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you quoted someone here, jasophoria, but what do you want to say? Did you read what Laura said? All of it?
Laura is right people with Autism shouldnt have their minds blown wide open. Everything takes steps i know I have a brother with Autism and I wouldn't even dream of placing stress on a weak mind.
you quoted someone here, jasophoria, but what do you want to say? Did you read what Laura said? All of it?
Here in the Netherlands everything goes quite smoothly.
Had just gone to the supermarket in the evening, and there was still a lot of bread.
Even my favorite one with sesame seeds on the crust
Right there I see a problem. As Gurdjieff pointed out, the only people who can do The Work are people who are basically healthy with strong nervous systems, good obyvatels, and with no psychological issues.
I don't think this forum is the right place for you.
I have an IQ of 120, which is above average, so I'm not stupid.
A strong nervous system does not always meen, being able to take "only" offense, and swallow it.
What about actually seeing the offense, dont care about it, but pointing it out to the other person also.
If you only swallow it, your surpressing your emotions, witch make you numb.
And you don't see anymore you're hurting someone else or offend them.
The Cs say that emotion can also be positive right?
Why have we got emotions when we are not allowed to express them.
Pent-up emotions lead to violence.
Children, especially boys, who are taught at an early age that they are not allowed to cry because then you're a sissy , become the biggest bully as adults.
I have an IQ of 120, which is above average, so I'm not stupid.
A strong nervous system does not always meen, being able to take "only" offense, and swallow it.
What about actually seeing the offense, dont care about it, but pointing it out to the other person also.
If you only swallow it, your surpressing your emotions, witch make you numb.
And you don't see anymore you're hurting someone else or offend them.
The Cs say that emotion can also be positive right?
Why have we got emotions when we are not allowed to express them.
Pent-up emotions lead to violence.
Children, especially boys, who are taught at an early age that they are not allowed to cry because then you're a sissy , become the biggest bully as adults.
you quoted someone here, jasophoria, but what do you want to say? Did you read what Laura said? All of it?
The point is, you are not the architect of this school nor the arbiter of how it is run. And don't take Archaea as a model; s/he has been banned three times already and is here on sufferance which may not last long if responses on this thread are anything to go by. Please re-read the Forum Guidelines for our purpose here and if you think that you know how to do things better, you are welcome to create your own website and forum and go for it.
Children, especially boys, who are taught at an early age that they are not allowed to cry because then you're a sissy , become the biggest bully as adults
Kind of just like our math/science discussion, you kind of want to have sources for a discussion like this and you have to be mature enough to be OK if nobody here finds the sources interesting. It's a research forum here; lots of sources get discarded and lots stay useful to varying degrees. For this emotions discussion, let me throw out a source; I have no idea what anybody here thinks of it and I'm perfectly OK to have this just be a me only niche interest thing kind of like Tony Smith's physics.I'm Australian and this sort of mentality is a part of our culture. Even girls are given grief for crying and not sucking up their emotions. The problem I see with this is that emotions are a part of who we are. If we suppress or repress them then we are not working through them, and this can cause problems later on.
We don't like to be controlled by outside forces, and we don't like to think of ourselves as weak. Somehow we've learned that if we feel our emotions, then we're weak and easy to control. I think this is backwards, if we feel our emotions as deeply as possible then we are strong and in complete control of ourselves. If we suppress/repress our emotions, deny that part of ourselves, then we're spending so much time fighting ourselves that we're so weak that we can easily be controlled by others.
Five Levels of the Feeling Function
Level-One Feeling
Level-one feeling is inferior, developmentally speaking. At this level feelings are typically repressed. Individuals may even deny the very existence of 'feeling' (eg, the philosopher Gilbert Ryle). When feeling is experienced, individuals are overwhelmed by it, in sudden outburts of extreme emotion - anger, lust, jealousy, etc. When individuals with underdeveloped feeling do feel, their feelings can be comparatively crass - thus there is a tendency toward being 'sentimental', as Von Franz points out.
Level-Two Feeling
At the second level of development of the feeling function, the individual begins to accept her feelings, and finds a positive use for them. She begins to discern a wider variety of 'emotions', subtler in nature, less threatening. She realizes that feelings help to orient her with respect to objects in the outside world - giving her a reading on her 'likes' and 'dislikes'. It performs a useful, though still often painful, evaluatory function.
Level-Three Feeling
At the third level of development of the feeling function, feeling is experienced as as a continuous, ongoing 'process'. The individual begins to recognize the presence of an 'underlying feeling state' in the background of consciousness, manifesting as subtly changing 'moods' that orient one in respect to the world, guiding the selective attention process. By virtue of the constant presence of this subtly shifting background field, consciousness 'self-organizes'.
Level-Four Feeling
At the fourth level of development of the feeling function, the individual begins to experience the 'underlying feeling field' that is constantly present in consciousness as INTERPERSONAL in nature. As the individual begins to appreciate the essentially intersubjective nature of personal experience, relationship plays a more prominent role in the individual's value system. Her skill in empathizing with others (literally 'feeling into' their experience) is honed; she has learned how to resonate with them, through a confluence of individual personal 'process'.
Level-Five Feeling
At the fifth level of development of the feeling function, the individual begins to experience what Thich Nhat Hahn calls 'interbeing'. At this level it is recognized that in some basic (ie, 'ontological') sense, we are 'one' with each other. The 'individual' is a 'singularity' in the intersubjective field, a construct. We are essentially SOCIAL beings, in the most profound sense of the word.
Thus the idea is that with maturity, the idea of even having to suppress emotions becomes less of a thing because feelings progress more to being a guide and a construct for relationships with others and the universe.
It's part of that Javascript tool I linked to. You would have to click on a personality with an F like INFP (my personality!) then click on the F. tap3x.net is the website of John Fudjack who is the editor of an e-journal with 3 of my early papers. I actually originally got into Tony's math for personality model papers (root lattices).Right, our emotions are useful for navigating and understanding the multidimensional reality. Similar to how our bodies are useful for navigating and understanding physical reality and our intellects are useful for navigating and understanding the thought plane. OSIT.
Where did you find the Five Levels of the Feeling Function? I quite liked it.
Right, our emotions are useful for navigating and understanding the multidimensional reality. Similar to how our bodies are useful for navigating and understanding physical reality and our intellects are useful for navigating and understanding the thought plane. OSIT.
It can be really frustrating for people if they can't say what they want to say.
Good question.
Perhaps I'm projecting but I think Lainey's post here was too harsh.
I think in CME's post here he was defending his idea of himself.
I think Michael Barker-Caven's post here was again too harsh.
If at this point CME is defending his ideas of himself, I think he's not going to see the good advice, instead he's going to pick up on the harshness and continue to defend his idea of himself (i.e. system 1's operating.)
In this post Mike say's this,
which I think is absolutely true and attests to the idea that CME is deflecting, not absorbing.
This post clearly shows that CME is defending (to me at least.)
In this post CME say's this,
I think he is attempting to withdraw (with the last word.) The reason I think for this is that the feedback he is receiving doesn't match the feedback he was expecting. (This doesn't mean the feedback isn't true, just that it isn't helping CME.)
Later karo says this,
I 100% agree with this post, and I 100% believe that CME is not ready to pierce this shell.
Mike says this,
I like Mike, but this is personal. The discussion has (long since) shifted from CME's material to CME himself.
Post #41 and post #42, more pushing and more defending.
Oxajil say's this,
Again I agree, but self-importance is tricky... How do you tell someone they're self-important in such a way that they absorb it?
post #44,
Personal. Posts #46, #47, #50, #51 are all personal. (This is my perception.)
The thread is then closed and the conversation moves here.
In post #30 of the Walk with me thread, I think CME "admits defeat" in an effort to decrease the offensive his ideas of himself are undergoing, and then, once that's done, in the same post, he goes back to defending himself. But now his defense of himself is very overt, and is followed by another attempt to withdraw (again with the last word.)
I think the next few posts follow this general theme, with a bit of confusion about whether or not CME is a "bipolar schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur."
In post #34, CME finally withdraws (he might be back though,)
My concern is that he maintained his ideas of himself throughout the exchange. if he really was channeling 4D STS, then I think there's a good chance he might still be doing it. (Hence the interest 4D STS would have in CME being defensive, and why they wouldn't want the material being discussed in detail.)
If I'm right, (and I'm open to other perspectives,) I think the solution is the admins and mods being aware of what's happening.