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damn, so im still lost in the research rabbithole
i keep saying end of the month ima put it down
then the other day i found a fiekld called
self determination theory

this morning i start reading sample for the
exford handbook of moral development
it was so good i checked the price
147 dollars, o my god, but it lead me to
samples of the oxford hbk of meditation
the poxford hbk of accurate personality jiudigements (spiritidoctor stuff)
the oxford hbk of war (i just wanna see what they say)
the oxford hbk of moral [pyscho/logy
all $100 plus
and the one i fiond most provocative, the
oxford hbk of cultural neuroscience and
Global mental health
noiw beneath all that erudition sounds like
they talking about taking care of the global soul to me
i cant wait to dig into that one
even if they not they will put that question on mymind
because thats most essential what i aspire to
?to be a global medicineman, the global griot griot
healing the world
i think ima read that one 1st

but right now discipline calls for extracting what ive read
let me see 4 processes
when one falls behind the pothers is wehen i focus on it and
right now i got too big a list of books that need extraction

what are the 4 processes

reading the samples w/extraction, getting them off plate, one a day
reading thru full texts then extraction
conmbing multiple fragments into themes
editing thematic beat
placemnt in old text
rouigh new structure
clean it upo, make it sing
poetry draft

okay more than 4, but its the extraction phase that is a slog,
reading extraction theming placement  - 4 after all, thought so

i got to go

need to at least look at outline of oxford hbk of
cultral neuroscience and global mental health

god what a title, spiritdoctor worddrugs

 

 

today i downloaded just now
the opxford handbook of

mi high johhny conquer root

hello world, im so far ubnderwater
ima just hit the highlights

talking to monte about a will and
setting up flowers foundation

talking to dick nreyer about doing
a documentary of me

finally started working on film
of the night at stax w/the traveling show
finally decided on an approach
gon talk about being the high hoodoo
of memphios and make it a beat of my mythwork

students taking a god awful lot of my time
sometimes whole work days but i love it

oldschool, back to me blact arts movement roots
bringing back power from 20 years working for the man
and i get benefit cross fertilizing with them

reading thru memoir, decided based on convos
with lord monroe to change as m any of my lifebeats

as possible to sufi type wisdom tales

many using the high hoodoo, the babajohn
and sheree as queen motherr memphis

those of you know mw know i want to start a tradition
a wisdom tale tradition akin to that of the sufi and i

will just use the many beats of my life that will fit
that seeker of wisdom quest as 3rd person wisdom tales
dispersed thru out the text - im very extcited

tho afraid cause i have no idea how this is gon work
and if it will make the Work that much more unsaleable
but it is so freeing that i dismiss the industry these day
in the years of my closures iots all about the dialogue

with the generations - speaking of which
so im reading thru and happy to report

that after a year off its reading cleanly
a year of getting cold flaws will be apparent

still doing thi rtesarch griind
forcemarching thru samples
and textbooks

just recently discovered a field called
self determination theory SDT which
is all anout indiv and cult florishing / agency

my cup runnth over, got about 10 textbook sample
resisting 100 price tags on one exquitie one

but by the tiojme ive read 10 samples and their outlines
even if i dont read the books i got reams of raw knowledge

examples of recent extractions from oxf hand of meaning and others

NOTES FROM THE OXFORD HANDBOOK SAMPLE (TOOL EXPENSICE TO BUY BUT I WISH)

distinction between greast meaning and normal meaning
great being change agent, normal being life and living
also a distinction between asupernatrural (need god / soul for meaning)
vs naturalist who say what we have is sufficient wo

the subjective vs the objective
the pointless activities objection to subjective
self propogating goals expand and evolve in phases as we approach achievments

Personal narratives often involve illusion
meaning and importance do not necessarily overlap
a loving family man can be impo but lack greater meaning
to be meaningful must be purposeful and greateer than self interest
folk have to find their FA, determineing what is authentic to your deepest highest self / soul
foklk who feel that meaning is about finding ones place and rolke in the universe
whiuch is the quest for FA
author says that excludes free will, I don’t agree
I will not accept any theory that negates my free will

self control and ego depletion beats fromhandbook of self regulation

that ongoing self control depletes control resources
so ho do you encourage ongioln g control
thru affirmation, thru rest and pacing, thru affirming core values

planning self efficiency and action control to generate positive behavior patterns
depleated ego resources encourages senseof cant win passivity
automaticity are automatic response, low cognition, self replicating,
while controlled process are intentional  dependent on cognitive resources
conscious and stoppable

desirte is what you want
temptation is what you want and should not indulge
as counterfactual to successful adaptation
desire strength and cognitive habitualization the more mental resources
contributed to a desire the stronger it becomes, is this for positive reinforcement too

early reaard processing triggers fast instince inpulsive habituated responses
self control isoverrising one action tendency to achiecve a greater goal
self regulation is broader processs. Of self corrective adjustment

emlotional regulation is regulatin affective and emotional res[onse

three  avoiding selectiong or altering triggering sitautions/
deplpoyinng attention / focus, cogniitude adjustment, modulating
initiall emotional and behavioral responses

how do folk determine when emotional regulation required
goal oriented emotional reg operates at intermediate ;evels of complexity
and is governed by explicit verbalizable goals
1) have to identity wheter emotional responses fal;l short of goal state
2) determine if and if so how to engage iin emotional regulaitoon
3) enact emotional regulation strategies / shift

three types, he goes from greater to lessor
better lessor to greater
lowcomplexity need based ER: maximize pleasure, minimize pain
midcompllexity person based ER: maintain single emotion
highcomplexity global emotional balance: integrate multiple emotional impulses

today I found that there is an entire field
called self determination theory, downloaded
about 6 textbook samples, will wonders never
cease, I believe

also i have prommised out many conquer roots
which i just dont do anymore
ive gotten allegeric to them, have to wear masks and googles
it was always a shitload of work to do one and now that my hands tremble
its a shitload times three and im more likely to cut myself

even back in the day i would cut myself xacto
knifing those roots and when it happened id rub
the blood into the rooit to activate it but i can do
wo that little touch thank you

the picture above is the only pic i got
ive done dozens and dont remember
who got which, each one is diffn ut
now i owe ones to:

erynn, desmonde, dana, jaime, serena, kayla, rai, hess, roman
need to do one for asheree, (ask, she prob got one)
damon, cequita, gwen, red, who else, let me
stop, full production this will lean into 2023

i make art projects out of them, cowries,
crystals and elekes of the 7 african powers

 

put 20 roots of my list of things to do
make that 40, i have a small one on my

keyring w/jiuist elekes, all beat up and worn smooth,
many elekes missing but i love it, be nice to give
them a desk root and a keyring root, we will see

i got to go, so many books so little time

every word generated here is words

i coulda been generating for my Texts

be safe

i gotta go

i Believe in Divinity / the Great Mojo

we had been in deepspace what look like forever and had despaired of
ever finding a sanctuary for the remnants of humanity after the New Castle
Astroid destroyed the mother planet, leaving only 4 Arkships to get away
from the wreckage, the Arkship Tubman had lost contact with the others and
starting to show the wear and tear of generations fruitlessly spent in search
of a habital planet when a self destruct faction arose and voted to destroy
the ship when the navigator put a shot of the carina nebulae on the holoscreen
and announced our entry into the fringe systems of the Carina nebulae and it
was like they were suddenly in the presence of divinity, actually in it, a blinking
green light in the blue bright immensity of the Great Mojo beckoning them on,
do not get weary, children, we got this

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I Believe in Divinity, tho im not quite sure what that is - I do not however
believe that god is made in our image, I do not believe in an anthropomorphic
god, I do not believe god is a bearded patriarch, an earth mother, or a dysfunctional
family, I do not believe religious myths are real, I do not believe in heaven, hell or
40 virgins in paradise but I do Believe in Divinity whatever that is, I do Believe in
the Great Mojo - and when I saw this Hubble photo of the Carina nebulae I was like
if I did believe in a physical god this is what It would look like, i see divinity, dont you . . .

 

stagecoach mary rides

she limped thru the saloon doors like a force of nature,
at 78 still a big woman, still a 6 footer, black as she can
be and just as mad, rifle in one hand, bullwhip in the other,

the bullwhip was for show, the rifle was not,

where is he, she snarl, where is the sonofabitch
thought he could cheat stagecoach mary fields,

then she seen him just as he ducked behind some
innocents, couldn’t shoot no innocents so she beat
him, beat him so bad he never recover while the denizens
of the last chance saloon look on in warywonder, cause
nobody had believed I mean you know really believed
the rumors the old colored washerwoman was once
upon a the legendary mankiller stagecoach mary fields

way she beat that man wasn’t a disbeliever in the
house, aint right a woman beat a man like that

i am afraid

that i might not meet this test
how one deals w/impending

mortality should be the most
spiritual span of your days

i have often written this
now i fear that i will fear

i been working
i been chilling

not freaking, yet

also ive decided i might chronicle it here
aint telling folk but i will chronicle here in

a space ive lamented for low readership
that now feels intimate to me, i am curious

will profundity continue to elude me
is this just another bid for attention

o what tangled webs we weave

i got to go, im spose
to be working

be safe be sage

 

the conjurors tales

okay, something is desperately wrong
i wake up every morning disoriented and dizzy
when i stand i have to find my balance before i can move

no what, i hope i havent had a stroike or something
this is very disorienting, i dont mind physical issues
but this is my head, my mind, my creativity

think i better knock the hoodoo way into 2nd 
gear i believe my shelf life has taken a hit

it appears that i am all of a sudden
inundated with health issues

started a project yesterday
the conjurors tales


using my AI art to prompt stories
iniitally selected, like so

memphis sally, eh, de hoodoo queen of memphis,
she regular at bb’s place down on beale, every
night she play a blues piano tuned in heaven n bathed
in hell, but last night, last night she outdo herself,

don’t know what was on her mind, what was
worriating her soul but dem blues she play last
night dem blues forever, last night memphis sally
she become legend, memphis sally she never die

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oaky, let me go check my sugar
cause thats what it feels like

low sugar

but yesterday i checked and numbers
were fine but the other day i felt this way
and it was a 71, what is happening?

was gon say new project

but i got to go check my sugar

just checked, sugar fine

what is going on in my head?

okay, all supplemental projects backburnered
the hoodoo way is the one, no more research

make it happen

 

 

my life as wisdom tales

so i got this idea to make every beat of my memoir
a wisdom tale and im not sure how thats gon play out
but im very excited about it and the temptation is to
put my wisdomwork down but the rule is finish the
draft and its what i learn doiong that that will inform
the reconcepting of my memior as wisdom works

im curious how will i pull that off

i thnnk what i will do is put up beats here and
start seeing what it will tae to reconcept them




EVERYTHING YOU LIKE

you gon have to adjust to not having
everything you like, it’s the stuff you
been indulging one by one got to go
salt and sugar are early casualties
donoughts, pastries, bread rice and pasta
jack and coke, margaritas, what point
longevity if you cant enjoy it, what about
popcorn I ask my diabetic counselor, is
that an acceptable snack, its corn, she say
contempt dripping from both words

going down slow

hello world,

i dont do social media, i do promotion on FB et al but i
got such minimal / loyal readership here i dont consider
rootsblog social media, this between me and you:

took the hammer recently,
medical issues, feeling fey

and i must say, if my day is done
ive had my fun, damn good run

outlasted all my friends and hopefully whatever
got me got me slow, ie, maybe 2 more books ??

good lord willing and the creek dont rise premature

be safe be sage
all my love

 

i trust my obsessions

10-03-22    9:44 am



hello world

this morning I woke up with a long list of to be dones
critical to be dones, but I had been working on a
baobab bottletree on dalle and had some words in mind

figured id run a couple of options before i got busy
hour later I must have 200 variations of this woman

 

After seeing  a 1000 dazzling renditions of stuff
you get jaded and you think the public is going

to adjust to a new level of visual stimulation
and if you want to stand out in this crowd

out of 100 dazzling variants you got to choose
the one that’s gon actually stick culturally

this is not the best, the best i dont put online
anything i put online im giving it away,

price of being in the dialogue

promotion promotion promotion,
so i got to embed some text



this is not the first time ive fallen to obsession
and be like, rick, stop burning up time on a diversion

but my obsessions eventually become part of
my literary skill set, bluesharp, performance
mbira, imovie, etc etc, and now AI graphics

but i got to discipline the obsessions
make them work for me instead of on me

Finally I had to talk myself down

sir, i need you to step away from the keyboard

raw wisdom research beats II

sorry dear readers, might want to skip this one
im still buried in research, i literally have 50 pgs
of this stuff and a good 20 texts i need to force
march thru,l ima give this phase one more month
gon be on road to memphis next week, i will start
processing them then

but you will get an idea of the type of woisdomworld
i been immersed in all summer and why i hope to be
at the end of this process just a little bit wiser but its
my students i want to set on the path to wisdom

probably too late for me:

im not even gon try to clean these up
these are raw initial extractions

if its in quotes that means not my words
gon need to digest or discard
quoite at beg means started quote but ended up me

this inundation of wisdom has forced
me to reconcept approach / outline

these are about 11 pgs of 50 (so far)
i got to go, i got to get thru

a handbook of wisdom by sternberg
its a rental, 50 dollars, but woiorth it

i got to go

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WISDOM EXTRACTIONS II

Wisdom as cognitive, reflective and affective
critical thinking, detached regulation and caring

equanimity: don’t sweat the small stuff, its all small stuff
congratulate on letting small shit pass, on maintaining
equanimity when life tries to throw you off your game

emotional thermostat / resilience
mastered the art of coping

reappraisal and reassessment can cause a crossroadial moment

the emotional responds immediately but the cognitive is capable of immediately shortcircuiting the emotional response upon judging it appropriate or inappropriate that just as quick

difference between bropoding over something and reappraisal is agency
or recalibration even better because iit implies agency / sense of placement

mortality and the impulse to assess your llife and its remaining time
what gains compensate the losses associated with agiing
Role of life circumstances, health and public trauma in the good life

living the good life is more than wisdom
or does wisdom / maturity incorp the other traits

what are the 7 hoodoo traits, can I list them
wisdom compassion honor grace significance focus
doesn’t feel inclusive, keep fiddling w/concept

an ongoing conversastion with ourselves about who we are and want to be
wisdom precludes both religious and / or magical authority
accurate forecasrting helps avoid emotional excess
learning is stimulated by errors in prediction
the importance of focused attention
being able to edit down choices

the power to resist impulses will cure all ills

intuition as pattern recognition

digging for truith require an open mineded refusal to accept a shallow understanding
and being conscious of own biases

one dude say resilience,  outlook, social intuition, selfawareness and attention style / ability to screen out distraction’

wisdom as doubt skepticism and mental rigor
the truth is never found on the surface of things

th hoodoo way seeks not alterd states of consciousness but altered states of character

wisdom is good at predicting the consequences of current behaviour

adolescent brains aren’t fully developed, tragic mistakes are inevitable

‘the concerns of the wise venture beyond the immediate and the personal’

what is the best use of hindsight in preparing for future like occurances

practical wisdom incorporates self, others and society
like support for public education, social wisdom
or the daily acts upholding the social contract

humility is not an act of nature, humility is an act of will

Phronesis translate morasluty into action

Self awareness and self deception

Jung – ‘owning your own shadow’

‘if you don’t learn how to suffer you will suffer wo learning’

Living by the code makes you resistant to bullshit

experience always challenges received knowledge

Recastings crises as oppsotunities, finessing them

Scratch deep enuf and even exemplars qwill have a dark / human side
they made their contributions in spite of their human frailties

To live a life of value

Aesop’good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from poor judgement

To shift from illusion to reaslity requires . . . .

I am wrong all the time, restrain irritation when this is pointed out to me
even if it iss incorrect

Always start an interaction open minded fledibll and with a spirit of generosity
apply fences as borders as necessary as interaction demands

‘the good life as process, not state of being’. ???

Determine why diff beftrween beliefs and actions means you got demons working on you below the subvonscious

A list of rationalizations that preclude morall behavior
obedience to authroty
conformity bias
overconmfiidence bias
self serving bias
selective framing
incrementalism
loss aversion
role ,morality
moral balancing
tangigble vs abstract
ingroup bia
impl,cit bias
cognitive dissonance
situational factors
temporal factors
attribution errors: generalixing observed actions in others

improving your chance
being youor bestself
giving voice to your values
p[olitical contexting

the I want self vs the I should self
we often fail to be as ethical as predicted
we often rem ourselves as more etrhical than the case

to be good you must be morally aware, conscious of the moral component in your choices
then assess the moral implications of your choice,
consider the restraints on doing the right thing, can they be ignored
take morally infused action, assess and recalibrate as necessary

intuition override, - bot to know when to initiate it, monitor it, calibrate it

Moral attentiveness is being open to moral component in our experiences
a moral antennae

Moral identity as’the degree to which our consciousness is moored in morall characteristics’

Moral Rationazlizations:
denial of responsibility
denial of injurt
denial of victim
social weighing:  condemn the condemner
appeal to higher loyalties:  ex: patriotism or tribalism
the ledger: I deserve a break
the greater good:

behavioral locus: the devil made me do it
agency locus: I was helpless before the tide
effects locus: didn’t really hurt anybody
victim locus: the victim deserved it

the brain prioritizing interest, threat over nonthreat, close over far, tangible over abstract, physical over spiritual, you got to override survival instinct when determing significance

values so core they become ‘sacred values’ to be defended at all costs

harmful actions perceived as more offensive / obvious than harmful inaction

motivated reasoning used to get us where we wanted to go anyway

Individualizing values vs binding values

conflating what is good with what is good for me

excerpts from spiritual discipline
daily mantra/prayer, give a prayer for each day

MEDITATING THRU YOUR DAILY GRIND

what is the structure of each beat
conceptual title
a prayer /mantra – to reflect upon during the day / 3 times ???
a daily grinder
a reflection
a blessing

celebration: renewal and fellowship
centering prayer
communal something
compassion
self examination
cotenmplation
detachment
discernment
communion
hospitality
humility
centering
mentoring
service
self care
serenity
stewardship

soul hunger

a spiritual practice in the daily grind is what im trying to encourage
how do I structure this work to facilitate that,, when I am tempted to
fully abandon the earky almanac structure of a daily movement as
hopelessly unsophisticated structurally I tell myself it forces me to
stay grounded into day to day grind instead of the theoretical heights

and I believe that’s impo for this one
a guide to thje daily grind of the good life
disciplines as inward, outward and communal

At one point she says disciplines should not be a legalisti rigid rule
and then proceeds to go ahead and do just that – avoid that trap

Where and when in life have you touched divinity

a day or week of grateful thanksgiving,
a day of appreciation for your blessings
in all their great multitude of being

A sacrament as the manifestation of a spiritual state of mind ??

everybody engages in some practice that give their lives meaning, point and purpose

we all worship something

‘the key to wisdom is knowing the right questions’

‘I pray for your healing’

the text said when you life your live in accord with received codes you diminish yourself
and that if you find meaning you enlarge your life – I got to look at this closer

another text talks about huxleys ‘laws of human nature’ that you expect folk to be kind, to keep their word, etc and that when folk violate the laws of human nature in their interactions with us we are dismayed, love concept but cant use his term, can I work this into my Living by the Code segment

how does it play against admonition not to live by received codes

but what about the laws of nature, being the laws of living well ??
how does my code work encompass this dichotomy

I notice that attach suffix work to almost everything
godwork, soulwork, codework, saying something
about effort is guess

Some word when bonnie and I were talking
its gotten away from me

SUFFERING.   (potential headings capped)

Whatever is clever

the greeks tried to use reason instead of relying on religion and tradition, rational thinking
Socrates pondered the good life, what is it, said wise do not seek wisdom but are lovers of wisdom

The search for ultimate meaning
speculative and pragmatic wisdom
pragmatic wisdom is daily grind wisdom
speculative is cosmic wisdom, or theoretical wisdom,need a castchy name or will current suffice

For the Hebrews / christians wisdom was theological, godgiven

early christian wisdom seekers and aesthetics ‘isolated themselves from
the temptations of the world to live a life of the spirit’

in the east wisdom was not practical wisdom but transcendent wisdom
that surpass the  the physical material existence

buddha concern was wise conduct, for buddha wisdom meant knowing
“do not believe in authrotiy or teachrs but after careful observation and analysis when it agrees with reason and it will benefit man and all, then accept it and live by it

laotze rejected reason for knowing and compassion
adherence to the laws of nature and ‘refusal to interfere
in the natural course of things’

Renaissance concept of wisdom was a life of virtue, self knowledge, worldknowledge, selfmanagement

What about african concepts of wisdom, this text does not do african, or south american, native american,

the wisdom traditions are generally agreed to be Asian, Indian, middleeastern, and more recently European, that’s it I believe, but africa for instance has a rich wisdom tradition

why does it not get credit for them, I recall when I 1^st read the ifa corpus and was disappointed because its wisdomwork was all apparently oriented around sacrifice which did nothing for me
I got to figure out why africas wisdom trads aren’t respected wo offending ATR folk

A sense of the significant, or whats most impo in any given moment, is critical
how do I encourage that sense, can I call it crossroads work, the sense of taking
the high road instinctively

wisdom of the daiky grind is whats valued in the west /america

transcdence, surpassing the mundane existence of just survivuing into metaverse or the universal since FB took metaverse

religions try to transcend folk thru meditation, prayer and worship
when I perform I try to transcend folk both in the performance and in their lives
what exactly am I trying to do, give them a sense of agency in the face of trial and tribulation, a serenity of purpose

I have been inundated with students
well it feels like I been inundated
whole days go by that’s nothing
but student stuff but it appears that’s
the lifephase im in, ive been retired long
enuf that im getting into my own groove

apparently that groove include students

four needs for meaning p- pupose, efficiency, selfworth

‘the wise seek to interpret their own actions in terms of meaning
and avoid navel gazing thru focus on service

reinterpret past events to fit storty
finding meaning as critical to the good life
greater levels of satisfaction

GM NOTES. BASIC SEQUENCE(guided meditations)
I figure easiest way to get my students to meditate is to
do guided meditations for them, me and mi mbira
(try to do one a day and keep best)

SETTLLING IN
BREATH CONSCIOUSNESS
RELAXATION
MANTRAWORK
HEALING
CENTERING
REFLECTION

bhave them relax the tension points, shoulders, neck, etc

full yoga breath, 3 sectors, inhale belly, inhale up into chest. chest, exhale reverse

benefits of meditations
natural breath as adonomen not chest

observe wthoguht wo attachment /. Judgement

humans rely on socially shared meaning
replacing reliopgion as the central vaqlidqator of meaning

im;proves quality of life and lifesatisfaction

reduces stress, controls anxiety,remotional regulation, hightenws onwciousness, co,mpasion and grace, now you already have to be on an enlightened plane to apprediate these things

we perceive others transgressions as the norm, our own as an exception

meaning as perceiving agency in life. -  control over it

meaning and a sense of self worth
meaning a dance between culture and the indi
ewveryday meaning in the dailygrind
an d cismic /./ ultimate meaning – the self transcdent
expanded temporal span
perceptions of meaning are adaptive

INTEGRITY

giving yourself to the collective /
service as a bid for immortality

just what makes something sacred
when it moved from mundance to divine realms???
was thining spirituall realm but is spiritual realm value neutral
I tbhink of living in the spirit as illuminative but every
spiritual force is not illuminatioverr, im thinking jim jones
for instance, can his charismatic p0owers be considered
spikritual, what abo0out the scifi guy clearing folk
obviously had understanding of spiritual principles
but misued them, same same any cult leaders so
no spiritual power is value nuertral but the case can be
made if its val;yue neutral itrs not spiritual

meeting death by ‘sacrificing everyday meaning in
exploratory engagement with alternative realities’

heightened awareness and attentive expieriental immersion

‘imbuing everyday actions with meaning in response to existential threat’

you have to accept the inevitability oof death
and at o,me point begin to prepare

you don’t get but one life don’t waste it in somebody elses dream / reality
its only thru your authentic higher self that FA is found

reason I put word higher in that sentence because I don’t want any misinterpretation
of uthhentic, the low road is authentic too but you must demand of yourself your greatest you

what is the point of experiencing mmoments of transcendental awe

we are in a constant search for meaning every incident trying to determine what is the meaning of this moment, with arying degrees of conciouisnesws

we seek to escaape deth by embracing that that cnnot die, or that we hpope will not, like art, religion, groiup and ideological identities, etc

‘wo suffering life is not complete’

abstract vs immanent mortality awareness (as in a threat situation)notes from ‘experience of mening in life, READ SAMPLE GOOD BOOIK BUT TOO EXPENSIVE

meaning in life as merely being aware of it
aware of the need for it, the benefit of it

it is thru the relentless study of wisdom, pondering unceasingly upon it and the consistent application of it thereof that I hope to find a degree of it wiithin

“bais toward the future” as prioritizing the significant

supernatural sources of meaning in god, gods, saints, haints and ancestors

‘soul centered theory is predicated on meaning thru the equally supernatural soul
author challenges concept that it is necessary to have a soul to have meaning
dismisses it as he dismissed godcentered meaning as supernatural / superstition

a perfectoin theory of meaning vs an imperfection theory of meaning
the perfection theory requires living by some code the imperfection theory acknoweledges human fallibility, or least that’s how im perceiving essence of what author saying

author says neither god nor soul necessary for meaning / by which he refers to living the good life ??? but that they ‘probably enhance it’

author reject subjective meaning, meaning if it satisfies you its meaningful
which I tend to be open to but many authors say if your obsession is counting
how many flies a day fly past is this meaningful, does this make for a meaningful
life, is keeping your spirit correct enuf of

must that spiritual agency manifest in the world

NOTES FROM A HANDBOOK OF WISDOM

effective decision making
concerns beyond self
compelling guide for action

‘wisdom is finding meaning in life and suffering, a spiritual mystical dimension, it is about accepting,owning and valuing our lives and our life stories, including unlived lives and untold stories.  (interesting, a good descriptor, riff it, break it down) 

6 dimensions of wisdom

cognitive 9intellectual)
practical experiential
interpersoanal connection to larger story
ethical-moral. Knowing and doing good

Idiosyncratic. ‘as many facets as there are humans (whats he trying to say)
spiritual mystical, ‘insight into universe and human plc in it’
again he said something impo but no poetry in articulation of it

the berlin wisdom paradigm lists 5 criteria of wisdom
rich factual knowledge
rich procedural knowledge
lifespan contextualism
relativism
acceptance of uncertainty

‘operationalizing wisdom in terms of culturally transmitted knowledge’
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IM TRYING TO DO
OPERATIONALIZE WISDOM IN CULTURALLY TRANSMITTED KNOWLEDGE
HOW EXACTLY IS THAT DONE
THE KEY MUST BE IN MY PASSAGES ABOUT MONITORING CULTURAL PRODUCTS, ETC ????????
BUT HOW DOES THAT PROGRAM CULTURAL TRAITS, IN PART WISDOM TRAITS, I GUESS IT COMES BACK DOWN TO FUNDAMENTAL STRATEGY- FORGE A BODY OF SACRED LITERATURE ???????????

Okay Egyptian sense of wisdom a tool to make sense of life, suffering and lifes paradoxes
socially acceptable moral and religious codes

Extensive knowledge bases ans ability to use them

‘a wise culture is one that maximizes the life for its members
that successfully passes on ‘culturally transmitted knowledge’

cosmos, Greek word, the order of the universe
not the universe, the order of the universe
as opposed to chaos, the disordered universe
cosmos should be goal of centering, to be cosmic
does to be cosmic mean being part of the order
of the universe

Eratosthenes figured out circumference of earth

E’embody your future self

 staying in align with your healthiest most authentic self

‘if if your consciousness is directed to the past you're feeding the past

‘ the known finite, the unknown infinite, we know little

‘the subtle machinery of awe
 humans have evolved to wonder and knowledge is the prerequisite of survival

FROM SUFFERING AND MEANING
theories of suffering t
the perfect plan theodicy. God never makes mistakes
the free will defense.  Let freedoim ring
the soul making theodicy.   No pain no gain
cosmic conflict theodicy.  Mine enemy has done this
 openness of God theodicy.  Liove makes the world go round
process theodicy and   shit happens
finite god.  God cant do everything
theodicies of protest.  Rage against the dying light
fragments of meaning.  When suffering comes to you
 
suffering makes us question cosmic fairness and order
 suffering and the need to make sense of suffering are universal

theodicy is justifying god in spite of evil in ther world
but now more any attempt to understand suggering

Disruptive incidents in life force you to wonder why why am i here

Five types of brain waves delta slowest deep dreamless sleep
theta light sleep
 Alpha unfociuse, light attn
beta. Wide awake alert
gamma processing info solving problems, engaged

Primitive communities were ruled by seasons
and daily grind was self evident

the natural state is chaos, coherence is an achievement

Meaning cones from engagement, reflection alone is not enuf

Orientation, coherence, significance, belonging as criteria for , meaning
a crises of meaning is when lilfe is suddenly perceived as pointless
meaning is generally unconscious but casn be made conscious
meaning basic trust life is worth living, the struggle is worth it
coherence means our gopals make sense to us, that oiur understanding weaves
significance is not what I think of, author says when our acts have agency
orientation as point and purpose
belonging as being part of a larger whole

meaning is not an essential property
it is subjective more than objective