate her, and from her womb came Horus, the 4th. He is perpetually at war with Seth, who was the 4th originally, perpetually revenging the murder and dismemberment of His Father Osiris. Gurdjieff himself called this myth 'gibberish', but I am including it as a descriptive account of what "soul" was for Egyptian and other followers of the template. 14 is double-7, the British Fortnight; it "breaks" in two as right-left, male-female, symmetrical circular patterning, visually displayed in the shape of the number sign 8. (14 => 8 as 7^, using "^" for "double"). Seeing* 8 =7^ involves shifting the grammatical framework, as in the formula (6+1) = 7 when "+" is a geometrical sign correlating a hexagram around a center (the 7th). In intentional contexts of sign-use, the expression "(6+1)" would not "equal 7", since what is communicated by one is different from communicated by the other, and "+" is conventionally take to signify arithmetic, rather than geometrical 'addition'. A particular mental operation is required, but its designation is ambiguous. When the transition is from one completing factor to another in a completing totality, the totality of these grammatical totalities, 'bent' at points of deflection from one grammar to the other, can be mapped in a circle of 7 units, drawn in one direction; meeting itself at a point of origin and retracing its steps in reverse as if from the other side of a Meobius/Torus. The iconagraphy of this structural dynamics has been laid out in brilliant visuals elsewhere.(See Pentachronic)
Constellation of the Completing Factors of the Psychic (Soul) Totality is by use of signs ("sign-use", S*), and that in two senses. A. By names and other unit designators, to bring together the over-all qualities of an object or situation, such as beauty, justice, etc. to which the soul-center relates; B. by arranging the categories of names in schemata (diagrams, graphs, maps, matrices, formal syntactical S* systems, I Ching, Tarot). The latter, B., is a reflection-in representation of the unity constellated in A.; that is, which is brought together by assembling the totality of Completing Factors into a whole.
It is through participation of the soul as a totality in ordinary consciousness that the person experiences Remorse of Conscience (no conscious completion without conscience). The vibrational quality experienced is the Nirioonossian-world-sound (Do absolute). It is heard through the essence-ring vibration as Aieiouoa. Those who ignored it in life, even (or especially) among those whose higher being bodies are coated, and hence indestrutable, relative to local flows-of-time, 'lose the possibility of blending directly with our Most Most Holy Sun Absolute' and wind up on the planet Purgatory. The Vibe of the Great I AM cannot get through to them.
2. Metaphysics of The Work. Although the capacity to experience the emotional life as a totality exists innately in each three-brain being, the ability to actually 'pull it all together' in a fully self-conscious act is not given except as a potential. The forever unspoken, forever being-spoken 'primordial' unity existed, indeed, before birth, before there was any 'center' or point of reference to relate the physico-psychologal flux retained in memory, but 'sealed' by the trauma of birth. Conscious efforts to make the original unity that becomes scattered and dispersed over and through the body after birth trauma are required to 'coat' the soul-centre as a unit, according to Gurdjieff. The Conscious efforts are called "being-Parkdolg duty"
3. The Third Being-Body (Man No 5)
The First Being-Body is the Planetary body (with three brains).
The Second Being- Body is the Kesdjan body (the coated essence)
this body is the manifestation of an inneer totality distinct from the personality, which is formed by blending inner and outer flow-of- process in a functional unity as part of coming to terms with reality which includes other people. The Kesdjan body, in distinction, is an inner development with an identity constellated from original soul factors, but dispersed through the Omni-Present Okidonokh. This body has its own blood, handbledzoin, requiring its own 'food' which consists in higher oxygens borne in the air. Vibrant handbledzoin is required to vivify qualitative experience. .
The Third Being Body is the coated crystalized particles vibrating in consonance with the prime source of all arisings, the sacred Etherokrilno.
It is the center-of- gravity of vibrational manifestation of Man Number 5, in Ouspensky's terms. The Kesdjan body has become sufficiently stabilized to act as conduit for the higher grade (6th) cosmic forces to crystalize.
-WHY WE CALL IT by one word EVEN THOUGH HARDLY ANY TWO THINKERS MEAN MEAN THE SAME THING BY IT.
Plato - Formal Essence of the Rational Faculty
("that which knows through reasoning")
Aristotle - Blend* of 1. formulable essence 2. material nature in: => 3. 'enmattered formulable essence'. De Anima, Bk. 1)
=> 4. Bk. 2 The actualization of that which is alive (functioning) in a potentially living thing. ("vital essence" of individual members of the natural classes of infima species: that which animates the particular man, dog, horse, etc..)
Aristotle's survey of his predecessor's views characterized soul* (*the term under discussion) as:
A. the moving principle in self-moved things; itself self-moved (like fire).
(cf. Plato's "7th (perfect) motion in the Timaeus.)
B. the cognitive faculty: that which thinks, reasons, knows experience through causes
=> In his synthesis, these become
C.
D. This is mirrored in the formula "God is thought thinking thought": the force of creation-by-attraction that constrains all things existent in the universe into being, through formal essence-love (of their own, of its peerage, of God, the eternally stable center of the perfect spiral motion (The Great I AM resonance))
Christian
Apart from particular New Testament passages or patristic teachings, the doctrine that a Personal Creator I AM incarnate in a historical individual, completing the totality which the natural kind called "humanity" on earth by a single member if that infima species....(this doctrine, with ramifications) is the revelation TO that humanity of what their soul is. Although Christians who follower the tradition of Thomas Aquinas readily weave together this supernatural soul with Aristotle's three grade natural soul + active reason, as thought totalities these arise from different sources and complete their unity* (*7-phase cycle reducing to => 6 + 1) in different ways. However, there is a great affinity. The yet deeper affinity, when the metaphysical affinity of these are matched ("faith completes reason"), can be shown to lie in Gurdjieff's system (below). But that is OK. Truth is older than religion, and there is a lot of it that didn't make it into The Bible, especially the further back, and outward, one goes.
Descartes (Modern)
Kant (Critical)
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Freud, Jung, Reich This initial Triad defined the metaphysics of Depth Psychology, replacing the where the grammar of "affections of the soul" once reigned. These men were scientists, following an empirical method; their work could not in principle begin by assuming a supernatural soul any more than empirical biology could begin by positing 'entelechies' to explain developmental material causes. However, science and metaphysics don't run along the same rails. (Not just my idea; its what religionists alway say about scientists: "you only study effects, not ultimate causes".)
FREUD
Used four models of psychic functioning at different stages of theory, roughly following the order of development of psychoanalysis as a discipline:
1. neurogenic process mediated by synaptic interactions: the Systems model (conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious; superceded later).
2. Instinct theory. Libido -- the energy of psychic process (later: Jung's "interest") motivating the sex drive. Its appetitative character explains the all-pervasive telos of the psyche to find in Conscious Perception that, and only that, which is desired. Subjectively, desire is for pleasure; hence the acme of pleasure during the involuntary orgasmic reflex response ("ejaculation") is an instinctual telos, nature's gratification of her own desire for joy of being. The Pleasure Principle: that which organizes what is perceived does so in a way that satisfies a conscious or unconscious wish.
Freud later notoriously abandoned the Libido theory as a monadic theory of psychic energy, introducing the notion of a "death-drive", "Thanatos", that begins to gain ascendancy after mid-life, when the expansive vitality of youth begins receding. Under its sway, the psyche lives to see death. At first Freud thought the masochistic (self-hating) manifestations he was seeing in humans was a vast sexual perversion, the result of internalizing sadistic aggression with energy of libido converted into anxiety over sex-punishment ("feeling so good is bad"). But the sheer amount -- quantity of some sort -- of obsessiveness with death led him to posit a separate strand, thus suggesting a cadaseus visual for instinct theory.
Extroversion/Inversion of libido" directions of flow, outward or inward, toward objects of desire. Outward: in "object-cathexis"; desire gratified by relating to an external object. Inward: in "narcissistic cathexis": desire gratified on the own body (can also be the basis of narcissistic object-cathexis)
3. Developmental-Dynamic model. Related to instinct theory as stages of development of psychic organization, beginning with birth trauma as prototype of neurogenic anxiety. L. deMause established that birth, itself, is the culmination of an entire formative period, retained in affective- reactive memory as "a previous life", transited by a Cosmic Battle (the source of the anxiety, later replayed endlessly by repetition-compulsion -- the 'soul-band' on the grammatical template through which flows the Etherokrilno.
The polymorphous, oral, anal, Oedipal, post-Oedipal (ego-centric) organizations of flow-of-libido overlay the material sealed from direct memory by the trauma of birth, spawning Great Fantasies in tiny just-awakening imaginations, then and later (in 'flashbacks'). This is the material of perversity when mal-adaptive adult consciousness blocks normal object-subject routes of cathexis, and 'loops up' one of the split-off contents of the Original psyche. We all go through the same stages of development, as different types of individuals-to-be, blending own-gratifications with others as "we", in states of regression, return to these original Archetypal contents. Also affecting development are the "vicissitudes of instinct", or (in G. terms) what is provided by external circumstance for the nourishment of our being-blood and the quality of completing factors of individual totality.
The theory of repression of instinct belongs to the dynamic model. Its mechanisms include denial, reaction-formation, projection-reversal, activated in the interest of preventing contents incompatible with the conscious attitude (accusatory voices cathecting guilt) from gaining entry to it. Blessed be the man who need not avoid the contents of their own unconscious.
4. Personality Theory. Freud arrived at the tri-partite Ego, Super-ego, Id division of basic factors analyzing individual personality after publication of The Ego and the Id in l923. His analysis of the Ego dissolved what had previously been assumed a unity of its own into a variable determined by its intermediate relation to an instinctual "active" (libidinal) drive, and "NO-saying, watching, Punishing agency" -- theoretical descendant in Freudian theory to the notion of "Ego Ideal" (what the ego desires to be, expects of itself), transformed into the main link to Thanatos (which has no hesitation in asking for its death -- which is why the Ego has got to keep its head out of its ass) .
JUNG
Jung paid psychosemiotic respect to the Greek Intellectual tradition by retaining the term "Psyche", associated with Latin Feminine Anima (=>Athena, Athens) as a category of explanation. "The Soul" he takes as the feminine side of the Psyche, whether the personal gender is male or female. Thus philosophy, defined as "tendance of the soul" is for either.
This is the metaphysical "right wing" of Freud. It de-sexualizes psychic energy and took collective dreams as expression of historical eras. A Mystic, The Hierophant, True Captain on the Sea of Being.
REICH
The Orgone Energy Ocean is breathed into our body through the nose, lung, pores of the skin -- in states of dilation, lugubrious sensuality; then discharged. It is a purifying act of communication through matching active-passive elements of the Omni-Present-Okidanokh. This is the metaphysical left-wing of Freud, following the libido theory.
Gurdjieff
1. The Emotional Brain Center.
There is that which manifests through the second being brain of three-brained beings. (individual persons); this, as the Neutralizing
force in respect to the head-brain, Active, and spinal brain, Passive, is required to complete the totality of functions of the person. .
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This second being-brain is not. like the head-brain and tail-brain (spine), located in one spatially contained material organ. It does have a physical, that is to say functional anatomic basis, however, in locales distributed over separately organized parts of the body. When experienced as a totality, these locales are brought together on the token side of sign-use, in the solar plexus, or 'gut'. Otherwise, separately experienced, they are felt as in the chest, ('heart'), loins, 'hot spots', and so forth; each of these ways of experiencing the flow-of-impressions by feeling is a Completing Factor of the soul-totality. The flow of feeling itself is the Completing Factor for the functioning of the three-brained being as a totality. The myth of the Egyptian God Osiris whose body was cut into 14 parts by Seth and distribute up and down the Nile may be seen as reflecting the original human soul template, as an external objective correlate of the subjective completing factors: Our Soul scattered along the Nile (back when it still flooded). Isis re-assembled the parts; Thoth substituted a virtual for the real phallus to impregnate her, and from her womb came Horus, the 4th. He is perpetually at war with Seth, who was the 4th originally, perpetually revenging the murder and dismemberment of His Father Osiris. Gurdjieff himself called this myth 'gibberish', but I am including it as a descriptive account of what "soul" was for Egyptian and other followers of the template. 14 is double-7, the British Fortnight; it "breaks" in two as right-left, male-female, symmetrical circular patterning, visually displayed in the shape of the number sign 8. (14 => 8 as 7^, using "^" for "double"). Seeing* 8 =7^ involves shifting the grammatical framework, as in the formula (6+1) = 7 when "+" is a geometrical sign correlating a hexagram around a center (the 7th). In intentional contexts of sign-use, the expression "(6+1)" would not "equal 7", since what is communicated by one is different from communicated by the other, and "+" is conventionally take to signify arithmetic, rather than geometrical 'addition'. A particular mental operation is required, but its designation is ambiguous. When the transition is from one completing factor to another in a completing totality, the totality of these grammatical totalities, 'bent' at points of deflection from one grammar to the other, can be mapped in a circle of 7 units, drawn in one direction; meeting itself at a point of origin and retracing its steps in reverse as if from the other side of a Meobius/Torus. The iconagraphy of this structural dynamics has been laid out in brilliant visuals elsewhere.(See Pentachronic)
Constellation of the Completing Factors of the Psychic (Soul) Totality is by use of signs ("sign-use", S*), and that in two senses. A. By names and other unit designators, to bring together the over-all qualities of an object or situation, such as beauty, justice, etc. to which the soul-center relates; B. by arranging the categories of names in schemata (diagrams, graphs, maps, matrices, formal syntactical S* systems, I Ching, Tarot). The latter, B., is a reflection-in representation of the unity constellated in A.; that is, which is brought together by assembling the totality of Completing Factors into a whole.
It is through participation of the soul as a totality in ordinary consciousness that the person experiences Remorse of Conscience (no conscious completion without conscience). The vibrational quality experienced is the Nirioonossian-world-sound (Do absolute). It is heard through the essence-ring vibration as Aieiouoa. Those who ignored it in life, even (or especially) among those whose higher being bodies are coated, and hence indestrutable, relative to local flows-of-time, 'lose the possibility of blending directly with our Most Most Holy Sun Absolute' and wind up on the planet Purgatory. The Vibe of the Great I AM cannot get through to them.
2. Metaphysics of The Work. Although the capacity to experience the emotional life as a totality exists innately in each three-brain being, the ability to actually 'pull it all together' in a fully self-conscious act is not given except as a potential. The forever unspoken, forever being-spoken 'primordial' unity existed, indeed, before birth, before there was any 'center' or point of reference to relate the physico-psychologal flux retained in memory, but 'sealed' by the trauma of birth. Conscious efforts to make the original unity that becomes scattered and dispersed over and through the body after birth trauma are required to 'coat' the soul-centre as a unit, according to Gurdjieff. The Conscious efforts are called "being-Parkdolg duty"
3. The Third Being-Body (Man No 5)
The First Being-Body is the Planetary body (with three brains).
The Second Being- Body is the Kesdjan body (the coated essence)
this body is the manifestation of an inneer totality distinct from the personality, which is formed by blending inner and outer flow-of- process in a functional unity as part of coming to terms with reality which includes other people. The Kesdjan body, in distinction, is an inner development with an identity constellated from original soul factors, but dispersed through the Omni-Present Okidonokh. This body has its own blood, handbledzoin, requiring its own 'food' which consists in higher oxygens borne in the air. Vibrant handbledzoin is required to vivify qualitative experience. .
The Third Being Body is the coated crystalized particles vibrating in consonance with the prime source of all arisings, the sacred Etherokrilno.
It is the center-of- gravity of vibrational manifestation of Man Number 5, in Ouspensky's terms. The Kesdjan body has become sufficiently stabilized to act as conduit for the higher grade (6th) cosmic forces to crystalize.
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