{"id":1564,"date":"2013-12-03T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:32:30","slug":"eeksplanations-and-other-confabulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"Eeksplanations (and other Confabulations)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes my spirit guide, one of a couple dozen or so, channels inspirational messages and pictures. If this seems too far out, ignore it, consider that I just made this stuff up. Or contemplate these words on their own merits. As a psychiatrist colleague who was a consultant to our program when I was in the Air Force once said, \u201cI just say what I think and if the people I consult to want to consider that helpful, I have no objection.\u201d That\u2019s nice, it respects the autonomy of the other.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this latest, \u201cEeksplanations<\/a>,\u201d sorta kinda suggests the wherefore of our existential predicament. I mean, the cosmos is not absurd. That\u2019s a huge cop-out. It is absolutely meaningful, but it\u2019s far too big for even a consortium of our best minds to begin to begin to understand. I will concede that a good mind can begin to begin to begin. That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing here, and that I suggest or invite you to do likewise.<\/p>\n

The point is to have the courage to open to creativity, even if you can\u2019t imagine fully getting \u201cthere.\u201d Even a bit of reaching is needed, actually. We all need to reach a bit—that\u2019s our collective life force.<\/p>\n

A corollary point is that empowerment is the opposite of the subtle  mental attitude that characterizes our tendency to submit to the key psychological dynamic in being oppressed: That\u2019s just the way it is, there\u2019s no use fighting it, and indeed, let\u2019s think of creative ways around it, because we can\u2019t create ways of changing it. Well, somewhat, but also not—it\u2019s those crazy ones that seek ways of at least beginning to change it that mark the progress of humanity. Come on in! They\u2019re not persecuting you for thinking any more! The time has come for a new tolerance—and in some quarters, need<\/em> for—creativity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes my spirit guide, one of a couple dozen or so, channels inspirational messages and pictures. If this seems too far out, ignore it, consider that I just made this stuff up. Or contemplate these words on their own merits. As a psychiatrist colleague who was a consultant to our program when I was in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,25,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}