MEMES, CREATIVITY AND ENLIGHTENED SOCIETY

[jananz]

Building the New Brain and the Resurrection of the HUman

Borg humans are non-creative as they are followers, but both Tribal (preindustrial) and post Borg humans are creative. While tribal people are collectivist and traditionally creative, post Borgers are individually creative through hooking up to the cosmic connection at a higher differentiated level than what tribes would allow. You can't be a stickler for convention and super creative...it is a developmental difference associated with social norms, expectations and memes. In Spiral Dynamics) you don't really start rising out of the collectivist mind until you get beyond Green and into Yellow. Then we become filled with the awe of possibilities and fascination with everything including the layering of reality itself.

As Neil Kramer said “true creativity is non-commercial,” and so it is rather hard to be Muse directed in a society that commodifies everything including and especially gender and love. Eros, thus is caged within the business of energy-economics when incarcerated inside a power-over, security obsessed society. And since Eros, the Muse, or the Daemon…ie: our cosmic connection and e-motivation IS the source of everything huuuman and creative, the industrial-focused culture is largely “consumptive” and non-creative in the higher sense of the word. True creativity arrives heralded by celestial music and rewarded by the bliss of apotheosis…and it is this talent of being One With God that is translated in all great works of genius. Our talent and perfection is not ours persay, it comes through us as a conduit of the intelligence of the Universe…all of creation pouring through one fully opened individual. And when we create a culture in which all individuals are freed and creative in such a manner, then we will no longer be weighted down by the vast industry of human wastage and the huuuman interruptus. We must attain conditions for collective apotheosis, and reestablish each individuals cosmic umbilical in order to creatively build the new world. Apotheosis IS the bliss and awe of cosmic reunion.

Neil Kramer really has done a lot of the sovereignty thinking for us...especially useful is the idea of not making an effort to wake up the sleepers. For 20 years now the Course of Miracles has installed in us the idea that everyone wakes up in their own time. But the desire for awake community and ideological communion is soooo fierce and essential to the evolution of our hearts and minds, that we want encounters with our daily brethren to be conveying a similar level of expansion and light. We have reached a point now where communal evolution is a biological necessity, and yet the discombobulation, misinformation and Tower of Babel has never been so acute. We are presented with the challenge of being ever more effective, enterprising and assertive at finding those brothers and sisters that speak the same language. Neil is most certainly a voice of sanity... http://neilkramer.com/
http://thehundredthmonkeyradio.com/neil-kramer.html
http://www.veritasshow.com/guests/2011/ ... kramer.php
"Apotheosis," the hi-voltage deification of Man, to accelerate his ascent to Godliness.
Awakening Sovereignty is a practical guide to brain development for cultural creatives in generating a world based on reciprocal altruism. Reducing poverty and establishing the abundance economy is a matter of the evolution of the central nervous system to establish success, solvency, savoir-faire and novelty through neurological enrichment and integration. If the society we live in is non-competitive, cooperative, encouraging and sets unbounded limits, the brain grows to reflect the specificity, diversity and richness of unrestrained genius. Culture operates by evolutionary principles on the neuronal diversification of an individual during brain development. Natural selection preserves traits (and neurons) more likely to survive and reproduce to maximize our genetic success.

One could say there is a selfish gene and a selfish neuron within the game of continuity. But only in a society that embraces the “genius of the individual” without vile commercial capitalization, can this creative, visionary neurological enrichment and integration be stabilized—without the individual having to “kill all or part of themselves” in order to fit in and survive. To establish a culture for cultural creatives based on reciprocal altruism requires an autopoeitic, top-down author-ization of cultural design. You can't actually build the new brain and the new society using the same power-over tactics of the old. That is the kicker…we can’t get there from here. First we must BECOME this new thing in order to create the benign conditions for it to survive. Thus we must build and preserve our new sovereign brain within a hostile environment, allowing that neurological enrichment to create the new world around us in support of our creative endeavors.

This “benign leader” of the new world resides at the Uraeus, the cohesive motivating point of the integrated brain that binds together the assertive instinct and nurturant instinct.

In the book 'Man, Beast and Zombie' and 'What is it to be Human?' Kenan Malik sees that with industrialization and flatland science, the mechanistic accounts of human nature have disenfranchised the notion of what it is to be human, thereby falling short of the higher the values and sensitivities of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

[MAC]

First we must BECOME this new thing in order to create the benign conditions for it to survive. Thus we must build and preserve our new sovereign brain within a hostile environment, allowing that neurological enrichment to create the new world around us in support of our creative endeavors.

JanaNZ: Jana, more fascinating reading. I suppose one might be well advised to always ask the question, perhaps via self examination, "How might I better optimize my functioning, satisfaction, etc. ? ".

Cam

[MAC]

http://jana-sovereignstate.blogspot.com/2009/10/pitfalls-on-road-to-sovereignty.html

Monday, October 5, 2009
PITFALLS ON THE ROAD TO SOVEREIGNTY

The pitfalls on the road to sovereignty represent various methods we use as individuals and collectively to avoid the challenges to growth of the soul and the spiritual life.

• Self-Hatred—The number one impediment to sovereignty is the self-hatred that gets in the road of the compassion (8Hz) necessary to dissolve the encrustated inertia and resistance we call the ego. Distorting or rejecting reality with regards to self, or other is always a form of self-hate. Self-hatred suspends growth and maturity at the age level that the punitive eye of awareness was first turned most fiercely against the self. “Emotional well-being and relative freedom from destructive inner turmoil are directly proportional to energy and substance used in the service of compassion.” P.5, Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair by Theodore I. Rubin. This must be the definitive book on the subject of self-hate, so though it is the most important factor to overcome on the road to sovereignty I will leave it up to Theodore to cover this aspect for me.

JanaNZ: Jana, I'm way back still, i.e., at the beginning entries on your blog site.

I'm almost 200 pages through the Theodore Rubin book you reference above ... and it is fascinating reading ... there being much to learn and draw from in the book. I'm particularly intrigued with the idea of engaging a whole hearted participation ( i.e., total participation, process oriented ) approach to living and eschewing a performance oriented ( i.e., self conscious and prone to performance anxiety issues, results oriented ) approach to living.

The idea of "the process being the product" as mentioned at one point in the book reminds me of a line from one of Kipling's poems ...

"If you can meet with triumph and disaster
and treat those two imposters just the same ... "

Cam

[MAC]

Re: "Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair" by Theodore I. Rubin.

JanaNZ: I made a point to finish Theodore Rubin's book yesterday. It was great to pick up the reference to the book via your blog. A lot to digest in there, but worth the process of reading. A lot of insights, on a basic psychological process level.

Cam

[MAC]

JanaNZ: I've now picked up "The Angry Book" by Theodore I. Rubin to have a look at. Eventually, that is; it's in the pile in other words ... but all in good time I suspect. I'm sure there will be things to learn in there as well about what gets in the way of processes that might better lead to a cosmic / Daemon type of connection and what growth and creativity might come from such.

Cam

[MAC]

To establish a culture for cultural creatives based on reciprocal altruism requires an autopoeitic, top-down author-ization of cultural design. You can't actually build the new brain and the new society using the same power-over tactics of the old. That is the kicker…we can’t get there from here.

JanaNZ: Reciprocity ... now there's an interesting topic ... which begs the question of whether or not one can get where you are suggesting ( to reciprocal altruism generally in the population ) without first learning reciprocity, i.e., at least get there, perhaps ( but not likely ? ), without experiencing and balancing all pairs of opposites in oneself, first, or along the way ( something I read about elsewhere, as a topic, but I remained puzzled over its meaning ... your reference here to "reciprocal altruism" reminding me of that reading ) if that is what is meant by experiencing or learning reciprocity; at least across the full spectrum of things, if you like, or within what might be seen to be the circle of life.

Author Aster Barnwell writes about this very topic in one of his books; decoding as he does, or at least seems to do, a cultural design for establishing such a culture, as being what is actually encoded in the Gospel stories that did make it into the Bible; such likely also to be found encoded in prior myths as well, when such stories and myths are symbolically interpreted from a perspective able to do so; prototype characters to aspire to being presented, as well, by way of the life of the central character of each myth or the historical character, in either case, the imprint for the cultural design being there in spite of perhaps hiding in plain sight.

It was interesting to watch the DVD series from The Resonance Project awhile ago called "Rising to the Equation" ( 6 DVD's but well worth the purchase and the time spent watching in my estimation ) where Nassim Haramein draws reference to advanced technology suggested as being referred to in the Old Testament of the Bible that was provided to man but then lost ( suggested to be based on a technology tied to a singularity ) and the lessons of the New Testament of the Bible as being the lessons needed to be learned to move beyond things such as war to a point where the technology lost could safely and successfully be re-discovered and harnessed for the betterment of all and the planet.

It seems literal interpretations of the stories from the New Testament may well have hijacked the import of the lessons symbolically encoded within those stories; at least to date; yet still, it seems, a transformation in our very psychology and make up awaits us all.

Might be a link to sovereignty in there as well.

Interesting stuff.

Cam

[MAC]

Didn't know what the term "Memes" was, really, so consulted Wikipedia :

Meme - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A meme ( [1]) is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.[2] While genes transmit biological information, memes are said to transmit ideas and belief information.

A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.[3]

The word "meme" is a shortening (modeled on "gene") of mimeme (from Ancient Greek "something imitated", "to imitate", "mime"),[4] together with a pun on the French word même ("same"). It was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)[1][5] as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, fashion and the technology of building arches.[6]

Advocates of the meme idea say that memes may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition and inheritance, each of which influence a meme's reproductive success.

Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success. Some memes may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.[7]

A field of study called memetics[8] arose in the 1990s to explore the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model. Criticism from a variety of fronts has challenged the notion that scholarship can examine memes empirically. Developments in neuroimaging may however make empirical study possible.[9] Some commentators[who?] question the idea that one can meaningfully categorize culture in terms of discrete units.