{"id":2955,"date":"2017-06-21T04:27:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T04:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2019-08-15T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:09:54","slug":"closing-down-eofy-sale-summer-hols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/06\/21\/closing-down-eofy-sale-summer-hols\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Down EOFY Sale Summer Hols"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new psychology, or \u201cA Title Which Says QUICK HELP\u201d<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve dabbled in a model for my vision of Torah-originated mapping of our experiences, such that it would not defy approach by strange elocution, whose tempo and logic dance and lose themselves in weaves, and would instead welcome by dazzling with meaningless colours until their audience was ready to hear what they were ready to know:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What\u2019s the framework? Emotions. Imagine life is made up of emotions which are the spiritual forces you bring into existence. Regardless of whether you are a star athlete or waiting for dinner in an age care, you can still only compare yourself equally to others by looking at your own soul first.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><u>Footnote<\/u><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fear, caution. Anger. (5)<\/li>\n<li>Admiration, sympathy. (6)<\/li>\n<li>Love, happiness, bliss. (7)<\/li>\n<li>Sadness, boredom. Shame. (2\/~1)<\/li>\n<li>Determimation, will power, perseverance. (10)<\/li>\n<li>Intelligence, curiosity. (8)<\/li>\n<li>Creativity, wonder. (9)<\/li>\n<li>Connectivity, openness. (3)<\/li>\n<li>Passion, zest, appetite. (4)<\/li>\n<li><u>Tail-end footnote<\/u><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you could learn to see yourself as being the result of these pistons and cogs \u2013 even though like any story, it\u2019s only true because it\u2019s believed \u2013 then you could start to explore the higher spiritual short-cuts without mastering more material than what the instructions include.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step One:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Become more familiar with Torah psychology which believes that there are many emotions, some of which are felt like feelings (5-7), and others felt like intellectual pursuit (8-10), and others like the forces of habit (2\/~1-4).\n<ol>\n<li>How to do this step?<\/li>\n<li>Commit to peppering your loose time with seeds that are you thinking about any force. &#8211; Aka start using spare seconds until a few unfamiliar ideas become an elaborate blueprint you had been incapable of imagining understanding, but now do.\n<ol>\n<li>Examples?<\/li>\n<li>Learning to list them. Can use any name. I wouldn\u2019t bother with synonyms \u2013 it\u2019s more about the idea in your mind which illustrates \u201cpassion\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Learning to think about any one of them. Maybe at the red light, I think about how passion\/zest\/appetite is a force that defines what choices are made. Or how this is seen in me. Or in others.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Be patient. You\u2019ve gone too far ahead of yourself when its time to revise, because sometimes we lie to ourselves and pretend to understand concepts, but can barely juggle the words.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Next part, where heaps of cool complex stuff is handed over to the pupil for experimentation<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don\u2019t run away. This is hardcore. This is no holds barred The Matrix remastered by the Master of a Good Name himself \u2013 an impossible proposition, but one which sufficiently inspires me so as to continue\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I need to communicate, is not just an arrangement of ideas \u2013 like saying this emotion X connects to that intellect Z \u2013 but it\u2019s actually something much more important than memorizing symbologies. What I need to communicate is a mythology for bravery which is (a) scientific, (b) share-able between those that know it, and (c) tries to avoid restricting the reader\u2019s future journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If I\u2019m going to able to do that, I need to become freer in my story telling, and be able to trust that some readers will remember that I never claimed to have photographic proof of dragon slaying, and thus that dragons let me discuss fear in more detail than I could if I only used technical jargon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don\u2019t believe me? Do you believe me, that I can explain fear more by illustration than by diagrams? I\u2019m just curious<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m not just being cute, and I\u2019m not just writing whatever I want just because it passes the time. At least, those aren\u2019t the only reasons.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here\u2019s the map, it should apply to your life well enough to see what I mean:<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:2px;border-color:#2341f8\"><\/div>\n<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> These are 9 forces. Each set roughly overlaps with the words I\u2019d use to describe a kabbalistic force (aka sefira, aka numerical-lights). The numbers in the brackets are for my own records, to remind me which force I used for which list item. 1 is malchut and 10 is keter\/daat. I guess I could have made sadness and shame seperate, but it\u2019s not about memorizing the right answers. It\u2019s just about learning to see yourself as a swissknife, and offer the world more than just pleasantry \u2013 you can invest your life with passion just like your life can be propelled by a rage for what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a> I promise you, that if just once, you asked yourself for each item, \u201cHow does this feed into my life? And I know that I don\u2019t have been constrained by the words given, since they\u2019re meant to inspire my own ideas.\u201d then I promise you will be more familiar, and so too with repetitions at odd spare moments of even just a single day. And if this was \u201cmeant\u201d for you, then a future will arrive when you will see an opportunity to revise these ideas \u2013 so you don\u2019t have to become a 24 hr ninja training \u2013 just plant seeds and see what takes fruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a> I challenge myself: <strong>Explain how creativity is used to defeat the dragon<\/strong>. Because creativity is like an archer which reaches for a target beyond reach, and because the dragon\u2019s weakness is the audacity of brave archers who fire their last arrow through a window in a shingled castle. This, of course, is a simplification, but all very technical. This is a <em>Midrash<\/em> which tries to convey the role of <em>gevura<\/em> (hei) in presaging creativity (<em>tzaddik<\/em>), which was the monkey in the Nile which fell out the window when fleeing the candlelight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Does that make sense? Not entirely, there are a few loose ends. For example, it never explained how to practically use creativity against the immobilizing force of fear. It should have explained that hope emerges from an open imagination (like Pandora\u2019s box) \u2192\u00a0 it is the archer\u2019s hope (proven by the impossibility of proving that the hope is impossible) which reaches fear\u2019s vulnerability (the missing scale in the dragon\u2019s armour): fear was vulnerable to accusations of baselessness. There is nothing to be feared, mostly, but when gripped by worry we forget to pause and reflect on anxiety\u2019s scam. And as we learn to resist fear\u2019s hypnosis, we can take the battle to places that favour the bow-wielding knight \u2192 It is easier in calmer, less anxious moments to train our archer\u2026 walking down the road, imagining ways in which <em>You cannot prove that everything won\u2019t be OK, and you can\u2019t prove that hope is wrong<\/em>. The more you try, the more it works (in Chabad this refers to <em>da\u2019at<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Btw, for philosophers: Pascal\u2019s wager rears its flabby scent pouch, threatening the armchair sitter with an abyss devoid of caring about caring. That is my fault, I was hurrying. Hopefully, for someone, just thinking about this problem will offer a rare path to test one\u2019s independence. Let me guide you far enough to start:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even if hope is not utterly insane<br \/>\nonly proves that optimism can be sane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unless there was a way for studying hope\u2019s phoenix-like life-cycle: rise, flourish, fall, gone, rise, flourish, and so forth. I myself have studied hope, by inspiring it within myself by seeing how it could exist, and then by noticing how my trust in my own hope decayed. Here\u2019s the challenge. <strong>This is a real, actual, honest to self, challenge:<\/strong> What makes the hope decay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new psychology, or \u201cA Title Which Says QUICK HELP\u201d I\u2019ve dabbled in a model for my vision of Torah-originated mapping of our experiences, such that it would not defy approach by strange elocution, whose tempo and logic dance and lose themselves in weaves, and would instead welcome by dazzling with meaningless colours until their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,154,167,160,77,190],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-google-drive","category-judaism","category-kabbalah","category-perspective","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":811,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/04\/21\/emotions-vs-buddhist-feelings\/","url_meta":{"origin":2955,"position":0},"title":"Emotions vs Buddhist feelings","author":"Pala","date":"April 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Emotions are a central concept in Western psychology and its language for introspection. 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