Processing-- Introduction, Rationale

Just to say upfront, I DO realize I may be saying something said thousands and thousands of times before or presently. I guess it's my belief it is not being said enough OR heard enough. If it's not being heard enough, maybe it needs to be made more accessible. so..here's my little attempt on this fine Easter day.  Also keep in mind that this is as much about my development as my sharing some greater part of myself.  So...if you know of anyone who is speaking this 'language' or ideas or thoughts on something I may be missing, not seeing, or confused about, please don't hesitate to share right back.  Everything is a co-creation anyhow, with the fullest credit going to the beauty, strength, and diversity community at large.  So...on that note, I don't take full credit for all my nonsense either!!!  ha!

And...to those out there who have noticed, OR CARED, that I have been deleting my blogs, I think I will leave this one. haha. So please comment freely. I just to always seem to be slightly or greatly dissappointed with the painting in the light of new understanding. But...i think this one may stand for some time. We'll see. Again...for anyone I have irritated out there by deleting my notes, and along with it, your amazing feedback, sorry!!!  Know at least, that your feedback is with me.  so thank you. I'm sort of experimenting over here and DO want to play nice!! haha

What I would like to do is edit this piece, through future works. The whole thing just morphs, synthesizes, and expands too quickly for me to catch up with sometimes. I would personally love to keep this one on record. I am fighting the tendency toward complexity with my new drive toward simplicity and it's a tough answer for me on how to do that. I, for example, like the idea of ONE evolving blog entry so as to both say that I AM working with ONE evolving encapsulated idea and that THIS is the centerpiece, rather than many sort of disconnected pieces where there are numerous entries for someone to browse. THAT is structure and THAT is what I have struggled with for the better part of 4 years. So...is this sites, or the blogging structure itself the structure which i can work within I am not sure. I am toying with the idea of, which others i believe are doing, using the 'about me' section as the first interface
TO my notes themselves.

In any event, i hope this all makes sense and please bare with me as I experiment as I go with different configurating and evolving structures. have i made my self perfectly clear! haha

OK...to my thought

Given the great amounts of information available, it appears clear to me, that a bottleneck in our growth is in effectively dealing with that information.  And that it is the bottleneck which forms one of the greatest challenges to advancement given the vast amounts of information.  Said most succinctly, the most meaningful arrangement of that information into a highly organicity.  NOT conforming to that which is outside, but an arrangment, order if you like better, with the natural world and the inner natural wiring and schematas.  I suppose this reminds me of Chomsky's concepts of a 'universalized language'.  Dharma on our DNA to some degree.

As we learn to be better, and better, consumers of information itself, critically thinking, analysing, checking sources, etc, etc, what are we doing to sort the incoming information, OR understanding how we may work WITH our organic natural tendancies, and work to avoid our negative, or disfunctional natural tendencies.  In the end here, the issue is twofold.  Dealing with large quantities of information and then finding the most natural or organic arrangement of that information.  Sort of a super assisted evolution.

I also am hopeful that this approach addresses the issue of the various lines, levels, states, and quadrants of our experience so that it is accessible to as many as is possible.  I would also like to add into that personality types so as to take into consideration the greatest possible scope in the crafting of something universal.  And it is to a very broad universality that something such as this is crafted.  With all these variables in mind as perameters. There are two general ways to work with information which I am emphacising at this point. Through the examination and analysis of phenomenon and essences and through the meaningful placement of that information into some larger framework.

i would like to use the present integralist language as a platform, while also making and creating my own, but feeling the need to diverge into something that feels like integral interrelatedness. I guess I like neet and tidy packages. And while I completely get that this is not ever entirely possible, also believe the attempt and success leads to a potentially more rapid internal expansion. And this is only a highly speculative theory or work in progress. um...with myself. haha. So...lots of learning to go in comparative practices as well. Time is collapsable though, isn't it.

I am trying to keep things as simple and meaningfully relateable as possible so as to perhaps expose a more highly accessible means of integrative experience. In other words, quicker development. being that i am a very, very late bloomer and teach high school special education to mild/moderately 'handicapped' students, i seem to be in the thick of this sort of reality.

After saying that, I want to add one more wrinkle to my approach, and this is NOT mine, by any means (none of it is 'mine' anyhow, no 'inc' symbol ever on my work in the strict sense), but that a simultaenous working with the inner environment in order to work WITH our natural capacities. The Zen mind I guess would be a shorthand for that. This sort of thing HAS to accompany the structure. The 'emptiness' and the structure. I'm not even sure if i agree with, or understand the label 'emptiness' as it may be very misleading

The sad truth of it is, is that we are taught many, many things but NEVER taught how to organize and synthesize all that information and that is basically what I am here, now, to explore. To work with, to message, and to place inside frameworks for later retrieval or use in accordance with human nature's most organic positive tendencies (awareness of the negative tendencies and gliches is just as valuable. I call them natural foibles).

The main domains or modes of thinking can be divided into 6 main categories: knowledge, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.  and I'll have to go back to de Bono to get the other two and understand them more fully.  But...this is just part of 'thinking'

*Knowledge is what we get lots of. Can be gained through adoption, i.e., NOT screening it for veracity, or through examination. To this we must undertake the process shown below. never should information be simply adopted--unless the source is highly credible, but then, only temporarily. The more we awaken, the more we lose the labels and adoption of truth based on preconcieved conditioning, and the more we look at things phenomenally as a unique entity of the moment.

*analysis is done in examination to see what the parts are, their function, characteristics, principals, etc. To try to understand the essence of something.

*Evaluation is a wieghing, very often with many variables, but not necessarily so.  Often involving complex calculus's which cannot be accessed through simple 'thought' alone.  probably tapping into intuition or KWs vision logic.

*synthesis is the bringing together. I would say we can call this the organizing principal. We must see the characteristics of something, its principals, find a domain or framework that it fits into, and then put it there. This is the creative activity.

*damn if i can't remember the other one. And...I'm sure there are more and that the above are not clearly elaborated here...but...here we go.

I think the idea is a simple one, and I believe I'm not saying anything extraordinarily special, but I that is what excites me about it.  I do think it is sort of a very simple thing. but i do believe it is slipping under the rader as something very important to be developed and that the voice of the idea should be louder--if that makes sense.  In other words, it starts out 'mundane', but flowers magnificently into the fabric of the universe itself.

We spend lots of time with information. But just how formalized and conscious is the process of working with that process. of course we are talking philosophy here. But we are also talking VERY much about psychology simultaneously in the same breath.

The philosophical part is in working with meaning. The psychological part is in working WITH the mind in such a way so as to maximize what we construct with our philosophy and therefore our efforts.

Philosophy should be for the benefit of the self (the unexamined life...). For further self advancement. As the self advances, so will the society. And so given this, we ought to also have a methodology to take the meaning created through the philosophical endeavor and integrate it into the self. incorporation. And a firm knowledge of psychology is necessary for this. How is it that we work.

The combination of these two exercises, knowing the tools for the discovery of the world and knowing the tedencies, habits, and strengths of the human system yield fantastic benefits. I believe the premise is strong, yet the global practice is quite weak. Furthermore, knowledge in the two domains is quite weak.

The benefits of employing such a strategy are nothing less than profound.
1. As information (datum) gets incorporated in more and more meaningful ways, more and more emerges because the present 'basis' of being becomes more and more elevated. Stepping out at a comfortable rate on a ladder, down the rabbit hole, or the yellow brick road.
2. As we practice truly working with our ideas and with ourselves on a regular and enduring basis, the representation and cosmological presentation of the world changes more and more rapidly.
3. Deeper and deeper vision develops as the interrconnections and thoughts form a more and greater cohesive representation of what is. not only is much more available in every moment, but

4. The practice itself strengthens, awakens, and creates new and emerging talents imperceptible to the previous self.

None of these outcomes is unheard of or new. What I am suggesting is that this is both a safe, sure, and rapid methodology. i'm hoping I can in some fashion illucidate, for myself at least, the relative merit of such a process because honestly I don't know for sure.  I'm just working with an inkling (OK...sometimes I feel much more than an inkling, but until that can be formally shown in some fashion, it's just that). And at this point, that's over my head. I am humbly just moving forward. And moving forward I am.

I'm only trying to synethesize, emphasize, and promote the obvious. Working with the self and its naturally brilliant tendencies, becoming more and more aware of its negative tendencies, and using the most simple framework as possible so as to structure large amounts of meaning in the MOST meaningful ways.   OK...so it appears to be all about meaning, huh.

The path I'm elaborating is very straightforward.  but even the 'straightforward' can be a challenge.  I suppose my grand emphasis is on the meaning of meaning.  And that only comes through relationship.  or it can be called context.  context should of course be relevant.  and relevancy is the game. That is, if we believe that our very ideas and thoughts form who, what, and where we are that this should be more fully grasped and promulgated at large  Just what is it that we are doing while meditating hours on end, for example. In the end, all I think I'm doing is basically formally outline the natural process that we undertake anyway. This is what we do! we seek order. I'm just not so sure how rigorous the process itself is as understood by the public at large. how conscious and formally developed the process is in working with our thoughts itself. metacognitiion. I pretty nice word. I don't really hear much about it. Anywhere outside of circles who appreciate it. and if 'thought' is such the cat's evolutionary meow, i'd think we'd be more on board with trying to develop the idea of thinking about thinking more. But...as i've noted, my emphasis has 3 integral facets or components. philosophical, psychological, and spiritual. Philisophical in the metecognitive and structure, etc. Psychological and getting how we work through association, grouping, meaning, and how meaning is formed--and I'm not sure if this is biological, dharmic, or both, or more. And spiritual in the sense of the right state of consciousness and working with that end. Through meditation, psychonalysis, shadow work, the conscious development of mindful awareness, etc. much of the stuff found in Eastern practices and Western psychology

if we are advancing to a new age, it seems very natural to me that we might want to begin to more formally understand the very processes at work in our development. Clearly it makes sense that we have a tremendous fulcrum TO that change if we are more and more aware of how that change does indeed take place. at its most basic levels in terms of process or method.

I am also pretty sure that most people on this site have many formal metacognitive practices. I would love to hear your thoughts on any formal work you may be doing with the information itself.  your rules and guidlines for fashioning 'truth', your structure or system for organizing itself.

I am saying that minimally, that this should be a part of the formal educational process at early stages (duh, i know, there's LOTS of ways we could improve what we're doing). A synthesis of phychology and philosophy into one class for the greater awareness of self so as to integrate the vast amounts of information the poor souls are being deluged with in order to generate a FAR superior meaning and comprehension of the totality. The simplification and breaking down of things allows for FAR more advancement. Not effectively organizing, understanding, or synthesizing information creates grand bottlenecks for future growth and future vistas as there are great problems with direction and access to our wisdom. That is little less than fact. As things are synthecized properly (internalized), the stage becomes set for the future. Isn't this how we move forward. Information synthesis? higher and higher encapsulating realizations to which we stand on, view, and move forward with?

Aren't these the facts as they have been presented to all of us?

Anyhow, infrastructural cultural elements WILL change. Simply because this may appear untenable at the present moment does NOT invalidate the idea that this is part of the future of education itself. if we are indeed approaching a golden age, we will find the best practices at our disposal to teach and educate our children, their children, and their children's children. Isn't this our debt to the future?

The outcome is little less than a definition of who, what, why, and where we are (maybe even when, just not sure I get that!). It is just a logical path to self discovery. now, there is no real 'definition' that can be relayed to anyone, nor is it fixed. our definitions are really only expressable in those who can or will 'read' us. And even this is inadequate.