{"id":1713,"date":"2019-02-20T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meta-morphosis.gr\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2020-08-30T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T14:14:02","slug":"personal-comments-and-impressions-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meta-morphosis.gr\/en\/personal-comments-and-impressions-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Comments and Impressions!!! (B)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The following are my commentaries on Social Issues, Current Events, Concepts and also Personal Impressions of people and everyday life)<\/p>\n

Suggestions for a better everyday life<\/p>\n

I have a French Canadian friend here in Montreal, Canada, who is a psychologist, but whose psychoanalytic treatment is somewhat different from the traditional ones. Pauline emphasizes more on the spirituality of her patients than on their psychology or psyche.<\/p>\n

She gives talks to small groups of people related to the quality of everyday life in all of its dimensions. She therefore asked me if I could provide her with some suggestions for her lectures, which I will outline here in this article.<\/p>\n

The original text was written in French so I shall present its English translation as well as the original French text.<\/p>\n

The translated text goes as follows:<\/p>\n

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My dear\u00a0\u00a0 Pauline,<\/p>\n

I am sending you the list.<\/p>\n

For improving our everyday life, you should<\/p>\n

1 –Sleep a minimum of 9 hours a day, 1,5 hours during the afternoon and 7,5 hours during the night.<\/p>\n

2 –Transform gradually your everyday routines.<\/p>\n

3 \u2013Use your imagination.<\/p>\n

4 \u2013Not live only for the expectations of society, the family and friends.<\/p>\n

5 –Contribute towards the needs of the young and the elderly who feel alone and isolated.<\/p>\n

6 \u2013Feel empathy for everyone as a whole.<\/p>\n

7 \u2013Express and apply your own reality even if it goes against the norms of society.<\/p>\n

8 \u2013Discover and utilize the metaphysical aspects within yourself and within your environment, such as dreams, intuition, symbols and instinct.<\/p>\n

9 \u2013Not take seriously society\u2019s norms and roles, since they are artificial and superficial human creations.<\/p>\n

10 \u2013Always occupy yourself with a creative activity which represents you as talent and personality.<\/p>\n

11 \u2013Explore and understand the reasons and the causes for your insecurities.<\/p>\n

12 \u2013Think about the factors which affect the quality of life of all of humanity, and try through your mode of life to neutralize its negative and destructive effects.<\/p>\n

13 \u2013Not take seriously the outmoded institutions of society, since they were created to serve the interests of a very small minority of people who are schizophrenic, destructive and self-destructive.<\/p>\n

14 \u2013Get to know through travels, studies, readings and free discussion, the different cultures and their philosophic truths. Human society has many social truths, like the snow crystals in nature.<\/p>\n

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The following is the original French text that I sent to my psychologist friend by email<\/p>\n

Ma ch\u00e8re Pauline,<\/p>\n

Je t\u2019envoie ma liste.<\/p>\n

Pour am\u00e9liorer notre vie quotidienne\u00a0:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1-dormir minimum 9 heures par jour, 1,5 heures pendant l\u2019apr\u00e8s midi et 7,5 heures le soir<\/p>\n

2-transforme graduellement les routines quotidiennes<\/p>\n

3-utilize ton imagination<\/p>\n

4-ne vie pas seulement pour les exigences de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, de la famille et des amis<\/p>\n

5-contribue vers les besoins des jeunes et des vieillards qui se sentent seuls et isol\u00e9s<\/p>\n

6-exprime de l\u2019empathie pour les gens en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral<\/p>\n

7-exprime et applique ta propre v\u00e9rit\u00e9 m\u00eame si elle va contre les normes de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9<\/p>\n

8-d\u00e9couvre et utilise les aspects m\u00e9taphysiques dans ta personne et dans ton environnement. Par exemple les r\u00eaves , l\u2019intuition , les symboles et l\u2019instinct<\/p>\n

9-ne prend pas tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieusement les normes et les r\u00f4les de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 cars elles sont des cr\u00e9ations artificielles et superficielles<\/p>\n

10-toujours occupe-toi avec une activit\u00e9 cr\u00e9ative qui te repr\u00e9sente comme talent et comme personnalit\u00e9<\/p>\n

11-d\u00e9couvre et comprend les raisons et les causes de tes ins\u00e9curit\u00e9s<\/p>\n

12-r\u00e9fl\u00e9chit aux causes qui affectent la qualit\u00e9 de vie de toute l\u2019humanit\u00e9 et essaie par ta mode de vie de neutraliser les forces sociales n\u00e9gatives et destructives<\/p>\n

13-ne prend pas tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieusement les institutions archa\u00efques de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 cars elles sont cr\u00e9\u00e9s pour servir les int\u00e9r\u00eats d\u2019une tr\u00e8s petite minorit\u00e9 qui est schizophr\u00e8ne, destructrice et autodestructive<\/p>\n

14-\u00e0 travers les voyages, les \u00e9tudes, la lecture et les discussions libres, on peut conna\u00eetre les diff\u00e9rentes cultures et leurs propres v\u00e9rit\u00e9s philosophiques. Dans l\u2019existence humaine il y a plusieurs v\u00e9rit\u00e9s sociales comme la structure du Crystal de la neige!!!<\/p>\n

Facebook- a symbol of modern human \u2018\u2019narcissism\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2019alienation\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

More than ten years ago (2008), I had written in my website, a small article on the negative effects on real direct human communication involving the various electronic Internet outlets such as chat rooms, blogs, websites and i-phones. After more than 10 years , my predictions have come to be realized in a very dramatic way. Of course, this deterioration in real human communication has been accelerated through the electronic innovations that have been made in Internet outlets, especially with Facebook.<\/p>\n

In 2018, surveys were undertaken in the United States, which have shown that more than 45% of people in this country, communicate with friends , family members and acquaintances using Facebook.<\/p>\n

The reasons why I identify Facebook with modern human \u2018\u2019narcissism\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2019alienation\u2019\u2019 are the following:<\/p>\n

First of all, Facebook isolates the person communicating, because it is a one way process where all the facts and images are provided to the receiver with no real \u2018\u2019person to person\u2019\u2019 exchange of opinions, ideas and feelings. This is even made worse, when one sends instantaneous personal images (selfies) to people, especially to people who are almost strangers.<\/p>\n

Second, Facebook centers mainly on one\u2019s virtual image, virtual interests and virtual emotions, which have very few commonalities with the person, since it is an exaggeration and an idealization of one\u2019s persona and real everyday circumstances.<\/p>\n

Finally, Facebook creates a state of mind and a psychology where everything revolves around oneself, as \u2018\u2019the center of the Universe\u2019\u2019, in a psychopathic narcissistic way. It excludes the real world with its contradictions, challenges and drama.<\/p>\n

The Arts today- the means to\u00a0\u00a0 salvage our\u00a0\u00a0 human identity<\/p>\n

In human history, even before, with the primitive \u2018\u2019homo sapiens\u2019\u2019 , especially with the Cro-Magnon Man , the Arts have played a critical role, not only in defining the \u2018\u2019human species\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2019human cultures\u2019\u2019, but also in expressing the spiritual and mental wonder of everyday existence within the Universe.<\/p>\n

At first, there were human drawings on stone surfaces, describing daily human activities, their natural habitat and their spiritual world, which was a blend of everything they could see, feel or sense. These primitive sketches were simple representations of humans, animals and spirits, standing or moving in geometrical patterns, while also sometimes playing primitive musical instruments like the flute, the drums or other simple percussion instruments.<\/p>\n

We therefore recognize the Arts as \u2018\u2019human expressions\u2019\u2019 which identify and describe the \u2018\u2019human species\u2019\u2019 not only through their concrete artistic creations but also through their mental and spiritual reflections of human existence beyond time and space.<\/p>\n

As time progressed, the Arts became more refined, more complex and more detailed. The graphic descriptions of everyday human existence and human spirituality evolved into symbols of definitions of the physical and the metaphysical world, like the \u2018\u2019cuneiform\u2019\u2019 and the \u2018\u2019hieroglyphic\u2019\u2019 letterings, or the sculptural reproductions of human and divine everyday activities.<\/p>\n

The Arts, practically and pragmatically, represent the foundations of the human intellect, human creativity, human culture, eventually\u00a0\u00a0 human mythology and history, in a physical and metaphysical context, through rational and spiritual \u2018\u2019human expression\u2019\u2019. The Arts are a reflection and a representation of the \u2018\u2019human condition\u2019\u2019 within the Universe.<\/p>\n

During the last 300 years, with the Industrial Revolution, the Arts have slowly been demoted and repressed as creative societal forces, since \u2018\u2019materialism\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2019abstract rationalism\u2019\u2019 have come to dominate every aspect of human existence, by the technologically crafted consumer goods and instruments and the \u2018\u2019irrational rational\u2019\u2019 accumulation of capital goods, whether they be money, property or even \u2018\u2019modern work slaves\u2019\u2019. These modern societal factors and components define more and more the \u2018\u2019human condition\u2019\u2019 in every country, in every culture and within every social class.<\/p>\n

Today, with Globalization, the prevalent \u2018\u2019human logo\u2019\u2019 in every part of the world is \u2018\u2019consumption\u2019\u2019, the more you consume and possess , the more socially successful you feel in your personal life. Consumer goods and material possessions define your existence, not yourself. These artificial and material human creations have very little universal or spiritual essence, even if they are scientifically refined, such as electronic gadgets, specialized opiate medications, brand apparel and compartmentalized mass entertainment and information with very little intellectual or aesthetic context.<\/p>\n

All of these vital societal parameters of everyday modern human existence have essentially no direct inputs of pragmatic human intelligence, natural human aesthetics, innate human spirituality and creative human imagination. They represent a \u2018\u2019static virtual reality\u2019\u2019 with very few incentives for universal human progress and a creative human evolution.<\/p>\n

Through a \u2018\u2019globalized\u2019\u2019 virtual social reality, human beings are slowly \u2018\u2019losing touch\u2019\u2019 with their own mental capacities, their creative imagination, their innate spirituality, their instincts and their own emotions. Human beings will soon \u2018\u2019lose touch\u2019\u2019 with their own human existence and their own human identity.<\/p>\n

The only solution for this \u2018\u2019tragic human condition\u2019\u2019 is that the Arts should play once again a pivotal societal role as social guides and guidelines for rediscovering our true human identity and human potentialities within the Universe, the same way that our primitive human ancestors had accomplished in the Dawn of Mankind!!!<\/p>\n

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\"CroMagnon\"<\/p>\n

Cro-Magnon cave painting
\n(approximately 20,000 years old)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\"FranzMarc\"<\/p>\n

Modern Expressionist Painting
\nFranz\u00a0 Marc (1880-1916)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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