Vade Mecum
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To my dearest existential orphans,
Don’t ask me how I know this information, I may get to that someday but it’s decades of information and the overlap of having experiences, seeing other’s experience, spiritual teachings, developmental psychology, behavioral research, the study of human connection, and the way it all converges and intersects to generate existential information that no single source has pinpointed on its own without falling into the trap of ideology and collapsing what we nearly discovered.
By Vade Mecum3 years ago in Futurism
Connection, Addiction, Playfulness, Depression, Violence, Wealth Obsession, Oppression, Emotional Literacy, Oh My!
We are all on a continuum between stability and a substitute for stability. In the following depiction, a replacement for stability basically amounts to replacing support and relationships in favor of a substance or activity. I don't know about you but as a person who seldom takes a drink, I definitely would if it was available and I spent enough time in isolation. I'd place interventions/treatments in the middle of the continuum.
By Vade Mecum3 years ago in Psyche
Nature Avoidant
Nature expands the heart and connects us deeply, but it is also an intense uncertainty and death anxiety. Long ago we began to shape nature to feel more safe and certain. More shape and structure moved us further and further away from the place that expands our heart. Wild and free plant life is banned in major cities. Allowing nature to be free is literally not allowed. We can only tolerate seeing nature through our symbolic conquering of its death and uncertainty. We mechanized behavior with money. We ran so far from nature we forgot that we are part of nature. If we had nature as our self concept, we would see that we restrict nature we restrict humanity along with it.
By Vade Mecum3 years ago in Futurism