Well, there you are, whether you\u2019re aware of it or not, needing if not awaiting my efforts to change you for the better. Please forgive me for not being able to offer much more than the tiniest nibble at the ineffable monumentality of the challenge, but I\u2019m just a little person, a member of a species that is only part-way along in its evolution, and with some dim awareness that even if we were fully evolved, humans, in ten thousand years, \u201cbright shining as the sun,\u201d as the verse from \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d says, are far from helping a lot. Even beyond that point, imagining humanity to be at its fullest potential, we may be yet far from doing all that much to advance the over-all agenda of the Cosmos. Oh, well, one does what one can.<\/p>\n
Actually, I\u2019m quite enthusiastic (literally: en- in; theos-god; iastic\u2013 whatever..filled?) over a number of channels that I ally with, feel a part of, want to support, to advance, and perhaps to which I may even add a little something!<\/p>\n
Attending a local historical society event celebrating my wife\u2019s heritage as a descendent of early Texas pioneers, I was reminded of the whole genealogical trend, expanded of late by the use of computers and the internet. Not my thing, though I don\u2019t devalue it for others. Roots can go into the past, or broadly into the present or the future. For me, I am excited about being part of a number of movements that are in transition from the recent past into the near future:
– medicine, new developments in healing, prevention
– the movement of psychological-mindedness towards the mainstream
– the movement of inter-spirituality and the shift from content of what is believed to the process that addresses the functional adequacy of believing, how it can work to help people build towards a better world
– promoting improvisational spirituality for those who might want to do that sort of thing
– the development of better theoretical systems for psychology, psycho-physiology, applied social psychology, and the overlaps of these trends with other cultural trends (including integration, synthesis, generation of novel sub-contexts or fields of exploration, etc.
– furthering popularization of creative activities, personal doing of dancing, singing, improvisational dramatics, drawing, cartooning, and so forth
– promotion of flagrant imaginativeness, fantasizing, making up stuff, mental improvisation, humor, play,
– promotion of ways people can help each other to do all this
– furthering critical thinking and component activities, such as people learning about semantics, semiotics, the awareness of the prevalence of types of rhetorical devices, propaganda techniques, logical fallacies, and other types of illusion
– recognizing non-rational seductions of the mind that lead into folly, illusion, avoidance, support complacence, and many other pitfalls
– the use of better theories of mind and society (based on role theory)
– the wider use of a host of action exploration techniques derived mainly from Moreno\u2019s psychodrama, and also from others\u2019 techniuqes (e.g., drama in education, improv, etc.) Etc. That\u2019ll keep me busy for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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