>In a nutshell (hopefully not an essentially nutty, only SEPTIC-humored and
>MAD-inspired, nutshell), AEVASIVE represents the evolutionary
>('phylogenetically trendsetting) subprinciple (of "Natural Selection") and
>the neuropsychophysiological indicators that together explain how and why
>people normally _continue_ to cope after personally having ended up in (and
>originally coped with) "specific/synaptic hibernation imploring type"
>predicaments. (BTW, this kind of SH#T [hope you appreciate my effort to be
>tactful :-)] can be generally classified as a subtype of adverse
>situations - or of *directly environmentally generated* adverse stressors.)

> This is a very belated send.
>
> "g" earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:enjiph$2uo$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
>

>> In fact, please understand that I did a lot of reading on the subject of
>> "creativity" a couple of decades ago and became convinced by force of
>> much
>> good, hard, authoritative data that one of the most powerful STULTIFIERS
>> of creativity is dogmatic entrenchment and an insistence upon
>> rationalized
>> consistency.

>
> IOW, good creativity - as if constructive and/or healthily renewing
> creativity (don't care much for other kinds) - tends to become garrotted
> by
> instilled/preformed (or ready-made) memetic grooves; except for by
> those that are - by rare happenstance or contrivance (or deliberate
> design) - exquisitely poised to cause goodly creative "landslides" within
> peoples' respective "actention selection systems". :-)
> --------
>
> I, Entertained by my own EIMC, am "in the
> business" of pulling (IOW, am employed by my own agency, EIMC
> Internetional
> Ptd. Lty., to pull)
> a tiny straw towards a slight increase of the median level of ALQholism in
> human populations.
> This puny (and completely realistic) pulling is not just possible but
> perversely pleasurable for me to do because I have built an excEPTional
> platform-terminology to pull from.
> :-)
> ---------
>

>>
>> The relationships between "dreaming," "free-association," "nonsense
>> poetry,"
>> "speaking in tongues," "rapid eye movement therapies," "far-out physics
>> theorizing," "unrestricted musical composition," "musing," "allowing
>> oneself
>> to wonder, or to think like a child," "mind expanding meditation,"
>> "unstructured play," "frivolity," ... all these and more... are good and
>> positive things ... techniques that open up the capacities of the human
>> brain to greater creativity and more ability to synthesize NEW DATA.

>
> Or to synthesize OLD data in NEW (and "effectively philosophy
> terminating")
> ways.
>
> Apropos which, I have had an intercEPTing comment to one of your posts on
> hold since the end of last year. May be I will send it eventually.
>

>>
>> And, yes, it certainly DOES stand to reason (to this layman) that it does
>> NO
>> HARM to a person suffering from
>> brain trauma or an inherited psychosis to allow random, uninhibited
>> thought.
>> That is to say... it may not do a lot of good in cases of severe
>> physiological (chemical or structural) impairment of the mind. But it
>> may
>> serve to
>> reduce stress, when not made by OTHERS to be a source of pain. In fact,
>> with your background, you
>> are, no doubt, aware that if we wish to HELP a person who has a
>> physiological impairment (such as Alzheimer syndrome) we do harm by
>> arguing
>> with them... but ease them if we merely try to entice them into whatever
>> kinds of "play" they are capable of.
>>
>> When my own father, at 92, became what others considered to be "unruly"
>> and/or unpleasantly repetitive in asking questions (the same question
>> over
>> and over and over...), I found that those who argued with him, or pointed
>> out his irrational remarks, or asked him to stop doing something, only
>> made
>> him angry, and stubborn, and disagreeable. I had no problem with those
>> things, because I would simply change the subject to something pleasant,
>> or
>> invite him to come and do something he enjoyed, such as going for a walk
>> about, or having an ice cream cone.
>>
>> Some of us ... thinking to make the world a better place, and other
>> people
>> better than they are... would try to inculcate them with rules, rather
>> than
>> reason ... with control, rather than directed encouragement ... with an
>> insistence upon order, in a world that -- upon very close inspection --
>> is
>> somewhat silly and incoherent, itself... and, for those who take
>> themselves
>> and life too seriously ... unreasonable and nonsensical and even unfair.
>>
>> (:>)

>
> You don't use specialized jargon [e.g. Freudian jargon (though at certain
> points _crucially fraudish_) or Janovian jargon (theoretically _true
> *enough*_ but holding-out and harvesting hopes that for some will turn out
> to be merely or mostly *just* that -- hope) or my jargon (which is always
> EPT ;->)] but you've nevertheless managing to draw
> my attention to an undeletable dilemma that I am in because of what I have
> come to know (more than just intuitively) and have concEPTually captured
> most centrally by "AEVASIVE".
>
> -------------------------
> In a nutshell (hopefully not an essentially nutty, only SEPTIC-humored and
> MAD-inspired, nutshell), AEVASIVE represents the evolutionary
> ('phylogenetically trendsetting) subprinciple (of "Natural Selection") and
> the neuropsychophysiological indicators that together explain how and why
> people normally _continue_ to cope after personally having ended up in
> (and
> originally coped with) "specific/synaptic hibernation imploring type"
> predicaments. (BTW, this kind of SH#T [hope you appreciate my effort to be
> tactful :-)] can be generally classified as a subtype of adverse
> situations - or of *directly environmentally generated* adverse
> stressors.)
>
> One may well think of "SH#T stressors" (or SH#TS) as lifetime occasions
> that
> are the origin of how we inertly contiune to cope with the insidious
> dynamic
> conditioned-in aftermath of such potentially (if not
> "synaptically hibernated") overtaxing ordeals.
>
> SH#TS most frequently and importantly occur in the uterus and at and
> around
> the time of our birth and in our infancy and early childhood; This for the
> simple reason that it is then that we are least capable of moving away
> from
> adverse environmental features/factors of "presence type", and least
> capable
> of motoring towards what might alleviate "absence type" environmental
> sources (causes) of adverse stimulation.
>
> That and how we more or less well handle carrying around (within our
> cranium) "conditioned-in unconsciously repercussing stressors (repressed
> SHITS), effecting symptoms" (CURSES) due to normally existent molecular
> mechanisms behind neural plasticity, "residual charges" of SH#TS - and
> because of .]
>
>
> Apart from the fact that CURSES are usually 'experientially put' more than
> once in a lifetime (basically because of the natural inevitability and
> frequency of genuine SH#TS),
> there exists an effect (by Janov called "compounding" - a kind of 'summing
> amplification', sort of), one approximately akin to what is caused by
> classic reflex-conditioning, that contributes to that many of us are not
> just carrying around genuine CURSES caused by genuine SH#TS but that our
> brains may well also be additionally burdened by supressed experiences of
> adverse environmental influences (predicaments) that *in the absence* of
> compounding (with preestablished genuine CURSES put by prior genuine
> SH#TS)
> would never have become what may be called "quasi-CURSES" or - "pseudo
> Pain"
> (i.e., what Janov surely would have called it had he been as conversant
> with
> how I concEPTualize as I am :->).
>
> -------------------------
>
> This dilemma will be with me as long as I am alive and awake, and in
> possession of my concEPTualizing mind.
>
> By "concEPTualizing mind" I am of course also referring to my terminology.
>
> [It is a terminology that could only have been *partly* deliberately
> sought
> and developed through perversely perceptive and intuitive perusing and
> pondering, plenty of error plagued trials, and of course not without bad
> luck (my personal, of this pursuit partly originating, ordeals - come thus
> partly motivating CURSES) and some good luck (irregular events that
> coupled
> with conducive cultural
> circumstances did NOT put any CURSES into my brain, but that instead set
> my curious (and by conditioning caused to be angry and combative) self
> onto
> an etymologically pioneering track.]
>
> I won't say more than that "my dilemma" is as deep as the kind of (more or
> less consciously impending) "dread" [~= CURSES] that my effectively
> philosophy
> terminating concEPT definitions, and the by me (and primarily for me)
> prescribed perverse philosophical means and methods of pondering certain
> potentially embarrassing and painful truths, threatens to evoke in people.
>
> ---------------------------------
> CURSES is the least scary, and least acronymically self-defining,
> spelling of this concEPT;
>
> A simple synonym is "Pain" - a label that IMO is slightly misleading and
> not
> euphemistic enough;
>
> Another is "engrams" - a for my taste far too bland (or too euphemistic)
> an
> expression.
>
> "Repressed imprints of (psycho-)trauma" is not only a very
> cumbersome label for the same thing but it is an inEPT expression by the
> fact that "trauma" is traditionally encumbered by too many false or
> misleading,
> _including Freudian_, associations or connotations.
> ------------------------------
>
>
> Apropos which:
>
> The insidious (as in largely "subconscious"=below the radar of an awaken
> person's
> introspective awareness) CURSES-coupled *sublimation* (EPT meaning
> explained
> below) of the endogenously motivational implications of negated needs
> prevents people from seeing how to in an optimum way deal with the
> commensurate "existential dread" that is thus stored within themselves.
>
> This impending dread typically tends to make people incapable of
> preventing
> such
> potentially panic causing or seriously depression causing CURSES from
> being
> put in people's brains [or "actention (selection) systems"] in the first
> place, in the future.
>
> ------------------------
> "Sublimated" is here meant to be taken as referring to how blocked (or
> starved)
> channels of neural information can - with the involvment of trophic
> competition and other aspects of neural plasticity such as axonal and
> dendritic sprouting - lead to alternative, but not always adaptively
> functional, neural connections in the vake of
> some seriously need-negating lifetime condition(s). Also, that what may
> thus
> result is a behaviorally significant rerouting of parts of the neural
> circuitry that
> determines a persons subjective and objective psychological states and
> behavior. Moreover, the here intended meaning of "sublimation" also
> include
> that preformed but and normally redundant neural connections (synaptic
> connections that given need-fulfilling lifetime conditions would be kept
> non - or insignificantly - functional) can come to play an "actention
> module" forming, and focusing, role.
> ------------------------
>
> One last approximate defintion of SH#TS.
>
> SH#TS are (or a SH#TS is) whatever predicaments (or adverse stressors or
> painful situations) that in themselves would definitely lead to a
> self-defeating direct or
> "straight" (or 'default') reaction IF a neural animal's neural mechnisms
> of
> "specific/synaptic hibernation" are missing, malfunctioning, or simply
> insufficient in relation to the 'neuroelectric pressure' that such a
> predicament exerts.
>
> One last approximate defintion of CURSES.
>
> CURSES can be taken to represent how (by which neural mechanisms) SH#TS
> become recorded and stored, as well as the subsequent and future
> consequences of that such potentially self-defeatingly distressing,
> depressing, or flight or fight motivating, experiences can (normally are)
> being stored and accumulated.
>
> Lastly:
> These enlightenment preserving terms are the "ambiadvantagous" memes of my
> own
> mind. More specifically, "ambiadvantageous" is a concEPT by which *I
> here*
> in particular refer to that these concEPTs (or EPT as a whole) are
> CURSES-handling whilst also pleasurably exploitative of philosophical
> opportunities (including the possibility of procuring tools (or lenses)
> for
> an evolution pertaining take on (and for maintaining a perversely
> philosophical outlook on) ourselves and our evolutionary origin within
> "What
> Is going on".
>
> That is, within a patterning process that is an 'eternally probabilistic'
> (or perhaps fundamentally and forever principled, of even though we can't
> know each and every one of its fundamental principles) tendency to
> 'self-pattern'
> *by* what is self-evidently ultimately going on, and *by* what is no less
> self-evidently
> better to describe most generally and objectively, possible, as: "What
> Is",
> rather than as, "What Isn't". %%-]
>
> P
>
>
>
>
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