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Recieved: 2000/01/13 10:36
Subject: Re: [K-list] Really wondering -- feedback - Michael
From: Jenell
On 2000/01/13 10:36, Jenell posted thus to the K-list:
Christopher Wynter wrote:
>
> We first I set out to do this work, one of my goals was to find a common
> language to bridge the gap between the jargon of biology and psychology and
> the mystical terms of spirituality and religion. I have found that we are
> all talking the same language, but the general public is getting lost in
> the vocabulary. For quite a while now I have adopted for myself the phrase
> "a plain man's plain speak" to define the manner of my writing, and my
> attempt to find a common language.
>
>I think some serious work in the direction of finding the commonality within the various languages and cultures, as well as psychology and biology, is really needed. In myown expereience, I have found things that 'resonnte' with me, trigger 'recognition' to being as my own expereiences, in everything from the limited bit of Hindu teachings I encounter, shamanism in various cultures, Christian mysticism, Budhism, on and on. All are talking about the same things, but in words that culture and language had to use to describe/define. Also, the very way we 'expereience' a thing, the same thing, the same 'event', varies widely according to our social/cultural/ personal life experience conditioning. Consider that as to how it relates to even seemingly simply, ordinary things, those 'conditioned' to stroicly bear a lot of pain, as compared to those conditioned to make a big deal out of every little bruise and scratch. I have by life been conditioned to bearing a lot of pain, both phy!
sically and emotionally, and to do so quietly and with little outward indcation of it, that it is sometimes difficult to not be annoyed at someone just laid out by something that to me is a relatively minor little annoyance. I've realized that some of what i've expereienced through this k experience and came through in relatively good condition, would have totally laid out a lot of people, physcially, emotionally, and mentally.
We also 'attach' emotionalism to things that are physcial, as I've
observed in such as how people react to animal bites. I have always been
oriented toward working with animals, am a dog groomer. My hands and
arms are a cross hatch of scars from the bites and scratches. If I'm
bitten, I just wash it good, assess and attend to whatever level of
medical care is neccessary for it, and keep right on working. No big
deal. I've tried to point out to others how over blown their reactions
are to bite wounds that are no more than what they might get tangling
with a barbed wire fence or closing the car door on their fingers, yes,
it hurts, but for their having made other attachments to an animal bite,
they make it some big traumatic event. I mean by this that there are
many people that actually 'blame' their extreme 'phobia' of dogs on
something like a single bite incident, often a rather trival one, at
that, and they are sure that is a 'normal' response. I ask them, would
it be 'normal' to become that afraid of cars for having once smashed
your fngers in a closing car door? Much of this happens, gets carried
down generations, in a way, of course by those around a child or even
adult, themselves reacting in an over blown way. but all of us have such
difference in the way we percive even the very same things like this.
Jenell
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